Alleged ‘Adelaide Pedo Hunter’ Richard Paul Warner facing Commonwealth charges for misuse of the internet

ALLEGED “Adelaide Pedo Hunter” Richard Paul Warner has been charged with menacing people over the internet — and now faces a maximum three-year jail term.

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ALLEGED “Adelaide Pedo Hunter” Richard Paul Warner has been charged with menacing people over the internet — and now faces a maximum three-year jail term.

In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Commonwealth prosecutors filed two new charges against Warner, 42.

They allege that, on two occasions between December 13 and 20 last year, he used the internet to “menace, harass or cause offence” to another person.

Warner is already facing one aggravated charge, laid by SA Police, of assault that was allegedly recorded on video and posted on the internet.

Previously, prosecutors have alleged Warner is the self-styled masked vigilante who undertook citizen’s arrests of men who agreed to meet after he posed, online, as a teenage boy.

On Wednesday, counsel for Warner asked for an adjournment to consider the Commonwealth charges, saying they had yet to be provided with the full brief of evidence.

Warner was remanded on continuing bail until May.

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