Former top cop guilty

THE former NT police chief John McRoberts has been found guilty of the criminal offence of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

A Supreme Court jury found McRoberts, 59, intended to frustrate the fraud investigation into his former lover, travel agent Alexandra Xana Kamitsis, who was later jailed.

The Crown case against McRoberts was that he was conflicted and should have disclosed his relationship but instead blocked a search warrant on Kamitsis’s premises, argued against the criminal investigation and engaged in other improper conduct.