<\/b>Police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed during a home invasion in South Tamworth overnight.<\/p>\n
Just after midnight (Tuesday 21 July 2015), a 46-year-old man answered a knock at the front door of his Petra Avenue home and was confronted by a man armed with a knife.<\/p>\n
Police have been told he threatened the occupant and forced his way inside, with three people following him.<\/p>\n
A 26-year-old man from inside the home ran out the back door and was confronted by four people waiting at the rear of the premises and assaulted.<\/p>\n
When the 46-year-old man ran to assist his son, he was stabbed in the lower back.<\/p>\n
The group stole the man\u2019s wallet and prescription drugs before leaving in an older-model white Commodore sedan.
\nPolice and Ambulance Paramedics were called and the 46-year-old man was taken to Tamworth Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Police are interested in speaking with a number of people who may be able to assist with inquiries.<\/p>\n
The first man has been described to police as having a dark complexion, aged in his teens with a skinny build, about 170cm tall, wearing a grey hooded jumped and dark blue jeans.<\/p>\n
The second man has been described to police as having a dark complexion, aged in his teens, about 172cm tall, very skinny build, wearing a blue hooded jumper, baseball cap and black track pants.<\/p>\n
The third man has been described to police as having a dark complexion, aged in his teens with a skinny build and buck teeth. He was wearing a multi-coloured football jumper and a black beanie.<\/p>\n
The fourth man has been described to police as being Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander in appearance, with fair skin, aged in his late 20s to early 30s, 173cm tall, with a solid build, facial hair and sandy-coloured short hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed during a home invasion in South Tamworth overnight. Just after midnight (Tuesday 21 July 2015), a 46-year-old man answered a knock at the front door of his Petra Avenue home and was confronted by a man armed with a knife. Police have been told he … Continue reading “Man stabbed during home invasion – South Tamworth”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}