October 24, 2009
AAP
An Australian man extradited from Cambodia to face online child pornography offences has been remanded in custody.
Robbie Neils Berry appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday morning charged with possessing child pornography material, using a carriage service provider to access child pornography, using a carriage service provider to make child porn available and unlawfully possessing a weapon.
The court heard he allegedly had 14 computer hard disk drives of child porn.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers executed a search warrant at the man's home in Daintree, north Queensland, in November 2008.
Police arrested the 53-year-old in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in May after the Australian government issued an urgent provisional arrest request to the Cambodian government.
He was extradited from Cambodia on Friday.
AFP officers on Friday said the 53-year-old was the first person to be extradited to Australia to be prosecuted under Commonwealth online child sex laws that came into effect in 2005.
Berry has been remanded in custody to reappear in court on November 13.
The maximum penalty for the offences is 10 years' jail.
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