HOW WAS HE ALLOWED TO LEAVE AUSTRALIA..?! – Questions mount over wanted Below Deck star Nathan Gallagher after alleged choking a-ttack and missed court appearance in Ireland
Below Deck star Nathan Gallagher’s police mugshot has been published online for the world to see, after he allegedly fled Australia where he was due to appear in court on charges of violently assaulting the mother of his infant son.
But Gallagher apparently absconding the country in the wake of the allegations begs the question: How exactly was the 28-year-old free to leave the country in the first place?
The Daily Mail can reveal Gallagher’s bail conditions did not require him to surrender his passport or ban him from approaching an international point of departure, as is standard practice in New South Wales when people accused of crimes have ties to a foreign country.
Instead, court records showed Gallagher entered a bail undertaking on December 28 that required him to be of good behaviour and not to approach the alleged victim, ex-girlfriend Gael Cameron, or any prosecution witness.
Those bail conditions also prevented him from drinking alcohol, taking drugs, ordered to comply with the conditions of an apprehended violence order and notify police if he changed his address.
But not a word required him to stay in the country.
‘It’s a standard bail condition,’ a legal source said. ‘If they’ve got a passport and ties to another country, you would think the prosecution would have asked that the court take this into consideration.’
The Mail on Wednesday asked the NSW Police Force and NSW Courts why Gallagher was not hit with conditions preventing him from leaving the country. A police spokesman referred us to the courts, which provided us with details of his bail.
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How was he allowed to leave? Below Deck star and convicted DV offender Nathan Gallagher left Australia despite facing serious charges
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Gael Cameron and Nathan Gallagher met on the TV show Below Deck Mediterranean in 2024 and had an ‘on again, off again’ relationship and a son together. He attacked her on the morning of December 27 last year in a sustained choking assault which stopped her breathing
It is a particularly galling failure given Gallagher also faces an active warrant for his arrest in Ireland, after he allegedly assaulted a man in the main street of Dungloe, a small town in northwestern Ireland near his hometown of Burtonport, in August 2022.
In April 2025, Gallagher failed to appear in court on a criminal charge over the matter in Dungloe. Dungloe District Court then issued an arrest warrant over the charge, which can carry a term of imprisonment.
Similarly, Gallagher was due to appear at a full court hearing in Burwood, in Sydney’s inner west, on Monday, with Ms Cameron attending.
Despite Gallagher boasting in an Instagram rant that he had video, texts and messages proving his side of the story, he failed to show his face.
Judge Janine Lacy later told the court Australian immigration data confirmed he had left the country.
Under Section 196 of the NSW Criminal Procedure Act, she made an arrest order allowing police to ‘track you down, arrest you, and put you in custody to bring you directly before the court’.
Police subsequently released a mugshot for his arrest on its social media pages.
Judge Lacy also convicted Gallagher in his absence on three offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and intentionally choke person without consent.
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Gael Cameron, 30, is seen arriving at Burwood Local Court to testify about the terrifying attack by her former romantic partner. But the court heard that Gallagher was overseas
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The court extended a two year AVO protecting Ms Cameron (above) from Gallagher
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The pair met on Below Deck Mediterranean and had a son in June 2025
The disturbing police facts accepted by Judge Lacy as proven reveal that Gallagher tried to suffocate Ms Cameron – aggressively asphyxiating her while he straddled her in bed and blocked her from breaking free.
He did this, even as their six-month-old child lay alongside her, and as she cried out in fear and pain whenever he was not suffocating her to the point she couldn’t make a noise.
He committed the acts of violence on his then-girlfriend and co-star Ms Cameron at their Sydney apartment on Boxing Day night last year.
Gallagher, described in court as ‘currently offshore’ would be immediately placed into custody if he flew back or was extradited to New South Wales, plus he would face further charges for the breach of his bail.
The Irish reality TV contestant was granted bail after spending a night in police cells last December 27, on strict conditions.
Gallagher is yet to score an Interpol Red Notice – basically an international Wanted Poster for criminally active offenders – but live police arrest warrants have now been issued for him in two countries.
On return he would be most probably bail refused while awaiting sentence for up to a maximum five years for each of the charges of choking and assaulting Ms Cameron, causing her injury.
Asked about Gallagher’s departure from Australia date, the Department of Home Affairs said it could ‘not comment on individual cases’.
It said, further, that ‘all visa holders must continue to meet legislated requirements in Australia, including character and security criteria’ and that ‘where the Department becomes aware that a visa holder no longer meets the character criteria, it takes appropriate action which may include visa cancellation’.
