Northern Territory's family violence rates continue to increase

ABC NEWS (Australia)

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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00:00 A suburban street in Darwin's northern suburbs, now the scene of an alleged murder.

00:07 At around 5pm on Saturday, police received reports of a 71-year-old man being unresponsive

00:13 in a swimming pool at a residence on Macmillan's Road in Moyle, and the man was declared deceased

00:19 at the scene.

00:20 29-year-old Jake Fenner, the son of the victim, was arrested at the scene and last night was

00:25 charged with his father's murder.

00:28 He was shocked by the violence so close to home.

00:31 It's very sad of course, you know, it's horrible.

00:33 I actually think I might even know the chap involved, but yeah, it's a sad incident.

00:39 In a separate attack in Borroloola in the Territories East, a 21-year-old man's been

00:44 charged over a horrific attack allegedly inflicted on his 18-year-old partner at home.

00:51 The victim sustained serious head injuries, multiple facial fractures, other broken bones

00:57 and an injury to her chest.

00:59 The victim remains in hospital in Darwin in a critical condition.

01:03 The incident that happened here in Moyle on the weekend is the latest in a rising toll

01:08 of domestic violence related alleged murders here in the Territory.

01:12 Police have now created a new role in Alice Springs to try to grapple with the growing

01:17 scourge.

01:18 And the reason it's based down there is because the majority of domestic violence in the extreme

01:22 numbers that we see are mostly based outside of Darwin and across the rest of the regional

01:27 and remote footprint.

01:28 None too soon.

01:30 Latest police statistics show family violence has spiked by nearly 40 per cent across the

01:35 Territory on the year prior, to more than 2,500 assaults since September last year.

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