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Northern Territory's family violence rates continue to increase
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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11/6/2023
The Northern Territory's growing toll of family violence deaths has risen once more with the alleged murder of an elderly man at the hands of his son.
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A suburban street in Darwin's northern suburbs, now the scene of an alleged murder.
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At around 5pm on Saturday, police received reports of a 71-year-old man being unresponsive
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in a swimming pool at a residence on Macmillan's Road in Moyle, and the man was declared deceased
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at the scene.
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29-year-old Jake Fenner, the son of the victim, was arrested at the scene and last night was
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charged with his father's murder.
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He was shocked by the violence so close to home.
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It's very sad of course, you know, it's horrible.
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I actually think I might even know the chap involved, but yeah, it's a sad incident.
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In a separate attack in Borroloola in the Territories East, a 21-year-old man's been
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charged over a horrific attack allegedly inflicted on his 18-year-old partner at home.
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The victim sustained serious head injuries, multiple facial fractures, other broken bones
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and an injury to her chest.
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The victim remains in hospital in Darwin in a critical condition.
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The incident that happened here in Moyle on the weekend is the latest in a rising toll
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of domestic violence related alleged murders here in the Territory.
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Police have now created a new role in Alice Springs to try to grapple with the growing
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scourge.
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And the reason it's based down there is because the majority of domestic violence in the extreme
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numbers that we see are mostly based outside of Darwin and across the rest of the regional
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and remote footprint.
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None too soon.
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Latest police statistics show family violence has spiked by nearly 40 per cent across the
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Territory on the year prior, to more than 2,500 assaults since September last year.
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