Oliver Chaseling

Dec 27, 2024 | abc.net.au | Oliver Chaseling

The Northern Territory Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the NT government is legally responsible for providing safe drinking water in remote communities, laying the foundation for a wider class action over remote housing. Residents of the Central Australian remote community of Laramba first took the NT government to court in 2019 over the level of uranium in their drinking water, which is three times above the Australian standard.

Nov 21, 2024 | abc.net.au | Oliver Chaseling

Lawyers for four people accused of murdering an 18-year-old man on the outskirts of Darwin two years ago, have used closing arguments to accuse prosecutors of "cherry-picking" from disjointed and contradictory evidence from intoxicated witnesses. Kingsley Alley was found dead by police on the morning of October 8 in the driveway of a vacant residence in Palmerston, with police investigators later finding he bled to death from a stab wound to an artery in his arm.

Nov 6, 2024 | abc.net.au | Oliver Chaseling

Two men will spend years behind bars for their role in the "brutal" and "cowardly" fatal beating of a man in the Darwin suburb of Rapid Creek last year. Jerad Gurruwiwi, 19, and Brendan Marrtjiku, 34, were each charged with violent act causing death after the body of the 39-year-old — referred to in court as GG — was found in the car park of the Rapid Creek shopping centre in Darwin's northern suburbs on the night of March 7 last year.

Oct 31, 2024 | abc.net.au | Oliver Chaseling

The murder trial of four people accused of killing 18-year-old Kingsley Alley in Palmerston in 2022 has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Madison Butler, her mother Melissa Clancy, Dechlan Wurramarra, and a 17-year-old who can't be identified — faced a jury for the first time since their 2022 arrests. Crown prosecutors on Thursday told the jury the four are alleged to have agreed to assaulting and killing Mr Alley in the early hours of October 8.

Oct 15, 2024 | abc.net.au | Oliver Chaseling

Teenager Kayley Cox was driving her buggy on the outskirts of Darwin on Boxing Day last year when she discovered a massive pile of rubbish beside a dirt track. While it wasn't unusual for Kayley to find rubbish dumped near her family's Howard Springs block, this unusually large pile, found in vacant bushland, contained a collection of personal records. It included documents from various Northern Territory government agencies, as well as employment records belonging to a woman named Toni Grant.