{"id":725648,"date":"2026-06-09T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:13:21","slug":"police-upgrade-assault-charges-to-murder-after-death-of-darwin-man-martin-wiberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725648\/","title":{"rendered":"Police upgrade assault charges to murder after death of Darwin man Martin Wiberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Territory Police have upgraded the charges against three men who allegedly beat 48-year-old Darwin man Martin Wiberg to death in a “vicious attack” at the Casuarina bus stop earlier this year to murder.<\/p>\n

Police initially arrested four men aged between 19 and 30 after they allegedly knocked Mr Wiberg to the ground and stomped on his head on March 12, rendering him unconscious.<\/p>\n

Paramedics rushed Mr Wiberg to hospital in a critical condition, where he allegedly died from his injuries two months later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Martin Wiberg has been remembered as a “beautiful, kind, caring man” with a “heart of gold”. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

In a statement released today, an NT Police spokesperson said three of the four men, who were originally charged with aggravated assault, had had their charges upgraded.<\/p>\n

The other man, aged 19, was released without charge.<\/p>\n

“The Major Crime Squad has continued to investigate the incident and subsequently submitted a brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) seeking to upgrade the charges from aggravated assault to murder,” they said.<\/p>\n

“The DPP has accepted the application and all three men have now been charged with one count of murder.”\"A<\/p>\n

NT Police have upgraded the charges against three men over Mr Wiberg’s death at the Casuarina bus stop. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)<\/p>\n

Mr Wiberg’s loved ones have remembered the animal lover and karaoke enthusiast as a “beautiful, kind, caring man” with a “heart of gold”.<\/p>\n

Man dies in hospital months after alleged bashing<\/a><\/p>\n

Friends of Martin Wiberg are remembering him as a “very gentle soul”.<\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Morrissey said today the 48-year-old’s family remained “at the forefront of investigators’ minds”.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts remain with the family and loved ones of this man as they continue to endure an unimaginable loss,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This was a vicious attack and the level of violence displayed was reprehensible and has no place in our community.”<\/p>\n

Two of the men, aged 26 and 31, are due to face the Darwin Local Court tomorrow, while the remaining 19-year-old is due to appear on August 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Territory Police have upgraded the charges against three men who allegedly beat 48-year-old Darwin man Martin Wiberg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,229525,315251,351376,351378,351377,2025,1108,1300,75642,351375,2968,44,1158],"class_list":["post-725648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bashing","tag-beating","tag-casuarina-bus","tag-casuarina-bus-exchange","tag-casuarina-bus-stop","tag-charges","tag-court","tag-death","tag-killed","tag-martin-wiberg","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}