Northern Territory man Jake Danby was sentenced to a shockingly minimal 12-month community corrections order (CCO) on September 15 after having run down two Aboriginal men outside a Garramilla/Darwin shopping mall, killing one and seriously injuring the other last year.

The NT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has since filed to appeal the inadequacy of the sentence.

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Danby hit the two men in a 60 kilometre an hour zone in front of the Hibiscus Shopping Centre in the northern Darwin suburb of Leanyer on June 13 last year. The 24 year old did not stop, taking off in his car leaving 39-year-old Kunwinjku man Mr Whitehurst dead on the roadside, along with his seriously injured 37-year-old First Nations companion.

The driver texted his friends, following the fatal incident, that “Danbys like him don’t go to jail”. He described the people he had just mown down as “dogs” and “oxygen thieves”. He described the incident as a “

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