<\/b>Police are conducting inquiries after two children were approached by a man near Newcastle.<\/p>\n
On Thursday afternoon (18 February 2016), an 11-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl were walking along Smith Street, Merewether, when they noticed a man following them.<\/p>\n
The man followed the children for a number of minutes and, when they stopped at a property on Glebe Road, the man attempted to engage them in conversation.<\/p>\n
When the children ignored the man, he left the location.<\/p>\n
The matter was reported to police and officers from the Newcastle Local Area Command have now commenced inquiries into the matter.<\/p>\n
The man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, around 40 years of age, between 170 and 180cm tall and of thin build. He was wearing a colourful trucker hat, a light blue shirt, white\/grey shorts and white joggers.<\/p>\n
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are conducting inquiries after two children were approached by a man near Newcastle. On Thursday afternoon (18 February 2016), an 11-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl were walking along Smith Street, Merewether, when they noticed a man following them. The man followed the children for a number of minutes and, when they stopped at … Continue reading “Children approached near Newcastle”<\/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-3505","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\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}