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Ex-weightlifter Stanley Hambesis gets suspended jail sentence for 'out of character' attack

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Updated July 28 2020 - 9:18pm, first published 3:30pm
Former weightlifter Stanley Hambesis outside the ACT Supreme Court. Picture: Cassandra Morgan
Former weightlifter Stanley Hambesis outside the ACT Supreme Court. Picture: Cassandra Morgan

A former weightlifter once embroiled in a steroids scandal at the Australian Institute of Sport has been handed a suspended jail sentence for an assault and theft described as "particularly vicious".

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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