tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22744594640455735282024-03-12T17:37:17.970-07:00Roger Caleb Rogerson - Killer CopFormer Detective Sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force, found guilty of murder 2016Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274459464045573528.post-11572854405456809762016-09-02T00:13:00.000-07:002016-09-02T00:15:09.156-07:00Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara get life in jail for Jamie Gao murder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Former New South Wales detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara have been sentenced to life behind bars for murdering Sydney student Jamie Gao.<br />
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Gao, a 20-year-old university student, was shot dead on May 20, 2014 after the men lured him into a Padstow storage shed with promises of payment for drugs.<br />
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The men killed Gao in a premeditated act in order to steal 2.78kg of the drug ice, a quantity with a potential sale value of more than AU $9 million.<br />
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In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice Geoffrey Bellew said the murder was of "an exceptionally high degree of seriousness in offending – brutal in its execution and callous in its aftermath".</div>
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The Daily Telegraph<br />
August 26, 2016 12:00am<br />
Amy Dale, Chief Court Reporter,<br />
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DISGRACED former detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara should be jailed for life, the Crown prosecutor has told a hearing yesterday.</div>
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Rogerson and McNamara have appeared in the Supreme Court for the first time since they were found guilty by a jury in June of murdering 20-year-old Jamie Gao and taking part in the supply of a large commercial quantity of ice.</div>
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Rogerson, 75, was dressed in a prison green tracksuit. McNamara, 57, has grown a substantial beard.<br />
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Roger Rogerson (L) and Glen McNamara are facing sentencing over Jamie Gao's murder.</div>
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The two men engaged in a joint criminal enterprise to kill the university student turned drug dealer inside a Padstow storage unit on May 20, 2014, and then steal the 2.78kg of ice Gao had brought.</div>
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Senior prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC has submitted to the court that both men should receive a life sentence.</div>
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“They together executed a young drug dealer for financial gain, for their financial gain,” Mr Maxwell said.</div>
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“Your Honour, the cases and the authorities referred to clearly indicate that the contract killing is a category for which a life sentence can be given and has been given by this court over the years.</div>
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IN 1981 former Moriah College student Sallie-Anne Huckstepp bravely went on national television and said that police officer Roger Rogerson was a murderer.</div>
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Within hours there was a contract on her life for naming Rogerson during the 60 Minutes interview.</div>
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Five years later Huckstepp was found floating in Busby’s Pond in Centennial Park, only hundreds of metres away from where her former school is located today.</div>
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She had been strangled and drowned.</div>
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Her revelations in 1981 were seen by many as accusations from a heroin addict and prostitute who was desperate for attention, but over the last 35 years people have increasingly realised that she played a vital role in revealing corruption within NSW Police.</div>
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Last week, a jury agreed with Huckstepp for the first time, when Rogerson was found guilty of murdering Sydney man Jamie Gao during a drug deal.</div>
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The court’s decision opened up old wounds and some say vindicated Huckstepp’s warning in 1981.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Following her TV appearance, Huckstepp’s sister </span><a href="http://consumer.fairfaxsyndication.com/archive/-2ITHRG2Z835.html" style="line-height: 1.6;" target="_blank">Debra Krivoshow said</a><span style="line-height: 1.6;">, “Sallie knew that she had a bounty on her head because she spoke out about Rogerson and his gang of criminals. She knew her time was limited.”</span></div>
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That view was echoed this week by Huckstepp’s daughter Sascha, who was only 12 when her mother died.</div>
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Speaking on 60 Minutes this week, she said she always knew Rogerson was a criminal and blamed him for her mother’s murder.</div>
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“He wanted her dead,” Sascha stated.</div>
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“He was being groomed for bigger and greater things, and I think that was a big part of his anger and resentment towards my mother.</div>
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“Once my mother spoke up, that was going to be a little bit difficult.”</div>
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According to Sascha, Rogerson shattered her life.</div>
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“He stole my mother from me. He stole my adolescence.”</div>
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Comedian Sandy Gutman, who went to Moriah and South Head Synagogue with Huckstepp, said it’s about time that Rogerson was held to account for being a criminal.</div>
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“I’m glad that Roger Rogerson, the murderer and sociopath, will finally get what he deserves,” Gutman, who goes by the stage name Austen Tayshus, said.</div>
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“I knew her well growing up and I remember going to her place for Shabbat,” Gutman said.</div>
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“She was a beautiful sweet Jewish girl when I knew her and her story was tragic.”</div>
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Seven News examines in forensic detail the full, extraordinary facts surrounding the killing of 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao.</div>
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Featuring incredible CCTV vision of the 48 hours before, during and after the murder, senior reporter and Walkley Award-winning journalist Robert Ovadia pieces together the events that led to Gao’s death and key evidence in the investigation.</div>
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We look back at the life and crimes of Rogerson, one of Australia’s most infamous detectives, and hear from the insiders who know him and McNamara best. And the shocking revelation from one of the most respected policemen in NSW history.<br />
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Roger Rogerson: The Devil You Know - Part 3<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274459464045573528.post-54113014725725787972016-06-20T23:30:00.000-07:002016-06-23T01:32:17.644-07:00The Devil You Know part 1. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For a crooked old cop, getting away with murder used to be easy.</div>
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In his heyday, NSW Police detective Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson could have shot dead a drug dealer and dumped his body at sea and no one would have been the wiser.</div>
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But in the age of smartphones, metadata and security cameras on every street corner watching, a crooked man has a very hard time playing it straight.</div>
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On the day Jamie Gao was murdered, he woke up feeling his life was about to improve, thinking he was about to strike it rich. He had no idea he was about to be killed in what one former detective said was the "most photographed major crime" in Australia's history.</div>
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Gao, a 20-year-old student at the University of Technology, Sydney, had three kilos of the drug 'ice' to sell to a man he thought he could trust, former NSW detective turned private investigator, Glen McNamara.</div>
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McNamara had hired Gao in 2013 as a Chinese interpreter for a case he was working. But Gao had no idea their drug deal had a third wheel – Rogerson, a disgraced former cop and McNamara's 'partner in crime'.</div>
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Rogerson had fallen hard from his high-flying days in the 1970s and 80s when he was one of the most decorated and celebrated detectives in New South Wales.</div>
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THIS is the dramatic moment police raid killer cop Roger Rogerson’s home just hours before executed drug dealer Jamie Gao’s body is found floating in the ocean.</div>
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Video footage to be aired on Channel 7 tonight captures the moment officers serve the disgraced detective’s wife Anne with a search warrant at his Padstow Heights home while Rogerson was on the run in Brisbane.</div>
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When Sallie-Anne Huckstepp received a phone call from convicted drug dealer Warren Richards, an associate of Arthur "Neddy" Smith and Roger Caleb Rogerson, she left her apartment in a hurry, telling her flatmate she would be back in five to 10 minutes.</div>
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After Warren's death, Sallie knew that she had a bounty on her head because she spoke out about Rogerson and his gang of criminals. She knew her time was limited.</div>
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Two disgraced former detectives lured a university student into a Sydney storage shed on a May afternoon with a simple promise.</div>
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They worked hard to make Jamie Gao believe that what was to happen in unit 803 would make him very rich.</div>
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Slain university student Jamie Gao wore a “mask” to hide a “parallel life”, going to classes and studying while building his experience as a Calvin Klein jeans-wearing drug dealer, a court has heard.</div>
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With that background he was well placed to resist handing over nearly three kilos of ice to former detective Roger Rogerson until he saw the “colour of the money”, the jury in the murder trial of Mr Rogerson and Glen McNamara was told.</div>
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Continuing his summing up in the four-month trial, Mr McNamara’s barrister Gabriel Wendler told the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney this morning that the killing of Gao in May 2014 was not part of Mr Rogerson’s original plan.</div>
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But it was the result, Mr Wendler claimed, after Gao stood up to being robbed by Mr Rogerson who had brought no money to transact the purchase of the drugs, leading to a confrontation in which Mr Rogerson shot him dead.</div>
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“He never anticipated resistance,” Mr Wendler said.</div>
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“Had the plan to rip the drugs off succeeded without any violence there would not have been anything to attract the police.”</div>
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Mr Rogerson and fellow former detective Mr McNamara have pleaded not guilty to plotting to murder Gao in a rental shed at Padstow in Sydney’s southwest in a bid to steal the ice the 20 year old had brought to the meeting.</div>
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Mr Rogerson has claimed he did not know Gao and had no idea what was to transpire when he met Mr McNamara and Gao in the rental shed after he agreed to facilitate a meeting between the pair aimed at helping Mr McNamara get further information for a book he was writing about Chinese triad gangs.</div>
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Mr Rogerson’s evidence is that when he entered the shed and very few minutes after Gao and Mr McNamara got there, he found Gao already dead and Mr McNamara in a state of shock saying Gao had tried to shoot him and had died in a struggle for the gun.</div>
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But this morning Mr Wendler described this scenario as “fantasy land” manufactured by Mr Rogerson, involving considerable “imagination and inventiveness.”</div>
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Mr Wendler took the jury to Mr Rogerson’s testimony in which he had said he had agreed to tag along to the meeting between McNamara and Gao to act as “a second set of eyes” to watch out for suspicious Chinese who might be triad members.</div>
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“He wasn’t able to explain what was going to happen” if triad members did show up, Mr Wendler told the court.</div>
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Nor did Mr Rogerson seek from Mr McNamara the identity of Gao ahead of the meeting.</div>
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“Wouldn’t you ask, ‘what’s his name’,” and after finding him killed, ask “who’s the dead geyser?” Mr Wendler put to the jury.</div>
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“He knew the name of Jamie Gao ... and, in my submission, had some association with him,” Mr Wendler alleged.</div>
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It was far more credible that Mr Rogerson pulled the trigger to kill Gao, rather than Mr McNamara who in the preceding weeks had had many face to face discussions with the young man and exhibited an element of affection towards him in text messages.</div>
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“Can you seriously see Mr McNamara executing Mr Gao?” Mr Wendler asked the jury.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FOR those involved in the murder trial of former detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara, there will soon be little to do but wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Police, lawyers, the families of both men and their accused victim Jamie Gao, as well as the two accused themselves, have been suspended in time, frozen since a few moments inside a Padstow storage shed on the afternoon of May 20, 2014 when three people walked in and only two came out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The trial is nearing its end, with the jury expected to begin considering a verdict in coming days, as soon as the barristers involved for the Crown, Rogerson and McNamara finish their closing address, their last chance to convince the jury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At present there are still 13 members of the jury, as extra members were empaneled due to an estimated trial length of three months, and one will be removed through a ballot system just before consideration of the verdict begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both men have pleaded not guilty to murder and taking part in the supply of 2.78kg of ice brought by Gao to the storage unit for a planned lucrative drug deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While both men have a right to silence and were under no obligation to give evidence, they chose to take the witness stand and give their accounts over several gruelling days of questioning by their own lawyers, as well as cross- examination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What emerged were two very different stories, told in starkly contrasting manners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McNamara, his voice often becoming distressed, says Rogerson shot Gao while “seething with anger” over the handover of drugs and cash, and then threatened the safety of McNamara and the lives of his daughters if he didn’t co-operate with the disposal of the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogerson, whose voice remained steady as he gripped the witness box with both hands each day, said that by the time he entered the storage unit Gao was dead on the floor, with his friend McNamara telling him the young man had “shot himself” during a “real struggle” between the pair for the gun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crown prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC told the jury — as he did in his opening address in the early days of February — that they do not have to determine which man was the shooter in order to return verdicts of guilty to murder, as the two men are being tried under a joint criminal enterprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Maxwell presented to the jury lists of circumstances he said prosecutors have revealed in the evidence as proof of the Crown case of beyond reasonable doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For McNamara, they include the more than 20 meetings he had with Gao in the months before the execution, documented by CCTV footage and text message exchanges, and internet searches on his laptop for the type of firearm that police believe was used to kill the 20-year-old — the murder weapon has never been found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McNamara said in his evidence he was meeting with Gao because the university student was a source for a planned true crime book on drug syndicates and Asian triad gangs, but Mr Maxwell said there has been no evidence of written notes made by the 57-year-old for this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prosecutors have also pointed to Rogerson making a trip to Rent A Space the day before the murder to remove office furniture from the shed that had been leased by his friend Michael Maguire, who has since died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogerson’s lawyer George Thomas has rubbished the suggestion the 75-year-old acted in a “joint criminal enterprise” with McNamara, drawing on a window of three minutes and 19 seconds when his client was not inside shed 803.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Thomas also suggested to the jury — who he said should consider themselves like “bees ... bees working in a hive” towards a verdict — that if there had been a plan all along to kill the university student, then both Rogerson and McNamara would have waited inside to “ambush” Gao.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“That was why the surfboard bag (in which Gao’s body was removed from the shed) was there (in McNamara’s car). It was how the body was to be taken out,” Mr Thomas said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He said that, if there had been a plan to kill Gao all along on Rogerson’s part, he would have been in the shed at the same time as the other two — “not arrive later”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“(If that was the plan) you would have Rogerson (already) in there to do the killing, you would have the surfboard bag ready ... have the site properly prepared if there is a planned execution.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Thomas urged the jury to “reject outright” the claim by McNamara that, when they took Gao’s body out to sea the day after the shooting, Rogerson fired two shots from the boat as he warned him not to contact police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those involved in the case, there will be nothing to do but wait inside the historic King St court complex — nearly four months of witnesses, submissions and often tense cross-examination boiling down to one word or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roger Rogerson lied to witnesses after Sydney student Jamie Gao was killed, but has never lied to the jury, his lawyer has claimed in closing submissions for the former policeman's almost four-month murder trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rogerson and former colleague Glen McNamara have both pleaded not guilty to the shooting murder of Mr Gao in a Padstow storage unit on May 20, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crown alleges the duo spent several months conspiring to rip Mr Gao off by stealing 2.78kg of the drug ice in his possession, then dump his body in the ocean near Cronulla to make him disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Thomas on Wednesday told the NSW Supreme Court jury Rogerson had admitted that after Mr Gao was killed - shot, he claims, by McNamara - the pair went to Kennards Hire to get equipment to move the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He freely admitted he had spoken to the shop attendant about the lathe they wanted to move," Mr Thomas said, referring to the lie Rogerson told the witness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What was he supposed to tell the man - that he had been parachuted into a situation that involved a man being killed and that he was parachuted into this situation of the body having to be moved and lifted into a boat?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Thomas has also rejected evidence that Rogerson entered the Padstow storage unit where the murder is said to have taken place, three minutes after McNamara and Mr Gao, as evidence of a joint criminal enterprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Why not just have Rogerson in the shed to start with so that he's in the shed ready for Gao to arrive and kill him, ambush him?" he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Thomas urged the jury to reject claims by McNamara his involvement in Mr Gao's death was under duress because Rogerson had threatened his life and his family's lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He instead said McNamara's duress defence was a "fabrication" to explain both why he was seen on CCTV in the aftermath of the murder, and in possession of ice allegedly stolen from Mr Gao.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more </span><a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/31691962/rogerson-has-never-lied-to-jury-lawyer/" style="background-color: transparent;">https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/31691962/rogerson-has-never-lied-to-jury-lawyer/</a></div>
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Former NSW policemen Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara engineered a fake drug deal in order to steal almost 3kg of ice and make their supplier vanish, the crown says.</div>
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Crown prosecutor Chris Maxwell QC finished his three-day closing submissions on Monday, wrapping up the crown's evidence in an almost four-month murder trial.</div>
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He urged the jury to convict both Rogerson and McNamara of the shooting murder of 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao in a Padstow storage unit on May 20, 2014.</div>
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Both have pleaded not guilty of killing Mr Gao, stealing 2.7kg of ice from him and dumping his body in the ocean near Cronulla.</div>
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Mr Maxwell said it didn't matter who fired the two fatal shots because they had been planning the murder together since sometime after January 2014, convincing Mr Gao to meet them for a major drug deal.</div>
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Instead they ripped off the ice and tried to make Mr Gao vanish, he said.</div>
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"The only way for this to be achieved was by killing him and getting rid of him in a way that would mean he could never be found - like on the bottom of the sea," he said.</div>
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Mr Maxwell presented 29 pieces of evidence that he said amounted to a circumstantial case against the pair.</div>
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This included a lack of notes to support McNamara's claim he had been meeting with Mr Gao to write a book; that both McNamara and Rogerson took items that were used to wrap up Mr Gao's body to the storage unit the day of the murder; and gunshot residue on Rogerson's clothing.</div>
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"The crown presents this case in the way I have outlined and having considered the evidence carefully as I'm confident you will, it would be, in the crown's submission, your solemn obligation to return a verdict of guilty in relation to both counts against both accused."</div>
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Both face charges of murder and supplying a commercial quantity of drugs, while Rogerson is facing a third, alternate charge of being an accessory after the fact.</div>
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Rogerson's barrister, George Thomas, began his closing submissions by saying it would be easy for the jury to draw "an erroneous conclusion" from the circumstantial evidence.</div>
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"The crown wants you to conclude certain circumstances from the evidence," he said.</div>
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"They are but some of the conclusions that can be drawn from circumstances."</div>
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He reminded them that Rogerson is innocent until proven guilty, and that they must believe the crown case beyond reasonable doubt in order to convict him.</div>
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"Anything less is not good enough," he said.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his closing address to a NSW Supreme Court jury, Crown Prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC argued there were 29 reasons why the pair should be found guilty of the murder of Jamie Gao and stealing the drugs he had brought to a meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"These are the main or important circumstances that the Crown relies upon," Mr Maxwell said before starting his list below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Glen McNamara had 27 meetings with the deceased Jamie Gao in the lead up to his death on May 20, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.024px;">2. Mr McNamara claims the meetings were for research on his next true crime book on Asian gangs and drugs in Sydney. The Crown says his lack of notes taken prove this is not the case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Roger Rogerson obtained six keys to the shed where Mr Gao was killed from a friend in early March and only returned five keys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. The arrival of two Asian men in Australia - who the Crown allege were there to facilitate the drug deal - and their presence on Arab Road where Mr Gao gets into a car with Mr McNamara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Mr Rogerson visits Rent a Space – the storage facility where Mr Gao is killed - on April 2 and again with Mr McNamara on April 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Google searches found on Mr McNamara's computer of the same calibre firearm that would later be used to shoot and kill Mr Gao.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. The frequency of telephone calls between Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara between January and May 2014, particularly around the times when Mr McNamara meets with Mr Gao. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. The purchase of BV67PX –<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>a white Ford Falcon station wagon that the Crown alleges was acquired by Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara on April 27. This was later used to transport the body of the deceased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. The statements Jamie Gao made to his friends and associates – he once told his cousin Justin Gao that he was going to take part in an ice deal and "he said it was going to be massive".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Mr McNamara removes his boat from storage the day before Mr Gao's death and returns it the day after. The boat was used to dispose of Mr Gao's body at sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. Mr Rogerson goes to Rent a Space the day before the killing and removes two chairs from unit 803. He returns them two days later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. Mr McNamara parks his blue Ford Falcon on the street on May 19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. The way Mr McNamara was dressed on May 20 – he was wearing a dark hooded jacket and sunglasses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. Mr McNamara had the gate code and keys to unit 803 on May 20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15. The way in which Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara parked their respective cars on Arab Road minutes before Mr Gao was due to arrive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16. The way Mr McNamara parked the white station wagon BV67PX outside unit 803 and shielded Mr Gao so that he would not been seen on CCTV as he entered the shed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17. Mr Rogerson enters the storage shed three minutes and 19 seconds after Mr McNamara and Mr Gao enter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18. Mr McNamara brings a silver Ocean & Earth surfboard bag which is used to place the deceased's body inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19. Mr Rogerson brings ropes and tarpaulin to the storage shed on the day of the killing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">21. Mr Rogerson was present at Kennard's Hire and assisted in hiring a chain block to move Mr Gao's body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">22. Mr Rogerson's actions inside Mr McNamara's Cronulla apartment after Mr Gao is killed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24. The disposal of the body of Mr Gao at sea on May 21. It was found floating off the shores of Cronulla by fishermen on May 26. </span></div>
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McNamara didn't take his boat out of storage the day before the May 20, 2014 murder so he could take his daughter fishing, he was preparing to dump Mr Gao's body, prosecutor Chris Maxwell, QC, told the Supreme Court in his closing submissions on Wednesday.</div>
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The boat is one of nine pieces of evidence that Mr Maxwell said was all the jury needed to convict both men.</div>
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It's a circumstantial case, but the evidence is powerful, he said.</div>
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"The crown says everything has been done that can possibly be done to make Jamie Gao disappear, and more importantly to reduce the risk of detection," he said.</div>
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The court heard Jamie Gao, an alleged Triads associate and drug dealer, was driven from Arab Road in Padstow to a nearby storage unit where he was killed.</div>
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Mr Maxwell said while only one of the accused is guilty of firing the fatal shot, both were involved in conspiring to kill Mr Gao and steal 2.78kg of the drug ice he had in his possession.</div>
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They then arranged to move his body to McNamara's boat, weigh the corpse down and dump it in the ocean near Cronulla the following day.</div>
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"Right from the fact Jamie Gao opened that partly-opened door on Arab Road, everything was done by both accused to make sure that he disappeared, that he disappeared and would not be found at all," he said.</div>
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"The disposal of the body in this way is evidence available to you to find that they did it, because to allow the body to be found would implicate them in the commission of the crime," he said.</div>
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One failure, the court heard, was that they hadn't allowed for the possibility that the body would resurface and be discovered as it was.</div>
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Rogerson and McNamara have both pleaded not guilty to the murder and have denied acting as a joint enterprise.</div>
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Closing submissions are continuing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his closing address at the murder trial of Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson, prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC told the jury both men were part of an agreement to kill Mr Gao and steal almost three kilograms of the drug ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The court heard the pair used a car that could not be traced to transport Mr Gao from the Padstow storage unit where he was shot on May 20, 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogerson said he was not involved in acquiring the white Ford Falcon station wagon, but his fingerprint was found on the receipt for its purchase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Maxwell said McNamara's boat was taken out of storage the day before the shooting, "to make Jamie Gao disappear".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The court heard it was used to dump the body at sea the day after the 20-year-old was killed, and the boat was then returned to storage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McNamara said Rogerson shot and killed Mr Gao before threatening him and his family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogerson said he found Mr Gao already dead and was told he had pulled a gun on McNamara, who tried to defend himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Jamie Gao shot himself twice in a struggle?" Mr Maxwell asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogerson replied: "It never happened like that."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Gao had told his cousin he was going to be involved in a massive deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He held a number of meetings with McNamara in the months before his death and the men were also in contact by text message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr Maxwell said Rogerson knew all about it, because he was in regular phone contact with McNamara, including around the time of a number of the meetings with Mr Gao.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The jury was told McNamara tried to shield Mr Gao from CCTV cameras at the Padstow storage complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During his evidence, McNamara said he was meeting Mr Gao as a source for a book he was writing about Asian crime gangs but learnt that Mr Gao was being followed by triads.</span><br />
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Former detective Roger Rogerson has dismissed claims he handled a gun on the day a Jamie Gao died, as "rubbish, rubbish, rubbish" despite gunshot residue being found on his pants.</div>
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Rogerson, 75, and another former policeman Glen McNamara are accused of the shooting murder of 20-year-old Gao in a Sydney storage shed in May 2014.</div>
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"I put it to you - the gun shot residue is there (on the tracksuit pants) because you handled a gun," crown prosecutor Chris Maxwell QC said during Rogerson and McNamara's NSW Supreme Court murder trial on Friday.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">"Again Mr Maxwell, that is rubbish, rubbish, rubbish," Rogerson replied.</span></div>
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The Crown alleges the two men killed Mr Gao and then stripped him of 2.78kg of the drug ice.</div>
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Rogerson denied allegations the pair had made an agreement that McNamara would claim he killed Mr Gao in self-defence if Rogerson became connected to the death.</div>
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He also denied allegations he threatened McNamara in his apartment after fearing he would go back on the agreement.</div>
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"I suggest that at Mr McNamara's apartment, you still had the gun in your pocket," Mr Maxwell said.</div>
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"I never had a gun," Rogerson replied on Friday.</div>
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The 13-person jury was played video of investigators searching Rogerson's bedroom.</div>
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Mr Maxwell suggested that a pair of tracksuit pants matching the description of the ones Rogerson wore on the day of Mr Gao's death must have been washed because they were found folded inside a drawer.</div>
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But Rogerson said he had numerous pairs of tracksuit pants and couldn't be sure the ones in the video were the ones he wore.</div>
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He denied having washed them in an attempt to remove gunshot residue and said his wife usually did the washing.</div>
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Mr Gao's body was found wrapped in a blue tarpaulin out at sea days after he was killed.</div>
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Rogerson says he found the student dead in the storage unit with a panicked McNamara, who told him the young man had shot himself accidentally in a physical struggle.</div>
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McNamara maintains it was Rogerson who shot Mr Gao.</div>
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Dressed in a grey polo shirt and an oversized tanned blazer, accused killer Roger Rogerson often gripped the witness stand with both hands, his white knuckles visible as he answered some of the final questions that would be put to him. </div>
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At times the former detective would adjust his black hearing aid and then settle back in his chair and continue to glare at Crown Prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC during his cross examination.</div>
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The entire case against him was "complete nonsense" and he had never planned to do anything on May 20, 2014 except trim his lawns and sweep the gutters outside his Padstow home in Sydney's southwest.</div>
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In front of a NSW Court Supreme jury on Friday, the 75-year-old vehemently denied he was part of a "cold and calculated" plan to lure and kill university student Jamie Gao inside a Sydney storage unit.</div>
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He also denied that he had always intended for the 20-year-old student to "disappear" after stealing 2.78 kilograms of the drug ice from him.</div>
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"Your plan I put to you sir was always to kill him and steal the drugs and make him disappear," Mr Maxwell said.</div>
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"That's completely untrue," Mr Rogerson replied without hesitation.</div>
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Mr Maxwell then suggested that Mr Rogerson and his co accused Glen McNamara had agreed if they were ever investigated for the murder, the pair would stick to the story that Mr McNamara shot Mr Gao in self defence.</div>
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"I disagree – untrue," Mr Rogerson said, his voice raised.</div>
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Mr Rogerson has told the jury the only reason he went to Rent a Space, Padstow on May 2014 was as a favour to his close friend Mr McNamara.</div>
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On his account, Mr McNamara wanted to use a mutual friend's shed to talk to an informant who was helping him with a book he was writing about Asian gangs and drugs in Sydney.</div>
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Mr Rogerson said he was to keep an eye out for "suspicious Chinese" that might be following.</div>
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What he saw was a white Mr McNamara and a dead Asian man on the ground.</div>
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He admits to helping dispose of the body out of loyalty to his friend but says he had nothing to do with the shooting death of Mr Gao.</div>
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When asked why he had gunshot residue on his hat, shirt and the pockets of his black tracksuit pants he said it must have been through a process of contamination when he was handling the body.</div>
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"I put it to you the gun shot residue was there because you handled a gun," Mr Maxwell said.</div>
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"Again Mr Maxwell that is absolute rubbish, rubbish, rubbish," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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Earlier in the trial, the jury heard from Mr McNamara who maintains it was Mr Rogerson who shot Mr Gao dead.</div>
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During his evidence in chief he said that Mr Rogerson had threatened his life and the lives of his daughters and only helped to dispose of Mr Gao's body because he was under duress.</div>
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Mr Maxwell concluded the prosecution's case with: "In short I put to you that you were in an integral part of a cold and calculated plan to lure Jamie Gao to unit 803 and that all efforts would be made that he not be seen entering and that he would be executed there," he said.</div>
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"I disagree 100 per cent, complete nonsense," Mr Rogerson said. </div>
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Former detective Roger Rogerson is charged with murder but has told a court he believed his alleged victim had shot himself – twice.</div>
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Mr Rogerson said he saw the body of Jamie Gao, 20, lying on the floor of a Sydney storage shed but did not think any crime had been committed.</div>
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The 75-year-old said he believed his friend Glen McNamara, 57, who told him Mr Gao had accidentally shot himself during a struggle.</div>
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"So that Jamie Gao himself, shoots himself?" asked Crown prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC.</div>
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"Not once but twice?" Mr Maxwell asked.</div>
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"That could happen," he said.</div>
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Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara are accused of killing Mr Gao in unit 803 at Rent a Space Padstow on May 20, 2014.</div>
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It is alleged they then stole the 2.78 kilograms of the drug ice he had brought to sell them.</div>
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But the accused men are blaming the shooting on each other.</div>
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Mr McNamara maintains he saw Mr Rogerson shoot Mr Gao twice in the chest.</div>
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Yet Mr Rogerson says when he entered the storage unit Mr Gao was already dead and that Mr McNamara said he had been shot in a struggle.</div>
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Under intense cross examination on Wednesday, Mr Rogerson agreed he had been naïve in believing his friend and not calling the police.</div>
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"Didn't you even ever question the veracity of this story that Glen McNamara allegedly told you?," Mr Maxwell said.</div>
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Mr Rogerson replied, "I had the utmost confidence and trust in Glen McNamara at the time."</div>
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"I did not believe that any criminal offence had been committed."</div>
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The gun used in the shooting death of Mr Gao has never been found but Mr Rogerson told the jury he last saw Mr McNamara handling it.</div>
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"What happened to the gun?" Mr Maxwell asked.</div>
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"You'll have to ask somebody else … I don't know, I don't know what happened to the gun."</div>
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Mr Rogerson denied that he and Mr McNamara had planned to "rip off" Mr Gao by stealing the drugs he had brought to a meeting.</div>
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"I was not part of any plan to rip Jamie Gao off ... I had no reason or need to rip off Jamie Gao , I'd never even heard of him until the 20th [of May ], let alone rip him off," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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At one stage Mr Maxwell asked Mr Rogerson if he was was naïve in believing Mr McNamara's story and then helping to dispose of the body.</div>
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"I suppose I think I am naïve … I am not the man I used to be," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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Earlier in the day Mr McNamara's barrister Gabriel Wendler asked why Mr Rogerson had helped his friend, following Mr Gao's death.</div>
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"We had this dreadful occurrence that had happened and why would I just leave him for dead? Why would I just wipe him? I honestly believed that the whole thing was solvable," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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Mr Rogerson described the events as a "nightmare".</div>
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Former detective Roger Rogerson has told the NSW Supreme Court he believes he is a victim and took part in the disposal of a body only because he was helping out a mate.</div>
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The 75-year-old said his decision to help his friend, Glen McNamara, had "complicated" his situation and in hindsight he wished he had called the police.</div>
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Mr Rogerson and Mr McNamara are on trial for the murder of university student Jamie Gao.</div>
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"Police make mistakes, look at the Lindt cafe, some big mistakes made there," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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"I don't trust the police, I haven't trusted the police for a long time," he said.</div>
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Mr Gao, 20, was shot dead inside a south-western Sydney storage unit on May 14, 2014.</div>
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Mr Rogerson's case is that Mr Gao was dead on the ground when he walked into unit 803.</div>
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But Glen McNamara claims it was Mr Rogerson who shot Mr Gao twice in the chest.</div>
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During cross-examination Mr McNamara's barrister, Gabriel Wendler, asked Mr Rogerson why he helped to dispose of the body.</div>
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"The only reason that you assisted in removing the body of the deceased into the white station wagon was because you were helping out a mate …?" Mr Wendler asked.</div>
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"Pretty well, that's right. It was a huge nightmare what had occurred," Mr Rogerson responded.</div>
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"Why didn't you go to the police?"</div>
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"I wish I had of."</div>
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Mr Wendler asked Mr Rogerson if he thought he was a victim.</div>
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"I've never thought along those lines but that is a very good description, I have been a victim," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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"So you're a victim on trial?</div>
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"Yes."</div>
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The public gallery, and even some jurors, giggled every now again during Mr Rogerson's evidence but there was loud laughter when he later said "I should have stayed at home".</div>
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The subject of the cross-examination at one stage turned to the gunshot residue found on Mr Rogerson's cap, shirt and pocket pants.</div>
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Mr Rogerson argued his clothes had been "contaminated" when he was helping to move Mr Gao's body into a silver surfboard bag.</div>
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"I assisted in handling his body, I moved his arms onto his chest, I helped put the silver board cover over his body, and I would imagine that this type of [gunshot residue] would have easily ended up on my hat – from me touching the hat with my hands," he said.</div>
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"I handled the body extensively."</div>
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Mr Wendler suggested the gunshot residue had ended up on Mr Rogerson's clothing because he was the one who shot Mr Gao. </div>
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"That's not the truth, that's not the case at all," he said. </div>
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Mr Wendler suggested Mr Rogerson had shot Mr Gao because he refused to hand over the drugs he had brought to a meeting. </div>
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"Untrue, untrue, untrue … lies and rubbish," Mr Rogerson responded.</div>
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During his evidence Mr Rogerson denied he had shot Mr Gao and then threatened the life of Glen McNamara and his daughters.</div>
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He said Mr McNamara's version of events was "lies, lies, lies". </div>
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Former detective Roger Rogerson and his co-accused in the murder of student Jamie Gao shared a six-pack of beer after storing the victim's body in a garage, a Sydney court has heard.</div>
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Rogerson and Glen McNamara have pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Gao at a storage facility in Sydney's south-west and dumping his body off Cronulla in May 2014.</div>
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On his second day in the witness box, Rogerson said the pair went to McNamara's apartment after they dealt with the body in his garage and had a drink and chatted to McNamara's daughter, Jessica.</div>
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Rogerson, 75, said he told McNamara: "Glen, your daughters remind me of my daughters when they were their age" and he should be proud because he had "lovely, lovely daughters".</div>
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He denied having a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-01/mcnamara-skittish-after-rogerson-comment-about-daughters-court/7212128" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self" title="">gun on him at the time, and touching his pocket while he remarked about McNamara's daughter</a>.</div>
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Last month, McNamara <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-15/glen-mcnamara-says-roger-rogerson-threatened-his-daughters/7330218" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self" title="">told the court Rogerson said "do as you're told or I'll kill your girls"</a>, but today Rogerson denied he threatened McNamara and his daughters on the day of the killing and thereafter, saying that claim was "another massive lie".</div>
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The court also heard McNamara was worried about reprisals after the shooting of Mr Gao.<br />
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Rogerson also described conversations he said he had with McNamara after driving to the apartment complex in Cronulla.</div>
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"He was saying: 'This arsehole nearly killed me'," Rogerson told the court.</div>
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He said McNamara told him: "He can't hurt me but his mates can and I'm very worried about my daughters. They are vulnerable."</div>
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Rogerson continued: "I was starting to realise the whole enormity of what had happened and I didn't know what to think."</div>
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He said McNamara discouraged him from calling police, claiming if the Triads found out, they would kill police officers and there would be a "bloodbath".</div>
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"The tarp and the surfboard cover were tightly wrapped around the body of Mr Gao," he said.</div>
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"Neither of us... could lift the body any more than just a few inches off the floor."</div>
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The pair then hired a block and tackle, or as Rogerson described it, a "chain block", to lift the body into McNamara's boat.</div>
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Rogerson said McNamara made a number of attempts before he was successful.</div>
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"The most I did was try to keep the body level by holding the feet of Mr Gao while Glen McNamara used the apparatus," Rogerson said.</div>
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Rogerson also rejected the accusation he was on the boat that dumped Mr Gao's body in waters off Cronulla.</div>
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"I was not on that boat, I never made any suggestion about stabbing the body because I wasn't on the boat in the first place," Rogerson told the court.</div>
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He said the next morning, McNamara towed the boat to a ramp in the Gymea area while he followed, but he did not board the boat himself.</div>
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"The last I saw of him was motoring down the Port Hacking River," he said.</div>
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His evidence continues. Page source: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-09/glen-mcnamara-feared-reprisals-after-jamie-gao-shooting-court/7395384">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-09/glen-mcnamara-feared-reprisals-after-jamie-gao-shooting-court/7395384</a></div>
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The body of a university student was pulled from a white Ford station wagon and placed onto the cold, concrete floor of a Cronulla unit car park.</div>
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Shortly afterwards, former detective and true crime author Glen McNamara, 57, lent over the body and allegedly said, "This asshole nearly killed me, this asshole nearly killed me."</div>
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Another former policeman Roger Rogerson, 75, testified at his NSW Supreme Court murder trial on Monday that this is what happened.</div>
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Mr McNamara and Mr Rogerson are both charged with the murder of Jamie Gao, 20, and taking the 2.78 kilograms of ice the UTS student had brought to a meeting in May 2014.</div>
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But the accused men are blaming his death on each other.</div>
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On his second day in the witness stand, Mr Rogerson outlined to a jury his version of events in the hours after Mr Gao was killed inside a south-western Sydney storage shed.</div>
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He said that, after Mr Gao's body was stuffed inside a silver surfboard bag, it was loaded into the back of a white Ford station wagon and driven to Mr McNamara's apartment block.</div>
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When the pair had dragged the body to the floor, Mr Rogerson claimed his friend said a number of things while leaning over the deceased.</div>
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"[McNamara] said, 'He can't hurt me but his mates can and I'm very worried about my daughters, they are vulnerable.' "</div>
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Mr Rogerson said he was then asked to help load the body into Mr McNamara's boat, which was parked in the basement nearby.</div>
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"[McNamara] said I've got to distance myself from him … if his body's found with bullets in it I know his mates will come after me," he told the court.</div>
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At this point, Mr Rogerson said reality started to sink in.</div>
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"I was basically shot to pieces myself … I was starting to realise the whole enormity of what had happened and I didn't know what to think really but all I could do was do what I was doing," he said.</div>
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Mr Rogerson said he only asked who the dead person was a few moments before his friend asked him to lift the body into the boat.</div>
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"I actually said to Glen McNamara, I said 'Glen what's his name? And he just said 'Gao.' "</div>
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"Neither of us collectively could lift the body any more than just inches off the floor," he said.</div>
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Mr Rogerson claimed this was when Mr McNamara resolved the pair should drive to Kennard's Hire at Taren Point to buy a block and tackle, which would help them lift the body into the boat.</div>
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The jury were also told about how the pair went back to where Mr Gao was killed the following day to clean up spots of blood.</div>
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Armed with a green bucket, a sponge and plastic bottle filled with water, the pair made their way to unit 803 at Rent a Space, Padstow.</div>
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"I used the bucket and the water and the sponge ... there was only three or four little spots of blood on the floor," Mr Rogerson said.</div>
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Roger Rogerson urged fellow murder-accused Glen McNamara to pretend he had shot Jamie Gao dead in self-defence during a desperate car-jacking, McNamara has told their trial.<br />
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Giving evidence at their long-running NSW Supreme Court trial on Tuesday, McNamara relayed a series of conversations he says he had with Rogerson when the two men were behind bars in Sydney's Silverwater remand centre in late 2014.<br />
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Both men have pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Gao in a suburban storage unit in May that year.<br />
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"I've seen plenty of people shot at, I've shot a few myself. I've seen plenty of gunshot victims, I'm an expert," McNamara claims Rogerson told him after the pair were arrested.<br />
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"If we stick together we'll be fine."<br />
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McNamara said he believed this comment to be a reference to Rogerson's time in the police force, and that Rogerson was referring to discharging a firearm in the course of his duties.<br />
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He claims Rogerson concocted an elaborate defence for the two men, and even supplied him with a handwritten opening for their forthcoming trial.<br />
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McNamara's barrister on Tuesday produced the document McNamara says was given to him by Rogerson in early 2015 - a page of handwritten notes addressed to the "ladies and gentlemen of the jury".<br />
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According to McNamara, Rogerson's proposed version of events was that Mr Gao had "ripped off the Triads, he was a desperate man, he was going to try car-jacking you".<br />
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McNamara says he wanted Rogerson to think he was going along with the plan, but was really conducting "a covert investigation" from behind bars to uncover the truth.<br />
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"I wanted to convey to Mr Rogerson that I would agree to this defence so that I could collect evidence of the true nature of the offence from Mr Rogerson," McNamara said.<br />
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McNamara has previously told the jury that it was Rogerson who shot Mr Gao, and that he only agreed to help dispose of the body because Rogerson made threats against his daughters.<br />
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Rogerson is yet to give evidence but is expected to take his turn in the witness box in the coming weeks.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his fourth day in the witness box at his trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court, McNamara relayed a series of conversations he said he had with Rogerson in prison after they were charged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rogerson and McNamara are accused of murdering Mr Gao, who was shot twice inside a Padstow storage unit on May 20, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also allegedly took almost three kilograms of the drug ice that Mr Gao had in his possession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McNamara said Rogerson wanted them both to say Mr Gao had "ripped off the triads", was desperate and McNamara had shot him in self-defence after he was car-jacked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I wanted to convey to Mr Rogerson that I would agree to this defence so that I could collect evidence of the true nature of the offence by Mr Rogerson," McNamara said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His barrister Gabriel Wendler produced a handwritten note Rogerson allegedly gave to McNamara last year, headed "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury", outlining what their defence should be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You have heard the learned crown prosecutor explain to you the crown plans to produce to you evidence of a strong circumstantial case," the note read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Well ladies and gentlemen let me tell you the crown will not be able to prove this at all."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McNamara told the court: "Rogerson said, 'This opening address ... has to be the way we run the whole case'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he told Rogerson, "I think I'm willing to go along with you but I've got some concerns."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McNamara said he wanted to know everything about the gun that was used in the shooting, including what happened to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said Rogerson told him he sourced the weapon from a man called Tony Butler and returned the weapon to Mr Butler's workplace three days after the shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former police officer was asked about his career in the police force and said it included working on the Milperra massacre investigation, a secondment to the National Crime Authority, as well as stints as a detective in Sydney's south as well as Darlinghurst and Kings Cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he left the police force after working on an undercover, internal investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My work was leaked and there were threats to kill me," McNamara said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McNamara is expected to be questioned by George Thomas, the barrister for Rogerson, when the trial resumes.</span></div>
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