AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd denies breaking home detention conditions

Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has plead not guilty this morning to breaching his home detention conditions.

Rudd was arrested on July 18 when he was found possessingand consumingalcohol at his waterfront mansion at Matua in the North Island of New Zealand. The 61-year-old was released on bail at the Tauranga District Court on July 20 when Crown Prosecutor Anna Pollett requested that as a condition of the bail,he undergo drug and alcohol testing when police requested. Judge Louis Bidoisgranted the request.

Rudd is banned from consuming alcohol as one of the conditions of his home detention sentence. He was sentenced on July 9 to eight months home detentionfor possession of cannabis and methamphetamine and one charge of threatening to kill. At the time of sentencing he would told by Judge Thomas Ingram he wouldbe imprisoned if he breached the sentence and would be monitored 24 hours a day.

Rudd's lawyer, Craig Tuck, sought case management today however Judge Robert Wolffis setting the date for an expected two-hour judge alone hearing.