A man faced Maitland local court today and has been charged following an alleged unprovoked assault on a 62-year-old woman in Maitland on Monday the 6th of January.
Around 4:35pm yesterday the woman was walking along Church Street when she stopped behind a 40-year-old male before he turned around and struck the woman in the face.
The man fled the scene and emergency services and Port Stephens-Hunter police arrived shortly after.
Police later arrested the man at Maitland Railway Station, he was later charged at Maitland Police Station with reckless wounding.
