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He needed to read just what resistance he was likely to face The plan was to enter from the hospital onto ewing go up on to the ones twos threes and fours landings and Clear the landings as we had the staff to do that And eight that evening the riot squad entered ewing The power being cut that day by prisoners Strange ways was completely dark I was on the roof and the carbon house that they're trying to get into ewing We managed to get on to the landings quite well But waiting above them on the wire mesh were dozens of prisoners Armed with scaffold poles they'd taken from the central rotunda No, it's not a count for that. I'm just broke loose. Yeah prisoners filled the wire And they're driving scaffolding poles were driving them through the wire Down onto us some of the scaffolding poles that are going to get launched to the net and at them It in the shields buckle in them Smashing through the legs Of course, I learned injuries to them. I think it's so well with the prison the prison riot people didn't come in Stop You you can't cut that nice and out At least the riot police gonna come in there with pepper spray bullets I kill us. No doubt about it. I think they would have liked to have killed us. I wasn't personally brandishing anything I was just Hands behind me back watching proceedings Poor Taylor I just she is easy. This guy is completely a sensitive He's out like a pen and a rose negative and he'd start calling Shakespeare He was like a romantic anarchist. I should say The next thing that came along was buckets of urine and the street a bucket of water Into my face in my not bucket of what sir your iron and the street It came along was buckets of urine and bucket of your right and the street I got into my face in my nostrils into my mouth and put up everywhere So we knew what was going to be up against and it's going to be quite a Violent response if that was anything to go by in fact a very violent response But we could manage it Disturbances at strange ways jail in Manchester up to 250 inmates are still on the loose in five of the ten wings So about 250 those are about the crazy ones of the most dangerous ones then 250 the second day I Thought I was dreaming. I thought I was dreaming all this And when he opened one eye It wasn't a dream real life It's known that more than 50 people were injured yesterday But reports of up to 12 deaths are still being described as speculation by the home office I was taken aback by that because I thought 20 dead is that prisoners and There that's wrong That's wrong. We checked to see if anybody had been hanged or anybody had been killed So he's put a banner up on the roof saying You know no dead But the rumors of dead inmates persisted and the world was watching The pressure grew on Brendan O'Friel to act My idea was to let's get let's get this ended. Let's get back in control Overnight hundreds of prison officers trained in riot control had arrived in Manchester It's over buddy The numbers is real even the plan that I suggested was the main force would actually go through the chapel As a diversion other units would go along Ewing to take the landings which we could do quite easily The helicopter was gonna sweep the roof Forcing the inmates to life Next phase would be to get from the landings onto the wire The prison officers were then going to go up through the roof space internally retake the roof We're still very uncertain about all sorts of things, but nonetheless Prison services let me have 400 staff all kitted up Well, yeah 458. Okay, the numbers are getting real against you now But let's again just stand there and do nothing. What are they there for? Who's all lined up inside the prison Down the side of the hospital all in units ready to march into the prison and they just gave up at two o'clock O'Friel got a call from Brian Eames deputy head of the prison service He was worried about casualties. I Said to him quite bluntly look We've had a full-scale riot. We're still in a riot situation. I can't rule out the possibility of casualties I was on the roof and I saw a massive prison officers coming through the gatehouse into Ewing section Some people got prepared with big huge buckets of scaffolding clips people making makeshift chunks No one's to the end of a scaffolding pole. You're putting a knife in kind of hammer I'm putting it on like a big medieval instrument War times now man So a force equals war times the prisoners They got nothing to lose these last two fifty they got literally nothing to lose. They're probably lifers or 30 40 years they got nothing to lose All the thoughts of the death Because if I thought one of the officers was coming to say me I Would have defended myself Brenda no freel then received another urgent call from Brian Eames He pressed me further and said could staff be killed. I said well, it's possible That's the situation that we're in He then said it's not on then is it? What you must withdraw The governor and all of us were absolutely deflated We could not believe that order Yeah, well, I was certainly They were thrown by it. I think the expression that several people used was polexed But you know you just had to carry on Well morale dropped through the floor You see the prisoner being taken over and it didn't belong to them. It belongs to us Everyone was elated Everyone was chomping Remember a speaker getting brought up on the roof a big speaker out of the church There's a song at the start of the time snap we've got the power, you know man and people were playing it full blast It was like a party within the prison. Oh Man, what the heck? What happened to the time? Oh, I get it copyright But no point of watching it What the hell happened to the time It's a complete release Of all the stresses and worries and anxieties that you're actually feeling safe Amongst this big crazy storm Yeah They had them back down. They had them doing all that doing that and back them up Yeah, let's do a music That's a sage This morning With the world's media now camped outside the walls of strange ways Paul Taylor and Alan Lord were center stage My baby is waking up, but I'm trying to like give her some time Maybe she'll just fall back asleep. If not, man, I'm sorry. We're gonna have to do a part three Y'all get y'all gotta understand he couldn't be too Lacked about it couldn't be too jovial about it because The only thing that becomes trivial and nonsensical and That's what it wasn't about now. This was a golden opportunity to actually put under the microscope the prison system This prisoner claims he started the protest, but says we didn't want a riot I just wanted the public to know That prisoners treatments or a prison service was immoral I rose to seven-page representation and I went on to the rooftop and I've started broadcasting it. I Got four pages into it And then they started drowning me out with sirens And I thought okay to complete liberty, yeah, and I thought the classroom and I went down to it I reached off the blackboard found the chalk went back up There's nothing they can do now the message is getting out even even worldwide now It's not about that now. So I'll pen on paper but chalk on blackboard One of the things that took up on myself to do right was go to the governor's office And I found two books in that office and one was the stoppage of letters book The book detailed letters that had been stopped by the prison sensor department Okay, so you and I'm out here in the dirty laundry out now. Okay, I get it She's going back and what it was young prisoners getting a beating a slap down the air office screw So he's complaining to his family The was also y'all stopping like like it's like Y'all can't do no wrong and like y'all stopping anybody from knowing what y'all really doing in there I can be crew across the way, and I held up the book the front cover. So he put his thumbs up like that Then I caught in chapter and verse on the board for the rest of the press Lord and Taylor's grievances were now being heard far beyond the prison walls Prisoners going on the rampage and Destroying their own property. It's a case of prisoners going on the rampage and attacking fellow prisoners that no modern sanitation in the cell blocks and men even living three in a cell are required to slop out if We treat men like animals. We ought not to be surprised that they behave like animals Thanks, right for some of the younger prisoners The rooftop protest had started to lose its appeal Yes, it's on the thing it's in that black bag. I know she awake. I'm gonna come in there We'll lose it. Yeah guys, so that was part two. So my bad. I will be back for part three Just give me a little bit. I got to put my baby back to sleep Till I leave you like comment subscribe turn on your post notification. It's getting greasy too. It's getting real good All right, there's gonna be no intro for this. I Had to bribe my baby with a cracker to be quiet So let's just get through this 15 minutes Don't know beyond kids in my estate called them Matthew and then He was up on the roof with me in that Yeah, he kept me out together in there as I kept his I didn't you know Helped each other. He was getting cold. It was raining. I was sired. There's nothing else correct. So far You know, I was will go. Yeah, they morale was going down the problem for that's over with was how to get off the roof There was a lot with Balaclava's on saying, you know, we need to keep the numbers up people in for serious crime Madras, I Wasn't about to argue with someone in the Balaclava I was scared they don't catch our lives later We had a lot of young prisoners We felt were at risk with the older prisoners of abuse We needed to try and get them down Prison officer Pete Hancox was also a trained negotiator He contacted Alan Lord and asked to meet him away from the cameras Well, it was decided that somebody has to go down people have to go down to negotiate I said you can negotiate with them Alan because I'm not negotiating with the prison service They don't listen to reason that the best I feel him. I like that based on the energy. Yeah I dropped down from the wire mesh onto the onto that landing bridge and You could cut the atmosphere with a knife Is this the moment they're gonna snatch from me? Oh Where he met with Pete Hancox It was very brief it didn't last more than five minutes, but the main first the argument is what's it about? There's nothing to negotiate honestly like Yeah, like let me hear conditions But their main concern was about the YPs the young prisoners Look, you've got a lot of young lads up here youngsters of 16 or 17 Do you want to be able to be responsible for what might happen to them? So we gonna bombard this month no matter what now you got some young ins up there Whatever happened to them is doing you sir. So I'm already serving life. What you want to do. That's what I would have said Now he got a heart though remember tell the younger prisoners it was safe to leave Was we're walking in my there was a lot of hard feelings from our stuff saying You've just taken somebody off there. You're taking him back up again. We have to build trust trust not just with our Lord But with the other inmates had you stood in the middle? I like do he's fun There was some death and I shouted at the top of me voice and it went quite relatively and I just said anybody wants to leave can Leave nobody's forces stay in this incident now with an hours Several young inmates made their way off the roof Within hours, you got to notice not minutes hours because they had to decipher in their head Is he capping or not? Because these guards don't got to be in prison with this thing. I do This is my butthole on the line. Basically is what they were saying. Y'all know y'all know what I'm talking about pause pause, but that's He a lifer Just got off me my few bent down Don't wait for me. I We both surrendered time that Friday evening They got news and 25 prisoners are left on the loose tonight in the ruins core of the hardcore. I Don't want to get copyrighted because of the news clip of 1990s you news clip. I'll be sad as well As the siege continued the nation remained hooked on the unfolding drama from both sides of the prison wall Damn party called your mom You're in prison. How they call your mom that your mom the only one that can talk you out of that was it came to very new roads We couldn't really hear I said to my mother I cannot end my protests whilst people want to protest What's it been like for you coming here? He's not playing Stress is being I see me more Blanchishly no going to you know, I different broadcast and bands that were outside the prison To be honest with you Good about myself about what I'm doing. I just think I'm adding to the worry again Somebody going with their mom Oh, John come down now. Well, it's daylight and everybody's here I don't want to see you distressed So the way of changing that is to come down but to come down to what some screws would just openly and all the right here Just saying to this that when you come out of here, you're fucking dead That's the bad apples that we was talking about earlier in the documentary man It's always always a few still gone no matter the negotiations that went through Like it's gonna be some all the time Day 11 wait, hold on what we get to day 11 day 12 At this point, it's only 25 of them up there. I get they stand up for their cars But I do y'all child at other prisons like Cardiff yesterday is undoubtedly copycat News of the riot had reached other prisons now things were starting to get out of hand I was sent to this prison for the kicking Day 13 of the siege and a hardcore of 10 prisoners remained on the roof The changing strategy was needed By this time now the psychologists have moved it They decided that there'd be a good idea if the get these female officers So they'd be shouting up towards Alan Lord and be saying Alan Alan, I love you Alan Alan. I love you Paul Paul. I love you and all on and that's and stupid more or less We were cooking bacon. So we get the smell of the bacon coming up to them and And they think over that bacon smell stuff. We'll give ourselves up You know when we had fancy food anyway Then you know, I think staff are quite happy because they ended up with a bacon sandwich But they was not giving y'all ass no bacon when y'all got out The siege was now three weeks old the longest in Britain's penal history With seven men still inside the prison The governor looked to his newest they had seven men left and they asked that they got two hundred four hundred men 400 prison guards For seven dunes now at this point Members of staff for a breakthrough And now don't get the size of the war. I'm going on Having good verbal ability being able to get close to the other person Empathy said we need a female to go and speak to them and he said and you know them all The man Lisa John you best was Alan Lord We'd heard rumors that he was actually sleeping on the landings with a noose around his neck If the staff would have tried to enter the prison. He was going to hang himself off the land in Lord was the linchpin to regaining the prison Brendan O'Friel ordered a squad to recapture him So we're waiting in the cell now four of us Okay, they got a squad on them and shields and everything and there was actually some babing on the roof John John called down. He said the em Lisa Jones wants to see that he wouldn't go talk to you And never get his words as making me way down towards evening. He said just be careful lad. I said, I'll be all right. No worry That was the end of that I'm thinking about how's he gonna fight is he gonna give us a Good fight and we're gonna struggle with him big powerful man I've dropped down onto the ones And I must admit from my own complacency. I didn't I didn't see it straight away And they went to the gate to speak to the basically like it's basically he was like it so often when We're off out I'm looking over and then I see no groups of screws all together in my gear Come and rush him and I run at them hit them hit the shields and all that We didn't second to got all the new rat me open So he didn't go out without a fight you try I just got to the roof that quick and that the lads know it's over with have succeeded in Returning one more prisoner to legal custody Alan Lord was gone the men left on the roof went on the rampage Strange ways was ablaze this afternoon large fires started deliberately in the jail seawing By rioters infuriated by the governor's announcement, but one of their leaders have been captured I was upset that it's taking him the way that he did You know that Alan had been captured when he was a negotiator Having set the jail on fire. They attacked the fire crews called to tackle the blaze Fire they attacked the fire crews called to tackle the who's on bullshit Ladies Early this evening a prison van left strange ways carrying Lord to another prison in the north of England Lord's capture meant Brendan or Freel now had the support of the prison service to retake strange ways We certainly got this number of staff that we needed Oh, yeah, they got very clear authority. They couldn't take care. They couldn't take it over because they had that little stand Okay, I remember they you know you could do it Now they gave me a go The operation to take back the prison began at 9 in the morning on April the 25th 25 days after the riot started Units would go in on different parts of the wing Some would enter via the end of the wing some would enter via the chapel 23 minutes later The riot teams had reached the prison roof They just come along every wing all angles And the best of the roof We broke the roof out. We're just I What are you gonna do now? But with prison officers ordered not to risk their lives by climbing onto the roof. It was stalemate Taylor displayed more antics from his repertoire. He appeared to be suggesting he could fly to freedom But it was a lost cause Anybody with a mullet you just leave him alone. Let him let him do what he do Then we just cornered Take the event apart from anything else there are literally hundreds of people gathered around the prison wall watching this remarkable event Hours into the final assault The prisoners were still holding out Taylor was still trying to mock the authorities despite almost being knocked off the roof by a jet of water Finally at six that evening The men made the decision Manchester live where the siege is ending as we speak on the quits and there's no surrender We just actively responded to our family's wishes Taylor agreed to come down. That's pride. That's what you call pride But only in full view of the television cameras Into the bucket As soon as I put my foot on that cherry picker I just felt terror and I just knew That there was gonna be a huge price to pay Possibly for the rest of my life. Oh, yeah And the five of them climbed in and they were giving gestures to the press as If they were absolute bloody heroes It's one of them. He was saying get that mask off that skulls bastard Let's see his face. You know what I mean They found it immediately ticked on their side and beat their ass. What the hell? I had to escort them into the police van I was still really angry and Something in me wanted to punch them in the face But of course you was you was dirty from the beginning from went up way back We knew you was one of the dirty one You can't do that You can't do that in front of the car Destruction is phenomenal these pictures show they were not exaggerating It was sheer vandalism It was in my view and I stand by that an explosion of evil. It was as if our whole Professional world have been taken away. I stored In the hub of the prison was looked around Not just me but seriously other stuff with air And we were in tears Honestly, I hope they did 40s. I hope they didn't do all of this in vain And I hope there was change well obviously was changed in it because UK prisons you can have ps5s and Tablets and shit now and wear your own clothes and seven prison staff and 47 inmates were injured during the riot One of the prisoners badly beaten by other inmates died of a heart attack two days after he was rescued a Prison officer karma who was taken ill that's the deal with the six-year-old girl karma during the riots I don't condone this but karma subsequently died in hospital That's tough IP For his role in the riot Alan Lord had a further 10 years added to his sentence After 32 years in prison He successfully applied for a government grant and now runs his own gym just a few miles from strange ways Despite the fact that they say that we rehabilitate you know, that's a load of rubbish You rehabilitate yourself as a human being there's only a real rehabilitate. That's yourself. No, I agree with that For sure was also sentenced to a further 10 years in jail He now helps his father on a taxi service in Birkenhead these are pages of quotations that I Give out to people in my home area What's your favorite quotation? Friendship is the one thing concerning the usefulness of which the whole of mankind has agreed By George Catalan Marshall. Yeah, that's deep. My family suffered I suffered From that point of view it wasn't worth it But I'm willing to sacrifice that You know part of my life To know that I've helped change the prison system And an aftermath of the riot wolf report led to changes in the prison system Slopping out ended prison Complaints, okay Britain's prison population has continued to grow England and Wales have a highest rates of imprisonment in Europe 71 out of 118 prisons remain overcrowded. Well, yeah Enjoy That's deep man. Tla leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells man Keep coming with the lid document of these man. 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