Bank robber-turned-bush lawyer Arthur Taylor spent nearly 40 years in prison, but it didn’t stop him marrying his sweetheart, infamously fathering a child from behind bars and later proposing to a Canadian law student half his age.
Yet while there’s been no shortage of women in Arthur’s life, it was his little sister Joanne Ashby who was there to greet him when the prison gates finally opened. After being denied parole 19 times, Arthur, now aged 62, was finally released from Waikeria Prison in February.
“As much as Arthur has done the time all these years, I’ve done it alongside him,” says Jo, 49, mother to Marc, 29, Taryn, 27, Chase, 17, Blade, 11, and grandmother to five. Over the last four decades, Jo has visited her big brother “Boy”…
