Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
| Sallie-Anne Huckstepp | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 December 1954 |
| Died | 6 February 1986 (aged 31) Centennial Park, New South Wales |
| Other names | Sallie-Anne Krivoshow |
| Children | 1 |
Sallie-Anne Huckstepp (12 December 1954 – 6 February 1986) was an Australian prostitute and heroin addict who became a writer and whistleblower.
Huckstepp was born Sallie-Anne Krivoshow and attended Dover Heights High School and Moriah College in Sydney. She left school at the age of seventeen and married Bryan Huckstepp. After travelling to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, her husband asked her to work as a prostitute to help support his heroin addiction. They later returned to Sydney where Huckstepp continued prostitution, eventually developing a heroin habit of her own.
In 1981, Huckstepp met and began a relationship with Warren Lanfranchi. Lanfranchi was a heroin dealer and standover man who worked with Neddy Smith. In June 1981, Lanfranchi allegedly robbed a Sydney heroin dealer and later fired shots at a young policeman. In Neddy: the Life and Crimes of Arthur Stanley Smith, Smith claims that Lanfranchi asked him to negotiate a payment with then-Detective-Sergeant Roger Rogerson in order to escape being charged with the shooting. Smith claims that Rogerson had instructed him to drive Lanfranchi to a meeting with him and to disarm him in the car. Rogerson took eighteen police officers with him to the meeting. He claims that he was attempting to arrest Lanfranchi on suspicion of five bank robberies. At the meeting in Dangar Place, Chippendale, Rogerson shot and killed Lanfranchi. During the inquest into Lanfranchi's death, Rogerson claimed self-defence. He was supported at the inquest by Smith and other police officers who were called as witnesses. The inquest found that on the balance of probabilities, Rogerson had been trying to arrest Lanfranchi, but refused to find he had acted in self-defence. The matter went to the Supreme Court and was the subject of investigations by the New South Wales Ombudsman and Internal Affairs. No action was brought against Rogerson and he was exonerated and commended for bravery.
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