Up Late with Ben Harvey: Brenden Abbott is the Houdini of Australia’s criminal underworld

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Harvey recaps the prison-breaking life and times of Australia’s most notorious armed robber, ‘The Postcard Bandit’.

In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey recaps the prison-breaking life and times of Australia’s most notorious armed robber, Brenden “The Postcard Bandit”, a career criminal whose history reads like a Hollywood movie and who is now taking on the legal system in a fresh bid for freedom.

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