* Rogerson was born in Sydney in 1941 and joined the NSW Police in 1959, at 18

* During his 27-year career he worked on high-profile cases and was an integral part of the notoriously corrupt armed hold-up squad

* Rising through the ranks to detective, in 1980, he received the coveted Peter Mitchell Award for outstanding police work

* In 1981 he was investigated over the fatal shooting of 22-year-old drug dealer, Warren Lanfranchi but was cleared of wrongdoing after an inquest determined he shot Lanfranchi while trying to arrest him

* Lanfranchi's girlfriend Sallie-Anne Huckstepp sensationally accused Rogerson of murdering her boyfriend and was found murdered in Centennial Park in 1986

* Sydney underworld figure, Arthur "Neddy" Smith was charged Ms Huckstep's murder but later acquitted

* Smith later said Rogerson gave him the "green light" to commit crimes in NSW

* Rogerson was acquitted in 1989 of trying to bribe and conspiring with a hitman to murder undercover drug squad officer Michael Drury, who survived a 1984 execution-style shooting

* Rogerson was dismissed from the force in 1986 for depositing $110,000 into bank accounts using a false name and later spent nearly four years in prison in the 1990s for perverting the course of justice.

* Richard Roxburgh depicted Rogerson in the 1995 television mini-series Blue Murder as the star crooked cop who was in cahoots with prominent underworld figures

* Rogerson appeared briefly in shows telling tall tales about his times on the beat, one was titled The Wild Colonial Psychos which also featured criminal Mark "Chopper" Read

* Rogerson was jailed in 2005 for 12 months after admitting lying to the Police Integrity Commission, at a hearing into possible corruption at Liverpool City Council

* In May 2014, Rogerson and fellow former detective Glen McNamara shot dead 20-year-old university student and drug dealer Jamie Gao dead in a Sydney storage unit

* The pair were found guilty in 2016 of murdering Gao and sentenced to life

* They received an additional nine year sentence for stealing 2.78kg of methamphetamine from Gao, with an estimated street value of $19 million

* In 2021 Rogerson and McNamara lost bids in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal to have their convictions overturned, with a panel of judges saying Rogerson's case "did not raise any doubt about his guilt"

* On March 17, 2023, the High Court rejected a bid by Rogerson to have his life sentence overturned

* Rogerson was moved from Long Bay prison to Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital on January 18, 2024, to receive end-of-life care and died three days later.

Australian Associated Press