Jayden Headley was missing for five months.
The man charged with kidnapping his six-year-old grandson Jayden Headley has been granted bail but will be electronically monitored.
Jayden has been at the centre of a bitter custody dispute since he was an infant.
He disappeared from outside Hamilton Public Library in August last year and was
missing for five months -- allegedly on the run with his maternal grandfather Dick Headley -- before being handed over to Hamilton police last month.
Headley and Jayden's mother Kay Skelton were charged with the kidnap of Jayden, who is now back with his father Chris Jones. Two other people were charged yesterday with kidnap.
Skelton is currently on bail.
In Hamilton District Court today Judge Robert Spear allowed a request from Dick Headley's lawyer Barry Hart to free Headley from prison on the condition he was confined to a Papamoa address around the clock and was electronically monitored.
The ankle bracelet would alert Chubb Home Detention Services -- who would inform police -- if he left the property.
Other conditions imposed by the judge were for Headley to surrender his passport and not to enter the Waikato region unless attending Hamilton District Court.
He was to give police 24 hours notice if visiting Mr Hart in Auckland or keeping a medical appointment.
Headley was also banned from direct or indirect contact with witnesses, people interviewed in the police investigation, and his daughter Kay Skelton, who also faces a kidnapping charge.
A $10,000 deposit has been paid to a trust account owned by Mr Hart's solicitor to cover the security company's costs.
Meanwhile, the arrest of two residents of Matauri Bay in Northland yesterday shocked locals.
Labourer Jeremy Daly, 38, and his partner Tania Thomasen, 36, were yesterday arrested and charged with kidnapping Jayden. Daly also faces drug charges.
The pair were granted bail and remanded for two weeks at an appearance in Kaikohe District Court.
Police have not ruled out further arrests as the investigation continues.
- NZPA
