A TEENAGER charged with murdering his father at a birthday party was bashed in jail after resisting a fellow inmate's sexual advances, a court heard yesterday.

Pizza delivery driver Aaron Stiffe, 18, was granted bail yesterday after being charged with murdering his father while celebrating his 18th birthday at Dundee Beach on June 26.

The Darwin Magistrates Court heard Mr Stiffe allegedly stabbed his father Todd Stiffe to death with a pair of scissors.

Defence lawyer Suzan Cox, QC said Todd Stiffe became jealous of one of Aaron Stiffe's friends talking to his "female companion", and started a fight.

She said Aaron Stiffe and his father started fighting when Aaron Stiffe tried to break up the fight, and that Aaron Stiffe was held down by his father on the tiled kitchen floor when he reached for the scissors, and used them as a weapon to get his father off him.

Ms Cox said Aaron Stiffe had admitted stabbing his father to the police, and would argue it was self defence if the charge proceeded to a Supreme Court trial.

She told the court her client had been the victim of abuse by his father for years.

Aaron Stiffe sat in the court dock with a black eye and swollen face, which Ms Cox said was the result of an assault by a prisoner at Berrimah jail after Mr Stiffe rejected sexual advances.

Prosecutor Sergeant Mark Malogorski opposed the application, but Magistrate Michael Carey said Aaron Stiffe had rebutted the presumption against bail.

Mr Stiffe will have to report to police once a week, and is forbidden from leaving greater Darwin.

He will appear in court again next month.