Depp may face perjury charges in Australia over ‘war on terrier’

Sydney: Johnny Depp could face perjury charges in Australia after the deputy prime minister threatened on Tuesday to unleash a new chapter in a pet dog case dubbed the “war on terrier”. Depp and his thenwife Amber Heard fell foul of Australia’s strict quarantine laws when they failed to declare her canines Pistol and Boo on arrival in the country on a private jet in 2015.

Heard escaped with a

If allegations were true, I might have another look at this — Barnaby Joyce,

fine and a good behaviour bond, but a lawsuit between Depp and his former management has revived the spat amid allegations the actor was aware he was breaching the laws. Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, said if the allegations were true, “there’s a word for that: it is called perjury”. “I might have another look at this,” he added, in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation interview.

Joyce sparked headlines two years ago when he threatened to have animals put down unless they “buggered off back to the US”, igniting verbal war with Depp.

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