Man and woman assaulted during home invasion - Guildford West
Where: Fairfield Road, Guildford West, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
Police are investigating an alleged home invasion in Sydney’s west.
About 10pm yesterday (Sunday 6 September 2026), emergency services responded to reports of a home invasion at a unit in Fairfield Road, Guildford West.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated a 42-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman at the scene before both were taken to Westmead Hospital in a stable condition.
Officers from Cumberland Police Area Command have been informed that about eight men forced entry to the home through the front door and assaulted the male and female before leaving the location in two separate vehicles.
The vehicles have been described as a black 4WD and a white dual cab utility.
Both vehicles were last seen travelling north along Fairfield Road.
As inquiries commence police are urging anyone with information about the incident – or was in the area at the time with any relevant dashcam/mobile phone footage – to contact Granville Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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 PoliceCrime 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
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