A man once accused of kidnapping Stuart MacGill has apologised for beating the ex-Test spinner on a semi-rural property after a drug rip-off.

MacGill, whose career coincided with the Australian men's team's most successful era, was driven in April 2021 from his home on Sydney's affluent lower north shore to a dilapidated shed on the city's outskirts, where he was assaulted.

The men behind the assault that left MacGill with a cut lip faced a sentence hearing at the NSW District Court on Friday.

Brothers Frederick and Richard Schaaf, and Vaeluagaomatagi Feilo pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and stalking and intimidation, after the more serious charge of kidnapping was dropped during a plea deal struck in August.

Richard Schaaf's barrister Thomas Woods said the 33

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