MATEJ Vanko has been found guilty by a Supreme Court jury of holding his Serco immigration detention centre supervisor hostage and executing her brother and his two dogs.
The jury deliberated for just over two hours before returning guilty verdicts on all five counts.
There was no love lost between Vanko, 37, and Noelene Stevens. They had had numerous conflicts at work and he felt she was blocking his desire for a promotion, the court had heard.
He had already cased her property a few weeks before he took a sick day on Monday April 23, 2012, hired a car and drove to the Howard Springs home she shared with her brother Donald.
He executed Donald with a Japanese ceremonial knife by stabbing him to the back of the head, shot and stabbed his blue heeler and Maltese terrier, then waited for Ms Stevens to return home.
He handcuffed her and tied her to the bed, demanded her bank account details and told her to get him a promotion.
He had her call in to work and say she would not be returning for two weeks.
But when he left the property Ms Stevens fled and called the police.
Her whole world had collapsed, she told the court in a victim impact statement read by Crown prosecutor David Morters.
"Where once I was confident, now I am a quivering wreck," it read.
She suffers from post-traumatic stress and left Darwin and the home she loved after her ordeal.
"I was certain Vanko would make every effort to finish what he started... I'm still fearful of his reach, even from behind bars."
She had twice attempted suicide in 2012 after her brother's murder, she said.
"(Vanko) wanted to kill me that day, and he succeeded - he killed the woman I was," her statement read.
"My brother and I were living in a dream... we had never been happier or closer before the nightmare (he) brought into our lives."
She asked the judge to hand down the maximum sentence and said Vanko had shown no remorse.
"His coldness is deeply disturbing," her statement read.
Vanko said he wasn't at the house that day, but out with a friend.
But prosecutors said he conspired with a fellow prison inmate to have his sister pose as Vanko's alibi.
She did not give evidence in the trial.
The defence alleged that Ms Stevens had fabricated her story, but Vanko's DNA was found on the curtains in her bedroom and on the tea towel strips used to bind her.
Outside court, Ms Stevens told reporters she was grateful the jury had been able to separate the truth from the lies.
Discrediting her was all the defence had to go on, she said.
"It was personally very distressing... but really, now, who cares? It's over, thank God."
The Crown said Mr Stevens had been unfortunate enough to get in Vanko's way.
"He had lived through some terrible experiences and made the decision on his own to change his life for the better, and found peace up here ... only to end up being disposed of so despicably by someone who wasn't even fit to tie his shoelaces," Ms Stevens said.
Vanko will reappear in court next week for sentencing submissions.
Under mandatory sentencing for murder in the Northern Territory, he faces a 25-year non-parole period.
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