Disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson faces a media scrum as he is arrested at his Sydney home over the alleged murder of student Jamie Gao.
Disgraced former police detective Roger Rogerson has been arrested at his Sydney home over the alleged murder of student Jamie Gao.
POLICE will allege that Jamie Gao was allegedly shot twice in the chest by two former detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara in a rented storage room.
Earlier today, the state's most infamous former detective Rogerson limped into the dock at Bankstown Local Court charged with murdering student Gao.
A special late sitting was arranged to get Rogerson, 73, before a court after he was arrested earlier today.
His solicitor Paul Kenny said that he would be making a formal complaint about the "disgraceful" actions of police who turned up at Rogerson's home this morning despite arrangements having been made with police for him to hand himself in at the Sydney Police Centre in Surry Hills.
He said Rogerson's arrest was theatrical and staged for the media.
Under arrest ... Detectives lead Roger Rogerson away for questioning. Picture: John Grainger Source: News Corp Australia
'Treated like a dog' ... Rogerson's lawyer was furious at his treatment. Picture: John Grainger Source: News Corp Australia
Rogerson, 73, who recently had knee reconstruction surgery, was not required to say anything in court and he did not apply for bail.
Magistrate Elaine Truscott formally refused bail and remanded Rogerson in custody to appear at Central Local Court on July 22, the same day as his co-accused former Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara.
The body found floating off Cronulla yesterday was earlier identified as Gao, the missing Hurstville man.
It was spotted by fishermen early yesterday morning about 1.5km offshore. It was wrapped in a blue tarpaulin.
Detectives storm Rogerson's property this morning. Source: News Corp Australia
And some use the front door. Source: News Corp Australia
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.
Detectives made the dramatic arrest just before 11am this morning, more than a dozen officers storming Rogerson's Churchill Road address in Padstow.
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.
Taken away ... Rogerson is driven from his home by detectives. Picture: John Grainger Source: News Corp Australia
"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."
Police swarm Roger Rogerson's Sydney home, arresting the disgraced former detective in relation to the alleged murder of student Jamie Gao.
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."
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Lawyer Paul Kenny at Rogerson's home today Source: News Corp Australia
Rogerson pictured with Mark Dixon on Sunday. Source: Supplied
Horror find ... Gao's body floating in ocean Source: Supplied
Victim ... Jamie Gao Source: Supplied
Charged ... Former detective Glen McNamara yesterday. Picture Craig Greenhill Source: News Corp Australia
Police recover Gao's body wrapped in plastic and floating in water near Shelly Beach. Source: News Corp Australia
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.
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.
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.
Security vision showing a man, believed to be Jamie Gao, and two others getting out of a vehicle. Source: Supplied
Gao's white Nissan Sylvia sedan was found abandoned in Stuart Street, Padstow Source: Supplied
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.
A post-mortem on Mr Gao, a young Sydney University of Technology student, is expected to be conducted today.
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.
Former detective Glen McNamara's car being taken away from Kogarah Police Statio Picture Craig Greenhill Source: News Corp Australia
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.
The self storage units where Jamie Gao is believed to have been killed Source: News Corp Australia
STAFF at the Padstow storage facility where Jamie Gao is believed to have been murdered say there was nothing unusual on the afternoon he was killed.
Detectives contacted the storage business, just 600 metres from where Gao went missing at 1.40pm on Tuesday, May 20, early Thursday morning.
They met with staff at 2.30am and walked around the 510 unit business for 30 minutes before requesting the CCTV hard drive.
Detectives returned later that morning and seized the footage for the previous two weeks.
The business told the Daily Telegraph it had not been contacted since.
A senior manager said he was unaware of forensic officers establishing a crime scene in a unit since Thursday.
He said police had not told them Gao was murdered on their site and detectives were "vague" when they visited the site.
Police said following Glen McNamara's arrest on Sunday Gao was allegedly killed in a storage unit close to where he was last seen.
The site has more than 30 cameras and between 15 to 50 customers visit it each day.
"They said they were looking into a missing person possibly being held for ransom. We provided the CCTV to police," the manager said.
"If it (a murder) was done it was without us knowing. There was nothing out of the blue that caught our attention."
People who rent storage units need to provide government issued photo identification or can rent a unit through a business.
The manager said the sound-proofing of the units was equivalent to a garage.
"If someone was screaming you'd only hear it if you were walking past," he said.
Investigators also visited a Bansktown storage facility, 2kms north of where Gao was last seen at McDonald's, on Friday.
"They said they were checking storage facilities and were looking for a body," a staff member said.
A third storage facility in Revesby refused to say if police had visited them over the last week.
On Monday detectives spent more than an hour inside Mick Meat's on Arab Rd, where Gao was last seen getting out of his car, talking to staff.
Gao's car was found by police around the corner on Stuart St after two Asian men who arrived with Gao returned hours after he went missing and moved it.
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