The mother of the man stabbed to death at the Airport Tavern on Sunday allegedly had a rock and racial abuse hurled at her outside the Darwin Woolworths only hours after flying into the city after the death of her son, while her brother was allegedly spat on in the face and was threatened with being cut up with a machete, a police source has told the NT Independent.
A 40-year-old man is facing deprivation of liberty charges after he allegedly abducted a 65-year-old man in his car and assaulted him multiple times while the vehicle drove around the Alice Springs CBD, NT Police said.
NT Police are continuing their investigation into the stabbing death of 20-year-old Airport Tavern BWS employee Declan Laverty and say the stabbing may be linked to another violent assault on Sunday night at the Beachfront Hotel bottle shop, with two other teens currently in custody along with the 19-year-old man police suspect killed Mr Laverty.
Property crimes in Alice Springs reached all-time highs with 1,135 properties – or roughly one in 10 houses – having been broken into, stolen from or damaged per day in January alone, according to police figures, that come as the man behind Action for Alice calls for the government to “wake up” and address the ongoing crime problem.
UPDATED: A 19-year-old man has been arrested over the death of an Airport Tavern bottle shop employee in Jingili overnight, NT Police said, while the victim’s father has spoken out to call for “something to be done” to better protect workers following the violent stabbing incident.
An adult and two youths were arrested early this morning after bashing a woman in the street before stealing her purse and car and leading police on a hunt through bushland, NT Police said.
UPDATED: A man who allegedly stole a vehicle with a young child in the back seat in Alice Springs on Wednesday night has been arrested and will face a string of charges including drink driving and child abduction, NT Police said.
NT Police have charged two females for allegedly robbing a woman on Smith Street who had withdrawn a “large sum of cash” from an ATM on Monday night.
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with multiple property offences after allegedly being involved in two break-ins, which included a ram raid with a stolen vehicle, NT Police said.
NT Police have now charged three men in connection to the death of a man in Millner last week who was found in the carpark at the Rapid Creek Business Village on Trower Road.
The NT Police say their investigation into Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne’s abuse of office charge is “not in question” and put the failure to successfully prosecute on the Director of Public Prosecutions, who issued a surprise statement appearing to blame the Supreme Court judge for the botched trial that was ended just days after it started.
Two men have been charged for allegedly starting an illegal fire that burned out of control for 11 days in Djukbinj National Park last August, causing massive destruction to vegetation and an adjoining pastoral station.
