Wallsend: Supermarket worker assaulted by customer, left in critical condition, police investigate

Simon McCarthy
Updated May 9 2022 - 8:08pm, first published 5:49pm
John Hunter Hospital. File image.
John Hunter Hospital. File image.

A Wallsend supermarket worker in his 50s was hospitalised in a critical condition after reports he was assaulted by a customer inside the store on Monday afternoon.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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