A Melbourne man who spent more than half his life behind bars before being acquitted over the murders of two police officers has been sentenced to time served for lesser crimes, ending a decades-long legal brawl over his innocence.
It is the closing of a chapter for Jason Roberts, 42, after a jury found him not guilty over the notorious killings of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller at Moorabbin in 1998.