A Sydney businessman who owns a $30million home on Australia’s most expensive street has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
David Singh, chairman of Global Renewables, is also charged with common assault and is the subject of an apprehended violence order imposed without him making any admissions.
The 46-year-old has pleaded not guilty and appeared in Downing Centre Local Court on Monday for a hearing into the charges.
Businessman David Singh, chairman of Global Renewables, a waste management company, has pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault
David Singh bought his home at Point Piper in Sydney’s eastern suburbs for $30m in 2014
Multi-millionaire David Singh, 46, leaves Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Monday
The court heard Singh’s alleged victim went to Rose Bay police on October 20 last year to make a statement one day after they were allegedly assaulted.
The matter had been set down for an hour but was adjourned until March 19 after magistrate Joanne Keogh had heard from only one witness.
Singh has been chairman of Global Renewables, which provides ‘sustainable high-tech solutions to househould waste management’, since April 2016.
He was previously the company’s chief executive officer and before that its managing director.
Global Renewables built a $100million waste treatment facility at Eastern Creek, in Sydney’s west, which is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
Singh and his wife Belinda bought their home in Point Piper where his neighbours include Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for $30million in June 2014.
The view from David Singh’s property, which has been described in promotional real estate material as ‘one of Australia’s most outstanding homes situated in Point Piper’s best position.’
Sydney businessman David Singh (centre) leaves Downing Centre Local Court where he has pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault
David Singh’s neighbours in Wolseley Road, Point Piper, include Westfield chairman Frank Lowy and Hungry Jack’s owner Jack Cowin; James Packer has also lived there
Wolseley Road is the most expensive residential street in Australia and one of the most expensive in the world.
It’s residents include Westfield chairman Frank Lowy, Hungry Jack’s owner Jack Cowin. Media heirs James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have also lived there.
Mr Turnbull lives nearby in Wunulla Road.
The Singhs’ home was described in promotional real estate material as ‘one of Australia’s most outstanding homes situated in Point Piper’s best position.’
The property faces north and has uninterrupted views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
With six-bedrooms and 8.5-bathrooms, the home has a 20-seat dining room, commercial kitchen, heated pool, boathouse and deep water jetty.
The goal of Global Renewables is to ‘divert household waste away from disposal at landfill.’
‘To do this, we apply process engineering expertise to recover resources from the waste stream utilising technology that separates and cleans the organic fraction of the waste and recovers recyclables to end user requirements,’ the company’s website states.
David Singh (centre) has been the chairman of Global Renewables for the past two years
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