Sean Flood, the barrister for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, said photos of the naked boys taken after they were spray-tanned at Mr McIntosh's studio, and footage from Vanuatu, were not 'happy family holiday shots, but is clearly a sexual preoccupation with the prepubescent male form'. In the most recent trial, the two brothers, who were 10 and 11 at the time, gave evidence that 'Andy' had touched their groins and buttocks, either in a shower at his studio in St Leonards, or in Vanuatu. In the late 1980s he was jailed for indecently assaulting a person under 16 and assault with an act of indecency.ĭiscussions in the jury's absence revealed that in the 1980s Mr McIntosh was alleged to have molested children in a shower. The jury did not know this was not the first time Mr McIntosh had been accused of being a pedophile. ANDREW DEAN McINTOSH had a dream and a budget - $500,000 to make a short feature film with more than a nodding resemblance to The Blue Lagoon.īut nude footage of the 'bronzed Aussie' boys he was testing for the film, whom he took on a $25,000 filming expedition to Vanuatu in April 2005, cast the 50-year-old filmmaker in a different light.Īfter a six-week trial, a District Court jury took just 4½ hours this week to acquit Mr McIntosh of possessing child pornography, aggravated assault and committing acts of indecency on a person under 16 outside Australia.
