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<postdate>2025-03-21 13:06:57</postdate>
<headline>Woman faces charge of inciting suicide</headline>
<body><p><strong>A 34-year-old woman is facing charges relating to sexual assault and inciting suicide.</strong></p>
<p>Police allege that between 2015 and 2022 the woman was in a relationship with another woman and in 2018 she told her partner she should kill herself. The partner was admitted to hospital that day after attempting suicide.</p>
<p>Later in 2018, the accused woman allegedly sexually assaulted her partner and began threatening her via a messaging app.</p>
<p>Police say that in 2021 she got into an argument that escalated to a physical altercation with the woman allegedly strangling her partner.</p>
<p>In March 2024 the partner provided statements to the police and the 34-year-old was arrested in Belconnen on Thursday.</p>
<p>She was subsequently charged with inciting suicide, sexual intercourse without consent and choking/suffocating/strangling another person.</p>
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