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Lloyd Jones

Top minister rejects external death in custody probe

The NT's chief minister says police investigations of deaths in custody are entirely appropriate. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

Growing calls for an independent investigation into the death in custody of a young Aboriginal man have been strongly rejected by a territory's chief minister.  

A lawyers' group has called for an independent probe to also investigate the Northern Territory government's failure to provide its duty of care to the man who was on the NDIS and under state care.

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