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I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.

I keep telling the screws over and over again, __f you treat a young boy in prison like a dog, keep him in a cell that is like a cage and constantly beat him and bully him, that boy is going to grow up hating yous and the system._ The only thing on his mind will be revenge, maybe it is not revenge on the screws that so frequently bullied and tortured him, but in the boy__ eyes he is getting revenge on the uniform, as it all means the same thing in the boy__ or man__ eyes.

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

Gary Moore is another legendary figure of sheer violence. In prison, Gary has spent most of his adult life inside one jail or another. When, on the odd occasion, he does get out of prison, it doesn__ take him long to go on a murderous campaign of total terror. Gary has been charged and stood trial for some three or four different murders.

I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing.

The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn__ care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera__ were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn__ waste much time getting to Big Mags_ door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood.

Bongo and Shug seen what was going on and decided to smash holes all over the roof of the hall, just for something to do. Bongo was first on to the roof, where, unknown to him he was being filmed from a cell in the hall straight across from him, but Bongo didn__ give a fuck as he never even wore a mask to try and protect his face, he was in his element, so was Shug. And to their credit, they didn__ half wreck the roof of the hall.

The riot screws didn__ give a monkey__ about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.

When the infamous Shotts riot of _93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friend__ cell, smoking hash, waiting for the riot to end. Dingus had seen all the crazy shit before.

Big Rab has worked in Barlinnie__ Wendy House for over seven and a half years. The average time a screw works in the seg blocks is two years, this man has seen it and done it all. Most prisoners will agree, he isn__ a dog either but can be when he wants. He has had legendary roll abouts with some of Scotland__ hardest criminals but at the end of it he doesn__ hold any grudges.

I was also in Glenochil Prison in 1992 when Hammy was stabbed five times in the chest and belly off another man called Fudge, but give Hammy his dues, he never tried to jail bait his attacker up. Fudge never got any more time to his sentence for the frenzied attack on Hammy. This man has also had pit bulls and rottweiler dogs set on him and guess what, he beat the dogs.

The screws have brought all the revenge attacks on themselves. Most prisoners that have done some nasty damage in the system have come through the young offenders, where that was just a breeding ground for hatred from the screws point of view. They were famous for bullying and battering young, defenceless boys to the point of death, in some cases.

Just as chillingly as Manuel took police to the spot where he had buried 17-year-old Isabella Cooke, it was reminiscent of this when Brady took police to Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire, when he and Hindley were flown there by helicopter to walk on the graves of more victims.

Another man of sheer violence was the late Stewart Boyd, he was killed in a car accident over in Spain__ Costa del Sol shortly after being released from prison in June 2003. But he certainly left his mark on the city streets of Glasgow. He was a force to be reckoned with, a gang enforcer. Murder and witness intimidation were high on his criminal charge sheet.

You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa__ knee, the word __aedophile_ should send more shivers up your spine than the word __ruggie_.

The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.

Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Ian Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 in Glasgow, Scotland, he__ responsible for a series of murders that took place from 1962 until 1965 in Greater Manchester. Brady and Myra Hindley met in 1961, she was a 19-year-old typist, he was a 23-year-old stock clerk. By 1966, both were tried at Chester Assizes for multiple murder. The trial lasted 15 days; Brady and Hindley were convicted on 6 May 1966, sentenced to life imprisonment.