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Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s such a lot ‘media-soaked’ felony. Its famous person inmates have supplied the tabloids with many strong tales, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards - banged up for medications offences - to infamous undercover agent George Blake, whose get away enthralled the rustic. It has entertained the grasp of the Queen’s song, Sir Michael Tippett, socialist scrapper Fred Copeman, rebellious soul Pete Doherty, influential author Joe Orton, lifetime litigant Lord Alfred Douglas, fraudster John Stonehouse con Charles Bronson.

In this ebook, you’ll examine the forgotten, in addition to the well-known; the obvious in addition to the intense. it's a charming gallery of rogues, liars, spies, mountebanks, enthusiasts of court strife and basic, all-round villains who did whatever to get rich.

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