Senior NSW media advisor charged over child abuse material, drug possession
A senior NSW departmental media advisor has been charged with possession of child abuse material and prohibited drugs. Here is what we know.
NSW
Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News.
A senior NSW departmental media advisor has been charged with possession of child abuse material and prohibited drugs.
NSW Police charged NSW Corrective Services media advisor Matt Bachl, 38, at Chatswood on Friday before he appeared in Hornsby Local Court.
Bachl was charged with two counts of possession child abuse material and one count possession of a prohibited drug.
“Following an investigation by Sydney City Police Area Command under Strike Force Saltia, detectives executed a search warrant at a Chatswood unit just after 6am today, seizing electronic devices and gamma butyrolactone (GBL),” a NSW Police spokesman said.
“The occupant, a 38-year-old man was arrested and taken to Chatswood Police Station.”
The man was initially refused bail to appear at court, before being granted conditional bail.
No plea was entered.
He was granted bail with conditions and will appear back in Hornsby Local Court on April 9.
Originally published as Senior NSW media advisor charged over child abuse material, drug possession
Leaders trade barbs on migration as they battle for Western Sydney
It is the community bearing the brunt of a massive migration push so, when Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton met for the first time on the federal election trail, Western Sydney was in the middle of a war of words over who was to blame.
Read more
$500k blow for Latham over homophobic tweet
Embattled NSW MP Mark Latham is expected to pay more than $500,000 dollars in legal costs after a federal judge ruled in Independent Alex Greenwich’s favour in their ongoing defamation battle. Here’s the latest.
Read more