Roger Caleb Rogerson was a detective sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force and a convicted murderer. During his career, Rogerson was one of the most decorated officers in the force, having received at least thirteen awards for bravery, outstanding policemanship, and devotion to duty including the Peter Mitchell Trophy, the highest annual police award.
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Roger Rogerson Obituary
Australia’s most notorious disgraced cop Roger Rogerson, jailed for a cold-blooded execution, has died in a Sydney hospital. Rogerson, 83, suffered a brain aneurysm in his prison cell in Sydney’s Long Bay jail on Thursday and was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital in the city’s inner east.
The crooked cop, known as ‘The Dodger’, died in hospital at 11 pm on Sunday, after his life support was switched off at about 11:30 am on Friday. The former detective was serving a life sentence for the execution-style slaying of Sydney drug dealer Jamie Gao in 2014 when he died on Sunday.
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