NT Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Alice Springs.


NT Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Alice Springs.

The Fyles Government has announced a “co-ordinated approach” to tackle the ongoing Alice Springs crime crisis after years of repeated cries for help from the community.

NT Police are calling for witnesses to an alleged “number of disturbances” at bars in the Darwin CBD Friday night, allegedly caused by the Mongols Motorcycle Club whose members are in town for its national run.

Former Tennant Creek Post Office manager Rebecca Liebelt has been sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to four and half years jail, suspended after six months when she will go into home detention, after pleading guilty to stealing more than $425,000 from Australia Post.

The Fyles Government will give security guards and other employees the power to issue trespass orders, and remove the ‘second chance’ warning for people who breach a trespass order, in a week the government shut down an Opposition motion to censure Police Minister Kate Worden over what they said are her ongoing failures to manage out-of-control crime in the Territory and the ongoing “police crisis”.

Labor MLA Mark Turner has used parliamentary privilege to suggest the NT Police executive is secretly recording police officers and staff at stations and in their patrol cars, adding that if proven “the attrition rates would further climb”.

A 21-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a passenger following a fatal crash near Yulara on Friday.

Parliament’s Question Time was cut short Tuesday when the Opposition again moved to censure Police Minister Kate Worden over what they said are her ongoing failures to manage out-of-control crime in the Territory and the ongoing “police crisis”.

Police have launched Operation Lune to monitor the activities of members of the Mongols motorbike gang who are gathering in Alice Springs in preparation for their national run, while the alleged national president of the gang was arrested in Darwin Tuesday morning the media has reported.

NT Police have arrested a 15-year-old male they allege stole multiple vehicles used in a series of break and enters in Alice Springs with other youths, ultimately leading police on a pursuit at one point that was called off after full cans of beer were allegedly hurled at officers from the vehicle.

A 41-year-old Alice Springs man was charged by police after allegedly driving a defective and unregistered ute at his female partner early Wednesday morning while she walked along a footpath on Gap Road, NT Police said.

The NT Government has not amended the law to allow people to sue event organisers for negligence if they are injured by a car, despite Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison stating in 2018 that spectators being seriously burnt at the Red Centre Nats was “exactly the type of situation we need to look at”.