1. Roger Caleb Rogerson was an Australian detective sergeant in the New South Wales Police Force and a convicted murderer.
21 Facts About Roger Rogerson
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Smith was a convicted heroin dealer, rapist and armed robber who claimed Rogerson gave him the "green light" to commit crimes in New South Wales, while Flannery specialised in contract killing.
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In 1999, Rogerson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and lying to the Police Integrity Commission, and in May 2014, Rogerson and fellow former NSW detective Glen McNamara were charged with the murder of 20-year-old student Jamie Gao, and taking his supply of drugs.
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Rogerson's father Owen Rogerson immigrated from Kingston upon Hull, England during his career as a boilermaker; his mother Mabel Boxley immigrated from Cardiff, Wales, with her parents as a youth.
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Roger Rogerson had two daughters by his first wife, Joy Archer.
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Roger Rogerson was brought in to investigate the Ananda Marga conspiracy case, despite having no connections to the Special Branch investigating the case.
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Tim Anderson, one of the three released in 1985, claimed the confession Rogerson extracted was fabricated, and that he and two other members of the Ananda Marga group were convicted in part because of Rogerson's fabrications.
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However, it was alleged by Lanfranchi's partner, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, and later by Neddy Smith, that Rogerson had murdered Lanfranchi as retribution for robbing another heroin dealer who was under police protection and for firing a gun at a police officer.
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Roger Rogerson made statements to the New South Wales Police Internal Affairs Branch.
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Fellow police officer Michael Drury has alleged that Rogerson was involved in his attempted murder.
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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.
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Roger Rogerson became an entertainer, telling stories of his police activities in a spoken-word stage show called The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with former Australian footballers Warwick Capper and Mark "Jacko" Jackson.
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In 1988, Rogerson told a Bulletin reporter that he and the other lead detectives fabricated evidence in the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire investigation.
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The police confirmed Rogerson was the 'mole' during an early 1990s secret investigation called 'Operation Graveyard'.
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Roger Rogerson spent nine months in jail in 1990 before being released on bail pending an ultimately unsuccessful appeal.
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Roger Rogerson was released from Kirkconnell Correctional Centre on 17 February 2006.
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In 2008, Rogerson reviewed episodes of the Underbelly series and Melbourne's underworld war in The Daily Telegraph.
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Roger Rogerson wrote about the 2009 series of Underbelly for the same paper.
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On 27 May 2014, Rogerson was charged with the murder of Sydney student Jamie Gao, allegedly after a drug deal had gone wrong.
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Nonetheless, Rogerson lodged an appeal in 2020, which he lost.
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On 18 January 2024, Rogerson was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.