FORMER NSW detective Roger Rogerson
allegedly told his wife that he only went into the Sydney storage unit
where Jamie Gao was fatally shot to give some "fatherly advice".
WHEN he emerged minutes later carrying the 20-year-old's body, he
was helping his fellow ex-policeman Glen McNamara, who he thought had
acted in self-defence, a court has heard.The claims were aired on Monday as Rogerson made an unsuccessful bid for bail, which included a $1.5 million security, at Central Local Court.
The end game was to steal 2.8 kilograms of the drug ice from the student, he said.
Eventually the two emerge with Gao's body in a surfboard bag and load it into a station wagon.
He allegedly told her he had only entered the storage unit to see "what was happening" and give a bit of "fatherly advice" to the former detective.
McNamara has also been charged with murder and commercial drug supply. With CCTV cameras at the site, Rogerson opined it was the "last place in the bloody world" you would commit a crime.
In heated submissions put to the court, Rogerson's barrister George Thomas said his client had only gone to the storage unit to offer help to McNamara who allegedly feared Gao was connected to an organised triad crime group.
Mr Thomas said the 73-year-old only helped McNamara to dispose of Gao's body because he thought McNamara had acted in self-defence.
But Mr Maxwell said the explanation Rogerson gave to his wife didn't hold up.
Rogerson had the access code to the storage unit and had scouted out the premises about half an hour before Gao eventually arrived.
Once the killing occurred, Mr Maxwell said Rogerson drove his car to the storage unit and popped the boot, thereby shielding them when carrying out Gao's body.
Outside court, Mr Thomas said Rogerson will make another bid for bail at the Supreme Court.
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