{"id":463340,"date":"2026-05-01T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:26:14","slug":"angry-crowd-riots-outside-australian-hospital-treating-suspect-in-girls-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463340\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry crowd riots outside Australian hospital treating suspect in girl\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An angry crowd rioted outside an Australian hospital where a man accused of killing a five-year-old girl was treated for a vigilante beating.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Jefferson Lewis, allegedly abducted the girl at an Indigenous community near Alice Springs in central Australia at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the girl, who is now known as Kumanjayi Little Baby because of an Indigenous ban on naming the dead, was found on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/angry-crowd-riots-outside-australian-hospital-treating-suspect-in-girl-s-death.jpg\" alt=\"Australia Violence\" data-title=\"Australia Violence\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"AAP Image\" data-credit=\"Rhett Hammerton\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. No Use in Australia\"\/>Community members gather outside the Alice Springs Hospital where a man suspected of killing a five-year-old girl is under police guard (Rhett Hammerton\/AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Lewis had been beaten unconscious by a mob before police arrested him at an Indigenous community later on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Alice Springs Hospital, where hundreds of people demanded he face so-called payback under customary law, which can involve spearing or beating.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777645574_457_angry-crowd-riots-outside-australian-hospital-treating-suspect-in-girl-s-death.jpg\" alt=\"Australia Violence\" data-title=\"Australia Violence\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"AAP Image\" data-credit=\"Rhett Hammerton\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. No Use in Australia\"\/>Community members gather outside the Alice Springs Hospital where a man suspected of killing a five-year-old girl is under police guard (Rhett Hammerton\/AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Several police vehicles were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital discharged Lewis to police, who flew him to the Northern Territory capital Darwin, 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) to the north, for his own safety to be detained.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be charged on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An angry crowd rioted outside an Australian hospital where a man accused of killing a five-year-old girl was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-463340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}