All in the family
James Patrick Roughan, in the company of another man and presumably a lot of drugs, stabs a teenager 133 times, decapitated him and played bowls with his head.
James is a nephew of Katherine Knight, an abattoir worker who stabbed her de facto husband, John Price, 37 times in the NSW town of Aberdeen, northwest of Newcastle, in February 2000. She then skinned his body, cooked his flesh with vegetables and made a soup out of his head.
Katherine is the half-sister of Patrick John Roughan, labour activist, former campaign worker for sacked NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister Milton Orkopoulus and pivotal in organizing the picket of Mudgingberri Station. Mudginberry Station was another union coup when they went on strike for more money. The abbatoir was forced to closeed and the workers and management lost their income.
Patrick has been charged with two cases of aggrevated sexual assault on a 9/10 year old girl.
Katherine Knight has five other brothers, apart from Patrick, and a twin sister. I wonder what the rest of them are doing?
It’s a worry.
UPDATE:
NOT GUILTY:
FORMER Swansea ALP branch president Patrick John Roughan, 63, has been cleared of two counts of sexual intercourse with a nine-year-old child.
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I can’t believe that the authorities, namely the NSW POLICE, have not investigated the
NSW Labour Party. The NSW Labour Party were told about the impending arrest of
Milton Orkopoulos a number of days before it happened. Now,we have charges against
Patrick Roughan. You can’t expect the general public to believe that the NSW Labour Party
didn’t know what these two men had been doing. They knew, but chose to ignore it. In fact,
the NSW Labour Party have known about these two men’s behaviour since 1995, and have chosen
not to act upon it.
In this case, the NSW Labour Party can shoulder some of the responsibility for the damage
these two men have caused on their young victims. Shame NSW Labour Party. I hope that a
Police investigation finds you guilty of corruption in these cases, and that you are
sued by the families of these children.
Pete J
Newcastle NSW
Pat Roughan is the most decent human being that I have met. He was only charged after the politician was charged and it made a great story… sells news papers. He helped the children of a dysfunctional family and is the victim of the spiteful parent of the girls. Pat was found not guilty by a jury in the fastest time in history. Before you condemn a man and ruin his life on the say so of a rag like the Herald, maybe you should wait until you hear the full story. That goes for the other guy too, his story is yet to be told. I am proud to be a friend of Patrick Roughan, champion of the underdog, good Samaritan and decent human being.
Alex, I presume you are the friend mentioned in the article in the update and if so then good on you for your loyalty. However, Police don’t charge people for no reason and certainly not because a politician was charged or so a newspaper could sell more copies so reporting the fact that he has been charged is justifiable.
Alex, was he friend of yours when he had his 15 minutes of fame at Mudgingberri Station?
You may note I have now updated the post but I feel I wouldn’t like the man if I met him. Union thuggery and the associated costs to the nation are something I definitely do not like. I wonder if the people who lost their jobs when Mudgingberri closed think of him as kindly as you do?