List of Australian criminals

This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. See demography 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:

  • Catherine Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[68]
  • David Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986[68]
  • Gregory Brazel, shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery, and murdered two sex workers in 1990[69][70]
  • Robert Francis Burns, murdered eight men between 1876 and 1881 in Victoria and New South Wales
  • Eric Edgar Cooke, The Nedlands monster[71]
  • Bandali Debs, convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s[72]
  • Paul Denyer, Melbourne-based serial killer during the early 1990s dubbed the "Frankston Serial Killer"[73]
  • Peter Dupas, Melbourne-based serial killer who killed several times upon release from prison[74]
  • Leonard Fraser, also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; killed four to seven women in Rockhampton, Queensland[75]
  • John Wayne Glover, the Sydney North Shore granny murderer[76]
  • Caroline Grills, also known as "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of five family members[77]
  • Paul Steven Haigh, convicted of the murders of six people in the late 1970s and another in 1991; currently serving six life sentences without the possibility of parole[78]
  • Matthew James Harris, strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga
  • Thomas Jeffries, Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1826[79]
  • Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler[80]
  • William MacDonald, also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963[81]
  • John and Sarah Makin; baby farmers convicted for the murder of Horace Amber Murray; suspected of the murders of 13 infants in total.[82]
  • Martha Needle, poisoner of four family members and boyfriend's brother
  • Derek Percy, linked to the mysterious deaths of at least nine other children in the 1960s.
  • Martha Rendell, killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in the 20th century; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia[83]
  • Lindsay Robert Rose, serial killer and contract killer from New South Wales who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994[84]
  • Arnold Sodeman, the schoolgirl strangler[85]
  • Carl Williams, convicted of murdering three people and suspected of killing, or ordering the killing of, many more in the Melbourne gangland killings.[86]
  • Ivan Milat, convicted of the murder of seven young men and women between 1989 and 1993; known as Australia's most prolific serial killer. His crimes are collectively referred to as the "Backpacker murders".[87][88]

Child sex offenders

Australians convicted of child sex offences:

  • Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, paedophile,[89] died in 2009 while serving a 20-year sentence
  • Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[90] found dead in December 2012[91]
  • Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault involving underage girls[92]
  • Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years and 9 months with a non-parole period of six years[93][94]
  • Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[95]
  • Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender[96]
  • Patrick Power, Crown Prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[97]
  • Peter Scully, paedophile charged with abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture and murder. Known for creating and selling the dark web video Daisy's Destruction, which features the torture and rape of three girls including 18-month-old Daisy. Scully and his girlfriend Carme Ann Alvarez, who also abused children in Scully's videos, were sentenced to life imprisonment.[98]

Rapists

Australians convicted of rape:

Others

Australians convicted of other offences:

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