A university student has died in hospital from injuries he suffered during an alleged home invasion early Wednesday morning, in a violent crime that has rattled the university and the wider community amid the ongoing crime crisis gripping the Northern Territory.
NT Police refuse to say whether a Land Cruiser loaded with people armed with axes, machetes and other weapons smashed up cars along the main street of Adelaide River, forcing people to run for safety and later fleeing police during a five-car chase, as multiple witnesses have claimed, an account supported by NT Independent sources.
NT Police have said Chief Minister Natasha Fyles or her staff have not yet reported criminal damage to her electoral office after it had the number 9.8 spray-painted across the front by unknown parties, in reference to the government approving fracking in the Beetaloo Basin on Wednesday without having implemented recommendation 9.8 from the Pepper Inquiry.
Charles Darwin University’s vice-chancellor says he can no longer tell international students that Darwin is a safe place to study after a Bangladeshi student was savagely attacked in his bed in a violent home invasion that he may not survive.
A 23-year-old international student is in hospital in a critical condition after a violent home invasion early Wednesday morning. READ THE LATEST HERE.
NT Police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify the perpetrators of two recent public sexual assaults against women in Alice Springs, one occurring yesterday near Bougainvillea Park and the other last week near the Peter Sitzler building.
UPDATED: Two people have been arrested after two Darwin city businesses were ram raided in stolen cars early Monday morning, NT Police said, marking seven reported ram raids occurred across the Territory in nine days, with calls for more to be done to protect the community.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has been forced to issue a rare public apology to former police commissioner Jamie Chalker for confusing words she used to describe his taxpayer-funded secret payout.
UPDATED: Jamie Chalker has officially “retired” as police commissioner after reaching a confidential settlement with the Fyles Government that has not been disclosed, which comes ahead of a deadline to file evidence against the government in his legal battle.
NT Police officers fired shots into the water in the croc-infested Daly River to protect two alleged offenders from the Jovi Boys gang who had jumped into the water to avoid capture, while crocodiles entered the water after them.
A teenager has been stabbed in the chest with scissors during a brawl at the Casuarina bus interchange, NT Police said.
NT Police have confirmed “significant incidents” in the Wadeye, Peppimentarti and Daly River communities after the NT Independent’s reporting on the violence, including that two men jumped into a croc-infested river to evade officers.
