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Sam Wood to remain in custody after another failed bail bid over domestic violence charges

Former Bachelor star and wellness influencer stands accused of choking and assaulting wife at Noosa in Queensland



Former Bachelor star Sam Wood will remain in custody while he awaits trial on domestic violence charges, after he was refused bail for a second time.

Wood, 46, from Melbourne, has been held in custody since his arrest on 4 October at Noosa.

On Friday supreme court justice Patrick McCafferty said Wood posed “an unacceptable risk” of further offending, meaning he will remain in the high-security Wolston correctional centre until his trial, which the court heard might not take place until 2028.

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Former Sydney childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith hit with 202 more abuse charges

NSW police say charges include child rape and relate to 23 alleged victims aged between one and five at a Sydney childcare centre

One of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles is facing hundreds more child abuse charges, including for the alleged rape of children as young as one.

Days after being extradited from Queensland to New South Wales, Ashley Paul Griffith was hit with 202 charges dating from between 2014 and 2017, with police labelling the allegations “deeply disturbing”.

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