{"id":42548,"date":"2024-05-13T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42548"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T01:37:01","slug":"man-charged-after-body-found-in-wollongong-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42548","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after body found in Wollongong train station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man has been charged with murder after the body of a man in his 60s was found in a train station carpark stairwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police spokesperson said a 37-year-old man was due to appear in the Wollongong Local Court on Monday, charged with murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-56-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-56-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-56-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-56-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-56.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police arrested the man, who has now been charged, about three hours after emergency services were alerted to the body. Picture: NCA NewsWire\/ Gaye Gerard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 7.20am on Sunday, police were called to the Wollongong train station on Station St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone had found a body in a stairwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased person was a 68-year-old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 37-year-old man was arrested nearby a little more than three after hours after the body had been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-57-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-57-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-57-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-57-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-57.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 37-year-old man was expected to face court in Wollongong on Monday. Picture: NCA NewsWire \/ Simon Bullard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train station will remain closed on Monday, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Daily Telegraph reported the body was found on a stairwell by railway staff on the first level of the west side of the station\u2019s carpark, an area where people were known to sleep rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased man has yet to be named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after another man\u2019s dead body was found in the stairwell of a train station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":42551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,163,164],"tags":[472,5026,8723,2139,7,9116],"class_list":["post-42548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-train-stations","tag-australian","tag-nsw","tag-serious-crime","tag-sydney","tag-transport","tag-wollongong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42552,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions\/42552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}