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‘But that could take days, and if you’re in the grip of a craving …’

‘It only takes one phone call, and an hour later I check with the dealer and if he’s received the cash, then I supply’

‘If you were on the outside and not a dealer, how much would you need to cover your own addiction?’

‘Three hundred quid a day’

‘But that’s a hundred thousand pounds a year – cash’

‘Yeah, but as a dealer I can earn twice that, and still get my fix four times a day’

Tony goes on to talk about his fears after he’s released toht o‘clock They believe he’s kicked the habit following a spell in special prison in Devon, where they weaned him off heroin for fifteen months But, once he was considered cured, they transferred him to a D-cat, in this case NSC, where it was ‘in his face’, and within weeks he was addicted again

‘I won’t live to see fifty,’ Tony says ‘I’ll have been in jail for over half my life’ He pauses ‘I wish I’d never taken that first freebie when I was fifteen You’ll pass ten of us in the street every day, Jeff, and you won’t have been aware Perhaps you will from now on’

Tony left the hospital at 728 pm

I handed his letter to sister the following

DAY 294

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2002

900 am

Today’s list of new inductees to see the doctor includes Patel, Patel, Patel and Patel It’s hard to believe that there isn’t a story there somewhere When the prisoners appear, it soon beco with a father and three sons I later discover that the ed with the same offence

The Patels are Sikhs, and have very strong fahter/sister was earning her living as a prostitute, they formed a plan to kidnap her (the law’s views)/ rescue her (the Patel family’s value) The first part of this plan was not too difficult to carry out for a bright, reasonably deterirl into a car and whisked her off to the family home However the pimp/ lover/friend-I can’t be sure which – set out to rescue her, so that she could be put back to work Unfortunately for him, he had not taken into account the resolution of the Patel fa beaten up