{"id":25279,"date":"2026-06-05T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:11:08","slug":"family-of-couple-stabbed-in-suspected-home-invasion-traumatised-by-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25279\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of couple stabbed in suspected home invasion traumatised by incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a couple who were stabbed during a suspected invasion of their home on a rural property say they are deeply traumatised by the incident.<\/p>\n

Keith Blessing, 75, \u00a0and his wife 72-year-old Diane Blessing are recovering in a hospital on the Gold Coast after a 34-year-old man broke in and allegedly stabbed them with a knife on Friday.<\/p>\n

The alleged intruder was then shot when he attempted to re-enter the home.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Kathy Blessing (right) speaks to the media alongside her sister Amanda Batchelor after their parents were stabbed during a suspected home invasion. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Speaking outside of Gold Coast University Hospital their daughter Kathy Blessing said it has been a traumatic ordeal.<\/p>\n

“We would like to thank everyone who has supported our family, it has been comforting to know we have the support of the wider community,” she said.<\/p>\n

“This has been deeply traumatising to our family and no family should ever have to go through this.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re very proud of our parents and their bravery.”<\/p>\n

Speaking alongside her sister Amanda Batchelor, Ms Blessing said their parents had a long recovery ahead of them.<\/p>\n

“They are recovering in the hospital here and getting excellent care,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We have a long road ahead.”<\/p>\n

Joshua Dylan Trethewey has been charged with two counts of wounding with intent to murder.<\/p>\n

Police say he is currently in an induced coma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a couple who were stabbed during a suspected invasion of their home on a rural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,312,23357,3052,8188,968,23358],"class_list":["post-25279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-crime","tag-di-and-keith-blessing","tag-family","tag-home-invasion","tag-safety","tag-torrington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}