Source: 9news.com.au 11/7/25 A police officer who was hailed a vigilante hero on social media for breaking into a convicted child sex offender’s outback home, tying him up and stealing $100,000 in cash has been jailed. The NSW officer, whose identity is protected by court orders, knew his 78-year-old victim had a stash of cash in a safe because he searched his home over a child sex offence in 2020. Four years later, the officer and a co-offender drove from Sydney to break into the elderly man’s home, borrowing a…
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