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Depp’s ‘Pistol and Boo saga’ set for Gold Coast trial

Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp and his actress wife Amber Heard could already be on the Gold Coast ahead of a trial to determine whether their dogs were illegally smuggled into the country.

While the celebrity couple’s lawyers are refusing to confirm whether they will appear in court on Monday, a Gulfstream V private jet – a model used by the pair previously – touched down on the Gold Coast from Honolulu on Sunday.

Heard, 29, is required by law to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on Monday to face two counts of breaching Australia’s quarantine laws after allegedly bringing the couple’s dogs Pistol and Boo in on a private jet last year.

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Depp is expected to be one of 12 witnesses Commonwealth prosecutors will call during the four-day trial, which could sit on Heard’s 30th birthday if it runs overtime into Friday.

Flight radar shows a Gulfstream V private jet, chartered through US-based Pegasus Elite Aviation, landed at 8.59am (AEST) on Sunday after a nine-hour flight from Honolulu.

Pistol and Boo

Clive Palmer said the “simple solution” for Boo and Pistol was to put them into quarantine.

“We have broad experience serving clients in the film, music and entertainment industries,” the company says on its website.

It’s the same model of plane that Depp used to take the couple’s Yorkshire terriers out of the country in May last year after now-Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce threatened to have the dogs put down.

Mr Joyce, then the country’s agriculture minister, made international headlines when he declared: “It’s time Boo and Pistol bugger off home … or we’re going to have to euthanise them.”

No other private jets are due to arrive on the Gold Coast from the US ahead of the court appearance.

There have been no suspected sightings of the couple yet.

A spokeswoman for Sydney law firm Ashurst, which is representing Heard, on Sunday wouldn’t comment or confirm whether the Zombieland star would appear in court.

Heard and the dogs joined Depp on the Gold Coast last year while he was filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

-AAP

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