Notorious gangster watched murders and inmate's face 'melt' off in maximum-security jail
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartel has more than 150 dirty cops on the payrollAt the age 22, in 1993, he was jailed for attempted robbery and firearms offences which saw him serve almost 17 years in Category A prisons up and down the country.Now reformed and aged 51, Gillen exclusively spoke to the Daily Star about some of the violence he witnessed.
He said: "I wasn’t part of it, but I saw a couple of people murdered in prison."These places - dispersal prisons - were extremely violent. "They were high-security prisons with notorious people, 'lifers', people doing long sentences who don’t have a future."One particularly horrific instance occurred at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire in 1998.
Gillen said: "Just the way it is, the kind of characters you have there... I see one kid - it was disgusting - a Colombian kid, late 20s, he was a drug mule or dealer, he got himself in trouble. "These people would take drugs in there.
There was a fallout. I watched these two men, who were on drugs themselves, who would do anything to get a little bit of drugs."They got this young kid into the kitchen bit of the wing.
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