A police officer was allegedly kicked in the head while attempting to arrest a woman outside a Darwin bar after being called to a disturbance of angry drunks early Sunday morning, NT Police said.


A police officer was allegedly kicked in the head while attempting to arrest a woman outside a Darwin bar after being called to a disturbance of angry drunks early Sunday morning, NT Police said.

UPDATED: A 60-year-old woman is in hospital in a critical condition and may have both arms amputated after a vicious dog attack in Palmerston early Sunday morning, St John Ambulance has said.

A 53-year-old man has been charged for indecently assaulting a child under 10 in the Barkly region, NT Police said.

Two more NT Police officers were allegedly assaulted yesterday, this time in Wadeye after being pelted with rocks while attempting to arrest a man related to community unrest. The latest assault on officers brings the total to nine officers this week alone.

NT Police have arrested a man who allegedly knocked a woman unconscious and raped her in a Casuarina street in the middle of the afternoon and are calling for witnesses to come forward.

A man who allegedly set fire to a single dwelling home in Bees Creek yesterday is in custody, NT Police said, but have released no further details.

NT Police installed listening devices in the home of former Larrimah gardener Owen Laurie following the 2017 disappearance of Paddy Moriarty, an inquest in Katherine heard this week. Mr Laurie, who worked for pie shop owner Fran Hodgetts, lived on her property directly across the road from Mr Moriarty’s house. Here is the transcript of the recordings presented in the inquest.

A man allegedly high on meth who was driving erratically on Tiger Brennan Drive with a “quantity” of ammunition in his car on Wednesday morning has been arrested after the car became bogged, NT Police said.

NT Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old man who reportedly collapsed while hiking with friends on the Larapinta Trail.

Secret recordings of a man singing about the murder of Patrick Moriarty were played at the inquest into the missing man today.

Two new witnesses have given evidence this morning at the resumed inquest into the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty, with one man connecting the case to the 2001 murder of Peter Falconio.

NT Police are searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman before indecently assaulting her on an Alice Springs street over the weekend, police said.