‘They believed these women might be alone’: men charged with assault and choking after Sydney home invasions

NSW police allege the men, aged 18, 19 and 20, broke into homes in Arncliffe and Bankstown this week before assaulting the women aged 31 and 32

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Three men have been detained after two women were allegedly assaulted during separate home invasions in Sydney’s south-west, with police saying the gang targeted women living alone with money.

New South Wales police were called to a home invasion in Arncliffe at about midnight on Tuesday morning.