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The Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its decision on whether a fatal hit-and-run driver who sent “repugnant” texts about his Aboriginal victims should be re-sentenced.
Following public uproar, the Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the sentence as “manifestly inadequate”.
In court on Thursday, prosecutor Pat Williams highlighted what he referred to as the “shocking” and “repugnant” text messages Danby posted in the hours after the hit-and-run.
It emerged during the trial that the 24-year-old had bragged in text messages that the man he killed was an “oxygen thief” and he would not go to jail.
During his trial, text messages revealed that he referred to the incident as a “two for one combo” and remarked it was “pretty funny watching them roll around on the road after going over my bonnet.”