HM Prison Pentridge - Escapes

Escapes

  • 1851 Frank Gardiner - one of fifteen to escape that day
  • 1899 Pierre Douar – Suicided after recapture
  • 1901 Mr Sparks – never heard of again
  • 1901 John O'Connor – Caught in Sydney two weeks later
  • 1926 J.K. Monson – caught several weeks later in W.A.
  • 1939 George Thomas Howard – caught after two days
  • 1940 K.R. Jones – Caught in Sydney two weeks later
  • 1951 Victor Franz – caught next day.
  • 1952 Kevin Joiner – Shot dead escaping
  • 1952 Maxwell Skinner – pushed off prison wall, broke leg
  • 1957 Willam O'Malley – caught after 15 minutes
  • 1957 John Henry Taylor – caught after 15 minutes
  • 1961 Maurice Watson – caught next day
  • 1961 Gordon Hutchinson – caught next day
  • 1965 Ronald Ryan – caught in Sydney 19 days later
  • 1965 Peter Walker – caught in Sydney 19 days later
  • 1972 Dennis Denehy –
  • 1972 Gary Smedley –
  • 1972 Alan Mansell –
  • 1972 Henry Carlson –
  • 1973 Harold Peckman – caught next day
  • 1974 Edward "Jockey" Smith –
  • 1974 Robert Hughes –
  • 1974 George Carter –
  • 1976 John Charles Walker –
  • 1977 David Keys –
  • 1977 Peter James Dawson and three others
  • 1980 Gregory David Roberts (at the time known as Gregory Smith) – escaped in broad daylight with Trevor Jolly and subsequently went to India after a brief period in New Zealand
  • 1980 Trevor Jolly –
  • 1982 Harry Richard Nylander –
  • 1987 Dennis Mark Quinn – Recaptured in New Zealand 19 days later.

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