Police are appealing for public assistance as they continue to investigate an assault on board a train in Newcastle last year.
\nAbout 10am on Friday 25 September 2020, a 21-year-old man boarded a train at Metford Station headed eastbound.
\nDuring the trip, the man dropped a headphone to the ground and was attempting to retrieve it when an unknown male passenger stood up and punched the 21-year-old to the head.
\nThe man contacted police and officers commenced an investigation.
\nAs police continue their inquiries, they have released a CCTV image of a man who may be able to assist with their inquiries.
\nThe man is described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, aged in his 20s, with dark\/reddish curly hair and a beard.
\nHe was wearing a red, white and black hooded jumper, green camouflage cargo pants and white sneakers.
\nAnyone with information which may assist police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance as they continue to investigate an assault on board a train in Newcastle last year. About 10am on Friday 25 September 2020, a 21-year-old man boarded a train at Metford Station headed eastbound. During the trip, the man dropped a headphone to the ground and was attempting to retrieve … Continue reading “Appeal after alleged train assault – Hunter region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}