A hip-hop artist has been granted bail so he can attend the birth of his first child.
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William Warren Darcy, 23, appeared before the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday on a series of charges dating back to 2009.
The court heard Darcy had eight outstanding matters from 2009, including burglary, assault, property damage, possessing a knife and theft.
He has also been charged for failing to appear in court and giving police a false name when he was arrested on April 14.
ACT Policing had been searching for Darcy for almost four years after he vanished before facing justice on the various charges.
The court heard Darcy had been living in NSW and spent more than two years in Wellington jail.
The rapper, who claims to run his own label Blood Beats, gave police a false name when he was arrested in Fyshwick last month.
He applied for bail on Tuesday, with his defence lawyers telling the court his partner had on Tuesday gone into labour with the couple's first child.
But the prosecution opposed the application, arguing Darcy was unlikely to reappear before the courts.
They said Darcy knew he had outstanding warrants in the ACT when he provided a false name to police in the hope of evading capture and had few ties to Canberra.
The defence said Darcy would live with his mother in Holt and had been offered work with a trucking company.
The defence said Darcy's mother would drive the defendant to Dubbo to pick up his partner and newborn child, before bringing him back to the ACT to live.
Magistrate David Mossop granted Darcy bail, under the condition he report to Dubbo police station while interstate and to Belconnen police station upon his return to the ACT.