Arrested after 20 years

A WOMAN who was on the run for 20 years has been extradited from Western Australia for historical armed robbery offences at Murwillumbah in 2002 after fleeing while on bail in 2003.

The 62-year-old was arrested in Nimbin with a man on April 25, 2002, for an alleged robbery while armed with a knife at a Murwillumbah hairdressers committed several days earlier.

During that offence, a victim sustained a laceration to her arm requiring stitches.

Tweed Police said that in 2003 the woman fled while on bail and has been on the run for the past 20 years.

Tweed-Byron Police District detectives working with Western Australia Police Force located the woman and on Wednesday, March 15, she was extradited to Sydney.

She was interviewed and charged with aggravated robbery, robbery, failing to appear to meet her bail conditions and “obtaining money etc by deception”.

The woman was refused bail and appeared before the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on Thursday, March 16.