Two teenage girls charged following alleged stabbing - Blacktown
Where: Lancaster Street, Blacktown, the street the release names · See the street on the map
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Two teenage girls have been charged after a teenage girl was allegedly stabbed in Sydney’s west.
About 2.30pm yesterday (Friday 4 September 2026), emergency services responded to reports of a brawl outside a school on Lancaster Street, Blacktown.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated a 17-year-old girl for multiple stab wounds before she was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
Officers attached to Blacktown Police Area Command were told multiple people were involved in a brawl before the girl was allegedly stabbed.
After being stabbed the girl entered the school grounds to seek assistance.
All other persons fled the scene prior to the arrival of emergency services.
A crime scene has been established and investigations commenced into the circumstances of the incident.
Following inquiries, later the same day, two girls – aged 15 and 17 – were arrested at Mount Druitt Police Station.
Police conducted a search of a vehicle allegedly used during the incident and allegedly located and seized a knife.
The 17-year-old was charged with wound person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and affray.
She was refused bail to appear before a children’s court today (Saturday 5 Sept 2026).
She was granted conditional bail to appear before a children’s court on Monday 14 September 2026.
— NSW PoliceCrime in the Blacktown council area
Blacktown is a council area in New South Wales with about 449,385 residents. It has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 216th 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 (54th percentile), robbery (86th percentile), homicide (47th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 55.
- Violent
- 1,322 per 100k
- Property
- 2,500 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 220 per 100k
- Theft
- 1,124 per 100k
See the full Blacktown crime profile
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