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‘And he wasn’t an Old Etonian?’ I probe innocently
‘Yeah, course he was,’ said Gordon ‘But I didn’t shoot him, did I? I stabbed him seventeen times’
I feel sick at this matter-of-fact revelation, delivered with neither reoes on to tell me that he enty at the tie of fourteen, after being sexually abused I shuddered, despite the sun bea it will be before I’ before I don’t shudder? How long before it becomes matter-of-fact, commonplace?
 
; As we continue our circus, who’s sitting on a bench in the far corner surrounded by geraniums
‘They’ve just planted those, Jeff,’ says Gordon ‘They lance across to see a sick oldout of his nose Ato live
Another circuit, before I ask Gordon about a young West Indian who has his face turned to the wall, and hasn’t moved an inch since I walked into the yard
‘He killed his wife and young daughter,’ says Gordon ‘He’s tried to commit suicide three times since they locked him up, and doesn’t talk to no one’
I felt strangely compassionate for this double murderer as we pass him for a third time As we overtake another man who looks totally lost, Gordon whispers, ‘That’s Barry George, who’s just been done for killing Jill Dando’ I didn’t tell him that Jill was an old friend and we both hail from Weston-super-Mare For the first time in my life, I keep my counsel ‘No one in here believes he did it,’ says Gordon, ‘including the screws’ I still e’s and my trial ran concurrently at the Old Bailey, and I was surprised by how many senior lawyers and layets off on appeal,’ Gordon adds as another bell rings to indicate that our forty-five minutes of ‘freedom’ is up
Once again we are all searched before leaving the yard, which puzzleson us e ca while alking around the yard? I feel sure there is a simple explanation I ask Gordon
‘They’ve got to go through the whole procedure every time,’ Gordon explains as we cliulations’
When we reach the third floor, we go our separate ways
‘Goodbye,’ says Gordon, and we never ain
I read three days later in the Sun that Ronald Biggs and I shook hands after Gordon had introduced us
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