{"id":10684,"date":"2021-03-16T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:35:33","slug":"two-charged-following-broadmeadow-fatal-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/two-charged-following-broadmeadow-fatal-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged following Broadmeadow fatal stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been charged over the fatal stabbing of a man in Broadmeadow earlier this month.<br \/>\nAbout 8.20pm on Sunday 7 March 2021, 56-year-old Christopher Ward suffered a critical stab wound to his stomach.<br \/>\nHe was taken to John Hunter Hospital, where later died on Tuesday 9 March 2021.<br \/>\nDetectives from Newcastle City Police District, with assistance from the State Crime Command\u2019s Homicide Squad, established Strike Force Mailey to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, strike force detectives arrested a 46-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman at Honeysuckle Drive, Honeysuckle, about 3pm today (Tuesday 16 March 2021).<br \/>\nThe man was taken to Newcastle Police Station and charged with murder.<br \/>\nThe woman was taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with accessory after the fact to murder.<br \/>\nPolice will allege in court that the 56-year-old man was fatally stabbed during an altercation with the younger man at a Broadmeadow home earlier this month.<br \/>\nThe pair were refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">Wednesday 17 March 2021<\/a>).<br \/>\nAll three people were known to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been charged over the fatal stabbing of a man in Broadmeadow earlier this month. About 8.20pm on Sunday 7 March 2021, 56-year-old Christopher Ward suffered a critical stab wound to his stomach. He was taken to John Hunter Hospital, where later died on Tuesday 9 March 2021. Detectives from Newcastle City Police &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/two-charged-following-broadmeadow-fatal-stabbing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two charged following Broadmeadow fatal stabbing&#8221;<\/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-10684","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\/10684","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=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}