Young offenders are still on the run after throwing rocks at police following a ram raid of an Alice Springs service station, NT Police said, which followed the arrest of eight children aged between 11 and 13 for stealing a car, while a prominent businessman says the town is in a similar situation to last year, despite the Fyles Government’s summer crime reduction ‘plan’.
One man is still on the run after he broke into two bottle shops with another man in Leanyer, NT Police said.
The Northern Land Council has laid out its final submissions in a “$225 million” compensation claim against the NT government on behalf of the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples over the expansion of the McArthur River Mine, the media has reported.
A man who tried to intervene in a service station break-in was hit with an axe after having fled to his car, while two men have been arrested over the assault and the burglary in Nightcliff on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.
NT Police has said its investigation file on last year’s crash of Matt Wright’s company’s helicopter includes evidence of maintenance and fuel records, expert opinions concerning the fuel system and airworthiness of the aircraft, and toxicology analyses of individuals involved in the crash.
The remains of the so-called ‘baby in the post’ have been exhumed close to sixty years after his body was sent to the Darwin Post Office, the media has reported.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has ruled that she will not recuse herself from presiding over the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker saying that she was not persuaded a fair-minded lay person would think she was not impartial.
A man was stabbed in the leg on the Alice Springs Hospital lawns on Wednesday, allegedly by a relative, NT Police said.
Four teenagers have been arrested after allegedly using two stolen cars to ram raid a Darwin bottle shop and then attempt to ram police vehicles, before one car was stopped after police used tyre spikes on it twice during a pursuit, NT Police said.
A two-year-old and a 12-year-old were flown to Royal Darwin Hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run in a remote community on Wednesday morning, NT Police said.
Police are calling for the public’s help to identify a “group of unknown males” who allegedly stole a male passenger’s gold necklace before forcing him off the bus, where they assaulted and threatened him with a machete.
Police Minister Brent Potter and Police Commissioner Michael Murphy have contradicted themselves in interviews about how they will provide a pledged 50 extra police in Alice Springs, while the union representing police said they believed officers would have to be brought in from remote communities, recently estimating the Territory was about 200 officers short.
