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<\/p>\nA 34-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a teenage girl in the remote community Galiwin’ku, with police alleging the 17-year-old girl died of blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n
It comes after authorities were called to a home in the community on Elcho Island on Monday morning, where officers found the girl unconscious.<\/p>\n
“Local police, assisted by staff from the local health clinic, attended the scene, where she was declared deceased,” an NT Police Force spokesperson said in a statement released this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Police charged the man on Thursday, a day after the autopsy was completed.\u00a0 (ABC News: Joseph Hathaway-Wilson)<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday, with detectives investigating through the week until charging him with murder on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“An autopsy was completed yesterday, and police have now charged the man with one count of murder,” the police statement said.<\/p>\n
“Investigations indicate the man was in a domestic relationship with the deceased at the time of her death.”<\/p>\n
Detective Acting Superintendent Paul Lawson described the case as “complex” and said police investigations indicated the 17-year-old girl “has died of blunt forced injuries”.<\/p>\n
“A young woman has lost her life, and our thoughts are with her family and community,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our local members remain in the community and are working closely with those affected.”<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old man is expected to appear before the Darwin Local Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
Police will prepare a report on the girl’s death for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a teenage girl in the remote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,4841,35018,35021,35022,35024,35020,35023,2770,3339,35019],"class_list":["post-47134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-domestic-violence","tag-dv-murder","tag-elcho-island","tag-galiwinku","tag-gendered-violence","tag-girl-killed","tag-intimate-partner-violence","tag-murder","tag-nt","tag-teen-murdered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}