NSW nurses who allegedly threatened Israeli patients appear in court

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The nurses have been charged over a video which allegedly included threats to Israeli patients while they were speaking with an Israeli content creator. It's their first court appearance and the pair's cases were adjourned to May 13.

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00:00It's going to be bail with no reason to appear at their next mention which is May 13th for

00:08both Sarah Abu Lebdeh as well as Ahmed Rashad Nadir.

00:12Both nurses won't have to come to court next time is essentially what that means as their

00:17charges are heard through the local court system.

00:19Now this is significant because as the pictures we're showing you right now can reveal it

00:24was a really quite a chaotic scene at court today particularly in the courtroom where

00:29it was standing room only but outside we saw particularly for Miss Abu Lebdeh we saw

00:34a group of men in black hoodies essentially surround her so she couldn't be photographed

00:38or filmed as she entered or exited court as she fronts three charges.

00:43One of them using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, making threats to kill someone

00:49as well as also threatening violence against a group.

00:53Now she will appear on May 13th.

00:56We did hear however from Ahmed Rashad Nadir's lawyer, he spoke about perhaps the admissibility

01:01of some of the evidence from this viral video, here's the lawyer a short time ago.

01:07The video which was captured and recorded was done without the consent of my client,

01:13without his knowledge and we will argue for that to be excluded.

01:19So that argument there we've heard from his lawyer, Mr Nadir's lawyer that perhaps that

01:23video could be excluded and that was the video that featured them having a discussion

01:28with the Israeli influencer Max Vi for where these alleged comments were made while they

01:32were at Bankstown Hospital as nurses where they allegedly discussed the idea of not only

01:36not treating Israeli patients but also killing them should they come into their care.

01:41Now it is really important to note here just finally Gemma that an investigation from police

01:45hasn't yielded any evidences yet that any patients in the care of either of these nurses

01:51were ever harmed nor has an investigation from NSW Health however that NSW Health investigation

01:56is still ongoing.

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