Former Home and Away actor Orpheus Pledger has failed to appear at a bail hearing on assault charges.
Orpheus, who played Mason Morgan on the soap from 2016 – 2019, was arrested in relation to an alleged assault on March 27, as per News.com.au.
The thirty-year-old was escorted by police from jail to Royal Melbourne Hospital early in the morning on Tuesday, April 23 to undergo a mental health assessment. A court has heard that Orpheus waited for around five hours, before walking out of the doctor’s practice, which is against his bail conditions.
Orpheus is still missing, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued.
The court heard in a hearing that Melbourne Magistrate Justin Foster had “bent over backwards” to approve the hospital visit.
“I’ll never make an order like that again … (I) bent over backwards to try and offer someone mental health treatment as they require,” he told the court on Tuesday.
Orpheus was arrested after a triple-0 call was made by a woman from a suburban Melbourne home at 1:35am on March 25.
The woman was taken to hospital, and found to have bruising, small lacerations to her cheek, and bruising to her neck, which police alleged indicated strangling.
A 25-second clip was played to Magistrate Justin Foster in court, who said: “It’s reasonably clear that he stomped on (the woman’s) head.”
Pledger’s bail was revoked for his case to be heard again on May 10.
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