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Lloyd Jones

Top law officer under pressure over hit-run driver link

Marie-Clare Boothby is under pressure for not revealing a hit-run driver was a family member. ((A)manda Parkinson/AAP PHOTOS)

A top law officer is under pressure to resign after failing to declare she was related to a fatal hit-and-run driver who avoided jail time and called his Aboriginal victim "an oxygen thief".

Northern Territory Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby failed to declare the conflict of interest before commenting on the case of Jake Danby, her sister's stepson, who hit and killed an Aboriginal man and injured another.

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