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From todays SMH:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-rabbits-sydney-man-charged-with
-bestiality/2005/08/12/1123353482292.html?oneclick=true
Dead rabbits: Sydney man charged with bestiality
By Les Kennedy
August 12, 2005 - 4:30PM
A man faced a Sydney court today charged with having sexual
intercourse with a rabbit and the sadistic killing of 17
other rabbits whose carcasses were found dumped in a lane in
The Rocks.
Brendan Francis McMahon, 36, of Edward Street, North Sydney,
appeared briefly before Central Local Court Magistrate Allan
Moore today charged with having allegedly committed the
offences over the past three weeks.
McMahon, a New Zealand-born finance company director, sat
quietly in the dock during the hearing at which he was
represented by Barrister Doug Marr.
No plea was entered to a total of 21 charges laid by The
Rocks Police against McMahon, a business partner with Jason
Meares, the former brother-in-law of James Packer.
McMahon, a former Cleo magazine Bachelor of the Year winner,
was arrested by detectives from The Rocks police at a house
in Tamarama early today.
The investigation began after skinned and partially-skinned
dead and dying rabbits began to appear in a laneway off York
Street, near Circular Quay in late July.
The laneway adjoined a building in which McMahon
occupied a first floor office from which he ran a financial
planning and mortgage brokerage company.
Before McMahon was charged Rocks Police alleged some of the
rabbits had been thrown from some height into the laneway.
In addition to 17 rabbits, police also found a dead guinea
pig in the lane.
Alarmed at the continuing discovery of freshly killed
rabbits, some whose genitalia had alleged been mutilated, the
Rocks detectives began contacting city pet stores to
determine who had been buying rabbits.
Police allegedly found that a credit card in McMahon's name
had been used to purchase the animals at a number of pet
shops. Police also seized a security video showing a man buying a pet.
In all McMahon was charged with 17 counts committed acts of
aggravated cruelty upon an animal between July 20 and August 11.
He was further charged with committing an act of bestiality
with an animal between 3am and 4am on August 1.
McMahon was further charged with two counts of possession of cannabis.
His barrister, Mr Marr, told Mr Moore that McMahon would not
be applying for bail today but would make a formal
application next Friday, August 19.
Mr Moore formerly refused McMahon bail and ordered him to
reappear before the court via a prison video link next week.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-rabbits-sydney-man-charged-with
-bestiality/2005/08/12/1123353482292.html?oneclick=true
Dead rabbits: Sydney man charged with bestiality
By Les Kennedy
August 12, 2005 - 4:30PM
A man faced a Sydney court today charged with having sexual
intercourse with a rabbit and the sadistic killing of 17
other rabbits whose carcasses were found dumped in a lane in
The Rocks.
Brendan Francis McMahon, 36, of Edward Street, North Sydney,
appeared briefly before Central Local Court Magistrate Allan
Moore today charged with having allegedly committed the
offences over the past three weeks.
McMahon, a New Zealand-born finance company director, sat
quietly in the dock during the hearing at which he was
represented by Barrister Doug Marr.
No plea was entered to a total of 21 charges laid by The
Rocks Police against McMahon, a business partner with Jason
Meares, the former brother-in-law of James Packer.
McMahon, a former Cleo magazine Bachelor of the Year winner,
was arrested by detectives from The Rocks police at a house
in Tamarama early today.
The investigation began after skinned and partially-skinned
dead and dying rabbits began to appear in a laneway off York
Street, near Circular Quay in late July.
The laneway adjoined a building in which McMahon
occupied a first floor office from which he ran a financial
planning and mortgage brokerage company.
Before McMahon was charged Rocks Police alleged some of the
rabbits had been thrown from some height into the laneway.
In addition to 17 rabbits, police also found a dead guinea
pig in the lane.
Alarmed at the continuing discovery of freshly killed
rabbits, some whose genitalia had alleged been mutilated, the
Rocks detectives began contacting city pet stores to
determine who had been buying rabbits.
Police allegedly found that a credit card in McMahon's name
had been used to purchase the animals at a number of pet
shops. Police also seized a security video showing a man buying a pet.
In all McMahon was charged with 17 counts committed acts of
aggravated cruelty upon an animal between July 20 and August 11.
He was further charged with committing an act of bestiality
with an animal between 3am and 4am on August 1.
McMahon was further charged with two counts of possession of cannabis.
His barrister, Mr Marr, told Mr Moore that McMahon would not
be applying for bail today but would make a formal
application next Friday, August 19.
Mr Moore formerly refused McMahon bail and ordered him to
reappear before the court via a prison video link next week.
