{"id":1028471,"date":"2026-08-28T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:39:20","slug":"st-james-man-charged-with-alleged-domestic-violence-murder-of-woman-in-perth-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028471\/","title":{"rendered":"St James man charged with alleged domestic violence murder of woman in Perth home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 38-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 28-year-old woman in Perth&#8217;s south-eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">St John WA paramedics found the woman unresponsive at a home on Taree Street in the suburb of St James on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were called to the scene and the woman was taken to Royal Perth Hospital but was declared dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police van parks outside a residential house.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/71e1be57f24893ef26dc2301d3f2df81.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 alleged the incident is a case of family and domestic violence. (ABC News: Lauren Smith)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have alleged the woman was assaulted by the man in the days prior to her death and had suffered extensive injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They have also alleged it is a case of family and domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Homicide Squad detectives spent yesterday investigating what happened at the house and questioning the man in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The St James man is due to appear in the Perth Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 28-year-old woman in Perth&#8217;s south-eastern suburbs. St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,220457,9620,54513,50,8634,205960,8631,411280,411281,8633,8632,14370],"class_list":["post-1028471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-man-charged","tag-murder","tag-murder-charge","tag-news","tag-perth-courts","tag-perth-murder","tag-perth-news","tag-st-james","tag-st-james-murder","tag-wa-courts","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117170352071889048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}