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‘But that doesn’t answer my question’

‘You make an order with your spur dealer,’ continues Williaram of heroin a day He then tells you the name and address of his supplier, and you select so orders, you understand, just cash In your case you could have your supply delivered under the Scarfe cartoon in the Sunday Tie brown envelopes you receive every day You’d be surprised how e sta They always run a thuet a lot more in via the envelope’

‘But they always slit the envelopes open and look inside’

‘I didn’t say inside,’ said Williaht-hand side of most brown envelopes there’s a flap, which, if you lift carefully, you can fill with heroin and then seal back down again I know a azine sent in every week, but it’s under the flap of the brown envelope that he’s getting his weekly fix’

‘As soon as the buzzer goes, I’ to have to run back to my cell and write all this down,’ I tell him

‘How do you write your books?’ William enquires

‘With a felt-tip pen’

‘Lift the cap off the bottoet about fifty pounds’ worth of crack cocaine stuffed in there, which is why the screwsimplements direct from the canteen’

‘Keep going,’ I say, having long ago given up sealing any plastic bags, but soes to do that job for me as well

‘The eous transfer I’ve ever seen was a twenty-seven-stone con who hid the drugs under the folds of his skin, because he knew no officer would want to check’

‘But theyfor them?’

‘Yes, they do, in fact vast sums have been spent on the most sophisticated uns, knives, even aanic substances For that, they have to rely on dogs, and a nappy full of urine will put even the keenest bloodhound off the scent’

‘So visits are the s?’

‘Yes, but don’t assu carriers, because when they turn up for legal and religious visits, or in the case of officers, for work, they are rarely searched In sos delivered to their clients And when it coal documents, the envelope has to be opened in front of you, and the screws are not allowed to read the contents And while you’re standing in front of a screw, he’s less likely to check under the staal shop in Fleet Street that is innocently supplying envelopes with the words LEGAL DOCUMENT, Strictly Private and Confidential printed on the top left-hand corner Several drug dealers have a monthly supply of such envelopes, and the only ti in the dock’

‘You also mentioned priests?’