THE Northern Territory’s former top cop, John McRoberts, is off to jail.
The NT Supreme Court today sentenced McRoberts, a former Northern Territory police commissioner, to three year’s jail, the sentence suspended after 12 months.
McRoberts was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The 59-year-old was found guilty in the NT Supreme Court in Darwin last month of intending to deflect and frustrate a fraud investigation into his former lover, travel agent Alexandra Xana Kamitsis, including blocking a raid on her business.
Kamitsis was herself jailed in the NT's largest-ever fraud investigation, in which numerous Darwin travel agents were found to have been defrauding a government pensioner concession scheme by millions of taxpayer dollars.
Chris McLennan
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
