Famous Prisoners of Wormwood Scrubs by Stephen Wade

Author:Stephen Wade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True crime, prisons, jails, punishment, prison escapes, conchies, Keith Richards, Pete Doherty, George Blake, John Stonehouse, Charles Bronson, Joe Orton, Bosie, Nicolas van Hoogstraten, Peter Wildeblood
ISBN: 9781909183520
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

The memorial stone to D J Williams, at Fishguard

What happened then was a mixed bag as far as the men’s futures were concerned. Lewis was sacked from his academic post by Swansea University, but Valentine went on to serve as a pastor in Wales, editing the Baptist magazine, Seren Gomer ; and D J Williams returned to teaching in Fishguard. Perhaps a statement in an essay by Professor Hywel Teifi Edwards on D J Williams best sums up the importance of this unusual crime: ‘That symbolic protest takes a central place in the mythos of the nationalist movement. He endeavoured all his life to campaign for a free Christian Wales.’

The fire at the bombing school is one of the major events in modern Welsh history. It was all done with such good manners, such impeccable planning, avoiding hurting anyone. Saunders and his friends would have despised those who set out to follow the IRA and tried to murder Prince Charles. Burning a few sheds was as far as they would go, and the fact is that what they did hit the headlines: publicity was everything. Wales and Welsh militancy had been in the shadows for too long, they thought. It was time to be seen.

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