People buying takeaway alcohol in greater Darwin will have to continue to prove they live or are staying in the area after the Director of Liquor Licensing extended emergency powers and said they will extended again.
Darwin man charged with trafficking his wife, stealing her money
A 28-year-old man has appeared in Local Court for allegedly trafficking his wife in 2019 and stealing more than $60,000 from her and other relatives, the Australian Federal Police have said.
Cops, crime and court
From a teenage machete attacker, to a brutal man who kicked and stomped his wife’s head, to approximately $100,000 worth of illicit drugs busted, and to the Vanderlin Drive hit-and-run driver who turned himself in to police, the NT Independent has published a number of cops, courts, and crime stories over the past week. Read them all here:
Zachary Rolfe lawyers argue murder case should be thrown out in final submissions
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”.
Boy and woman arrested for allegedly assaulting, robbing taxi driver with weapon
Two taxi passengers, one a teenage boy, have been arrested for allegedly attacking a taxi driver with an “edged weapon” and attempting to rob him, NT Police said.
‘Children have been harmed’: Darwin man jailed for possession of child abuse material
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.
‘Only a matter of time’: Alleged hit-and-run driver turns himself in
A man who is alleged to have almost killed a five-year-old boy after allegedly striking him with his car on Vanderlin Drive, sending him flying into the air, has turned himself in to police.
Man jailed for stomping on wife’s head in ‘callous’ attack
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”.
Drugs posted to Winnellie Post Office, unidentified liquid lands Darwin man in court
A Darwin man is facing court after three boxes of cannabis sent in the mail to the Winnellie Post Office were allegedly found in his car along with plastic bottles containing an unidentified liquid and “other suspicious items”.
Man arrested for indecent Alice Springs attack may be wanted for previous incident: Police
NT Police have arrested a man for an alleged indecent assault on a woman in an Alice Springs carpark on Wednesday who may be the same masturbator who allegedly committed an indecent act on another woman on Monday afternoon, police say.
Senator brands top cop Chalker ‘devious’ over remote policing shortfall claims
Senator Sam McMahon has accused the NT Police Commissioner and the Police Minister of being “devious” following their claims about federal funding for remote policing.
‘This was an awful attack on a defenceless child using a highly dangerous weapon’: Court
A teenaged boy has narrowly avoided jail time despite carrying out an “awful attack” with a machete that left a 12-year-old girl in hospital for six months.