January 1, 1951 - Keith Faure
A career criminal whose decades of violence extended from prison feuds at Pentridge to involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings, Faure accumulated convictions for multiple murders and manslaughters across a span that made him a recurring presence in Australia's criminal history. His prolonged conflict with Mark "Chopper" Read inside prison walls became documented enough to shape both Read's published memoirs and his cinematic portrayal. The life sentence Faure ultimately received reflected the cumulative weight of crimes connected to one of Australia's most extensively chronicled periods of organized criminal violence.
From Wikipedia
Keith George Faure (June, 1951 - July 2025), from Norlane, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He was serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings. Faure's criminal history includes further convictions for armed robbery and breaking and entering.
Faure and Chopper Read continued a lengthy prison war while imprisoned in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison during the 1970s and 1980s and Faure features prominently in Read's first few books. Faure was also the basis for the character of Keithy George in the film Chopper, who is stabbed to death in the film's opening scenes. Faure, portrayed by actor David Field, was reported to be unhappy with his portrayal and used his anger at his depiction in the film as a defence in a minor traffic offence. In the drama series Underbelly Faure is played by Kym Gyngell although as with several other characters his name is not mentioned in the series due to a court order.
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