AFL great Mark 'Bomber' Thompson has been cleared of all drug trafficking charges.
However, Thompson's lawyers were told he will need to return to the Melbourne Magistrates' Court after Magistrate Duncan Reynolds found the three charges of possessing methamphetamine, MDA, LSD and Xanax proven.
Thompson is yet to be sentenced by Mr Reynolds, but a plea hearing is expected to continue later today.
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The former Essendon captain and Geelong coach was charged with seven trafficking and possession offences following a raid on his home in Port Melbourne in January 2018.
Nearly 500 MDA tablets, Xanax, methamphetamine, LSD and equipment were found during the raid.
Mark “Bomber” Thompson has been CLEARED of all trafficking charges despite being found with 44 x the traffickable amount of MDA and 11 x the traffickable amount of ice. Possession charges remain. @7NewsMelbourne pic.twitter.com/dJ3cA1Yhzj
— Sharnelle Vella (@SharnelleVella) July 11, 2019
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The amounts found of MDA and methamphetamine are multiple times the minimum amount required to receive a trafficking charge.
However, Thompson's legal team argued it made no sense for a man of his profile to traffic drugs, as one of his NAB bank accounts containing $3 million.
Thompson previously admitted to smoking methamphetamine in 2017, to cope with the fallout from the Essendon supplements scandal.
He said that everything he believed about AFL was left in ruins by the scandal, after being charged by the league with bringing the game into disrepute.
"I'm a drug taker and I'm sad that I'm a drug taker ... I took drugs back then to mask all the pain," Thompson told Melbourne Magistrates Court, back in June.
Thompson stepped in as senior coach of the Essendon Football Club, following James Hird's 12 month suspension over the supplements saga.
He says he was in a "bad way" when he was dropped to make way for Hird to return to the senior possession.
Thompson invited convicted drug tafficker Thomas Windsor to move in with him in December 2017, saying he was "happy to talk to someone."
His legal team argued Windsor was the owner of the drugs.