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Mark24

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    HMP Birmingham

    Main charge is GBH . Better not say anything more just in case anyone involved is a Villa fan!
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    HMP Birmingham

    Thanks. Bit of a gead wreck just wondering how things will go and how I will find it. I know that I would go to Cat B first but hopefully would Get Cat C aftera while as I know they are meant to be much better.
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    HMP Birmingham

    Got a few weeks before sentencing. Was hoping with all the talk of the prisons being full I might get lucky but solicitor to;d me to epect custody
  4. Really OT but anyway as people who know Birmingham well Am I right in thinking that people in court in Birmingham who get custody go to HMP Birmingham Winston Green? I know it wss meant to be pretty bad but wondering if anybody has any idea what it meanr to be like now if you know anybody who has been there or works there?
  5. When I was in Birmingham - where my girlfriend is from - I ended up getting arrested and was in the cells at Steelhouse Lane. I know it's the main police station for Birmingham but it seemed more like a jail than a police station with the way it was. Was it ever a jail or is it just that the place is so old that it just seems different to modern police places? Anybody else spend the night or longer there?
  6. You must have resisted the urge to backchat the plod, unlike me. Seems a common one this. I too got nicked for peeing in a street in Brum (when I was a student in the early/mid 90s), although this was more of a main street and not a back alley. I think they may have missed me peeing though and done me for running away, because they lobbed me in a van and drove me to the station, but would not say what the charge was. I was giving them some grief in the van, and they were giving me grief for being a northener/pissed. At no point did they charge me with anything, but as I was not cooperative they decided to lob me in the cell for the night. Not a pleasnt experience when pissed and dehydrating. Got let out the next morning, they did me for D & D but I got away with a caution and no fine. I joined that club this weekend. First time properly arrested and first time in the cells for the night. Is there any lad who hasn't done this some time? Was doing the business after not getting in where my mates were and just heard 'put it away' and looked around and saw 2 coppers behind me. I had to finish what I was doing and was expecting a bit of a lecture. Got asked my name and obviously didn't answer quick enough as they put on the cuffs and started looking in my pockets. Couldn't really talk to them and they called for a van and then got pushed along by the 2 of them along a road and into the back of a van. Arrived at the station and told I would be spending the night there and be charged with drunk and disorderly. Got searched and that - had to give them my belt and my jacket (had a string thing in it) and was put in the cell for the night. Didn't sleep much on the blue mattress on the concrete bench, got 2 blankets - one I used as a pillow. Heard other people screaming when they came in and banging on the cell doors and the light was kept on in the cell all night. Got to counting the bricks on the wall to get asleep. Just had the wall to look at and a big steel door with a hatch and a spy hole all closed up from my side. Was cold enough in the cell. It was after half eight when the hatch opened and I got asked if I wanted breakfast and if I eat sausages? I got a paper cup of tea and a paper plate with sausages and beans and a plastic spoon. Hard to cut the sausages with that. Eventually a sergeant came and told me what was happening. Had to have my fingerprints and photograph taken - seemed a bit much for a piss - but I did it. I got put back in my cell and then got to talk to a solicitor on the phone and ended up with a caution. The cops and detention officers or whatever they were called were OK in the morning and I just did what I was told to get out and get my stuff back. Wasn't how I planned on spending the night but suppose it was a lesson. Got let out and got some smokes straight away as I was dying for one and smoked 3 or 4 straight as I headed back. Once before I got into a discussion with bouncers on Broad Street. Police came and spoke to me and eventually cuffed me and put me in the back of the car and I thought I was going to the station. But they took me back to where I was staying and uncuffed me - said they were dearresting me and to sleep it off. i did - they were pretty sound.
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