Alan’s shocking story of smuggling cannabis, being incarcerated in 16 prisons (across Britain, Spain and North Africa), including his time working as a psychiatric nurse in the Carabanchel prison insane asylum.
On his 5000 mile journeys smuggling from Britain to Oslo via North Africa he had survived a great deal. Being held at gunpoint four times, attacked by an angry mob, preyed on by armed bandits, mugged and stripped by a Moroccan gang wielding carving knives. He also managed to escape suspicion from customs officers, police officers, King Hassan II security guards and Algerian Airport police. His luck finally runs out when he has to leave North Africa by Ceuta port, as the Algeria border is closed due to war. At Ceuta, passport officers uncover kilos of hashish, worth half a million pounds in today's money.
From the age of 16 Alan has spent time in borstals and prison in the UK. He had served sentences alongside John Straffen, Edwin Bush, Mad Frankie Fraser and members of the Birmingham six. However his British experience could not prepare for him the darker and more chaotic world of the Spanish judicial system, where torture is rife. He has to endure the violence and squalor whilst touring prisons on the Spanish mainland and in North Africa.
After serving three years of his sentence, Alan thinks he has a handle on the Spanish prison system. That is until he does the unusual prison job of working as a psychiatric nurse, in the asylum for the criminally insane at Carabanchel prison. At the asylum he worked as part of a team, medicating and locking up mentally ill prisoners, rapists, murderers and mass murderers such as the infamous serial killer, Manuel Delgado Villegas.
On his 5000 mile journeys smuggling from Britain to Oslo via North Africa he had survived a great deal. Being held at gunpoint four times, attacked by an angry mob, preyed on by armed bandits, mugged and stripped by a Moroccan gang wielding carving knives. He also managed to escape suspicion from customs officers, police officers, King Hassan II security guards and Algerian Airport police. His luck finally runs out when he has to leave North Africa by Ceuta port, as the Algeria border is closed due to war. At Ceuta, passport officers uncover kilos of hashish, worth half a million pounds in today's money.
From the age of 16 Alan has spent time in borstals and prison in the UK. He had served sentences alongside John Straffen, Edwin Bush, Mad Frankie Fraser and members of the Birmingham six. However his British experience could not prepare for him the darker and more chaotic world of the Spanish judicial system, where torture is rife. He has to endure the violence and squalor whilst touring prisons on the Spanish mainland and in North Africa.
After serving three years of his sentence, Alan thinks he has a handle on the Spanish prison system. That is until he does the unusual prison job of working as a psychiatric nurse, in the asylum for the criminally insane at Carabanchel prison. At the asylum he worked as part of a team, medicating and locking up mentally ill prisoners, rapists, murderers and mass murderers such as the infamous serial killer, Manuel Delgado Villegas.
