Australian Native Mud Crime

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/litchfield-court-public-housing-complex-a-hotspot-for-antisocial-behaviour/news-story/2184983b65a41104f8f97a58fe173b95

It's been likened to the worst kind of slumland ghetto: people having drunken sex in public view, smeared excrement on the walls, rubbish strewn through the common area and occupants on violent drug and alcohol-fuelled benders. All by stinking Abos!


It's not a scene from a Quentin Tarantino flick.


Litchfield Court resident Lynne Angeles's has to cover her mouth due to the stench that lingers throughout her house and complex. PICTURE: Justin Kennedy

You'll find this action played out much closer to home — the Litchfield Court public housing complex in Nightcliff, home to about 200 low-income Darwin residents.

And it has been a thorn in the side of consecutive NT Governments as far back as 2008, when residents were already likening it to a "battlezone".

It is high-density living close to takeaway alcohol outlets, leaving the majority of residents who do the right thing dealing with the inevitable fallout each day.

Darwin great-grandmother of one and grandmother of seven, Lynne Angeles, is one of the residents and she's had a gutful

It's not good at all right now," Ms Angeles, 66, told the NT News.

"There can be up to 15 or 16 people living in one tiny one bedroom flat so overcrowding is a real issue. Then there are the problems with people getting drunk, violent and leaving filth lying around everywhere for others to clean.

"They come here to drink and then everything just flows from there .. they defecate in the bin bays and spread it along the wall ... these people that live here I prefer to clean out a pigsty.


"And don't get me started on the public sex. The other day in the bin bay I could hear this boom boom boom and I look out and they were having a screw. I call it nooky corner.

"I find knickers, jocks, used condoms – I've got to go buy gloves to pick them up."

Ms Angeles says she has taken on the unofficial role of bin bay and common area cleaner at the complex for the past 23 years.

She says maintenance requests aren't always followed through, including a ripped up concrete footpath that makes many of the senior residents vulnerable to falls.

Her neighbour points to an abandoned, semi-stripped vehicle that has sat idle in the complex car park for the past six years filled with empty alcohol boxes and other rubbish.

Ms Angeles has lived at the complex for almost 30 years and says she cannot recall it being so bad.

She now sleeps with a crow bar beside her bed.

"Just the yelling, screaming, fighting.. The other day I was hosing my garden and there was a bloke walking around with a knife. I didn't bother calling cops.

"I settled him down."

She believes the violence is fuelled by increased drug use at the complex.

"I have learnt you can pick the drug dealers .. especially with ice. I had a bloke knock on my door once and offer me $1000 a week to sell ice from my back door.

"He said 'you got the best place to sell drugs from', and I said to him 'You're dreaming'."

While the complex is home to about 168 permanent residents, the reality is that many more people stay there illegally.


Another elderly resident, who did not wish to be named, said many drinkers and drug users did not live at the complex, but often congregated in the common area.

"I had a woman out there before drinking chardonnay from a coke bottle and asking me if I wanted to join her.

"I asked her where she was from and she said she had come over from The Narrows to drink here.

"They all roll back here in mini buses and taxis and just getting dropped at common area – this is a transit area here. And it's not just one or two – nine will get of one minibus and just sit there.

"It's like a derelict place – it's getting like Kurringal ... nah actually it's worse than Kurringal."

Calls to pull down Fannie Bay's notorious Kurringal Flats public housing complex began years before it was demolished last year to make way for a new residential development in the upmarket suburb.

The site had once been described as one of the most troubled public housing complexes in Darwin.

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/man-dressed-in-a-flowery-skirt-steals-car-from-jingili-service-station/news-story/e05759da14ad277b959bde10fa312769

WEARING a floral skirt draped over his shoulders, the man dubbed the Territory's "prettiest dressed" car thief is on the run from police.

The man struck when an unsuspecting motorist paid for fuel at the Puma service station in Jingili, leaving the keys in the ignition and driver's door ajar.

CCTV video, which captured the incident, showed the driver sprint from the servo store in an attempt to stop the theft.

Delivery driver Shawn Watson watched the colourfully dressed thief jump in the car before the owner reacted.

"I was just in the middle of paying when his car took off and he went running out of the servo," he said.

"He dashed out of the servo as quick as possible, as anybody would if they saw their car being stolen in front of their own eyes.
Senior Sergeant Garry Smith said the man's attire was something he had not come across during his lengthy career with Territory police.

"I'd say he'd be the prettiest dressed offender I've come across in my time. It was quite funny the way he was dressed, but not this incident. You don't see that every day," he said.

"A male aboriginal, dressed in what we can only describe as a very bright coloured and flowery type dress attire he was sighted hopping into the vehicle. If anyone has any information we urge them to contact us."

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/vandals-break-into-more-than-50-cars-at-darwin-airport/news-story/5279ac27e8916307c4aeee24a5544b11

POLICE are investigating the vandalism of more than 50 cars at the Darwin Airport long term carpark.

Travellers arrived back to Darwin this morning to find the windows of their cars smashed and belongings strewn across the carpark.

Police have released images of the five suspects wanted in relation to the vandalism.

These are the fruits of letting coons breed! Parents that don't give a damn about the wandering little pests out ruining other people's stuff. Just typical ... no regard for others or their property!

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/three-teens-accused-of-vandalising-54-cars-at-darwin-international-airport-charged-with-333-offences/news-story/a5e4a6b21c1ba8e00115c68791cf0dea

THREE teenagers accused of smashing the windows of more than 50 cars at Darwin International Airport on Tuesday have been arrested.

Strike Force Trident detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland said the trio had been charged with 333 offences including unlawful entry, damage to property, stealing and trespass.

He said the teens were identified from CCTV footage.

"The youths were also questioned in relation to a number of unlawful entries to businesses between June 9 and 14," he said.

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/man-45-allegedly-attacks-mother-with-an-axe-and-hits-father-with-sledge-hammer-in-alice-springs/news-story/eec3aef0f78f78b95898b93c0e1e0385

A man has allegedly attacked his mother and father with an axe and sledgehammer in a horrific assault in Alice Springs.

The 60-year-old woman suffered broken bones in her arm, elbow and shoulder and a cut to the head from the alleged assault by her 45-year-old son.

Territory Duty Superintendent Brendan Muldoon said the husband attempted to intervene in the attack and was allegedly struck with a sledgehammer.

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/dudley-davey-appears-in-port-augusta-magistrates-court-charged-with-murder-of-outback-nurse-gayle-woodford/news-story/bb4d0e4e4bbfba5380595184f692397

THE man accused of murdering outback nurse Gayle Woodford has faced court without legal representation after a magistrate refused a legal clerk permission to appear for the accused killer.

Dudley David Davey appeared in Port Augusta Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon for the second time since being charged with the murder of Mrs Woodford near Fregon in the APY Lands in March.

Davey, 35, allegedly lured the nurse from her Fregon home late at night before abducting her in an ambulance then killing and burying her body in a shallow grave in scrubland near Fregon.