A 50-year-old man was apprehended in Woy Woy and charged with murder following a police investigation into a fatal house fire at Croydon.
Emergency services were called to Irrara St in Croydon, a suburb of Sydney, just after 4am on Wednesday, May 28, and found a house well alight.
Fire and Rescue NSW crews extinguished the blaze and later the body of a man was located inside.
Police suspect it was an 80-year-old man who lived there.
Officers attached to Burwood Police Area Command established a crime scene and made a public appeal for assistance to locate a 50-year-old man who also lived at the home.
Police were later notified that not long after the fire, at 4.20am, a man had allegedly threatened staff with a machete before taking cigarettes at a service station on Parramatta Rd, Haberfield.
Later that day, at about 7.40pm, the 50-year-old man was arrested by officers attached to Brisbane Water Police District at Woy Woy.
Police allegedly found a machete concealed in the man’s pants during the arrest.
He was taken to Gosford Police Station where an arrest warrant was executed, and he was charged with murder, destroy or damage property with intent to endanger life – DV related, and armed robbery.
He was refused bail to appear before Gosford Local Court.
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