NOTORIOUS criminal Arthur ‘Neddy’ Smith was paid $5000 to fly to Perth to kill brothel madam Shirley Finn on behalf of her business partners, it emerged at her inquest. The extraordinary claims ...

He was given only days to live, but notorious gangster Arthur ‘Neddy’ Smith has been released from hospital and is back in Long Bay Prison. The 74-year-old who has been suffering from Parkinson's ...

But if Smith ever gets out of jail, it will be as a wheelchair-bound cripple. And his well-known attitude certainly won't help him - for once, he will be asking for help from a system he could never ...

EXCLUSIVE: A HOSPITAL escape bid by notoriousSydney hitman Arthur “Neddy” Smith was foiled when a nurse caught him outside his room after one of his guards fell asleep while the other was using a ...

The second cousin of murdered gangster Stewart John Regan wrote to one of Australia’s most notorious criminals seeking answers about him. The Australian’s podcast The Gangster’s Ghost revealed Regan ...

The bodies will be transported from the Prince of Wales Hospital where Milat is being treated for terminal cancer or Long Bay jail where Smith is being held, to the morgue in Lidcome, where the ...

PART TWO: One was evil incarnate, the other a cop on the rise and Sydney would feel the effects of Roger Rogerson’s first meeting with Neddy Smith for decades - including a trail of bodies, the ...

Convicted murderer Arthur “Neddy” Smith” is clinging to life in hospital after being transferred from Long Bay prison where he has been since 1989 serving two life sentences. He was transferred to ...

Neddy Smith leaves court in 1999 after being acquitted of the murder of Sally Anne Huckstepp. “In my mind he (Johnston) is one of Neddy Smith’s victims, there is no dispute on that, and no doubt in my ...

Coroner Barry King noted that detectives were told of Smith’s possible involvement and that the underworld figure was spotted drinking with an ­associate, Keith Lewis, in a local tavern around the ...