Police make first arrest over riots that followed Sydney church stabbing

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Officers arrested a 19-year-old man in Doonside on Wednesday afternoon, a day after NSW's police commissioner warned rioters 'could expect to be prosecuted'.

Police arrested a man in relation to riots that broke out near the Assyrian church where a teenager is alleged to have stabbed a bishop on Monday, following through on their promise to prosecute those involved in the unrest. Officers executed a search warrant at a home in the western Sydney suburb of Doonside at about 5.40pm on Wednesday, arresting a 19-year-old man.

"We'll allege there's a degree of premeditation on the basis this person has travelled to that location, which is not near his residential address, he has travelled with a knife and subsequently the bishop and the priest have been stabbed," Webb said. "They're lucky to be alive." Footage of the attack showed a person dressed in black approaching and stabbing the bishop multiple times to the head and upper body.

 

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