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Tommy Gordon started off by doing three years in the young offenders’. He is still in prison, though, as he had a ‘run-in’ with another young offender during his stint there. I don’t see eye to eye with this boy - but you cannot take it away from him, he is a dangerous bastard. It is common knowledge in prison that Tommy is a homosexual, but that doesn’t bother me.

But what did bother me was that Tommy lied and in turn made me out to be some sort of liar, someone who went out of his way to embarrass him in front of his peers, such as Kenny Kelly (who had a name for himself in prison back in the good old Peterhead days, but I will go into that in more detail later).

Tommy took it upon himself to issue me with a personal threat. He thought that because he had murdered a prisoner – by sticking an 18in knife through the boy’s back and leaving it in – I was going to back down. Maybe some weaker people would have backed down, but I wasn’t going to let this boy rule my life. I dealt with it by stabbing him, but this isn’t my story, this is Tommy’s.

As a result of murdering the young prisoner, Tommy and a boy called Raymie Holland both received life sentences and were sent to Dumfries young offenders. Tommy had ideas of making a break for freedom and that is what he did, along with a boy called Jacko.

They managed to escape from Dumfries top security young offenders and were away for over a week. Once they were caught, Tommy and Jacko lay rotting in the seg unit for some thirteen months before they got back up the stairs to mainstream prison.

Tommy was then sent to Glenochil adult prison. I soon followed in his footsteps and that is where I had my own run-in with him, sending him to hospital in the process. After his recovery, he moved on to Perth Prison, where he was the ringleader in some trouble that resulted in a screw being taken hostage.

He was placed back in seg units and received a further six years on top of his life sentence for the hostage incident, before being transferred to the newly opened Peterhead special unit. There he had a run-in with my friend and former co-accused, Billy Lewis.

Tommy stabbed Billy through the face with a lock-back knife, but was injured himself during the scuffle and was taken to the hospital in Peterhead. During the hospital transfer, he made good his escape from his prison guard escort.

Tommy was back on the run: he managed to stay out of prison for some six weeks, before he was eventually trapped in one of the main train stations down in London. After photos of him had been plastered all over the television and in the newspapers, a family from Scotland recognised him. How unlucky is that?

You see, even though I hate this boy, I still take my hat off to him for what he has done. He has never taken his sentence lying down, no sir. Tommy is, and always will be, a fighter to the very end. He has now been in prison for sixteen years and people tell me that if he keeps screwing the nut he could be up for release within four years. That must be a bonus for him and I wish him all the best for getting out of prison, even though I don’t like him. He is still one of the most badass cons I have done my time with and I will close his story here.