Bail change for sex accused

A BIGGERA Waters man charged with a string of child sex offences will no longer be required to report to police weekly after he successfully applied to change his bail.

Daniel Kenneth Seymour, 48, is facing 10 charges of indecent treatment of children under 16 as well as other assault charges.

Seymour’s lawyer Nick Westcott, of Irish Bentley Lawyers, said all of the charges were “fiercely contested”.

The alleged offending, which occurred between 2019 and 2021, involved a number of child complainants and child witnesses, the Southport Magistrates Court was told on Friday.

The 48-year-old’s alleged offending involved physical contact with the thighs, breasts and buttocks of females aged between 13 and 15.

In asking for a change to bail, Mr Westcott said his client had “shown a compliance with his bail undertakings over the course of seven years. One of those bail undertakings is rather old, and is in relation to unrelated offending”.

Magistrate Dzenita Balic approved the change, noting Seymour had shown significant cooperation in the past.

He is no longer required to report to police weekly.

Seymour’s case is listed for a directions hearing in July.