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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