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Thomas Jeffries (Jefferies) also known as Mark Jeffries was a bushranger serial killer and cannibal in the early 19th century in Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania Australia). Jeffries was transported for life from Scotland on the Albion arriving in Van Diemen’s Land on 21 October 1823. He was sentenced to 12 months in Macquarie Harbour the penal settlement on the colony’s west coast in June 1824 for threatening to stab Constable Lawson.