Stevens defends himself in open letter

Following his arrest on six charges of producing, supplying and trafficking dangerous drugs (here), drag racing legend Brett Stevens has written an open letter to protest his innocence.

In the communiqué, Stevens rejects all the charges as "totally and utterly false and a great deception that is once again an attempt to destroy my character or what is left of it".

To support his innocence, Stevens, the winner of three national drag racing titles, continued:

"There was absolutely no drugs or evidence of drugs found or removed from any of my properties as was portrayed to the public by the media and police.

"There was absolutely no drug manufacturing equipment, pill presses or anything else that relates to the manufacture of illicit drugs found or removed from any of my properties.

"There were no large amounts of money found or removed from any of my properties.

"The only money taken was approximately $10,000 which was from my daughter's Skye's money box, the cash floats from our merchandise trolleys, merchandise that my wife Kath had sold on e-bay, one day's banking from our business and some money that Kath and her family had put aside for her brothers head stone on his grave.

"I don't mind admitting that financially it is has been a tough time of late, but if I was this person that is being portrayed, would I be in the financial difficulty that I am in now? I wish I had the millions of dollars in cash they said I had and then I would pay off all my creditors.

"I don't want you to feel sorry for me, but what I do want is for you to think about the person that you know and have dealt with for the past number of years and please don't judge me on the unjust 'trial-by-media' that I have received.

"I don't know how, but I need to get the truth out there as to what really happened, and I would appreciate any help in regards to this."

Stevens will face charges with four other people.