Between the age of 18 and 28 I spent most of my life in prison. I started on a destructive path that lead to me losing my freedom and being locked away in some of the UK's toughest prisons.

I ended up thriving in prison, I had a shop selling smuggled items, staff bringing in goods for me and time out of the prison to go home and party. It started of very differently though. Portland Prison was my proving ground, somewhere I had to dig deep within myself to survive. I was reborn, not for the better.

At 25 I was looking at life in prison. I'd thrown away any chance I'd been given and was looking at rotting in jail.

The diary podcast came about after a comedian came to see me and we talked about life in and out of prison. I had always talked about the best bits of being a crook, the fun and games of it all. I never spoke about the depressing sides of it, the dark times where you feel like you wont make it to release day.

Thanks for listening.