Tuesday 1 March 2022

Hunter police charge man over alleged sexual assault at house party

BY DAKOTA TAIT

Detectives with the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have charged a man with the alleged sexual assault of a teenage woman.

Police allege the woman was assaulted at a Port Stephens house party on Saturday night. 

It's understood the woman informed partygoers before the man had left.

The 29-year-old man was arrested at Hornsby Police Station on Sunday.

He's been granted strict conditional bail to appear in court in April, where he faces five counts of sexual touching and one count of sexual assault.