Domestic violence related offences accounted for more than 40% of  charges laid in the Richmond Police District last week.

Sixteen people in seven days: that’s how many police said had been charged with domestic violence related offences across the Tweed Byron district leading up to Friday 17 October.

A dozen people were charged with domestic violence related offences in the week ending Friday 3 October, Tweed Byron police said on social media last week.

Byron Bay's former mayor and current councillor Michael Lyon was back in court today, following his breach of an AVO earlier this month at The Pocket.

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has released new domestic violence data which significantly improves the understanding of Apprehended Violence Orders.

There is a matter listed at Byron Bay Local Court where the police are seeking an apprehended violence order against Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Lyon.

The domestic violence services in the Northern Rivers were already underfunded and stretched before the 2022 floods. Since then they have been inundated with people needing their help as the pressures from the floods, the previous fires and the covid pandemic took their toll.

Vocal Council critic and longtime activist, John Anderson, aka Fast Buck$, was arrested last Friday night for allegedly breaching his Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) by an Echo ad.

Barefoot Law founder and mayoral candidate Mark Swivel, is hosting an event regarding ‘AVOs, harassment, abuse and violence’, to be held June 17 from 6pm at the Byron Community Centre Cavanbah Room.

Police have arrested two men and a teenager on outstanding warrants as part of a two-day operation targeting unserved apprehended violence orders, court attendance notices and outstanding warrants in Richmond Police District