Former Brisbane Broncos player Jamil Hopoate is out of jail and back with his family after he was put behind bars for attempting to run cocaine across Sydney.
Hopoate was ordered to spend a minimum of two years and three months behind bars in October, 2022.
Now he is out, and living with his famous father, Manly Sea Eagles premiership player John Hopoate.
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John Hopoate has confirmed his son is staying with him.
“He’s good,” Hopoate Snr told News Corp.
It has been reported he kept been seeing his children while he was in prison.
It has been reported that Jamil is “starting to rebuild his life, with Ms Beathe”.
She shared a Father’s Day video of herself with Jamil and their daughters at the start of September.
“Celebrating our guy. So grateful, we love you,” she wrote on Instagram.
Hopoate was arrested at gunpoint during a police sting in 2021.
He was paid $10,000 by a “stranger” to move slabs of cocaine across Sydney.
He told the court at the the time he did not know who the individual was and never saw him again.
The cocaine supply has now been linked linked to an Irish cartel.
When sentencing, the judge said Hopoate had no profit stake in the cocaine supply and acted merely as an “expendable” courier.
“There was no evidence he was going to openly distribute any of the drugs into the community,” the judge said.
The former Brisbane lock had been jailed twice previously for violent incidents.
He was dumped by Manly Sea Eagles in 2014 when he was jailed for a year for a drunken, brutal and unprovoked attack on a man outside a local pub.
Having gained permission to return to NRL in 2020, he played 12 matches in Brisbane’s sub-par season, mostly off the bench, and was later let go.
Hopoate said in 2022 that he would drink until he dropped, and “alcohol is the devil to me”.
“I get blackouts, I’m either zero or one hundred, sober or pissed (and) when I’m on the piss, I sometimes take charlie (cocaine) too.
“I never crave it when I’m sober, I spend whatever money I have on me on the day, it could be hundreds of dollars or thousands.
“Drink turns me into an asshole.”