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Speaker 1: Now in breaking news that's probably going to make your

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Speaker 1: blood boil, a teenager charged over an incident that left

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Speaker 1: an Alla Springs baby with a fractured skull is on

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Speaker 1: the run after being granted bail to attend a funeral.

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Speaker 1: Matt Cunningham from Sky News has broken this story and

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Speaker 1: joins me on the line.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Matt, Morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: What exactly has happened here?

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Speaker 2: So my understanding, Katie is that on Monday there was

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Speaker 2: a bail application where this teenager applied for bail to

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Speaker 2: attend a funeral in a remote community. My understanding is

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Speaker 2: that the DPP actually opposed that bail, but the bail

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Speaker 2: was granted in the Supreme Court and then so yesterday

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Speaker 2: there was the teenager was flown to this remote community

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Speaker 2: at a cost I'm told of more than seven thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars in a chartered flight with staff from the part

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Speaker 2: of Territory families and communities. He's attended the funeral, and

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Speaker 2: my information is that they were driving back to the

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Speaker 2: airport for him to be flown back to Dale. While

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Speaker 2: we were driving back to the airport, the teenager and

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Speaker 2: at a relative asked to stop at a relative's house.

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Speaker 2: They got out of the car there and the teenager

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Speaker 2: has fled. So police have now launched a pretty extensive search.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have police, special tactical police who are

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Speaker 2: going to have to fly out or in the process

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Speaker 2: of flying out to this remote community. I believe it's

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Speaker 2: lajah Manu to search for this teenager who is now

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Speaker 2: on the run. Now it's one of the teenagers who

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Speaker 2: was involved in that orific incident in December where the

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Speaker 2: baby stuff in fractioned skull, after that home invasion in

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Speaker 2: our Springs.

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Speaker 1: There's so much about this story that I'm finding incredibly infuriating.

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Speaker 1: I know our listeners will be feeling the same. First off,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's been bailed to be able to

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Speaker 1: attend that funeral. Second off, that he's obviously now on

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Speaker 1: the run, and the cost to the territory taxpayer first

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Speaker 1: off for that flight, but now for the police to

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Speaker 1: have to launch an extensive search to find him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine. I mean, I don't know for sure,

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Speaker 2: but I imagine the cost of the initial fight will

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Speaker 2: probably be dwarfed by the bill for the police search party.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's you know, it's not it's not

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Speaker 2: a good situation, and I guess a lot of questions

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Speaker 2: are going to be asked about why bail was granted

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Speaker 2: in this case, given you the serious the seriousness of

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Speaker 2: the alleged defense, and you know the issue with past defenses.

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Speaker 2: You know, my understanding is that this this teenager has

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Speaker 2: faced more than two hundred charges before, so you then

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Speaker 2: have to question, you know, why bail is being granted

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Speaker 2: in that government will have things to say about this today,

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Speaker 2: as will the police. Yeah, that police search has now

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Speaker 2: been a launch, but at this stage that teenagers still

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Speaker 2: on the run.

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Speaker 1: Well, Matt, please keep us up to date. If you

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Speaker 1: do hear anything from the police. I know that you've

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Speaker 1: got to go and do a cross now on Sky News.

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Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you having a brief chat with us. Mate,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this week. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much,