The CCTV footage of the entirety of the crime was devastating - it's probably the 'most recorded' murder in Australian history. He assures me McNamara is the key to his freedom. Rogerson has called a new witness, who told the court he picked up what he thought was a gun wrapped in a towel from a doorstep in the months before the murder. He was part of a drug trafficking ring with notorious paedophiles including Robert Dolly Dunn and bent police. On April 23, 1985 Flannery is said to have been responsible for the gangland shooting of drug dealer Tony Spaghetti Eustace by his gold Mercedes. Both have been found guilty of murder and possession of 2.78. Rogerson claimed Lanfranchi was armed and he shot him in self-defence. Roger Rogerson was jailed for life for the 2014 murder of student Jamie Gao. Drury claims he refused to accept a bribe Rogerson offered in exchange for evidence tampering in a heroin trafficking trial of convicted Melbourne drug dealer Alan Williams. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. As investigations into Rogerson mounted, he was sacked from the police force in 1986 for misconduct. Things went fatally wrong for the naive Gao after Rogerson, waiting in the wings on the deal, conceived with McNamara a more brutal but profitable alternative. Rogerson had publicly accused Smith of informing on other criminals in media interviews and in the early 1990s the crook spectacularly turned on the copper. Rogerson was welcomed in Bandidos and Rebels clubhouses across the country and was regularly seen briefing queues of bikies in coffee shops. BLUE Murder was the original true crime TV blockbuster with scenes so shockingly thrilling about the lives of Sydneys cops and gangsters that it was a hit even while it was still banned. The Chubb, McCann, Croft and Sandery cases were dismissed at committal and the Shu case was no-billed. Welcome to the Coronation! Australia's most corrupt cop Roger Rogerson launches appeal. It was quite disturbing. The prospect of an appeal still drives him, despite the court having denied him the ability to do so. The pair could often be found drinking with other police and criminals at inner-city pubs includingAlexandria's Star and Iron Duke, the Captain Cook at Millers Point and the Lord Wolseley in Ultimo. Both are appealing their convictions and life sentences for the. Since joining Smith at Long Bay there have been occasional reports from criminal and police sources of the pair being sighted together which Corrective Services always denied. Single mother faces 170 parking fine after overstaying at McDonald's for just 14 minutes while she treated Man had sex with his wife on bollard in protest after it had been erected by neighbour to stop him parking What will the next pandemic be? He said he arranged for it to be handed over to McNamara. Roger Rogerson leaves a court hearing in 2014. Rogerson was tried but acquitted on conspiracy to murder charges. Rogerson He even bragged of a close encounter with singer Dame Shirley Bassey, after allegedly nabbing a man who had just stolen her handbag. Rogerson is pictured in 2004. Rogerson was suspected of having organised the hit after former undercover agent Drurys surveillance resulted in charged against Melbourne heroin dealer, Alan Williams. Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara lose appeal over Jamie Gao's murder. He had been due to testify in a major drugs trial and alleged that Rogerson offered him a bribe to protect a Melbourne drug dealer. A three-judge panel of Justice Andrew Bell, JusticeRobert Beech-Jones and Justice Robert Allan Hulme in the NSW Court of Appeal today unanimously dismissed the appeals. All times AEDT (GMT +11). The disgraced ex-policeman and fellow former detective Glen McNamara were found guilty in a Sydney court of murdering 20-year-old Jamie Gao in a storage facility in the city's south-west in May, 2014, during a botched drug deal. The Court of Criminal Appeal threw out their cases in Sydney this morning, almost five years after they were jailed for life for murdering Jamie Gao. He was brought in to investigate the Ananda Marga conspiracy case, despite having no connections to the Special Branch investigating the case. McPherson was a standover man who probably committed or commissioned more murders than any other major organised figure. There was no doubt this time that the lethal shot had been fired by Rogerson, who quipped that Burns "fell out of the car dead as a doornail". Arthur 'Neddy' Smith. One was the murder in company of tow truck driver, Ronnie Flavell and the other of brothel owner Harvey Jones. What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with? New light is shed on Rogersons link to heroin importation via Thai sex workers and trafficking in the 1980s with Melbourne criminal Dennis Dr Death Allen, who was believed to be involved in the killings of up to 15 people. CORRUPT cop and convicted killer Roger Rogerson has been working as a prison cleaner at Long Bay since he was jailed for life last year. jailed for life for the murder of drug dealer Jamie Gao. "Oh it's a little f------ beauty isn't it Oh and by the way, don't tell Roger about this," the witness alleged McNamara said. The female roles of Neddy Smiths wife Debra (Joy Smithers) and Lanfranchis prostitute girlfriend Sallie-Anne Huckstepp (Loene Carmen) give this story depth. Read about our approach to external linking. Glen McNamara is escorted by a correctional services officer as he leaves the NSW supreme court in Sydney in February 2016. A bloody and corrupt chapter in Australian criminal history appears to have drawn to a close with the country's most notorious police officer set to spend the rest of his life in jail for murder. Rogerson and McNamara argued the guilty verdict could not be supported by evidence and there hadbeen a miscarriage of justice. And Rogersons last application for an extension of time to do so has been refused by the Supreme Court. Their relationship hit the skids when Rogerson outed him on television as an informant, and Smith outed Rogerson to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Former detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Jamie Gao. The man denied any involvement but was visibly shaken. Rogerson was acquitted of Drurys shooting, but was convicted of perverting the course of justice over a false bank account. Rogerson was jailed . He was also a man who possibly, if you were locked up, could walk up to arresting police and crack a deal for you, either through payment of money or say to the copper, by the way, Ive got a brief [compromising information] on you. Disgraced NSW detective Roger Rogerson, jailed for murder, could give evidence to the coronial inquest into the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub firebombing in Brisbane which killed 15 people. The latter is what brought Rogerson together with McNamara, whose own cultivated image as a former honest cop hung out to dry likewise unravels under McNabs inspection. And so are the Sydney gang wars of the mid 1980s, when criminals turned on each other in a shooting feast over dominance in the Sydney heroin trade. "The case relied upon by Rogerson was completely lacking in credibility and did not raise any doubt about his guilt," the judgement read. In late January, 1985 Flannerys family home was sprayed with rounds from a rifle. His sentencing in August will likely be seen as ending an era of deeply rooted police corruption. Rogerson, the once-masterful court performer who swayed a jury to take his word over both Drurys and the heroin dealer who said hed paid Rogerson for the hit, will end his life behind bars, serving a life sentence along with McNamara. Smith became a star witness for the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Wood Royal Commission, revealing Rogerson and others alleged corruption. Smith's final downfall had begun in October 1987 when he and another criminal killed tow truck diver Ronald Flavell during a road rage incident at Coogee. On February 6, 1986 she told her flat mate that she would be back home shortly after an evening phone call. Smith (left) is pictured with ex-wife Debra and brothel keeper Harvey Jones, who he was convicted of having murdered in 1983. Rogerson (in handcuffs) is serving life for the murder of 20-year-old drug dealer Jamie Gao. [16], Fellow police officer Michael Drury has alleged that Rogerson was involved in his attempted murder. Rogerson, 79, appeared in the Court of Criminal Appeal via video link, dressed in a prison issued green tracksuit and seated beside a walker. Blue Murder shows the attempted murder of detective Michael Drury who was shot twice through his kitchen window alleged to have been taken down by Melbourne hitman Christopher Dale Flannery at Rogersons behest. Made in 1995, by the time all the court cases, ICAC and royal commission hearings about the cops and crims had been cleared for the ABC to broadcast in 2001, countless people had watched it. Smith was convicted of the Jones murder and acquitted of killing Huckstepp. This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 20:08. He was released on appeal after nine months, but in 1992 that appeal was quashed and he was re-imprisoned until 1995. In May 2014, Rogerson was remanded in prison after being charged, along with fellow former NSW detective Glen McNamara, with the murder of 20-year-old student Jamie Gao, and supply of drugs. Rogerson is known to most Australians as a prominent, recurring figure in the country's efforts to eradicate corrupt crime fighters. Had Jamie been a little bit more dexterous in the use of Google he might actually have not gone to that deal, he says. Glen McNamara, 60, also watched proceedings remotely. BLUE Murder was the original true crime blockbuster, a massive hit even while it was still banned. Following the shooting, Huckstepp became an anti-police corruption whistleblower. n is appealing his life sentence, arguing he didn't know Glen McNamara had sourced a gun before the murder. Dont watch it before reading this. Geesche Jacobsen, Kate McClymont (21 February 2005). In the wake of Rogersons arrest over the Gao murder, the flow of information quickened as people who previously had been reticent to talk all of a sudden really started talking. It was the type of relationship that had often existed before - Smith . Huckstepp's body was found floating in a pond at Centennial Park in 1986 and Smith would later be charged with murdering the sex worker, with unproven suggestions Rogerson had been involved. Rogerson, who was called to give evidence at the seven murder committals, denied ever taking money off Smith or that Jones had been paying him a bribe. Lanfranchi was something of a wild man who shot at police and robbed other dealers, and also a standover man who worked for Sydney gangster Neddy Smith. A year later his autobiography Neddy was published with even more damning claims against Rogerson and the book became the basis for Blue Murder. Low income Aussies and pensioners could be forced out of homes, Tens of thousands flock to Bondi for one-off dance party, Major traffic chaos warning for Sydney across busiest weekend in years. [11] Rogerson attended Bankstown Central School and later Homebush Boys High School.