A man has been charged after an incident in Newcastle which has left another man in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n
About 3.30am today (Saturday 26 March 2016), police were called to attend a street in Hamilton following reports of three males fighting.<\/p>\n
Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and located a 34-year-old man being detained by two men.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old was found to be unresponsive. Ambulance Paramedics conveyed him to John Hunter Hospital where he is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
One of the men who were detaining him, aged 33, was taken to John Hunter Hospital where he was treated for facial injuries.<\/p>\n
He was then taken to Newcastle Police Station where he was charged with recklessly inflict grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n
He was granted conditional bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on 21 April 2016.<\/p>\n
The other man, aged 32, who was assisting in detaining the 34-year-old, has not been charged.<\/p>\n
Investigations suggest the 34-year-old man had committed a break, enter and steal offence at the 33-year-old man\u2019s home prior to the altercation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after an incident in Newcastle which has left another man in a critical condition in hospital. About 3.30am today (Saturday 26 March 2016), police were called to attend a street in Hamilton following reports of three males fighting. Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and located a 34-year-old … Continue reading “Man charged after altercation – Hamilton”<\/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-3696","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\/3696","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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}