Two people have been charged following an unauthorised protest in the Hunter Valley.
About 6am today (Thursday 22 June 2023), emergency services were called to Rose Point Road, Singleton, following reports two people had climbed on top of a train carriage near Singleton Railway Station.
Officers from Hunter Valley Police District attended and, with assistance from specialist police, removed a 64-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl from on top of the train.
They were arrested and taken to Singleton Police Station, where they were both charged with cause obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock and enter enclosed non-agricultural lands serious safety risk.
The woman was refused bail where the matter was mentioned at Muswellbrook Local Court today (Thursday 22 June 2023). She was refused bail to reappear tomorrow (Friday 23 June 2023) at Singleton Local Court.
The teenager was granted strict conditional bail to appear at a children’s court on Monday 17 July 2023.