A man has been charged and a woman is in a coma following an alleged altercation in the Hunter region.
\nAbout 1.30am (Monday 16 December 2019), officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended a home in Hampshire Road, Merriwa \u2013 west of Muswellbrook \u2013 after reports of a domestic violence related incident.
\nA 40-year-old man was arrested and taken to Muswellbrook Police Station.
\nPolice will allege that at about 1.30pm on Sunday (15 December 2019), an argument occurred between the man and a 41-year old woman.
\nDuring the altercation it\u2019s alleged the man was struck and bitten by the woman. He then allegedly slapped the woman, causing her to fall backwards and hit her head.
\nNSW Ambulance paramedics attended the home and treated the woman for head injuries. She was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition.
\nThe woman underwent emergency surgery and is expected to be in an induced coma for several days.
\nThe man was also treated for a laceration to his hand and bruising to his cheek.
\nThe man was charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and breaching an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order.
\nHe was refused bail to appear in Muswellbrook Local Court today (Monday 16 December 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged and a woman is in a coma following an alleged altercation in the Hunter region. About 1.30am (Monday 16 December 2019), officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended a home in Hampshire Road, Merriwa \u2013 west of Muswellbrook \u2013 after reports of a domestic violence related incident. A 40-year-old … Continue reading “Domestic violence charges \u2013 Hunter region”<\/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-4634","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\/4634","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=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}