Serious assault, Cairns
Where: Spence Street, Cairns, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
Two teenagers have been charged following a wounding in Cairns City last night, 12 October.
Around 9.40pm, police were called to reports of a disturbance on Spence Street.
It will be alleged there was an altercation between a group of people, when a 25-year-old woman was stabbed in the leg.
The woman was taken to Cairns Base Hospital with serious injuries.
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with one count each of assault occasioning bodily hard and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm.
She is due to appear at Cairns Childrens Court on 21 October.
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with three counts of common assault.
She is also due to appear at Cairns Childrens Court on 21 October.
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▲ 0% Assault offence occurrence has increased by 0% since August 2026.
— Queensland PoliceCrime in the Cairns council area
Cairns is a council area in Queensland with about 179,334 residents. It has a Crime Score 82 out of 100 (very high), 22nd 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 assault (86th percentile), break-ins (93rd percentile), robbery (95th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 76.
- Violent
- 2,655 per 100k
- Property
- 8,411 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 1,971 per 100k
- Theft
- 3,988 per 100k
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