34 quotes found
“You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I dont go along with Prince Charles maxim that everyone should know their...”
“Bongo and Shug seen what was going on and decided to smash holes all over the roof of the hall, just for something to do. Bongo was first on to the roof, where, unknown to him he was being filmed f...”
“There is no getting away from the fact, he is one of only a few screws in the system who are the real McCoy. Anyone reading this book who has spent time in Scottish prisons will no doubt agree, thi...”
“Rockweiler (nickname) has settled down over the years, he is a man mountain, he stands some six-and-a-half foot tall, and is round about eighteen or nineteen stones in weight. He too works in Barli...”
“Adrian (not sure if real Christian name?) was a PTI in Perth Prison before he came to work in the special units with us. Adrian was a gentleman, but he was also a very, very hard man that didnt tak...”
“Big Rab has worked in Barlinnies Wendy House for over seven and a half years. The average time a screw works in the seg blocks is two years, this man has seen it and done it all. Most prisoners wil...”
“I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chase...”
“Another man of sheer violence was the late Stewart Boyd, he was killed in a car accident over in Spains Costa del Sol shortly after being released from prison in June 2003. But he certainly left hi...”
“Gary Moore is another legendary figure of sheer violence. In prison, Gary has spent most of his adult life inside one jail or another. When, on the odd occasion, he does get out of prison, it doesn...”
“I was reading that there are children at the age of twelve and thirteen selling their bodies at dinnertimes for as little as 5 when they should be at school. Now if that is not a problem, I dont kn...”
“There are now babies being born in our hospitals with crack or heroin habits, come on, fuck, no one would have dreamt such a horrible thing would happen to a newborn babies in Scotland. I didnt thi...”
“TC Campbell doesnt need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been ...”
“On the morning of Wednesday 13 March 1996, Thomas West Hamilton shattered the peaceful country town of Dunblane, Stirlingshire, with a fusillade of gunfire that reverberated round the world.”
“When Barlinnies Prison doctor, Dr Danson, came to see Dingus, he turned in disgust at the state Dingus was left to lie in. Doctor Danson refused to treat him as he knew Dinguss injuries were life t...”
“The riot screws didnt give a monkeys about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.”
“Once the screws left, most of the six or seven boys who had been overpowered by the SAS were not in any fit state to move, never mind talk. In May 1988 Malkie and Sammo and one other boy, whose nam...”
“When the infamous Shotts riot of 93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friends cell, smoking hash, waiting for t...”
“The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he ...”
“Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect ...”
“Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.”
