Alampi said she had met the parolee the night before at the Braitling Oval, where he was “upset” and had been “thinking about self-harm”, but had not said anything because “to share that information might compromise my relationship with him”.<\/p>\n
The court heard Samantha Alampi checked in to two different hotels in Alice Springs while helping the man evade capture. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/p>\n
At 11:22pm that night, Alampi was captured on CCTV footage escorting the man into a room she had reserved in her name at the Diplomat Hotel on Gregory Terrace.<\/p>\n
According to the statement of facts, police found Alampi the following day in the man’s hostel room packing his belongings into a garbage bag, telling them she would store them at work and was aware he would be going back to jail.<\/p>\n
Instead, she drove directly to the Diplomat, before checking out a day later and booking a room at the nearby Mercure Resort, where CCTV cameras captured her walking towards the accommodation wing.<\/p>\n
The pair were found in a room of the Mercure Resort in Alice Springs. (ABC: Xavier Martin)<\/p>\n
“The CCTV footage then captures [the parolee] appearing from the direction of the car park, and then following the offender approximately 10 metres behind,” the document reads.<\/p>\n
“The offender then went into the accommodation wing and walked towards room 230 before gaining entry to the room via key fob access.<\/p>\n
“[The parolee] followed the offender into the room, obscuring his face from the CCTV cameras by using a piece of clothing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Police then raided the hotel room in the early hours of November 10, finding the pair asleep in bed and arresting the parolee and his “fully clothed” accomplice.<\/p>\n
‘Do you want to chill later?’<\/p>\n
A subsequent analysis of Alampi’s phone uncovered text messages exchanged between the pair in the lead-up to the man’s attempted getaway, in which they told each other “love you”.<\/p>\n
“Today has been one of those days where it feels pretty clear that I care about our relationship more than you do,” she wrote on November 5.<\/p>\n
After the man’s parole was revoked on November 7, Alampi wrote: “At least let me know where I can leave something for your\u2026 [sic] if you don’t trust me enough\u2026?”, accompanied by a sad face emoji.<\/p>\n
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Text messages aired in court reveal the pair told each other “love you” on the day the 19-year-old removed his ankle monitor. (Gilles Lambert: public domain)<\/p>\n
“Can you bring me clothes n yeah I trust you with my life,” he replied.<\/p>\n
One minute later, the parolee asked “Do you want to chill later on tonight”, to which Alampi responded “Yes!!”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t have your stuff yet though.. they wouldn’t let me get it today I have to go tomorrow morning,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
After the man told Alampi the next day “cops are coming for me”, she tried to persuade him to hand himself in, and he asked her to tell prison authorities that he would “come in” with her.<\/p>\n
“Let me sleep then we go in the morning,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
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Samantha Alampi will be sentenced in the NT Supreme Court in Alice Springs later this month. (ABC News: Andre Sawenko)<\/p>\n
But the statement of facts shows Alampi “made it clear” in subsequent text exchanges “that she expected that the [parolee] would leave for Darwin in the morning, and that she wanted to see him before he left”.<\/p>\n
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