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

It's 1981 and for most Australians police are the good guys who keep the streets clean and our families safe, but in the largest police force in the country, the truth was stranger than fiction, it was like the plot of a bad Hollywood movie. Police officers so corrupt that they become drug leaders. official suppliers in the robbery squad who organized armed robberies and even murders and behind it all, one of the most famous officers in the country proved to be a terrifying criminal. He is a sociopath. I have not personally encountered any corrupt police officers. Incredibly, he was not.

The government of the day who lifted the lid on this extraordinary corruption would be a single mother, a

hero

in addict and a 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 TV interview. That would eventually trigger the biggest clean-up of corrupt

cops

in Australian police history, but much of its revealing history has never been seen locked away in a vault until now, when the police become judge, jury and executioner, then someone has what to talk an explosive interview and one that they knew could prove fatal and in fact 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 take revenge tonight for the first time we reveal the complete and extraordinary story story of how a young woman's bravery

turned

the tide for corrupt

cops

, the beginning of the end of that type of police corruption and the officer roger rogerson

exposed

and disgraced good evening, I'm liz hayes and this is under

investigation

, I'm with you tonight in an exclusive appearance, new south wales police commissioner mick fuller, john dale, who literally wrote the book on the life and tragic death of sally anne, john laycock, the former deputy police commissioner who re-examined the murder of sally ann huckstep and worked with roger rogerson when he was a young police officer kate mcclymont, the award-winning investigative journalist whose work helped expose police corruption, first

exposed

by sally anne huxstep and who joined us from the north shore from 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 vision of that era and the role Sally and Huckstep played in that look? Yes, it is an incredible era. Part of the New South Wales Police Force. We probably saw some of the worst corruption we've seen in modern history as a result Kate, you're a young journalist at the time, what did you make of it? It was an extraordinary moment basically because the police officers who we thought were the ones meant to hold criminals accountable were actually part of the criminal enterprise themselves. It was just extraordinary mcdrury, you were there, how do you describe that time?

I think it was a criminal phenomenon and had a profound impact on life in Sydney. According to King's Cross, it is now hard to believe the corruption that occurred during the 70s and early 80s and therefore Salian Huckstep's role in that was unique, it was and I think it is only now being truly appreciated. Why did he do it. It is june. 27 1981 a small time

hero

in dealer and street thug is shot dead by a new south wales police officer on an inner sydney street the criminal was 22 years old warren lam franchi and the officer detective sergeant super new wales police Southern roger rogerson is reported as the dramatic murder of a Sydney criminal and the story could have ended there except that Krim's girlfriend turns out to be a young prostitute named Sally Ann Hucksteb who risks her life and just days after the shooting, Sallianne makes public everything he knows in a 60 Minutes interview with journalist Ray Martin Sally we hear very often about corruption in the police force corruption in King's Cross how much corruption there is is total total the claims the prominent man makes about the New York police South Wales are almost unbelievable to a 1980s audience.

I have been paying the police for 10 years. What is a prostitute? Like a prostitute. My ex-husband was a criminal. I paid the police many times for him. I would have loved to continue paying the police because it's a way of life. that's how you survive, but when the police become judge, jury and executioner, then someone has to speak, someone has to come forward, someone has to start somewhere and stop it, everyone, no matter who they are, heroin dealers , murderers, thieves, all have the right to justice for Sally Ann. Being brave enough to last 60 minutes, you know the top show of the day and making these statements is like a really brave act because she knew exactly what she was dealing with.

John Dale, you described her as the true first whistleblower. I believe she is by far the most important whistleblower in the history of the New South Wales Police. For legal reasons, only a fraction of Sally Ann's interview was broadcast. The completed 16 millimeter film would remain locked away and forgotten for four decades, but it was her first-hand account of a police force. She went rogue and the doubt she cast on a hero police officer who was actually a drug dealer and brutal killer was electrophilic. I remember going up to the 22nd floor of the Hilton hotel and she was very emotional that night, she was crying beforehand because What had happened to Lan Francie was not about talking to us, but about what had happened.

She was chained to smoking beforehand and yet she was clearly tough. My memory was how eloquent and put together she was for a 25 or 26 year old woman who had been to hell. and back and she wanted to tell the story and she also wanted to talk to Roger Rogerson, so I sat there as a journalist almost with my mouth open, John Laycock. Did you see the interview? I saw the interview. It was your instinct. Even if she was telling the truth or you just dismissed it, I didn't dismiss it from a personal point of view, um, it was quite shocking, actually, to admit on camera that you are a heroin user and a prostitute, and that you had been paying to the police, it definitely had a tone of credibility and I remember thinking: wow, I don't know how much you've bitten here, but good luck getting it and I've had dealings with prostitutes on operations and heroin addicts.

I worked in the late '90s, she was very articulate and credible, and I think that was her personality. Well, you see, she's a heroin addict whore, but she was believable and John Dale, I said it and what I felt at the time. I saw it, I thought she wasn't going to live long, I think the police thought she would shut her mouth because I stayed silent all these years. Prostitute and heroin addict Salian Huxstep appears on 60 Minutes to denounce the king of the New South. corrupt wales 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 happy but who was sally anne huxstep the perfect fit born in a middle class Jew? family in Sydney's wealthy eastern suburbs.

She attended a private school at Mariah College and was considered a bright student, but she struggled with her parents' premature divorce and at age 13 she ran away from home; At just 14 years old she worked as a waitress at Sydney's notorious King's Cross Club. She went-go whiskey and at age 15 she

turned

to prostitution to pay for her growing addiction to drugs, an addiction she desperately tried to break. She doesn't keep secrets. She knew she was really declining because she was going downhill very quickly when Sallian turned 20. She racked up dozens of prostitution convictions and paid thousands of dollars in bribes to corrupt police officers.

Then, in early 1981, she filmed for a heroin dealer and surrogate man named Warren Lanfranchi, a man who would change her life, a man who would indirectly lead to her. death physically he was a very strong man he was a thug while I was a criminal I don't know if I would call him on the phone but you know you have to face the facts why I was a criminal he certainly wasn't The clean boy next door no, It certainly wasn't there. I think Kate would say that he was good for Sally and strangely good, apart from the fact that they met through her prostitution.

The first thing she did was send it red. roses and look, he was the one for all her flaws, of which there were many um, he got her off heroin, he got her clean, he was planning on them accumulating enough money to get some fake passports to go live abroad and start over and Look and I also want to make it clear that Sully Anne was in love with the Warren Lam franchise. This was last year. She said she only met him four or five months ago, but I think she quickly fell in love with him.

Yeah, I thought he was a really horny guy. You know, personally, I was very attracted to her and he was John Laycock. You came into contact with Warren Lampranchi. In fact, I did it in the 1970s. He was just a petty thief of the time. There was nothing spectacular about it. He, his name was unusual and he went to the stand and they charged him and he went to court and he went to jail the day you went to jail you came out a better criminal than you went in and I think when you look at all the characters This sad work is that everyone went to prison and always came out better criminals, but didn't he know Lan Francie?

He actually met Neddy Smith while in prison, the ferocious Arthur Neddy Smith was one of Sydney's most infamous criminals, 200 centimeters away. o six foot six colossus on the

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n crime scene was now warren lam francis boss in sydney's booming heroin trade look the problem for warren lan franchi was that he was running on the edge he became violent ripping off people and the problem for warren him What he didn't know at the time was that he scammed a criminal for a large amount of heroin and that the heroin came from Roger Rogerson. Detective Rogerson has a reputation as a very evil man.

Some parts of this interview were never broadcast, but the information was given. to the internal affairs police it would be the beginning of the end for

australia

's

dirtiest

competition there are many very heavy criminals who are terrorized by him there have been missing people believed to have been murdered by detective rogerson i believe rogerson a I am a very interesting forensic study he is a sociopath and the only one I know in the history of the Australian police these are very dangerous people it is one night in 1981 when Warren Lampranchi makes the fatal decision to scam two heroin dealers, but what? what Lampranchi?

He doesn't know if the heroin he has stolen actually belongs to the gangster that other criminals fear most the one with a badge Roger Rogers. How much was the heroin Warren had stolen worth? Well, it was very high quality heroin, worth thirty-seven thousand dollars. to guarantee thirty-seven thousand dollars there was then a contract on him there were then people behind it oh yeah, but one wasn't particularly worried about it until we found out that it was rogerson was who that was the heroine of detective rogerson that this the guy was working for detective sergeant rogerson, detective sergeant rogerson of the new south wales police force, that's right, let me clarify that the men who wanted to sell drugs to Warren were working for detective sergeant rogerson, that's right, what happened next told us we hid more because we were terrified we thought he would kill us detective sergeant roger caleb rogerson honored with 13 police awards once even touted as a future police commissioner he was a cop with a secret and a deadly double life and now he was chasing sally ann and her lover Warren Lampranchi, who knew better than most criminals the danger he was in.

Warren had had dealings with Detective Rogerson before. He knew that Sergeant Rogerson was involved in armed robberies. He knew that Detective Rogerson supplied drugs. It was a big heroin business. He supplied heroin to the jail for paramedics. he supplied heroin to Paramount in prison, that's right, it seems pretty incredible, doesn't it? But you know, anyone who sees this would say that here is a man who society might as well call a bully. What better word, to point the finger at a member of the police force? saying he is a major heroin dealer saying he supplies heroin to Parramatta prison why should anyone believe Warren?

Well, it's common knowledge that the police, the drug squad sell heroin, why couldn't I guarantee just saying I've made a terrible mistake, here's the 37 They gave us a thousand dollars back because we were terrified. Detective Rogerson has a reputation for being a murderer. In fact, Warren was so terrified that he went and bought a gun and used to sleep with it next to the bed because we were terrified that Rogerson would find out. where we were and came in and killed bugs in ourbed we had never had a sociopath in the police force as well positioned as this man it was like Chicago in the 1920s people in central Sydney Australia couldn't believe this was happening Sydney drug dealer Warren Lam Franchi, and his girlfriend, prostitute Sally Ann Huckstep, are hiding in fear for their lives.

Lanfrenchie has conned Sydney's

dirtiest

cop, Roger Rogerson. Now Rogerson is after him, so Warren's gangster boss, Neddy Smith, makes a deal with Rogerson. Sally Ann told Ray. martin in 60 minutes it was a deal lam franchi hoped it would save both of their lives how much he wanted thirty thousand dollars he wanted ten thousand dollars immediately so he was going to show warren a robbery show warren a robbery what does that mean well he was he was going to show Warren how to carry out a robbery on Robbie that he could do with all the inside information the policeman was going to show Warren how to carry out a robbery that's right, the robbery will say that Warren could pay Rogerson the other the balance of the 30 000 plus he wanted a share of the thief's profits.

I was amazed. I was amazed when she gave us that intricate detail of what was going on. I mean, it's ridiculous, it's comedy stuff, that the drug squad is dealing the drugs, that the armed robbery squad is organizing the armed robberies. , they look like armed robberies at the time when the choice of criminals was correct and and bank payrolls was a huge criminal enterprise before heroin was probably the main driver of cash and organized crime accepting the terms of rogerson lampranchi decides to meet new south wales detective sergeant alone at dengar place in sydney city center what lan francis doesn't What i know when he drops off sallyanne that afternoon is that there's no deal, that rogerson is coming to search for him with a small army.

Sally Owen says that Lanfranchi is unarmed and carrying only ten thousand dollars in cash that she has promised Rogerson as a down payment. I asked Warren to bring some flowers. He married for me and turned around and said, well, honey, you never know you might send me flowers. We had ten thousand dollars that we had wrapped in packages with rubber bands around him, he put the money in the front of his pants and pulled. I kissed him at the door and asked him what time he thought he would be back because he would be worried, you know, I mean, I didn't want him to leave, you didn't want him to.

Not to go, he said he didn't know what time he would be home, but if he wasn't home by six o'clock, then he would know that they had killed him, recreated years later in the drama of the accompanied blue murder. by his boss and gangster negotiator neddy smith lampranchi approaches rogerson in sydney laneway and is shot in cold blood he is given a second execution shot to the head kate you said you found it fascinating that rogerson felt the need to kill himself lam franchi Yes, I think it's one of the strange things, but what also surprises you is the group of police officers he surrounded himself with, why did he need to take him?

I think there were 18 in total, but there were about four police officers inside. that inner circle took his group, right, he didn't take the tactical police, he didn't take, you know, a mix of surveillance police, he had his group with him, they are trustworthy people, Rogerson's corrupt inner circle covered him stating that Lampranchi had pulled out a gun. Those on the perimeter who were not in Rogerson's plan later said they knew his second shot was the mark of a murder. This bloody moment will reveal in one fell swoop the corruption at the heart of the NSW police force and confirm suspicions some already had. the police, you know, the ballistics and ammunition experts said that the gun that the police said Warren Lanfranchi had brought with him was an 80-year-old model that was basically defective and that he would be lucky to fire one shot, why Would a seasoned criminal take a defective one? gun for a meeting like that doesn't ring true Warren grew up in a highly connected world of major drug distribution why when he is surrendering would he pull out a gun and enrage a mortal man like Roger Rogerson?

The daylight murder was reported in the tabloids at midday with Rogerson painted as a hero, but Sally Ann's interview with 60 Minutes was about to change that story forever. One knew too much. Warren knew too much about Detective Rogerson and his involvement in organized crime. We couldn't talk to him. roger rogerson the critical factor in this story the critical person was selling at the hackathon, but how can you get her on camera at that moment? Sally, as we discovered, was willing to talk, the key to exposing Roger Rogers, but it was a question of how. he did it and how he did it and he stayed alive and he actually feared for his life are extraordinary charges, I mean for most Australians this is some affection which is something that happens in hollywood or with the mafia when the sally ann's interview on sunday 5 july 1981, much of this was considered too defamatory to air, but shortly afterwards she repeated her claims about the internal affairs police, a squad of detectives in sydney organizing heists, that is, 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 it's true he had murdered him in broad daylight and he thought that he could get away with it, as he probably got away with it. Before, that's not the way Australians read it on Sunday morning in the newspapers, unfortunately a lot of what Australians read in the newspapers is what the police allow them to read. She talked to us for 60 minutes and then shivered the next day, Monday. and suddenly the police papers got wind of the story and the police wanted to know more details because she had fingered rogerson and the police who ran the drug business in new south wales.

There had been stories in my early days as a journalist that the police commissioner was clearly being crooked in New South Wales, destroying the office of the New South Wales premier after he had been taking money from various gambling syndicates etc. ., so I wasn't exactly naïve, but this to get a chaplain verse from this woman who had been in the thick of it. of things, if you like, it was quite shocking, even for me, she talked so easily and openly about how the police beat people, about how the police were in charge of the heroin trade at the time and it was hard not to shake my head. head. head and says this is incredible people find it very difficult to conceive that honest 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 really do it? Why did she know how dangerous she was? The love of her life is murdered as she sees it in cold blood on a Saturday afternoon in inner-city Sydney. 60 minutes air. Less than a week later, the rules of The engagement were broken, she sends him with the money because that's how she knew that when you do business, you pay to get a result and the result she got was not the agreed upon deal that she and Warren Lanfranchi They thought they had and so they did. that interview because she wanted to show them what they were John Dale, you'd say Salient had enough.

I think she's had enough. She had paid the police for 10 years, the vice squad and the drug squad, but she knew that when she appeared on television, she knew they were going to kill herself and she even told Lance Ranchi's father that they would catch me for this . She was angry, yes, she was worried about how it was done. She had followed the rules correctly. She paid the agricultural police. You know that she had done what she had to do and this was the definitive breach of that criminal contract. I think it was a case where she was so upset that she wanted to fix things and that's the end result, her life spiraled, but even when it spiraled, she still played by the rules and I think that was the final straw.

For her, who was ending the game she was in even though she knew the consequences, but it could have been her losing her life, yes, there is still some core value. For her to hold on to this is not at all right and that's why I thought she was seeking justice at any cost. Her appearing on television and casting doubt on Roger Rogerson was in many ways, it was the beginning of the end for him and he always said later about Land Franchi that it did little to cause the downward spiral of my career. Rogerson told her that he warned her that once she was out of the headlines, he was in favor of, as he said in November 1981, an

investigation

would be launched. arrested for the murder of warren lampranshi roger rogerson is practically exonerated but not completely thanks in part to the testimony of sally ann i have to leave the country i have upset the balance i suppose a lot of detectives are going to be scared the coronial jury accepts rogerson was acting in compliance of duty by attempting to arrest lam franchi but rejects his claim that he shot lampranchi in self-defense and that this was largely because two witnesses who lived nearby, mary mcelhon and jane healey, heard rogerson's two shots.

About 12-13 seconds and we heard another shot when we said so much time had passed between the shots when Rogerson had said they were practically immediately after each other, it must have given the police quite a shock because it was clear they were No, bang, bang , it was the first time I realized that the police could lie, he lied, I know he lied and he said the shots were in quick succession, that's not what happened and I was very surprised that those two women, Mary and Jane , were vital in the investigation. because they gave evidence that the shots were at least 11 seconds apart that second shot the second shot cost him absolutely everything the witness's explosive testimony affected Rogerson's story and his public and professional image but this investigation is now beginning to separate Rogerson not so It's absolutely possible to date Roger Rogerson's downfall from Sallian Huckstep's explosive accusations on 60 Minutes in 1981.

But in 1984, Rogerson also crossed paths with a unique and very heterosexual police officer, and that was undercover detective Mick Drury, who offered him a bribe to turn a blind eye. To one of Rogers's drug deals, Nick's refusal put him in Roger's line of fire, so Mick, when Roger Rogers offered you that bribe, what did you think? Well, you have to be very brave 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 high-ranking and well-connected police officers on the night of June 6, 1984, McDrew was nearly killed when he was shot through the window of his Sydney home.

The main suspect was Roger Rogerson and a contract. Killer Christopher Dale Flannery, nicknamed Mr Rent-a-Kill Mcfuller, when you read about a police officer who was shot through the window of his own home, what are you thinking? Look, that was a game changer for a lot of people because you meet a respected undercover agent. a police officer was shot while washing dishes essentially by another police officer like it's almost hard to believe so mick you gotta watch sally ann huck step and know how lucky you are roger rogerson had crossed a line too much and was now becoming a pariah within the police force and now Sally Anne was the hero after the 60 Minutes interview, her life took a new direction working as a journalist and she was even commissioned to write a book, but as Years passed and Salian distanced himself from the public. eye and the protection that comes with publicity she was a marked woman her revelations about Rogerson and his criminal network carried an almost certain death sentence she had always known and even foreshadowed it it was clear that by speaking she had become 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 it she realized more than I did she realized how murderous How dangerous was that element? she was talking, but I think she knew it and she was willing to take the risk.

I'm pretty sure the police would probably kill me on the night of February 6, 1986, five years after the shooting death of her lover, Warren Lam Franchi. and her revealing interview sally ann receives a late night phone call and runs out the door a few hours later her body is found face down in the busby pond inside sydney's centennial park she had been strangled and drowned silenced forever I was in the century-old park walking the dog the morning the police were there recovering his body from the pond. I didn't witness anything, but knowing what there wassaid before and being there when they took out his body was something absolutely extraordinary, do we all reflect? about the interview she did at the time and well there's the connection well you couldn't help it I mean she had taken a very public stance on 60 Minutes and I think her days were numbered just two months after Sallian's murder , the new South Wales Police is finally getting rid of its most corrupt police.

Roger Rogerson is fired for police misconduct, including inappropriate 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 very attractive and good looking little bird, but she got a lot of sympathy from different people, including members of the media and the public, but in reality she was just a typical common prostitute. 86 was the year that Rogerson was finally kicked out of the organization so he had never forgiven her for what he would have thought was ruining his life and his criminal enterprise and his standing in the community and maybe there was a sense of finally getting clean. loose ends, that's what mick was saying about him being a sociopath and the way he described sally anne, i just think it shows that in his mind he was always better, braver and the fact that he had a badge and a weapon put him above what he considered a human. having no values, nothing worthwhile, as he said she was just a common prostitute and I think that is completely abhorrent.

Sallianne's murder was never solved. The investigation into her death lasted from 1987 to 1991, but only lasted 19 days. The main suspect emerged as Neddy Smith, who was secretly recorded confessing to the murder and who had done so on the orders of Rogerson. Neddy Smith was charged in 1996 but acquitted due to lack of evidence. John Laycock headed the New Wales Police task force. from the snowy south who investigated 14 murders related to neddy smith, including sally Anne interviewed Neddy Smith, right? We did, yes, and did it give you any belief that she might have murdered? Without looking, he refused to answer any questions, but we trust the recordings, we also trust some DNA mainly because in the recordings, neddy smith indicated that sally anne, while covered in sequins, scratched her face and said that the technology of the day it was so late and we had to take those samples to the uk the results came back with a weak match for nettie smith in the secret recordings made by neddy smith seems to delight in sharing details of the terrible death of sally anne that I just took She just I broke his jugular.

She must have been alive when I put her in. I left it floating. There was something about those recordings that really stayed with you. Look, he was pretty calculating about how she died. A graphic detail. I won't repeat anything. of the things that are there, but suffice it to say that he was a rather cruel and violent man. I think he said that he found strangling someone very satisfying. I think he said it was the best thing he had ever done while Neddy Smith was acquitted of Sallyanne's murder. He was convicted of two others and is now serving a life sentence, the jury came back with a not guilty verdict, but although we may have lost one of the small battles, we certainly won the war and he was convicted and imprisoned, he has been in prison.

He is now 32 years old and he is out of circulation and will come out in a horizontal position. We've gone back and tried to talk to Nettie Smith and he has health issues, which you obviously know from our perspective. There's no pain there, like John said. that he will never get out of prison and if he does he will be dead in terms of the police perspective, we think we know who killed her and when we caught our man we just didn't get justice for Sally Ann, unfortunately on her part, John. Laycock has no doubts about who killed Sally Anne, but as far as I'm concerned, I can confidently say that in my opinion, Neddy Smith murdered the sale at Hackstep in February 1986 in Centennial Park from Hero Cop in 1981.

Roger Rogerson's downfall accelerated after the murder. by sally ann huckstep in the wake of her extraordinary 60 Minutes interview we were terrified that robertson would find out where we were and come in and kill us in our bed in 1989 he was charged with plotting 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, but somehow Rogerson, now known as Roger the Dodger, managed to avoid a royal conviction that lasted until 1999. I'm innocent. and was convicted on the basis of suppressed evidence of a criminal and a prostitute when he was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and lying to the police integrity commission and then in 2016 roger rogerson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of another young drug addict.

Trader jamie gower is that gentleman, let's go back to the gosham mick drury when you saw him go to jail, it finally felt like vindication for you, there was a sense of relief there because I knew that my life, to some extent, was much safer because he was inside, but what harm did the force do to him? Oh look, I think there was a reasonable group of corrupt police doing equal harm and I think the royal commission resolved that. I think you know that the royal commission was never intended to shed light on The Heroes like the Mick Juries and the John Laycocks obviously and I guess part of that is that it's important for me to make sure that they know that every generation has good police officers and that they have protected the community and in 2021 none of this could happen. and just as roger rogerson's misfortune is now complete, so is sally anne huxteb's vindication.

Her claim in 1981 that Roger Rogers was one of the most corrupt police officers in the country was proven true. It was a highly organized criminal activity. forget the word corruption. for a moment it was a highly organized criminal activity and rogerson was an absolutely terrifying criminal from the sound of it at one point he was a cop doing the job now was it heroin was it money and power that changed him? I don't know if we really know the answer to that story, but it's important that we tell them so we don't forget the story. 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 it is almost certain that when the police become judge, jury and executioner then someone has to speak, someone has to show up, someone 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 terrible, really sad, but I feel like John said you know Neddy Smith will never be freed and Roger Rodson will never be freed. She will be remembered, I think, more and more as someone who made it. to the state and probably the country a favor and exposing what he did, I gave sally ann huckstep the last word because she really did very well in trying to stop him, would you absolutely agree and you know there are a handful of heroes I think, um and and she has to be number one and she paid the ultimate price for being a whistleblower.

It's true, it's not just for me, it has to be for other people besides me, besides Warren, this is not just for me, this is for all the other people who have already suffered and for all the people who could possibly suffer. or be murdered in the future this is real this is not something I made up out of revenge or anger this is simply a naked fact hi I'm liz hayes thanks for watching 60 minutes australia subscribe to our channel now for new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss our bonus minute segments and full 60 minute episodes on nine now dot com dot iu and the nine now app