Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeff McLaughlin has pleaded not guilty to possession and supply of cannabis, cultivating cannabis plants, and driving with THC in his body, charges that stemmed from two different roadside drug tests, while a charge of driving under the influence of the drug has been dropped, it has been reported.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education has settled a compensation claim made by its former chief financial officer but it has not disclosed how much they paid her after she took the institute to the Federal Court over her dismissal.
Roughly 30 young offenders with a long list of prior crimes across the Northern Territory have had their records wiped clean following the Fyles Government’s changes to the age of criminal responsibility that took effect Tuesday, including fingerprints and DNA evidence deleted from police databases.
Charges against an NT Police Fire and Emergency Services media unit employee have been suddenly dropped mid-trial by the prosecution.
A teenager with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder impairments who raped an eight-year-old girl in her bedroom when he was 15-years-old, was described by a judge as posing a risk to the sexual safety of children, before he was sentenced to a non-parole jail sentence of 22 months – allowing him to be released less than three weeks after sentencing.
Judge Alan Woodcock has committed Keith Kerinauia to stand trial for murder over the stabbing death of bottleshop worker Declan Laverty in Darwin in March.
Former NT police officer Zachary Rolfe will be forced to give evidence at the Kumamjayi Walker coronial inquest after he lost his appeal against a Supreme Court decision, with the judges finding his claim of protection from giving evidence by way of a “penalty privilege” was not covered under the Coroners Act.
The man who allegedly assaulted a baby, requiring the infant to be flown to Adelaide for emergency medical treatment on Sunday, was on a suspended sentence for previously breaking his partner’s jaw, court records show.
NT Police are asking the public to dob in Darwin man Tyson Powell but not to approach him, with officers suspecting him of ramming a police car in Woolner last month.
Bathurst Islander Brendan Kantilla, the 29-year-old man charged with the murder of Bangladeshi CDU student Ishaqur Rahman, has appeared in court.
NT Police have refused to say if the executive will take disciplinary action against a veteran officer in Professional and Ethical Standards Command, who was found guilty of swindling $200 from his ex-wife in exchange for family photos from him, and who a judge also found had lied to police who were investigating him.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a child in broad daylight in Driver on Wednesday afternoon, NT Police have said.
