Two women have been charged following an unauthorised protest in the Hunter Valley overnight.
About 11.20pm (Thursday 27 June 2024), police received notification that a number of people had allegedly entered the rail corridor and were causing obstruction to trains at Allandale, about 12km north of Cessnock.
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District, with assistance from Police Rescue, attended the site and arrested two women.
The women – a 25-year-old from Victoria and a 77-year-old from South Australia – were taken to Cessnock Police Station where they were each charged with enter inclosed lands serious safety risk, cause obstruction to railway locomotive, and enter inclosed land without lawful excuse.
Both women were refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court today (Friday 28 June 2024).
