{"id":923649,"date":"2026-10-11T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923649\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:50:09","slug":"police-search-for-man-after-alleged-assault-on-sydney-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923649\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for man after alleged assault on Sydney ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> have released an image of a man they want to speak to after a passenger was allegedly punched during an early morning ferry trip on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old victim was onboard a ferry between Darling Point and Circular Quay about 7.45am on Friday, October 2, when he was approached by a man he did not know.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f0a95460d946719791ce9a19502c949ec539e8bdea3a11d96ff20b5a6362eacc.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Police are appealing for public assistance following an assault onboard a Sydney ferry earlier this month. \u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Police allege an argument broke out between the pair before the passenger was punched and suffered an injury to his leg.<\/p>\n<p>The other man left the ferry at Circular Quay before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have released an image of a man they believe could help with their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s described as being in his 40s, with a Caucasian appearance, short hair and dark stubble.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a navy jacket and pants with a light blue button-up shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident or has relevant footage is urged to contact Day Street Police Station or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to after a passenger was allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-923649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923649","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=923649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}