{"id":954458,"date":"2026-11-06T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954458\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:22:13","slug":"man-23-charged-with-manslaughter-over-death-of-baby-son-in-kiara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954458\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 23, charged with manslaughter over death of baby son in Kiara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 23-year-old man accused of killing his five-week-old baby son in Perth&#8217;s north-east has appeared in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Matthew Wayne Winmar was charged with manslaughter after allegedly inflicting serious injuries on the infant at a residence in Kiara on August 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was taken to a nearby medical centre, before being transferred by ambulance to Perth Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The baby died on August 15 as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Winmar was arrested at a home in Katanning yesterday, and was also charged with assaulting a woman aged in her 20s who was known to him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in a pink shirt with his head blurred out sits in the back of a police divvy van, with a male police officer nearby.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3114e5efa3d53b439465fcbc60386922.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 have charged Mr Winmar with manslaughter and assault after his arrest in Katanning. (Supplied: WA Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was charged with two counts of common assault in circumstances of aggravation or racial aggravation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both incidents are being treated as family violence-related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Winmar has appeared in Perth Magistrates Court and made no application for bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He is scheduled to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man accused of killing his five-week-old baby son in Perth&#8217;s north-east has appeared in court.\u00a0 Matthew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1348,48,17724,43,44,17726,17725,86,1158,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-954458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime","tag-emergency-services","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954458","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=954458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}