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One of Australia’s most colorful underworld figures and author, Mark “Chopper” Read ... Prison’s high security H Division, according to his website. Read claimed to be involved in ...
Chopper rose to notoriety ... his ears in a bid to be moved from H Division, acted as a mentor to a troubled kid. But for a teenager in need of direction, Read was just the mentor he needed.
Mark 'Chopper' Read.Credit: Jon Reid Peter Corris ... (he had another inmate cut his ears off in Pentridge Prison's H division in the late 1970s in a bid to get out of the division).
In Australia, Mark "Chopper" Read is a legend ... At the beginning of the film, Chopper is a resident of the H Division inside the maximum-security section of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison.
A book on ‘Australia’s most infamous jail’ has revealed the true identity of the man who cut off Mark ‘Chopper’ Read’s ears. Former H Division guards and prisoners at Pentridge Prison ...
"Chopper" Read was a dangerous man ... just to show he could get out of H-Division by going to hospital. Later he would joke about starting the “van Gogh Club’’ but the ear-cutting wasn ...
“People took him as Chopper Read, he was just Mark to us ... which he said was part of a plan to avoid an ambush at Pentridge’s H division. * His books, beginning with 1991’s Chopper ...
Chopper Read,”it read. However, not long after the bizarre incident, the pair met for an interview while Read was serving time inside Pentridge’s notorious H Division. And it was then that Mr ...
Crime figure Mark "Chopper" Read spent almost half his life in jail ... which he said was part of a plan to avoid an ambush at Pentridge's H division. Mr Norden said Read would often ask to ...
One of Australia’s most colorful underworld figures and author, Mark “Chopper” Read ... Prison’s high security H Division, according to his website. Read claimed to be involved in ...
"Chopper" Read was a dangerous man ... just to show he could get out of H-Division by going to hospital. Later he would joke about starting the “van Gogh Club’’ but the ear-cutting wasn ...