Blue Murder sequel: The High Road star Richard Roxburgh triggers Roger Rogerson double take
TO confused bystanders watching on one Padstow Heights street yesterday it seemed the slippery former police detective Roger Rogerson, their longtime neighbour, was once again at large.
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THE limping gait, the bald speckled pate, the furrowed brow and the silver-rimmed spectacles are all unmistakeable.
And to confused bystanders watching on one Padstow Heights street yesterday it seemed the slippery former police detective Roger Rogerson, their longtime neighbour, was once again at large.
This seemed unlikely just a day after the 75-year-old had been convicted of the 2014 murder of university student Jamie Gao.
But Rogerson was in fact thought to be suburbs away in Silverwater jail, being assessed by Corrective Services for prison transfer — the neatly tucked-in black polo shirt and blue jeans replaced with a prison-issue green tracksuit.
The man handcuffed and being wrestled by police into a late model sedan — not far from where Gao was killed during a drug deal at a Padstow storage unit — was Richard Roxburgh, the actor a generation of Australians may forever confuse with the real-life murderer.
Having first played Rogerson in the acclaimed 1995 miniseries Blue Murder, Roxburgh has reprised one of his most famous characters for what promises to be a riveting sequel.
The High Road is a two-part miniseries that looks at Rogerson’s life in 1989 — three years after he’d been dismissed from the NSW Police Force.
The Seven Network is yet to confirm it will broadcast the new production, the sequel to a series originally produced for the ABC by Southern Star Entertainment.
Blue Murder was first broadcast in 1995 — though not in NSW, where it remained off air for another six years as Rogerson faced criminal charges.
A cast of familiar faces will join Rake star Roxburgh in the follow-up, with Aaron Pedersen playing an arresting detective in yesterday’s scenes.
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