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Investigation underway after teen stabbed - Guildford

NSW Police·
Investigation underway after teen stabbed - Guildford
Guildford, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A teenage boy has been left seriously injured following a stabbing in Sydney’s west last night.

About 7.45pm (Saturday 10 October 2026), emergency services were called to a basketball court in Campbell Hill Reserve, Guildford, after reports of an assault.

Officers attached to Cumberland Police Area Command responded and located a 14-year-old boy suffering a laceration to his neck.

Police were told the boy was assaulted by a group of young males who ran from the scene prior to police arrival.

He was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to hospital in a stable condition.

A crime scene was established, and an investigation is underway into the incident.

Anyone with information, CCTV, mobile phone, and or dashcam footage in relation to the incident.

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au . Information is managed on a confidential basis. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Cumberland council area

Cumberland is a council area in New South Wales with about 256,906 residents. It has a Crime Score 41 out of 100 (moderate), 241st of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by robbery (81st percentile), assault (40th percentile), homicide (58th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 46.

Violent
999 per 100k
Property
2,299 per 100k
Break-ins
212 per 100k
Theft
1,108 per 100k

See the full Cumberland crime profile

2016-17: 913 per 100,0002017-18: 904 per 100,0002018-19: 900 per 100,0002019-20: 897 per 100,0002020-21: 951 per 100,0002021-22: 809 per 100,0002022-23: 897 per 100,0002023-24: 1,005 per 100,0002024-25: 1,001 per 100,0002025-26: 999 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Cumberland, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 9% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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