Stephen Dank’s lawyers comb through ‘huge brief of evidence’ as fraud, forgery case drags on

DISGRACED sports scientist Stephen Dank has again faced a Darwin court on fraud and forgery charges as his lawyers comb though the “huge brief of evidence” in the prosecution case.

Sports scientist Stephen Dank, who was at the centre of the Essendon football supplements scandal, leaves a health clinic in Darwin in 2017. Picture: Elise Derwin

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DISGRACED sports scientist Stephen Dank has again faced a Darwin court on fraud and forgery charges as his lawyers comb though the “huge brief of evidence” in the prosecution case.

Dank applied for legal aid in February and his lawyer, Matt Hubber, told the Darwin Local Court yesterday he was still in the middle of completing the process from interstate.

In seeking another adjournment, Mr Hubber said he was still making his way through the “huge brief of evidence”.

Judge Alan Woodcock adjourned the hearing until June 24 when Dank will again be excused from travelling from interstate to attend court.

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Late last year the NT News revealed the mastermind of the notorious Essendon Football Club’s peptide scandal was facing charges in the NT understood to relate to a brief period of employment at Darwin’s Ageless Health Clinic in early 2017.