The book, which chronicles his days in Mumbai, sold more than six million copies worldwide, and was published in 41 languages including Marathi. In 1990, he was captured in Germany and sent back to Australia, where he was put in solitary confinement. He was recruited for counterfeiting and forging passports, and then jailed in an Indian prison. In 1980, he escaped the maximum security Pentridge Prison and landed in India, where he made a home in Dharavi, Mumbai. In fact, after he targeted a bank, a woman teller was quoted as saying, “He was so polite we wouldn’t mind if he comes back again.” And he did.īorn in Australia, Gregory, a former heroin addict and an armed robber was sentenced to 10-year imprisonment. He calls himself ‘the most incompetent criminal in the world’.Īlso known as ‘the gentleman bandit’, Gregory David Roberts admits he was so polite that often people didn’t realise they were being robbed.
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