Photographer wins appeal in Kidman case

A PHOTOGRAPHER suspected of planting a listening device outside the Sydney home of Oscar- winning actress Nicole Kidman will not have to give a DNA sample to police, an appeals court ruled yesterday.

One of Kidman’s security guards spotted the device near a sidewalk outside her lavish harbourfront mansion in January.

Police later alleged that celebrity photographer Jamie Fawcett, 43, had been captured on security footage near the house around the time the bug was planted.