“I wrote to him and said, you can’t talk to me like that… prison authorities allowed it… I walked into H division and met the criminal face-to-face.”

John Silvester · Law The Podcast · John Silvester: Sly of the Underworld

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Wrote a double-page newspaper piece praising a criminal, then sent a provocative Christmas-style card to the parole board head to generate publicity

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