{"id":943042,"date":"2026-10-27T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943042\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:48:17","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-partner-dies-in-hospital-following-alleged-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943042\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after partner dies in hospital following alleged stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 39-year-old man has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally stabbing his female partner, who died in hospital last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On September 19, a Northern Territory Police spokesperson said the man dropped off his 47-year-old partner about 8pm at Palmerston Regional Hospital the previous evening, telling staff she was unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;A medical assessment by staff identified that the [alleged] victim had suffered two stab wounds to her chest,&#8221; they said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The [alleged] victim has since been transferred to Royal Darwin Hospital in a critical condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The exterior of a hospital building.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/33a245f5e724397630c7eafa3411da12.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The woman died from her injuries at Royal Darwin Hospital. (ABC News: Dane Hirst)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was arrested that day and was initially charged with acts intended to cause serious harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On September 28, police said they had received confirmation of the woman&#8217;s death and were liaising with prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An NT Police spokesperson today said the man&#8217;s charge had been upgraded to murder after he appeared in the Darwin Local Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man remains remanded in custody, with his next court appearance scheduled for November 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally stabbing his female partner, who died in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,54965,44,510056,58045,163739,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-943042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-murder-charge","tag-news","tag-palmerston-regional-hospital","tag-royal-darwin-hospital","tag-stabbing-death","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943042","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=943042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}