Deportee due to taste freedom after bail review: [B Qld First Edition]
John Stapleton, Kevin Meade. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Jan 2008: 5.
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Magistrate Jacqui Payne granted bail on the condition the man’s Brisbane-based uncle provide a $100,000 surety. She has allowed the defendant bail on condition he live at his parents’ home in Sydney, not leave Australia, surrender his passport and report daily to police. The man was arrested by AustralianFederal Police when he arrived in Brisbane on December 27.
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A MAN recently deported from a South Pacific nation to face child sex charges, from incidents alleged to have occurred more than a decade ago, is expected to be released from jail in Brisbane today.
He was granted bail by a Brisbane court on Friday.
Magistrate Jacqui Payne granted bail on the condition the man’s Brisbane-based uncle provide a $100,000 surety. She has allowed the defendant bail on condition he live at his parents’ home in Sydney, not leave Australia, surrender his passport and report daily to police. The man was arrested by AustralianFederal Police when he arrived in Brisbane on December 27. He faces seven charges under the Child Sex Tourism Act relating to the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl in another South Pacific nation in 1997.
The 42-year-old has never entered a plea on the charges and has publicly denied the accusations. On Friday his lawyer, Chistopher Nyst, told Brisbane Magistrates Court the charges had first been laid in 1997 but had been dismissed. He also told the court the family making the allegations had owed his client money after failing to repay a loan.