This is some crazy shit!
This is some crazy shit!
Originally Posted by blighted star
Arrest vid at link. Media going fucking nuts
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/roger-roge...527-390x2.html
Hilariously his lawyer is complaining about the rudeness of turning up & putting him in cuffs. He says police are supposed to make an appointment & allow the suspect to present themselves voluntarily.
Yeah. Like the appointments Rogerson himself used to set up - like the one Warren Lanfranchi attended.
Sallie-Ann had a little girl called Sasha. She was a toddler when her mum was murdered. About 20 years ago I knew her vaguely through work in Sydney when she was about 17 & it made me happy to see what a strong, intelligent kid she grew up to be, despite what these bastards did to her life. I hope she's still around & watching this too
This is good to see even though it's 6 yrs old.
http://if.com.au/2008/07/14/article/DCCUKAHLHK.html
Sascha Huckstepp to produce film about her mother
[Mon14/07/20088:49PM]
Sascha Huckstepp, daughter and only child of Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, announces that she is in the process of bringing a team together to make a major feature film about Sallie-Anne Huckstepp.
Sascha Huckstepp will both produce and cast the film. Sascha has over twenty years experience in the entertainment industries working for Seven as a casting director. She is currently working on her first feature, Coming of Age.
The writer is Ian David whose credits include Blue Murder, and Blood in the Sand for the ABC.
Cate Shortland who directed Somersault and The Silence, and has won many awards for her work, will direct the film.
Sascha Huckstepp said ?This story will focus on Sallie-Anne?s life, our life together, not her death.?
Sallie-Anne was always looking for love. She dreamed of escaping with her daughter to a better life. They were best friends. They depended upon each other through the highs and lows. Despite the drugs, lawless lovers, corrupt cops and paying customers, Sallie-Anne almost made it.
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LOL @Rogerson's "I am shocked, SHOCKED! and APPALLED! by these allegations!"
He is a Wil-E Coyote tho with lots of drug $$ to hire fancy high-powered attorneys.
Seems like it's always surveillance video that gets 'em these days. There are cameras EVERYWHERE.. watching everyone...
I had to laugh at the FB post by NSW Police Force - it's just a big fuck you to Rogerson.
NSW Police were not satisfied with the arrangements being proposed and took an operational decision to arrest a 73-year-old man at his Padstow home in relation to the alleged murder of a 20-year-old Sydney man.
It's brilliant & a lonnng time coming. Besides, he left his friends place in Brisbane early yesterday - really early, because old coppers are early risers & he was gone before anyone got up. If he drove all the way back he had to be on his way to Sydney almost immediately but he still let a team of detectives fly up to interview him in Brisbane last night. No wonder they arrested him first thing this morning, they probably had no sleep & went straight to his place from Sydney airport.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/roger-roge...527-391hq.html
Notorious former police officer Roger Rogerson has been charged with the murder of Sydney university student Jamie Gao in Sydney's south-west.
Arrested at his Padstow Heights home on Tuesday morning, the 73-year-old was taken to Bankstown police station, where he was charged with murder and large-scale drug supply.
He is due to appear in Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr Rogerson is the second former police officer to be charged over the murder of the 20-year-old, after ex-Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara was charged on Monday.
Police will allege Mr Gao was murdered inside a Padstow storage unit after a multimillion-dollar drug deal with the two former detectives went wrong.
Security footage allegedly shows three men walking into the storage shed – but only the two former police officers walk out.
The murder charge against Mr Rogerson follows an extraordinary 48 hours in which police initially believed the wanted man would return to Sydney on Monday from Brisbane, where he had a speaking engagement.
When that seemed unlikely, two senior detectives flew north to speak to Mr Rogerson – but in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Mr Rogerson mysteriously returned to his south-western Sydney home.
He was then in discussions, through his solicitor, to hand himself in.
But an hour before he claimed he would front at the Sydney Police Centre in Surry Hills, detectives arrived at Mr Rogerson's home, placed him in handcuffs and took him to Bankstown, where he was charged.
A statement from the NSW police said officers acted because they were "not satisfied with the arrangements being proposed".
Mr Rogerson's solicitor, Paul Kenny, said the police's actions in arresting an elderly man in his home like that were "disgraceful".
The former police officer was "treated like a dog", Mr Kenny claimed
Speaking to Fairfax Media after the arrest, Mr Kenny said he had been having a legal conference with Mr Rogerson and his wife, Anne, when police banged loudly on the front door.
"Someone yelled 'lock the house down'," Mr Kenny said.
Mr Kenny said four detectives proceeded to barge past Mrs Rogerson, who was distressed and crying as they handcuffed her husband, who was sitting in their small home office.
Mr Kenny said that Mr Rogerson had arrived back at his Padstow house in the early hours of the morning.
"They have totally betrayed our trust," Mr Kenny said of the police not honouring the arrangement that had been made to hand his client in at midday.
"He can't even walk, let alone flee," he said of the 73-year-old former detective, who has a bad hip and walks with the aid of a cane.
Police will allege that Mr Gao took three kilograms of the drug ice, with an estimated street value of $3 million, to the prearranged meeting with Mr McNamara and Mr Rogerson.
The business student at the University of Technology was reported missing the next day.
An hour after Mr McNamara was charged with Mr Gao's murder, a body believed to be that of the missing 20-year-old was spotted by a fisherman off the coast near Cronulla. It was wrapped in a blue tarpaulin.
Police confirmed on Tuesday that the body was that of Mr Gao.
Yeah it all sounds familiar, he's going for the same act he always has when he's caught
"He can't even walk, let alone flee," he said of the 73-year-old former detective, who has a bad hip and walks with the aid of a cane.
Just appeared in court
http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/l...-1226932762657
Accused killer Rogerson behind bars
ACCUSED murderer Roger Rogerson will spend the night behind bars after bail was formally denied in a Sydney court.
Rogerson, 73, was on Tuesday afternoon charged with murder and large commercial drug supply after the body of university student Jamie Gao was found floating in waters off Cronulla bound in a blue tarpaulin on Monday morning.
Rogerson appeared briefly for a mention at Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday where his lawyer didn't apply for bail, which was formally refused by Magistrate Elaine Truscott.
He's due before Central Local Court on July 22, where he will appear by audio visual link.
Fellow former Sydney detective and self-titled whistleblower Glen McNamara, 55, was charged on Monday with the 20-year-old's murder.
Jamie Gao was shot in the chest first - just like Warren Lanfranchi
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/...r-in-handcuffs
.Jamie Gao was shot dead before his body was dumped in the ocean in Sydney's south, it has been revealed.
Nine News reports the 20-year-old suffered two gunshot wounds to his chest that killed him.
Today former NSW detective Roger Rogerson was charged with his murder, and will spend the night in jail after bail was formally denied in a Sydney court.
Rogerson, 73, was also charged with large commercial drug supply after the body of Mr Gao was found floating in waters off Cronulla bound in a blue tarpaulin on Monday morning.
He appeared briefly for a mention at Bankstown Local Court this afternoon where his lawyer didn't apply for bail, which was formally refused by Magistrate Elaine Truscott.
He's due before Central Local Court on July 22, where he will appear by audio visual link
Fellow former Sydney detective and self-titled whistleblower Glen McNamara, 55, was charged on Monday with the 20-year-old's murder.
Gao was allegedly killed last Tuesday after a drug deal went wrong.
Rogerson's lawyer, Paul Kenny, asked the magistrate for "security to be looked at" and blasted the arresting officers for the way he was arrested.
He said an "honourable" arrangement with detectives had been broken and the arrest was "done for the media."
"This was going smooth until someone in high office decided to dishonour an honourable agreement," he told the packed court.
The officer in charge of Tuesday morning's operation found the "situation very funny", he said, adding that his client was never trying to evade police
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...orld-feet.html
Murdered student Jamie Gao was living his Australian dream: A first-class education at Sydney's University of Technology, a happy family life in a $1.5-million Hurstville home, an active social life, and even a budding romance with a girl whom he'd 'liked for a while'. But that dream turned into a nightmare on Tuesday, May 20. That afternoon began, police allege, with Mr Gao wading 'in over his head' into a high-stakes drug deal, and ended with the university student being shot twice in the chest, his body wrapped in a blue tarpaulin before being dumped into the ocean off Cronulla. The body found floating off Shelly Beach has now been formally identified as the 20-year-old student.
The day before, though, was reportedly as normal for Mr Gao as any other. He went to his morning university classes before stopping for lunch at a nearby cafe with a uni friend. At no stage, the friend says, did he seem nervous or on edge. Nor did he mention his plans for the following day. Instead he spent his time gushing about his new girlfriend - a young woman he'd had a crush on for some time and had been dating for just 'a couple of months'. Pictures posted to Mr Gao's girlfriend's Facebook page show the couple hugging and kissing. Mr Gao's girlfriend told MailOnline she was struggling to cope with the news. She declined to comment in detail, saying it was a 'very hard time' for her.
On Monday May 19, the UTS business student went to class in the morning and afternoon as normal. During a break between 11am and 1pm he lunched with a friend at Caffe Tiamo on Pitt St in Sydney's CBD. The 19-year-old female friend, who did not want to be named, told MailOnline Mr Gao did not talk about his plans for the next day. 'He was fine, normal. we had lunch,' she said. 'He didn't tell me about the meeting.'
Police allege Mr Gao was murdered on Tuesday, May 20 at Padstow in Sydney's southwest between 1.40pm and 2.30pm after allegedly meeting two young Asian men and former detectives Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson. Mr Gao's friend told MailOnline that, before the body was formally identified, his girlfriend was still hopeful he'd return, saying she 'still expects him to come back'. 'They've only officially been together a couple of months, but he liked her for a while,' she said.
She told MailOnline that his involvement in a drug deal seemed completely out of character, describing him as a 'nice guy' who was swayed by peer pressure. 'People say he's dealing drugs and he's bad. But his intention is not to be bad,' she said. 'He doesn't do anything on purpose to hurt anyone, I think he was just persuaded by his friends and by peer pressure.' Mr Gao lived with his mother Catherin Sui Ying Gao and grandmother in a $1.5 million house in Hurstville. A woman at the home on Monday declined to comment.
He is seen getting into the station wagon before it drives away. The car was driven to a storage unit nearby, where police will allege Mr Gao was killed for the bag's contents just before 2.30pm.' Mr Gao's friend said she was shocked the student, who graduated from Caringbah High School in 2011, was allegedly involved in drug dealing. 'He doesn't tell us about all the stuff he does,' she said. 'He does tell us about his private life, family and girlfriend but not about the illegal stuff.' The friend described Mr Gao as social and naturally smart. 'He wasn't crazy about study, he wasn't the nerdy type that studies every day, he was more social,' she said.
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Student's Secret Life : Victim of Disgraced Detective Appeared in Court Charged With Assault & Abduction A Week Before His Own Murder
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/victim-tel...530-398hi.html
A man has spoken about the terrifying moment he was kidnapped and later bashed by university student Jamie Gao.
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One week before the 20-year-old was killed inside a Sydney storage unit, he faced court charged with abducting a man in Sydney's south "over a girl".
Victim Jaiwei Yu, 19, told the Daily Mail online that Mr Gao and two other men had abducted him from a unit at Carlton in Sydney's south in January this year.
Mr Gao and two friends had reportedly gone to the unit to exact revenge on a man named Alex Li, after he had dumped a girl.
But he was not home so the trio allegedly kidnapped Mr Yu, took him to a park and punched him in the mouth, police said.
"It was because Alex and [his girlfriend] broke up," Mr Yu told MailOnline.
"[She] wanted revenge on Alex. She used Jamie to do it ... to come around and kidnap me."
The intended target told the Daily Mail that Mr Yu had been held captive for 90 minutes, driven around in a car and bashed in Tindale Reserve.
"They drove around, through the park and they beat him up with fists in the head," Mr Li told MailOnline.
Police charged Mr Gao with taking and detaining Mr Yu in company with intent to get advantage and occasioning actual bodily harm.
He was also charged with conspiring with two others to assault Alex Li and to cause him actual bodily harm.
A girl and another minor will face Sutherland Children's Court in July charged in relation to the kidnapping.
Mr Gao originally faced Kogarah Court, the same courtroom where one of his alleged killers, Mr McNamara, appeared on Monday charged with murder and large-scale drug supply.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/exclassmat...526-38znz.html
Friends of Jamie Gao were posting emotional tributes on social media on Monday after the 20-year-old was allegedly murdered during a botched drug deal with two former detectives.
Mr Gao, who was studying in the business school at the University of Technology, Sydney, was reported missing on Wednesday, 24 hours after he allegedly met former detective Glen McNamara and his corrupt associate Roger Rogerson in the Padstow industrial area in south-west Sydney.
One of Mr Gao's former teachers at Caringbah High School described him as a ''top bloke'' and said friends were astonished by allegations he was involved with drugs. ''Dumbfounded is all I know,'' the teacher said. ''No one really has any answers or knows what happened. Even his little group didn't know when I called to find out.''
In a Facebook group created for students who graduated from Caringbah High in the same year as Mr Gao, a year adviser warned: ''Media is going nuts trying to get info from anyone who knew Jamie. They are all saying we want to know about all his good qualities but knowing media they will probe into drug allegations etc. and try get you to buckle. Media has no friends and make none.''
One of Mr Gao's high school classmates* posted on Facebook that Mr Gao was ''a friend, a son, and an incredibly bright, charismatic young man - taken from us so suddenly - I cannot describe my rage and my sadness at this time. My last memory of him is sharing a cigarette outside our school formal talking about our funny year 7 memories and our hopes for who we were to become in the future. To think that he is gone at the hands of some f--king corrupt pigs makes me sick to my stomach.'' .
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/...-1226937982110
DUMB and dumber. Roger Rogerson and CCTV footage are no strangers to each other. It is allegedly security cameras that caught him out over the shooting murder of Jamie Gao, recording him walking into storage unit 803 with fellow ex-cop Glen McNamara and fledgling drug dealer Gao two weeks ago.
Ten minutes later, the cameras allegedly recorded only Rogerson and McNamara walking out before they reversed their own station wagons up to the roller door of the Rent-A-Space unit and allegedly loaded the young university student’s body into McNamara’s car before dumping it at sea.
Wind back to 1985 and the National Australia Bank branch in Sydney’s Chinatown. There, in a cream bomber jacket and jacquard sweater, Rogerson is clearly photographed as he walks away from the cashiers’ counter on July 1.
It was the early days of CCTV but the pictures captured by the bank’s security cameras are as clear as day.
Rogerson would later be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over opening two bank accounts under fictitious names and depositing $110,000
In another twist, he was not caught on CCTV opening the accounts — but closing them.
Rogerson maintained that $60,000 came from proceeds of the sale of a Bentley and the rest from a friend, Maurie Nowytarger’s, proceeds of gambling.
“My friend, a clever blackjack player, had had a run of luck. We both wanted to keep the existence of the money private but mainly him,” Rogerson later wrote in one of the books that kept money flowing in recent years.
He pleaded not guilty but was convicted — along with Nowytarger and another man, Nick Paltos — and jailed.
After nine months he was released after winning an appeal but spent a further three years behind bars from 1992 to 1995 after the Crown successfully re-appealed. His sentence had, however, been halved to three years and, as Rogerson said when he got to Berrima Jail, he joined another 16 former NSW cops who were already guests of the government.
He later joked he was so notorious that he might as well change his name by deed poll to “disgraced former detective Roger Caleb Rogerson” because that was how he was referred to in the media.
The highly-experienced former top detective’s next starring role courtesy of CCTV footage would come on Tuesday, May 20 this year, it is alleged.
The manhunt would not begin until the next day at 4pm, when solicitor Jasmine Lau walked into Kogarah police station and reported her client Jamie Gao missing.
At about the same time, police received a call from concerned neighbours of Gao’s parents’ million-dollar Hurstville home. His parents were in Hong Kong visiting their only son’s grandparents but there was a lot of activity around the house. It turned out to be five of his friends looking for him. Later that evening, two of Gao’s cousins would also report him missing.
That was one side of Jamie Gao. A friendly, fun University of Technology business student who was loyal to his mates and in love with girlfriend Misaki Takebayashi.
There was also a dark side, it has since emerged. Two weeks before he went missing, Gao was before Downing Centre Local Court on kidnapping and assault charges, where he was represented by Ms Lau and the case adjourned.
One of his victims, Jaiweu Yi, 19, broke his silence last week to say he was kidnapped at a flat in Carlton, in Sydney’s south, on January 9 by Gao and two teenage associates.
He said Gao had come to get revenge on his flatmate Alex Li, 18, on behalf of a female friend who had been dumped by Li. When Li wasn’t there, the gang took Yi instead and bashed him.
More pertinent to the events leading to Gao’s murder is that he has been exposed as a low-level drug dealer who has been using and selling drugs for about five years, since his high school days.
Police have said he went under their radar — until he was reported missing.
Fearing he may have been abducted for ransom, the Serious Crime and Robbery Squad was called in. They found his sporty car, a white Nissan Silvia sedan, abandoned in Stuart St, Padstow.
In the car was his wallet and mobile phone — and one of the numbers on the phone allegedly belonged to Glen McNamara.
McNamara, 55, is a former Kings Cross detective and self-confessed corruption fighter who quit the force amid bitterness in 1990. When he set up his private detective investigation agency in February last year, it was under the company name Fuipsu Pty Ltd, believed to refer to “F..k You Internal Police Security Unit.”
Gao’s friends allegedly told police that he had said he was going to see a man called “Glen” on the day he went missing.
Police will allege that McNamara had called Gao’s mobile that morning from a Telstra payphone.
He was caught making the call on CCTV footage.
Strike Force Album had been formed to investigate the disappearance and detectives painstakingly worked backwards from Stuart St until they came to Mick’s Meats on Arab Rd, Padstow — and Rent-A-Space on Davies Rd in the same suburb.
The CCTV camera at Mick’s Meats allegedly shows Gao parking his Nissan. Inside he has two passengers, both Hong Kong nationals believed to be acquaintances.
The camera shows Gao getting out of the car carrying a bag containing 3.1kg of the drug ice, worth $3 million on the streets, and meeting two men. One is McNamara — the other is a face that any serving or former police officer would recognise. It was allegedly Roger Rogerson, 73.
The two Hong Kong nationals stayed with the car as Gao allegedly drove off with McNamara and Rogerson.
Switch to the CCTV outside unit 803 at Rent-A-Space.
It allegedly shows McNamara, Rogerson and Gao walking inside. Police allege the floor of the unit was covered with plastic, probably a blue tarpaulin. Within the next 10 minutes, Gao was shot twice in the chest at point-blank range with a pistol.
The CCTV cameras show only McNamara and Rogerson walking out. They allegedly then carry Gao’s body into the back of McNamara’s car, wrapped in a surfboard cover and the blue tarpaulin.
McNamara was arrested on Sunday and when police searched his Cronulla home they allegedly seized a surfboard. They will allege there is evidence that his Quintrex 4.5m fishing boat had been recently used. On Monday, Gao’s body was found floating about 2km off Cronulla, wrapped in a blue tarpaulin, ropes and chains.
The two Hong Kong men later told friends that they had waited for about an hour, and when Gao did not return they drove around in his car, leaving it in Stuart St. They have since fled back to Hong Kong.
Police are hunting them as eyewitnesses and possible suppliers of the drugs.
“It seems as though they did not know what was going to happen (to Gao),” a police source said.
With Rogerson and McNamara in jail, bail refused, on murder and major drug supply charges, detectives are still working back — to find the gun, to find where the drugs came from, to find how Gao fits into the picture with McNamara and Rogerson, to find out why he was shot dead.
He may well have just been the go-between to take the drugs from the Hong Kong nationals to the two ex-cops.
“Everything is recorded on this job from that moment but we now have to go back to the start,” the police source said.
So someone in Hong Kong is out up to $3 million? I'm sure they won't mind at all.
A few stories I have dug up answer some of the questions I had about this case. It seems Roger has been at this for some time. I wonder how many he has got away with?
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JUNE 04, 2008 11:30PM
Roger Rogerson allegedly asked to find lost $1m drug cash
NSW's most notorious detective Roger Rogerson alleged last night he and a friend had been asked by Mark Standen to help recover $1 million supposedly lent by Dutch drug dealers.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that police believe Standen and his co-accused Bill Jalalaty lost the money they were allegedly given as a pre-payment to set up the Australian end of the deal to manufacture $120 million worth of the drug ice....
"It's an amazing story," Rogerson said last night....
"Telephone taps and surveillance recorded Rogerson and his friend Frank Wheeler, a former employee of the late standover men Tim Bristow and Michael "No Thumbs" Pestano, being approached to help find the lost $1 million investment.
"I had nothing to do with it."
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/m...-1111116543672
Strapped for cash? I think not:
The Dodger Lodges In Style But Has Friends In Low Places
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday May 27, 1999
By GREG BEARUP
"...The man they call The Dodger seems to have landed on his feet since walking through the front gates of Berrima Jail on December 15, 1995, after a three-year stay. Rogerson and his long-term girlfriend, Anne Melocco, a secretary, bought their dream house at Padstow Heights for $346,000 last year... Ms Melocco bought a unit, not long after Rogerson was released, at nearby Georges Hall for $180,000, and Rogerson owns a weekender at Long Jetty."
"One man who has been working with Rogerson on and off since both of them left Berrima Jail is Arthur Loveday, a feared senior figure in the Bandidos motorcycle gang who has served time for kidnapping, rape and armed robbery, and has escaped from jail twice. Early in 1997, police intelligence suggested that Rogerson was heavily involved in brokering a deal with crime figures in Kings Cross for an orderly carve-up of the drugs trade following the removal of the dominant player, Bill Bayeh.
"...In January this year, Rogerson and Link drove to Peats Ridge to look at property, allegedly for the purposes of growing an indoor cannabis crop in a large shed on the land."
The friendship with Loveday gives Rogerson the muscle and the fear he needs to operate his alleged standover activities, police believe."
http://www.hosereel.com.au/hose-reel...in-low-places/
Re: the claims he has Parkinsons:
Roger Rogerson: Out of jail, ready to talk.
Sunday, 12 March 2006
Julia Baird: And you're suffering from Parkinson's disease?
Roger Rogerson: No, no that's wrong, I'll produce a Doctor's Certificate to prove I haven't got Parkinson's Disease.
http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/...s/s1587758.htm
Like many others, the paper trail was too good to be true IMO. If this was a set-up/sting, this kinda makes sense or may suggest which body was possibly behind it:
Roger Rogerson charges dropped after phone-tap claims
NATALIE O'BRIEN THE AUSTRALIAN APRIL 11, 2009 12:00AM
"Former ACC officer Sam Foster gave a number of affidavits, which were filed in the District Court, alleging that one of his colleagues at the ACC was running covert operations on Mr Rogerson "like a personal vendetta" and had told his colleagues that he would "get Roger".
"Foster is in jail after admitting to setting up drug dealers and robbing them, and other offences. But he has been accepted as a credible witness by the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions in a number of successful prosecutions of his co-accused. Foster's affidavits alleged that the ACC had continuously targeted Mr Rogerson over a number of years even though he was not doing anything illegal.
"I was most concerned that the particular interception warrants in relation to Mr Rogerson have been improperly obtained and were being reapplied for and granted without proper foundation as no evidence or credible information of substance was forthcoming," he said."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arch...-1225697021288
Now I just have to find the story where Rogerson was alleged to have been part of a murder where the body was pushed out of a plane...
I think it was just really bad luck that the one time a body resurfaces was in the case of Jamie Dao.
Got it. Please note, the following is a transcript from parliament, which is subject to parliamentary privilege i.e. the pollie can say it in parliament and face no retribution, but if he walks out on the steps and says it to a reporter he can be sued for defamation. So I guess this one could best be described as hearsay?
ROYAL COMMISSION INTO NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE SERVICE
John Hatton: ABCI officers prepared a report into a series of allegations against Wilfred "Bill" Tunstall, then a serving senior sergeant attached to Parramatta police station. These allegations, received from a number of sources, alleged involvement by Tunstall and other police officers in a number of suspicious deaths, including the murder of a prostitute at Strathfield in the early 1980s and the apparent suicide, but alleged murder, in 1990 of Noel Patrick Hogan, a former police officer turned private investigator. We are not talking about remote periods of time, we are not talking about history; we are talking about the graduation of officers into the senior ranks of the New South Wales Police Service. We are talking about what they know, what they did not tell the parliamentary committee, what they did tell their Minister and the way in which they duped Minister Pickering. I do not say that Tunstall is one of the officers who graduated, however.
The allegations further claim involvement by Tunstall, Roger Rogerson and John Haeta in the supply of heroin to prostitutes and that those men had been actively involved in facilitating the importation of heroin through Darwin and its distribution throughout Australia. Additional allegation surrounded Tunstall's involvement in the disappearance of a used car salesman-cum-heroin dealer named Harvey Francois Jones. These allegations included that Jones was lured into a meeting with Rogerson and John Openshaw - two notorious names now - in order to pay a bribe to have a firearms offence dropped and that he was abducted and thrown from a light aircraft somewhere off the coast. The allegations included that Tunstall had been involved in the cover-up of the facts.
Seeing Mr Untouchable go down like this would be absolutely fucking hilarious if he hadn't killed Jamie Gao amidst all of this useless bumbling. I bet the smug bastard never thought he'd ever qualify for his own full episode of World's Dumbest Criminals
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/...-1226938455360
IT was probably the most extraordinary moment in the painstaking investigation into the murder of student Jamie Gao. There, in a bag hidden under the driver’s seat of a white station wagon in which Gao was allegedly last seen alive, was 3kg of the drug ice.
Even more astoundingly, police will claim, the vehicle was parked in the underground carpark at the Cronulla unit complex where their chief suspect, former police officer Glen McNamara, lived.
Officers from Strike Force Album could hardly believe what they were seeing. They rang headquarters and said: “Boss, you’re not going to believe it — we’ve found the drugs.”
They had swooped about 4am on Saturday last week while McNamara was asleep, secretly removing the car — along with the drugs.
But it wasn’t until Sunday morning that McNamara discovered the car was gone, triggering a flurry of panicked calls to his alleged accomplice, disgraced former police detective Roger Rogerson. A short time later, McNamara drove to Cooma prison, in southern NSW, to visit an inmate.
The events were just another astounding development in a case that had already been full of surprises.
Three days earlier, friends of Gao walked into Kogarah police station saying they held grave fears for the missing university student.
They had become worried after being tipped off by two men, Hong Kong nationals, who had driven Gao to the alleged drug deal during which he was killed.
The men had seen the 20-year-old get into a white station wagon in Arab Rd, Padstow, in Sydney’s southwest. The car drove 600m, turning into the Rent A Space storage facility, slowly followed by a silver Ford Falcon.
Gao was carrying a bag with 3kg of methamphetamine — worth $3 million if sold on the street as the drug ice — for what was meant to be a quick exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But Gao vanished and, after an hour’s anxious wait, the Hong Kong nationals phoned Gao’s friends, who arrived to help search for him. Over the next few hours they took Gao’s car and drove around searching the streets of Padstow. They finally abandoned the vehicle in a nearby street and left the area, waiting almost 30 hours before going to police.
The friends told officers that Gao had been boasting for weeks about a meeting with a man named Glen, at 1.35pm on Tuesday, May 20, for a drug deal.
It appeared at the time the UTS student had been kidnapped and the Serious Robbery and Crime Squad were called in. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong nationals fled the country.
A senior detective said: “The clock was ticking because we thought we had this kid tied up somewhere and we had to find him.”
Led by the highly respected veteran Detective Inspector Russell Oxford, the entire resources of the squad were rallied. More than 50 detectives began the task of tracking Gao’s last movements, starting with an examination of all the CCTV vision retrieved from storage units in Padstow. As the hours ticked into Thursday, officers came to the CCTV footage taken from the Rent A Space storage facility on Davies Rd.
Like a twisted version of Hansel and Gretel, McNamara and Rogerson, two experienced criminal investigators, scattered a trail of electronic and forensic evidence in their wake. The alleged drug deal and execution took place in the middle of the day and was captured by a multitude of cameras — most of which are clearly visible if you happen to glance up.
“The stars of Amateur Hour,” more than one detective said in disgust.
“It’s too bizarre, the story doesn’t make sense,” another officer said.
It wouldn't surprise me if they twist the extreme fail of every aspect of this crime into a defence. "Poor Roger, see what's become of him? He can't even successfully disappear a drug dealer these days! Have pity on a poor old disgraced former detective"
A neighbour of mine, David Hopes, was mixed up in all this shit. As a very young teenager I watched from my bedroom window when the NCA & Scotland Yard raided his house. They said he was running a major ring between Australia, Thailand & the U.K but I really don't think he was smart enough.
Regardless, he went down for a long time.
Aha. I guess Rogerson still has friends who'll leak Crime Commission details to him
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/...ime-commission
Jamie Gao gave evidence at a secret hearing before the Australian Crime Commission in the weeks before his death, according to a report.
Reports that federal police had been watching Gao, a suspected drug importer, since 2011 had fuelled media speculation that police were able to swoop on Rogerson and McNamara so quickly because Gao was under surveillance.
But last week the Crime Commission issued a statement denying Gao had been acting as one of its informants when he allegedly delivered $3 million of methamphetamine to the two former detectives.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Gao, however, did tell friends that he had recently been questioned by the commission at its Sydney headquarters.
The commission, which holds hearings in secret, focuses on gathering intelligence on organised crime.
Gao is suspected of being a high-ranking member of an Asian drug syndicate based in Hong Kong.
Tests have shown he was most likely sitting down when he was shot twice at point-blank range in the chest in a storage unit.
Rogerson, 73, and McNamara, 55, face court next on July 22.
It's just died in the news here? Seems they are clutching at straws.
The heartbroken girlfriend of slain university student Jamie Gao has flown back to her home in Japan to grieve with her family and friends.
Police will allege Mr Gao was shot dead by two former detectives, Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson during a multimillion-dollar drug deal in Sydney's south-west on May 20.
His body was found a week later, wrapped in a blue tarpaulin and floating off the shores of Cronulla.
Mr Gao's devastated girlfriend Misaki Takebayashi and her close friends went to where his body was found two days later and threw flowers into the water.
She also threw a heart-shaped note into the ocean and posted a photo online of a necklace she had made with a pendant containing a photo of herself and Mr Gao.
Ms Takebayashi said she gone to the location to farewell her ''baby''.
The Japanese student used social media to speak of how much she loved Mr Gao and how he had always cared for her.
A close friend of the couple said Ms Takebayashi had flown home after friends farewelled Mr Gao at a private service in Sydney at the weekend.
The pair had been dating for a number of months. ''They were pretty close,'' said the friend, who did not wish to be named.
The night before the discovery of Mr Gao's body, Ms Takebayshi told friends she still hoped her boyfriend was safe and well.
In several posts she talked positively and said she knew he would be ''fine''.
But all of Ms Takebayashi's hopes were dashed when police charged Mr McNamara with murder and large-scale drug supply on Monday last week.
An hour and a half later, a fisherman found Mr Gao's body floating at sea.
The following day disgraced Mr Rogerson was arrested in dramatic style at his Padstow Heights despite having arranged to hand himself into police later in the day.
Mr Gao, a business student at the University of Technology, Sydney, himself faced court one week before his death, charged with abducting a man in Sydney's south ''over a girl''.
In March he had been charged with two offences: taking and detain in company with intent to occasion actual bodily harm, and conspiracy to commit assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He originally went before Kogarah Court, the same courtroom where one of his alleged killers, Mr McNamara, appeared last Monday.
The 20-year-old was on police bail.
Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara were refused bail in their brief court appearances.
They are due to return to court in July.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/jamie-gaos...#ixzz33fYJakhK
The sudden silence is amazing. Perhaps it has something to do with Rogerson's last decade or so on the book circuit, buddying up with right wing media personalities, politicians & the "born to rule" crew. Too much attention will prove embarrassing for many. ie -
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/whats-...530-zrswa.html
What’s doing with Jonesy and Roger Rogerson? Ten years or so ago, I remember listening as Alan Jones did a breathtakingly soft interview – the softest I’ve ever heard, outside every Coalition politician, ever – where he bowled up the disgraced detective a series of questions about whether he had ever done anything corrupt or violent.
Rogerson replied “No, Mr Jones, never,” or words to that effect, about 10 times, and Jones finished up with something along the lines of “Well, there you have it, you’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth. Thank you Roger Rogerson.”
Jones' obvious rapport with Rogerson was as stunning to me as his similar support for the murderer Andrew Kalajzich who Jones agitated to get out of jail, only for the Court of Appeal to find the Manly hotelier guiltier the second time than the first.
And this week – in the wake of Rogerson’s arrest for murder – there has been much comment about how odd it was that Jones actually launched Rogerson’s book,The Dark Side, in 2009, asserting that the streets would be much safer if only we had more detectives like him.
The morning after Rogerson’s arrest, I listened carefully. Jones didn’t get to the subject of the day until 20 minutes into his show, and then said in what amounted to a quick, carefully calibrated statement that he had no relationship with Rogerson, and it was the publisher, not Rogerson, who asked him to launch the book, so there, and anyway, he didn’t really mean we needed more detectives like him in that sense. I repeat, what’s doing, Alan? Every election, and most times in between, you are the loudest drum beater for “Laura Norder” and yet you have this weird predilection for baddies?
Here's Alan Jones introducing the P.M, a.k.a his mate Tony Abbott
Oh look! After that heartfelt denial of knowing Rogerson, here he is with the other accused, Glen McNamara - at the launch of McNamara's book.
ETA Andrew Kalazich was a rich Liberal Party (Aus Conservatives) supporter who paid to have his own wife shot dead outside their Sydney home.
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ROGERSON CLAIMS JAMIE GAO WAS ALREADY DEAD
http://www.watoday.com.au/nsw/roger-...08-1022fc.html
"It wasn't me! It was him! Besides, I'm too old & sick (again)Disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson will argue the Sydney university student he is accused of murdering was dead before the former cop had even entered the storage unit where the "execution-style" murder took place.
Dramatic new details of the case against Mr Rogerson, 72, and fellow former?cop Glen McNamara emerged in a Sydney court on Friday where the pair appeared charged over the murder in May of Jamie Gao, 20, at Padstow.
During a bail application lodged by Mr McNamara, 55, the court was told that both men were allegedly motivated to kill Mr Gao?by a desire to rip him off in a large-scale drug deal. Crown?prosecutor Christopher Maxwell, QC, told the court?a level of planning had gone into the pair's "execution-style hit"
Mr McNamara's barrister, Ian Lloyd, QC, told the court that*when his client entered the storage shed, "something may have occurred in that unit that he did not expect to occur". He said if the pair had intended to "rip off" Mr Gao of three kilograms of the drug ice, as the Crown alleges, then as two former policemen they were doing it in a "very amateurish way". Mr Lloyd said that Mr McNamara was*"obviously involved in the disposal of the body" but that did not mean his client pulled the trigger.
"The Crown can't say with any certainty who fired the shot or what was intended with one or other of the accused," Mr Lloyd said. But outside the court, Mr Rogerson's barrister, George Thomas, said he would argue his client was not even present when the alleged shooting took place. "What people do not know, and what you people should understand, is that Roger Rogerson entered the storage shed four minutes after McNamara and the deceased," Rogerson's barrister, George Thomas, said. "The man was already dead when Rogerson got to that storage shed".
The Crown, however, argued that Mr McNamara and Mr Rogerson were part of a "joint-criminal enterprise" and had undertaken preparations to kill Mr Gao in the days before the alleged murder. Mr Rogerson was inside the unit for six minutes, the court was told. Mr Maxwell said Mr McNamara allegedly first met up with Mr Gao in January where arrangements were made for the university student to supply the former officer with three kilograms of the drug ice.
In May, the Crown alleges, Mr Rogerson obtained the keys for the storage shed at Padstow. The day before Mr Gao's death,*Mr McNamara is seen on security footage taking his boat out of a storage facility at*Taren Point. The court heard this*was later used by both men to*dump Mr Gao's body at sea off Cronulla. On the day they met Mr Gao at Padstow, 500 metres from the storage shed, Mr McNamara is shown driving a*station wagon which, the Crown alleges, was used because it could easily carry a body.*
Mr Maxwell said Mr McNamara also ensured he had*a large surfboard bag in the car. "If it was going to be a drug transaction, why has he got that there?," he asked. Three kilograms of ice were*found by police in the same*station wagon parked near Mr McNamara's Cronulla home, the court heard. The magistrate Les Mabbutt denied Mr McNamara bail on Friday, despite Mr Lloyd arguing his client had no criminal record, would put up $580,000 in surety and abide by conditions that*amounted to house arrest".
Mr Rogerson, who hobbled into court from the holding cells in the same clothes he had when he was arrested back in May, withdrew his bail application moments before it was due to be heard. The case against both men returns to court next month.
TWO former detectives charged with murdering a Sydney student will go on trial before a jury today.
Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson face charges of murdering 20-year-old UTS student Jamie Gao in May last year. They are also accused of drug supply.
Their trial at the NSW Supreme Court at Darlinghurst is expected to get underway later this morning.
Police have alleged the pair lured Gao to a storage unit in Sydney's southwest, with Mr Gao attending the meeting carrying almost three kilograms of the drug ice, or crystal methamphetamine.
Police have alleged the trio were spotted on CCTV entering the storage unit. Ten minutes later, cameras allegedly captured McNamara and Rogerson leaving, dragging a surfboard bag.
Mr Gao's bound body was found floating in waters off Sydney six days later.
Both McNamara and Rogerson deny the charges and entered not guilty pleas at a previous hearing. In January they waived their right to a committal hearing in order to get to trial as soon as possible
http://www.news.com.au/national/cour...-1227458335948
Looks like something unusual might've just happened in court
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-2...harged/6654244
Jamie Gao Murder : Jury discharged in trial of accused men Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson
Updated 4 minutes ago
MAP: Padstow 2211
The New South Wales Supreme Court jury in the trial of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara over the murder of student Jamie Gao has been discharged.
Gao's body was found floating in the sea by a fisherman off Cronulla in May last year.
The body was in a silver surfboard bag, which was bound in a blue tarpaulin tied with ropes.
More to come.
Hours before university student Jamie Gao was shot dead inside a storage shed, he sent his accused killer a text, thanking him for a drink.
"Hey thanks for the drink today, much appreciated, maybe we can meet up again in our free time and hang out again," Mr Gao said in text message to former policeman Glen McNamara.
Mr Gao then received a phone call from Mr McNamara from a Cronulla Mall payphone in southern Sydney at 11.37am on May 20, 2014.
What the pair spoke about is unknown but Mr Gao sent another text shortly after the call.
"Hey it was great having a drink last night, but I'm not in the mood to study today, I was wondering if you want to grab lunch this afternoon," said the text from Mr Gao to Mr McNamara at 11.38am.
A couple of minutes later Mr McNamara said he would not be able to meet Mr Gao.
"No. I'm sick. Food poisoning. Can't spend too much time away from the bathroom. I'll call you in a couple of days."
But Jamie Gao never got the call he was promised.
Despite Mr McNamara saying the pair could not meet in a text message exchange, the two of them are allegedly captured on security footage meeting about an hour and a half later.
Mr McNamara is seen on footage ushering Mr Gao into unit 803 at Rent a Space Padstow about 1.45pm.
Shortly afterwards another former policeman, Roger Rogerson, walks in.
Minutes later Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara emerged dragging a silver surfboard cover allegedly containing Mr Gao's body.
The prosecution case is that Mr Gao was shot twice in the chest so that Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara could steal the 2.78 kilograms of the drug ice he was carrying.
Mr Gao's body was found six days later, wrapped in a blue tarpaulin and floating offshore near Cronulla.
Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara have been charged with murder and commercial drug supply.
Both accused have pleaded not guilty to all charges against them.
On Tuesday, a NSW Supreme Court jury was shown a summary of text messages sent between Mr Gao and Mr McNamara in the lead-up to Mr Gao being shot.
Hundreds of texts were sent between the pair from January 23, 2014, until the day Mr Gao was shot dead on May 20, 2014.
The pair talked often about meeting up ? but never specify exactly where and only refer to meeting "out the back" or "outback".
In one text exchange in April, 2014 , McNamara tells Gao to "Be calm".
McNamara: Here
McNamara: ??
Gao: Still not ok
McNamara: Thanks. Be Calm
Gao: I will
In another text exchange Mr Gao speaks of being "frantic" in April, 2014.
"Yes, im slightly frantic at the moment haha," Mr Gao wrote.
"All good. A man with your charm will have no problems," Mr McNamara responded.
The trial continues before Justice Geoffrey Bellew.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/murder-acc...#ixzz44KcbPlfW
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So he walks around with 6 pounds of ice on him? Hope he had a backpack, parachute pants aren't exactly in style anymore.
And while Jamie wasn't the smartest to be tiddling in the drug trade, what happened to him at the hands of people whose job it is to protect and serve is absolutely deplorable.
People like these cops are the reasons humanity is doomed.
Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Go fuck yourself.
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