PLEASE, DADDY, NO a Boy Betrayed

Hardback. The author spent the first 30yrs of his life in a mental and physical hell. At the age of 32 the rage, pain and confusion boiled over inside his head and he sought out the man who had tormented him. Arriving at his step-father's doorstep, he discovered that David Howarth hadn't changed. Certain that he was about to be attacked in the same way he had been so many hundreds of times as a small boy, Stuart grabbed a hammer and battered David Howarth to death. Stuart made no attempt to deny what he had done, and for the first time in his life he told his shocked family some of what he had been put through as a child. Since they had all suffered at the hands of David Howarth, none of them blamed him, but Stuart still had to face prosecution and the judge reluctantly sentenced him to 2yrs imprisonment. In prison, Stuart should have received the help he needed, but some of the staff at Strangeways took sadistic pleasure in taunting him about his childhood abuse and subjecting him to humiliating strip-searches up to 8 times a day. Stuart fought back, taking the Home Office and Strangeways to court, where he won his case and was awarded damages. 272pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.