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Northern Territory police have extradited a man from Victoria after charging him with the murder of his partner near Darwin, five years ago.

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00:00I'm here at the Darwin Airport where Peter Scammell, a 44-year-old man, has just arrived, escorted by police.
00:10He's been charged with the murder of his partner in 2020 and extradited from Victoria to face Darwin local court here tomorrow.
00:19Essentially, Katrina Hawker, a 43-year-old nurse who was working at the Royal Darwin Hospital at the time,
00:26died from an overdose in her backyard where she was living here with Peter Scammell at the time.
00:33No arrests were made at the time, but last year at an inquest,
00:37NT Coroner Elizabeth Armitage essentially said she didn't think that Katrina Hawker took her own life.
00:45The cause of death was put down to an overdose from a combination of alcohol and temazepam, a sleeping medication,
00:53and the coroner referred the case back to the DPP and police for further investigation.
00:58So we don't know what's happened with that investigation over the past few months,
01:02but what we do know is that police arrested Peter Scammell last week in Victoria.
01:08He's in Darwin now and will likely find out more in court tomorrow.
01:13But he's been charged with a couple of incidents behind the dead of her to find the disease.
01:16So yeah, that feels weird.
01:18He's on the back of our site.
01:20So I'm a cleaner.
01:22You know, at the end of the day, it doesn't mean the death.
01:25We're also saying that it was a bad thing.
01:27We don't know it's complicated.
01:30So a lot of people are saying that we're in the end of our operations.
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