BY ISABEL EVERETT
A man will face court on Friday charged over an alleged aggravated break and
enter at Shortland.
About 3am on Sunday, an 84-year-old woman was asleep at a
home on Marsden Street, Shortland, when she was woken by an unknown man
standing in her room.
The man spoke to the elderly woman before she called to family members for
assistance and the man left the home.
The elderly woman wasn’t injured.
Following extensive inquiries, police attended a separate home on Marsden
Street and arrested a 19-year-old man on Wednesday.
He was taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with aggravated break and
enter commit serious indictable offence with people there.
He was formally bail refused to reappear at Newcastle Local Court.
