Chopper (2000)

Australia's most fascinating criminal. 13 things you may not know about Mark "Chopper" Read. 1. 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 says he was certified mentally insane three times - at ages 15, 19 and 23, and that he was given "60 serves of shock treatment in six months". 2. Read earned his reputation as a hard man first by ripping off drug dealers in Melbourne, then making his living kidnapping and torturing

Part5 Mark “Chopper” Read (1954–2013) was an Australian criminal, author, and notorious underworld figure best known for his violent reputation and darkly charismatic persona. Raised in Melbourne, Read spent much of his life in and out of prison, gaining infamy for brutal assaults, kidnappings, and his unapologetic embrace of criminal culture. Despite his crimes, he became a strange kind of celebrity, publishing a series of autobiographical books that mixed shocking violence with grim humour. Hi