Neddy Smith
| Arthur Stanley Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 November 1944 Australia |
| Other names | Neddy Smith |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Conviction(s) | Theft Rape Armed Robbery Murder |
Arthur Stanley Smith (born 27 November 1944), known also as Neddy Smith, is an Australian criminal and crime writer who has been convicted of drug trafficking, theft, rape, armed robbery and murder.
Smith has been serving a life sentence since 1989 and is imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre after being moved from Long Bay Correctional Centre in New South Wales, where he spent 14 years of his life. Smith's bodyguard Graham 'Abo' Henry claimed in ABO - A Treacherous Life: The Graham Henry Story that the gang of criminals Smith led committed crimes worth A$25 million in the 1980s.
Smith was born to an Australian mother and an American serviceman father whom he never knew, and brought up in Sydney. He attended boys' homes for approximately three years after becoming involved in burglaries and other offences.
Smith has spent much of the rest of his life in prison, serving sentences from 1963–1965, 1968–1975, 1978–1980 and 1989, to date. Smith was a self-confessed heroin dealer, and armed robber who gained notoriety for his violent temper. Standing 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighing 16 stone (100 kilograms) in his prime, Smith exploited his size when involved in countless street fights and bar brawls. Journalist John Dale has commented "there is no doubting Neddy Smith's physical size and menacing aura." In Neddy: The Life and Crimes of Arthur Stanley Smith, he claimed to have beaten up former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Bunny Johnson after a row outside a Sydney nightclub. However, he denies committing the rape he was imprisoned for in 1968 and the numerous murders of which he has been accused.
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