{"id":798502,"date":"2026-07-13T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:09:11","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-74yo-man-dies-following-alleged-attack-in-yennora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798502\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after 74yo man dies following alleged attack in Yennora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been charged with murder over the death of an elderly man who was allegedly attacked during a morning walk in Sydney&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In the early hours of Saturday morning, a Yennora local called emergency services after an elderly man was found on the side of the road with head injuries near the intersection of Orchardleigh Street and Junction Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 74-year-old married father of six had left his house about 30 minutes before the incident, and was out on his daily morning walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police and paramedics treated the unconscious man at the scene, and he was later taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a forensic police officer takes pictures at a crime scene\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/41103cbd9d3f33711d497c2672657fc7.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\">The 74-year-old was out on his daily walk when he was allegedly assaulted. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police said they were informed of the man&#8217;s death on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Following inquiries, Corum Ash, 45, was arrested on Monday about 8:30pm at a property in Carlingford and taken to Parramatta Police Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has now been charged with murder and causing wounding\/grievous bodily harm to a person with intent to murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder over the death of an elderly man who was allegedly attacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44036,64,63,375005,375006,44,4277,373333,250132,375007],"class_list":["post-798502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alleged-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-corum-ash","tag-junction-road","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-orchardleigh-street","tag-parramatta-police-station","tag-strike-force-furena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798502","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=798502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}