LETTER FROM JIM DAWKINS -  06 December 2006

Hi all,

I would first like to thank all of you for your support and kind reviews of my book “The Loose Screw”. All your comments have been gratefully received and the most gratifying and also the most common one is from people who do not know Charlie who say that reading my comments and description of Charlie and the way he has been treated has totally changed their opinion of him from the one the media and the prison service so often love to portray. That means more to me than anything as it means the book is doing what I intended it to do and that is to change peoples perception of Charlie and realize who and what he is all about. If any of you are reading this and have not seen a copy yet please buy it or borrow it and you will see the real man not the mythical "madman" the media always write about. I will take this opportunity to repeat my words in derby that is if there are any members of the media reading this please stop writing shit about Charlie just because you think it sells papers and if there are any editors with a set of balls who would like to serialize the truth about Charlie as written in my book please contact me I will be only to glad to allow you to do so.

Secondly, in response to the latest letter Charlie has received from that nutcase nonce from Frankland: what a load of bollox and Charlie’s reaction to laugh it off only dispels the crap that he is incapable of any reason. He has shown much more restraint in his response than I ever could.

Thirdly I would like to share with you an experience I have of Full Sutton prison following Charlie’s terrible assault and treatment while he was there a short while ago. I once applied for a transfer there whilst I was at Wormwood Scrubs in 1996, in an attempt to discover whether a northern dispersal prison had less hostile members of staff than the London ones. I arrived at the prison and was met and shown round briefly by one of the governors.

I had no formal interview and after a short tour of the prison was taken into the governor’s office for a chat.

Here he informed me that the job was mine as he could tell by my appearance broken nose ex-army and being a Scrubs screw etc. that I could obviously handle myself. He informed me that he had gained permission to set up a team of a dozen or so officers who liked a row who would do nothing all day but be on immediate standby to react to any incident anywhere in the prison. He told me this would be an elite team who he wanted to just get in the thick of it and crack heads with our truncheons. He claimed to have home office approval for such a team and it was a scheme being introduced to all dispersal prisons and he assured me that there would be no fear of any legal reprisals no matter how heavy handed we were or the extent of any injuries sustained by the inmates as all allegations would be dealt with accordingly.

I obviously told him what I thought of this bully squad idea and declined his job offer but reading about the pepper gas incident Charlie was recently subjected to I wonder whether such squads do exist today.

Any way I am off to see Charlie next week so will pass on everyones’ regards and tell him how successful the site is and how we are all looking forward to seeing him at the big party.
Max respect to you all and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Charlie for today.

JIM DAWKINS