A 49-year-old man has been charged with three domestic violence-related offences in Sydney on Sunday. Police allege the man held his 30-year-old partner and two children against their will in their Church Street, Cabramatta apartment before assaulting the woman.
According to police reports, the man detained the woman and her children, a three-year-old toddler and an 11-month-old baby, over the past two days. He then allegedly struck the woman and cut her hair.
Cabramatta Local Area Command officers searched the unit and seized two knives. The man was arrested and taken to Cabramatta Police Station, where he was charged with taking and detaining a person with intent to obtain advantage occasioning actual bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and stalking and intimidating with intent to cause fear of physical harm.
The man was formally refused bail when he appeared at Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday. The incident comes as New South Wales grapples with a domestic violence epidemic.
