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Aaron Bunch

Notorious prison escapee's legal bid for freedom fails

Brenden Abbott, who has escaped from two prisons, has lost a legal bid to get out of jail. (Glenn Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

A notorious bank robber and fugitive dubbed the "Postcard Bandit", who was jailed after escaping from one of the nation's toughest prisons, will remain behind bars after a failed legal bid to win his freedom. 

Brenden James Abbott attempted to have his incarceration declared unlawful, suing the West Australian government for wrongful imprisonment in the state's Supreme Court.

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