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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.
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.
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
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Ray Mooney beside B Division. Pentridge. Raymond Kevin Mooney (born 1945 in Melbourne) is an Australian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Regarded as an important crime writer his plays have been produced in Australian theatres. [1] In 1968 Mooney was sentenced to 12 years for rape and assault and was sent to HM Prison Pentridge. [2]
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 ...
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.
Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia.Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965.