Yatala Labour Prison - Notable Prisoners

Notable Prisoners

  • Alan Bond – a businessman, spent a brief time in Yatala during his fraud trial in the early 1990s.
  • John Bunting – a serial killer, ringleader in the Snowtown murders, and his accomplices Robert Wagner, James Vlassakis, and Mark Haydon.
  • Bevan Spencer von Einem – convicted murderer and suspected serial murderer.
  • Jean Eric Gassy – deregistered Sydney psychiatrist who shot dead South Australia's head of mental health in October 2002.
  • David Hicks Hicks was released 29 December 2007. – the Australian Guantánamo Bay detainee convicted by US military tribunal of providing material support for terrorism.
  • James William Miller – served six consecutive life sentences for murder in relation to the Truro Murders. Died in 2008.
  • Bradley John Murdoch – convicted murderer of Peter Falconio, was held briefly in the prison before being extradited.
  • Rupert Maxwell (Max) Stuart – an Australian Aborigine whose 1959 conviction for murder lead to a Royal Commission and a 2002 film; since paroled in 1973.

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