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Hit-run driver spared jail time after describing fatal Aboriginal victim as ‘oxygen thief’

2025-09-16 3,306 Dailymotion

A 24-year-old hit-and-run driver who injured two pedestrians, one of them fatally, sped away and then bragged about it to his friends, has been spared jail time in Darwin. In a series of text messages aired in the NT Supreme Court, Jake Danby described his victims as "oxygen thieves" and "dogs” in the hours after the incident. And a warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers, this story contains the name of an Aboriginal man who has died.