Peter Scammell charged with murder of former partner Katrina Hawker after overdose coronial
The partner of a nurse originally believed to have overdosed has been charged with her murder and extradited to the Northern Territory to face justice. VIDEO.
The partner of a nurse originally believed to have overdosed has been charged with her murder and extradited to the Northern Territory to face justice.
Royal Darwin Hospital nurse Katrina Sheridan Hawker, 43, died in September 2020 in the backyard of a Bakewell home she shared with partner of two decades Peter Scammell.
Her cause of death was ostensibly a self-administered overdose of alcohol and Temazepam sleeping pills.
But a coronial inquest last year referred the case to the NT Police Force and the Director of Public Prosecutions, after finding an offence may have been committed in connection with the death.
In a statement the NT Police Force said 44-year-old Scammell was arrested in Victoria last week and charged with one count of murder.
He landed in Darwin on Wednesday afternoon, marched through Darwin International Airport under police escort.
Scammell smiled and made a comment to one of the officers while descending the escalator, but otherwise remained silent and expressionless throughout questions from the waiting media pack.
He was remanded in custody and will face Darwin Local Court for the first time on Thursday.
Originally published as Peter Scammell charged with murder of former partner Katrina Hawker after overdose coronial
