Police charge three people with assault

ACT Policing arrested and charged three people yesterday with assault following separate incidents across Canberra.

About midday on Thursday (15 May 2025), a 32-year-old woman allegedly spat on another woman’s face following an attempt to enter the woman’s vehicle.

Following enquiries, yesterday police arrested the 32-year-old woman at her residence in Gunghalin. She has been charged with common assault and unauthorised entry of a motor vehicle.

In another incident, a 52-year-old man was charged with two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after allegedly punching and pinning a man unknown to him against a wall at O’Connor shops yesterday morning (Friday 16 May 2025).

Also, yesterday morning in Conder, a 60-year-old man allegedly kicked his neighbour in the head. He has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The two men and the woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning (Saturday, 17 May 2025).