List of Australian criminals

This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. See Population of Australia.

Bank robbers

Australians convicted of bank robbery:

Drug traffickers

Australians convicted of drug-related crimes both in Australia and overseas:

Families

Notable Australian criminal families:

Gangsters

Fraudsters

Australians convicted of fraud:

Murderers

Australians convicted of murder:

Serial killers

Australians convicted of multiple murders:

Child sex offenders

Australians convicted of child sex offences:

  • Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, paedophile,[99] died in 2009 while serving a 20-year sentence
  • Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[100] found dead in December 2012[101]
  • Andrew Garforth, convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Ebony Simpson[57]
  • Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault involving underage girls[102]
  • Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years 9 months with a non-parole period of six years [103][104]
  • Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[105]
  • Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender[106]
  • Patrick Power, Crown prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[107]
  • Peter Scully, Paedophile guilty of the murder of an 11-year-old Filipina girl, and of the torture and sexual abuse of at least eight girls, including an 18-month-old infant; was charged with Abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture, murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is best known for creating the sickening video Daisy's Destruction.

Rapists

Australians convicted of rape:

Others

Australians convicted of other offences:

  • Geoffrey Edelsten, high-profile doctor convicted of soliciting a hit man and perverting the course of justice[109][110][111][112]
  • Marcus Einfeld, former Superior Court Judge, imprisoned subsequent to his retirement for lying relative to a speeding ticket[113][114]
  • David Hicks, Guantanamo Bay detainee, convicted of providing material support for terrorism[115]
  • Bon Levi, conman[116]
  • Barry Morris, politician who was gaoled for making bomb and death threats[117]
  • Mark "Chopper" Read, attempted murder, armed robbery, assault, kidnapping, torture, arson and impersonating a police officer
  • David Brooks, convicted drug dealer who violated parole in NSW in Feb 2018 then whilst on the run taunted police nationwide with a series of "catch me if you can" videos. He gained international attention but was eventually arrested in South Australia before being extradited to NSW to serve out remainder of sentence in Goulburn prison.

See also

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