The husband of deceased conwoman Melissa Caddick will fight charges he assaulted an elderly woman in an eastern suburbs park earlier this year.

Police allege Anthony Koletti, 43, shoved a 73-year-old woman in Vaucluse’s clifftop Lighthouse Reserve on July 23. He was charged with common assault after a public appeal for the suspect’s identity.

Anthony Koletti arrives at the Downing Centre Local Court on Friday. Credit: Sam Mooy

The reserve is just streets away from the Dover Heights home Koletti and Caddick shared before her disappearance in 2020 , and the last place she was seen before she vanished.

The woman did not require any medical treatment.

Koletti appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court on Friday, telling Magistrate Megan Greenwood “that’ll do” when she asked if she h

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