Mass shooter claims ‘discrimination’ in prison assault appeal
‘I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve it’: A man who mercilessly slaughtered four men in a Darwin mass shooting has claimed he is being discriminated against in his latest appeal.
‘I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve it’: A man who mercilessly slaughtered four men in a Darwin mass shooting has claimed he is being discriminated against in his latest appeal.
The NT Government has published incorrect crime statistics, despite police warning agencies their data has ‘anomalies’.
NT watchdog hears that women fleeing violence are scared to seek help over fears their abuse will be weaponised against them.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler has confirmed a six-day extension to the controversial Alice Springs night time ban on young people. See the latest here.
Police are yet to charge anyone five days after 14 young people allegedly lit fires and climbed onto the roof of Don Dale.
The National Children’s Commissioner has spoken up following a riot at Don Dale, saying youth detention centres across Australia were breaching human rights and only teaching children ‘how to do crime’.
Police have used their emergency powers to shut down an Alice Springs pub and bottle-o due to public safety concerns.
A police officer’s leg was allegedly fractured by a ‘projectile’ thrown when 16 teenagers rioted in Don Dale, with inspectors still assessing the damage to the children’s prison.
A major shake-up of the NT Police leadership team has been confirmed, with three new faces confirmed for the top brass.
A Northern Territory judge has concluded two well-regarded Korean restaurateurs could not “easily or reasonably” have foreseen the CBD explosion that injured several diners and tanked their business reputation.
Human rights watchdogs and Alice Springs advocacy groups have raised their concerns around the 14-day Alice Springs youth curfew.
Paperwork delays and backlogs due to new police case management system SerPro has reportedly caused ‘miscarriages of justice in all directions’.
A 20-year-old Alice Springs man was left on the street with life-threatening injuries for up to 85 minutes following an alleged hit-and-run, a court has heard.
A man is due to face court after he was charged with the alleged hit and run death of a 20-year-old in the Red Centre.
Territorians are twice as likely to be the victim of an assault, and have their homes broken into at a rate four times higher than the rest of Australia. SEE THE STATS.
A Darwin mother who watched her five-year-old son get snatched off the street and bundled into a car desperately tried to get him back. Here’s why her attackers have walked free.
A children’s after school care business owner chased down shotgun wielding thieves in his car after they broke into his home. See why he was slapped with a massive fine.
Allegations of leaking, favouritism, invoice splitting, undeclared gifts and conflicts of interest have rocked a Katherine government office, with the ICAC releasing his scathing report.
A controversial NT Police reform has been put to the test in the latest January crime trends, which show an overall drop in violent crime in the Territory. See how your region compared.
The court heard ‘no one had a bigger interest’ in the inquest into the 15-year-old’s death than his family but they were denied the opportunity to call witnesses or make submissions.
An Alice Springs health worker has said she suffers from ongoing panic attacks months after Alice Springs politician Josh Burgoyne smashed into her ute on the Stuart Highway.
A Top End poet known as the ‘Bishop Herb Green’ and his girlfriend have been jailed after police discovered a mysterious package in the post.
The NT coroner will investigate the death in care of a 45-year-old Alice Springs man, who walked out of a hospital and disappeared.
A former member of the elite TRG and friend of Outback Wrangler Matt Wright said he is prepared to make a plea over multiple counts of alleged abuse of office.
Outback Wrangler star Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson’s widow has asked to give her victim impact statement directly to the judge ahead of a chopper pilot’s sentence.
A notorious predator who abused five girls and young women and was condemned to die in prison could be released within years due to a recent court ruling.
Investigators have questioned why a 66-year-old Aboriginal man with severe dementia was locked up, and then placed in a spit hood while a patient at Alice Springs Hospital.
A young man who allegedly slipped two military-style police raids over a five-day manhunt has spent nearly two months in prison without any legal consultation, a court has heard.
Territory kids enjoying their holiday evenings may be questioned by police in a move cops have denied is a summer ‘curfew’.
*WARNING: DISTRESSING* A Territory teenager has called on the courts to condemn her father — the “monster” — who exposed her to “hell on earth” over four years.
Territory cops in remote stretches of the outback will soon have some local knowledge to guide their actions, with 14 new Aboriginal Liaison Officers joining the force.
‘Make money, hijack a yacht, get an armed militia’: A Sydney multi-millionaire’s laughable plot to escape the law has been revealed in a Northern Territory court.
A former remote principal has lost her last-ditch attempt to sue the Territory’s inaugural corruption watchdog Ken Fleming KC, after the courts ruled incompetence was not a ‘misfeasance’.
A youth justice worker who was playing drinking games with her colleagues crashed into the back of a police car.
A drunk man who tried to crack on to a Territory woman by threatening to bash her boyfriend and rape her has called for leniency after she responded by attacking him with a bar stool.
A Top End childcare manager wept as her husband and co-accused asked a judge to be reunited with their child.
Almost every Northern Territory highway has been threatened by blazes, as crews continue to battle more than 20 fires.
A senior Territory cop told fellow officers that a woman who complained about her conduct was being ‘vindictive’, after allegedly running the civilian off the road, confiscating her keys and licence and pushing her.
A groundbreaking trial partnering Territory cops with domestic violence experts was ‘set up to fail’ due to a lack of funding, the coroner has heard.
Territory cops sicced a police dog on a child telling him if he didn’t ‘calm the f — k down’ he would be mauled, the watchdog has revealed.
A national body trying to change attitudes that lead to domestic violence has told a coronial inquest it’s ‘nearly impossible’ to work in Territory communities where people don’t feel safe.
An international child abuse investigator has landed in Central Australia, as crimes against Territory kids jump by 22 per cent.
The Prime Minister has revealed where he stands on needs-based funding to protect Territory women and children from disproportionate rates of violence.
Two highly respected top cops will not continue in their roles after providing heartfelt and frank testimony at Australia’s biggest coronial inquiry into Aboriginal women‘s domestic homicide.
The Northern Territory’s prison boss says jails are failing to protect domestic violence victims as abusers are released without rehabilitation.
A famous fugitive has faced court after allegedly giving NT Police the slip twice in a five day period. Read what happened.
An ankle monitor has allowed police to track down a group of teens that allegedly stole a car in Darwin’s northern suburbs overnight.
The family of a Darwin mum who was shot by her ex-partner in a horror domestic-violence motivated attack have shared details of her recovery.
The tense exchange prompted the judge to warn ‘pulling faces, smirking, reacting to the evidence of any witness’ would not be tolerated while booting several people from the public gallery.
Territorians are the most scared they have ever been, as satisfaction rates in police plummet amid a shortfall of staffing.
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