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  2. HM Prison Pentridge - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Gregory David Roberts - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Shantaram (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of life in Bombay in the 1980s.

  5. Shantaram (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Charlie Hunnam as Dale Conti/Lindsay "Linbaba" Ford, an Australian former paramedic-in-training who was arrested and subsequently imprisoned for a series of armed robberies until he eventually escaped from Pentridge Prison. He successfully flees to Bombay, India, changes his identity, and lives life as a wanted man.

  6. Mark "Chopper" Read - Wikipedia

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    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 explained that he had a disagreement with Gangitano ...

  7. Chopper (film) - Wikipedia

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    The biggest production difficulty was being allowed to use the Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria, for the shooting. The prison was being closed down and while the negotiations were underway, the funding for production was delayed. This put off the start of the shoot. Some extras were hired from former inmates and tattoo parlours. [citation ...

  8. HM Prison - Wikipedia

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    HM Prison Pentridge, Australia. His Majesty's Prisons (Her Majesty's Prisons in the case of a female monarch) is the name given to prisons in the United Kingdom, as well as some in Australia and a small number in Canada, Grenada, Jersey, The Bahamas and Barbados.

  9. Keith Faure - Wikipedia

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    Keith George Faure (born June, 1951), from Norlane, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters.He is currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings.