PADDY HILL ON THE RTE LATE LATE SHOW DESCRIBING HIS EXPERIENCES IN PRISON - BIRMINGHAM 6 - IRELAND — Transcript

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1. 0:01I've seen a lot of people in jail and
2. 0:03you find them in every jail and people
3. 0:06are very bitter and
4. 0:08twisted and you can't get a two minutes
5. 0:10conversation out of them you
6. 0:12know they haven't got a good word to say
7. 0:14about anybody or anything and but we
8. 0:16used to say to each other and the others
9. 0:18like there but for the grace of God go
10. 0:20why me I'm the practical joker out of
11. 0:23the sex of like you know I like to have
12. 0:24a good crack and a laugh and I'm the
13. 0:28sort of person that won't be down for
14. 0:29long WR but to see some of the people
15. 0:32going around in jail that are bitter and
16. 0:33twisted no it's like a disease it it
17. 0:36eats from from within and there ain't
18. 0:38nothing there only a
19. 0:40shell me I made a r from the start that
20. 0:44I was going to prove me innocence and I
21. 0:45made a rude also I was going to try and
22. 0:47come out more or less the same man as
23. 0:48what I went in I knew that when I come
24. 0:51out it was going to be three things
25. 0:53different I was going to be a little bit
26. 0:54older a little bit sadder but a hell of
27. 0:56a lot wiser and that's the way I've come
28. 0:58out as you you know and thank God like
29. 1:00well for all of us there's none of us of
30. 1:03angry like I've heard people pass
31. 1:05remarks about what I said I said to
32. 1:07Bailey they said it was very angry very
33. 1:09forceful maybe it was but then again the
34. 1:11truth is always
35. 1:13forceful angry yes why shouldn't I be
36. 1:16angry I've had to sit in the prison cell
37. 1:18for 16 and a half years and see them
38. 1:20just take my life away for nothing and
39. 1:23they used us they told us from the start
40. 1:25that they knew we hadn't done it they
41. 1:27told us they didn't care who done it and
42. 1:30they told us that we had been
43. 1:31picked and they said that they had us
44. 1:33and that was good enough as long as they
45. 1:35got convictions they're happy and keeps
46. 1:36the G the public off their Gaffers back
47. 1:38and their Gaffers off
48. 1:40ours the committ offered me Bits of
49. 1:42Paper to
50. 1:43sign nothing on them when we saying
51. 1:46there we'll take care of it we go and
52. 1:49get your wife your kids we bring them
53. 1:51down to you that no they weren't
54. 1:54interested in Justice or nothing you
55. 1:55know they just wanted bodies and that's
56. 1:58what they told us not only that when
57. 2:00they were buttering towards me they told
58. 2:02me they pointed like that and they said
59. 2:03we have orders right from the very top
60. 2:07to do what we want with you as long as
61. 2:09we get a confessionary un your name and
62. 2:11a bit of paper that's
63. 2:13all and that's exactly what they done
64. 2:16and they done it with
65. 2:17impunity you know and we ain't the only
66. 2:20ones there's loads of people in here but
67. 2:23the degree of brutality and torture
68. 2:24against them couldn't be leveled at the
69. 2:27police the seems have been leveled in
70. 2:28our case you know what about J