Lindsey Robert Rose

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Lindsey Robert Rose
Born
Lindsey Robert Lehman

(1955-05-02) 2 May 1955 (age 68)
Sydney, Australia
Other namesLindsey Lehman
Occupation(s)Fitter and turner, paramedic, private investigator, criminal
Children1
Criminal chargeMurder x 5
Penalty5 x life imprisonment without parole
Details
Span of crimes
1984–1994
Date apprehended
10 April 1997

Lindsey Robert Rose (né Lehman; born 2 May 1955) is an Australian serial killer from New South Wales, currently serving five sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of five people between 1984 and 1994. [1]

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Early life

Lindsey Robert Rose was born Lindsey Robert Lehman on 2 May 1955 at North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was raised by his mother, who had separated from Rose's father before Rose was born. He became Lindsey Rose after his mother remarried.

Rose grew up in Sydney's Western Suburbs and completed an apprenticeship as a fitter and turner before joining the New South Wales Ambulance Service in 1976. He was notably one of the first responders at the Granville Train Disaster in 1977. Rose left the ambulance service and became a licensed private investigator in 1979. His criminal career commenced soon thereafter. [2]

Criminal career

Cavanagh/Lee murders

On 20 January 1984 Rose shot and killed Edward John "Bill" Cavanagh and Cavanagh's girlfriend, Carmelita Lee, at their home in Sydney's Hoxton Park. Rose later told investigators that he'd murdered Cavanagh as revenge for the alleged beating of one of Rose's friends a few years earlier. He murdered Lee so as to not leave a witness. [3]

Cavanagh ran a trucking business and it was alleged that he was involved with the Calabrian mafia, including the notorious drug lord, Robert Trimbole. [4]

Holford murder

On 19 January 1987 Rose broke into the West Ryde home of wealthy businessman, William "Bill" Graf, intending to commit a burglary. He was surprised on the premises by Graf's de facto, Reynette Holford. Rose stabbed Holford multiple times with a screwdriver and a vegetable knife. He then tied her up, made his escape and Holford died from her injuries. [5]

Pang/Ozonal murders

On 14 February 1994 Rose shot and killed Fatma Ozonal and then shot and stabbed Kerrie Pang to death at Pang's massage parlour, "Kerrie's Oasis" in Gladesville. Ronald Waters was offered payment of $500 to assist Rose by knocking on the door and gaining access to the premises, as Pang would have recognised Rose, he did not know how things were going to turn out. Ronald Waters never received this payment.

The murder of Pang had been arranged by her de facto partner Mark Lewis. Lewis was later found guilty of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment (without the possibility of parole) for the murder of Pang plus 18 years for the murder of Ozonal. [6] Waters pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the murders and was sentenced to 18 months periodic detention.

Evidence at Lewis's trial indicated that the motive for Pang's murder was difficulties in Lewis and Pang's relationship and Lewis's dissatisfaction with Pang's line of work as well as Rose's reported hatred of Pang. Ozonal was not part of the murder plan and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Escape and capture

Rose was not a suspect for any of the five murders until 1996 when a corrupt police officer, an associate of Rose, told NSW police detectives that Rose had boasted of committing at least two murders.

After being questioned, Rose evaded police surveillance on 4 July 1996 and drove from Sydney to Adelaide, South Australia. [7] In Adelaide he obtained employment using his birth name, Lindsey Lehman, but was not located until 40 weeks later when a member of the public identified Rose after his mugshot was broadcast on television news programs on 9 April 1997. Rose was arrested the next morning, arriving for work, by members of the South Australian Police STAR Force. [8]

Guilty plea and sentencing

On 18 June 1998 Rose pleaded guilty to the five murders in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. [9] He was represented by the well-known barrister, Stuart Littlemore QC. [10]

On 3 September 1998 [6] Rose was sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Other crimes

In December 1998, Rose was sentenced for other crimes to which he had confessed: conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, robbery, kidnapping, robbery whilst armed, malicious wounding, larceny and supplying a prohibited drug. The additional prison terms summed to forty years, to be served concurrently (the longest being eight years). [11]

Notably, on New Year's Day in 1983, Rose and criminal associates had hijacked a semi-trailer containing cigarettes valued at $600,000 and held two truck drivers hostage for several hours. [12]

Prison life

Rose was one of the first six inmates of Goulburn Gaol's High Risk Management Unit upon its creation in 2001. [13]

On 19 November 2005 The Daily Telegraph reported that Rose was unhappy with the fact that a number of inmates had converted to Islam. [14]

On 23 September 2007 The Daily Telegraph reported that Rose had written a letter to prison management indicating he would help to stop inmates converting to Islam. [15]

On 7 October 2007 The Daily Telegraph reported that Rose was one of several inmates who had smuggled out "letters of complaint" against a range of conditions at the jail. It said that education was "virtually non existent in the HRMU [High Risk Management Unit]...Many inmates do not complete courses as they are thwarted by perfunctory teachers or ridiculous decisions ...Example: An inmate in another part of the prison is caught with contraband on a computer, the department of corrective services ban all computers, effectively putting inmates back to the Stone Age." [16]

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References

  1. ↑ R v Rose [1999] NSWCCA 327 (11 October 1999), Court of Criminal Appeal (NSW,Australia)
  2. 1 2 McConachie, Campbell (2017). The Fatalist. Sydney: Hachette Australia. p. 135. ISBN   978 0 7336 3679 0.
  3. ↑ The Fatalist. 2017. p. 135.
  4. ↑ Bottom, Bob. Shadow of Shame: How the mafia got away with the murder of Donald Mackay. Victoria (Australia): Sun Books. pp. 62–64. ISBN   0 7251 0558 5.
  5. ↑ The Fatalist. 2017. p. 176.
  6. 1 2 R v Lewis [2001] NSWCCA 448 (9 November 2001), Court of Criminal Appeal (NSW,Australia).
  7. ↑ The Fatalist. 2017. pp. 300–302.
  8. ↑ The Fatalist. 2017. p. 341.
  9. ↑ "June 18, 1998. Lindsey Robert Rose arriving at NSW Supreme Court in handcuffs where he pleaded guilty to five murder charges". Newspix / News Ltd. 18 June 1998. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  10. ↑ "Woman shot dead 'because she was there'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 June 1998. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  11. ↑ The Fatalist. 2017. p. 366.
  12. ↑ The Fatalist. pp. 117–119.
  13. ↑ "Fed: First six inmates of the new Goulburn high risk jail". AAP . 1 June 2001. Retrieved 21 April 2009.[ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Hard men turn to Islam to cope with jail". The Sydney Morning Herald . 19 November 2005. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  15. ↑ Sikora, Kate (23 April 2007). "Radical Muslims pay jail inmates". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  16. ↑ Mercer, Neil (7 October 2007). "Supermax crims' letters of woe". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  17. ↑ "Atoning for his sins: My father the multiple murderer". Australian Story. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
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