CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: An Australian man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to raping and trafficking two girls in the Philippines, as he faced a separate investigation for murder and other sex offences, court officials said.

Wearing a yellow prison shirt, steel-rimmed glasses and handcuffs, Gerard Peter Scully, 51, puffed on a cigarette before calmly saying “not guilty” as the charges were read to him at an improvised courtroom in the port of Cagayan de Oro.

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