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Former NT police officers avoid jail time after lying about drunken car crash near Uluru

Former sergeant Christopher Beaumont (right), pictured with his lawyer, pleaded guilty to drunk driving and attempting to pervert the course of justice.  (ABC News: Hamish Harty)

Two former Northern Territory police officers have narrowly avoided jail but will face home detention for a year, after one of them drunkenly crashed a police car and both lied about it to superiors.

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