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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What did Roger Rogerson do?
In 1990 he was convicted of perverting the course of justice alongside two businessmen, over $110,000 deposited by him into a bank account under a false name. He served almost four years in prison.
He was again jailed in 2005 for lying to the Police Integrity Commission and served 12 months of a five-year sentence.
Rogerson’s life of crime would continue into his 70s. In 2014 he and another former detective Glen McNamara murdered “wannabe gangster” 20-year-old student Jamie Gao at a Sydney storage shed and dumped his body at sea.
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