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MELBOURNE - A former Australian prisoner liked his jail cell so much he has decided to buy it.
Graeme Alford, who spent several years in Melbourne's former Pentridge prison for embezzlement and armed robbery in the 1970s, will buy his old cell, number 43, as part of a commercial redevelopment of the jail.
Pentridge, one of Australia's most notorious prisons and site of the country's last hanging, is being redeveloped into a wine block that will eventually house A$50 million ($59.5 million) worth of rare wines.
Alford was a barrister whose love of gambling and drinking led him to crime, but after leaving prison in 1980 he turned his life around. He is now a motivational speaker.
- Reuters
