Roger Rogerson loses bid to be heard in High Court over Jamie Gao murder

Infamous corrupt policeman Roger Rogerson will spend the rest of his days in prison after losing his appeal against his murder conviction.

Disgraced former police officer Roger Rogerson will die in jail after losing his last avenue of appeal against his conviction for murdering a drug dealer.

The High Court of Australia on Friday rejected the ex Darlinghurst detective’s application to have his appeal heard in the High Court of Australia.

Rogerson was appealing his conviction for the murder of drug dealer Jamie Gao in 2014.

Fellow ex cop Glen McNamara was also found guilty of the murder.

In 2016, Rogerson and McNamara were found guilty by a jury in the NSW Supreme Court of murdering Gao inside a Padstow storage unit in a drug deal gone wrong.

Both men lost appeals in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.

Roger Rogerson leaves the Supreme Court on King Street in Sydney, New South Wales, during his trial for the 2014

In the CCA Rogerson was successful on one of his points of appeal that said he should have been allowed to use critical evidence, the nature of which is suppressed, to defend his case.

However, the CCA refused to order a retrial.

Rogerson then appealed to the High Court, but lost at the first hurdle, where a panel of judges refused Rogerson’s application to argue his appeal heard in the court.

Rogerson was convicted for murdering Jamie Gao.

On Friday, a spokesman for the High Court said: “Special leave was refused by Chief Justice Kiefel and Justice Gordon on the basis that there was no reason to doubt the correctness of the Court of Criminal Appeal’s decision.

Rogerson will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Rogerson’s long time solicitor Peter Katsoolis said: “We believe all of the evidence that would have led to Mr Rogerson receiving a fair trial was not ventilated in its entirety in the NSW Supreme Court and we are disappointed in today’s result.”

McNamara won his application to be heard in the High Court and will argue that the jury in the Supreme Court trial should have been told that Rogerson confessed to being a serial killer.

The High Court is yet to hear McNamara’s appeal.

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