1875 - 1932
Robert David Bennett
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| Birthday |
12th September, 1875
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| Birthplace |
Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland
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| Died |
26th September, 1932
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| Place of Death |
HM Prison Pentridge, Coburg, Victoria, Australia
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Occupation Text |
Carpenter, painter
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Robert David Bennett (12 September 1875 – 26 September 1932) was an Australian criminal and sex offender. He was convicted of the rape of a young girl in Western Australia in 1911 and, despite receiving a life sentence for the crime, he was released in June 1914 under controversial circumstances. Bennett and another criminal named Angus Murray committed a series of offences in New South Wales and Victoria, culminating in an armed bank robbery in suburban Melbourne in 1917, for which each were sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Soon after his release from prison Bennett was again convicted of the sexual assault of a young girl, a capital offence for which he received a death sentence. He was executed at Pentridge Prison in September 1932. Bennett was the first of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne Gaol in 1924, and the last person to be executed in Australia for a crime other than murder.
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