As far as I can gather - this is the timeline of ALLEGED events - sourced from media.
Jamie Gao - Victim
20 years old
Student: was completing a business degree at the University of Technology
Roger Rogerson - Charged with murder of Jamie Gao
73 years old
Ex-Police Detective
Glen McNamara - charged with murdering Jamie Gao and supplying 3kg of methamphetamine
55 years old
Ex Police Detective
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Timeline
Prior to 20th May 2014.
Gao still lived at home with his mother Catherin Sui Ying Gao and grandmother in Hurstville, Sydney NSW
Mother owns a tiling business at Rockdale.
Jamie Gao's mother was overseas in Hong Kong visiting Jamies grandmother She returned back to Australia after her son was reported missing.
Known:
- 2011 - *Federal Police had been watching Gao since 2011 as a suspected drug importer and dealer.
- 2014 - Two weeks before he went missing, Gao was before Downing Centre Local Court on kidnapping and assault charges, where he was represented by (Solicitor) Ms Lau and the case adjourned.
- 2014 - MURDER victim Jamie Gao had been called to give evidence before a secret hearing at the Australian Crime Commission in the weeks before his death.
The Australian Crime Commission “could not confirm or deny” if Mr Gao was working for them, according to the report.
- Gao had been boasting for weeks about a meeting with a man named Glen, at 1.35pm on Tuesday, May 20, for a drug deal.
- The day before his murder was reportedly as normal for Mr Gao as any other. He went to his morning university classes before stopping for lunch at a nearby cafe with a uni friend.
Tuesday 20th May 2014
Arab Street Padstow
11.37am: McNamara calls Gao that morning from a Telstra payphone at Cronulla. Gao took the call on his mobile phone at Hurstville.
(McNamara was caught making the call on CCTV footage.)
TWO unidentified Hong Kong nationals drove Gao to the alleged drug deal.
Gao arrives from Hurstville to Arab street Padstow and parks his a white Nissan Silvia sedan outside Unit 2C - Micks Meats.
The 3 men get out of the car.
Gao retrieves a bag from the boot of the car and proceeds to walk down the street and get into McNamaras white station wagon - which is parked in a driveway.
McNamaras white station wagon reverses out of the driveway and proceeds to drive down the road away from Gao's car.
Rogerson - who has been sitting parked in his car - a silver Ford Falcon, follows behind McNamara and Gao.
The cars drive 600mtres to the Self Storage Units on Davies Rd Padstow.
Tuesday 20th May 2014
Self Storage Unit 803 Padstow
1:35PM - CCTV showed two men getting out of a white station wagon (Gao and McNamara)
One man (McNamara) ushers the other man (Gao) into Storage Unit 803.
A few minutes later a third man (Rogerson) entered the Storage Unit 803 and pulled down the roller door.
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Gao is murdered - allegedly shot dead while sitting in a chair - with two bullets from a small calibre weapon fired into his chest.
Police allege the floor of the unit was covered with plastic, probably a blue tarpaulin.
1.55pm - the Storage Unit roller door opened again — Rogerson and McNamara came out.
Rogerson and McNamara are seen on CCTV backing their cars up to the unit’s roller door
From the back of a white station wagon, McNamara retrieves a surfboard cover
From his silver Ford Falcon Rogerson retrieves a blanket
Both men re-enter the Storage Unit 803 with the surfboard cover and blanket.
McNamara and Rogerson are seen dragging the surfboard cover with something heavy inside it (Gao's body) from the unit
McNamara and Rogerson load the surfboard cover with Gao's body in it, into the back of McNamara's white station wagon.
Office chairs from inside the Storage unit are placed on top of the body.
Tuesday 20th May 2014
After the Shooting:
Meanwhile: The 2 men who had travelled with Gao to Arab Road and had left at his car - await Gao's return.
1 Hour after Gao left Arab Road - he was not back - the Hong Kong Nationals were concered and rang Gao's friends.
Gao's friends arrive and meet with the Hong Kong Nationals
Over the next few hours the Hong Kong Nationals and Gao's friends took Gao’s car and drove around searching the streets of Padstow for him.
The group of friends and the Hong Kong Nationals abandon the search for Gao and leave Gao's vehicle abandoned in nearby Stuart street Padstow.
In Gao's abandoned car was his wallet, keys and mobile phone — and one of the numbers on the phone allegedly belonged to Glen McNamara.
The Hong Kong Nationals disappear - allegedly flying back to Hong Kong.
Wednesday 21st May 2013
Rogerson and McNamara
CCTV footage - Rogerson and McNamara are seen returning to Storage Unit 803
McNamara and Rogerson spend 40 minutes inside the Storage Unit - allegedly cleaning the inside of it.
After the Storage Unit was clean - they then retrieve from the car, the chairs they had taken the day before and place them back inside the Storage Unit.
Time Unknown - Wednesday 21st May 2014 -
it is alleged the two men returned and spent 40 minutes cleaning the inside of the Rent-A-Space unit after dumping Mr Gao’s body at sea using McNamara’s 4.5m Quintrex fishing boat.
Wednesday 21st May 2013
Gao Reported Missing to Police
Police received a call from neighbours of Gao’s mothers Hurstville home - there was a lot of activity around the house. - five of his friends looking for Gao.
Later - Two of Gao’s cousins would report him missing - a 30 hour gap from the time Gao went missing before making the report.
The friends told officers that Gao had been boasting for weeks about a meeting with a man named Glen, at 1.35pm on Tuesday, May 20, for a drug deal.
4pm - solicitor Jasmine Lau walked into Kogarah police station and reported her client Jamie Gao missing.
Search begins to find Gao.
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For the next five days detectives worked around the clock, gathering evidence from CCTV, More than 50 detectives began the task of tracking Gao’s last movements, starting with an examination of all the CCTV vision retrieved from storage units in Padstow, forensics, phone-tracking data and intercepted phone calls.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014
Thursday - officers view CCTV footage taken from the Rent A Space storage facility on Davies Rd and discovered events involving Gao, McNamara's and Rogerson.
Friday 23rd May, 2014
PM - Police issued a press release calling for help in locating Gao without revealing they were gathering evidence and preparing search warrants against their two prime suspects.
Saturday 24th May 2014
Police find McNamara's white station wagon, and by now investigators were finalising plans to make arrests.
Sunday 25th May 2014
McNamara Arrested
4 AM - Cronulla - Police secretly remove McNamaras white station wagon from the Underground car park at the unit complex where McNamara lives.
Police find Inside the car the bagged drugs that Gao was carrying.
McNamara awakes that day and discovers the white station wagon car was gone - He rings several times to Roger Rogerson.
McNamara then drives his blue car to Cooma prison, in southern NSW, to visit an inmate.
Commander of the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad Detective Superintendent Luke Moore called a press conference to reveal details of Gao’s last known movements.
6.30pm - McNamara returns from Cooma - and is arrested during a car stop at Kyeemagh and charged with murder and supplying a commercial quantity of drugs.
Detectives execute search warrants at Rogerson and McNamara’s homes, seizing cars and other evidence
McNamara's blue Ford Falcon XR6 was seized and taken to Kograh Police Station.
From McNamara's Caringbah storage unit - The Storage unit was searched - seized was McNamara’s Quintrex boat , which police allege was used to take Gao's body out to dump at sea - and a surfboard with no cover.
Rogerson’s home in Padstow Heights is searched and a silver Ford Falcon is seized.
Monday 26th May 2014
Gao's Body is found
7:30AM - Two fishermen report finding a blue tarp floating 1.5KM off Shell Beach at Cronulla. Inside was the body of Jamie Gao —
The frayed rope around his feet had broken free of the weight that was supposed to sink him to the bottom of the ocean.
An examination of the remains, for the purpose of identification, was conducted.
Also a post mortem examination, to determine the cause of Mr Gao’s death.
Monday 26th May 2014
McNamara appears in custody in Kogarah Local Court.
McNamara did not apply for bail during a short appearance in Kogarah Local Court.
His lawyer asked his client be placed in protective custody which was granted by magistrate Christine Haskett.
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Two NSW detectives, Detective Inspector Mick Sheehy and Detective Inspector Russell Oxford, touched down in Queensland early this afternoon to begin the search for Rogerson, 73.
Rogerson had been in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, for the weekend, and had attended a public event -to watch some exhibition sparring as a guest of Mark 'The Hammer' Dixon.
Rogerson had left the Scarborough home of Mr Dixon's uncle, former boxer and harness racing identity Alan "Bunger" Johnson, before dawn on Monday heading for Sydney
Police from NSW, accompanied by Queensland colleagues, came looking for Rogerson at the boxing gym of Mr Dixon on Monday night. But they were about 12 hours too late.
It is believed Rogerson drove through the night to get home from Brisbane to Padstow Sydney, tosee his wife Anne Melocco before his arrest.
Tuesday 27th May 2014
Rogerson Arrested
6am: Rogerson arrives at his Padstow home to see his wife after driving from Brisbane.
11am: More than a dozen police officers storm Rogerson’s Churchill Rd Padstow home to arrest him.
Less than 10 minutes later brought out Rogerson in handcuffs.
3.15pm: Rogerson is charged with Jamie Gao's murder.
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A special late sitting was arranged to get Rogerson before a court.
Rogerson limped into the dock at charged with murdering Gao.
Magistrate Elaine Truscott formally refused bail and remanded Rogerson in custody
to appear at Central Local Court on July 22, the same day as his co-accused former Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara.
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Both he and Rogerson are held in protective custody in Silverwater Jail.
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