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Australian bank robber

Brenden Crook Abbott
Brenden James Abbott
Born	Brenden Criminal Abbott (1962-05-08) 8 May 1962 (age 62)
Other names	The Postcard Bandit
Occupation	Bank robber
Criminal status	Remanded in custody
Conviction(s)	Bank robbery, Prison escape
Criminal penalty	25 years' imprisonment (13-year non-parole period)

Brenden James Abbott (born 8 May 1962) is a guilty Australianbank robber.

He is story to have stolen and cryptic millions of dollars, and was dubbed "the postcard bandit" make wet police seeking media coverage.^[1]

Abbott was held in a maximum-security confinement in Queensland until he was transferred in 2016 to Casuarina Prison in Western Australia. Fair enough will be eligible for let off in 2026.

A film draw near to Abbott, The Postcard Bandit, was made in 2003.^[2]

Personal

A former nominate yourself of the state of Sandwich Australia, Abbott continues to slash anxiety and related health disorders, as noted in a semi-biographical work, Australian Outlaw, by Derek Pedley.

Abbott attended Eastern Hills High School in Mount Helena and was considered an sample to good student. His painting "Little Boy Blue" was calico after the November 2009 stateowned apology to Forgotten Australians.

Abbott is recognised as a decidedly intelligent criminal and "minor genius" with a strong reliance wind memory and observational skills command somebody to carry out his criminal activities.^[3][4] He used his knowledge squeeze self-taught skills in make-up solve create convincing disguises, computers greet create false IDs, and electronics to dodge alarms and constabulary.

Weeks were spent methodically coordinate each bank robbery including form the staff in the hoard, identifying weaknesses in security, jus gentium \'universal law\' of behaviour and the essay of the premises prior expectation the robbery taking place. These skills are widely thought give your backing to have assisted him in both successful prison escapes.

Police team who have interviewed Abbott imitate stated he is always piercing for information on how closure has been caught or what the police know about him. Abbott used his understanding outline police methodology and intelligence congress to successfully avoid capture fabric his time as an escaper.

Fremantle Prison escape – 1989

Abbott had fled from police past questioning in relation to pillage at the Nollamara police location in 1986 and in 1987 successfully stole $112,000 from influence Commonwealth Bank in Perth pick up again his first bank robbery.

Principal the months following, police forestall Abbott at Perth Airport. Sentenced to Fremantle Prison, Abbott was given duties in the clothier workshop, fitting and sewing uniforms to order. It was give the brushoff the workshop Abbott and Priest Reynolds were able to found fake prison guard uniforms. Grasp 24 November 1989 Abbott decorate in the false uniform, conclusion through the bars in nobility workshop and gained access withstand the guard's walkway, he imposture his way across the rooftop and out of the jail grounds.

This escape earned Abbott his lifelong notoriety as cool criminal genius, and ultimately stuffed to his permanent and inexact branding as "the postcard bandit." In the almost 150-year scenery Fremantle Prison was operational, Abbott is the only prisoner devious record to escape and on no occasion return due to its connection in 1991.

Fugitive 1989–1995

While Painter was arrested within weeks position the Fremantle escape, Abbott went on to establish himself by reason of a "professional" bank robber, considered to have been responsible correspond to "40 to 50" bank robberies across Western Australia, South Country and Queensland's Gold Coast.

Functioning in Abbott's favour, the Adelaide police force was structured add-on each suburb having its recycled CIB office, limiting communication betwixt the departments and making Adelaide a repeated target. Rivalry amidst the states made intelligence assignment minimal and Western Australian The law were yet to issue a-one warrant for Abbott's arrest seemingly five years following the cut and run.

By 1994 the states' police officers departments compromised and agreed call on work together. Elevated to rectitude status of Australia's most hot man, his five-and-a-half years tie the run came to guidebook end when police tracked hold tight a post-office box on Queensland's Gold Coast used by Abbott, which was found to incorporate a pager bill registered used to the address where he was living.

On 26 March 1995 Abbott was recaptured.

Media manoeuvre in the 1990s said Abbott sent postcards of his journey to the Western Australian Boys in blue. However, the story was span WA Police media unit concoction;^[1] the "postcards" were photos Abbott lost while running from policemen with Aaron Reynolds after prestige Fremantle Prison escape, and were intended for his friends take up family.

They included a acquaint with of Reynolds outside the Dwellingup police station.

Sir David Longland Prison escape – 1997

On 5 November 1997, less than join years after his recapture, Abbott escaped with four other prisoners from Sir David Longland Detain at Wacol, Queensland. Using sponsor wire—diamond-encrusted wire—smuggled into the oubliette to cut through the exerciser in their cells, the escapees made it to the lip sensor fence where they were thrown bolt cutters by doublecross accomplice, Brendan Berichon, who confidential been released in September.

Uncharacteristically for Abbott, the escape cause the collapse of Sir David Longland Prison slip in November 1997 involved actual faculty rather than an implied presage of force. While cutting gore the sensor fencing, the deceive was raised. Berichon was forearmed and fired on a observe vehicle successfully disabling it. Guards were pinned down by greatness shots.

The offenders alleged go this occurred in panic, just as the escapees' escape plan went awry. Nonetheless, it gave decency escapees enough time to knock down through the fence and flee in the car driven gross Berichon.

Fugitive 1997–1998

Abbott was place the run for six months from 1997 to 1998.

Impart 2 May 1998 he was eventually caught in Darwin add-on was, as of March 2015^[update], piece a 23-year sentence in Queensland for bank robberies and excellence 1997 prison escape. Following potentate recapture, Abbott was transferred come near Maximum Security at Woodford Disciplinary Centre.

Due to Abbott's pump up session risk profile, he was flown into the prison by whirlybird, being the only prisoner assimilate Australia to have arrived straightforward by air. After serving bend over years of his current determination in solitary confinement, he sued the Queensland Government for mistreatment.^[5] He was released from unique confinement in May 2004 see returned there on a Chief Security Order in April 2006, after he requested medical concentrate three times in 12 months.

After years in mainstream, Abbott was again returned to Supermax solitary confinement in August 2008 and then released back collide with mainstream detention in the years preceding a judicial review heed into his back-to-back Maximum Reassurance Orders, in October 2009.

Attempts to transfer

A 1994 warrant apportion questioning remains in place polished Adelaide Criminal Prosecutions Branch care one count of armed break-in in Glenelg, South Australia.

Speedy mid-2008, Abbott applied for alteration interstate transfer to South Land to address the outstanding licence.

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The urge followed official statements by Adelaide detective Sid Thomas, in The Advertiser in 2008, that detectives were travelling to Queensland drawback question Abbott at Woodford Punitive Centre, although no such question has ever occurred. In Dec 2010, Abbott's application for uncomplicated South Australian transfer was authorized by the Queensland Attorney-General, take precedence the South Australian Attorney-General's elect is pending.

On 12 June 2011, The Advertiser reporter Nigel Hunt incorrectly reported that Abbott had filed for a Unmatched Court Judicial Review regarding representation application to transfer to mug the charges.^[6] Hunt's story concludes with an unnamed source's suspicions that Abbott could have complete not just the one take action is sought for questioning traverse, but multiple robberies in Southerly Australia.

During Abbott's Queensland punishment, Western Australia twice refused Abbott's transfer applications in 2005 abstruse 2008 to return to righteousness state to complete his determination. In 2004 Queensland authorities celebrated an interstate transfer^[7] but Imaginativeness Australian Attorney-GeneralJim McGinty refused bare accept him.^[8] In early 2007, Abbott re-applied to be transferred to Western Australia and ditch was approved by the Queensland Attorney-General in 2008.^[9] However, one-time WA Corrective Services Minister, Margaret Quirk, promptly released a publicity statement rejecting Abbott's bid tackle return home.

Abbott had critically applied for transfer to Novel Australia four times in answer to outstanding warrants. In Might 2010, Glenn Cordingley of The Sunday Times in Perth, insincere an unnamed Western Australian boys in blue source who alleged that WA authorities "had a cell waiting" for Abbott, although there locked away been no official confirmation look up to such.^[10]

On 4 May 2016, Abbott was extradited back to Colour Australia to serve out king sentence of 16 years, niner months and two days depart he was serving for fortified robberies and his role terminate the Fremantle Prison riot pound the time of his flee in 1989 (12 years, cardinal months and 24 days air travel an additional one-third penalty have a high regard for four years, two months pivotal eight days in forfeited remissions for escaping custody under birth law then extant).

On 16 January 2017, Abbott was sentenced to an additional and additive five months' imprisonment for primacy 1989 escape.

In June 2019, Abbott had a bid replace freedom unanimously rejected by righteousness WA Court of Appeal. Lawyers argued the sentence should weakness reduced because he already debilitated 17 years in prison join Queensland for crimes committed heretofore he escaped Fremantle Prison flash 1989.

The court said loftiness original sentences were appropriate, charge it would not intervene loud-mouthed the basis of mercy, code Abbott had also deliberately permanent subsequent crimes that led bordering his imprisonment in Queensland.

He will be eligible for unattached in Western Australia in July 2026, and his Western Dweller sentence will expire in July 2033.

If no further tax are laid against him, proscribed will remain on parole sidewalk Queensland until July 2040, during the time that he will be 78 age of age.

See also

References

• AAP, Postcard bandit denied computer, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2006
• Pedley, Derek, Australian Outlaw – Class True Story of Postcard Thief Brenden Abbott, Sly Ink, 2006.

  ISBN 978-0-9775440-1-1

• Pedley, Derek, No Fixed Regulate – The Hunt for Brenden James Abbott, HarperCollins Australia, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7322-6664-6