BY IAN CROUCH
Charges have now been laid over an alleged assault at Merewether which left four men in hospital.
Police were called to Hickson Street in the early hours of Sunday morning to reports a group of people were assaulted by several men before they left the scene.
Paramedics treated four men all aged 22 before they were taken to the John Hunter Hospital with a range of facial injuries.
Following inquiries, police arrested an 18-year-old man at a home in Maitland.
He's been charged with five offences including assault ad affray and has been given strict bail to face Newcastle Court on September 12.
Inquiries are continuing.
