TV presenter Roberto de Heredia admits to having sex with model Rozz Switzer at a police station

A TV presenter who was found not guilty of the attempted murder of a Penthouse pet has broken his silence in his first television appearance in more than two decades.

Roberto de Heredia was accused of sending an explosive device in a shoe box to Simone Cheung’s home in Belrose on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1998.

The package was picked up by Cheung’s boyfriend at the time, Brett Boyd, and detonated in his face. He lost a thumb and an eye in the explosion. 

De Heredia was alleged to have sent out the bomb after falling out with the couple, who reportedly owed him $80,000.

After he was charged three months later, de Heredia allegedly faked his own death, fled the country with a fake passport, and went on the lam for 17 years.

In a preview for 60 Minutes, when asked if he had sex with ‘her’ at a police station, de Heredia responded: ‘Yes!’

In a preview for 60 Minutes, when asked if he had sex with ‘her’ at a police station, de Heredia responded: ‘Yes!’ 

de Heredia went on to tell reporter Liam Bartlett that he ‘didn’t touch’ the parcel, that detonated in Mr Boyd’s face.

‘I didn’t touch it, I didn’t lick any stamps. Just rubbish!’ the former Foxtel Television shopping network host said with a smirk.

In the preview, de Heredia admitted to planting blood in his blue four-wheel-drive in Rose Bay in 1999, in an attempt to fake his own death. 

Roberto de Heredia, a former presenter on Foxtel Shopping Network, was accused of sending an explosive device in a shoe box to Simone Cheung's home in Belrose on Sydney's northern beaches in 1998

Roberto de Heredia, a former presenter on Foxtel Shopping Network, was accused of sending an explosive device in a shoe box to Simone Cheung’s home in Belrose on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1998

De Heredia was alleged to have mailed the explosive device to model Simone Cheung (pictured) and boyfriend Brett Boyd's home in Belrose

Brett Boyd before the accident

De Heredia was found not guilty in April after being accused of  mailing the explosive device to model Simone Cheung (left) and her then boyfriend Brett Boyd (right) home in Belrose

Police found the car days later in Kings Cross. The driver’s seat and door was covered in blood, leading officers to believe he had died. 

However, an investigation by NSW Police determined de Heredia had allegedly staged the incident to fake his own death. 

He was finally arrested in 2016 at London’s Gatwick Airport after flying in from Spain to visit his family.  

De Heredia was faces trial in 2017, but that resulted in a hung jury. 

In April, a jury of six men and six women found him not guilty after deliberating for one day.

The court heard de Heredia’s DNA was found on the stamps used to send the parcel and on a post note.

His lawyer, Grant Brady told the court de Heredia fled Australia because he feared for his life after Boyd was arrested for standing outside a police station with a machine gun as he waited for him to be released in 1999. 

Boyd, who died in 2008, is seen in evidence photos showing his injuries after receiving the parcel bomb

Boyd, who died in 2008, is seen in evidence photos showing his injuries after receiving the parcel bomb

Simone Cheung

Boyd came in contact with the package which then exploded in his face causing him to lose and eye and a thumb

The package was picked up by Cheung’s boyfriend at the time, Brett Boyd, and detonated in his face

Boyd was severely injured after the package exploded in his face and threw him more than eight metres in the air. 

He was almost blinded in the blast, losing his left eye and 80 per cent of vision in his right eye, while also losing his right thumb and suffering facial scars.  

The courts were told Mr Boyd, then 29, and Cheung – were planning to use the $80,000  to set up a ‘sex website.’

Just weeks later on July 7, an unknown gunman shot de Heredia in the shoulder and arm when he returned to his apartment in Sydney.  

Mr Boyd committed suicide in 2008. 

Cheung, who later changed her name to Simone Farrow, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in 2016 after she was caught with piles of meth worth thousands of dollars in her West Hollywood apartment.  

Simone Cheung

The courts were told Boyd, then 29, and Cheung - were planning to use the money to set up a 'sex website

The courts were told Boyd, then 29, and Cheung – were planning to use the money to set up a ‘sex website’

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