Crocodile expert Adam Britton has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, with a non-parole period of six years, after pleading guilty to more than 60 offences, mostly related to the sexual torture and killing of pet dogs, with the remainder related to processing child sex abuse material.
Yipirinya school principal Gavin Morris has been arrested and charged by the NT Police over multiple alleged aggravated assaults of students at the school on separate occasions in 2023.
A woman who allegedly stabbed three people she knew in the head with a broken bottle in a Sadadeen home early yesterday morning has not yet been caught, NT Police said.
A woman was killed when she was hit by a road train on the Stuart Highway overnight, NT Police said.
The body of a man who did not return from a hunting trip at Milingimbi on Sunday has been found, NT Police said.
EXCLUSIVE: Crisis meetings between Territory Families and NT Police were held to discuss removing ankle monitoring devices from young offenders across the Territory, after a young person fitted with one was sent to hospital on Saturday when the device “ignited” on his leg, the NT Independent can reveal.
A man was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital after being stabbed in an unnamed remote Roper Gulf community overnight, and his attackers are still on the run, NT Police said.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has resigned from the union representing police in a late night statement after the association mildly criticised parts of his apology speech to Aboriginal Territorians, accusing him of failing to tell his members about the content and intent of his address in advance of his speech.
A 70-year-old man was threatened with an “edged weapon” in his bedroom after an offender broke through the front door of his Alice Springs house with an iron bar, with that offender and another man later returning to the house and again threatening the man with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
A taxi driver was allegedly pushed over at Alice Springs Airport and required emergency hip surgery, while his alleged attacker is still on the run, NT Police said.
The NT Police Commissioner who claimed earlier this year that he had never seen racism in the police force has offered a sweeping public apology to Indigenous Territorians for “past harms and injustices” inflicted on them over the past 150 years at the hands of the NT Police, while committing to “eliminating racism” in the force under his command.
A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to abduct a child from an oval in Katherine, with the girl having broken free of the man before running back to tell her parents what had happened, NT Police said.
