Hussein Wraydeh charged after alleged stabbing brother at Guildford

A man allegedly intended to murder his brother when he knifed him in the neck at a western Sydney house, a court has heard. Read the latest.

Paramedics help a man into an ambulance on Sunday.

A man who allegedly knifed his brother at Guildford on Sunday has fronted court wearing a bandage.

Bankstown man Hussein Wraydeh fronted court on Monday, a day after the alleged stabbing at the back of a house on Rawson Rd about 1.10pm

Paramedics treated Wraydeh’s 46-year-old brother, Hassan Wraydeh, for a wound to his neck at the scene before he was rushed to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.

Hussein, 47, was arrested and taken to Westmead Hospital for assessment.

After he was released from hospital, he was taken to Granville police station and charged with causing wounding/grievous bodily harm to person with intent to murder, contravening a prohibition/restriction in AVO (domestic) and using a prohibited weapon contrary to prohibition order.

Both brothers were taken to hospital.

He was refused bail to front Parramatta Local Court on Monday when he appeared in the dock wearing prison greens and a bandage on his right wrist.

His Legal Aid solicitor told the court his client was stressed and requested the matter be adjourned so he could receive medical attention.

No application for bail was made.

The matter will return to court on March 18.

In July 2021, Hussein lost a defamation appeal against the Daily Telegraph and Sydney Morning Herald’s publishers after police named him as a person of interest when Hassan fled the scene of a crash at Punchbowl and left a mother to die.

Hassan caused the 2016 smash but instead of stopping to help his girlfriend 38-year-old girlfriend Gina Abdallah he wiped down his driver’s side door and left her behind with fatal injuries in the front passenger seat of their Mitsubishi Lancer.

NSW Police issued several press releases to inform the media of the need to locate the Mitsubishi’s driver, one of which named Hussein Wraydeh — the brother of Hassan — as a person they believed may have had vital information for their investigation.

Subsequent articles in The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers named Hussein Wraydeh not just as a person of interest but as a person suspected of having been the Mitsubishi’s driver.

Police later determined that it was Hassan, not his brother Hussein, who was behind the wheel of the car when it crashed.

Hussein sued both publishers for defamation but he was unsuccessful after a judge found all of the articles except one were published on an occasion of qualified privilege.