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'Beautiful, kind, caring man' dies in hospital months after alleged bashing

ABC Australia · May 23, 2026, 5:22 AM

Key takeaways

  • Martin Wiberg is being remembered as an independent thinker.
  • A Darwin man well known in the Top End karaoke and animal rescue communities has died in hospital, two months after he was allegedly bashed by four men at a bus stop.
  • Friends have remembered Martin Wiberg, 48, as a "beautiful, kind, caring man".

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Martin Wiberg is being remembered as an independent thinker. (Supplied)

A Darwin man well known in the Top End karaoke and animal rescue communities has died in hospital, two months after he was allegedly bashed by four men at a bus stop.

Friends have remembered Martin Wiberg, 48, as a "beautiful, kind, caring man".

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