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Mark Brandon " Chopper " Read (17 November 1954 – 9 October 2013) was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film Chopper is based on his life.
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- Read spent the first five years of his life in a children's home, and was made a ward of the state by the age of 14.
- Read earned his reputation as a hard man first by ripping off drug dealers in Melbourne, then making his living kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld.
- Read spent only 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38.
- In the late 1970s, Read had a fellow prisoner cut his ears off, in order to get out of Pentridge Prison's H division.
Oct 9, 2013 · CNN — One of Australia’s most colorful underworld figures and author, Mark “Chopper” Read – whose cavalcade of violent crime put him behind bar for almost 23 years – has died after a battle...
Jan 1, 2001 · Bullied at school and growing up dreaming of revenge, Mark "Chopper" Read determined to be the toughest in any company. He became a crime commando who terrorized drug dealers, pimps, thieves, and armed robbers on the streets and in jail—but boasts never to have hurt an innocent member of the public.
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Oct 9, 2013 · One of Australia's most notorious underworld figures, Mark "Chopper" Read, a career criminal turned children's author, has died aged 58. In an era of celebrity culture, he was both celebrated and condemned for his legendary exploits involving armed robbery, shootings, stabbings, torture and kidnapping. "Posh people love gangsters," he once said.
Oct 9, 2013 · STANDOVER man turned celebrity true crime author Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read has died in a Melbourne hospital from complications arising from liver cancer. Read's manager Andrew Parisi said he died at 1:30pm today at Royal Melbourne Hospital surrounded by his family, including wife Margaret and son Roy.
