A teenaged boy has narrowly avoided jail time despite carrying out an “awful attack” with a machete that left a 12-year-old girl in hospital for six months.
‘It’s extremely lucky she did not die’: Darwin man jailed for fracturing teenage partner’s skull
A Darwin man who left his teenaged partner with a fractured skull and severe brain injury when he hit her twice with a plank of wood in a fit of rage has been sentenced to prison.
Ten months jail for drunk driver who caused death of ‘hardworking’ Beswick father
A woman whose reckless driving caused a car to roll over and pitch end-to-end, causing he death of a father of four last year, has been jailed following a five-day trial heard in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Dope using humbugger who threatened grandmother with fishing spear, brother with machete, jailed
A man who threatened his grandmother with a six-foot fishing spear and his young brother with a machete while they had domestic violence orders against him for previous attacks, has been sentenced to prison for two years and four months.