Trial of Lindsay Kennedy advances as CCTV shows brutal assault before fatal injury

The Northern Territory Supreme Court heard the murder trial of Lindsay Kennedy, accused of killing his former partner Colleen Bradshaw in Katherine two years ago. CCTV recordings from Railway Terrace displayed Kennedy delivering multiple punches, a stomp, and repeated kicks to Bradshaw's head and chest after she collapsed on the footpath. Despite Bradshaw's repeated emergency calls, she was not transported to a hospital until the fourth call, first to Katherine District Hospital and then by bus to Royal Darwin Hospital, where doctors later identified a slow-bleeding skull fracture as the cause of death.

Crown prosecutor Deborah Mandie urged the jury to infer intent from the violent sequence, whereas defence barrister David Hallowes SC argued that the assault alone did not prove a desire to kill. Forensic pathologist Salona Roopan explained the internal bleed had displaced Bradshaw's brain by nearly a centimetre. Justice Peter Barr is set to give jury instructions before deliberations begin next week.