Phil Rudd has been sentenced to 8 months of home detention. The AC/DC drummer was arrested last November for attempting to arrange a murder, as well as possession charges for methamphetamine and cannabis.
The attempting to arrange murder charge was later dropped and replaced with threatening to kill. Rudd, 61, plead guilty to the charges in April.
In addition to the 8 month home detention sentence, Rudd will have to complete a rehabilitation programme followed by a 6 month probation period. Should the disgraced star violate the terms of his punishments, he will be sent to jail.
Rudd will be under constant surveillance and his behaviour monitored electronically. Judge Thomas Ingram warned Rudd there ‘was nowhere to hide’.
Phil has since lost contact with former bandmates in the wake of his scandalous actions.
‘I tried to get in contact with Angus, with anybody, I wrote them a letter and I’ve had no contact at all. I’m very disappointed … But you know, that’s life.’
‘You know who your friends are don’t you,’ he told A Current Affair in May.
‘I’ve seen the error of my ways and it’s onward and upward from here.’
The band, which has enjoyed a hugely successful career selling over 200 million albums so far, expressed their sadness about their friend’s situation, ‘He has got himself into some sort of situation and he’s got to get himself out of it,’ Cliff told British newspaper The Sun. ‘He didn’t show up for the video we were filming so our friend Bob Richards stood in. But we want to move forward. Phil needs to get himself right. It is going to take time.’
