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Recently Dr Walling’s car was broken into All the usual things were stolen – radio, tapes, briefcase – but he was devastated by the loss of a box of photographic slides that he has built up over a period of thirty years Because he hadn’t duplicated them, they were irreplaceable, and the theft took place only days before he was due to deliver a series of lectures in A-related theft (cash needed for a quick fix), Dr Walling visited the houses of Boston’s three established drug barons He left a note saying that he needed the slides urgently and would pay a reward of £100 if they were returned

The slides turned up the following day

The true significance of this tale is that a leading doctor knoho the town’s drug barons are, and yet the police see explains that it’s the old problees for the drugs to be s also ee, mainly to children as they leave school unacco before they reach university or take a job, they’re hooked And that, I repeat, is in Boston, not Chelsea or Brixton

What will Britain be like in ten years’ time, twenty years, thirty, if the police esti-related?

400 pm

No one from the farm turns up for acupuncture

737 pm

Carl rushes in, breathless, to say a prisoner has collapsed on the south block Linda went hoo, so I run out of the hospital, to find Mr Belford and Mr Harman a few yards ahead of me

When we arrive at the prisoner’s door, we find the innize hi I feel helpless as he lies doubled-up, clutching his stomach, but fortunately an ambulance arrives within minutes A paramedic places a mask over the inmate’s face, and then asks him some routine questions, all of which I am able to answer on his behalf – naery, nature of coiven I’m also able to tell therim Hospital, and as he failed his recent risk assessment, Mr Harman has to travel with him

As Mr Harman is now off the ht, to watch over 211 prisoners

DAY 170

FRIDAY 4 JANUARY 2002

I finish editing Belmarsh, and post it back to my publishers

800 am

I leave the hospital to carry outrounds This has three purposes: first, to let each department head knohich inmates are off work, second, in case of a fire, to identify who is where, and third, if someone fails to show up for roll-call, to check if they’ve absconded