{"id":1519,"date":"2015-01-10T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2015-01-10T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T03:38:23","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-near-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/man-charged-with-murder-near-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder near Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after an assault in a backyard on the state\u2019s Hunter Region overnight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">About 5pm (Friday 9 January, 2015) a man was visiting his elderly mother at her house in Main Road, Cardiff when an argument occurred between the 50-year-old and a 57-year-old neighbour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The 57-year-old man entered the backyard and allegedly assaulted the 50-year-old, punching and kicking him to his face and body, before returning to his house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">A friend took the 50-year-old to Maitland Hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Police were called and a crime scene was established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">At 10.20pm (Friday 9 January, 2015) a 57-year-old man was arrested at his home in Cardiff and taken to Charlestown Police Station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; color: #595959; font: 18px\/1.25em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 2px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">He was charged with murder to appear in Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 10 January, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after an assault in a backyard on the state\u2019s Hunter Region overnight. About 5pm (Friday 9 January, 2015) a man was visiting his elderly mother at her house in Main Road, Cardiff when an argument occurred between the 50-year-old and a 57-year-old neighbour. The 57-year-old man entered the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/man-charged-with-murder-near-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with murder near Lake Macquarie&#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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}