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The Wilderness Years

The Wilderness Years

by McKay Reg Campbell TC (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.38
Synopsis

In October 1984 T.C. Campbell and Joseph Steele were found guilty of murdering six members of the Doyle family in a deliberately set house fires. Both men have always protested their innocence and in "Indictment: Trial by Fire" Campbell and investigative journalist Reg McKay documented the deliberate miscarriage of justice and the farcical trial that led to their incarceration. This title is the story of T.C.'s life in prison. The beatings and torture he withstood time after time, the solitary confinement and hunger strikes, and his indefatigable struggle against the machinations of the judiciary system. These struggles culminated in the courts granting him interim freedom on December 11 2001, pending an appeal that is his final chance to have his name cleared.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 372
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 11 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 1841953318
ISBN 13: 9781841953311

Media Reviews
Astonishing. * * News of the World, on Indictment: Trial by Fire * *
Campbell's appeal is a matter for the courts, not the critics; but the book succeeds in conveying a sense of the brutality-saturated period. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Author Bio
The youngest of eight surviving children of ten, T.C. Campbell grew up in the rat-infested slums of Glasgow before progressing through the city's ganglands in his teenage and adult years. Wrongly imprisoned in 1984 for the horrendous Doyle family fire murders, Campbell has remained in the Scottish prison system ever since, fighting against the injustice of his incarceration and the corrupt system which condemns him. For twenty years a social worker in the schemes of Glasgow, Reg McKay woke up in 1998 surrounded by grey-faced men in grey suits. He walked away to write. An investigative journalist, McKay is also the author of two earlier books, None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebecca Pine and The Ferris Conspiracy, co-written with Paul Ferris. Reg McKay prefers his present company.