{"id":214836,"date":"2025-10-15T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214836\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:02:08","slug":"five-teens-charged-with-murder-following-alleged-stabbing-on-nsw-south-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214836\/","title":{"rendered":"Five teens charged with murder following alleged stabbing on NSW South Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five teenagers aged 13 to 16 have had their charges upgraded to murder after an alleged fatal stabbing near Wollongong, south of Sydney, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to an address on Saturn Crescent in Dunmore about 3pm on January 28 after 25-year-old Jack Westren was found with serious stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b9aadb19-b875-4ae7-a723-4877168ba4f5.jpeg\"   alt=\"A photo of 25-year-old Jack Westren who was allegedly stabbed to death in Shellharbour\"\/>25-year-old Jack Westren was allegedly stabbed to death in Shellharbour (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffInitial investigations revealed that the 25-year-old was allegedly stabbed during a fight with multiple people who left in an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was later recovered in Albion Park Rail and seized for forensic examination\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy and \ufeffa 38-year-old woman were charged with murder at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, five teenagers, \ufeffincluding a 13-year-old boy, two boys aged 14, a 15-year-old girl, and a 16-year-old boy, were all charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The teens are all set to face children&#8217;s court on separate dates later this month.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five teenagers aged 13 to 16 have had their charges upgraded to murder after an alleged fatal stabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-214836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}