AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-1999
NSW: Second man charged over central Sydney stabbing murder
SYDNEY, April 27 AAP - Police tonight charged a second man over the Anzac Day murder of
Gulf War veteran John Hammond in central Sydney.
A police spokesman said a 20-year-old man from Punchbowl, in Sydney's south-west, had been
charged with murder and robbery.
The man was refused police bail and was due to appear in Sydney's Central Local Court
tomorrow, the spokesman said.
Police charged a 19-year-old man with malicious wounding and stealing soon after the
attack.
Mr Hammond, 30, intervened to help a young woman whose bag was snatched on busy Castlereagh
Street as she withdrew money from an ATM around 9pm on Sunday.
The highly-praised ex-serviceman was stabbed just metres from where he had earlier paraded
with thousands of other veterans celebrating Anzac Day.
AAP lk/it/br
KEYWORD: SNATCH CHARGED
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