This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes.
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Bank robbers
Australians convicted of bank robbery:
- Brenden Abbott (born 1962), known as the Postcard Bandit[1]
- Darcy Dugan (1920 – 1991), bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist.[2]
- Keith Faure (born 1951), from Victoria, is an Australian career criminal[3]
- Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854/1855 – 1880), famous armour wearing Victorian bushranger[4]
- Victor Peirce (1958 – 2002) ,from Melbourne, was a member of the Pettingill family[5]
- Gregory Roberts (born 1952), a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped and fled to India. Author of Shantaram.[6]
Drug traffickers
See also: Illegal drug trade
Australians convicted of drug related crimes both in Australia and overseas.
- Dennis Allen, nicknamed Mr. Death, member of the Pettingill family[7]
- Kevin Barlow, executed in Malaysia.[8]
- Nola Blake, sentenced to death in Thailand in 1988. Sentence later commuted to life.[9]
- Brian Chambers, executed in Malaysia.[8]
- Schapelle Corby, serving a 20 year prison sentence in Indonesia.[10]
- Holly Deane-Johns, serving a 31 year prison sentence in Thailand.Transferred back to Perth in 2007.[11]
- Warren Fellows[12]
- Jim Krakouer, star AFL footballer imprisoned for 16 years on amphetamine trafficking charges.[13]
- Michael McAuliffe, executed in Malaysia.[14]
- Van Tuong Nguyen, executed in Singapore.[15]
- Bali Nine[16]
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- Andrew Chan, sentenced to death in Indonesia on February 14, 2006[17]
- Si Yi Chen, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 16, 2006[18]
- Michael Czugaj, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 14, 2006[19]
- Renae Lawrence, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Indonesia[20]
- Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 16, 2006[18]
- Matthew Norman, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 16 2006[21]
- Scott Rush, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 13, 2006[20]
- Martin Stephens, sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia on February 14, 2006[22]
- Myuran Sukumaran, sentenced to death in Indonesia on February 14, 2006[23]
- Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family, murdered in 2001.[24]
- Kath Pettingill, former brothel worker and owner, and criminal matriarch of the Pettingill family.[25]
- Roger Rogerson, corrupt former police officer.[26]
- Stephen John Sutton, imprisoned in Argentina on drug charges[27]
- Robert Trimbole, International felon and drug lord[28]
- Andrew "Benji" Veniamin[29]
- Carl Williams[30]
Families
Notable Australian criminal families.
Gangsters
- Michael Kanaan multiple murderer and gang member
- Tony Mokbel serving a 12 year sentence, awaiting further charges[33]
- Jason Moran killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war[32]
- Lewis Moran killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war[32]
- Mark Moran killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war[32]
- Nikolai Radev killed in gang war[34]
- Stewart John Regan A well known member of the Australian underworld during the 60's and 70's[35]
- Andrew Veniamin killed in gang war by Mick Gatto[32]
- Carl Williams, serving three life sentences with a minimum term of 35 years[32]
Fraudsters
Australians convicted of fraud
- Rodney Adler Sydney based fraudster who was imprisoned for his role in transactions to hide the true financial status of FAI Insurance.[36]
- Alan Bond jailed for three years in 1996 for fraud[37]
- Brian Burke former W.A. premier imprisoned for rorting travel expenses[38]
- Michael Cobb former politician convicted of fraud after rorting travel expenses[39]
- Laurie Connell jailed for conspiring to pervert the course of justice[40]
- Peter Foster, one of Australia's most famous conmen, jailed for fraud[41]
- John Friedrich, German born fraudster, suicided at his Sale, Victoria farm[citation needed]
- Simon Hannes, insider trading ahead of takeover of TNT in 1996[42]
- Ray O'Connor former W.A. premier imprisoned for stealing[43]
- Rene Rivkin, stockmarket guru imprisoned on insider trading charges[44]
- Christopher Skase, failed businessman and fugitive who escaped to Majorca[45]
- Andrew Theophanous, bribery and fraud offences relating to assisting in visa applications as a Member of Parliament[46]
- Glenn Wheatley, jailed for tax evasion[47]
- Ray Williams, fraud related to the collapse of HIH Insurance[48]
Murderers
Australians convicted of murder.
- Dante Arthurs: murdered Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu[49]
- Valmae Beck: sentenced to life for the murder of Sian Kingi[50]
- Lindsay Beckett and Leslie Camilleri: convicted of the Bega schoolgirl murders [51][52]
- James Beauregard-Smith: a convicted murderer and rapist
- Kenneth Brown: explorer and pastoralist hanged for murdering his wife[53]
- Martin Bryant: convicted of 35 murders in the Port Arthur massacre[54]
- Wayne Butler, convicted of murdering Celia Douty
- Keith Faure: convicted Melbourne underworld killings murderer[3]
- Christopher Dale Flannery: rapist and armed robber who shot an undercover policeman [55]
- Andrew Garforth, convicted killer of 9 year old Ebony Simpson in Bargo, New South Wales[56]
- Sef Gonzales, murdered his mother, father and sister [57]
- Maddison Hall, murdered a hitchhiker, had a sex change operation in prison[58]
- Murray Walter Hearne killed Constable Peter Forsyth and maliciously wounded Constable Semple & Neville. Convicted for 27 yrs than reduced to 18 yrs NSWSC 605 4 June 1999[59]
- Ned Kelly, bushranger[4]
- Henry Keogh, convicted of strangling his fiancée[60]
- Julian Knight, Hoddle Street Massacre[61]
- Katherine Knight, murdered John Charles Thomas Price on 29 February 2000. The first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[62]
- Wendy Lange, Dubbed the Black Widow, murdered husband, sentenced to Life, changed name to Julie Sage[63]
- Martin Leach on the 23 June 1983 he bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Ariet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs.
- Francesco Mangione, the Mr Whippy ice cream turf war murderer[64]
- William Harold Matheson, convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend Lyndsay Van Blanken in 2003 [65]
- Craig Minogue, Russell Street bombing[66]
- Bradley John Murdoch, convicted for the murder of Peter Falconio[67]
- Michael Murdoch, convicted of the Anita Cobby murder[68]
- Gary Murphy, convicted of the Anita Cobby murder[68]
- Les Murphy, convicted of the Anita Cobby murder[68]
- Michael Murphy, convicted of the Anita Cobby murder[68]
- James Ryan O'Neill, a Victorian convicted of murder in Tasmania[69]
- Ronald Ryan, last person executed in Australia[70]
- John Sharpe, spear gun murderer of his wife and child[71]
- Anu Singh, murdered her boyfriend Joe Cinque[72]
- Neddy Smith, convicted of the murder of Sydney brothel owner, Harvey Jones[73]
- John Travers, convicted ringleader of the Anita Cobby murder [68]
Serial killers
Australians convicted of multiple murders
- David Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[74]
- Catherine Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[74]
- John Bunting, convicted killer involved in the Snowtown murders[75]
- Eric Edgar Cooke, The Nedlands monster[76]
- Paul Denyer, Melbourne based serial killer during early 1990s dubbed the 'Frankston Serial Killer'.[77]
- Peter Dupas, Melbourne based serial killer who killed several times upon release from prison.[78]
- John Wayne Glover, the Sydney North Shore granny murderer[79]
- Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler [80]
- Ivan Milat, Backpacker murders[81]
- Joseph Schwab, murdered five tourists across the Northern Territory and Western Australia in 1987.[82]
Child sex offenders
Australians convicted of child sex offences
- Geoffrey Robert Dobbs, commits 116 offences over an almost 30 year period, detained indefinitely [83]
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, homosexual child molester[84]
- Andrew Garforth, convicted child killer[85]
- Brian Keith Jones, aka Mr Baldy[86]
- Milton Orkopoulos, child sex offences[87]
- Patrick Power, convicted of possessing child pornography[88]
Rapists
Australians convicted of rape
- Peter Dupas, serial killer[78]
- Bevan Spencer von Einem, homosexual rapist and murderer[89]
- Ashfield gang rapes
- Sydney gang rapes
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- Bilal Skaf - ring leader[90]
Others
Australians convicted of other offences
- Marcus Einfeld, former judge and convicted perjurer [91]
- David Hicks, convicted terrorism supporter [92]
- Barry Morris, politician who was jailed for making bomb and death threats [93]
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See also
- List of Australians in international prisons
- List of Australian politicians convicted of crimes
- Australians
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