Australia drops case against Amber Heard over dog import claims

Australia has opted to not prosecute actress Amber Heard over allegations she lied about importing her canine Pistol and Boo into the nation in 2015.

Heard was charged on the time with breaking quarantine legal guidelines and finally pleaded responsible to falsifying an immigration customs card.

Two costs of unlawful importation have been dropped.

She escaped conviction in a Gold Coast court docket and was handed a $1000 one-month good behaviour bond in 2016.

The incident made worldwide headlines when then-Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce threatened to have the canine euthanised in the event that they did not “bugger off” again to the US.

Depp and Heard later launched an apology video.

However, the case was resurrected throughout Depp’s 2020 libel case towards tabloid The Sun within the UK, when it was alleged in court docket Heard had lied about being unaware of the quarantine necessities.

However, in an announcement right this moment, the division mentioned no prosecution motion can be undertaken.

“The department collaborated with agencies, both in Australia and overseas, to investigate these claims against Ms Heard,” the assertion learn.

“A brief of evidence was referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, who has made the decision not to prosecute in this instance having applied the Prosecution Policy of the Commonwealth.”