Four Trials, One Verdict: Ex-AFL Star Nick Stevens Jailed Nine Months for Defrauding Mildura Retirees (opens in new tab)

Former AFL midfielder Nick Stevens, who played 231 games for Port Adelaide and Carlton, was sentenced Monday to nine months in prison after four trials and a jury conviction for defrauding six Mildura families of $158,000 through his unlicensed pool business. The case dragged through the Victorian County Court for more than a year before a verdict was reached — a timeline that left victims, many of them retirees, waiting beside unfilled holes in their yards.