A 49-year-old man has been charged with three domestic violence related offences in Sydney on Sunday.
Police allege the man held his 30-year-old partner and two children against their will in their Church Street, Cabramatta apartment, before he assaulted the woman.
Police reports claim the man held the woman and her kids, a three-year-old toddler and an 11-month-old baby, over the past two days, before he hit the woman and cut her hair.
A 49-year-old man has been charged with three domestic violence related offences in Sydney on Sunday.
She managed to escape with her children on Saturday.
Cabramatta Local Area Command have since searched the unit, seizing two knives.
Officers arrested the 49-year-old man and took him to Cabramatta Police Station where he was charged with, taking and detaining a person with intent to obtain advantage occasioning actual bodily harm.
The man allegedly held his 30-year-old partner and two children against their will in their Church Street, Cabramatta apartment
He was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and stalking and intimidating to intend fear physical harm.
The man was formally refused bail when he appeared in Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.
The incident comes as New South Wales is in the grips of a domestic violence epidemic.
He was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and stalking and intimidating to intend fear physical harm (stock image)
In Whalen in Sydney’s west, 26-year-old Russell Brian Wood was charged with the murder of his former girlfriend Sarah Brown, 30.
Mr Wood is alleged to have stabbed the mother-of-five to death, after her body was found with a stab wound to her torso.
Mr Wood was also charged with breaching an apprehended violence order and was refused bail.
In another case, a Punchbowl man was charged after allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend and kicking her door down on Saturday afternoon.
He was also refused bail in Parramatta Bail Court.
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