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The Northern Territory Supreme Court has awarded nearly $1 million in damages to four former Don Dale youth detention centre inmates over their "unlawful" tear gassing in 2014.

The decision marks the culmination of a years-long legal battle between the four former detainees – Josiah Binsaris, Keiran Webster, Ethan Austral and Leroy O'Shea – against the NT government.

In the incident, Don Dale youth justice officers employed the tear gas to, according to court documents, "temporarily incapacitate" another inmate, Jake Roper.

"The awards to be made for general and aggravated damages will be appropriate for the amount of time the plaintiffs were subject to mistreatment constituting battery and its associated distress, physical and psychological," she said.

"The conditions which gave rise to this unlawful use of force perpetrated on youths in a detention centre for whose safety and wellbeing the defendant was responsible for must never be allowed to happen again.

"I accept the difficulties the youth justice officers experienced, however, the defendant must take responsibility for putting them in that position or creating the conditions where they thought they had no option but to resort to unlawful unreasonable and excessive force."

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