HM Prison Pentridge
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HM Prison Pentridge, better known as the Pentridge Prison and officially, Her Majesty's Prison Pentridge, is a former prison in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. T
The gates of the former prison in 2020
The entrance to Pentridge Prison, 1861 (Source: State Library of Victoria)
Pentridge Prison front gate, 2006
HM Prison Pentridge guard tower, 2014
Jean Lee (murderer)
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Jean Lee was an Australian murderer who, together with her lover Robert Clayton and accomplice Norman Andrews, was convicted for the 1949 killing of William 'Pop' Kent, an SP bookmaker from the Melbou
HM Prison Pentridge
…complete skull believed to be Kelly's was not his. Between 1842 and 1967, 186 prisoners were executed in Victoria, including ten at Pentridge. In 1951, Jean Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia, who was hanged. After being convicted of killing prison officer George Hodson during an escape from…
Lee after her arrest (November 1949)
An image of Jean Lee, probably from 1943 (published in Perth's The Mirror newspaper, 17 February 1951).
Robert Clayton (left) and Norman Andrews (right), published in Sydney's Truth newspaper, 18 February 1951.
Jean Lee, escorted by detectives after her arrest in Melbourne in November 1949.