The sex worker turned hero who exposed Australia's dirtiest cops | Under Investigation

it's 1981 and to most australians the cops are the good guys keeping the streets clean and our families safe but in the nation's biggest police force truth was stranger than fiction it was like the plot of a bad hollywood movie police so corrupt that they become leading drug suppliers officers in the hold-up squad who organised armed robberies and even murders and behind it all one of the nation's most celebrated officers proven to be a terrorizing criminal he is a sociopath i have not personally come across one crooked cop incredibly it wasn't the government of the day who lifted the lid on this extraordinary corruption it would be a single mother a heroin addict and king's cross prostitute named sally ann huckstep i know it sounds unbelievable but it's real and it's happening in 1981 sallian would give an exclusive television interview that would eventually trigger the biggest clean-out of crooked cops in australian police history but large parts of her tell-all story have never been seen kept in a vault until now when the police become judge jury and executioner then somebody has to speak [Music] it was an explosive interview and one that salian knew could prove fatal and indeed five years later she was murdered a crime that has never been solved by nature she was a fighter by nature she was going to get revenge tonight for the first time we reveal the full and extraordinary story of how the bravery of one young woman turned the tide on dirty cops beginning of the end of that sort of police corruption and the officer she exposed and disgraced roger rogerson [Music] good evening i'm liz hayes and this is under investigation [Music] joining me tonight in an exclusive appearance the new south wales police commissioner mick fuller john dale who literally wrote the book on sally anne's life and tragic death john laycock the former assistant police commissioner who re-examined sally ann huckstep's murder and worked with roger rogerson as a young cop kate mcclymont the award-winning investigative journalist whose work helped expose the police corruption first called out by sally anne huxstep and joining us from the north coast of new south wales mcdrury former new south wales drug squad detective who was almost murdered for being a good cop in roger rogerson's crooked circle thank you all for joining me can i stop with you commissioner do you have a view of that era and the role that sally and huckstep played in that yeah look it's an amazing era part of the new south wales police force we probably saw some of the worst corruption that we've seen in modern history as a result kate you're a young journal at the time what did you make of it look it was an extraordinary time basically because the the police officers that we thought were the ones that were meant to be holding criminals to account were actually part of the criminal enterprise themselves it was just extraordinary mcdrury you were there how do you describe that era i think it was a criminal phenomena and it had a profound impact on life in sydney stemming from king's cross all right it's hard to believe now the corruption that occurred during the 70s and early 80s and and therefore salian huckstep's role in that was unique it was it was and i think she's only now being really appreciated for what she did it's june 27 1981 a small time heroin dealer and street thug is shot dead by a new south wales police officer in an inner sydney laneway the criminal was 22 year old warren lam franchi and the officer new south wales super cop detective sergeant roger rogerson it is reported as the dramatic killing of a sydney crim and the story might have ended there except that the krim's girlfriend happens to be a young king's cross prostitute named sally ann hucksteb risking her life and just days after the shooting sallianne goes public with all that she knows in a 60 minutes interview with journalist ray martin sally we hear so often of corruption in the police force corruption at king's cross how much corruption is there it's total total the claim salient makes about the new south wales police are almost beyond belief for a 1980s public i've been paying the police for 10 years um what is a prostitute as a prostitute my ex-husband was a criminal i paid the police many times for him i would have been quite happy to go on paying the police because it's a way of life and it's the way you survive but when the police become judge jury and executioner then somebody has to speak somebody has to come forward somebody has to start somewhere and stop it everybody no matter who they are heroin dealers murderers thieves everybody is entitled to justice [Music] for sally ann to actually be brave enough to go on 60 minutes you know the preeminent show of the day and to make these claims is like a really really brave act because she knew exactly what she was dealing with john dale you described her as the real first whistleblower i think she's the most important whistleblower in new south wales police history by far for legal reasons only a fraction of sally ann's interview was aired the full 16 millimeter film would be locked away and forgotten for four decades but her first-hand account of a police force gone rogue and the doubt she cast on a hero police officer who was in truth a drug lord and brutal murderer was electrophile i remember going up there to the 22nd floor or so the hilton hotel and she was quite emotional that night she was crying beforehand about what had happened to lan francie not about talking to us but what had happened she was chained smoking beforehand and yet she was clearly tough my memory was how articulate and how together she was for a 25 or 26 year old woman who'd been to hell and back and she wanted to tell the story and she also wanted to to get roger rogerson and so i sat there as a as a journalist almost with my mouth open john laycock did you see the interview i did see the interview was it was your instinct though that she was telling the truth or did you just dismiss her i didn't dismiss her from a personal view um it was quite shocking actually admitting on camera that you are a you know had been a heroin user and a prostitute and that you had been paying police it definitely had the ring of credibility and i remember thinking wow i don't know how much you've bitten off here but good luck to you watching it and i have had dealings with with prostitutes in operational and heroin addicts and i worked across in the late 90s um she she was so articulate and believable and i think that was her personality well you watch it now she's a heroin addict prostitute but she was believable and john dale i did say it and my feeling at the time when i saw it i thought she's not going to live very long [Music] i think the police thought that i'd shut my mouth as i kept quiet all these years prostitute and heroin addict salian huxstep appears on 60 minutes to blow the whistle on the king of new south wales crooked cops roger rogerson oh we feared for our lives five years after that interview sally ann was found dead strangled face down in a pond in sydney's centennial park you look glad but who was sally anne huxstep the perfect fit born into a middle-class jewish family in sydney's affluent eastern suburbs she attended a private school mariah college and was considered a bright student but she struggled with her parents early divorce and at 13 she ran away from home at just 14 she was working as a waitress at sydney's notorious king's cross club whiskier go-go and at 15 she turned to prostitution to pay for a growing drug habit an addiction she desperately tried to break she keeps no secrets i knew i was really slipping because i was going downhill very rapidly [Music] [Applause] by the time sallian turned 20 she'd amassed dozens of convictions for prostitution and paid out thousands of dollars in bribes to corrupt cops [Music] then in early 1981 she filmed for a heroin dealer and standover man named warren lanfranchi a man who would change her life a man who would indirectly lead her to her death physically he was a very strong man was he a thug while i was a criminal i don't know whether i'd call him a phone but you know you've got to face facts why i was a criminal he certainly wasn't the clean cut boy next door no he certainly wasn't there i i think kate you would say that he was good for um sally and strangely well apart from the fact that um they met through her prostitution uh the first thing he did was send her red roses and look he was the one for all his faults of which there were many um he got her off heroin he cleaned her up he was planning for them to amass enough money to get some false passports to go and live overseas and to start afresh and look and i also want to make the point that um sully anne was was she in love with warren lam franchise this was last year she said she was that she only met him four or five months but she i think she fell in love quickly with him yes i thought he was a very horny guy you know personally i was very attracted to her and he was john laycock you came into contact with warren lampranchi actually i did in the 1970s he was just a petty thief of the day there was nothing spectacular about him her name was unusual and he went in the dock and got charged and went to court and went to jail in the day when you went to jail you came out a better criminal than what you went in and i think when you look at all the characters in in this sad play is that they all went to jail and and always came out better criminals but didn't he meet lan francie actually met neddy smith while in jail the ferocious arthur neddy smith was one of sydney's most infamous criminals a 200 centimeter or six foot six colossus in the australian crime scene he was now warren lam francis boss in sydney's booming heroine trade look the problem for warren lan franchi was this he was running on the edge he became violent in ripping people off and the problem for warren he didn't know at the time was that he ripped off a criminal for a large amount of heroin and that heroin came from roger rogerson [Music] detective rogerson has a reputation as being a very evil man parts of this interview were never broadcast but the information was given to police internal affairs it would be the beginning of the end for australia's dirtiest comp there are a lot of very uh heavy criminals who are terrified of him he's there have been people disappear who are thought to have been murdered by detective rogerson i think rogerson to me is a very interesting forensic study he is a sociopath and the only one that i know of in australian police history these are very dangerous people [Music] it's late one night in 1981 when warren lampranchi makes a fatal decision to rip off two heroin dealers but what lampranchi doesn't know is the heroine he's stolen actually belongs to the gangster other criminals fear most the one with a badge roger rogerson how much was the heroine worth that warren had now stolen well it was extremely high grade heroin it was worth thirty seven thousand dollars to warrant thirty seven thousand dollars was there then a contract out on him were there then people after it oh yes but one wasn't particularly concerned about that until we got word that it was rogerson it was who that it was detective rogerson's heroine that this guy was working for detective rogerson detective sergeant rogerson of the new south wales police force that's right just let me get us clear the men who wanted to sell drugs to warren were working for detective sergeant rogerson that's right what happened then we went into hiding more because we were terrified we thought he'd kill us detective sergeant roger caleb rogerson honored with 13 police awards once even touted as a future police commissioner was a cop with a secret and a deadly double life and he was now hunting down sally ann and her lover warren lampranchi who knew better than most criminals the danger he was in had warren had dealings with detective rogerson before well he knew sergeant rogerson was involved in armed robberies he knew that detective rogerson supplied drugs was a large heroin deal that he supplied heroin to paramedic jail he supplied heroin to paramount to jail that's right seems pretty incredible doesn't it but you know anyone watching this would say right here's a man whom society might well call a thug for what a better word pointing a finger at a member of the police force saying that he's a major dealer in heroin saying that he supplies parramatta jail with heroin why should anyone believe warren well it's common knowledge that the police the drug squad sells heroin why couldn't warrant simply say i've made a terrible mistake here's the 37 thousand dollars back because we were terrified detective rogerson has a reputation as being a killer in fact warren was so terrified he went and bought himself a gun and used to sleep with it next to the bed because we were terrified that rogerson was going to find out where we were and come in and kill us bugs in our bed we've never had a sociopath in the police force so well positioned as this man it was like chicago in the 1920s people in downtown sydney australia could not believe that this was going on sydney drug dealer warren lam franchi and his girlfriend prostitute sally ann huckstep are in hiding fearful for their lives lanfrenchie has ripped off sydney's dirtiest cop roger rogerson now rogerson is hunting him so warren's boss gangster neddy smith cuts a deal with rogerson a sally ann told ray martin on 60 minutes it was a deal lam franchi hoped would save both their lives how much he wanted thirty thousand dollars he wanted ten thousand dollars immediately then he was going to uh show warren a robbery show warren a robbery what does that mean well he was going to show warren how to carry out robbie a robbery he could do with all the inside information the policeman was going to show warren how to do a robbery that's right robbery will say that warren could pay rogerson the other the balance of the 30 000 plus he wanted a cut of the proceeds from the robber i was astonished i was astonished when she she gave us that intricate detail of what was going on i mean it is laughable it's the stuff of of comedy that the the drug squad is dealing in the drugs that the the armed hold-up squad is is organizing the armed hold-ups they look armed robberies at the time were the choice of criminals right and and banks payrolls it was a huge criminal enterprise before heroin it was probably the primary driver of cash and organized crime agreeing to rogerson's terms lampranchi decides to meet the new south wales detective sergeant alone at dengar place in sydney's inner city what lan francis doesn't know as he leaves sallyanne that afternoon is that there is no deal that rogerson is coming for him with a small army sally owen says lanfranchi is unarmed carrying only ten thousand dollars cash he has promised rogerson as a down payment i asked warren to bring some flowers home for me and he turned around said well darling you never know you could be sending me flowers we had ten thousand dollars which we'd wrapped up into bundles with elastic bands right around it he put the money down the front of his pants and pull his jumper down over the top of it i kissed him at the door and asked him what time he thought he'd be back because i'd be worried you know i mean i didn't want him to go you didn't want him to go no he said he didn't know what time he'd be home but if he wasn't home by six o'clock then i'd know he was he'd been killed recreated years later in the drama blue murder accompanied by his boss and the deal-maker gangster neddy smith lampranchi approaches rogerson in the sydney laneway and is shot in cold blood a second execution shot is delivered to his head kate you said you found it fascinating that rogerson felt the need to kill lam franchi himself yes i think that is one of the strange things but the thing that also amazes you is the the group of police that he surrounded himself with why did he need to take um i think there was 18 all up but there was about four police officers in that inner circle he took his posse right he didn't take tactical police he didn't take you know a mix of surveillance police he had his his posse with him he's trusted people [Music] rogerson's corrupt inner circle covered for him claiming lampranchi had pulled a gun those on the perimeter who were not in on rogerson's plan later said they knew his second shot was the mark of a murder [Music] this bloody moment will in one crack open the corruption at the heart of the new south wales police force and confirm suspicions some already had the police um you know ballistics and ammunition experts said the gun that the police claimed that warren lanfranchi had brought with him was an 80 year old model that it was basically defective and would be lucky to fire one shot why would a seasoned criminal take a defective weapon to a meet like that it doesn't ring true warren grew up in a highly connected world of major drug distribution why would when he's surrendering pull a gun out and infuriate a deadly man like roger rogerson [Music] the killing in broad daylight was reported in the tabloids as high noon with rogerson painted as a hero but sally ann's interview with 60 minutes was about to change that story forever see one knew too much warren knew too much about detective rogerson and his involvement in organised crime we couldn't get to talk to roger rogerson the critical factor in this story the critical person was selling at hackathon but how do you get her on camera at that stage sally as we discovered was that was keen to talk key to blow the whistle on roger rogerson but it was a matter how she did and how she did it and kept alive and she really feared for life they're extraordinary charges i mean for most australians this is the stuff affection that's something that happens in hollywood or with the mafia when sally ann's interview broadcast on sunday the 5th of july 1981 much of it was considered too defamatory to air but shortly afterwards she repeated her claims to police internal affairs a detective squad in sydney arranges hold-ups that's right and the drug squad sells heroin i know there are people watching this who are just not going to believe this and in broad daylight on a saturday afternoon a detective sergeant executes a man that's what you're saying that's right he'd murdered him in broad daylight and thought that he could get away with it as he's probably got away with it before that's not the way australians read it on sunday morning the newspapers unfortunately a lot of what australians read in newspapers is what the police allow them to read she spoke to us for 60 minutes and then it hit the fan the next day on the monday and suddenly the police newspapers were on the story and the police wanted to know more details because she had fingered rogerson and the police uh running the drug business in new south wales there'd been stories in my early journalism career of the police commissioner clearly being crooked in new south wales it destroys the of the premier of new south wales having been on the take from various gambling syndicates and so on so i wasn't exactly naive but this to get a chaplain verse from this woman who had been in the thick of things if you like was pretty shocking uh even for me she'd talk so easily and so openly about about the police knocking people off about the police being in charge of the heroin trade traffic at that stage and it was hard not to shake your head and say this is amazing [Music] people find it very hard to conceive that upstanding upright members of our police force are corrupt they don't want to believe it it doesn't make you feel very protective and most people just can't conceive kate why did she do it really why she knew how dangerous this was her love of her life is murdered as she sees it in cold blood on a saturday afternoon in the middle of inner city sydney 60 minutes goes to air less than a week later the rules of engagement have been broken she packs him off with the money because that's how she knew you do business you pay to get an outcome and the outcome that she got was not the agreed deal that she and warren lanfranchi thought that they had had and so she did that interview because she wanted to show them for what they were john dale you would say that salient had enough i think she had enough she'd paid police over 10 years the vice squad and the drug squad but she knew when she went on television she knew that she was going to get killed herself and she even told lance ranchi's father that they'll they'll get me for this she was angry yeah she was about how it was done she had played by the rules right she paid the crop cops you know she had done what she needed to do and this was the ultimate breach of that criminal contract i think it was a case of her being so upset that she wanted to get square and that's the bottom line her life spiraled but even when it was spiraling she still played by the rules and i think that that was the final straw for her that she was ending the game that she was in even though that she knew the consequences but it could have been she loses her life yeah there's still some core value in her that was hanging on to this is not right absolutely and that's why i thought i think she was looking for justice at any cost her coming on television and sowing um doubts about roger rogerson was in many ways it was the beginning of the end for him and he always said later about land franchi that that little [ __ ] caused the downward spiral of my career rogerson did say to her gave her a warning that once she was out of the headlines she was for the knock as he said [Music] in november 1981 an inquest is held into the killing of warren lampranshi roger rogerson is all but exonerated but not quite thanks in part to sally ann's testimony i have to leave the country i've upset the balance a lot of detectives i suppose are going to be scared the coronal jury accepts rogerson was acting in the line of duty attempting to arrest lam franchi but rejects his claim that he shot lampranchi in self-defense and that was largely due to two witnesses who lived nearby mary mcelhon and jane healey heard rogerson's two gunshots there was a gap of about 12-13 seconds and we heard another gunshot when we said that it was such a large time between the shots when rogerson had said they were virtually immediately after the other it must have given the police quite a shock because it was clear that they were not bang bang it was the first time i realized police could lie he lied i i know he lied and he said that the shots were in quick succession that's not what happened and i was really shocked those two women mary and jane they were vital at the inquest because they gave evidence that the shots were at least 11 seconds apart that second shot the second shot is absolutely cost him everything the witness's bombshell testimony dented rogerson's story and his public and professional image but this inquest is now starting to pull rogerson apart isn't it absolutely [Music] the fall of roger rogerson can be dated from sallian huckstep's bombshell allegations on 60 minutes in 1981. but in 1984 rogerson also crossed paths with a singular and very straight cop and that was undercover detective mick drury offered a bribe to turn a blind eye to one of rogerson's drug deals nick's refusal put him in rogerson's line of fire so mick when you were offered that bribe by roger rogerson what did you think well you have to be very game and very strong to turn your back on roger rogerson roger rogerson was powerfully connected not only in the underworld but also by a very small number of extremely senior well-connected police [Music] on the evening of june 6 1984 mcdrew almost died when he was shot through the window of his sydney home chief suspect was roger rogerson and a contract assassin christopher dale flannery nicknamed mr rent-a-kill mcfuller when you read about a police officer being shot through the window of his own home what are you thinking look at that was a game changer for for many people because for you know a respected undercover police officer to be shot doing the washing up essentially by another police officer like it is almost hard to believe so mick you must look at sally ann huck step and know how lucky you are correct roger rogerson had crossed one line too many and was now becoming a pariah within the police force and now sally anne was the hero [Music] in the wake of the 60 minutes interview her life took a new direction working as a journalist and even commissioned to write a book but as the years passed and salian drifted out of the public eye and the protection that comes with publicity she was a marked woman her revelations about rogerson and his criminal web carried an almost certain death sentence she'd always known it and even foreshadowed it it was clear that in speaking out she had made herself a target but she probably was anyway i think by nature she was a fighter but i was conscious that night um i was thinking do you realize what you're doing now she did she realised more than i did she realized how murderous how dangerous that element was that she was talking about but i think she knew it and she was prepared to take the risk i'm quite sure that the police would probably kill me [Music] on the night of february the 6th 1986 five years after the fatal shooting of her lover warren lam franchi and her tell-all interview sally ann receives a late night phone call and races out the door a few hours later her body is found lying face down in busby pond within sydney's centennial park she'd been strangled and drowned silenced forever i was in centennial park walking the dog on the morning that the police were there retrieving her body from the pond i didn't witness anything but knowing what she had said before and being there when they were taking her body out was just something absolutely extraordinary did we all reflect upon the interview that she did at that moment and go okay there's the connection well you couldn't help it i mean she had very publicly taken a stance on 60 minutes and i think that her days were numbered just two months after sallian's murder the new south wales police force finally rids itself of its most crooked cop roger rogerson is sacked for police misconduct including improper association with criminals but he denied any role in sally ann's death i was shocked when i learned that sally ann huckstep had been murdered here in centennial park i think it was because she was a a very attractive and a good looking little little bird but she got a lot of sympathy from different people including members of the media and the public but she really was just a typical common prostitute 86 was the year that rogerson was finally pushed out of the organisation so he had never forgiven her for what he would have thought is ruining his life and his criminal enterprise and and and his standing in the community and maybe there was some sense of finally cleaning up loose ends it's what mick was saying about him being a sociopath and the way he described sally anne i just think it goes to show that in his mind he was always better more courageous and the fact that he held a badge and a gun put him above what he considered a human being with no values nothing worthwhile as he said she was just a common prostitute and i think that's completely abhorrent sallianne's murder was never solved the inquest into her death lasted from 1987 to 1991 but only sat for 19 days the chief suspect emerged as neddy smith who was secretly recorded confessing to the murder and that he'd done it on rogerson's orders neddy smith was charged in 1996 but acquitted due to lack of evidence john laycock headed the new south wales police task force snowy investigating 14 murders linked to neddy smith including sally anne's you interviewed neddy smith didn't you we did yes and did he give you any belief that he might have murdered no look he refused to answer any questions but we relied on the um on the tape recordings we also relied on some dna mainly because on the tape recordings neddy smith indicated that sally anne while she's been spangled scratched his face having said that the technology of the day was not that far advanced and we had to take those samples over to the united kingdom the results came back as a weak match with nettie smith in the secret recordings made of neddy smith he seems to delight in sharing details of sally anne's terrible death i just snapped her i just snapped her jugular she must have been alive when i put her in left her floating there was there anything in those recordings that really stayed with you look he was quite calculating in how she died um graphic detail um i won't repeat some of the things that are on there but suffice to say he was quite a vicious and violent man i think he said that he found strangling someone very satisfying i think he said it was the best thing he's ever did while neddy smith was acquitted of sallyanne's murder he was convicted of two others and is now serving life in prison the jury came back with a not guilty verdict but whilst we might have lost one of the little battles we certainly won the war and he was convicted and he's put away he's been in jail now for 32 years and he's out of circulation and he'll be coming out horizontal we have gone back and tried to speak to nettie smith and and he is of ill health which obviously you know from our perspective uh there's no sorrow there as john said that he he will never leave prison and if he does he'll be dead in terms of the police perspective we believe we know who killed her and when we got our man we just didn't get justice for sally ann unfortunately for his part john laycock has no doubt who killed sally anne but as far as i'm concerned i can confidently say that in my view neddy smith did murder selling in hackstep in february of 1986 at centennial park [Music] from hero cop in 1981 roger rogerson's fall accelerated after the murder of sally ann huckstep in the wake of her extraordinary 60 minutes interview we were terrified that robertson was going to find out where we were and come in and kill us boats in our bed [Music] in 1989 he was charged with conspiring to murder mick drury in 1995 as a result of sallian's revelations the wood royal commission investigated police corruption in new south wales and named roger rogerson as one of the central gangsters [Music] but somehow rogerson now known as roger the dodger managed to avoid an actual conviction that is until 1999. i'm innocent and i've been convicted on the purged evidence of a criminal and a prostitute when he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and lying to the police integrity commission then in 2016 roger rogerson was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another young drug dealer jamie gower is that sir back to the gosham mick drury when you saw him go to jail finally did it feel like a vindication for you there was a sense of relief there because i knew that my life to a certain degree was a lot safer because he was inside but what damage did he do to the force oh look i think there was a a reasonable group of corrupt police doing damage equally and i think the royal commission played that out i i think you know the royal commission was never about shining a light on the heroes like the mick juries and the john laycocks obviously and i guess part of that is is it's important for me to make sure that you know that every generation has good cops and they've protected the community and in 2021 none of this could happen and just as the disgrace of roger rogerson is now complete so is the vindication of sally anne huxteb her claim in 1981 that roger rogerson was one of the country's most corrupt cops was proven to be true this was highly organized criminal activity forget about the word corruption for a moment that was highly organized criminal activity and and rogerson was a terrorising criminal absolutely by the sound of it at some stage he was a cop who was getting the job done now was it heroin was it the money and the power that changed him i don't know if we really know the answer to that story but it's important that we tell these stories so we don't forget the history [Music] history will show that it took the courage of a young woman to expose the darkest period in the history of the new south wales police force knowing full well her revelations would almost certainly [Music] when the police become judge jury and executioner then somebody has to speak somebody has to come forward somebody has to start somewhere and stop it when you think about how it all ended i mean how do you feel oh i think it's it's terrible really sad but i feel as uh john said that you know neddy smith um will never be released and roger rodson will never be released she'll be remembered i think more and more as someone who did the state and probably the country a favor and exposing what she did i give sally ann huckstep the last word because she really did do very well at trying to stop it would you agree absolutely and you know there's a handful of i think heroes um and and she's has to be number one and she paid the ultimate price for being a whistleblower true it's not just for me it has to be for other people besides me besides warren this isn't only for me this is for all the other people who've already suffered and for all the people who could possibly suffer or be killed in the future this is real this is not something that i have made up in revenge or in anger this is just cold bare fact [Music] hello i'm liz hayes thanks 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Length: 47min 43sec (2863 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 23 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Orsonio]

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I’m Australian 🤷‍♂️.....

edit: It's now available for Aussies

[u/proudfootz]

"I will tell you everything...I have the following criminal record: I
have 31 convictions for prostitution. I have a conspiracy to defraud
conviction which occurred shortly after I left Harry Bailey's tender
care at "Chelmsford". I then had two further marijuana convictions. A
heroin conviction when I was loaded up by Detectives Peter and Tomich at
the Lido bar. I have a further "use" charge in which Detectives Peter
George and Jungblut were involved. In both the latter offences,
significant sums of money were paid to the police to affect the
outcome...While operating as a prostitute, I made regular payments to
members of the vice squad over 10 years. I have been involved in a
number of transactions which I referred to in my statement which have
involved substantial payment to members of the drug squad and other
detectives relating to drug matters. I believe that the New South Wales
Drug Squad and the Armed Hold-Up Squad are both totally corrupt and that
they feed on the very activities which they are supposed to stop."

[u/a_saner_reality]

Sally-Anne held herself well. Rogerson got away with it by always setting himself up as the moral high ground and then surging forward as if that assertion was gospel, and steamrolling everyone.

The way he spoke about Sally-Anne and Warren when he himself was the criminal, likewise in his final arrest stating how it’s ‘back to the times of the gestapo’. You seriously have to wonder how he sees himself.

A few things grated on me, how easy it is that people believe the narrative that she was just a prostitute and therefore a low value person. And Liz Hayes making the comment about there still being some ‘core value’ inside of Sally Anne. The judgements are insane. In Sally Anne’s head she is still that child who’s parents divorced and who ended up on the streets and was likely taken advantaged of.

I remember when Rogerson was arrested for murdering Gao. There is something particular shocking about an old, over the hill, person taking the life of a young man.

[u/Cantomic66]

She did what no other person was willing to do. What a hero.

[u/dapper_doberman]

Anyone got a tldr?

[u/oliverkloezoff]

She gave me Hardluck Princess Diana vibes.

[u/0TheG0]

The cops on the show seem very insistent on Needy Smith being the hand of Rogerson and responsible for Sallie's death.

Am I the only one who thinks it is obvious everybody knows on this show that Rogerson actually killed her and just pressured Needy into pleeing guilty for the crime ??

Needy is just a secondary character who took everything in the face but the actual real problem in all this is Roger Rogerson, he is the actual warlord, the one responsible for everything, the gang leader. And everybody on this show is like "damn after that confession from Sallie, his carrier really took a hit...". What the actual fuck ? Its obvious there was an enormous miscarriage of justice here, Needy is just a small thug obeying the guy.

But hey now Rogerson is finally put in prison for life in 2016 after living the best of his life for 74 goddamn years. Yeaaaah "justice"

[u/MountainViewsInOz]

This sad story inspired one of my favourite songs from Spy V Spy - Sally-Anne. Really worth a listen.

Edit: https://youtu.be/xE54H9xmeWo in case any of you lazies want to hear 😜

Edit2: holy fuck, I just noticed that Blox appears in the comments to this vid to say a bit about the recording and Sally-Anne's story.

[u/Seattle_sucks]

Welcome to the Rampart division.