How long was chopper reid in jail

Read splits his stitches the next day doing push-ups. He would later write, "I burnt Nick the Greek's house down. Big deal, I love a sunburnt country. He was wearing a bulletproof vest given to him by police because rival criminals had put out a hit on him.

A jury finds him not guilty of manslaughter. Chopper's infamous gun shot. December Read jailed for at least 2 years for intentionally causing serious injury to Liapis, arson and reckless conduct. November Released from Pentridge Prison and moves to Tasmania vowing to go straight.

December Read's first book, Chopper: From the Inside , is published. But disaster could strike come March. This is why. Man killed in plane crash weeks after Blue Origin flight into space. French authorities investigate alleged rape of soldier at Elysee Palace. Grampians Peaks Trail opens as hikers question its steep price tag. Taylor Swift's heartbreak anthem has been re-recorded with revealing extra lyrics.

It's not unusual once you understand how booster shots work. The film Chopper was based on his life. Read was born to an ex- army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life.

He was bullied at school, claiming that by the age of 15, he had been on the "losing end of several hundred fights", and that his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child. Read was made a ward of the state by the age of 14 and was placed in several mental institutions as a teenager, where, he later claimed, he was subjected to electroshock therapy.

When he was still young, Read was already an accomplished street fighter and the leader of the Surrey Road gang. He began his criminal career by robbing drug dealers , based in massage parlours in the Prahran area.

He later graduated to kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld, often using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his victims as an incentive for them to produce enough money so that Read would leave them alive. The year-old died on Wednesday at Royal Melbourne Hospital, his manager said. He was diagnosed with cancer in Read grew up in Melbourne, and was a ward of the state by the time he was a teenager.