Early Kumanjayi Walker arrest ‘not part of plan’
NT policeman says he hasn’t slept for six months grappling with how a simple arrest led to the death of a young Aboriginal man.
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NT Police report ‘a waste of money’
An expert says he is shocked that the NT Police paid an American criminologist up to $100,000 to produce a 12-page report supporting its murder charge against Zachary Rolfe.
Yuendumu nurses’ terror: Walker ‘a very scary man’
A spate of terrifying break-ins to nurses’ accommodation forced them to flee Yuendumu in November just hours before police fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker.
Clash over failed Rolfe prosecution
A coterie of police top brass decided as a matter of ‘convenience’ to arrest Zachary Rolfe for murder despite having ‘not even close’ to enough evidence to support the charge, the police union says.
‘I shot Walker to save my partner’s life’: Rolfe
Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker three times because he feared his partner could be killed, his murder trial has heard.
First shot failed to stop armed teen
The first shot Zachary Rolfe fired into Kumanjayi Walker did not ‘incapacitate’ the Aboriginal teenager, who kept control of an ‘edged weapon’, a court has heard.
Back-up cops ‘not armed response’
The senior NT policeman who sent Zachary Rolfe’s team to Yuendumu did not intend for them to be deployed as an armed tactical response unit, a court has been told | WATCH VIDEOS
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