Haslar (Preface)

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Get in the fucking water! There were 5 of them. I was standing completely naked on a sickly coloured tiled floor and they weren't happy, they really weren't happy. I think it was a result of them not being able to give me the shaven head treatment. Unlike my fellow victims, I didn't have any curly locks to chop cos I was a skinhead back in 1980. The water was hot; very very hot, and they knew it. I lowered myself into the tub, cringing with the pain of the heat and began to wash with the green carbolic soap they…

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What’s It All About? (1)

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I landed on planet earth to the screams of my poor mother on Wednesday June 6th 1962 at 15:00, or 3pm in old money. “Never again”, she was heard to say afterwards, and like with most things she said, she meant it. I imagine that my father was in the betting shop at the time, as back in those days the Epsom Derby was run on a Wednesday, and it was a big event. Larkspur won the race under Neville Sellwood and trained by the Irish legend Vincent O’Brien, his first winner of six in the race down the years. I’m…

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