Gunnedah man charged with alleged murder of four-month-old boy
A man has been charged with murder after the death of a four-month-old baby in the state’s northwest. Here is what we know.
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A man has been charged with murder after the death of a four-month-old baby in the state’s northwest.
Last month, The Daily Telegraph reported the four-month-old was staying with a relative in the regional town of Gunnedah before allegedly being returned unconscious to his mum, who rushed the child to hospital in a critical condition.
The baby was airlifted from Gunnedah to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, where he later died.
Local detectives and officers from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad and Child Abuse Squad, established Strike Force Monier to investigate the circumstances surrounding the child’s death before a 20-year-old Gunnedah man was arrested and later charged murder (domestic violence) on Friday morning.
He was refused bail overnight before appearing in Parramatta Bail Court On February 8.
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