{"id":16777,"date":"2022-05-26T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2022-05-26T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:18:08","slug":"three-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/26\/three-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Three charged over alleged sexual assault \u2013 Newcastle\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three men have been charged over an alleged aggravated sexual assault in Newcastle earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police will allege in court at about 11pm on Saturday 26 February 2022, a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at a unit on Parry Street, Newcastle West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers from Newcastle City Police District were notified a short time later and established Strike Force Bombe to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following extensive inquiries, strike force investigators executed a search warrant at a home on Glen Logan Road, Bossley Park, about 7.40am on Friday 6 May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 28-year-old man was arrested and taken to Fairfield Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company with other person\/s and one count of sexually touch another person without consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was refused bail to appear at Fairfield Local Court on Friday 6 May 2022, where he was granted strict conditional bail to reappear at the same court&nbsp;on Monday 4 July 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following further investigation, detectives executed two search warrants at properties in Edensor Park and Horsley Park about 6.45am today (Wednesday 25 May 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two men \u2013 aged 20 and 28 \u2013 were arrested and taken to Fairfield Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The older man was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company with other person\/s. He was refused bail to appear at Fairfield Local Court today (Wednesday 25 May 2022), where he was granted conditional bail to reappear at the same court&nbsp;on Monday 4 July 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The younger man was charged with one count of aggravated sexual assault in company with other person\/s, being that of principal in the 2nd degree. He was granted strict conditional bail to appear at Fairfield Local Court&nbsp;on Monday 4 July 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations under Strike Force Bombe are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been charged over an alleged aggravated sexual assault in Newcastle earlier this year. Police will allege in court at about 11pm on Saturday 26 February 2022, a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at a unit on Parry Street, Newcastle West. Officers from Newcastle City Police District were notified a short time later &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/26\/three-charged-over-alleged-sexual-assault-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three charged over alleged sexual assault \u2013 Newcastle\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-16777","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\/16777","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=16777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}