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Youtube streaming of NT police officer Zachary Rolfe’s murder trial raised as concern in court
The murder trial of Constable Zachary Rolfe could be streamed on YouTube to Alice Springs and the remote community of Yuendumu, where 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker died in November 2019.
Key points:
- The trial will be heard in Darwin and will run for five weeks from July 2021
- Constable Rolfe’s defence lawyer raised concerns about a proposal to stream the proceedings via YouTube
- Lawyers want to make sure trial witnesses are not able to access the stream.
At a pre-trial hearing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court today, Chief Justice Michael Grant said the court’s administration was hoping to allow the broadcast of proceedings.
He said it would be streamed to the courthouse in Alice Springs and at the school in the community of Yuendumu,…
