NT Police will not say if it is investigating an officer who a court found intentionality inserted her finger into a suspect’s vagina during a search, claiming it would be inappropriate to comment while the decision was subject to an appeal, but an independent MLA has said the agency must comply with its own transparency obligations.
A Peppimenarti leader said she believes Chief Minister Eva Lawler did not make a scheduled visit to her community on Sunday because of a violent disturbance involving ram-raids of a compound that led to nurses evacuating the community to Darwin, but Ms Lawler said she postponed the visit due to other unspecified commitments in the area.
Police say they are still investigating the exact circumstances of the death of a man whose body was found in Yarrawonga this morning.
UPDATED: A man has been arrested over the death of another man who was killed in a Yarrawonga industrial shed on Tuesday, NT Police said, with sources having told the NT Independent the victim was allegedly run over by someone who broke into the building and attempted to steal a vehicle.
Police used tyre spikes to stop a vehicle carrying a large amount of alcohol and marijuana in the Daly River, that they believed was involved in grog and drug running, and had been involved in a hit-and-run in Darwin, NT Police said.
Police are looking for a man who allegedly attacked another man with an “edged weapon” on Mitchell St in Darwin in the early hours of Monday morning.
A man was killed when his motorbike crashed in Litchfield.National Park on Saturday, NT Police said.
A 22-year-old man was ejected from his car and killed when the vehicle he was driving crashed and rolled on Larapinta Drive west of Alice Springs on Saturday morning, NT Police said.
A NT Local Court judge awarded a woman $120,000 in civil damages after finding a police officer slipped a finger into her vagina during an illegal search for drugs and jewellery that was done in front of male police officers, adding if the matter were raised in a criminal court it would likely constitute an assault and battery.
A man has been charged with rape, depravation of liberty, aggravated assault, and strangulation, along with other offences over an alleged domestic violences attack, NT Police said.
A male cyclist has died after being struck by a vehicle this morning in Johnston, NT Police said.
A 23-year-old man who police allege struck two pedestrians with his car on Thursday afternoon and fled the scene near Hibiscus Shopping Centre has been charged, while police said one of the pedestrians has died in hospital overnight.
