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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.
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.
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
[4] In his 20s, after his release from Pentridge, Johnson secured employment as a concreter and was able to stay out of trouble until he suffered a workplace injury. In January 1998, Johnson was involved in a series of armed robberies; during one incident, Johnson entered an elderly couple's home at Safety Beach, Victoria, with a knife. In ...
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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.
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 ...
The first part, filmed at the H Division of Pentridge Prison, one of the actual prisons that Chopper frequented, was as plain and sterile as could be and all the scenes in the second part, taking place in 1986, were overly coloured [5] to achieve a paranoid and agoraphobic atmosphere called "visual overload" by the director Andrew Dominik.