HELL IN BARBADOS: The True Story of a Man Imprisoned in Paradise [Paperback]

What springs to mind when you think of Barbados?
Is it the warm tropical climate, the golden sands, or the clear blue ocean?
Or is it the cool, laid back attitude and friendliness of the people? If
you were asked to think of a single word to describe the island, most
people would say the same thing: Paradise.
Over 500,000 people visit Barbados every year, and almost half of those are
from the UK and Ireland. Most come back
having enjoyed the holiday of a lifetime. Few, thankfully,
get to see the truth behind the postcard image of this place; fewer still
get to tell the tale. But those unlucky enough to fall foul of the law as I
did are left in no doubt-this is far from heaven.
Corruption, squalor, poverty, crime; they all raise their
ugly heads in this place, and though I deserved to be sent
to prison for a crime I should not have committed, nobody
deserves to have their human rights taken away, and nobody
should be forced to endure the horrors of that place where I spent more
than three years of my life.
Yes, I have made mistakes, and I have paid for them, but
I very nearly paid for them with my life, as I struggled to
overcome disease, violence, and a full-blown riot in a place where there is
one rule for the haves and another for the havenots, where conditions are
horrendous, and where there is no distinction between a murderer and a
pickpocket.
I have looked back over my life in an eff ort to understand
where and why I went wrong, and I have come to realise many
things about myself. Some things will remain unanswered
for me--there are some things I will never know--but one
thing I do know is that I never want to go back to prison, and I never want
to go back to Barbados.
You might consider it Paradise, but I consider it Hell.