Former detective charged with murder, police search for disgraced ex-cop

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Former detective charged with murdering student over drug deal

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-26/former-detective-charged-with-jamie-gao-murder/5476742?pfm=ms

Jamie Gao kidnap: former detective Glen McNamara charged with murder, police search for disgraced ex-cop Roger Rogerson

Police have charged a former detective with murder, and are searching for another, over the disappearance of a Sydney student who went missing six days ago.

Police say 20-year-old Jamie Gao was taking part in a drug deal when he was last seen getting into a white car after talking to two men in Padstow in the city's south-west last week.

Former detective Glen McNamara, 55, was charged with murder and commercial drug supply at St George police station in Sydney's south this morning.

The ABC has been told officers are also searching for disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson, 73, who is believed to be in Queensland.

A body was found off a southern Sydney beach this morning but police are yet to confirm if it is the remains of Mr Gao.

Detective Superintendent Luke Moore said police would allege Mr Gao was killed as part of a drug deal. He said almost three kilograms of what is believed to methamphetamine had been found.

Police are still looking for two Asian males who were in Mr Gao's car on the day of his disappearance.

"He (Mr Gao) had two other Asian male people with him in that car. We know that shortly after arriving there, he walked from that car to another white motor vehicle, a white station wagon," Detective Superintendent Luke Moore said.

"He got into that car. That car then drove from that area and was followed by a silver station wagon. We know that Mr Gao was taken to a location nearby. At that location we believe he was murdered.

"The purpose of the meeting we now strongly believe, and will be putting to the court, was for a drug transaction - a substantial quantity of prohibited drugs. We will be putting to the court that that was the subject of the drug transaction."

McNamara, who was taken into police custody after his vehicle was stopped in Kyeemagh in southern Sydney last night, is expected to appear in a Kogarah court today.

Police have searched properties in Cronulla and Padstow.
Rogue detective jailed for perverting course of justice

He was acquitted of conspiring with two criminals to murder undercover detective Michael Drury in 1989.

He was also acquitted of attempting to bribe Detective Sergeant Drury in June 1985.

During that decade he was called 'Roger the Dodger', but he protested his innocence saying he was the victim of a vendetta waged by a group of police out to get him.

He was jailed in 1990 for perverting the course of justice over a $110,000 deposit made under a false name, and spent three years behind bars.

Mr Rogerson was also charged with aiding and abetting a public officer to abuse his public office and was called to appear at a Police Integrity Commission in 1993.

He was accused of helping criminal informant Neddy Smith to find out if a large quantity of gold coins had been reported as stolen.

He later pleaded guilty to lying to the inquiry and served 12 months behind bars.

Police believe Mr Gao may have met with foul play after getting into the vehicle. His own car was later found abandoned with his wallet, keys and phone nearby.

Police say they have been told Mr Gao was excited about the arranged meeting and his disappearance and lack of contact are out of character.

Mr Gao has been described as about 170-175 centimetres tall, with black hair and brown eyes.

 

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NSFW:

^ Warning graphic image of what 'may' be the deceased.

“We believe there was a drug transaction. Mr Gao had drugs with him when he went to the other car,” police said today.
Police said they had seized three kilograms of methamphetamine from a white car.

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Horrible for the family and friends. Dealing kilos of ice to ex shady cops isn't a great idea in hindsight. Roger Rogerson has been in so much shit over the yrs. These bent old cops, why the hell would they have killed the kid I wonder?

Earlier versions I was reading were saying they didn't think Gao had links to drugs or large transactions in his accounts. This all seems very weird, and sad for the friends and family of Gao.

 

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I assumed they were dealing to him? As in, they took his money and did him in.
You may well be correct though. Dodgy cunts.
Either way...that photo is fucking disturbing.

 

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I should probably put a nsfw thing around it hey.

I think it was him who was supplying to them, maybe he had some up the chain contacts for large amounts. Who knows how he got to be dealing with those kind of people..

Police this morning said they believed the meeting was a drug deal gone wrong and that Mr Gao had shown up with a quantity of drugs.

 

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^ yeah cheers for the NSFW.
I had only seen the abc report - and since reading some of the more speculative reporting elsewhere. it's hard to know what to think.
"Disgraced former police" seem to represent a certain type of dangerous criminal...the kind to keep a safe distance from.

 

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That photo is hardly graphic, they say tv desensitizes us but that is clearly bullshit. We are so used to unrealistic depictions of violence we have become sheltered pussies. (I hate Quentin taurentino (sp) so very much).

 

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^The kid was murdered, show some fucking respect you creep.

 

[poledriver]

That photo is hardly graphic, they say tv desensitizes us but that is clearly bullshit. We are so used to unrealistic depictions of violence we have become sheltered pussies. (I hate Quentin taurentino (sp) so very much).

That is your view. Not everyone wonts to see such stuff. The site I got it from had that - 'Warning graphic image' so I just added it here with a NSFW, which I think is a good idea. You dont mind such images then that is great for you. This is not from some tv show or QT movie. Sure there is plenty worse things to look at on the net, but some people do not wont to come across such images, especially at work I would imagine.

Anyway that is off topic and not really relevant to what we were discussing here.

 

[_DankOpiAmp_]

Suck it space, I am not commenting on what happened to him, only the image itself. It is quite mild.

Imagine there was a war and you were conscripted. You would end up as a traumatized, Stockholm syndrome dancer boy working for an afghan warlord out of fear after being captured since you would curl up in a ball and shit yourself at the first sign of fighting. Many have become sheltered to the point of impotence in our society.

 

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Oh I love that macho talk. So...dignified. Please, take this thead further off topic.
I love it when you treat me rough.

 

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I'll be so dry and rough you will prolapse when I pull out, murauw!

 

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Jamie Gao murder: How did a normal student get caught up in a dangerous drug deal?

TO HIS family and friends Jamie Gao was a normal young man with no links to the drugs or crime.
So when he vanished last week after a mysterious meeting, police initially treated it as a possible kidnapping for ransom.
The 20-year-old had spoken excitedly about the meeting but was vague on details. His friends though were left in no doubt it had great significance to him.

It is starting to become clear exactly why he was vague on details of the meeting, on Arab Rd, Padstow last Tuesday.
Police revealed today he had drugs on him and went to the meeting as part of a major drug deal.
He was last seen, via CCTV footage, getting into a white car after talking with two men.

“We believe there was a drug transaction. Mr Gao had drugs with him when he went to the other car,” police said today.
Three kilograms of methamphetamine have been seized by police from a car the investigation team is examining.

A body, thought to be Mr Gao, has been pulled from the water at Cronulla and police have charged former Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara, 55, with his murder.
The body was wrapped in a blue tarpaulin and recovered by police this morning.

Friends of Mr Gao initially took to social media to find him but have told news.com.au they don’t want to comment out of respect to his family.
Students at the Sydney University where Mr Gao studied have been shocked by his death and alleged drug involvement.

Andy Zephyr, the student association president at the University of Technology where Mr Gao studied, didn’t want to be speculate on the circumstances surrounding his death before they had been confirmed by police.
There were already a lot of rumours, he said.
But the drug link was troubling.
“It is a shock … For those [at the university] that know him, it would be a shock.”
However he did say something that could be done to assist students was to educate them about drugs and drug culture.

Mr Zephyr said armed with that information students could make decisions that could benefit them and their safety.
As part of the university’s duty of care to students anyone upset about Mr Gao’s death would be offered counselling.

Among the last conversations Mr Gao had with his friends was his excited talk about an upcoming meeting that had great significance to him.
“Jamie told friends the meeting was really important, was excited about it but wouldn’t say much else,” Robbery and Serious Crime Squad head Detective Superintendent Luke Moore told The Daily Telegraph.

But it appeared he wasn’t fearful for his safety.
“And when he talked to friends he indicated he would be seeing them later in the day.

Until last week there was nothing in Mr Gao’s background to suggest he was involved with drugs or any criminal activity.
He didn’t have lots of money or a lavish lifestyle.

But Supt Moore warned: “That is not to say he may not have gotten involved in something way above his head.”
Mr Gao is an only child and his mother, who owns a business in Hurstville, has cut short a trip to Hong Kong to return to Sydney.

http://www.news.com.au/national/jam...gerous-drug-deal/story-fncynjr2-1226932232012

 

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Jamie Gao: Entire bungled crime caught on CCTV across the city

FORMER detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara walked into a storage facility with young Asian student Jamie Gao — minutes later only two of them walked out carrying a body, police will allege.
Damning CCTV footage allegedly captured the two former officers carrying between them what appears to be the body of Mr Gao, wrapped in a blue tarpaulin.

The whole sequence of events from Mr Gao’s meeting about an hour earlier when he allegedly got into a car with the two men on a Padstow street was filmed on CCTV at various businesses in the south-western Sydney suburb.
Police will allege Mr Gao was killed in an alleged $3 million ice — methamphetamine — deal gone wrong.
The two experienced former police officers are alleged to have used their own cars. It is claimed that Mr Gao’s body was put in McNamara’s white station wagon, which was followed by Rogerson in his silver Ford Falcon.

McNamara, 55, was yesterday charged with murdering Mr Gao, 20, even though his body had not then been found.
Almost at the same time as the arrest, fishermen found a body, believed to be that of Mr Gao, wrapped in a blue tarp with ropes and chains off Cronulla beach, the same suburb where McNamara lives with his wife and family.

As McNamara appeared in Kogarah Local Court charged with murder and supplying 3kg of methamphetamine and was refused bail, two detectives with the Serious Crime and Robbery Squad flew to Brisbane to find Rogerson, 73, and arrest him on the same drug and murder charges.

Rogerson, who was due to fly back to Sydney today, is believed to be staying with friends in Brisbane or on the Gold Coast, where he flew late last week for a speaking engagement. Rogerson’s solicitor Paul Kenny last night said he had made contact with police to arrange for his client to be questioned by them within 48 hours.
A post-mortem on Mr Gao, a young Sydney University of Technology student, is expected to be conducted today.

“He was in over his head. He thought he would make a quick buck,” a law enforcement source said yesterday.
Detectives with the Serious Crime and Robbery Squad formed Strike Force Album and have been working around the clock since early Wednesday morning, following the report of Mr Gao’s disappearance on Tuesday afternoon.

Police will allege Mr Gao met with two young Asian men on Arab St, Padstow.
The two Asian men have not been identified.
Detective Superintendent Luke Moore said police believe Mr Gao was murdered near the Padstow meeting spot.
“The purpose of the meeting we now strongly believe, and we will be putting to the court, was for a drug transaction (for) a substantial quantity of prohibited drug,” he said.
Police have seized CCTV footage from Mick’s Meat on Arab St which shows Mr Gao getting out of his white Nissan Silvia sedan and getting into a white Ford Falcon around 1.40pm, Tuesday. It shows him carrying a bag which police allege contained the ice.

A silver Ford Falcon allegedly belonging to Rogerson, who was known during his lengthy police career as “The Dodger”, can be seen in a car park in the foreground.
McNamara, a former Kings Cross detective who quit the force in 1990, was arrested at around 6.30pm on Sunday after his vehicle was stopped in Kyeemagh.
At his home in Cronulla, police seized a blue Ford Falcon XR6 and a number of other “items of interest to investigators”, police said.
McNamara’s white Ford Falcon station wagon was also seized as well as a boat allegedly belonging to him, which was being kept in a storage unit in Caringbah.

Officers searched Rogerson’s home at Padstow Heights and took away a silver Ford Falcon station wagon.
McNamara did not apply for bail during a short appearance before magistrate Christine Haskett in Kogarah Local Court yesterday. He was charged with murdering Jamie Gao between 1.40pm and 2.30pm in Padstow on May 20 and supplying 3kg of methamphetamine at the same time on the same date. He was not required to plea.
Ms Haskett granted a request by McNamara’s lawyer that he be put in protective custody. McNamara smiled at a small group of supporters believed to be his family.

http://www.news.com.au/national/jam...-across-the-city/story-fncynjr2-1226932430754

 

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Roger Rogerson not on the run over Jamie Gao murder, lawyer says

Disgraced former police officer Roger Rogerson is not on the run and is ‘‘beyond shocked’’ at being linked to the murder of Sydney university student Jamie Gao.

Detectives want to speak to Rogerson in relation to the murder of 20-year-old Mr Gao at Padstow, in Sydney’s south-west, last Tuesday.

Long-time lawyer Paul Kenny, interviewed on 2UE, denied his client was on the run, adding the last time he spoke with Rogerson was on Monday morning. He was “absolutely stunned” and “beyond shocked” by the events of the past 48 hours.

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Police will allege that Mr Gao was killed after a multimillion-dollar drug deal went wrong inside a rented storage shed last Tuesday afternoon.

Colourful business identity Jim Byrnes believes Mr Gao may have been a police informant working under surveillance when a drug deal went wrong.

‘‘How did the police get so much surveillance footage so quickly? It’s something the Crime Commission might be able to shed light on in the future because I think they had prior knowledge of the young man who is now deceased,” said Rogerson’s friend from Los Angeles on Fairfax-owned 2UE.

“The information gathered by police ... which has come to light in such a rapid manner would suggest somebody was already watching,” he said. ‘‘I think the 20-year-old may have been an informant.’’

Byrnes believes Rogerson was an accessory in the alleged large-scale drug crime and murder of Mr Gao.

At 73 years of age, Rogerson would have been physically incapable of stopping the weakest 23-year-old if “something horribly went wrong,” he added.

“He’s tired… I don’t know whether he’s got the strength to go on and be in what can be a long and expensive trial … and possibly a very long stint of incarceration,” he said.

“When you’re over 73 years of age, anything over 12 months is potentially a life sentence.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/roger-rog...lawyer-says-20140527-zrp66.html#ixzz32rpG5bgz

 

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Lol that bitch looks distressed that he is caught.

 

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Police charge Roger Rogerson over Jamie Gao murder after arresting him at his Sydney home

DISGRACED Sydney detective Roger Rogerson has been charged with murder and the body found floating off Cronulla yesterday has been identified as missing Hurstville man, Jamie Gao.

Rogerson has also been charged with large commercial drug supply and refused bail and will appear in Bankstown Local Court later today.

Mr Gao’s body was spotted by fishermen early yesterday morning about 1.5km offshore. It was wrapped in a blue tarpaulin. The 20-year-old University of Technology student had been missing since Wednesday.

An examination of the remains, for the purpose of identification, was conducted a short time ago. A post mortem examination, to determine the cause of Mr Gao’s death, has not yet been completed.

Earlier today, detectives made the dramatic arrest of disgraced former detective sergeant Rogerson, 73, at his Padstow home.

More than a dozen officers stormed the Churchill Rd address before 11am and less than 10 minutes later brought out a frail looking Rogerson in handcuffs.

As he was escorted to a waiting police car Rogerson said: “We’re back to the Gestapo days now.

“On the advice of my solicitor I am saying nothing”.

It is understood Rogerson was due to meet police at 12pm but officers did not wait with several banging on the front door asking his wife Anne to answer. Others raced around the back of the home.

Rogerson’s lawyer Paul Kenny said he was furious at the arrest. He said police treated Rogerson, 73, like an animal.

“He was treated like a dog,” Mr Kenny told reporters, adding he would complain to the police commissioner.

“He’s very distressed. I’ve never seen conduct like this by NSW police. I’ve been in shoot outs. I’ve been bashed. I’ve had everything under the sun done to me.

“I’ve never seen conduct like it’s just occurred here ever.

“What occurred in there is not proper police practice, it’s an absolute disgrace”.

“This is like something from a TV show. But a bad TV show.”

It is understood Rogerson is being taken to Bankstown Police Station to be questioned over the murder of Jamie Gao last week.

Earlier Mr Kenny turned up at his client’s Padstow Heights home saying he did not want an “OJ Simpson situation”.

“We want things to move smoothly this morning. We don’t want any OJ Simpson situation,” he said, referring to the hysteria surrounding the pursuit and subsequent arrest of the famous sports and TV personality.

“We don’t want some type of American hysteria type situation. Things are totally out of control as it is.”

Mr Kenny said Mr Rogerson was not avoiding police despite failing to talk to two high-level detectives who travelled to Queensland yesterday where Mr Rogerson was.

“He has not dodged the police. Any suggestion he has dodging the police is totally incorrect,” he said.

“He will be cooperating fully with police.

He’s alright. He and his wife Anne would really appreciate if everyone calms down. She’s very upset.”

Rogerson was photographed with former Chopper Read bodyguard with boxer Mark “Hammer” Dixon on Sunday night.“He seemed on top of the world that day. He had a few beers, sold a few books. He didn’t have a worry in the world,” Mr Dixon said.

Yesterday, another former detective Glen McNamara was charged with Gao’s murder.

Damning CCTV footage allegedly captured the two former officers carrying between them what appears to be the body of Mr Gao.

Police will allege Mr Gao was killed in an alleged $3 million ice deal gone wrong.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-his-sydney-home/story-fni0cx12-1226932637797

 

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Rogerson was photographed with former Chopper Read bodyguard with boxer Mark “Hammer” Dixon on Sunday night.“He seemed on top of the world that day. He had a few beers, sold a few books. He didn’t have a worry in the world,” Mr Dixon said.

...he sure does now.

 

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For sure. If he gets convicted in court and sentenced for murder he would probably die in jail. If he's not killed by another inmate first, being an ex cop and all.

 

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Sad for Jamie gao, his family and friends.

Police involved won't be bashed, obviously they will be protected.