Furious Frank

In our monthly column, an ex-prisoner with ‘anger issues’ tries to adapt to the world outside I got invited to my cousin’s wedding. Weddings ain’t really my thing – too many speeches, everybody having to smile and look happy, kids running around, and spending time in a church. I don’t like churches; they’re cold and they stink of incense and guilt. And with my previous, I always feel as though I’m about to burst into flames the moment I step through the door. Anyway, I had to get myself a new shirt.

‘The white lady’ found dead in her wedding dress In our last issue, we brought you haunted Bodmin jail, which is presently in a friendly feud with this month’s haunted prison, Shepton Mallet, over which has the most ghosts. HMP Shepton Mallet was opened before 1625 but was already in poor repair by the end of the First English Civil War in 1646. It was expanded in 1790, but conditions were again criticised in a report of 1822 and further building work was undertaken in the 1820s and 1830s.

In our monthly column, an ex-prisoner with ‘anger issues’ tries to adapt to the world outside I was relaxing on my day off, just pottering around the flat and feeling calm, when I suddenly heard a loud knocking on my front door. I was not expecting anyone, and from the way they were banging on my door it must have been something important. I hoped it was not the police because it certainly sounded official. I went downstairs and opened the door.