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* [[Lindsay Robert Rose]], serial killer and [[contract killer]] from [[New South Wales]] who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-21422920.html|title=NSW: $50,000 bail for alleged hold up man|date=1998-12-22|work=[[Australian Associated Press|AAP]]|accessdate=2009-04-21}}</ref>
* [[Lindsay Robert Rose]], serial killer and [[contract killer]] from [[New South Wales]] who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-21422920.html|title=NSW: $50,000 bail for alleged hold up man|date=1998-12-22|work=[[Australian Associated Press|AAP]]|accessdate=2009-04-21}}</ref>
* [[Arnold Sodeman]], the schoolgirl strangler<ref>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/true-crime-scene/schoolgirl-stranglers-chilling-confession/story-fnat7dag-1226302000306 Deranged serial killer Arnold Sodeman's chilling confession of girls' murders.</ref>
* [[Arnold Sodeman]], the schoolgirl strangler<ref>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/true-crime-scene/schoolgirl-stranglers-chilling-confession/story-fnat7dag-1226302000306 Deranged serial killer Arnold Sodeman's chilling confession of girls' murders.</ref>
* [[Robert Wagner (serial killer)|Robert Wagner]], murdered 10 people along with [[John Bunting (serial killer)|John Bunting]] as part of the degenerate sub-culture of the group of the murders<ref name="degenerate">[http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s942499.htm Snowtown trial reveals 'degenerate sub-culture'], ''[[7.30 Report]]'', 9 September 2003</ref>
* [[Robert Wagner (serial killer)|Robert Wagner]], murdered 10 people along with [[John Bunting (serial killer)|John Bunting]] <ref name="degenerate">[http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s942499.htm Snowtown trial reveals 'degenerate sub-culture'], ''[[7.30 Report]]'', 9 September 2003</ref>
* [[Christopher Worrell and James Miller]], Truro murders, late 1970s<ref>http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html, retrieved 5 October 2013</ref>
* [[Christopher Worrell and James Miller]], Truro murders, late 1970s<ref>http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html, retrieved 5 October 2013</ref>



Revision as of 02:57, 26 January 2018

This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes.

Bank robbers

Australians convicted of bank robbery:

Drug traffickers

Australians convicted of drug-related crimes both in Australia and overseas:

Families

Notable Australian criminal families:

Gangsters

Fraudsters

Australians convicted of fraud:

Murderers

Australians convicted of murder:

Serial killers

Australians convicted of multiple murders:

Child sex offenders

Australians convicted of child sex offences:

  • Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, paedophile,[105] died in 2009 while serving a 20-year sentence
  • Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[106] found dead in December 2012[107]
  • Andrew Garforth, convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Ebony Simpson[108]
  • Kent Andrew Garrett, prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for 29 child grooming-related offences against 17 victims; the trial originally listed to begin on 1 September 2014 ended on 2 September 2014 when Garrett pleaded guilty to all the charges before the trial began[109]
  • Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault involving underage girls[110]
  • Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years 9 months with a non-parole period of six years [111][112]
  • Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[113]
  • Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender[114]
  • Patrick Power, Crown prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[115]
  • Peter Scully, is an Australian child molester guilty of the murder of an 11-year-old Filipina girl, and of the torture and sexual abuse of at least eight girls, including an 18-month-old infant. He uploaded a video torturing and raping one of his child victims in the most gruesome ways possible and titled it "Daisy's Destruction". Scully was later given life imprisonment.
  • Jeremy Greggor, 1995. 4 counts of attempted and successful rape to minors, in the year of 2013. Bundaberg, Queensland. Pleaded not guilty, charged and sentenced with a three-year suspended sentence.[citation needed]

Rapists

Australians convicted of rape:

Others

Australians convicted of other offences:

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