Neddy Smith in ‘near escape’ from hospital CORRECTIVE Services NSW is investigating allegations that prison officers failed to keep watch over one of the state’s most notorious criminals.

Arthur Stanley “Neddy” Smith following a court appearance. In a short inquest into Smith’s passing, Deputy State Coroner Magistrate Derek Lee on Friday confirmed the crim’s cause of death.

Arthur Stanley “Neddy” Smith. Smith had been in prison since 1989 for the murders, but had spent much of his life inside due to his involvement in robberies and drug trafficking.

Notorious Sydney underworld figure Arthur Stanley “Neddy” Smith lived a long life of crime and jail time, but his final day in court was over in less than 30 minutes. An inquest into the death ...

But Arthur Stanley “Neddy’’ Smith, who died of natural causes in the Long Bay prison hospital on Wednesday afternoon, was also one of Sydney’s most notorious criminals of the past 40 years.

Neddy Smith has been linked to the murders of three criminals found buried at Botany and Kurnell in Sydney's south-east. He was convicted of killing one, cleared of a second and interviewed but ...

Smith later declared in his book, Neddy, written with journalist Tom Noble. “I couldn’t have survived without it, nor could the majority of crims who earned their living the hard way!” ...