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Patrick Roach: a well-connected bruiser

1 January 2018

Patrick Francis Roach, Special Photograph number 628, 9 November 1921, Central Police Station, Sydney. New South Wales Police Forensic Photography Archive, Sydney Living Museums

Patrick Roach was an inveterate thief and a vicious thug. Quick with his fists, he was well known to police and residents around Glebe, Darlington, Ultimo and Chippendale. He was frequently charged with committing crimes ‘in company’; his list of accomplices during the 1920s and 1930s reads like a who’s who of Sydney’s underworld.

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