A woman will face Court after being charged following an unauthorised protest in the Hunter Valley yesterday.
About 2.30pm (Friday 5 July 2024), police received information that a number of protesters had entered the rail corridor at Lochinvar railway station, near Maitland, and were causing obstruction to trains.
Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District, with assistance from Police Rescue, attended the site and arrested a 69-year-old woman from South Australia.
She was taken to Maitland Police Station where she was charged with three offences – enter inclosed non-agricultural lands – serious safety risk, cause obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock and hinder working of mining equipment.
She was refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court later today (Saturday 6 July 2024).
