HMP Addiewell is reckoned to be one of the toughest prisons in Scotland. To be locked up there is to be in with murderers and top-tier organised crime men. In its most recent assessment the chief inspector of prisons described the jail, situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh, as delivering the worst findings she had encountered during her years in the job. Prisoners manage to get their hands on drugs, weapons and mobile phones. Violence is frequent and 40 per cent of inmates claimed to have been assaulted or abused by staff. The inspection was done before Addiewell’s most famous prisoner was driven inside and the imposing gates closed behind him.
On March 15, Anthony Stokes, the one-time Arsenal prodigy and former Sunderland, Celtic and Ireland