Crime by Luke Mortimer
Premium Content POLICE are investigating after an elderly woman was struck in the face and spat on during a dispute reportedly sparked by smoking in a shopping centre car park. A good Samaritan who intervened and tried to help the woman was also spat on. Officers from Tweed Byron Police District were called after the assault at Sunnyside Mall Shopping Centre at Murwillumbah about 11.45am on Thursday, December 17. A file image of Sunnyside Mall at Murwillumbah in the Tweed Shire. Picture: Brad/Wagner Police were informed a man and a woman had been involved in an argument with a 75-year-old woman at the Tweed Shire shopping centre.