Accused ex-doctor Reeves gets bail

(AAP) Former doctor Graeme Reeves has been bailed on multiple charges of sexually assaulting and mutilating female patients.

Reeves has been ordered to stay at his modest Baulkham Hills home in Sydney's
northwest after being released from the Metropolitan Remand and Reception facility
at Silverwater.
He must live there, as a condition of his bail, until he next faces court in
November on 17 charges.
Reeves, 58, was refused bail after his arrest on September 10, and it was expected
he would spend at least two months in custody before his next court appearance.
However, Reeves' solicitor Greg Murray applied for bail on Thursday, telling
Sydney's Central Local Court the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not
oppose the application.
"Mr Reeves has been refused bail previously. However, the DPP has now agreed to
conditional bail and will not oppose this application," Mr Murray said in a
statement tendered to the court.
Reeves has been charged with nine counts of aggravated sexual assault, six counts of
indecent assault, one count of genital mutilation and one count of inflicting
grievous bodily harm.
The charges relate to 10 women he operated on between 2001 and 2003 while working on
the state's south coast and in Richmond, in Sydney's northwest.
About 3pm (AEDT) Thursday, a navy blue Mercedes sedan carrying Reeves and two women
arrived at the Baulkham Hills address. The former doctor quickly walked to the rear
of the house, looking away from waiting media.
Bail conditions imposed by Magistrate Peter Norton require that Reeves live at the
address and report to nearby Castle Hill police station each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
A woman believed to be Reeves' sister-in-law posted a $20,000 cash surety, and
further bail conditions require him not to leave NSW, not approach any point of
departure, nor contact alleged victims or witnesses.
The court was told Reeves did not hold a current passport, and Mr Norton imposed a
bail condition that he not apply for one.
Last month, Parramatta Local Court Magistrate James Garbett refused Reeves' bail
application, describing the allegations against him as "very serious".
That court was told Reeves, who has no prior criminal record, did not pose a flight
risk, but Mr Garbett said he was facing "a significant custodial sentence" if the
matters were proven.
The former doctor was arrested after extensive investigations into more than 100
allegations of misconduct between 2001 and 2003.
His arrest followed a police raid on a storage unit at Gladesville, in Sydney's
inner west, the week before.
Reeves is next due in Downing Centre Local Court on November 6.