'Chopper' Read to have Melbourne funeral

Crime figure turned author Mark "Chopper" Read will be sent off at a funeral in Melbourne next week. Source: AAP

CRIME figure turned author Mark "Chopper" Read will be sent off at a funeral in Melbourne next week.

Read, who died aged 58 on Wednesday after a battle with liver cancer, will be farewelled at a funeral in the inner Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill next Thursday.

Read spent more than 23 years in jail for crimes including armed robbery, assault and kidnapping, including trying to abduct a Victorian County Court judge at gunpoint.

He once claimed he was involved in killing 19 people and the attempted murder of 11 others.

He was famously portrayed by Eric Bana in the 2000 film Chopper.

Read was also Australia's best selling true crime author, with copies of his first book Chopper: From the Inside selling more than 300,000 copies.

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