Lost in Care - The True Story of a Forgotten Child

Jimmy Holland

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786065230
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a problem child was set. He quickly turned from substance abuse to drug use and, in turn, to crime - his only means of an escape. An inevitable lifetime of crime faced him and he soon became associated with the ringleaders of an infamous gang responsible for prison riots and hostage taking. A heart-felt, shocking and despairing insight into life as a state-raised boy, Lost in Care is the heart-rending tale of a man who has lost his childhood and also lost his way.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Abandoned as a Baby
• Chapter Two: Product of the System
• Chapter Three: Look Back in Anger
• Chapter Four: Off to Sunny Govan and then the Big Hoose
• Chapter Five: The Road to Hell
• Chapter Six: Goodbye to the Bar L (The Hate Factory)
• Chapter Seven: Westend Ned With No Bed
• Chapter Eight: The Sullen Majesty of a Young Offenders Institution
• Chapter Nine: This is a Man’s World
• Chapter Ten: Smacked Up
• Chapter Eleven: Man in a Suitcase
• Chapter Twelve: Hostage Takers Demand Rubber Dolls and Planes to Ibiza
• Chapter Thirteen: Man-eater Survival
• Chapter Fourteen: Smacking It Up at a £2m Trial
• Chapter Fifteen: Double Hostage Siege Drug Hell in Glenochil and Perth Prisons
• Chapter Sixteen: Jingle Bollocks at the High Court
• Chapter Seventeen: The Bar L Wendy House isn’t for Kids
• Chapter Eighteen: Screwbirds and Killing the Junkie
• Chapter Nineteen: Shoot to Kill Prison Siege – Back to the Wendy House
• Chapter Twenty: Holland Takes a Hostage for a Sausage Roll
• Chapter Twenty-one: Transitional Suicide
• Chapter Twenty-two: The Seven Oafs of Glenochil Hate Factory
• Chapter Twenty-three: In and out of the Wendy House like a Fiddler’s Elbow
• Chapter Twenty-four: Suicide isn’t Painless … It Kills
• Chapter Twenty-five: Screwing the Screwbirds and the Shotts Riot
• Chapter Twenty-six: Attempted Murder of Four Prison Officers
• Chapter Twenty-seven: Kangaroo Trial
• Epilogue
• Copyright