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‘We’re coming for you’: NT police search for suspect after body of missing five-year-old found

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Police in the Northern Territory are searching for a man they suspect of murder after finding a body believed to be that of a five-year-old girl who went missing from Alice Springs on Saturday. The NT police commissioner, Martin Dole, told reporters the tragic discovery was made just before noon local time on Thursday. The girl’s family requested she be referred to as Kumanjayi Little Baby, in line with cultural protocols. “Just before midday today, police members of the search party located the body of a young Aboriginal girl we believe to be five-year-old [Kumanjayi Little Baby],” he told reporters at a press conference in Alice Springs . “The body was found about 5km south of the crime scene at Old Timers camp. This is an incredibly distressing development. [Her] family have been formally notified and our thoughts are firmly with them at this devastating time.…

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