{"id":279786,"date":"2025-10-05T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:33:14","slug":"halls-creek-sex-assault-detectives-plead-for-information-as-man-remains-on-run-since-february-2024-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279786\/","title":{"rendered":"Halls Creek sex assault: Detectives plead for information as man remains on run since February 2024 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A predator who sexually assaulted a woman as she was sleeping inside a Halls Creek home more than a year ago remains on the run.<\/p>\n

Specialist detectives from the sexual assault squad will be in Halls Creek \u2014 a town in WA\u2019s east Kimberley region \u2014 on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into the horrific crime that occurred on February 21 last year.<\/p>\n

A police spokeswoman said the unknown man entered the home before sexually assaulting a woman who was asleep about 1am.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe man police are searching for. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cHe also stole various items before leaving the area on foot,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Police have released CCTV of the attacker, who was wearing a distinctive baggy t-shirt, in a bid to track him down.<\/p>\n

The offender is described as being of slim build, with a dark complexion. He was wearing dark pants, a baggy t-shirt, and no shoes.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe offender is described as being of slim build, with a dark complexion. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call crime stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n

Victims of sexual assault can contact police on 131 444 or report the information anonymously online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A predator who sexually assaulted a woman as she was sleeping inside a Halls Creek home more than…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,4219,50,7207,144666],"class_list":{"0":"post-279786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-the-kimberley-echo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115322290763415607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279786","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=279786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}