3 resultsfor “Sydney prison death investigation”
Sydney prison unit that an independent watchdog previously [recommended be closed](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/08/long-bay-jail-nsw-prison-watchdog-report) because it “simply cannot provide a safe environment”. The man was on remand, awaiting a hearing or sentencing, when he hung
Investigators allege the 47-year-old was involved in the deaths of several unarmed Afghan detainees, either by killing them or ordering a subordinate to do so, between 2009 and 2012. On Friday, lawyers
investigating him – when he was arrested at Sydney airport last week, a Sydney court has heard. Roberts-Smith made a bail application before Judge Greg Grogin in Downing Centre local court Friday morning. “The accused