Guantanamo Bay Holiday Camp.

Guantanamo Bay does not compare with some European prisons today.

Guantanamo Bay is a holiday camp compared to European prisons. Christopher Chance was arrested and thrown into the Douai Dungeon in France last year.
He was arrested and held for extradition to Spain to complete a prison sentence he started in 2001. He was released from Malaga prison after serving twenty months of a three year sentence for hashish smuggling between Spain and Morocco.
His slick lawyer wangled his release on an appeal scam and Chance was released on Christmas Eve 2002. A subsequent hearing decided he should return to prison to complete the sentence, but Chance had returned to England for medical reasons and was having surgery in St. Albans City Hospital when these decisions were made.
Chance travelled around the world oblivious to the European Arrest Warrant issued by the Spanish. In 2005 Chance went to Cyprus for eighteen months to write another book. He returned to England by driving through Greece; Italy, France and then by car ferry across to Dover.
After a short Christmas break he decided to move to France to start another book. On 3rd January last year he drove off the ferry at Calais into the arms of the waiting French police to start a nightmare journey through French and Spanish prisons.
He was separated from his wife who was ordered out of the Calais port and advised to continue her journey alone because Chance was going to Spain.
Chance was then taken to holding cells near Bologne-Sur-Mer, where he was stripped naked for an orifice search. He was then put in a cold, filthy cell where he remained on the concrete floor with a dirty blanket for 36 hours.
On 5th January 07 he was taken to the Douai Dungeon, a 17th century prison famous for its busy guillotine, where he was again stripped naked for another orifice search. For the next 15 days he was fed bread and water every morning for breakfast. In all this time he was allowed only three showers.
Chance was put in a cell with the infamous French surgeon, Doctor Jean Beclet who sliced his wife to death with a meat cleaver in her chemist shop in Douai as customers ran screaming in terror. Chance slept badly in this cell with the homicidal doctor lying in the bunk opposite him.
On 10th January he was taken in leg-irons and manacles to the Douai courts where he was paraded in front of shoppers across the square and into the courts. Papers for extradition were signed and he was returned to the Douai Dungeon where he again was stripped naked and searched by his escorts who had never left his side throughout the day.
On 16th January he was again trussed in leg-irons and manacles for the journey to Fresnes prison, France’s harshest prison where he was again stripped naked and searched. He was fed bread and water every morning and locked in solitary confinement for three days and nights in a cold, dirty cell.
During his time in French prisons Chance was verbally abused constantly by his jailers and each time he was moved, even from cell to cell he was stripped naked and intimately searched by prison officers with a penchant for rolling back foreskins and gawping up arseholes.
On 19th January Chance was heavily manacled and taken to Orly airport with four armed guards, who on arrival at Orly were joined by two legionnaires armed with machine-guns. Chance was escorted through the busy airport concourse with weapons trained on him as shocked tourists moved out of the way, some taking pictures probably thinking he was bin Laden in disguise.
Chance was handed over to his Spanish escorts for the flight to Madrid.
He had never committed a crime in France, he was held merely for extradition.
A report on how he was treated by the Spanish follows soon.

Interview on the Roy Basnett Show.

The Roy Basnett Radio Show.
At 0200 hours on 23 Sept, I went on air for two hours in an interview with Roy Basnett of City Talk Radio in Liverpool.
This is the link: http://www.whatson.com/citytalk/Click on 'Roy Basnett' and you can listen to the interview. The programme producer, Jay, told me the feedback was terrific and fans of the show were delighted at the candid, shocking and brutal revelation of life inside Spanish prisons.
I will be doing another show to talk about how I was treated by the French in the Douai Dungeon and Fresnes prison.
Next weekend 4th and 5th Oct, I will be at Borders book shop in Speke, Liverpool for my first book signing. I will be there from 1pm on each day.

First Book Signing

My first ever book signing takes place on 4th and 5th October at Borders Book Shop in Liverpool. Borders is in the Mersey Retail Park near John Lennon airport. I start signing at 1pm and finish at 4:30pm on both days.