Saturday, March the 27th, 2004

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The Birdhole Prison Riots

The Birdhole Prison Riots: Riots

Top row, left to right: Frumentor “The Git” Sopwith, forger, strangler, & madcap; Norbert Pew, the first man to commit a hot air ballooning felony in Antarctica; Slobodan Arvids, the so-called “Gruesome Latvian”; Albigensius Limescale, deranged button-maker; unidentified convict; Jim Pail, the Blister Lane poisoner.

Bottom row, left to right: Dan de Doop, dipsomaniac Dutch dentist; Monsignor Flammbo “John” Fowles, gravel-chewing Vatican dropout whose incompetent proofreading of papal encyclicals caused untold mayhem; Oscar Plank, the infamous Bodger's Spinney Spinettist; Lars Hinge, albino saboteur.

Lying on the floor: Jabez Pod, the Anti-Dobson.

Mrs Gubbins' book about the Birdhole Prison Riots will be published in the autumn, whether or not she is released from police custody.