A man has been charged with murder after an elderly woman was found dead at a home in Port Stephens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 12.30pm today (Thursday 18 December 2025), a 61-year-old man attended Newcastle Police Station in relation to an incident at a home in Fern Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District attended a home in Taylor Road and found an 88-year-old woman deceased inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, a 61-year-old man attended Newcastle Police Sation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, detectives arrested the man, who is known to the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has now been charged with murder (DV) by detectives attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 61-year-old man was refused bail and will appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Friday 19 December 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged with murder after an elderly woman was found dead at a home in Port Stephens. About 12.30pm today (Thursday 18 December 2025), a 61-year-old man attended Newcastle Police Station in relation to an incident at a home in Fern Bay. Officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District attended a … Continue reading “Man charged after elderly woman found dead \u2013 Port Stephens”<\/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-36682","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\/36682","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=36682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36683,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36682\/revisions\/36683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}