Police have renewed calls for public assistance to help find a missing Newcastle man
Police are renewing their appeal for information from the public, to help find a man who went missing from the western region in December 2019.
In March 2022, detectives attached to Orana Mid-Western Police District established Strike Force Yurinigh to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of James Hunter.
James, now aged 54, lived in the Newcastle suburb of Tighes Hill and travelled to the state’s west for work including rural properties at Dubbo, Mendooran and Dunedoo.
He was also known to frequent Walgett and Lightning Ridge where he would mine for opals…

