Bunbury man Adam Jed Wright, 24, pleads not guilty to five sexual assault charges

A 24-year-old Bunbury man has pleaded not guilty to a string of sex offences during a home burglary. Adam Jed Wright appeared in Bunbury Magistrates Court by video link from Casuarina Prison on Thursday facing 16 charges. During his hearing, Mr Wright pleaded not guilty to five charges of aggravated sexual penetration without consent and one charge of aggravated home burglary and commit at a Bunbury address between March 6 and 7 this year. The sexual penetration charges are alleged to be aggravated due to them being committed in the circumstances of home burglary. Mr Wright is also facing two counts of aggravated burglary and commit and one count each of aggravated burglary with intent, stealing and stealing a motor vehicle. Those charges are allegedly linked to the ram raid and burglary of the Zamel’s jewellery store at Bunbury Centrepoint Shopping Centre in early April. Mr Wright’s defence lawyer told the court they needed more time to get further information to Mr Wright, who was in court for a committal mention on the ram raid and sex offence charges. Mr Wright had already pleaded guilty to a string of unrelated charges, including disorderly behaviour in public, causing poison to be administered and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm. He is next set to appear in court on September 30, with a trial listing — for the matters which he has pleaded not guilty to — to be held in the District Court on December 18.