Top End Health’s mental health and drugs manager was thanked by his superiors for his “contribution” to the agency and congratulated on his new job in Victoria two weeks before an inquest into the deaths of three children who were known to sniff petrol heard he did not understand the law and guidelines around treatment plans.
More than 50 anti-fracking protesters rallied outside Darwin’s magistrates court this morning ahead of a two-day trial which will see two activists plead not guilty to charges of criminal damage involving drilling on Parliament lawns in April 2019.
A man has been sentenced to three months house arrest after pleading guilty to sending sexually explicit pictures to a 14-year-old girl, in what a Supreme Court Judge described as an attempt to groom her for a sexual relationship.
A Darwin manager of electronics chain The Good Guys has been sentenced to one-year house arrest at his mother’s residence after he was caught stealing more than $55,000 from his place of employment.
A Galiwinku man who viciously beat his partner with a rake and a spear-throwing device in front of their children, and threw a bike on her while she lay defenceless on the ground has narrowly avoided jail.
A Katherine man will spend 18 months in jail for two assaults against women – including one where he smashed a rum bottle over the woman, cutting her severely, before dragging her by the hair and repeatedly kicking her.
An NT Supreme Court Judge has described the actions of a Darwin man as “very seriously striking at the heart of justice” after he provided a false confession to police that he ran over an 83-year-old woman.
A former Don Dale Youth Detention Centre youth justice officer has been jailed more than a year for supplying drugs to an alleged syndicate kingpin and babysitting his business while he was on holidays.
A 42-year-old truck driver from Darwin has faced court after thousands of images of his three-year-old daughter, niece and other unidentified young girls in shopping centres in sexually explicit positions were found in his possession.
Lawyers representing NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe, charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Walker in Yeundemu late last year, have taken aim at key evidence revealed by body worn camera footage saying it “distorts reality”.
A Darwin man has been sentenced to six months imprisonment after being found in possession of 240 child abuse images and videos involving children as young as six.
A man who has “spiralled into a cycle of violent behaviours, offending and imprisonment” has been sentenced to prison for stomping on his wife’s head multiple times in a “callous and brutal fashion”.
