{"id":4540,"date":"2019-12-07T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:18:13","slug":"man-to-face-court-over-alleged-strangulation-and-kidnap-of-woman-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/07\/man-to-face-court-over-alleged-strangulation-and-kidnap-of-woman-singleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to face court over alleged strangulation and kidnap of woman &#8211; Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with domestic violence-related offences after allegedly strangling and assaulting a woman until she became unconscious in Singleton.<br \/>\nAbout 5pm on Monday 18 November 2019, a 29-year-old man allegedly threatened and strangled a 25-year-old woman until she was rendered unconscious at a toilet block in Bridgeman Road, Singleton.<br \/>\nIt will also be alleged the man then forcibly placed the woman inside his car, assaulted her and threatened her with a hammer before driving to a nearby fast food restaurant.<br \/>\nThe woman then jumped out of the moving vehicle and alerted the restaurant\u2019s staff, who, in turn, contacted police.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District attended and commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, police attached to the Northern Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team arrested a 29-year-old man in Hunter Street, Newcastle, just after 7am today (Saturday 7 December 2019).<br \/>\nHe was taken to Newcastle Police Station, where he was charged with 10 offences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three counts of possess prohibited drug,<\/li>\n<li>unlicensed rider for class,<\/li>\n<li>choke person with intent to commit indictable offence,<\/li>\n<li>two counts of stalk\/intimidate intend fear of physical harm (DV),<\/li>\n<li>assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV),<\/li>\n<li>intentionally choke person without consent (DV), and<\/li>\n<li>kidnap with intent to commit serious indictable offence occasioning actual bodily harm (DV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police will allege in court that the two were known to each other.<br \/>\nThe man was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Sunday 8 December 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with domestic violence-related offences after allegedly strangling and assaulting a woman until she became unconscious in Singleton. About 5pm on Monday 18 November 2019, a 29-year-old man allegedly threatened and strangled a 25-year-old woman until she was rendered unconscious at a toilet block in Bridgeman Road, Singleton. It will also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/07\/man-to-face-court-over-alleged-strangulation-and-kidnap-of-woman-singleton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man to face court over alleged strangulation and kidnap of woman &#8211; Singleton&#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-4540","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\/4540","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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}