HM Prison Pentridge - Notable Prisoners

Notable Prisoners

  • Dennis Allen – oldest member of the Pettingill family. (d. 1987)
  • Garry David – (d. 1993), also known as Garry Webb, responsible for the Community Protection Act 1990.
  • Peter Dupas – Australian serial killer.
  • Keith Faure – convicted of murdering Lewis Caine and Lewis Moran with Evangelos Goussis during the Melbourne gangland killings was also the basis for the character of Keithy George in the film Chopper.
  • Christopher Dale Flannery – aka Mr Rent-a-Kill, hitman.
  • Kevin Albert Joiner – murderer, shot dead trying to escape in 1952.
  • Ned Kelly – a bushranger.
  • Julian Knight – murdered 7 people in the Hoddle Street Massacre.
  • Eddie Leonski – the Brownout Strangler.
  • Craig 'Slim' Minogue – the Russell Street Bomber.
  • Clarrie O'Shea – a trade unionist.
  • Victor Peirce – a member of the Pettingill family, acquitted of the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings. Killed in 2002.
  • Harry Power – a bushranger.
  • Mark "Chopper" Read – a gang leader.
  • Gregory David Roberts – author of Shantaram, escapee of Pentridge who fled to India.
  • Ronald Ryan – the last person to be executed in Australia.
  • Maxwell Carl Skinner – constant escapee, infamous for commandeering a Coburg Tram in one of his escapes.
  • William Stanford – a sculptor.
  • Stan Taylor – an actor and convicted Russell Street bomber.
  • Squizzy Taylor – a gangster.
  • John Zarb – the first person to be found guilty of having failed to comply with his call up notice during the Vietnam War.

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