{"id":3032,"date":"2019-06-14T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2019-06-14T21:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T21:40:42","slug":"police-reappeal-for-information-following-gravestone-damage-hunter-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/police-reappeal-for-information-following-gravestone-damage-hunter-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reappeal for information following gravestone damage &#8211; Hunter Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reappealing for public assistance following a malicious damage incident at a Hunter Valley cemetery.<br \/>\nPolice have been told between 7pm and 7.15pm on Friday 31 May 2019, a vehicle was seen parked in Sedgefield cemetery, near Singleton, and unknown persons have damaged a number of gravestones.<br \/>\nIn all, 36 gravestones were damaged during the incident; having been pushed over with a number of those being smashed.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and established a crime scene.<br \/>\nHunter Valley detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<br \/>\nPolice are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident, or who may have noticed any suspicious activity in the area at the time, to contact police.<br \/>\nHunter Valley Police District Commander, Superintendent Chad Gillies said he hopes people will come forward with the information police need to find those responsible.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to find answers for the families affected by this. They have already experienced immeasurable grief, and this sort of incident stirs up those emotions all over again,<br \/>\n\u201cSomeone knows something, and we urge anyone with any information to speak up,\u201d Superintendent Gillies said.<br \/>\nAnyone with information is urged to contact Singleton Police Station on 02 6578 7499 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reappealing for public assistance following a malicious damage incident at a Hunter Valley cemetery. Police have been told between 7pm and 7.15pm on Friday 31 May 2019, a vehicle was seen parked in Sedgefield cemetery, near Singleton, and unknown persons have damaged a number of gravestones. In all, 36 gravestones were damaged during &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/police-reappeal-for-information-following-gravestone-damage-hunter-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police reappeal for information following gravestone damage &#8211; Hunter Valley&#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-3032","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\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}