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The Herald
10 hours ago
- The Herald
Bail denied for Jayden-Lee Meek's mother
The court dismissed suggestions that the police investigation was flawed, stating Meek failed to present compelling evidence to prove the state's case was weak or non-existent. The court noted several contradictions in Meek's version of events, including her omission that she returned to the flat early on May 14. Security guard occurrence book records contradicted her statement that she only returned to change clothes and leave for the police station, only to find that she left without changing her clothes. 'The applicant has shown she has the ability to defeat or obstruct the administration of justice by causing other persons to be suspected and attempting to stage the crime scene,' the magistrate read. Referring to the online petition and public outrage after Meek's arrest, the court found her release would 'undermine the public peace and security' and incentivise her to flee the province. Meek had rented the Fleurhof flat for only two months at the time of her son's murder. During her bail pleadings she said she wanted to relocate to KwaZulu-Natal to stay with her father pending trial. The father does not have a lease agreement at his address. 'In the absence of a fixed address and considering the seriousness of the charges, the applicant remains a flight risk,' the magistrate ruled. Meek will remain in custody until the trial is set to start in September. TimesLIVE
Daily Mail
10 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Fallen TV cooking show host breaks his silence about sex charge shock - despite his lawyer telling him not to speak as he makes a furtive dash to see cops
Former Ready Steady Cook! host Peter Everett has broken his silence as he reported for bail at a police station following his shock arrest on underage sex charges. The fallen TV show star initially attempted to sneak past waiting media, opting to drive around the streets of Sydney 's eastern suburbs, only to return two hours later. But he opened up to Daily Mail Australia as he left Waverley Police Station after he was charged with child sex offences at his Toukley home on the NSW Central Coast. 'I am holding up as well as possible,' Everett, 66, told Daily Mail Australia. 'My solicitor has advised me not to speak, but I am pleading not guilty.' He was granted bail with strict conditions that include reporting twice a week. He has been charged with sexually touching a 16-year-old boy without consent and appeared in Sydney's Parramatta Local Court over the weekend. On Monday police sought an Apprehended Violence Order against Everett on behalf of a third party identified only as 'MD'. The matter will be heard at Wyong Local Court on Thursday. Mandatory interim conditions, including bans on assaulting, threatening, stalking, harassing or intimidating the alleged victim, remain in place. Officers from the Tuggerah Lakes Police District had begun investigating the alleged incident the day before Everett's arrest. 'Following extensive inquiries, police arrested a 66-year-old man at a home at Toukley,' a statement from NSW Police read. 'The man was taken to Wyong Police Station where he was charged with sexually touching another person without consent.' Everett spent Saturday night in a cell before his bail hearing at Parramatta Local Court on Sunday. He may only return to his home to collect his belongings with a police escort, and is forbidden from contacting his alleged victim or any witnesses. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and denied any wrongdoing when approached by waiting media outside. Everett was best known for hosting the Channel 10 daytime cooking show Ready Steady Cook for five years from 2006. He was unceremoniously sacked from the show over the phone in 2011. In 2022, Everett revealed he was selling off his possessions just 'to survive' after a tough few years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Everett, who regularly appears at food festivals across the country, told 4BC Afternoons host Rob McKnight he'd 'lost his livelihood' because of the lockdowns. 'There's been a lot of sales on my behalf. I'm selling anything - not down to the garage sale yet - but I've been selling off a lot of things,' Everett said. 'It really hasn't been an easy time. It hasn't. The entertainment industry, a lot of my friends, far less fortunate than I, have had it really, really bad.' After he was dumped from the show in 2011, he said he was 'disappointed' to have been fired over the phone just before heading overseas on holiday. Rory Callaghan, the CEO of Southern Star Productions (now Endemol Australia), which produced the series, later defended the decision to sack Everett. Callaghan told TV Tonight: 'It was me who called him and said, 'Don't bother coming back from Bali.' It was a hard production with him so it was time to move on.' Speaking to in 2019, Everett added: '[Callaghan] was saying that I think I'm greater than the show. I think it meant I thought I was so indispensable and that they couldn't do the show without me.' In 2023, Everett unleashed on Channel 10 producers for failing to invite him back for the 2024 reboot. Everett told New Idea magazine that he was devastated and could barely sleep after learning that chef Miguel Maestre was hosting the program. 'I was like a three-year-old for a couple of days, who constantly asks, 'Why, why, why?'' he said. 'They didn't approach me for some reason. Who knows why? It's a shame.'
News24
12 hours ago
- News24
Tiffany Meek denied bail in murder case of 11-year-old-son Jayden
Tiffany Meek was denied bail in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, with the court ruling that she poses a significant flight risk and that her release would compromise public safety. Meek was charged with the murder of her 11-year-old son Jayden-Lee Meek at their Fleurhof residence in May. Magistrate Anneline Africa denied her bail, listing a plethora of factual inconsistencies in Meek's representations that led the court to decide that she was being deceitful, attempted to mislead the court and possessed the ability to evade trial. Defence attorney Noven Naidoo had argued that his client posed no flight risk, emphasising that she lacked a passport and had voluntarily cooperated with authorities for weeks before her arrest. He contended that Meek had been aware she was a suspect but made no attempt to flee, demonstrating her intention to face the charges and clear her name through the courts.
The Guardian
13 hours ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
AFL great Nicky Winmar accused of two assaults and intentionally choking a person
AFL great Nicky Winmar has been accused of two assaults and of intentionally choking a person, court documents reveal. The former St Kilda star, 59, had been listed for an application to revoke bail at Melbourne magistrates court on Tuesday, which could have seen him thrown in jail. However, a prosecutor asked for this to be struck out. 'The court made the decision to bail Mr Winmar on the 19th of July based on that application,' she said, as the magistrate agreed to strike it out. Winmar faced court charged with three offences, however details of what these allege were not aired during the short hearing. He has been charged with allegedly committing two assaults on 18 July. He is also charged with 'without lawful excuse intentionally choke, strangle or suffocate' a person on the same date, according to court documents. Winmar, whose legal name is Neil, was represented in court on Tuesday morning by his lawyer Tess Theocharous and both of them appeared via video link. Theocharous said Winmar was undergoing a court integrated services program (CISP) as a condition of his bail, which had been granted on 18 July. She asked for his matter to be adjourned so he can have time to engage with the program. Theocharous said Winmar had attended an initial appointment at the court for CISP and had another scheduled for later on Tuesday. Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano agreed to adjourn his case for a month. Winmar will next face the court on 28 August. The AFL legend became the first Aboriginal footballer to play 200 games in the league, finishing his career with 230 games at St Kilda and 21 for the Western Bulldogs. He fought back against a number of acts of racism throughout his football career, including standing in front of a Collingwood crowd in 1993 where he was abused. 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black,' he told the crowd, lifting his guernsey and pointing at his skin. In March, he was asked to co-lead a landmark racism class action in the supreme court, brought by other retired Indigenous players including Phil Krakouer.
ABC News
16 hours ago
- ABC News
Teen charged with manslaughter over Edgewater electric motorbike death remanded in custody
A teenage boy charged with killing a Perth woman while riding an allegedly unlicensed high-powered electric motorbike will spend another seven days in juvenile detention, as the court considers how he could be safely granted bail. The 17-year-old appeared in the Perth Children's Court via video link from the centre, as two extra charges were read out against him in relation to the death of a 59-year-old woman in Picnic Cove Park in Edgewater on Saturday. Police allege he unlawfully killed the woman as he was riding through the park, also charging him with riding an unregistered battery-powered motorcycle without a license. In court today, Magistrate Alana Padmanabham told the teen two new charges had now been added — failing to comply with a direction to stop and reckless driving to escape pursuit. The youth said little, except to acknowledge his name and that he understood the charges. His lawyer Simon Watters said his client was "not coping well" in Perth's Banksia Hill Detention Centre. Magistrate Padmanabham said the teen had a qualified right to bail, but wanted to be sure he could be safely released and ordered a bail suitability report. It came after prosecutor James Nicholls listed several concerns with bail, namely a complicated family situation. He said the 17-year-old's parents had separated and lived fairly far from each other, while there had previously been a "number of stressors" in the family home related to the boy's behaviour. Mr Nicholls said the teen's father "had no control over him" and there had been reports of physical violence in the home related to his behaviour. He said there were some concerns from police that if the teen was released to his parents, that may "set him up to fail" any bail conditions because of the "volatile situation at home". "[He] doesn't listen to his father," the prosecutor said. While the teen does not have a prior criminal record, Mr Nicholls said he had been cautioned in 2023 over an alleged assault on another child in another e-motorbike incident. But Magistrate Padmanabham quickly shut that down, saying it was unfair to include this matter in bail deliberations given it was a caution only and nothing had been proven. Magistrate Padmanabham wanted the bail report to look at how he could be suitably supervised, especially if he were to split his time between his two parents' home, as proposed by Mr Watters. She also said any bail conditions would have to be tight enough to ensure he was not a flight risk. Mr Watters said the 17-year-old had an NDIS plan which included an extensive sub plan to address his behaviours. His parents, who had sat at the back of the court, said nothing as they left. He is due back in court on August 5.
