An elderly man has died after a woman allegedly cut essential gas services to two Sydney hospitals.
Police allege the woman entered Sutherland Hospital in Caringbah shortly after midnight on Tuesday, before cutting gas and water mains and activating fire hoses.
A little more than an hour later, the woman allegedly then entered the grounds of a private hospital on the same street and also switched off the gas mains.
Police were told that afternoon that a 72-year-old man had died in one of the hospitals at about 2.30am the same day.
Doctors issued a death certificate and a report will be prepared for the coroner.
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The 42-year-old woman has since been charged and was refused bail to appear before Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday.
She is charged with enter prescribed premises of any person without lawful excuse, sabotage, destroy or damage property, and breach of bail.
She also faces charges of tamper with fire alarm or fire signalling apparatuses and trespass on protected premises in relation to a separate incident at a hostel in Darlinghurst on Monday.
The woman has not been charged in relation to the man’s death.
More to come.
