Sallie-Anne Huckstepp’s daughter has scathing final say on killer Roger Rogerson

Sascha Huckstepp — murdered police corruption whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp’s daughter — launched a scathing attack on Roger Rogerson hours after the killer died. “If only anyone had believed her,” she lamented.

The daughter of police corruption whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp says killer cop Roger Rogerson’s legacy is a trail of “misery, pain and pure evil”.

Sascha Huckstepp launched the scathing attack on the killer hours after he died in a Sydney hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm while serving a life sentence for murdering an Asian drug dealer.

Rogerson was also suspected of being behind the murder of Huckstepp, 31, a model and sex worker, whose body was found floating in a pond in Centennial Park in 1986.

“His legacy is a trail of misery, pain and pure evil,” Sascha wrote in a social media post on Monday night.

Sascha, who was 12 when her mother died, posted a link to an explosive interview Huckstepp did with 60 Minutes in 1981, where she blew the whistle on police corruption and called Rogerson, then a detective, a cold-blooded killer.

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp's daughter, Sascha’s Facebook post. Picture: Supplied

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp's daughter, Sascha. Picture: Supplied

Rogerson shot dead Huckstepp’s heroin dealer boyfriend Warren Lanfranchi in a Chippendale laneway in 1981. Rogerson claimed it was self-defence when Lanfranchi pulled a gun on him, but Huckstepp insisted her lover was murdered.

“If only everyone had paid attention and believed her in 1981, her courage and warning is her legacy,” Sascha wrote.

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp with Keith Lanfranchi outside Redfern Court facing drug charges on November, 1981.

Crooked cop and killer Roger Rogerson. Picture: Adam Yip/ The Daily Telegraph

Friends praised Huckstepp’s bravery, and that Rogerson was dead.

“Finally evil dodger’s judgement day arrived. What Sallie was telling what happened to her boyfriend is exactly almost the same scenario what happened to that Asian guy in that garage in 2014,” one friend replied.

Another person commented: “Your mum was a gorgeous, intelligent and brave woman, what happened to her was a tragedy and a travesty. I’m glad that nasty piece of sh*t is dead now, shame he didn’t suffer more”.

Friends said Sascha and her mother had “both paid dearly” for the bravery.

“Totally agree, your brave, smart, beautiful mother was speaking the truth,” one person wrote.

Warren Lanfranchi, drug dealer wanted for attempted murder, shot dead by Det-Sgt Roger Rogerson, far right, in Dangar Place, Chippendale, Sydney in 1981.

Police officers after the discovery of murder victim Sallie-Anne Huckstepp in Centennial Park, in Sydney in February, 1986.

In the explosive television interview, Huckstepp revealed Rogerson, a revered policeman tipped to one day be commissioner, was a major heroin dealer who supplied drugs to prisons.

“Detective Rogerson has a reputation as being a killer … in fact Warren was so terrified he went and bought a gun and he used to sleep with it beside the bed because we were terrified Rogerson would find out where we were and come and kill us both,” Huckstepp said in the television interview.

She conceded she would likely be killed one day by police for speaking out.

“I’m quite sure that the police would probably kill me.”

A man walking a dog spotted a body floating in the park one morning in February 1986, and called police.

The body was that of Huckstepp. She had been strangled to death.

Despite one of the longest-running investigations, no one has ever been convicted of Huckstepp’s death, but Rogerson has always been suspected of being involved.

Sascha told 60 Minutes in an interview in 2016 that Rogerson “shattered” her life.

“He stole my mother from me, he stole my adolescence,” Sascha said.

“I believe that Rogerson had had enough, that he said that she had to go. He wanted her dead, 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,” she claimed.

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