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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
2 October 2015 – 2015 Parramatta shooting – Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police headquarters in Parramatta. Jabar was shot and killed by special constables protecting the police station.
Roger Caleb Rogerson (3 January 1941 – 21 January 2024) was an Australian detective sergeant in the New South Wales Police Force and a convicted murderer. [2] [3] During his career, Rogerson received at least thirteen awards for bravery, outstanding policemanship and devotion to duty, [4] [5] before being implicated in two killings, bribery, assault and drug dealing, [6] and then being ...
As a youth he clashed with the Victoria Police, and after an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. He killed three policemen, and subsequently the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in a home ...
Organised crime in Sydney can be traced back to the Razor gangs of the 1920s and 1930s. [citation needed] By the 1950s, the Sydney gangland scene started to become more organised with various criminal figures controlling illegal casinos, brothels, SP bookmaking, Drug Trafficking, nightclubs and ran Protection rackets, across greater Sydney, often supported by corrupt police.
No-one was ever officially charged of the crime. [15] 1967 Mima Joan McKim-Hill: Biloela, Queensland: McKim-Hill was a 21-year-old Australian woman who was abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled on 9 March 1967. [16] [17] McKim-Hill left Rockhampton at 8:00am on 9 March 1967, and travelled south to Calliope. [17]
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland.
Arson attack by Roger Kingsley Dean, a nurse, which killed eleven people. Hunt family murders 9 September 2014 Lockhart, New South Wales: 4 (plus 1 perp.) 0: Murder–suicide, mass shooting, familicide. Geoff Hunt killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself. Cairns child killings: 19 December 2014 Cairns, Queensland: 8