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Thursday 2 August 2001

551 am

A full night’s sleep For the first time I can hear the cars on the road in the distance I write for two hours, interrupted only by the occasional bark of an Alsatian

800 am

Breakfast Frosties and long-life milk (second day)

900 am

Association I ree problem Non to half a bottle It’s all under control, he claims

I line up with the other prisoners for the gym

Derek Jones (GBH, artist) spots me on the middle corridor and tells ht I quiz hiym, one of the best in the country (by that he ly that, ‘It’s full of shit-heads and scusters because they’ve robbed so sent there’ I panic, desert the queue for the gyrab my phonecard, rush back down and call Alison

First I warn her (no time for pleasantries when you only have twenty units on your weekly card) that the next five days of the script are on their way, and to let Ramona knohen they have arrived so she can confirh to Jaer son has assue of finance, while William’s responsibility is to take care of hisif they’re up to it I quickly tell Jaht and the loss of my D-cat status

‘Cal on little else for the past forty-eight hours I kno youso out of touch, but we’re on the case Ra that it’s unlikely that there will even be an inquiry into the KurdishNicholson’s accusations seriously, even the tabloids have ignored her’

‘Yes, but these things still take time; meanwhile I’ve been issued with a movement order’

‘The sa that you’re more likely to end up in the ho on it’

I checkelse?’ I ask I want to save as many units as possible for Mary on Sunday

‘Yes, I need your authority to transfer so account The pound has been off for the past couple of days’