A former Jewish Orthodox youth leader extradited to NSW to face an historic sexual assault charge remains “un-nourished” after going without kosher food while in custody, his barrister has told a court.
Steven Doupe, who represented David Samuel Cyprys during his brief appearance before Central Local Court on Thursday, said his client had also been denied access to a religious text.
Mr Cyprys, 51, was a security guard, locksmith and leader of young people at the Yeshivah Centre and College in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East in the 1990s.
He was extradited from Victoria on Wednesday over a charge of assault and an act of indecency, arising from an alleged incident that occurred in Bondi in the 1980s.
Mr Cyprys was arrested on Wednesday by Ararat police shortly after leaving Hopkins Correctional Centre and taken to Ballarat Magistrates Court where a a NSW Police Force extradition order was approved.
“He was then escorted back to NSW where he was placed into custody at Mascot police station [in Sydney’s south] about 6.45pm,” NSW Police said in a statement.
“The arrest warrant was executed and he was refused bail.”
Read the report by Angus Thompson in The Sydney Morning Herald.