Bail refused over sex charges

July 12, 2004

A Sydney man charged with sexually assaulting two young girls in a hotel swimming pool in Vietnam was refused bail today.

Gregory Roy Cook, 50, of Lane Cove, was arrested on Thursday over the alleged incident involving two eight-year-old girls at the Furama Hotel, Da Nang, in July last year.

Mr Cook, an intermittent resident of Vietnam, appeared in Sydney's Central Local Court today, facing several charges including sexual intercourse with a person under 16 outside Australia and committing an indecent act.

His solicitor Simon Bleasel told the court the prosecution had no physical evidence that the girls had been assaulted because there had been no "medical observation" of them after the alleged incident.

"There's no medical evidence at all," he said.

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