{"id":636634,"date":"2026-04-28T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636634\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:25:16","slug":"woman-and-child-allegedly-carjacked-in-dalyellup-after-burning-dirtbike-blocks-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636634\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and child allegedly carjacked in Dalyellup after burning dirtbike blocks road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A woman and her two-year-old son are uninjured after allegedly being carjacked in Western Australia&#8217;s South West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say the 23-year-old woman was driving on Dalyellup Boulevard, around 180km south of Perth, on Sunday night when she spotted a burning trail bike blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Her son was in the rear of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police allege 31-year-old Spencer James Thorne approached and entered the car, then forced the woman to drive to multiple locations in Dalyellup and the Bunbury suburbs of Carey Park and Withers, before exiting the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Thorne was arrested on Monday and charged with deprivation of liberty over the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stretch of Dalyellup Boulevard in WA's South West.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e6e5baf7d2cc487b31ed74d6431a46b6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police allege the woman was driving along Dalyellup Boulevard when the carjacking occurred. (ABC South West WA: Georgia Loney)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was heavily bandaged during an appearance in the Bunbury Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday and interrupted the presiding magistrate multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In one instance, he yelled that prosecutors had got it wrong, and he had just asked the woman to drive him to his mother&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Thorne, who was on bail over separate proceedings, did not make a fresh application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was remanded in custody and is due back in court in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and her two-year-old son are uninjured after allegedly being carjacked in Western Australia&#8217;s South West. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,308198,58042,308195,308196,308194,44,308197,41844,45],"class_list":["post-636634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bunbury-crime","tag-carjacking","tag-dalyellup-carjacking","tag-dalyellup-crime","tag-dalyellup-robbery","tag-news","tag-south-west-crime","tag-south-west-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636634","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=636634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}