A Darwin woman seeking justice for an attack on her outside SkyCity Casino has set up a website “to speed matters along”.
Debbie Morris, 35, suffered a broken nose and four broken teeth during a brutal assault about 3am (CST) on Saturday, August 30.
“It always has been safe (at the casino) … but there was no one around and no one to help when I needed it,” she told ABC radio on Tuesday.
Frustrated by a lack of action, the shopkeeper — who said her face had “swollen up like a balloon” — set up the website casinobashing.com.
It urges witnesses who saw the “unprovoked attack”, which happened outside the building as the territory-local hailed a taxi, to come forward.
“It just seems that everything had just been placed on the backburner,” she said of the police investigation.
“I think we’ve just taken the matter into our own hands to speed it along.”
Morris said officers had talked to her about the incident three to four days after the attack.
“I think the police came but nobody was actually interviewed and my friend that was there, she still hasn’t been interviewed,” she said.
Morris, who was taken by ambulance to Royal Darwin Hospital following the assault, had a brief retort when asked about the crime: “Darwin’s just catching-up with the rest of the world,” she said.
