{"id":6181,"date":"2020-04-24T01:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2020-04-24T01:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:06:48","slug":"blacktown-train-station-assault-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/blacktown-train-station-assault-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacktown train station assault appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are appealing for information following the assault of three staff at Blacktown Railway Station yesterday.
\nAbout 1pm<\/a> (Thursday 23 April 2020), police observed a female attempt to enter the station via the wide access barrier on the main concourse while smoking a cigarette.
\nA male member of staff approached to advise her that smoking is not allowed on the concourse, before the female spat onto the man\u2019s face, stating \u201cI have COVID\u201d before walking through the ticket barrier.
\nAt the same time, a male ran over to the scene, coughing and spitting in the staff member\u2019s face and punching him in the neck and back of the head multiple times.
\nA second staff member attempted to intervene and has also been punched to her head.
\nA third staff member sustained a small laceration to her thumb and an injury to her back when she tried to assist.
\nThe male and female ran from the train station towards Main Street and were last seen running down David Lane.
\nPolice would like to speak to the male and female and ask that anyone who has any information or witnessed the incident to contact police.
\nThe female is described as being Caucasian in appearance, aged 15-17, 157cm tall, with black hair. She was last seen wearing a black \u2018Nike\u2019 t-shirt with \u2018Just do it\u2019 emblazoned in red and white on the front, long black pants and black shoes.
\nThe male is described as being Caucasian in appearance, aged 15-17, 155cm tall, with a black moustache. He was last seen wearing a brown baseball cap, a white Nautica branded t-shirt with a red and black logo, long dark pants and black shoes.
\nAnyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000<\/a> or <\/em><\/strong>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police are appealing for information following the assault of three staff at Blacktown Railway Station yesterday. About 1pm (Thursday 23 April 2020), police observed a female attempt to enter the station via the wide access barrier on the main concourse while smoking a cigarette. A male member of staff approached to advise her that smoking … Continue reading “Blacktown train station assault appeal”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","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=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}