Dennis Allen

Australian criminal, dealing in drugs, guns, a suspect in multiple murders. Allen's family has been well known to the Melbourne police. His mother Kathy Pettingill ran brothels and was implicated in criminal behavior. Two of his brothers were arrested and charged, but acquitted, of murdering police constables. Dennis and his brother Peter Allen were notorious drug and drug dealers. In October 1973 he and his brother Peter raided a home, assaulting several people, and Dennis raped one of the women. He was sentenced to a 10-year stint in jail but only served four. He was the prime suspect in the killing of another gangster and was found to be harboring his kid brother who had escaped from custody, and was arrested for driving drunk, all while still on parole. He was sent to Castlemaine jail but skipped out while on a one-day release in 1981. He was found again, this time in a hotel with a prostitute. Allen was vomiting blood from being so drunk. Finally released on July 2, 1982, he spent his time building a drug empire dealing in heroin. But in May 1983, his home was raided by police where they found heroin, amphetamines, guns and ammunition. They uncovered explosives buried in the back yard. His estminated income in 1984 was several thousand dollars a week and is suspected of several brutal murders of other gangsters, prostitutes, drug dealers or anyone who posed a threat to his trade or to his ego. A heavy user of amphetamines, Allen died of heart disease in April 1987. Link to Wikipedia biography