The female roles of Neddy Smith's wife Debra (Joy Smithers) and Lanfranchi's prostitute girlfriend Sallie-Anne Huckstepp (Loene Carmen) give this story depth. I was told one of the judges, esteemed Sydney sports media stalwart Mike Gibson, was livid such a story was recognised ("it's not a sport story"). Smith said Lanfranchi had asked him to organise a payment to Rogerson so that the dealer wasn't charged with the police shooting. I later learned former Eels and Rabbitohs player and future successful coach, Graham Murray, was Hayward's last visitor the previous October while "Muz" was on the way home from a world trip. He said Hayward seemed more positive than he had been for some time, was working at a garbage disposal company and Sigsworth felt new hope for him. Rogerson, now aged 78, was sentenced to life. In late January, 1985 Flannery's family home was sprayed with rounds from a rifle.
But the cool-headed Smith was not impressed with Flannery, who made powerful enemies among Sydney gangland's other factions and police alike. She also claimed that Neddy Smith had lied at Lanfranchi's inquest and was in cahoots with Rogerson. He was also charged with but later acquitted of the murder of Sallie-Anne Huckstepp. One of Australia's most notorious cops, Roger Rogerson, is likely to die in jail after a court declined to extend his time to appeal. 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. "When they made Blue Murder, if only that [writer] Ian David had come and had a talk with me, he could have got it right, instead of some of that rubbish he put in the script.". All of the women pleaded guilty through a mandarin interpreter. I left him with two pairs of sports shoes, t-shirts and joggers and some of my own money and returned to my hotel room. Smith was charged with seven other murders. "There wasn't a dry eye in the house," Debra said. And on free to air, they watched it again. In sentencing, the judge declined to fix a parole period, saying: "You have forfeited forever your entitlement to live outside the confines of a prison". She says she would like to write an honest book, not in defence of her former husband, but to show his other side and tell the untold tales.
He used cable ties to restrain his victims, before executing them, each with a bullet to the back of the head. In 1988, Coulston was in the national spotlight with an unsuccessful exploit to sail a homemade 2.4m boat G’Day 88 to New Zealand. It was later claimed that Rogerson shot Lanfranchi for robbing a heroin dealer under the detective's police protection. The life of Neddy Smith Neddy Smith with Murray Riley and Debra Smith He became involved in a violent Sydney gang war over the heroin trade and Flannery tried to align himself with Neddy Smith. Fellows revealed in his book that notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith organised the deal. Given the lead role of Rogerson, brave cop and bad cop rolled into one, Roxburgh played the Roger on the move, taking care of Sydney's most dangerous and violent criminals. He was drink riding an unregistered, uninsured bike with no helmet. These are four of our most dangerous killers, with at least 16 murders at their hands. The life of Neddy Smith Arthur 'Neddy' Smith and his ex-wife Debra on their wedding day in an undated copy photo. Smith -inebriated at the time – flew into a rage after Flavell flashed his lights at him. Drury said Rogerson had tried to bribe him to change his evidence over a heroin trial and when Drury refused, he was shot. "I have been spat on, run off the road, threatened, victimised and treated like dirt.
After constant delays, it took until July 1981 before Hayward, Fellows, Sinclair and taxi driver Kitty Imsap were sentenced. Following a struggle, he escaped, in the process wounding a security officer who had come to the couple’s aid. "These were not friends. Hayward never recovered from an ill-fated, illegal decision that he poorly conceived as an innocent grab for quick cash. Smith later said that Rogerson ordered him to disarm Lanfranchi en route. He did return, in April 1989 – 10 and a half years after having a .38 police pistol held to his temple in his Bangkok hotel. When we broke in early December for our eight-week annual holidays, I'd heard nothing back. Like his onetime partner in crime Roger Rogerson, Smith is a remorseless killer motivated only by self-interest. His doctor, the prominent Sydney medico Geoffrey Edelsten, gave him a medical certificate saying he was unfit to go to trial for the Sydney murder. It was also alleged that Rogerson gave heroin dealer and underworld killer Arthur Stanley "Neddy" Smith the "green light" to commit crimes, in exchange for being an informant and a slice of the heroin trade. Her son Peter told 7NEWS his mother should "hurry up and die". His prison brags resulted in a conviction for the murder of brothel keeper Harvey Jones. I took out my portable typewriter and knocked out the 2500-word expose before heading down for breakfast.
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