The Verdict (59 page)

With that, I stood up and went over to the cell door and banged on it for the guard. Seconds later the door was opened and the sounds of the prison came flooding in, the machine of confinement running off its trapped souls.

I didn’t even turn round to look at him. I was never going to turn round again, never ever look back. From now on I was moving forward.

‘I’ll see you in court, Vernon.’

Thanks to:

Seb Stone, The Mighty Bromfields, Tony & Roma Greenway, The Bents, David Shelley, Lucy Icke, Jane Gregory & Co., Clare Oxborrow (
Mrs
Smith!), Frank & Mark Canavan, Angie Robinson, Sophie Earle, Bill Pearson, Natasza Tardio, Edwidge Danticat, Danny Laferrière, Tony Burns, Tomas Carruthers, Chris McWatters, Mitch Kaplan, The Guyatts, The Kanners, The Kaufmanns, Darrell Davis & Lynette, Allen George, Roger Guenveur-Smith, Emma & Tony, Sam Sotudeh, Kevin McHale, Thor De Grammont, and Steve Purdom.

With extra special thanks to: Jan & Michael Eldridge, Andrew Holmes, all the hardworking staff at the Old Bailey, Westminster Magistrates’ Court (formerly at Horseferry Road), and The Falcon, Clapham Junction.