{"id":767811,"date":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","slug":"alice-springs-parole-worker-who-helped-fugitive-killer-evade-authorities-avoids-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767811\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Springs parole worker who helped fugitive killer evade authorities avoids jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Alice Springs parole support worker who helped a convicted killer flee his parole before police found them in a hotel room together has avoided time in prison.<\/p>\n

Samantha Alampi, 37, was sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Alice Springs today for attempting to pervert the course of justice, after previously pleading guilty<\/a> to the charge.<\/p>\n

She was sentenced to a 12-month intensive community correction order and five months of home detention.<\/p>\n

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Samantha Alampi was sentenced in the NT Supreme Court in Alice Springs. (ABC News: Xavier Martin)<\/p>\n

The court heard at the time of the offending, Alampi was employed by the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) as a through-care coordinator, a role that required her to support the then-20 year-old when he was released on parole in July 2024.<\/p>\n

The man, who was convicted of manslaughter as a youth three years earlier, cannot be named for legal reasons.<\/p>\n

“Part of your role as a through-care coordinator was to assist the prisoner reintegrating into their community,” Chief Justice Michael Grant said in his sentencing remarks.<\/p>\n

“Over the following four months, you developed a relationship with the prisoner which can only be described as grossly inappropriate.”<\/p>\n

The court heard Alampi met with the parolee in Alice Springs on the night of November 6. Just over two hours later he removed his electronic monitoring device, which prompted authorities to revoke his parole.<\/p>\n

“A community corrections officer contacted you at that time and asked if you knew where the prisoner was. You replied that you did not know where or with whom the prisoner was,” Chief Justice Grant said.<\/p>\n

“Later that afternoon you had a discussion with the same community corrections officer and suggested that the prisoner had probably travelled to Darwin.”<\/p>\n

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The court heard Samantha Alampi and the fugitive met up multiple times in Alice Springs after he breached his parole. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/p>\n

The court heard the then-36-year-old booked a room at the Diplomat Hotel in Alice Springs the following day and that night returned to the hotel with the young man.<\/p>\n

On November 8 police found Alampi in a room at the Salvation Army Hostel where the parolee had been staying. She was packing his personal belongings into a bag.<\/p>\n

“You told police that you were doing that in a professional capacity so that the belongings could be stored at the NAAJA office,” Chief Justice Grant said.<\/p>\n

“You told police that was because you understood the prisoner would be required to serve several years in prison once located by police.<\/p>\n

“That was misleading, deceptive and criminal conduct.”<\/p>\n

In the early hours of November 10 police officers found the duo sleeping together in a room at the Mercure Resort.<\/p>\n

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Police found the pair in a room at the Mercure Alice Springs Resort. (ABC News: Xavier Martin)<\/p>\n

“You were aware that the prisoner’s conduct in breaching his parole was against the law \u2026 despite that, you actively assisted the prisoner in avoiding protection and arrest over a period of three days,” the chief justice said.<\/p>\n

“Messages disclosed that on the eighth of November, 2024, you had encouraged the prisoner to hand himself in, but you were later complicit in a plan for him to travel to Darwin.”<\/p>\n

Parole worker arrested in hotel bed with killer pleads guilty<\/a><\/p>\n

A legal aid worker who was arrested while sharing a bed with a killer she helped evade authorities after he breached his parole has pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.<\/p>\n

During sentencing Chief Justice Grant said Alampi’s guilty plea demonstrated “a willingness to facilitate the course of justice and an acceptance of criminal responsibility”.<\/p>\n

He said he accepted Alampi was “genuinely remorseful” and had positive prospects of rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Grant said he would reduce Alampi’s sentence to 12 months, from a “starting point” of 16 months, to take into account her guilty plea.<\/p>\n

“I don’t consider it to be in either your best interest or the community’s best interest for you to return at this stage to imprisonment in a custodial facility,” he said.<\/p>\n

“For that reason, I will be sentencing you to an intensive community correction order for a period of 12 months, subject to a home detention condition for five months.”<\/p>\n

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Samantha Alampi’s supporters surrounded her as she left the court, holding up umbrellas to shield her. (ABC News: Emma Masters)<\/p>\n

A group of supporters of Alampi were in court when the sentence was read out and remained with her when she walked out of the courthouse.<\/p>\n

She covered her face with a jumper as she moved to a waiting car, with supporters holding up umbrellas to further hide her from the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Alice Springs parole support worker who helped a convicted killer flee his parole before police found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[365438,365437,43,17187,365436,365439,44,357883,365435,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-767811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alice-springs-fugitive","tag-attempting-to-pervert-the-course-of-justice","tag-headlines","tag-naaja","tag-naaja-lawyer","tag-naaja-lawyer-sentencing","tag-news","tag-samantha-alampi","tag-samantha-alampi-sentencing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}