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.