Former Seven game show host Andrew O’Keefe was re-arrested yesterday just hours after he appeared in Downing Centre Local Court.
He was charged on Wednesday afternoon with breaching his bail conditions.
“About 1pm today officers attached to Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command arrested a 52-year-old man at a home in Vaucluse,” police said in a statement yesterday.
“It is alleged the man had been breaching his bail conditions.
“He was taken to Waverley Police Station and will appear before Waverley Local Court to have his bail redetermined.”
O’Keefe was granted bail at the end of July after he was charged with intimidation and breaching an apprehended violence order. He also allegedly returned a positive roadside drug test.
O’Keefe’s arrest comes after dramaic police bodycam footage was made public, in which O’Keefe verbally abuses police officers arresting him for assault and breaching an apprehended violence order.
“This is what happens when I don’t have my medication,” O’Keefe shouts.
“This is a very simple request. Why are you being such f—ing Nazis about it?”
A police prosecutor told Waverley Court yesterday afternoon, “As of today’s date, he is on a conditional release order for a breached AVO, on bail for another breached AVO and has an appeal before a higher court for another breach of AVO.”
O’Keefe was allowwed to remain on bail, but was told he needed to “control himself”.
At Wednesday afternoon’s hearing, Barko allowed O’Keefe to remain on bail, telling him he needed to “control himself”.
Outside Waverley police station, O’Keefe said: “This morning I was contacted by an ex-partner, who was threatening to commit suicide repeatedly.
“I got out of court to discover a message that said she was just about to do it. I called triple zero and went to the police station to report it, as a consequence of which I was arrested over an order that I didn’t know existed.”
O’Keefe was found guilty in January of kicking, pushing and spitting at a woman and of possessing 1.6 grams of mephedrone, or meow meow, at a Sydney hotel. He is appealing the convictions.
Source: The Age
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