A woman has died in an alleged domestic violence assault in the Northern Territory.
Emergency services found the 22-year-old after responding to reports of a distressed man on O’Shea Terrace in Katherine on Monday night.
“Despite efforts to perform CPR, she was pronounced dead by St John Ambulance shortly afterwards,” a statement from NT Police said on Tuesday.
The woman’s 36-year-old partner was arrested and police described the incident as a “domestic violence related death.”
Detectives are appealing to the public for help, especially if anyone has CCTV footage.
Katherine Women’s Legal Service chief executive Siobhan Mackay said it was the second domestic violence-related death in the small town, 400 kilometers south of Darwin, since July.
“This work in space is devastating for us,” he said.
‘We have been crying out for so long, knocking on every door we can, about the funding crisis facing the entire domestic violence sector across the country.
A woman has died in an alleged domestic violence assault in the Northern Territory. stock image
“Every day that passes without significant change in this space, women continue to be at risk of violence and death.”
Mackay said there was an urgent need to increase funding for immediate safe housing, long-term housing and services in the inner city.
“We don’t have short-term accommodation, we don’t have visitor accommodation, we don’t have medium-term accommodation and waiting lists for public housing are eight to 10 years for a priority application,” he said. .
Domestic violence in the local community was so rampant that it consumed “almost all of the court’s business.”
“There are only eight matters on today’s court docket that are not related to domestic violence,” he said.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage found in 2023 that at least three women die from domestic violence in the NT each year.
Since 2000, there have been 81 deaths of women at the hands of their partners, 76 of whom were indigenous.
The NT’s internal homicide rate is seven times higher than the national average.
Emergency services found the 22-year-old after responding to reports of a man in distress on O’Shea Terrace (pictured) in Katherine on Monday night.
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