nov 16, 2015 - AUSTRALIA CHARGES HEARING ADJOURNED Amber Heard No Show Pending Further Instructions

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Depp’s wife has been charged with breaching Australia’s quarantine laws after allegedly smuggling the couple’s Yorkshire terriers into the country in May

Johnny Depp’s wife has once again been neither seen nor heard during a mention in a Queensland court of her famous dog-smuggling charges.

Amber Heard, the 29-year-old actress wife of Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp, was due to face Southport magistrates court on Monday.

Heard has been charged with two counts of breaching Australia’s quarantine laws after allegedly bringing the superstar couple’s dogs Pistol and Boo into the country on a private jet in May.

It’s alleged Heard did not declare the two Yorkshire terriers when she arrived in Queensland.

The incident created international headlines when the agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, threatened to euthanise the dogs if they weren’t taken out of the country.

Heard, who returned to the United States with the dogs shortly afterwards, hasn’t appeared at any of her three court mentions so far.

She said in an interview in June she planned on never returning to Australia after the incident, while Depp quipped at this year’s Venice film festival he’d eaten his dogs because “sweaty big-gutted men from Australia” had told him to.

Heard’s appearance was excused on Monday with barrister Paula Morreau telling the court she had been in conversations with the crown.

Morreau said she needed one further short adjournment to seek instructions from her client.

Despite telling the court “prosecution would like to see the matter progress” the crown prosecutor did not object to an adjournment.

The matter will return to court on 7 December.

Heard’s appearance was excused on Monday with barrister Paula Morreau telling the court she had been in conversations with the crown.

Morreau said she needed one further short adjournment to seek instructions from her client.

Despite telling the court “prosecution would like to see the matter progress” the crown prosecutor did not object to an adjournment.

The matter will return to court on 7 December.

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