When a 24-year-old fatal hit-and-run driver named Jake Danby walked out of the Northern Territory's Supreme Court in Darwin last week without a prison sentence, the judge's decision was quickly met with outcry.

Danby had run down two Aboriginal pedestrians in broad daylight near a suburban shopping centre, one of whom died from his injuries, and later boasted about the crash to his friends .

Independent NT politician Yingiya Guyula said the sentence sent a "disgraceful and dangerous message".

"For a judge to provide leniency tells all other drivers that it is okay to kill Aboriginal people on the road," he said.

The NT's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is now appealing the sentence handed to Danby, describing it as "manifestly inadequate" .

The DPP is also considering whet

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