Senior NSW media adviser and ex-Nine staffer arrested over alleged child abuse material

A Corrective Services NSW media adviser and a former senior Nine staffer has been arrested over the alleged possession of child abuse material.

A senior NSW media adviser and former Nine producer has been charged with possessing child abuse material and drugs.

Matt Bachl was arrested at a home in Chatswood, Sydney, on Friday and charged with two counts of possession child abuse material and one count possession of a prohibited drug, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Matt Bachl was arrested and charged with possession of child abuse material. Picture: Instagram

He was granted conditional bail. Picture: Instagram

“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 on Friday 28 March, seizing electronic devices and gamma butyrolactone (GBL),” a NSW Police spokesperson told news.com.au.

“The occupant, a 38-year-old man was arrested and taken to Chatswood Police Station.”

He appeared before Hornsby Local Court and was granted conditional bail.

Bachl has been working as a senior media adviser for Corrective Services NSW and, prior to that he worked at Nine for 11 years.

He was a senior supervising producer and was previously the Europe, Middle East and Africa bureau chief for the media company.

The 38-year-old will appear back in Hornsby Local Court on April 9.