A<\/b> woman was arrested and charged with murder following the suspicious death of 43-year-old New Zealand man, Ian Pullen, two years ago in the Hunter region.
\nJust after 5.30am on Saturday 29 September 2018, emergency services were called to Carrington Street, Glenridding, after a man\u2019s body was located on the side of the road.
\nThe man was later identified as 43-year-old New Zealand firefighter, Ian Pullen, who had arrived in the Hunter region to assist with bushfire efforts.
\nDetectives from Hunter Valley Police District established Strike Force Awabakil to investigate the circumstances surrounding Mr Pullen\u2019s death.
\nFollowing extensive inquiries and numerous public appeals, a 29-year-old man was arrested last week; he was charged and remains before the courts.
\nAfter further inquiries, police attended a home on Dominion Avenue, Singleton, and arrested a 30-year-old woman about 9am yesterday (Monday 16 October 2020).
\nShe was taken to Singleton Police Station before being taken to Singleton Hospital under police guard for an existing injury. She later returned to Singleton Police Station and was charged with murder.
\nPolice will allege in court the 29-year-old man was driving a white Toyota Hilux utility when Mr Pullen was struck in the early hours of Saturday 29 September before leaving the scene.
\nIt will be further alleged that the vehicle returned a short time later, with the man and woman exiting the utility and striking Mr Pullen in the head with an object.
\nThe woman was refused bail to appear at Muswellbrook Local Court today (Tuesday 20 October 2020).
\nInvestigations under Strike Force Awabakil are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman was arrested and charged with murder following the suspicious death of 43-year-old New Zealand man, Ian Pullen, two years ago in the Hunter region. Just after 5.30am on Saturday 29 September 2018, emergency services were called to Carrington Street, Glenridding, after a man\u2019s body was located on the side of the road. The … Continue reading “Second person charged with murder over suspicious death of New Zealand firefighter in the Hunter”<\/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-8779","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\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}