A woman who bashed her husband in the head with a rock and later stabbed his girlfriend seven times in the back, shoulder and head – including severing an artery – while she was sitting on a mattress with the man, and who was later sentenced to jail for assaulting her again, has had her latest jail sentence suspended after eight months.
A former health clinic worker who tore off a large chunk of her former sister-in-law’s ear with her teeth during a drunken fight, has been given a suspended jail sentence in the NT Supreme Court, in part because of the birth of her baby and her prospects for rehabilitation.
Two distraught mothers have relayed to a court the “traumatic and chilling” account of how their young daughters were captured on camera by an Alice Springs delivery driver, which he added to a collection of “serious” child abuse material he had downloaded, including four pictures in a category officially defined as involving sex between children or between children and adults.
A man has been sentenced to jail after a family feud in a remote community ended with another man being speared in the chest by an arrow fired from a bow that narrowly missed the victim’s heart.
A 30-year-old Darwin man who wielded a steak knife to rob the Coles Express service station in Nightcliff in February – and later turned himself in because he “felt bad” – has avoided a jail sentence.
A prominent Darwin barrister says his pursuit to reduce the Northern Territory’s “racist” and “shameful” incarceration rate – higher than anywhere else on the planet – has been stifled and censored by the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
A 19-year-old has been sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to a “particularly galling” crime spree involving a police pursuit, more than $100,000 worth of stolen cars and countless business owners left covering the costs.
A 28-year-old Darwin man will spend 12 months in jail after a joint anti-child exploitation task force seized his laptop that had a combined 163 child abuse videos and images on it.
UPDATED: NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe will face a murder charge in the Supreme Court over the fatal shooting of Yuendumu teenager Kumanjayi Walker in Alice Springs next month, following a drawn-out committal hearing in which a judge found sufficient evidence to put Mr Rolfe on trial.
A 27-year-old man will spend 16 months in jail after pleading guilty to a horrific attack that forced an Irish female working in the remote Indigenous community of Peppimenarti to fight for her life with a softball bat.
Youth courts as Territorians know them would be abolished, detention centres replaced with boarding schools and Indigenous Elders put back in charge of administering justice, under a bold new plan to address the NT’s consistently high crime rate.
A man who lured a 19-year-old German backpacker into a dark carpark on Smith Street and attempted to rape her has been sentenced to prison for three years and 10 months in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
