{"id":514814,"date":"2026-03-02T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:54:08","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-over-alleged-axe-attack-at-little-styx-river-campground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514814\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder over alleged axe attack at Little Styx River Campground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been charged with murder after a camper&#8217;s death in an alleged axe attack at a remote campsite in the New South Wales northern tablelands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 26-year-old was arrested on Waterfall Way at Ebor at about 11:30am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police will allege he struck a 33-year-old man with an axe during an argument in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The two men were camping at the Little Styx River Campground near Ebor, 80 kilometres east of Armidale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The injured man was driven to Thora, about 25km north-west of Bellingen, by a 25-year-old female friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police will allege she was also assaulted and required treatment for bruising to her neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Ambulance paramedics attempted to treat him, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 26-year-old Thora man has been charged with murder, intentionally choking a person with recklessness, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will face an online bail court hearing later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a camper&#8217;s death in an alleged axe attack at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,257543,257544,44,257542],"class_list":["post-514814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-little-styx-river","tag-murder-charge-after-campig-attack","tag-news","tag-thora-camp-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514814","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=514814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}