The NT government has promised to urgently pass new bail laws to bring the territory in-line with Victoria and NSW in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a local Darwin grocer. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said parliament would urgently reconvene on Wednesday to act on the law changes, saying she wanted the Northern Territory to have “the toughest bail laws in the country”. It comes after 71-year-old Linford Feick was stabbed to death at his Darwin supermarket on Wednesday afternoon after confronting a man allegedly shoplifting.

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