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'That will eat you': Warning as hefty crocodile hauled from NT river

A Northern Territory man has posted a video of a 3.78-metre crocodile being hauled out of a river, in a warning to tourists and locals alike.

Nathan Langer posted the video on his YouTube page yesterday, where it's had more than 2000 views so far.

In it, he shows a pair of wildlife rangers restraining and extracting the crocodile from Buffalo Creek, just north of Darwin.

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It was just a few hundred metres from a popular fishing spot.

"I've been watching a lot of people get in waist high water, casting nets around, well that's what lurking in the water around here," Mr Langer said.

"That will take you, and that will eat you, so heads up when you go messing around in the water in Buffalo Creek."

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The rangers estimated the crocodile measured about 3.5m, but it ultimately clocked in at 3.78.

NT Parks and Wildlife maintains numerous crocodile traps in populated areas in the state's north, but people are urged to remain vigilant around water and not assume they are safe to swim in.

Check out the official advice for staying CrocWise here.

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Virginia Giuffre speaks out after Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse and Jeffrey Epstein of facilitating, has spoken out after British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused.

Maxwell was found guilty in a New York Court today of five out of six charges of recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by her ex partner, Epstein.

Ms Giuffre said the justice her soul had yearned for has finally been delivered.

"I will remember this day always," she posted on Twitter.

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Virginia Giuffre speaks out after Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex trafficking girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

"Having lived with the horrors of Maxwell's abuse, my heart goes out to the many other girls and young women who suffered at her hands and whose lives she destroyed."

Maxwell was found guilty of five out of the six charges laid against her.

The verdict ended a month-long trial that heard accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teenagers in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Currently Prince Andrew is trying to have a sexual abuse lawsuit filed against him by Ms Giuffre thrown out because she doesn't live in America anymore.

Ms Giuffre, who now lives in Australia, has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abusing her when she was 17.

She said she hoped justice would continue being delivered.

"I hope that today is not the end but rather another step in justice being served. Maxwell did not act alone. Others must be held accountable. I have faith that they will be," she said.