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HM Prison Pentridge, better known as Pentridge Prison, was an Australian prison established in 1851 in Coburg, Victoria. The first convicts arrived at the gaol in 1851. The facility closed on 1 May 1997, although some of the heritage-listed buildings still stand. [5] Pentridge Prison E Division courtyard, 2020
The series will be filmed in Victoria, Australia, with scenes filmed at Docklands Studios Melbourne and HM Prison Pentridge. It was also announced that the series will get 7.4 million Australian dollars in funding from the Australian Government. The series consists of 12 episodes with four episodes directed by Justin Kurzel.
Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith; 1952 [1]) is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram.He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years.
Read lost several feet of intestine in the attack. [4] Read was serving a 16½-year sentence after attacking a judge to get Loughnan released from prison. [9] Loughnan later died in the Jika Jika fire at Pentridge in 1987. [10] In the TV series Tough Nuts, Read also spoke of his mid-1980s to early 1990s rivalry with Alphonse Gangitano. Read ...
Jean Lee was born Marjorie Jean Maude Wright in Dubbo, New South Wales, on 10 December 1919, the youngest child of Charles Wright and Florence (née Peacock). [1] Marjorie's father was a railway worker and the Wright family was described as "highly respectable".
On 20 March 1851, Gardiner was part of a work party working outside Pentridge Prison when they rushed the guards and escaped. Most of the convicts were rounded up within days but Gardiner escaped and made his way to New South Wales , perhaps stopping at the station in central Victoria where his father and younger sisters were living.
In March 1957 O'Meally again escaped from Pentridge. With an accomplice, John Henry Taylor, who was armed with a .38 automatic handgun, he ran through the main gates of the gaol. Chief Penal officer Robert Davis tried to stop them and was shot in the thigh, breaking his femur.
Arnold Karl Sodeman (() 12 December 1899 – () 1 June 1936), also known as the School-girl Strangler, was an Australian serial killer who targeted children. He confessed to four killings before being executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1936.