Samuel REDSHAW

| 11/01/2021

Samuel REDSHAW

AKA ?

Late of ?

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ‘ P ‘ 245

For the purposes of this website ‘P’ = represents those Police joining Pre 1 March 1862 when NSWPF “Officially” commenced.

Rank: Probationary Constable- appointed 26 July 1855

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed 1 March 1862

Sergeant – appointed ? ? ? Is named as a Sgt in 1860

Final Rank = Sergeant / Senior Constable ?

Retirement / Leaving age: = ?

Stations: ?, ‘ D ‘ District ( Sydney Metro )( SenCon )( 1862 ), Sydney Police Force ( 1860 )( Sgt ), Eastern District – ‘ E ‘ Division – Liverpool ( Oct 1862 )( SenCon ), Ryde – ( 28 March 1883 )(SenCon ), Lock-Up-Keeper – Eastern District – ‘ E ‘ Division- Church St – Parramatta ( 1886 )

In articles of 1860, he is referred to a number of times as a Sgt.

On 24 September 1862 was a Senior Constable at Liverpool.

In October 1862 he is referred to as a Senior Constable at Liverpool as being an Inspector of Slaughter houses.

On 23 July 1869 – Mr Samuel Redshaw appointed Agent for the Sale of Crown Lands for District of Liverpool.

On 24 February 1870 – appointed Clerk of Petty Sessions – Liverpool ( SenCon ).

On 7 June 1870 Mr. Samuel Redshaw to be Registrar of Small Debts Court – Liverpool.

On 26 February 1874 he is mentioned as Senior Constable in Charge of Liverpool Police Station.

Service: From 26 July 1855 to 18 August 1886 = ? years Service

Former Farmer

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system

Born: 1832 – Derbyshire, England

Died on: Monday 16 August 1886

Age: 56 years

Cause: Unknown

Event location: Police Station residence, Church St, Parramatta, NSW

Event date: ?

Funeral date: Wednesday 18 August 1886

Funeral location: Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW

Funeral Parlour: White & Metcalfe, Undertakers

Buried at: Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, NSW

Grave location: Old Anglican Section, EE, Zone B, plot # 183

GPS:

33°52’01.1″S 151°03’11.5″E

-33.866970, 151.053185

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( January 2021 )

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27/7/1855. Samuel arrived in Sydney on the vessel “Exodus” as an assisted immigrant and his occupation given as Policeman.

Also aboard the same vessel were 96 other Policemen from England and Ireland from a Superintendent down, many with their families.

1857.

Married Agnes Caldwell at Sydney. Agnes was born c1834 County Antrim, Ireland. She arrived in Sydney in 1853 by herself as an assisted immigrant aged 20.

1862. Promoted to Senior Constable at “D” division. .

1864-1872. 5 of his children were born and registered in the District of Liverpool (NSWBDM)

1886. Lock up keeper at Church St, Parramatta. His residence was given Church St, Parramatta living with wife and children.

16/8/1886. Died at his residence, Police Station, Church St, Parramatta, leaving behind a wife ( Agnes ) and nine children ( Thomas, William, Samuel, John, Agnes, Jane, George? ).

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875),

Friday 10 August 1855, page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTICE.- We, the undersigned, having been induced to leave our native country by the representations and promises made to us to serve as a police force at Sydney, New South Wales, we now find we cannot have those promises realized, and without which our position would be much worse here than in England.

And we feel we have been treated by the police authorities with such harshness and severity, and harassed by ( we were going to say ) legal proceedings – but which will be found to be illegal proceedings – that we have determined on taking such employment as we can procure.

We are further noticed that, on Saturday next, we are to be put on shore to seek lodgings where we can.

We have, therefore, determined to appeal to the public for prompt employment in our respective callings, and we are willing to accept service at moderate wages in Sydney, or in the country, as may be required.

We are assured by our legal adviser, Mr. Ryan Brenan, of the firm of Brenan and Russell, that parties employing us do not run the slightest risk, and we are willing to allow our wages to accumulate, for a reasonable time, to protect our employers, should they entertain any doubt on the subject.

We shall attend at the office of Mrs. PAWSEY, Registry Office, No. 60, Castlereagh-street, on SATURDAY and succeeding days, to meet applicants, and to produce our testimonials of character, &c.

Names, – Trade or Calling.

George Browne. Gardener

Richard Eades . Experienced Butcher

Robert Roe. Farm Servant

Donald Finlayson . Road Maker or Agricultural Labourer

John Gibson . Agricultural Labourer

William Craik . Kitchen Gardener

Edward Quinn . General Servant

Charles Harris. Shepherd

James Clifford . Machine Sawyer

Michael Prendergast . Groom and Horsebreaker

Joseph Peake. Groom and Coachman

Neil Buchanan. Farm Servant

James Hurley . Gardener, House, or Farm Servant

John Smith. Farm Servant

David Stuart . General Labourer

Allen McDurard, . Agricultural Labourer

Henry Hogg .Herdsman

Michael Higgins . Quarrymann

James Whitehall . Groom and Horsebreaker, or Coachman

Thomas McGregor . Shepherd

James Fairley . Agricultural Labourer

Patrick Maher . General Servant

James Levick. Woollen Weaver

William Elder . Farm Servant

Thomas Hand . Shepherd or Ploughman

Henry Kerr . Agricultural Labourer

Thomas Harris . General Labourer

Patrick Bryan . General Labourer

William McNish . General Labourer

Donald McMullen . Stoker

Patrick Levy . Farm Steward

Noble Handcock . Agricultural Labourer

Charles Woodhouse . Agricultural Labourer

Thomas Hegarty . General Servant or Coachman

William Roarke . General Servant or Coachman

Donald Sutherland . Herdsman

James Kennedy . Ploughman

Alexander Cohoon . Agricultural Labourer

John Blagbourn . Gardener and Sheepshearer

James Nichols . Gardener and Sheepshearer

John Holroyd . Woolsorter

Mathew Warburton . Agricultural Labourer

William Gough. Farm Servant

James Keenan . Farm Servant

Francis Keenan . Groom

Henry McLaren . Hotel Porter

Patrick Loughnan . Ploughman

Hugh Campbell . Agricultural Labourer

William Frederick Hitches . Gardener

William Clarke . Shepherd

Charles Robertson . Farm Servant

David Renne . Farm Servant

William Cooke . Farm Servant

Robert Fullerton . Farm Servant

Samuel Redshaw . Brickmaker

John McGregor . Farm Servant

John Grey . Farm Servant

Alexander McDonnell . Ploughman

Robert Swanson . Shoemaker

George Kennedy . Farm Servant

Patrick Lyons . Painter, Glazier, and Sign Write, or Clerk and Accountant in a Merchant’s Warehouse.

10 Aug 1855 – Advertising – Trove

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875),

Saturday 11 August 1855, page 2

NOTICE. – The men named below, who arrived in this port by the ship Exodus, were engaged for, and are under agreements to serve in the police. They have refused to enter on their duties under their agreements, and the public are hereby cautioned against employing any of them, and thus subjecting themselves to the legal consequences of so doing.

W. C. MAYNE, Inspector – General of Police 10th August, 1855.

Patrick Lyons, Peter Murray, John Spooner, James Hurley, William Hitches, Robert Fullerton John Blackburne, James Levick, James Nichols, William Cook, Peter Barnes, Neil Bucchannan, Patrick Logan, John Smith, Edward Quinn, Robert Mayne, Thomas James, William Craik, Charles Sheasly, Henry Hogg, Richard Eades, John Gibson, Frederick Stukely, William McNish, Samuel Condick, Thomas McGregor, George Brown, William Clark, Joseph Howard, Charles Robertson, Thomas Hegarty, Francis Keenan, Jeremiah Phelan, James Keenan, Henry Kerr, David Rennie, Robert Rea, Robert Swanson, Michael Higgins, Patrick Meagher, Charles Woodhouse, James Fairley, Michael Prendergast, Hugh Campbell, James Whitehall, Thomas Hand, Joseph Peaker, Alexander Colquhoun, Matthew Warburton, Alexander McDonald, Samuel Redshaw, Hugh McLaren, William Gough, John McGregor, John Holroyd, James Gray, Thomas Harris, David Stewart, George Kennedy, Donald Finlayson, Patrick Bryan, John Clifford, Richard Fawcett, James M. Kennedy, Walter Murray, William Elder, Charles Harris, John Lawton, William Sutton, William H. Gill.

11 Aug 1855 – Advertising – Trove

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Friday 19 December 1856, page 8

THE BALLOON RIOT IN THE DOMAIN

DEATH OF THOMAS DOWNS.

The boy Downs having died in the Infirmary on Wednesday morning from injuries received on Monday afternoon, by the falling of one of the upright poles erected in the Domain for the purpose of sustaining the balloon of M. Pierre Maigre during the process of inflation, an inquest was held on his body, shortly after mid-day, at the Three Tuns, King-street, before Mr. J. S. Parker and a jury of thirteen. John Kelly, Edward Atkinson, and Joseph Prior, three seamen of H.M.S. Juno, who were brought up at the Central Police Court on Tuesday, for riotous conduct in the Domain on the previous evening, and had been remanded till Friday, were brought before the Coroner in custody, it having been alleged that they took an active part in knocking down the pole which inflicted the deadly wound on the deceased boy.

The first witness examined was Emanuel Benjamin, residing in Clyde-street, Miller’s Point, who deposed that deceased, Thomas Downs, was his stepson, and that he was about eleven years old. Deceased obtained permission from his mother on Monday to go to the Domain to see the balloon ascent ; he was to return in an hour, but did not ; went to the Domain at 10 o’clock at night to seek for him ; then heard that two boys had been hurt, and taken to the Infirmary ; on enquiry there, found that his step-son was one of them ; identified, the body lying dead at the Infirmary as that of his wife’s son.

Donald McIntosh McEwen, a duly qualified medical practitioner, stated that, on Tuesday morning, between 9 and 10 o’clock, he made his usual visit to the Infirmary, and then saw the deceased, who had been attended immediately after the accident on the previous evening, by Drs. Nelson and McFarlane, in conjunction with the house surgeon ; examined deceased, and found him in a state of insensibility, with a very serious fracture on the left side of the head, extending from the forehead to the vertex ; about the vertex there had been several pieces of bone removed ; from the substance of the skull saw the place they had been taken from ; produced the pieces ; the injury he described would be quite sufficient to cause death, and such an injury would be inflicted by one blow from a heavy substance ; there was a clean cut extending from about the middle of the frontal bone to the vertex ; there was no coagulated blood on the surface of the skull ; the wound must have bled freely; a stick in the hand of a powerful man would make such a wound and fracture on a child of such tender years. On being recalled, the same witness stated that there were no other marks of violence on the body but the one he had described ; the evidence he gave was from what he bad seen, not from anything he had heard.

William Mortimer, inspector of the police force, and in charge of the C division, was next examined, and detailed at some length the riotous proceedings he had witnessed ; his attention was particularly called to some sailors belonging to H.M.S. Juno, forcing themselves over some iron fencing round the balloon ; he remonstrated with them, and got them to go back again ; about 7, when the balloon become inflated and rose two or three yards in the air, a rope fastened to the top of it became entangled ; some one cried out ” Cut the rope ;” M. Maigre was at that time in the car attached to the balloon ; it began swaying about, and the gas was escaping ; saw some sailors and soldiers, with other parties, pulling the balloon down ; his attention was called to a great number of persons rushing towards a tent in which the Governor and his suite had been sitting; followed and saw M. Maigre running, with a body of police around and protecting him, to get away to a place of safety ; on returning to the spot where the balloon was, having been away about four or five minutes, found the enclosure full of people, and among the most prominent saw some sailors of H .M. S. Juno, and some soldiers, who had surrounded and got hold of Captain McLerie, the Inspector-General of Police ; noticed the prisoner John Kelly; he, with other sailors, was pulling the balloon towards the fire, and they eventually burnt it ; saw the same prisoner most active in pulling down a tent in which the spirits of wine had been kept ; it was also destroyed ; about an hour after his attention was called to the same prisoner, who was engaged with other sailors destroying the fencing, chairs, and seats, throwing them into an immense fire ; Captain McLerie and he did all they could to prevent mischief ; he had been roughly handled, and threatened to be thrown into the fire by Kelly and others ; saw one of the poles pulled down with a great crash ; didn’t know by whom it was done ; also saw the second pole come down, a few moments after ; the sailors appeared to be a little groggy ; there might have been eight or nine of them ; had no doubt as to the identity of Kelly ; he was taken into custody and removed to St. James’ watch-house, where witness identified him as the leader of the mischief ; from the density of the crowd was surprised that so few people were injured by the falling of the poles.

William Hamilton Galbraith, a medical practitioner, had been in the Domain on Monday afternoon ; saw a machine miscalled a balloon, suspended from two pair of spliced poles ; saw it burned, together with a tent and its contents ; saw a soldier of the 11th upset an iron furnace in which was some ignited straw ; some sailors and others drew the balloon across the fire and set it in a blaze ; the tallest prisoner was the most conspicuous amongst them ; saw the poles pulled down by several persons whom he did not know ; there were boys and a woman among them assisting in pulling, and crying out cut the ropes ; took particular notice of the prisoner ; be ran bodily against the pole as soon as the ropes were cut, and by his main force shoved the pole down ; when the pole fell, heard a scream, and cries of Oh ! Oh ! ran to see what had happened ; found two boys lying, one with a severe cut in the head and quite insensible ; examined the wound and found there was a fracture of the skull, about four or five inches long : it was bleeding very much ; he breathed heavily ; heard afterwards that he was taken to the Infirmary ; did not see the prisoner cut any rope ; the poles would not have fallen had the ropes not been cut ; saw sailors, or men dressed like sailors, drawing out sheath knives about the pole ; immediately afterwards the ropes were adrift.

By the prisoner : At what time did you see me ? Answer : About seven o’clock. Had no doubt as to the identity of the prisoner.

Robert Hobbs deposed that he went to the Domain on Monday morning about half-past six with tents for the accommodation of visitors, and remained there till ten at night ; identifies the prisoner Atkinson ; saw him kick the furnace, and some sparks flew from it ; he did not kick it over; at the same instant the mob around said set fire to the balloon, which was no sooner said than done ; prisoner drew the balloon to the fire and set it alight, then drew it to the tent, with the assistance of Kelly and others, and set fire to the tent. The witness next described the pulling down of the poles ; the prisoner Atkinson let go the guys ; could have seen clearly had any one pushed at the pole when it fell ; did not see any one pushing it ; saw a soldier or marine about at the time the balloon and tents were burned ; he took a very active part in it ; did not see the second pole fall, nor did he hear any one call ” Get out of the way” before the first pole fell ; saw a man dressed as a sailor of the Juno, who was pockmarked; he took an active part in pulling down the poles ; could identify him.

By the prisoner Atkinson ; It was between half past 7 and a quarter to 8 that he saw the prisoner at the balloon ; recognised the prisoner by his dress and present appearance; he was a little excited from drink ; saw no sheaths or knives with the sailors.

George Nelson spoke generally as to the conduct of the crowd, and from the falling of the poles, from the position the boy was in, did not think he could have had anything do with the pulling at the pole which fell on him ; saw no one shove the pole, nor did he recognise the sailors now present as being there ; several sailors were throwing chairs and other things on the fire ; saw sailors with others pulling on the ropes, but did not see them do more than others did ; gave the alarm to the police that a boy was killed ; could not identify a single individual that was there.

At this stage of the proceedings, the enquiry was adjourned until next day ( Thursday ), at 12 o’clock, and the jurors bound over in the sum of £20 each for their appearance.

SECOND DAY.

Yesterday, at noon, the inquest was resumed at Mr. Driver‘s, King-street.

Mark Levy, furniture dealer, George-street, examined : Went to the Domain at 4 o’clock to see the balloon ; saw some men-of-war sailors there, who were the worse for liquor ; recognised the two shortest prisoners now before the Court as the men ; saw the sailor Atkinson pulling away the other, who gives his name as Prior, and persuading him to come away ; Prior wanted to fight some one ; they were disposed to be quarrelsome, and persuaded them to go away ; then saw Atkinson and Prior go out of the gate ; did not see them go near the pole ; it is possible that they might have got back to the pole without his seeing them ; saw lots of boys there, and it was his opinion they did most mischief ; was almost positive that the seamen now before the Court had no hand in pulling down the poles ; believed the people were quite as much excited as the sailors ; followed the body of the boy, and as he got outside the gate, saw the prisoner Kelly standing talking to some other sailors ; this might have been about 200 yards from the pole ; it is possible he might have come from the pole after it fell ; thought however, that he did not ; cannot say whether he was in liquor or not.

By a Juror : Was within a few yards of Atkinson when prisoner pulled him away.

By the prisoner Atkinson : Saw him first about four o’clock.

Samuel Redshaw, a police constable, stated that he did not see the first pole pulled down ; saw the second, however ; the prisoner Kelly was pulling a rope attached to it, and calling for help ; was about ten yards from him ; many civilians were assisting equally as bad as the sailors.

James Burt, sergeant of police, detailed the burning of the balloon, chairs, &c. With reference to the pulling down of the poles, he stated that there were civilians, as well as sailors and soldiers engaged in the work ; believes he saw the prisoner Prior there doing as the mob did ; the prisoner Kelly was not there to his knowledge ; had he been, thinks he must have seen him ; although he said that sailors and soldiers took an active part in the affray, he meant that they were more prominent by their dress ; the people were quite as much engaged as they.

William Carruthers, civil engineer, residing in Woolloomooloo, was in the Domain on Monday afternoon. His evidence presented no new feature, the chief point in it being, that before the pole came down a general shout having previously been given that it was falling, and to look out for it – it was almost impossible to say who was to blame in the matter, as it seemed a general thing. Dr. Duigan informed witness, after he had examined the boy, that he ( Thomas Downs ) could not live. Did not, on Monday, see any of the prisoners then before the Court.

This closed the evidence, and the jury shortly after returned the following verdict :- ” That the deceased, Thomas Downs, aged 11 years, came to his death by the falling of a pole in the Domain, on Monday evening the 15th instant, which was thrown down by a disappointed and excited crowd of people, out of whom it is impossible to single out any individuals as the ringleaders, or as throwing down the poles ; and we unanimously consider that, if any person is to blame, it is Monsieur Maigre, the perpetrator of the sham balloon ascent, which we consider caused the death of the said boy. We wish this to be considered a censure upon Monsieur Maigre. ”

19 Dec 1856 – HE BALLOON RIOT IN THE DOMAIN DEATH OF THOMAS DOWNS. – Trove

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Thursday 6 January 1859, page 8

ELECTORAL LISTS.- Notice is hereby given, that at a Meeting of her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Police District of Sydney, holden at this office on the 31st of December last, and 1st of January instant, the following persons were duly appointed Collectors of the Electoral Lists within tho Police District of Sydney, under the Electoral Act of 1858, for the several electoral districts in connection with their respective names, viz. :

EAST SYDNEY.- Inspector James Singleton, Sergeants Charles Smith, Jeremiah Stale, William Sutton, and John Taylor, and Constables Matthew McKeogh, William Cook, William Fairland, and Roger Fenton.

WEST SYDNEY– Inspector George Reid, Sergeants Richard Lee and Edward Sweney and Constables Edward Bloomfield, Anthony Hargrave, Peter Grimley, Andrew Love, William McNish, and Samuel Condick.

CANTERBURY.- Sergeants John Nowlan, John Enright, and Denis Linane, and Constables Thomas Hanly, John Emerton, James Hart, William McNamara, and Charles Harris.

GLEBE AND BALMAIN.- Inspector Wm. John Weston, Sergeants David McMakin, and John Healy, and Constable Wm. Rourke.

ST. LEONARD’S.- Inspector Thomas Ferris Quirk, Sergeants George Lamont and Thomas Joyce, and Constables John Hiatt, John Sheaves, Stephen Whelan, Henry Blaber, Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Malone.

NEWTOWN.- Sergeant Peter Conway, and Constables John Ibbotson, James Fairley, and John Carroll.

PADDINGTON, SURRY HILLS, AND REDFERN.

Inspector James Black, and Sergeants Henry Hogg and Samuel Redshaw, and Constables Thomas McKenzie, Edward Slattery, and William Cook.

It is particularly requested that all persons entitled to vote under the new Electoral Act in the said districts will afford the necessary information, and otherwise facilitate the duties of the collectors, and the proprietors of unoccupied lands or other property in the rural districts of Sydney are invited to communicate with the collectors, in order that their names may be inserted in the Electoral List in respect thereof.

By order of the Bench of Magistrates,
GEO. WARBURTON, Clerk of Petty Sessions.
Central Police Office,
Sydney, 5th January.

06 Jan 1859 – Advertising – Trove

ydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Thursday 9 February 1860, page 3

SECOND COURT.

Before Mr. Justice Milford.

INDECENT ASSAULT OF A CHILD.

Patrick Connery, indicted at the last sittings, was placed in the dock to stand his trial for that he, at Paddington, on the 13th day of October, 1859, did unlawfully and indecently assault one Mary Ellen Burke, a female child under the age of twelve years.

Mr. Butler conducted the prosecution against the prisoner, who was not defended by counsel.

The prosecuting counsel addressed the jury, and briefly stated to them the circumstances of the case.

Sergeant Samuel Redshaw, of the Sydney Police Force, deposed that he had arrested the prisoner on the fourteenth October last. Witness told him what was the charge against him. Prisoner said that the charge was a made up affair between the mother, the daughter, and the old woman Connolly.

The witness was cross-examined by the prisoner, but nothing of importance was elicited.

Mary Ellen Burke, the child referred to in the indictment, aged about seven years, was brought into court, but as she did not appear to have received any instruction whatever upon religion, her evidence could not be taken.

Catherine Connolly deposed that she knew the prisoner ; at the time that prisoner was arrested she was stopping at the house of Mr. Burke, the publican – the father of the little girl, Mary Ellen Burke ; witness one day went up stairs, and went into a room wherein there was only a basin stand and a box. This was three or four months ago. Mrs. Burke’s child was there, and the prisoner was also in the same room. [ Witness then proceeded to describe circumstances which amounted to a direct proof of the charge against the prisoner. ]

The prisoner had been drinking that morning, and seemed much the worse for liquor. Witness went down immediately, and told the parents ; the father questioned the child, and, on hearing what she said, struck Connery with a billet of wood when he came down stairs ; Mrs. Burke had sent witness upstairs for the child. Witness was cross-examined by the prisoner, but her evidence was not thereby affected. Cross-examined by the Judge, witness described the nature of the washhand-stand on which the child was sitting when witness went into the room ; the little girl was sitting on the top of it ; the prisoner had owed witness a pound for a long time, and witness used to ask him for it ; about a fortnight before this occurred Burke was bouncing the prisoner, and saying that he would not give up the property to him.

Mary Burke, the mother of the child Mary Ellen Burke, deposed that she remembered the day that something was done to her daughter. She was upstairs that morning with her brother ; they both once came down together : they had then some money, which the child said Paddy ( the prisoner ) had given to them ; witness was in the front room sewing, and after that sent the woman Connolly up stairs for them ; the woman came down stairs saying the child was destroyed ; witness saw her husband, just afterwards, striking the prisoner with a billet of wood; there was no difference existing between witness’s husband and the prisoner, except that Connery held a mortgage over the house. The prisoner had drunk something that morning, but was not drunk ; witness was not drunk. Cross-examined by the prisoner : witness admitted she had once been placed in gaol by her husband, and that prisoner had bailed her out ; witness had never expressed a determination to be revenged upon prisoner; the witness Connolly was drunk on that day, at the time she came down stairs, and made the statement against the prisoner Connery. The counsel for the Crown begged to withdraw the case.

The jury ( by the direction of the Judge ) returned a verdict of not guilty, and the jury intimated that the prisoner left the Court without any stain upon his character.

09 Feb 1860 – SECOND COURT. – Trove

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), Saturday 11 May 1861, page 5

WATER POLICE COURT.- Friday.

Before Messrs. S. North and J. McLean..

Sydney James Dalton was arrested by Samuel Redshaw, sergeant in the city police, charged with being in the dwelling-house of Rose Strange, for an unlawful purpose, on the 7th instant. The complainant Rose Strange, resides in Windmill-street, and only knew the defendant few days before she charged him with this offence.

It appears that he lodged in a house next door to the complainant, kept by a Mrs. Jacques, and about a quarter-past 2 a.m., on the morning of the 7th instant, the complainant was awoke by hearing a noise at the window shutters. She struck a light and saw defendant through the window, and asked him who he was and what he wanted, and he replied he would soon let her know. She went to the room in which her son slept, and roused him, and when they returned to complainant’s room Dalton was in the act of getting in at the window, whereupon, her son shoved him back, and he then went back to the house where he lodged.

On the following day, Mrs. Strange saw Dalton, and said if he apologised for what he had done, she would let the matter drop ; but he laughed, and said he was drunk at the time.

The prisoner, in defence, stated that when Mrs. Strange saw him the next day, that he said if he had been guilty of any ungentemanly act he was sorry for it.

The Bench ordered him to enter into his own recognisance in the sum of £50, to be of good behaviour for twelve months.

11 May 1861 – WATER POLICE COURT.—FRIDAY. – Trove

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Wednesday 5 November 1862, page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4.

INQUEST AT LIVERPOOL

Mr W FORSTER asked the Colonial Secretary,

” 1. Has any communication been made to the Government, or to the Attorney General, relative to the alleged sudden and mysterious death of a man named Hart, a few weeks since, while in the service and upon the premises of Captain Moore, J P , of Liverpool ?

2. Was any inquest held upon Hart’s body, or magisterial investigation made at the time into the circumstances of Hart’s death ?

3. If so, by whom, when, and where?

4. Was there any post mortem examination, or was any – and, if any, what – medical man present at such inquest or investigation ?

5. What was the result?

6. Has any further enquiry been ordered, or is any intended, by the Government ?

Mr COWPER answered generally, that a communication was addressed to the Government and a magisterial inquiry held, the result of which he held in his hand, in the form of a police report.

It was as follows – ” John Hart, aged seventy-two, labourer, place of death, Asylum, Liverpool.

The deceased has been in the employ of Samuel Moore, Esq, J. P., Liverpool, for many years, but for some time past was not able to do much work.

He was very much addicted to drink, and on last Monday he got drunk, and a man named George Fagan gave him a slap on the face for making a noise in the yard, afterwards putting him into an outbuilding to sleep.

Yesterday morning, Captain Moore sent for me for the purpose of giving the deceased into custody for protection.

I saw that the deceased was very ill, and I sent a constable to Dr Smith for an order for his admittance into the Asylum. Dr Smith gave an order, and I had him removed there immediately, and he died this morning.

Dr Smith made a post mortem examination, and found that he died from apoplexy, and that the slap on the face did not hasten his death.

Samuel Redshaw,
245,
senior constable,
24th September, 1862 “.

The hon. Colonial Secretary stated further that, in consequence of a letter sent by Mr. Charles Luke Bayly, a second investigation was held before Mr Jones and another magistrate, with a similar result – the medical evidence proving death to have been caused by sanguineous apoplexy, and in no way brought about by the slap or blow which the deceased received.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13236635

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Thursday 26 February 1874, page 7

Two PERSONS DROWNED BY FLOOD WATERS.-

The Coroner of Parramatta and Liverpool held an inquest at the Court-house, Liverpool, on the 24th instant, on the body of a man named Sidney Baldwin.

Samuel Redshaw, the senior-constable in charge of the Liverpool Station, deposed that at daylight on the 24th instant, he was in company with Mr. Thomas Thorn, searching for the body of deceased at Heathfield, about eight or nine miles down the George’s River, and found it in a paddock lying face downwards ; it was wet and covered with mud, and appeared to have been left by the flood waters as they receded ; it was then about 6 o’clock a.m. ; had the body brought to the police station.

Dr. Strong deposed that he had externally examined the body, and found it to present all the indications of death from drowning.

Thomas Thorn, farmer, Heathfield, deposed that he and deceased a little after daybreak on the 23rd instant started together on horseback towards a ridge, where some of witness’s cattle and horses were standing in the flood waters ; their horses got into a hole, and threw them both off into deep water ; both swam for it, holding their horse’s bridles; deceased said to him, ” I must let my horse go, it will be drowned ; ” witness then took both horses himself ; when he got standing ground he looked round for deceased, but he had disappeared beneath the water.

William Hart, a seaman, identified deceased as a shipmate of his by the Strathnaver, from England, in November last ; deceased came out as an able seaman, was 23 years of age, and a native of Manchester, England, where he had friends.

Verdict- ” Accidentally drowned. ”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13332249

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Saturday 2 May 1885, page 1

Marriages

REDSHAW—SUTTON.—April 15, at the residence of the bride’s parents, 45, Princes-street, by the Rev. W. G. Taylor,

Thomas, eldest son of Samuel Redshaw, of Parramatta, to Margaret, youngest daughter of William Sutton, of Sydney.

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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Tuesday 17 August 1886, page 14

Funerals

The Friends of the late Samuel REDSHAW, Senior-Constable of Police, are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral ; to move from his late residence, Police Station, Parramatta, at 2 o’clock, on WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, for Rookwood Cemetery.

WHITE and METCALFE,
Undertakers.

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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Tuesday 17 August 1886, page 1

REDSHAW.—August 16, 1886, at his residence, Police Station, Parramatta, Senior-Constable Samuel Redshaw, leaving a sorrowing wife and nine children to mourn their loss ; aged 56 years.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13644236

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900), Tuesday 24 August 1886 (No.475), page 5733

In the Supreme Court o£ New South Wales.

In the estate, goods, chattels, credits, and effects of Samuel Redshaw, late of Parramatta, in the Colony aforesaid, senior constable and watch-house keeper, deceased, intestate.

NOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, application will be made to this Honorable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that letters of administration of all and singular the estate, goods, chattels, credits, and effects of the abovenamed Samuel Redshaw, deceased, who died on the 16th day of August, 1886, may be granted to Thomas Redshaw, of Dowling-street, Sydney, in the said Colony, grocer, the eldest son of the abovenamed deceased.— Dated this 21st day of August, a.d. 1886.

ROBERT HENRY LEVIEN,
Proctor for the said Applicant,
George-street, Parramatta, and Phillip-street, Sydney.

5947 6s. 6d.

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l the day break and the shadows flee away. — Photos by: Kevin Banister – 6 Jan 2021

Kevin Banister

Rookwood cemetery today, 6/1/2021. Paid my respects to-

Senior Constable Samuel Redshaw, #245

Born c1832, Derbyshire, England.

Died 16/8/1886 at Parramatta NSW, cause unknown.

Buried Rookwood, NSW.

His headstone has been vandalised with graffiti.

It also overlooks the “Old Anglican War Lawn Cemetery” which makes it very easy to find.

Grave location:

Old Anglican Section, EE, zone B, plot #183. GPS -33.866970, 151.053185.

That gps will take anyone to his headstone so much so that one can download it to a smart phone with location/gps turned on, fire up google maps and walk to its location on the map. Use it all the time for Rookwood. So accurate that I have stood on top of an unmarked grave. (Posted earlier for an unmarked grave of a Police Officer). Hope this helps.

Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this man at the time of publication.

Cal

Paul Christopher SCHREIBER

| 11/01/2021

Paul Christopher SCHREIBER

AKA Schreib’s

Late of Nowra Formerly of Goulburn, NSW

Brother to Kel SCHREIBER # 12911

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 191

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 20701

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Academy Police on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 11 February 1983 ( aged 24 years, 6 months, 28 days )

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed 11 February 1988

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Retirement / Leaving age: = ?

Stations: ?, Sydney Metro area, Wellington, Braidwood, Narrandera, Goulburn

Service: From ? ? ? to ? ? ? = ? years Service

Awards: National Medal – granted 6 June 1997 ( SenCon )

Born: Monday 14 July 1958

Died on: Monday 4 January 2021

Age: 62 years, 5 months, 21 days

Cause: ?

Event location: Wollongong Hospital, Crown St, Wollongong, NSW

Event date: ?

Funeral date: Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 12.00 noon

Funeral location: The Chapel, Shoalhaven Memorial Gardens, Worrigee Road, Worrigee, ( Nowra ) NSW

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02 44230722

Buried at: ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( January 2021 )

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Obituary of Paul Christopher Schreiber

4th January 2021

Late of Nowra Formerly of Goulburn

Much loved father & father-in-law of Ingrid & Jamie and Bridget

Devoted Poppy of Jack

Loving brother, uncle, cousin and mate to many

Aged 62 years

‘When life’s a bitch, beer is a must’

Paul’s funeral service will be held in The Chapel, Shoalhaven Memorial Gardens, Worrigee Road, Worrigee on Wednesday 13th January at 12.00 noon.

Relatives & friends are invited to attend.

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Michael Bourke posted a condolence

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Really saddened to hear this news. Schreib’s was an exceptional cop and a great bloke. Smart, brave and always good company. RIP mate!!!!!

Ingrid Schreiber Posted Jan 9, 2021 at 8:00 PM

Thanks so much for your message. Lovely hearing how respected Dad was, and that he was a mate to so many people.

Ian lowe posted a condolence

Friday, January 8, 2021

Wishing our sincere sympathy to friends and family. We remember fondly our time spent together in Wellington. Rest in peace my friend.

Taddy and Rhonda Lowe

John Curran posted a condolence

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Deepest sympathy to your family mate. Worked with you at Wellington late 80’s when you were the lock-up keeper. Many a good time had over a cold beer. R.I.P

Ingrid Schreiber Posted Jan 9, 2021 at 8:02 PM

Thanks so much for your message. The 80s seems like such a long time ago! Glad you have fond memories of our Dad, and thanks for sharing.

Stephen Williams posted a condolence

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

REST IN PEACE PAUL. You were a good country cop and had a great sense of humour mate. God bless you and condolences to the Schreiber family.

Ingrid Schreiber Posted Jan 9, 2021 at 8:03 PM

Thanks for your message! Dad’s sense of humour is something we will all remember fondly!

Steve Wright posted a symbolic gesture

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Schreib’s, so sad to hear of your passing. Enjoyed our time working together in Narrandera. Without doubt you were one of the best street Policemen I have had the honour to work with. A true genuine person and proud to regard you as one of my mates. Rest In Peace.

Wrighty.

Ruth & James Davy posted a condolence

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Paul you will sadly missed Sending our deepest sympathy to all the family

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Lisa Ann CAMWELL

| 11/01/2021

Lisa Ann CAMWELL nee PARRISH

the First Full Time Female Rescue Operator at Zetland Rescue Squad

AKA ?

Late of ?

NSW Goulburn Police Academy – PREP Class # 242

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 26988

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on 30 July 1989 ( aged 20 years, 9 months, 26 days ) ( spent 5 months, 26 days at the Academy )

Probationary Constable- appointed Thursday 25 January 1990 ( aged 21 years, 6 months, 23 days )

Constable – appointed 27 April 1991

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed 30 June 1995

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Retirement / Leaving age: = 49 years, 6 months, 15 days

Stations: Sutherland, Menai GDs, State Protection Group – Police Rescue Squad – Zetland ( 4 July 1993 – ? ), Engadine Police Rescue Squad, ?, Monaro District, Police Rescue Squad – Cooma & GDs & Lock Up Keeper ( 12 July 1998 – 5 January 2004 ), Queanbeyan GDs ( 6 January 2004 – 18 September 2010 ), Queanbeyan had a name change to Monaro / Cooma District ( 12 January 2004 ), Blue Mountains GDs & Police Rescue ( 19 September 2010 – 19 April 2018 )

Service: From 29 October 1989 to 19 April 2018 = 28 years, 8 months, 20 days Service

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system although –

NSW Police Medal ( 10 years ) granted on 30 September 2004

1st Clasp to NSW Police Medal ( 15 years ) granted on 30 March 2005

National Medal ( 15 years ) granted on 28 April 2005

2nd Clasp to NSW Police Medal ( 20 years ) granted on 11 October 2010

NSW Police Commissioners Sesquicentennary Citation granted on 4 October 2012

1st Clasp to National Medal ( 20 years ) granted on 10 September 2018

3rd Clasp to NSW Police Medal ( 25 years ) granted on 10 September 2018

NSW Police National Service Medal granted on 10 September 2018

Born: Friday 4 October 1968

Died on: Saturday 2 January 2021

Age: 52 years, 2 months, 29 days

Cause: PTSD – Liver and Kidney failure

Event location: Blacktown Hospital, NSW

Event date: Saturday 2 January 2021

Funeral date: Tuesday 12 January 2021 @ 2pm

Funeral location: Pinegrove Memorial Park, North Chapel, Kington St, Minchinbury, NSW 02 9625 8066

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Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( January 2021 )

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Condolences to her partner, Grant Gibson & his two children, family and friends.

Lisa was the eldest child of parents, Ian Roderick Parrish and Marilyn Ann Gibson and Stepmom Judith Parrish.

Sister to Jody and Amanda and Aunty to their children.

Mother of Dayna, Hunter, Kade and Tamsyn.

This was published 13 years ago

Officer who found Byrne’s body grilled

The policeman who found Caroline Byrne dead at The Gap has told a Sydney court that in almost 20 years of rescue work, he had not seen any other bodies so far out from the cliff face.

Senior Sergeant Mark Powderly ( # 14425 ) gave evidence at the committal hearing for Gordon Wood, who is defending the charge that he murdered his former girlfriend.

The body of the 24-year-old model was found wedged head-first in rocks at the bottom of The Gap at Watsons Bay, in Sydney’s east, on June 8, 1995.

Wood, who was stockbroker Rene Rivkin‘s chauffeur at the time, is accused of throwing her from the 29-metre high cliff.

Exactly where Ms Byrne landed is central to the case, but her death was initially treated as suicide and no photographs were taken of her body at the scene.

Sgt Powderley told Burwood Local Court he and Constable Lisa Camwell retrieved Ms Byrne‘s body from a crevice next to a pyramid-shaped rock.

The officer, who spent 19 years in the Police Rescue Squad, said he had recovered up to 20 bodies from The Gap but had never found anyone that far out from the cliff.

Research by physics expert Rodney Cross allegedly shows that Ms Byrne could only have landed at this point, 11.8 metres from the cliff face, if she was hurled using a spear throw.

But a different place was nominated as the point of impact in a 1996 police video, which was played to the court.

In the video, Sgt Powderley narrates from the cliff top as Constable Camwell indicates a place several metres from the pyramid rock.

Sgt Powderley said he “wasn’t really concentrating” when the video – intended to publicise the Byrne case – was recorded.

He had only realised in 2004 that it showed the wrong place.

“If we were there to do a Forensic Services assessment of the scene and pinpoint the exact location … things would have been done differently,” he said.

Sgt Powderley said he saw the video for the first time at the 1997 inquest into Ms Byrne‘s death, but did not notice the position was wrong because he “just wasn’t paying the attention to it that I should have”.

Police initially gave Prof Cross the wrong information about where Ms Byrne landed and he concluded she probably jumped, the court has been told.

Defence barrister Winston Terracini SC suggested measurements of the location had been “wrong for ages”, but were changed when police received a report “that doesn’t suit their purposes”.

Sgt Powderley denied having been asked by the detective heading the investigation, Paul Jacob ( # 18752 ), to reconsider the body’s location.

Earlier, Prof Cross told the court he had not considered information from 1994 about Ms Byrne‘s sporting ability when concluding she could not have jumped so far from the cliff.

Instead, he used reports from Ms Byrne‘s high school teachers that she had no athletic ability.

Mr Terracini asked why he had not taken into account the more recent information which, he said, showed Ms Byrne “excelled at a whole range of different sports” including basketball, swimming and aerobics.

“I presumed that that material was provided by Caroline Byrne herself,” Prof Cross said.

The hearing continues on Friday.

Officer who found Byrne’s body grilled

On 9 September 2008 the Daily Telegraph / AAP reported “Exact spot of model’s body ‘forgotten’”

It said a police officer who recovered the body of model Caroline Byrne has told a Sydney court she will never remember the exact location of the body. Senior Constable Lisa Camwell told the New South Wales Supreme Court a controversial 1996 video re-enactment was her best memory of the recovery operation.

Ms Byrne, 24, was found wedged head first in rocks at the base of cliffs at The Gap, in Sydney’s east on June 8, 1995. Her live-in boyfriend Gordon Wood is on trial for her murder. Sen Const Camwell was one of two police involved in retrieving Ms Byrne’s body. She was tasked with carrying a body bag and stretcher across to the recovery site.

The officer today told the jury her recollection of the morning was based solely on her own actions “which was carrying equipment and looking at the ground”. When she took part in a video re-enactment about a year after Ms Byrne‘s death, Sen Const Camwell said she determined the place she believed the body found was based upon an estimate of how long it had taken her to reach it that night. “Most of those large rocks found down the bottom there are mostly just large rocks to me,” she said. “I wouldn’t ever say I know exactly where her body was.”

Sen Const Camwell said she had no further involvement in the case until she was contacted about the video in 2004. She told the court the officer then in charge of the murder investigation said the position of Ms Byrne‘s body had become a ” significant issue ”, and where she had indicated on the video appeared to be incorrect. She agreed with Wood’s barrister Winston Terracini SC that her best memory of events was as recorded on the video.

The location of the body is essential to the Crown case that Ms Byrne was not pushed nor jumped, but was forcefully thrown to her death. Sen Const Camwell‘s partner Mark Powderly has told the jury the body was recovered from a different location which is consistent with the theory that Ms Byrne was murdered. The location indicated by Sen Const Camwell supports the hypothesis that Ms Byrne took her own life. The trial continues.

NSW reports: Exact spot of model’s body ‘forgotten’ – 9 September 2008

This was published 12 years ago

Murder trial hears of ‘freakish scream’

MICK BRUNETTA had heard a lot of screams during his 17 years of fishing at The Gap, but he had never heard anything like the one he heard on the night of June 7, 1995, he told a murder trial yesterday.

Mr Brunetta and his brother-in-law Norm Wano were not having much luck as they cast their lines into the darkness from the clifftop. About 11pm they heard what they variously described as a woman’s “freakish scream” and that she sounded “like someone who was panicked or scared”.

Mr Wano turned and said, “F— man, what was that?” and the pair continued fishing.

Gordon Wood, 45, has pleaded not guilty to throwing his girlfriend, Caroline Byrne, a 24-year-old model, from the cliffs at the notorious suicide spot in Sydney’s east.

Mr Wano said that he contacted the police 11 months later after seeing a re-enactment on television where police asked the two fishermen, who were potential witnesses, to come forward.

Wearing an olive-green bandanna over his dreadlocks and his sunglasses perched on top of his head, Mr Wano said that although he was not a keen fisherman, he often accompanied his brother-in-law.

He said he had heard the scream about 11pm and, “It wasn’t a scream of happiness. It was like a scared scream.”

He said that later three men had come by calling out the name “Caroline”. Upon being told of the scream, Mr Wano said, one of the men had said, “On no, she’s done it, she’s done it.”

Mr Brunetta, who gave evidence with the assistance of an Italian interpreter, said that he recalled seeing a lone man calling out “Caroline” and that later that night that same man, who had blond hair, had come back with two other men. After telling the group of the scream, they asked to borrow his torch.

Mr Brunetta said his torch was not very good because the battery “was a bit flat”.

He agreed that in his 2004 statement he had said that when he saw the men trying to shine the torch to illuminate the bottom of the cliff, he had said, “There’s no way that man will be able to see anything because the torch is not strong enough.”

The two fishermen stayed on until dawn watching the police recover Ms Byrne’s body. Mr Brunetta said no one had ever taken him back to The Gap to try to pinpoint the exact location of where Ms Byrne had landed.

Also yesterday, a police witness contradicted another on critical evidence against Wood.

One officer told the jury that she would never be able to pinpoint the exact location of the body, which is vital to proving that Ms Byrne’s death was murder.

The jury has heard conflicting evidence about where the body was found, with senior retrieval officer Mark Powderly testifying Ms Byrne was some 10 metres from the cliff face.

But his partner, Senior Constable Lisa Camwell, yesterday told the court she believed Ms Byrne was in a crevice closer to the shore.

No measurements or photographs were taken on the night of her death.

A 1996 video re-enactment of the rescue operation shows Senior Constable Camwell pointing to a spot, which is referred to as the “exact location” of Ms Byrne’s body.

The officer yesterday said she had estimated the site based upon how long it took her to reach the body on the night of the retrieval, and the video showed her best recollection of events.

“Most of those large rocks found down the bottom there are mostly just large rocks to me,” she said.

“I wouldn’t ever say I know exactly where her body was.”

Murder trial hears of ‘freakish scream’

During the trial the court was told of some

During the trial, the Court was told of some uncertainty regarding the actual location where the body was found. Senior Constable Lisa Camwell, one of the officers who retrieved Byrne’s body in 1995 gave evidence that she had in 1996 participated in a video re-enactment in which she indicated the body’s location. She gave evidence that in 2004 she was contacted by an officer in charge of the murder investigation (Sergeant Powderly) and told that the position of Ms Byrne’s body had become a significant issue. She was told that the body position she had indicated on the video now appeared to be incorrect. Media reports during the second trial suggested the location of the body was an essential component to the Crown case that Ms Byrne was not pushed nor jumped, but was forcefully thrown to her death [The12]

2.4.3.3

Deliberation and verdict After five full days of deliberation on 21 November 2008 they found Wood guilty. On 3 December 2008 Wood was sentenced to a custodial sentence of 17 years, with a minimum time in prison of 13 years. Wood lodged an appeal to the conviction. 2.4.4 Inquests, Investigations and Trials Two inquests were held into Byrne’s death by New South Wales State coroner John Abernethy, with Wood claiming it was suicide. The second inquest in 1998 delivered an open finding. That same year, Wood left Australia. Police investigations continued from 2000 onwards as “Strikeforce Irondale“ with hundreds of witnesses interviewed and resulting in a brief of evidence running to more than 350 pages. Caroline’s father Tony Byrne continued to press for action from the investigation eventually enrolling the assistance of New South Wales politician Fred Nile who raised questions about the investigation in State Parliament up till 2004. In 2004 scientific reports relating to the physics of a body falling/jumping/being projected from the cliff produced by Professor Rod Cross were the principal elements of new evidence which encouraged the Crown to push for a trial of Gordon Wood. In March 2006 the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC agreed with police that there was enough evidence to charge Wood with Byrne’s murder. Wood was detained in London in April 2006, extradited to Australia and released on bail by a Sydney court on 4 May. On 6 July 2007, Wood was committed to stand trial for the murder of Byrne. The first trial started on 21 July 2008 with Mark Tedeschi QC appearing for the Crown and Winston Terracini QC defending Wood. On 6 August 2008, Justice Graham Barr declared a mistrial because of the alleged contact that a member of the jury had with 2GB radio host Jason Morrison. The juror, who remained anonymous, claimed that some of the jurors were planning a secret night visit to the crime scene (the Gap) being organised by a particular juror who was a “bully” and who had “already decided that Wood was guilty.” Justice Barr ruled “I had to discharge the jury … because some jurors disobeyed my instructions and misconducted themselves.” The second trial commenced on 25 August 2008 and for the first time in New South Wales court history a panel of 15 jurors was sworn in instead of the usual 12 to provide some contingency.

Death of Caroline Byrne

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Death of Caroline Byrne

Date	7 June 1995
Location	The Gap, Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33.843803°S 151.284998°E Coordinates: 33.843803°S 151.284998°E
Cause	Death by falling
Deaths	Caroline Byrne
Coroner	John Abernethy
Suspects	Gordon Wood
Charges	Murder
Verdict	Guilty, overturned on appeal

Caroline Byrne (8 October 1970 – 7 June 1995), an Australian model, was found at the bottom of a cliff at The Gap in Sydney in the early hours of 8 June 1995. Her then boyfriend Gordon Eric Wood (b. 1962), who at the time of her death was chauffeur and personal assistant to businessman Rene Rivkin, was convicted of her murder on 21 November 2008 and spent three years in Goulburn jail. He was acquitted of the conviction in February 2012.^[1]^[2]

Events of 7 June 1995

The Gap at Watsons Bay, location of Byrne’s death.

Born on 8 October 1970,^[3] Byrne had been in a relationship with Wood since 1992. She was a model but principally worked as a modelling instructor for Sydney deportment and etiquette educator June Dally-Watkins. On 7 June 1995, she failed to turn up for work and for an appointment with a psychiatrist. There were three claimed sightings of her near The Gap at Watsons Bay that afternoon and evening, in the company of two men, one of whom matched Wood’s description. Two of the sightings – at 1 pm and 3 pm – were by local cafe owners, Craig Martin and Lance Melbourne. In 1998 John Doherty, an Irish artist who had been out of the country in the intervening years, came forward to say that around 8.30pm that evening he too had seen Byrne outside his studio window arguing with one man while another man stood nearby.^[4]

Wood denied being present at Watsons Bay that afternoon. Evidence was sworn at both inquests by Wood’s friends Brett Cochrane and Nic Samartis that they lunched with him briefly around 1:15 pm in Potts Point before he was called away after a call from Rivkin.^[5]^:206 Wood claimed that he was asked by Rivkin to chauffeur prominent lobbyist and ex-federal minister Graham Richardson to an appointment and then spent the afternoon doing regular chores for Rivkin before going home around 7 pm. The Richardson alibi was compromised by Richardson when he was interviewed by police in 2001, when he advised that he had lunched that day with rugby league administrator Peter Moore.^[4]

Wood’s movements in the afternoon have never been reported prior to the late evening, when Wood said he awoke on his couch having fallen asleep in front of the television and was immediately alarmed that Byrne was still not home. Wood has said he did not know Byrne’s whereabouts but was led by what he termed “telepathic communication” to The Gap. He had first driven to the beachfront car-park at Bondi Beach where he and Byrne had spent much time and then to a favourite park at Camp Cove where they had often picnicked. Heading back from Camp Cove he spotted Byrne’s white Suzuki Vitara parked in a lane at The Gap. It was when running about the cliff-top and shouting her name that Wood encountered two rock fishermen who verified his appearance around midnight.

Wood then rang Tony Byrne and Caroline’s brother Peter. He drove back into Sydney city and collected them and all three then went to the Gap and scoured the cliff-top. Peter Byrne later gave evidence that at about 1am Wood claimed to have spotted her body at the base of the cliff using torchlight. Byrne himself said he could see nothing and nor could the police who arrived soon after with police torches. The night was dark and the cliff misty. Peter Byrne claimed it was difficult to see the rocks below the cliff, let alone a body. The contention whether Wood had claimed he could see something in the darkness figured in much media speculation over the years and formed a key part of Crown evidence in the 2008 trial. In 2011 the Appeal Court felt that the Crown had presented speculation in this area posing as evidence. This was one of the grounds resulting in Wood’s 2011 appeal being upheld.

The identity of the second man supposedly sighted by Melbourne and Martin with Wood in Watsons Bay earlier in the day has remained unclear. With evidence contradicting the likelihood that the man was either of those whom the police considered in investigation (Byrne’s modelling agent Adam Leigh or Rivkin associate Gary Redding) the Crown chose to pose speculation without evidence on either during the trial and drew criticism from the trial judge and later the appellant judges.

Media interest

Byrne’s death was accepted as a suicide by local Rose Bay Police and others. No photographs were taken of the location of her body’s landing point.

In 1996, Byrne’s father begin to agitate against the notion of suicide such that from 1997 onwards the case and circumstances of Byrne’s death were regularly examined in Australia’s national newspapers and reported as “one of Sydney’s unsolved crimes”. The death of a beautiful model at one of Sydney’s notorious suicide spots, the connection to the flamboyant and newsworthy Rivkin, and a net of witnesses and commentators which included some prominent Sydney identities all added to the intrigue of the case.

Offset Alpine speculation

Attention was particularly heightened by the still unproven speculation of a connection with Rene Rivkin’s financial activities. The day before Byrne’s death, Wood and Rivkin were interviewed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission about the Offset Alpine fire of 1993 and the true ownership of share parcels traded in Offset Alpine owned by nominees related to Swiss bank accounts.^[5]^:203 Tony Byrne claimed that Wood had indicated to his daughter that the fire was a set-up for insurance purposes.

Ultimately in 2001 Rivkin was charged with insider trading (of Qantas shares) and his eventual conviction in 2003 had a devastating effect on his mental stability, culminating in his 2005 suicide.^[6] However the ASIC investigation into share trading in Offset Alpine and the true beneficiaries proved an epic that outlived Rivkin, commencing in 1995 and continuing from 2005 with a focus shifted to Graham Richardson and Trevor Kennedy until eventually closed without outcome by ASIC in 2010.^[7]

Peripheral celebrities

Adding to this intrigue was a list of celebrities with a peripheral involvement in the case. Byrne’s medical doctor who had referred her to the psychiatric appointment she did not keep on 7 June was television celebrity physician, Dr Cindy Pan.^[5]^:205 Graham Richardson‘s diarised luncheon appointment that day (which caused him to question whether he may have been chauffeured anywhere by Wood) was with rugby league identity Peter Bullfrog Moore at Sydney’s Hilton Hotel and was set up to broker a peace deal in the Super League war which deeply divided Australian rugby league at that time. Wood always claimed that he had driven Moore from a noon meeting with Rivkin to what may well have been a lunch, though the press and (later) the Crown ignored this possibility. Moore died in July 2000 a year prior to the Strikeforce Irondale interview with Richardson, thus preventing corroboration of the luncheon timings and Rivkin too was dead before the trial.^[8]

Byrne’s close friends included entertainer Tania Zaetta and actress Kylie Watson, a Home and Away cast member. It was the amateur sleuthing around Watsons Bay armed with photographs of Byrne in the weeks after her death which had Dally-Watkins and Watson uncover the Martin/Melbourne sighting lead.^[5]^:206 Other celebrity witnesses who figured in the case at some point included businessman John Singleton, journalist Paul Barry and paparazzo Jamie Fawcett.

Inquests, investigation and trials

Two inquests were held into Byrne’s death by New South Wales State coroner John Abernethy, with Wood claiming it was suicide. The second inquest in 1998 delivered an open finding. That same year, Wood left Australia.

Police investigations continued from 2000 onwards as “Strikeforce Irondale” with hundreds of witnesses interviewed and resulting in a brief of evidence running to more than 350 pages. Caroline’s father Tony Byrne continued to press for action from the investigation eventually enrolling the assistance of New South Wales politician Fred Nile who raised questions about the investigation in State Parliament up till 2004.^[9]

In 2004 scientific reports relating to the physics of a body falling/jumping/being projected from the cliff produced by Professor Rod Cross were the principal elements of new evidence which encouraged the Crown to push for a trial of Gordon Wood.^[10] In March 2006 the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC agreed with police that there was enough evidence to charge Wood with Byrne’s murder.^[11] Wood was detained in London in April 2006, extradited to Australia and released on bail by a Sydney court on 4 May. On 6 July 2007, Wood was committed to stand trial for the murder of Byrne.

The first trial started on 21 July 2008 with Mark Tedeschi QC appearing for the Crown and Winston Terracini QC defending Wood. On 6 August 2008, Justice Graham Barr declared a mistrial because of the alleged contact that a member of the jury had with 2GB radio host Jason Morrison. The juror, who remained anonymous, claimed that some of the jurors were planning a secret night visit to the crime scene (the Gap) being organised by a particular juror who was a “bully” and who had “already decided that Wood was guilty.” Justice Barr ruled “I had to discharge the jury … because some jurors disobeyed my instructions and misconducted themselves.”^[12]

The second trial commenced on 25 August 2008 and for the first time in New South Wales court history a panel of 15 jurors was sworn in instead of the usual 12 to provide some contingency. ^[12]

Trial evidence

Presentation of the Crown case

Following the aborted first trial Tedeschi, as Crown Prosecutor, presented the Crown case over a nine-week period from 26 August until 24 October 2008. Over 70 witnesses were called and the jury heard hours of audio and video evidence including taped interviews with Rivkin and Wood.^[13]

Witnesses called by the prosecution included Pan, Richardson, Watson, Zaetta, Singleton, Fawcett, Bob Hagan and sports journalist Phil Rothfield. Tony Byrne, Peter Byrne, Dally-Watkins and her daughter Carol Clifford appeared. Doherty and Cochrane gave evidence via video link up from overseas. Police witnesses included Tracey Smit ( ProCst # 61020 ) and Paul Griffiths ( # 23770 ? ) (officers on scene), Sgt Mark Powderly ( # 14425 ), Sgt Neville Greatorex ( # 16136 )(who gave evidence on police procedures), Snr Const Lisa Camwell ( # ????? )(who retrieved the body) and the first investigating officer of the case Sgt Craig Woods ( #22599 ? ) of Rose Bay who had first dismissed the death as suicide and who gave evidence that in the first weeks Tony Byrne too accepted the suicide verdict and was explicitly against the idea of an inquest. Another ex-policeman to appear was Byrne’s former boyfriend Andrew Blanchette ( # ????? ). At one stage Justice Barr counselled Blanchette that he ought consider taking legal advice before answering a particular question. Sensationally on his second day in the witness box, Blanchette admitted that early that morning he had phoned another witness – Melinda Medich, his girlfriend and a minor at the time of Byrne’s death – before she was due to give evidence later that day. Blanchette was reported to police by Medich who had not heard from him for a number of years. Blanchette denied that he had been attempting to influence her evidence.

Location of the body

Retired University of Sydney physicist Associate Professor Rod Cross spent two days in the witness box. Over a six-year period Cross had produced six reports on the case – with his initial findings being quite different to the later findings presented in the trial.^[10] Although formally qualified in the field of plasma physics, Cross had experience working with biomechanists regarding sports research and had published and refereed many papers on biomechanics;^[14] he was therefore proposed by police investigators as a forensic expert in fall dynamics. Between 1998 and 2004 Cross’ reports all concluded that Byrne could have jumped to her death, as he was told that Byrne’s body had been found at a distance of 9 metres (30 ft) from the cliff.^[15] In 2005, when he was recontacted by the police that the position of the body was in fact farther away (11.8 metres (39 ft)), he conducted experiments which informed his speculation that Byrne could not have jumped that far and must have been thrown.^[5]^:210^[16] The required launch speed, from the top of the 29 metres (95 ft) high cliff, was 4.5 m/s (see range of a projectile^[17]^[18]), and the available runup distance was only 4 metres (13 ft) – although appeal submissions in 2011 called this into question. Cross tested eleven females from the New South Wales Police Academy and found that they could dive and land head first (in a swimming pool) at about 3.5 m/s after a 4 metres (13 ft) runup. A strong male could throw a 61 kilograms (134 lb) female at 4.8 m/s after a runup of only 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) or 3 metres (9.8 ft).

During the trial the Court was told of some uncertainty regarding the actual location where the body was found. Senior Constable Lisa Camwell, one of the officers who retrieved Byrne’s body in 1995 gave evidence that she had in 1996 participated in a video re-enactment in which she indicated the body’s location. She gave evidence that in 2004 she was contacted by an officer in charge of the murder investigation (Sergeant Powderly) and told that the position of Ms Byrne’s body had become a significant issue. She was told that the body position she had indicated on the video now appeared to be incorrect. Media reports during the second trial suggested the location of the body was an essential component to the Crown case that Ms Byrne was not pushed nor jumped, but was forcefully thrown to her death.^[19]

Suicide history

The court heard that Caroline’s mother Andrea Byrne had committed suicide in March 1991 after she became depressed following a breast enlargement operation that went wrong.^[20] Terracini also read to the court a letter Tony Byrne had previously provided to police in which he claimed that Caroline had made an attempt on her own life via overdose in 1992. In court Tony Byrne denied that Caroline had on that occasion intended to kill herself and instead was making “a cry for help”. At another stage of the cross examination, he claimed to suppose that had Caroline wanted to kill herself she would have copied her mother’s method rather than jumping from a cliff.^[21]

Byrne’s doctor, author and television personality Cindy Pan, gave evidence that she had seen Byrne for two years before her death and had specifically discussed Byrne’s depression with her in the weeks leading up to her death. Dr. Pan told the court Byrne said she had felt depressed for about a month and the condition had worsened in the week leading up to their appointment on 5 June 1995. Pan said the model told her she could not put a finger on what she was unhappy about.

“I was trying to explore with her what she might be depressed about, but she was not really able to identify any one specific thing,” Pan told the court. She said Byrne told her she “had the same thing three years ago” and had been put on medication, which had helped. Pan said Byrne denied having thoughts of self-harm and she referred her to a psychiatrist, obtaining an appointment for 4 pm on 7 June.^[22]

Presentation of the defence

One defence witness, Prof John Hilton, a forensic pathologist, was called during the Prosecution case, due to his later unavailability. Otherwise Terracini commenced the defence case on 27 October 2008 calling another physics expert Prof Marcus Pandy, a electromechanical engineer who conducted experiments on running and jumping speeds of two females. Only a handful of defence witnesses were called – two forensic pathologists, one psychiatrist, Prof Pandy, a stunt diver, and Wood’s sister Jacqueline Schmidt – and the defence case concluded within a week.

With the trial drawing to a close, the jury made a number of requests of Justice Barr that included a visit the Gap for a third time; for a transcript of Doherty’s evidence; and for video footage of Pandy’s running experiments.^[23]

Deliberation and verdict

For the first time in New South Wales court history, a ballot was used to select the three jurors who would stand down so that twelve of the sitting fifteen would deliberate to a verdict. After five full days of deliberation on 21 November 2008 they found Wood guilty.^[24]^[25] On 3 December 2008 Wood was sentenced to a custodial sentence of 17 years, with a minimum time in prison of 13 years. Wood lodged an appeal to the conviction.^[26]

Appeal

Wood’s appeal hearing commenced on 22 August 2011 in the Criminal Court of Appeal before Chief Judge at Common Law Peter McClellan, Justice Megan Latham, and Justice Stephen Rothman. Wood’s barrister Tim Game SC submitted that the jury’s verdict was unreasonable and not supported by the evidence. His submission spoke of nine grounds for appeal. One was that the trial miscarried by reason of the prejudice occasioned by the Tedeschi’s closing address. Others related to criticisms of Barr’s directions to the jury.

Early media reporting of the appeal focused on Game’s submission that the scientific evidence used to convict Wood and presented by Associate Professor Cross was flawed. A photograph was presented in the trial and purported to be taken in 1996 showing that scrub near the fence line had limited Byrne’s possible run-up to the jump, supporting an argument that she would have needed to have been thrown to achieve the horizontal distance from the cliff wall that her body travelled. The appeal judges heard and the Crown acknowledged that the photo was in fact taken in 2003 and that photo’s quality meant that a shadow might have appeared to be scrub. The appeal judges heard that a 1996 colour photo which showed that there was no scrub limiting the run-up was available to the Crown during the trial but that the Crown had chosen to introduce the blurrier, non-contemporaneous, more ambiguous image.^[27]

Game’s submission, consistent with so much of the trial evidence, concerned matters relating to the exact positioning of Byrne’s body at the base of the rocks and the orientation of her legs and torso and leading to questions regarding the contended launch point and the assumptions and assertions made by Cross in his pre-trial studies and reports and his trial evidence. Day two of Game’s submission focused on the police’s changed view between 1996 and 2005 as to Byrne’s landing spot and specifically trial evidence given by Sergeant Mark Powderly used to justify the reconstruction.^[28]

The Criminal Court of Appeal delivered their opinion on 24 February 2012 acquitting Wood of Byrne’s murder and ordering his release from jail.^[1] The appellate judges delivered a unanimous decision that there was insufficient evidence beyond reasonable doubt that Wood murdered Byrne and that the jury’s verdict was not supported. They dismissed the Crown evidence as being critically flawed and ruled that the possibility of her suicide ought not have been excluded.^[1]^[2]

Justice McClennan described Cross’ experiments as “unsophisticated” and in the summation of his decision said that he was not satisfied by either of the two motives presented by the Crown.^[1] Regarding the motive submitted by Tedeschi that Byrne had information about Rivkin’s business dealings that Wood was trying to hide, McClennan said “The exploitation of public rumour and the use of mere innuendo to compensate for inadequate evidence of motive is not consistent with the obligations of a prosecutor to press the Crown case “to its legitimate strength” by reliance upon credible evidence”.^[2]^{:para 305} McLennan was also troubled that the notion Byrne may have been unconscious when she left the cliff top was introduced by the Crown late in the case.^[2]^{:para 277} He described Tedeschi’s suggestion, first made in his closing address and mentioned at no other time in evidence, that a “shot-put” action was used to despatch Byrne as “an invention of the prosecutor…for which there was absolutely no support in evidence”.^[29] McClennan also expressed some doubt as the reliability of evidence concerning the claimed sightings of Wood and Byrne at Watson’s Bay on 7 June 1995 noting that some of these witnesses had come forward years after the event and the initial investigations; he raised concerns that the Melbourne/Martin first identification of Wood and Byrne was based on a specific photos shown to them by Dally-Watkins rather than from being picked from a selection. Tedeschi was criticised by McClellan for presenting reasoning that was “dangerous” and “entirely without foundation”. Tedeschi contributed to the alleged miscarriage with his “50 killer questions” which took an “impermissible course” in asking the jury to consider rhetorical questions dealing with matters that had not been presented with in evidence.^[29] McClennan ruled that he was not persuaded that Sgt Powderly’s evidence regarding the changed landing position of the body was entirely reliable.^[2]^{:para 317}

Wood was freed from prison on 24 February 2012; having served three years two months in Goulburn Correctional Centre, following an initial month in Parklea prison. Three weeks later the new New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, Lloyd Babb SC, issued a press release simply announcing that “the OPDD will not appeal the Court of Criminal Appeal’s judgement in the matter of R v Gordon Wood . No further comment will be issued”.^[30] This was 24 hours after meeting Tony Byrne and attending the Gap with him – a meeting which Byrne described as ‘fruitful’.^[31]

Post-appeal

Wood left Australia after his release from prison and spent time in the United States and Britain. In 2014 he brought defamation actions against the Sydney radio stations 2GB and 2UE, Channel Seven Sydney, and The Daily Telegraph^[32] which were all settled out of court in his favour for undisclosed sums.^[33]

In 2016 Wood sued the state of New South Wales for millions of dollars plus costs for malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment, based on a number of grounds including a “hopelessly corrupted” and “ridiculous” police case against him.^[34] In a witness statement filed as part of his lawsuit against the state, Mr Wood said that during his three years in Goulburn Jail he lived in constant fear of guards who dished out “therapy” and was king-hit (a term widely used in Australia, meaning a very hard punch, usually delivered to the head, that is completely unexpected) and knocked unconscious in the prison yard by an infamous rapist and killer.^[35] The suit was dismissed on 10 August 2018, with Wood receiving no compensation.^[36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caroline_Byrne

Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this woman at the time of publication.

Cal
3 January 2021

Kelly Ann FOSTER

| 11/01/2021

Kelly Ann FOSTER VA

AKA Kel

Late of ?

NSW Police Training Centre – Goulburn – Class # 310

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 46412

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Monday 18 January 2010 ( doing 7 months, 9 days at the Academy )

Probationary Constable- appointed 27 August 2010

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Retirement / Leaving age: = ?

Stations: ?, Lithgow – Death

Service: From 18 January 2010 to Saturday 2 January 2021 = 10 years, 11 months, 15 days Service

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system

Born: ? ? ?

Died on: Saturday 2 January 2021

Age: 39

Cause: Drowned – Off Duty – Rescue attempt in swift water

a Breast Cancer Survivor

Event location: Wollangambe Canyon at Mount Wilson, north of the Blue Mountains, NSW

Event date: Saturday 2 January 2021 – Sunday 3 January 2021

Funeral date: Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 12:30pm

Funeral location: Hoskins Memorial Uniting Church, 43 Bridge St, Lithgow, NSW

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Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( January 2021 )

Kelly FOSTER: Police identified the 39-year-old woman as serving NSW Police officer, Senior Constable Kelly Foster. Credit: NSW Police — Police identified the 39-year-old woman as serving NSW Police officer, Senior Constable Kelly Foster. Credit: NSW Police

KELLY is mentioned on the National Police Wall of Remembrance

KELLY IS mentioned on the Sydney Police Memorial Wall

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Kelly, prior to joining the ranks of NSWPF was a Teacher.

Kelly FOSTER

Chifley Police District

January 2, 2022 9.03PM

Remembering one of our own – Senior Constable Kelly Ann Foster VA

At a special, private ceremony held today ( Sunday 2 January 2022 ) at Lithgow Police Station, close family and colleagues gathered as a mark of respect, to honour Senior Constable Foster VA, one year after her passing.

In memory of Kelly, Lithgow officers, Leading Senior Constable Michael Barr and Senior Constable Jim McMillan, along with members of Kelly’s family and other colleagues built a special memorial garden.

The memorial would not have been possible without the generosity of donations from the local community also.

The garden was unveiled today by Kelly’s parents Terry and Marilyn, her brother David and sister Leigh.

Lithgow Police, Chief Inspector Chris Sammut said, ” Today’s intimate ceremony between Kelly’s family and Lithgow police staff was beneficial as it formed part of the healing process for family and work colleagues. The memorial wall and garden will be a lasting tribute to Kelly. It will ensure for decades to come that Kelly’s heroic story will never be forgotten by police and the community whom she so tirelessly served “

Senior Constable Kelly Ann Forster VA, tragically died while attempting to save the life of a fellow canyoner, Jennifer Qi, within the Wollangambe Canyon at Mt Wilson on 2 January 2021.

As a result of her brave actions, Senior Constable Foster was posthumously awarded the Commissioners Valour Award.

She’ll forever remain in our hearts and memories.

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Kelly FOSTER — NSW Police Wall of Remembrance, Sydney.

NSW Police Legacy

18 September 2021:

This morning, Senior Constable Kelly Foster‘s name was placed inside the Commissioner’s Baton, blessed, and carried to the NSW Police Wall of Remembrance.

In a normal year, the baton would be on the road by now, carried by a convoy of motorbike riders in the Wall to Wall – Ride for Remembrance, all travelling towards the National Police Memorial in Canberra with the express purpose of honouring and remembering fallen police mates.

The bikes remain silent today, but the moment loses none of its importance.

COVID has changed everything, but it will never diminish the memories of the fallen.

Kelly Foster‘s name will stay inside the baton until next year, when it will be carried by the Wall to Wall Riders to the Memorial.

We hope it will be the only name carried.

We remember, always.

Chifley Police District

21 January 2021

From all of us at Chifley Police District, we would like to thank the community for their love and support in relation to the untimely death of Senior Constable Kelly Foster.

As you can appreciate, we are expecting a significant gathering to bid her farewell, and with the current COVID restrictions, not everyone who would like to pay their respects in person will be able to do so.

We are urging members of the public not to attend the church; instead, please demonstrate your community spirit by forming a socially distanced line along either side of Bridge Street (between Mort and Short streets) from 1:30pm tomorrow (Thursday) to view the procession as it leaves the church.

On behalf of Kelly’s family and the broader NSW Police Force family, thank you for your ongoing support.

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Chifley Police District

ROAD CLOSURES FOR FUNERAL OF SENIOR CONSTABLE KELLY FOSTER-

THURSDAY 14/1/2021.

CHIFLEY PD

Police advise of a soft road closure of Bridge Street Lithgow at the intersection of Mort Street- the road will be closed all the way to the intersection of Short Street and includes closure of the Church St intersection with Bridge St. Residents will be able to enter and exit by advising Police at the traffic points. Road closed from 6 am until abut 4 pm. The funeral commences at 12.30 pm

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Senior Constable Kelly Foster, aged 39, died following a canyoning incident at Mount Wilson yesterday (Saturday 2 January 2021).

Snr Cst Foster attested on 27 August 2010, after which she commenced duties as a probationary constable at Newtown Local Area Command.

She was confirmed as a constable in May 2012.

In May 2014, Snr Cst Foster joined the State Crime Command working as an intel analyst until May 2020.

She was most recently working at Chifley Police District, stationed at Lithgow Police Station.

NSW Police Acting Commissioner Mal Lanyon has extended his condolences to the Foster family on behalf of the NSW Police Force.
“It’s a very sad time for the NSW Police Force and Kelly’s death is a loss to the whole community,” Acting Commissioner Lanyon said.
“To hear reports that Kelly was trying to help another woman when she died demonstrates her commitment to the community she served and the ability to put the needs of others before her own.
“Kelly was a highly regarded and dedicated officer who will be sorely missed by colleagues across the force.
“Her policing career was put on hold when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, however, her strength to survive this and return to work is another testament to her strength and resilience.
“Above all, Kelly was a kind and loving daughter, sister and partner.”

Snr Cst Foster’s family have requested privacy at this time.

Kelly FOSTER - On top of Australia at Mt Kosciusko — Kelly FOSTER – On top of Australia at Mt Kosciusko

An international student, 24, was among a group swimming on inflatable lilos at the popular Wollangambe Canyon (pictured) when she was sucked into the whirlpool. Her body was recovered on Sunday, along with Senior Constable Foster's — An international student, 24, was among a group swimming on inflatable lilos at the popular Wollangambe Canyon (pictured) when she was sucked into the whirlpool. Her body was recovered on Sunday, along with Senior Constable Foster’s

The couple bonded over their mutual love of adventuring and regularly went camping, hiking and on mountain bike rides throughout Australia

Senior Constable Kelly Foster (left) drowned while trying to save an international student who became stuck in raging waters in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, on Saturday. Senior Constable Foster had trekked to the picturesque spot with her boyfriend Gavin Morom (right)

Mr Morom (right) had posted about his trek with Senior Constable Foster (left) on adventurers social media app Strava on Saturday. The policewoman only recently returned to the job after overcoming breast cancer

Gavin & Kelly - Cedar Creek — Gavin & Kelly – Cedar Creek

Emergency services rushed to the scene after the alarm was raised about 2.30pm on Saturday, but poor weather conditions meant a search had to be called off about 6pm. When it resumed on Sunday the bodies of the two women were located by NSW Police divers

Eight other members of the group who the international student was with were uninjured

It's believed both women were canyoning in water only that can only be reached after hours of hiking through rough terrain — It’s believed both women were canyoning in water only that can only be reached after hours of hiking through rough terrain

Missing canyoners found after sucked into whirlpool in Blue Mountains including NSW police officer

Lucy Mae Beers

Published: 03/01/2021 Updated: 3 January 2021 2:34 PM

There has been a sad end in the search for two missing canyoners after they were sucked into a whirlpool in regional NSW.

The women had not been seen since disappearing beneath the water’s surface on Saturday in Wollangambe Canyon at Mount Wilson, north of the Blue Mountains.

But on Sunday, police divers joined the search and located two bodies around midday.

Police identified the 39-year-old woman as serving NSW Police officer, Senior Constable Kelly Foster, who has most recently been stationed at Lithgow Police Station.

The other woman is believed to be an international student, aged 24, from Chiswick.

She is yet to be formally identified and police are waiting for confirmation that family members are notified.

Witnesses told police the younger woman fell off her inflatable lilo and it was swept into the whirlpool.

Snr Cst Foster was also swept out when she tried to rescue her.

The other members of the group were uninjured.

A report will be prepared for the coroner.

Missing canyoners found after sucked into whirlpool in Blue Mountains including NSW police officer | 7NEWS.com.au

January 4 2021 – 10:48AM

Port Hacking High School pays tribute to Senior Constable Kelly Foster

The Port Hacking High School community is saddened by the tragic news that former student, NSW Police Senior Constable Kelly Foster, who lost her life in a tragic canyoning accident over the weekend.

Senior Constable Foster, 39, died following a canyoning incident at Mount Wilson on Saturday.

“Kelly graduated in 1999 and according to her peers was very smart, kind, had an easy going nature and always put others before herself,” a statement on the Port Hacking High School Facebook site said today.

“We send our deepest condolences to Kelly’s family and friends at this time.”

Port Hacking High School pays tribute to Senior Constable Kelly Foster | St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | St George, NSW

Colin William Hugh NAPIER

| 11/01/2021

Colin William Hugh NAPIER

AKA Col

Son of Colin NAPIER ( B: 16 Dec 1903 – D: 26 Feb 1989 ) who was born in the Police Stn, Johnshaven, Benholm, Kincardineshire, Scotland. He married Louisa Jena MARSHALL in 1936 in NSW

Late of ?

It’s nice to be nice

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 088

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 10187

Uniform # 4099

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 30 October 1961 ( aged 24 years, 3 months, 15 days )

Constable – appointed 30 October 1962

Constable 1st Class – appointed 1 April 1967

Detective – appointed 2 November 1967

Senior Constable – appointed 1 April 1971

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 February 1978

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 30 June 1986

Final Rank = Detective Senior Sergeant

Retirement / Leaving age: = 54 years, 11 months, 29 days

Stations: Parramatta ( 18 Division )(GDs)( 4 December 1961 – 18 August 1963 )( ProCst – Cst ),

Granville ( 18 Division )(GDs)( 19 August 1963 – 2 August 1964 ), Granville ( 26 Division )( GDs )( 3 August 1964 – 1 November 1964 ),

Vice Squad ( 20 Division )(2 November 1964 – 26 July 1965 ), Parramatta ( 18 Division )( Vice Squad )(27 July 1965 – 1 June 1966 ),

Bankstown ( 19 Division )( C.I. Duty )( 2 June 1966 – 6 February 1967 ),

Liverpool Dets ( 22 Division )( 2IC to Bert EDWARDS )( 7 February 1967 – 13 March 1969 ),

C.I.B. ( 20 Division )( Vice Squad )(14 March 1969 – 11 April 1972 ),

( *28 Division )( C.I. Duty )(12 April 1972 – 20 May 1978 ) * 28 Division was the Water Police at Dawes Point in 1978. In 1988 28 Division was then allocated to Mt Druitt.

Liverpool ( 22 Division )( C.I. Duty )(21 May 1978 – 12 April 1980 ),

Newtown ( 5 Division )( C.I. Duty )( 13 April 1980 – 20 June 1981 ),

Fairfield ( 34 Division )( Det Sgt )( 21 June 1981 – 17 July 1982 ),

Liverpool ( 22 Division )( C.I. Duty )( 18 July 1982 – ? )

Records were then computerised.

Merrylands GDs – Retirement ( 14 July 1992 )

Service: From ? ? 1961 to 14 July 1992 = 31 years Service

Awards: National Medal – granted 6 November 1980 ( Det Sgt )

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 2 November 1988 ( Det SenCon )

Born: Thursday 15 July 1937 at Strathfield, NSW

Died on: Friday 18 December 2020 surrounded by family

Age: 83 years, 5 months, 3 days

Cause: Cancer = Prostate

Event location: Home of his daughter.

Event date: Suffering terminal cancer in October 2020

Funeral date: Wednesday 23 December 2020 @ 10am

Funeral location: Thanks Giving Service: Guildford Anglican Church, 2 Bolton St, Guildford, NSW ( No coffin )

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Buried at: Col, unselfishly, donated his body to science

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2020 )

Colin William Hugh NAPIER, Col NAPIER — ” anyway, the fish was thissss big “

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Back row, left to right: Det. SenCon RJW King, Det Cst 1/c K.A. Barr, Det Cst 1/c R J Seery, Det SenCon P.B. Scott, Det Cst 1/c P.W. Gould Front row. Det SenCon B.A. Brown, Det Sgt 2/c J. Waldmanis, Det Sgt 3/c C.W.H. Napier, Det Sgt 3/c D.E. Pike — **Back row**, left to right: Det. SenCon RJW King, Det Cst 1/c K.A. Barr, Det Cst 1/c R J Seery, Det SenCon P.B. Scott, Det Cst 1/c P.W. Gould **Front row**. Det SenCon B.A. Brown, Det Sgt 2/c J. Waldmanis, Det Sgt 3/c C.W.H. Napier, Det Sgt 3/c D.E. Pike

Colin William Hugh NAPIER, Col NAPIER, Peter GOULD — Col with Peter GOULD

Col had been suffering from a rare Cancer which failed to show up on tests.

As a result, Col donated his body to science in the hope of helping to cure Cancer.

Cal

David Ritzau

Yesterday celebrating the life of Colin William Hugh Napier, firstly at the Anglican Church Guildford, and the for the rest of the day and evening at one of Col”s favourite spots at the Guildford Leagues Club with Steve Ryan and Anthony Field where we spent time remembering:

Fairfield Detectives 1980’s: Detective Senior Sergeant Colin William Hugh Napier wasn’t just our boss, he was our Leader, our Mentor, our Protector, our Motivator, our Mate, and for us younger Detectives our virtual dad during working hours. We’ve lost a good one. R.I.P. Col and I bet you are already at the bar enjoying a beer with Rod. Thank you. We’ll never forget you.

Prior to employment with NSWPF – Col had been an a shop assistant for 3 weeks, Labourer for 3 months, member of the R.A.A.F. for 6 years, A Clerk for 14 months and a Copy boy for 14 months.

He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 28 April 1955 as an Aero Engine Fitter.

He was Discharged ( from the R.A.A.F. ) ” Termination of period of enlistment ” at the Rank of Aircraftman with a trade as an Engine Fitter.

His proficiency was satisfactory and Conduct was exemplary.

On the 9 January 1962 he was Commended with Constable D.W. Gibbens for keen observation when, on seeing a motor car at Westmead on 9 January 1962, of similar description to one believed to be used in connection with the commission of crime, they followed the vehicle, and after a chase, in which it was abandoned, the three occupants decamping, arrested one of the offenders and found stolen property in the vehicle.

Subsequently, the other two offenders were arrested by Police and all three charged with stealing.

Sign: N.T.W. Allan – Commissioner of Police

At the time of joining NSWPF he was 5′ 11″, 12 Stone in weight, hazel eyes, brown hair with a medium complexion and was Married.

He attained 74% at completion of Training Class 089A at the Police Training Centre ( Redfern )

He completed a three day course in Civil Defence Oct / Nov 1962.

He satisfactorily passed his typing test on 17 August 1962 at 20 w.p.m.

Successfully completed Sergeant Course # 4, Class 4 of 1979 with 82.4%

He passed his Constable 1/c examinations on 22 September 1964.

He failed his first attempt at the examinations for Sergeant 3/c on the 15 May 1975 but passed them on the 13 May 1976.

He passed his Sergeant 1st Class examinations on the 10 May 1983.

He completed his Detective Course on 26 October 1966 and was Designated ‘Detective’ on 2 November 1967.

He completed his Solo Motor Cyclist course on the 12 April 1962.

He completed his General duty utilities and light trucks ( Bull Wagons – F100s ) on 29 January 1964.

He completed his High Speed ( Automatics ) course on 17 November 1970.

He completed his 4 wheel driving course on the 15 May 1978.

Michael William HAYMAN

| 11/01/2021

Michael William HAYMAN

AKA Mick & Gizza by his Sapper mates in South Vietnam

Late of Buppa Nursing Home – Pottsville – formerly of Murwillumbah, NSW

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 122

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 14064

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on 16 February 1970 ( Aged 23 years, 6 months, 19 days )

Probationary Constable- appointed 26 March 1970 ( Aged 23 years, 7 months, 26 days )

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed 26 March 1975

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 30 March 1986

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Incremental Sgt ( Sgt 2/c )

Retirement / Leaving age: = 53 years, 2 months, 8 days

Stations: ?, 13 Division ( Campsie )( 1970s ), Penrith, Broken Hill ( 1980s ), Murwillumbah ( 1990s ), Kingscliff ( 1995 ), Tweed Heads – Retirement

Service: From 16 February 1970 to 6 October 1999 = 29 years, 7 months, 20 days Service

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NASHOS

Service name: Australian Army

Service number: 215417

Rank: Lance Corporal

Unit Name: 17th Construction Squadron

Date of birth: 28 July 1946

Place of birth: Sydney, NSW

Date of intake: 11 April 1966

Date of exit: 11 March 1967

Total Days: 335

NS Training: ?

National Service: No

Follow Up Training: ?

Basic Training: ?

Next of Kin: ?

Medals: None for display

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Police Awards: National Medal – granted 28 May 1990 ( Sgt )

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 28 May 1990 ( Sgt )

Born: Sunday 28 July 1946 in Sydney, NSW

Died on: Monday 12 December 2020

Age: 74 years, 4 months & 14 days

Cause: Cancer – ( Type = ? )

Back in May 2014, Mick suffered several strokes was was admitted to John Flynn Hospital, Gold Coast, Qld and his condition, at that time, was critical.

Event location: Tweed Heads District Hospital, NSW

Event date: ?

Funeral date: Monday 21 December 2020 @ 2pm

Funeral location: Tweed Valley Cemetery, 813 Eviron Rd, Eviron, NSW

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any Future Wake location: ??? TBA

any Future Wake date: ??? TBA

( Due to current Govt. restrictions on ‘Gatherings’ due to Corona19 Virus Pandemic, some families may wish to have a Memorial Service / Wake with friends and family at a later date )

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: Cremated

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2020 )

Four young useless golfers from the 70s.
Left to right, Grahame Fahey, Chris Duncan (RIP), John Marine and Mick Hayman, deceased this week (RIP).

MICK is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

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John Caden

15 December 2020

Notification of Death of former Incremental Sgt Michael HAYMAN, formerly of Kingscliff Police Station within the Tweed Heads District.

Mick passed away at Tweed Heads District Hospital last Saturday 12 December, 2020 from Cancer.

He will be cremated at the Tweed Heads Crematorium next Monday 21 December, 2020.

A service will be held at that Crematoriums Chapel, commencing 2.00pm Daylight saving time. Anyone interested in attending may do so and there will be a large screen video link of the service outside if there are more numbers than are permissible within the Chapel.

Briefly, Mick served with A.D.F, Royal Australian Engineers for six years with a tour of Vietnam in 1966 & two following consecutive tours of Malaya.

He later joined the N.S.W Police force in February 1970, being attached to Penrith, Broken Hill, Murwillumbah and Kingscliff before being discharged, H.O.D on 6 October 1999 and retired to Murwillumbah.

Mick unfortunately spent the last five years of his life in Buppa Nursing Home at Pottsville Beach after suffering a fall in his home resulting in brain trauma.

He is survived by three adult sons and a daughter.

Mick was a larger than life character and a pretty good operator. He enjoyed life when he was able to and played harder than possibly any other person I have met.

I have known a few A graders over the years but for consistency, Mick was definitely in a league of his own.

Lest we forget.

Michael John KEAN

| 11/01/2021

Michael John KEAN

AKA Mick

Late of ?

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 159

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 18181

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Academy on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 26 June 1978 ( aged 24 years, 3 months, 17 days )

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed 26 June 1987

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Stations: ?, Breath Analysis Section ( B.A.S. ), Method of Operation Unit ( M.O. ), Blacktown GDs ( 27 Division ) – Death

Service: From ? ? ? to ? ? ? = ? years Service

Awards: National Medal – granted 7 May 1994 ( SenCon )

Born: Tuesday 9 March 1954

Died on: ? August 2001

Age: 46 – 47

Cause: Suicide – possibly at his home in Lalor Park, NSW – Hanging

Event location: Home

Event date: ? August 2001

Funeral date: ? ? ?

Funeral location: ?

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2020 )

Michael John KEAN, Mick KEAN. Grahame FAHEY & Mick KEAN at Blacktown Police Station — ( L – R ) Mick KEAN ( # 18182 ) & Grahame FAHEY ( # 12622 ) & at Blacktown Police Station

MICK is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

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Mick had just left “the job ” when offered the new superannuation scheme to get off pre 88 – his intention was to rejoin but Commander Wales knocked it back. Depression etc led to his suicide.

KEAN Michael John Death notice 21AUG2001 Death late of Lalor Park. Sydney Morning Herald

FURTHER INFORMATION NEEDED.

Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this man at the time of publication.

Cal
1st Published on 24 November 2014.

Updated 13 December 2020

Kevin MONK

| 11/01/2021

Kevin MONK

AKA Munky

Late of Flinders, NSW

NSW Goulburn Police Academy – Class # 243

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 26960

Rank: Commenced Training at Academy on 29 October 1989 ( aged 34 years, 17 days )

Probationary Constable- appointed 27 April 1990 ( aged 34 years, 6 months, 15 days )

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Leading Senior Constable

Stations: ?, Sutherland GDs ( 24 Division ), Kiama GDs, Warilla GDs ( Orange Team ), Lake Illawarra ( Oak Flats ) GDs – Retirement

Service: From 29 October 1989 to 15 July 2016 = ? years Service

Send Off was on Friday 15 July 2016 @ Central Hotel, Shellharbour City, NSW

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system – although

Commissioners Commendation – Granted on ? ? ?, together with Nathan Matthews & Chris St Clair for the successful rescue of a Psych. patient who went out past the breakers at Warilla Beach at 11.30pm on 28 January 2003.

Certificate of Merit, awarded by the Royal Humane Society of NSW, for actions involving sea rescue at Warilla Beach on 29 January 2003.

Born: Wednesday 12 October 1955

Died on: Thursday 10 December 2020

Age: 65 years, 1 month, 28 days

Cause: ? ” Possible ” Heart attack

Event location: Home

Event date: Thursday 10 December 2020

Funeral date: Tuesday 22 December 2020 @ 4pm

Funeral location: Hansen & Cole Funerals, Northcliffe Dve, Kembla Grange, NSW

LIVE STREAM ( www.oneroomstreaming.com/login )

Event ID HansencoleKG Password: RUZXOC

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS TO i98FM Convoy for Kids will be welcomed at www.Illawarraconvoy.com.au

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any Future Wake location: ??? TBA

any Future Wake date: ??? TBA

( Due to current Govt. restrictions on ‘Gatherings’ due to Corona19 Virus Pandemic, some families may wish to have a Memorial Service / Wake with friends and family at a later date )

Funeral Parlour: ? TBA

Buried at: ? TBA

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2020 )

KEV is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

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Family will be attending Hansen & Cole, Kembla Grange, today ( Wednesday 16 Dec 2020 ) to make the Funeral arrangements. When the time and date are known – I will update Kev’s Memorial page.

Cal

My deepest condolences to his adult daughters Rachel & Alissa ( Switzerland ), his son Andrew and his two adored grandsons.

Rachel arrived at Kev’s place and attempted CPR. You did your best Rach and we all thank you for that.

Cal

It is believed that Kevin was found, deceased, at his home this morning – possibly after a fall.

No suspicious circumstances.

I wish his two daughters, son, family and friends, my deepest condolences. Munky was a good bloke to work with on Orange Team – Warilla GDs.

Cal

Matthew Adam THEOKLIS

| 11/01/2021

Matthew Adam THEOKLIS

Husband to Serving NSWPF Member Rebekah ?, # ?????

AKA Matt THEOKLIS, Theo

Late of ?

NSW Goulburn Police Academy – Class # “possibly” ADPP 25 – Class 298

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 41375

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on 2 May 2005 ( aged 24 years, 4 months, 10 days )

Probationary Constable- appointed 14 December 2005 ( aged 24 years, 11 months, 22 days )

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed ? December 2019

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Sergeant

Stations: Flemington LAC ( 2005 ), ?, South West Metro Operations, Eastern Beaches PAC – Maroubra – on loan to Major Events & Emergency Management – Covid Operation Deployments – Sydney Police Centre

Service: From 2 May 2005 to Monday 30 November 2020 = 15 years, 6 months, 28 days Service

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system

Born: Monday 22 December 1980

Died on: Monday 30 November 2020 about 7.30am

Age: 39 Years, 11 months, 8 days

Cause: Suicide – Service weapon

Event location: inside Sydney Police Centre, Goulburn St, Surry Hills, NSW

Event date: Monday 30 November 2020 about 7.30am

Funeral date: Friday 11 December 2020 @ 10am

Funeral location: Horizon Church, 7 Stapleton Ave, Sutherland, NSW

reauthored LIVE STREAM

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any Future Wake location: ??? TBA

any Future Wake date: ??? TBA

( Due to current Govt. restrictions on ‘Gatherings’ due to Corona19 Virus Pandemic, some families may wish to have a Memorial Service / Wake with friends and family at a later date )

Funeral Parlour: ? TBA

Buried at: ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2020 )

MAT is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * BUT SHOULD BE

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

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Our condolences to Brooke THEOKLIS, Sophie THEOKLIS & wife, Rebekah.

Matthew Adam THEOKLIS — Mr Theoklis (pictured holding his twin daughters) had been promoted to a Sergeant in December last year.

In the early hours of Monday 30 November 2020 beloved Sergeant Matthew (Theo) Theoklis passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the Sydney Police Centre. Theo joined the NSW Police Force in December 2005. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in December 2019 and was attached to Eastern Beaches Police Area Command. At the time of his death he was performing duties with Major Events and Emergency Management, State Planning Unit. His colleagues will best remember him for his dedication and commitment to Operation Support Group (OSG) operations, firstly as a valued member of South West Metropolitan Region Enforcement Squad (OSG) and more recently with Operation ODIN (Central Metropolitan Region).

Theo was a well-respected member of the NSW Police Force who took immense pride in his job. He performed his duties with the highest of professionalism and will be remembered for the fun and antics, for which he was renowned.

Above his Policing, he was first a loving son to Sam, Mary and Barry, brother to Sarah and Ed and uncle to his many nieces and nephews.

Theo leaves behind his fiancée Rebekah, who is a current serving member of the NSW Police Force, and beautiful 3-year-old twin daughters Brooke and Sophie, who adore their dad. Theo was a wonderful father who cherished his girls and would constantly talk about them.

All donations to this cause will go to the ongoing support and care of Brooke and Sophie throughout their lives.

This is a Community Fundraising initiative
Organiser: Rachael Eagle
Contact: eagl1rac@police.nsw.gov.au

https://portal.policelegacynsw.org.au/campaign/13/brooke-and-sophie-theoklis-appeal

NSW Police create fundraiser for Sergeant Matthew Theoklis’ family

December 9, 2020

A NSW police officer who took his life has been recognized as father-of-two Sergeant Matthew Theoklis.

The father of three-year-old twin women was discovered lifeless on the Sydney Police Centre in Surry Hills on November 30.

Theoklis, often called ‘Theo’, leaves behind his fiancee Rebekah, additionally a serving member of the NSW Police Force, and daughters Brooke and Sophie, who “adore their dad”.

He joined the NSW Police Force in December 2005 earlier than he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 2019.

NSW Police create fundraiser for Sergeant Matthew Theoklis’ family

Heartbreaking photos show hero cop doting over his twins before he shot himself dead at a police station – as community rally behind his family with final act of kindness

Sergeant Matthew Theoklis was found dead at Sydney Police Centre on Nov 30
He had been in the police force for 15 years and leaves behind twin daughters
A fundraiser has since been set up to help support his fiancee and two children

By Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 16:07 AEDT, 8 December 2020 | Updated: 17:03 AEDT, 8 December 2020

A New South Wales police officer who died after he shot himself at a police station has been identified as Sergeant Matthew Theoklis.

The father of three-year-old twins was found dead in an office of the Sydney Police Centre on Goulburn Street in Surry Hills at 7.30am on November 30.

Mr Theoklis, who was known as ‘Theo’, leaves behind his fiancée Rebekah, who is a member of the NSW Police Force, and daughters Brooke and Sophie.

The father had worked as a policeman for the past 15 years and was a Sergeant with the Eastern Beaches Police Area Command.

At the time of his death, the policeman had been carrying out duties with the Major Events and Emergency Management and State Planning Unit.

He had been promoted to a Sergeant in December last year.

With the tragic news shocking the community, a fundraiser has since been set up to help support Mr Theoklis’ two young girls.

The fundraiser, which was set up by the NSW Police Legacy organisation has already raised close to $3,000.

‘Theo was a well-respected member of the NSW Police Force who took immense pride in his job,’ a statement read.

‘He performed his duties with the highest of professionalism and will be remembered for the fun and antics, for which he was renowned.

‘Theo was a wonderful father who cherished his girls and would constantly talk about them.’

An earlier statement from NSW Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.

Lifeline 13 11 14.

Sydney police officer who shot himself identified as Sergeant Matthew Theoklis

A father of three year old Twins, was stationed at the Sydney Police centre in Goulburn St, Sydney, around 7.30am when the shooting occurred.

He has been a member of NSWPF for 15 years and is married to another member of NSWPF.

NSW Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.

Matt was also a supporter of NSW Police Legacy, having Boxed in the Police Legacy Boxing Tournament, at Horning PCYC, on 19 April 2013.

Policeman dies in suicide at NSW Police headquarters in Sydney

A police officer has taken his own life at the central Sydney offices of NSW Police.

The apparent suicide occurred in an office at the Sydney Police Centre in Surry Hills on Monday morning.

Initial inquiries indicate the man’s death was not suspicious, a spokesperson for NSW Police said, and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

A spokesperson for the Police Association of NSW said the union was aware of the death and would be providing support to those affected.

The death follows a number of suicides among police officers recently, including a senior constable in the New England region.

Police suicides in previous years have prompted discussion about the high-pressure nature of the job and whether officers are adequately supported.

A coronial inquest into the 2013 suicide of a former officer, Ashley Bryant, highlighted the psychological effects of police work, including the stress of constantly being alert to danger and coming into contact with victims of crime.

The inquest found NSW Police was working to help its members deal with the “extreme stressors” they face although more needed to be done.

Earlier this month, the Herald reported concerns held by current and former police officers about the culture inside the force.

If you, or someone you know, is thinking about suicide, you can seek help by calling Lifeline on 13 11 14, Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 or NSW Mental Health Line on 1800 011 511.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/policeman-dies-in-suicide-at-nsw-police-headquarters-in-sydney-20201130-p56j7t.html

Scott Hermann McVICAR

| 11/01/2021

Scott Hermann McVICAR

AKA Scotty, Sloth,

Late of Bingara, NSW

Former Son-In-Law to Artie DOVER # 14576 & former partner to Artie Dovers daughter – Shelly ( previously of Cessnock Police Stn )

Service 1: Goulburn Police Academy PREP Class # 270

New South Wales Police Force

Service 1 & 2: Regd. # 31897

Rank: Service 1

Service 1: Commenced Training at Goulburn Academy on 18 May 1997 ( aged 23 years, 9 months, 11 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed Friday 14 November 1997 ( aged 24 years, 3 months, 7 days )

Constable – appointed 14 November 1998

Stations: Service 1

Service 1: Kurringai LAC – Hornsby GDs, HWP – Scone ( from 15 September 2002 – 3 November 2002 ), Hunter Valley ( 4 November 2002 – 17 December 2005 ) , Lower Hunter LAC – Kurri Kurri & Cessnock GDs ( Team 4 ) ( 18 December 2005 – 17 September 2011 ) – ( left ‘the job’ – Resigned )

Service 1: From 18 May 1997 to 17 September 2011 = 14+ years Service

After Resigning from the employ of NSWPF, Scott joined the mining industry as a ‘Fly In – Fly Out’ miner in Western Australia before rejoining the NSWPF as a Rejoinee.

Service 2 – REJOINEE: NSW Goulburn Police Academy – PREP Class # “possibly” 324 – 328

Rank: Service 2

Service 2: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 24 October 2016

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Stations: Service 2

Service 2: North Shore – Harbourside LAC ( ProCst ), North Shore PAC – Hornsby ( 3 June 2018 – 17 December 2019 ), Central Hunter, Bingara ( 2 man station as Lock Up Keeper – New England Police District ( 18 December 2019 – 9 November 2020 ) Death

Service 2: From ? September 2016 to 9 November 2020 = 4+ years Service

Total Service with NSWPF = 18+ years

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system – however

National Police Medal – granted on ? ? ?

National Police Service Medal – granted on ? ? ?

NSW Police Medal for Ethical & Diligent Police Service – granted on ? ? ?

1st Clasp to NSW Police Medal – granted on ? ? ?

Commanders Citation & Commanders Unit Citation granted 30 November 2020 ( Posthumously ) – Acts of Bravery re Arrest at North Shore Command

Born: Tuesday 7 August 1973 – Royal Newcastle Hospital, NSW

Died on: Monday 9 November 2020

Age: 47 years, 3 months, 2 days

Cause: Suicide – Carbon Monoxide poisoning

Event location: Bingara Police Station

Event date: Monday 9 November 2020

Funeral date: Monday 23 November 2020 @ 11am

Funeral location: *North Chapel, Newcastle Memorial Park, 176 Anderson Dve, Beresfield, NSW

*Due to the current Public Health restrictions, attendance at the funeral service is by personal invitation from the next of kin. No other persons are permitted on the grounds of the Memorial Park.

Registration will be required via name and email address after which an invitation to the streaming service will be received at the email address given.

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FUNERAL VIDEO

In an effort to include all that knew and loved Scotty, we would like to extend an invitation for you to attend the service via livestream on the day.

any Future Wake location: ??? TBA

any Future Wake date: ??? TBA

( Due to current Govt. restrictions on ‘Gatherings’ due to Corona19 Virus Pandemic, some families may wish to have a Memorial Service / Wake with friends and family at a later date )

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( November 2020 )

SCOTT is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO

SCOTT SHOULD BE entitled to be mentioned on the Sydney Police Centre Memorial Wall, Surry Hills

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

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Together again with his 18 year old son – Connor, who died on the 18 September 2018 in a motor vehicle accident.

May they both, forever, Rest In Peace together.

Our deepest condolences to daughter Bella, Scotts sisters – Natasha & Angela and the family and to Artie ( # 14576 ) and Shelly ( # ????? ).

Scott Hermann McVICAR, Scott McVICAR — Bugger !

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Natasha Llewellyn, Bella McVicar and Angela McVicar

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He Loved his Family…….

He Loved his Mates ……

He Loved his Beer………

He Loved his Dragons…

He Loved his Fords……..

He Loved his Polo Shirts.

He was a man I loved and have known since the day he was born.

He loved my parents and both our parents have been best friends their whole life.

He was the Best Man at my wedding and no one EVER had a bad word to say about him.

He came to Woodberry at age 13 and was thrown in the second row in my footy team.

He was a tough man on the Rugby League field never EVER took a backward step and the complete gentleman off the field.

He won a grand final packing in the second row together with me.

He is my mate and will be forever.

He is Scott McVicar.

Rest In Peace my friend

Scott McVICAR ( Left ) with Tony GRAHAM ( Right )

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