Prosecutors withdrew charges against a celebrity photographer accused of planting a listening device outside Nicole Kidman’s home. Jamie Fawcett was charged in January 2005 with possessing and using a listening device after he allegedly was spotted planting the bug near a sidewalk outside Kidman’s Sydney home. The New South Wales state Department of Public Prosecutions withdrew all charges against Fawcett in Sydney’s Local Court. The reasons for the decision were not immediately clear.”I’m naturally happy,” Fawcett said outside the court. “I didn’t think that there was any reason to bring the charges in the first place.” After he was charged, a Sydney court ordered Fawcett to provide a DNA sample to compare with samples allegedly found on the listening device.Fawcett appealed and the court ruled that he could not be forced to provide police with a DNA sample since there was no evidence he had violated any law. In 2005, Kidman reached an out-of-court settlement with Fawcett and fellow Sydney-based photographer Ben McDonald after she was granted a temporary restraining order against the pair.

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