ONE of NSW’s most wanted men has been arrested in Albury.
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Leigh David White, 28, is alleged to have attacked and sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman at Condobolin in March 2010.
The attack left the woman needing hospital treatment.
White was subsequently charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault inflicting grievous bodily harm and two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice after allegedly threatening his victim if she testified against him.
But he fled after a Supreme Court judge released him on bail and he hadn’t been seen since.
Warrants for his arrest were issued in July last year and he was placed on the state’s most wanted list last month.
Following extensive inquiries by detectives attached to Lachlan local area command and a police appeal, the man handed himself in at Albury police station yesterday.
He declined to be interviewed but was subsequently charged in relation to the warrants and refused bail.
He will appear at Albury Local Court today.
When White was placed on the most wanted list police warned the public not to approach him.
Police suspected he was working as a shearer in western NSW or interstate.
There are now six men on the state’s most wanted list.
Brady Hamilton is wanted in relation to the 1999 bashing murder of a man at Erskine Park, Hakan Ayik is wanted in relation to supply of large quantities of drugs, James Dalamangas is wanted in relation to murder offences, Mohamad Maksoud is wanted for facilitating organised car re-birthing activity, dealing with proceeds of crime, receiving and disposing of stolen property, Van Quai Tran is wanted for the sexual assault of a girl, 16, in February, and the alleged group sexual assault of a woman in 2011 and Warwick John McEwen is wanted after failing to appear at Campbelltown court in relation to sexual assault offences.