{"id":48856,"date":"2026-07-12T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/48856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:34:08","slug":"junior-perth-doctor-26-charged-over-death-near-fremantles-entertainment-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/48856\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Perth doctor, 26, charged over death near Fremantle&#8217;s entertainment precinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A junior doctor from Perth&#8217;s western suburbs has appeared in court charged with manslaughter following the death of a 63-year-old man near Fremantle&#8217;s entertainment strip in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Perth Magistrates Court was told Christian Jack Joseph, 26, had been out in Fremantle and was returning to a friend&#8217;s home on South Terrace at about 1:30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The prosecution said that as he approached the house, he saw a man peering through the window and alleged that Mr Joseph pinned him to the ground and placed him in a chokehold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police tape across a street outside Fremantle Glass\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6153f241fd905447f34a39eaed8e9076.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 man was found unresponsive on South Terrace near Douglas Street.\u00a0 (ABC News: Andrew Hanlon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 63-year-old man became unconscious and Mr Joseph, a junior doctor at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, performed CPR while his friend called emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Joseph, who lives in Crawley and studied medicine at the University of Western Australia, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mr Joseph wearing a graduating gown and holding frame\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8589aba81664c81df09515159fb23d17.png\" 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\">Mr Joseph graduated from the University of Western Australia.\u00a0 (Instagram\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Joseph&#8217;s lawyer told the court, which was packed with his family and supporters, that his alleged actions were &#8220;out of character&#8221; and he was &#8220;dedicated to saving lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The magistrate refused bail, saying the matter was &#8220;too serious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A self portrait of Mr Joseph \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4c11dc4b593b39aa28a9fec72e58fc4.png\" 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\">Mr Joseph was denied bail.\u00a0 (Instagram\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Joseph is due to appear before the Supreme Court on August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A junior doctor from Perth&#8217;s western suburbs has appeared in court charged with manslaughter following the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35597,2717,35596,24129,4317,33821,6628,1328,1327,335,463,35595,464],"class_list":["post-48856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-crawley","tag-death","tag-douglas-terrace","tag-fiona-stanley-hospital","tag-fremantle","tag-man","tag-manslaughter","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-perth","tag-perth-news","tag-south-terrace","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48856","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=48856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}