Nathan and Dru Baggaley's jail sentences for failed drug smuggling plot reduced after pleading guilty following appeal

An Olympic kayaker and his younger brother, who tried to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Australia, have been sentenced a second time after negotiating "very significantly different" circumstances about their offending. In 2021, a Supreme Court jury found Nathan and Dru Baggaley guilty of attempting to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. Mr Wilson told the court Dru Baggaley, who had earlier been determined to be a "principal organiser" of the plot, was now being sentenced on the basis there was no evidence he "positively knew" the illicit drug was what he was collecting or how much. "From the point in time that the drug was delivered … Dru Baggaley was reckless as to the fact that the border-controlled drug was cocaine," he said. In the days before the offending in July, "Dru or a person known to him", entered mapping details into the satellite system, and Nathan placed black tape over the top of the boat's registration.