{"id":58163,"date":"2026-08-06T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-extradited-from-australia-charged-with-historical-sexual-offences\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:34:30","slug":"man-extradited-from-australia-charged-with-historical-sexual-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-extradited-from-australia-charged-with-historical-sexual-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Man extradited from Australia charged with historical sexual offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A 75-year-old man extradited from Australia has appeared at Belfast Magistrates&#8217; Court charged with historical sexual offences.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of 14 counts of indecently assaulting a female and three counts of committing an act of gross indecency with a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The offences allegedly occurred on dates between January 1969 and March 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defendant appeared in court via video-link from police custody and did not speak during the short hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A defence barrister raised no objections to the execution of an international arrest warrant and confirmed no bail application was being made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The accused was remanded into custody and the case was adjourned until 20 August to fix a date for a preliminary inquiry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce9715385xpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 75-year-old man extradited from Australia has appeared at Belfast Magistrates&#8217; Court charged with historical sexual offences. The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of 14 counts of indecently assaulting a female and three counts of committing an act of gross indecency with a child. The offences allegedly occurred on dates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[409,607,7211,14304,417,4236,693],"class_list":["post-58163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-australia","tag-charged","tag-extradited","tag-historical","tag-man","tag-offences","tag-sexual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58165,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58163\/revisions\/58165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}