Gregory Roberts (born 1952), former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped and fled to India; author of Shantaram[5]
Child sex offenders
Australians convicted of child sex offences:
Brett Peter Cowan, Australian murderer and child rapist who was convicted of the murder of Daniel Morcombe[6]
Mr Cruel, an unidentified Australian serial child rapist who attacked three girls and is suspected of murdering
Karmein Chan in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. In 2016, the reward for his arrest increased from $100,000 to $1,000,000.[7]
Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[9] found dead in December 2012[10]
Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of twelve counts of indecent assault while living in the UK involving underage girls[11]
Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls, including Hey Dad! co-star
Sarah Monahan between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years and 9 months with a non-parole period of six years[12][13] Hughes was released from Long Bay Correctional Centre on 15 June 2022, renouncing his Australian citizenship and deported to the United Kingdom[14]
Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[15]
Patrick Power, Crown Prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[19]
Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale, paedophile, Australian
Catholic priest convicted of sexual abuse against scores of children. The true number of Ridsdale's victims will never be known but by his own admission, is believed to be in the hundreds.[20]
Peter Scully, paedophile charged with abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture and murder. Known for creating and selling the
dark web video Daisy's Destruction, which features the torture and rape of three girls including 18-month-old Daisy. Scully and his girlfriend Carme Ann Alvarez, who also abused children in Scully's videos, were sentenced to life imprisonment.[22]
Robert Kingsley Whitehead was convicted of 24 counts of child sexual offences in 2015, dying in prison later that year. Whitehead, who had been convicted of offences against children in 1959, was involved for decades with the railways and railway enthusiast groups, including the
Puffing Billy Railway, through which he gained access to many young volunteers.[23]
Christopher Dale Flannery, (born c. 1948, disappeared May 1985) known as "Mr-Rent-A-Kill", rapist and armed robber who shot an undercover policeman[71]
Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854/1855–1880), Victorian bushranger[74] murdered three troopers (policemen) named Lonigan, Scanlon and Kennedy, as well as former friend turned police informer
Aaron Sherritt
Katherine Knight, murdered her de facto husband John Charles Thomas Price on 29 February 2000; first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole[76]
Keli Lane, convicted of the 1996 murder of her newborn daughter Tegan on 13 December 2010[77]
Martin Leach, bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Aviet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie, both teenagers, before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs[citation needed]
David Birnie (1951–2005) rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[88]
Gregory Brazel, shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery, and murdered two sex workers in 1990[90][91]
John Bunting, Adelaide-based serial killer, with partners Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis was responsible for the murder of 12 victims known as the
Snowtown murders or bodies in a barrel murders.
Robert Joe Wagner, Adelaide-based serial killer, formed part of a serial killing team with John Bunting and James Vlassakis, responsible for the Snowtown murders.
James Spyridon Vlassakis, Adelaide-based serial killer, formed part of a serial killing team with John Bunting and Robert Wagner, responsible for the Snowtown murders.
Robert Francis Burns, murdered eight men between 1876 and 1881 in Victoria and New South Wales
Paul Steven Haigh, convicted of the murders of six people in the late 1970s and another in 1991; currently serving six life sentences without the possibility of parole[98]
Matthew James Harris, strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in
Wagga Wagga
Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler[100]
John Lynch, convicted of the murder of Kernes Landregan in 1842 near
Berrima, New South Wales; prior to his execution he confessed to murdering ten people during the period 1836 to 1842.[101][102]
William MacDonald, also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963[103]
John and Sarah Makin; baby farmers convicted for the murder of Horace Amber Murray; suspected of the murders of 13 infants in total.[104]
Ivan Milat, (1944–2019) convicted of the murder of seven young men and women between 1989 and 1993; known as Australia's most prolific serial killer. His crimes are collectively referred to as the "
Backpacker murders".[105][106]
^"Archived copy". Archived from
the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link) mako.org.au. Retrieved 25 November 2010
^Western Australia v Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd; Wardley Australia Limited; Lawrence Robert Connell; Wardley Australia Securities Limited; Rothwells Limited (In Liquidation) and James Philip Yonge[1993] FCA 20 (5 February 1993),
Federal Court (Australia).
^Cowan, Peter (1988). Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
ISBN0-949206-27-X.
^Goodsir, D. Line of Fire: The inside story of the controversial shooting of undercover policeman Michael Drury, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 1995, p.66
ISBN978-1-86448-002-3
^Barry, John V. "Kelly, Edward (Ned) (1855–1880)".
Cultural Advice. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Gregory Roberts (born 1952), former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped and fled to India; author of Shantaram[5]
Child sex offenders
Australians convicted of child sex offences:
Brett Peter Cowan, Australian murderer and child rapist who was convicted of the murder of Daniel Morcombe[6]
Mr Cruel, an unidentified Australian serial child rapist who attacked three girls and is suspected of murdering
Karmein Chan in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. In 2016, the reward for his arrest increased from $100,000 to $1,000,000.[7]
Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[9] found dead in December 2012[10]
Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of twelve counts of indecent assault while living in the UK involving underage girls[11]
Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls, including Hey Dad! co-star
Sarah Monahan between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years and 9 months with a non-parole period of six years[12][13] Hughes was released from Long Bay Correctional Centre on 15 June 2022, renouncing his Australian citizenship and deported to the United Kingdom[14]
Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[15]
Patrick Power, Crown Prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[19]
Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale, paedophile, Australian
Catholic priest convicted of sexual abuse against scores of children. The true number of Ridsdale's victims will never be known but by his own admission, is believed to be in the hundreds.[20]
Peter Scully, paedophile charged with abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture and murder. Known for creating and selling the
dark web video Daisy's Destruction, which features the torture and rape of three girls including 18-month-old Daisy. Scully and his girlfriend Carme Ann Alvarez, who also abused children in Scully's videos, were sentenced to life imprisonment.[22]
Robert Kingsley Whitehead was convicted of 24 counts of child sexual offences in 2015, dying in prison later that year. Whitehead, who had been convicted of offences against children in 1959, was involved for decades with the railways and railway enthusiast groups, including the
Puffing Billy Railway, through which he gained access to many young volunteers.[23]
Christopher Dale Flannery, (born c. 1948, disappeared May 1985) known as "Mr-Rent-A-Kill", rapist and armed robber who shot an undercover policeman[71]
Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854/1855–1880), Victorian bushranger[74] murdered three troopers (policemen) named Lonigan, Scanlon and Kennedy, as well as former friend turned police informer
Aaron Sherritt
Katherine Knight, murdered her de facto husband John Charles Thomas Price on 29 February 2000; first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole[76]
Keli Lane, convicted of the 1996 murder of her newborn daughter Tegan on 13 December 2010[77]
Martin Leach, bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Aviet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie, both teenagers, before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs[citation needed]
David Birnie (1951–2005) rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[88]
Gregory Brazel, shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery, and murdered two sex workers in 1990[90][91]
John Bunting, Adelaide-based serial killer, with partners Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis was responsible for the murder of 12 victims known as the
Snowtown murders or bodies in a barrel murders.
Robert Joe Wagner, Adelaide-based serial killer, formed part of a serial killing team with John Bunting and James Vlassakis, responsible for the Snowtown murders.
James Spyridon Vlassakis, Adelaide-based serial killer, formed part of a serial killing team with John Bunting and Robert Wagner, responsible for the Snowtown murders.
Robert Francis Burns, murdered eight men between 1876 and 1881 in Victoria and New South Wales
Paul Steven Haigh, convicted of the murders of six people in the late 1970s and another in 1991; currently serving six life sentences without the possibility of parole[98]
Matthew James Harris, strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in
Wagga Wagga
Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler[100]
John Lynch, convicted of the murder of Kernes Landregan in 1842 near
Berrima, New South Wales; prior to his execution he confessed to murdering ten people during the period 1836 to 1842.[101][102]
William MacDonald, also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963[103]
John and Sarah Makin; baby farmers convicted for the murder of Horace Amber Murray; suspected of the murders of 13 infants in total.[104]
Ivan Milat, (1944–2019) convicted of the murder of seven young men and women between 1989 and 1993; known as Australia's most prolific serial killer. His crimes are collectively referred to as the "
Backpacker murders".[105][106]
^"Archived copy". Archived from
the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link) mako.org.au. Retrieved 25 November 2010
^Western Australia v Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd; Wardley Australia Limited; Lawrence Robert Connell; Wardley Australia Securities Limited; Rothwells Limited (In Liquidation) and James Philip Yonge[1993] FCA 20 (5 February 1993),
Federal Court (Australia).
^Cowan, Peter (1988). Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
ISBN0-949206-27-X.
^Goodsir, D. Line of Fire: The inside story of the controversial shooting of undercover policeman Michael Drury, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 1995, p.66
ISBN978-1-86448-002-3
^Barry, John V. "Kelly, Edward (Ned) (1855–1880)".
Cultural Advice. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.