The 39-year-old former footballer,who won two best and fairest awards for St Kilda in a 13-year AFL career,appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court by video link on Monday to apply for bail,having spent almost six weeks in custody since police searched his home and arrested him on May 18.
Fisher will remain in custody until at least next week,when magistrate Bernard FitzGerald announces whether he can get bail and enter a residential rehabilitation facility for treatment.
The court heard police searched Fisher’s Sandringham apartment,where they found two bags containing a combined 14 grams of ice,two ecstasy tablets,almost two litres of 1,4-Butanediol in several bottles,human growth hormones,drug paraphernalia,mobile phones and $985 cash.
Police also found clothing similar to what Fisher was seen wearing in CCTV footage recorded in the weeks beforehand when he visited a Harvey Norman store in Moorabbin to pick up a rangehood,and when he left a parcel at a Hampton cafe. The parcel was collected soon after by a courier.
Detective Sergeant Nathan Ractliffe said investigators believed the parcel picked up from the cafe was the kilogram of ice and 84 grams of cocaine that were found in the rangehood when it was intercepted by West Australian police.
The cafe is owned by the father of Fisher’s co-accused,but Ractliffe said police believed the owner was an “innocent agent” and not criminally involved.