Strike Force Feods arrest two children as probe into fatal stabbing of Jack Westren near Shellharbour Junction continues

Police have now charged four people in connection to a fatal incident near an Illawarra train station last month with two 13-year-old boys the latest to be arrested and hauled before the courts.

The fatal incident happened near Shellharbour Junction train station on January 28. Picture: Darren Malone

Two children have been charged in connection to the fatal stabbing of a young man near a train station in the Illawarra.

Jack Westren, 25, was stabbed in the abdomen shortly before 3pm on January 28 at Dunmore, near Shellharbour Junction train station.

Police established Strike Force Foeds and arrested Tamara Lee Doust, 35, at her home in Albion Park Rail early on the following morning and charged her with murder.

Before facing court later that day an additional charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder had been laid against Doust.

About 3pm on that day, police made a second arrest, being that of a 15-year-old boy at an address in Horsley, before escorting him to Lake Illawarra Police Station where he was charged with murder and possessing an unauthorised pistol in relation to the seizure of a gel blaster firearm.

Jack Westren, 25, died from stab wounds.

Tamara Doust was the first person arrested.

Police will allege Mr Westren was stabbed while being assaulted by multiple people who fled in an Isuzu MU-X.

The vehicle was later recovered in Albion Park Rail and seized for forensic examination, police say.

Magistrate David Williams formally refused Doust bail, with the case to return to court in March.

The boy faced Campbelltown Children’s Court where he did not apply for bail before it was formally refused.

He will return to court in April.

Police made the two fresh arrests on Wednesday nearly 100km apart with one of the boys being picked up in Nowra and the other in the northern Illawarra suburb of Thirroul.

They were taken to Nowra and Wollongong police stations where they were both charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company and affray.

One of the boys was refused bail and appeared before a children’s court on Thursday where conditional bail was granted.

He is due to face a children’s court again on April 1.

The second boy was granted conditional bail to appear before a children’s court on March 25.

On January 31, police issued a statement as they searched for a person they believed to be between 15 and 18 who was last seen wearing a Penrith Panthers jersey.

NSW Police have been asked about whether one of the 13-year-old boys is the person they were looking for.

Investigations under Strike Force Feods continue.