{"id":795165,"date":"2026-07-12T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:50:12","slug":"junior-perth-doctor-26-charged-over-death-near-fremantles-entertainment-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795165\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Perth doctor, 26, charged over death near Fremantle’s entertainment precinct"},"content":{"rendered":"

A junior doctor from Perth’s western suburbs has appeared in court charged with manslaughter following the death of a 63-year-old man near Fremantle’s entertainment strip in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Perth Magistrates Court was told Christian Jack Joseph, 26, had been out in Fremantle and was returning to a friend’s home on South Terrace at about 1:30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The prosecution said that as he approached the house, he saw a man peering through the window and alleged that Mr Joseph pinned him to the ground and placed him in a chokehold.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

The man was found unresponsive on South Terrace near Douglas Street.\u00a0 (ABC News: Andrew Hanlon)<\/p>\n

The 63-year-old man became unconscious and Mr Joseph, a junior doctor at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, performed CPR while his friend called emergency services.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph, who lives in Crawley and studied medicine at the University of Western Australia, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody.<\/p>\n

\"Mr<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph graduated from the University of Western Australia.\u00a0 (Instagram\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph’s lawyer told the court, which was packed with his family and supporters, that his alleged actions were “out of character” and he was “dedicated to saving lives”.<\/p>\n

The magistrate refused bail, saying the matter was “too serious”.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph was denied bail.\u00a0 (Instagram\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph is due to appear in court again on August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A junior doctor from Perth’s western suburbs has appeared in court charged with manslaughter following the death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,61645,1300,373891,92319,10992,11554,24275,44,17174,17173,86,373890,45],"class_list":["post-795165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crawley","tag-death","tag-douglas-terrace","tag-fiona-stanley-hospital","tag-fremantle","tag-man","tag-manslaughter","tag-news","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-perth-news","tag-south-terrace","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795165","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=795165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}