Magistrate Halts Questions About Murder Accused

JABIRU: A magistrate yesterday prevented a Crown prosecutor from questioning a witness about conversations he had in a cell with Dennis Dumbiri Rostron, who is charged with murdering five members of his family in Arnhem Land last year. The Crown prosecutor, Mr Jack Karczewski, attempted t

Five Gunned Down, Court Told

JABIRU: Dennis Dumbiri Rostron allegedly pondered the murder of five members of his family the day before he allegedly gunned them down at a remote outstation in southern Arnhem Land last September, the Northern Territory's Court of Summary Jurisdiction was told yesterday. Rostron, 25, mur

Passions High At Arnhem's Murder Trial

JABIRU: Arnhem Land, steamy and wet, is stirring. It is as if Dennis Dumbiri Rostron, 25, the boyish-looking man charged with murdering five members of his family with a single-load shotgun last September, has returned not to face white justice, but the inflamed passions of Arnhem Land - w

Aboriginal Justice Needs No Courtroom

In just over a week, a Northern Territory court will begin dispensing white justice to a young Aboriginal man charged with murdering his family. What it will not do is satisfy the demands of the relatives of the dead for justice in the Aboriginal way. In the outback town of Jabiru rec