A detective sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force and convicted murderer Roger Caleb Rogerson is dead. He died on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at the age of 83.
Roger Rogerson Cause of death
The 83-year-old, who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a young drug dealer, suffered a brain aneurysm on Thursday and was transferred from Long Bay prison to the Prince of Wales Hospital at Randwick, where he died at 11.15 pm on Sunday.
Roger Rogerson’s obituary announcement
Roger Rogerson’s obituary is not out yet.
However, Roger Rogerson grew up in the Sydney suburb of Bankstown (moving there from Bondi at six years of age). Rogerson’s father Owen Rogerson immigrated from Kingston upon Hull, England during his career as a boilermaker; his mother Mabel Boxley immigrated from Cardiff, Wales with her parents as a youth (her English-born father Caleb Boxley was the reason for Roger’s middle name).
Roger Rogerson attended Bankstown Central School and later Homebush Boys High School. In January 1958, he joined the New South Wales Police Cadet Service. He had two daughters by his first wife Joy Archer.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
