Overview
- The 25-year-old South Australian reservist is due in Adelaide Magistrates Court Tuesday in the AFP’s first case of this kind.
- Police allege he traveled to Ukraine in May 2025 to serve as a drone operator and returned to Australia in January 2026.
- AFP officers searched his Felixstow home on April 2 and seized devices that allegedly contained images linking him to the war.
- He is charged under section 115A of the Defence Act 1903, an offence that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
- Australian law does not ban joining a foreign military outright but restricts certain work by defence personnel, a distinction central to this prosecution.