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Teen charged following alleged stabbing - Wollongong

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Where: Burelli Street, Wollongong, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Teen charged following alleged stabbing - Wollongong
Wollongong, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A teenage boy will face court charged after another boy was allegedly stabbed in Wollongong last week.

About 7.15pm on Thursday (29 October 2026), emergency services were called to Burelli Street, Wollongong, near Corrimal Street, following reports of a stabbing.

Officers attached to Wollongong Police District attended and found a 13-year-old boy with a stab wound to his stomach and shoulder.

Police were told the boy was allegedly stabbed during a brawl.

NSW Ambulance paramedics attended and treated the boy before he was taken to hospital in a stable condition. He has since been released.

A crime scene was established and has been examined by specialist officers.

Following inquiries, just after 5pm on Friday (30 October 2026), a 13-year-old boy was arrested at Wollongong Police Station where he was charged with wound person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and affray.

He was refused bail to appear before a children's court yesterday (31 October 2026), where he has since been grated conditional bail to reappear on Tuesday 15 December 2026.

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Wollongong council area

Wollongong is a council area in New South Wales with about 224,327 residents. It has a Crime Score 45 out of 100 (moderate), 208th 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 (69th percentile), sexual offences (57th percentile), assault (37th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.

Violent
1,099 per 100k
Property
2,948 per 100k
Break-ins
316 per 100k
Theft
1,440 per 100k

See the full Wollongong crime profile

2016-17: 917 per 100,0002017-18: 953 per 100,0002018-19: 897 per 100,0002019-20: 863 per 100,0002020-21: 936 per 100,0002021-22: 843 per 100,0002022-23: 978 per 100,0002023-24: 1,029 per 100,0002024-25: 1,034 per 100,0002025-26: 1,099 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Wollongong, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 20% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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