WA: Trespass charge after man impaled on hotel gate

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2006
WA: Trespass charge after man impaled on hotel gate

PERTH, Aug 12 AAP - A Fremantle man who became impaled on a metal gate after jumping
for the roof of a hotel has been charged with trespass.

The 24-year-old was speared through the hip and leg when he landed on the metal spikes
of a gate at the Orient Hotel in Fremantle, WA Police spokesman Ian Hasleby said.

He had been on the roof of the hotel with another 24-year-old man about 5pm (WST) yesterday,
Mr Hasleby said, but his companion did not make the leap.

The injured man, from Bertram in Fremantle's south, also has chest injuries from the
three metre fall.

He was initially treated at the Fremantle Hospital before he was transferred to the
Royal Perth Hospital, where his condition has been described "as not serious".

"Detectives are trying to clarify the reason the men were on the High Street hotel
roof," Mr Hasleby said

The second man, from South Lake, also was charged with trespass and obstructing a police
officer, and has been bailed to appear in the Fremantle Magistrate's Court on August 14.

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KEYWORD: IMPALED

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