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By STEPHEN THORNE
Canuck released from Saudi jail savours freedom
Saudis behead two foreign drug smugglers
(CP) - William Sampson is a "stubborn bugger" who confounded and challenged
his
parents and teachers alike as a child, his father says.
One of his favourite teachers used to lie awake nights worrying
that Sampson's parents would call because he'd beaten their son with a knotted
rope for
misbehaving. But young Billy never complained. "He thought that guy was
the bee's knees," James Sampson, a former RAF navigator living in
Vancouver, recalled last year.
"Bill knew when he was asking for trouble and he'd take his lumps and
he wouldn't complain about it.
"But you had to let him know you weren't joking, that this was the way
things were going to be."
Sampson's stubbornness and ability to absorb punishment would be
severely tested many years later in Saudi Arabia where the
pharmaceutical engineer was arrested for a deadly car bombing that
authorities in the strictly Muslim country say was linked to alcohol
black-marketeering.
Now 44, Sampson has just been released from a Saudi prison after
more than two brutal years in solitary confinement marked by torture
and deprivation.
Before being convicted and sentenced to beheading, his lawyer says,
Sampson was forced to confess after police beat him, hung him upside
down, kept him awake for more than a week and threatened to harm
his family.
For two years, he was not allowed to read or write and was even
denied crayons and a calculator his father sent him.
Meanwhile, bombings aimed at westerners continued - believed to be
the work of Muslim extremists.
The treatment Sampson endured in prison appeared to push him over
the edge at times. He often rejected medical attention and refused to
see his lawyers or Canadian officials and even the man he considered
his best friend - his father.
He continually abused his guards verbally and threw things around his
cell, leading prison officials to question his mental health.
"He's been doing that for two years," said his cousin, also named
William Sampson. "That's not called mentally ill, that's called being a
sod, which my cousin has down to a T and has had since he was a
small boy.
"Put yourself in his position: he's been arrested, he's been tortured,
he's been hospitalized on numerous occasions and then they turn
around and say he's mentally ill because he throws things around his
cell."
When Liberal MP Don Boudria visited Sampson, the man refused to
speak to him at first.
Boudria recalled: "When I introduced the Canadian ambassador, then
he started to speak and his first words were: 'I am not a Canadian.' Of
course, he was there on a Canadian passport and his parents live in
British Columbia."
Boudria asked Sampson if he could intercede on his behalf with
another embassy.
"I'm a British subject but that's not going to do me any good because
they won't help me either," Sampson replied.
James Sampson said his son is "a stubborn bugger" who was defying
the Saudis with his erratic behaviour. And James Sampson was the
victim of some of that behaviour.
During their last visit, William Sampson shouted at his father to leave
his cell and even pushed him away. The elder Sampson said he wasn't
sure why his son reacted violently but speculated it was out of concern
for his safety.
Born April 17, 1959, at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton, N.S.,
William Sampson came to know the world at a young age.
When he was eight years old, a teacher in Halifax alerted his mother
that they were having a problem with young Billy - he'd been telling
stories of going to school in a bamboo hut, of jungle treks and
shooting snakes.
"Well, yes," Barbara June Sampson told her, "those things are true."
"The teacher formed the opinion that the mother was a head case as
well," said James, who'd taken his family to Scotland and Singapore for
six years before returning as an Air Canada pilot to Montreal and then
Vancouver.
In Grade 9 at Vancouver's Athlone boarding school, Bill was a regular
at Saturday morning detentions. His father looked upon them as a 10
per cent bonus to the hefty school fees he was paying.
Once, his boy was in for not doing his work. About mid-morning, James
Sampson got a call from the headmaster. Bill was refusing to
co-operate and the headmaster was seeking permission to keep him
through lunch.
"About 4 o'clock, I got another call. It was the headmaster again. He
said 'Bill still hasn't done his work; can we keep him in this evening?
We'll give him something to eat.' So I said OK."
About 9 p.m., the headmaster called again to say Bill had finally done
his work.
The following week, he was picking up his son at school when the
headmaster approached him.
"Mr. Sampson, we're very pleased at the way you backed us up on
Saturday with Bill," he said.
"Thank you," replied his father. "But you've got to realize something:
we are in this together, you and I. If we don't maintain a united front,
not only will he be running your bloody school but he'll be running my
home."
"And that was true," his father says now. "Every sort of weakness, and
he'd exploit it."
At 16, Bill made a "mistake" about his age and joined the Seaforth
Highlanders militia in Vancouver, whose minimum age was 17. He
stayed on for 18 months, wearing a kilt and participating in summer
exercises.
"He was very proud," said his father. "It meant a lot to him because he
felt he belonged in the regiment. It was damn good for him."
William Sampson's parents split up when he was 17. Bill never married.
He dropped out of the University of Toronto and went away to school,
earning a B.Sc. at London University and a PhD in biochemistry and
an MBA at Edinburgh University.
He's worked in Scotland and Switzerland and in 1998 went to Saudi
Arabia to work as a pharmaceutical and fine-chemical advisor with the
Saudi Industrial Development Fund.
In 1999, William and James took a four-wheel drive into the desert and
followed T.E. Lawrence's route along the old Hejez railway between
Damascus and Mecca where Lawrence wreaked havoc on the
Ottoman Turks who had ruled the Arab world for centuries.
They've also climbed mountains together and in 1989 William
Sampson saved the life of his father - who would reciprocate years
later by fighting fiercely for his son's life - after the elder Sampson
fell
into a crevasse in Switzerland.
"He held me on the rope. It scared the living Jesus out of me.
"He could see I was bloody worried and scared. He just touched me on
the knee and said: 'Don't worry Dad, I'll get you down.' And he did."
Canadian William Sampson, 5 Britons freed from Saudi jail after 2 years
Canadian Press - Friday, August 08, 2003
LONDON (CP) - The plane said to be carrying Canadian William Sampson
and five Britons who were freed after being jailed in Saudi Arabia for two
car
bombings arrived at Heathrow Airport on Friday.
A cousin was waiting to meet Sampson, who had been sentenced to death
along with Alexander Mitchell of Britain after bombings in Saudi Arabia,
including one blast in late 2000 that killed another British man.
But he appeared to be out of harm's way Friday after being granted clemency
by
the Saudi royalty.
"My husband's on the way to pick him up at the airport," Jan Sampson said
by telephone from Liverpool, England. She is married to Sampson's
cousin, also named William.
The federal government confirmed Sampson's release Friday and Foreign
Affairs Minister Bill Graham was to make a statement later.
Sampson's family said they planned to celebrate his
release if Sampson felt strong enough for such an event.
"If he says he wants a party he can have one; it depends how he
feels," Jan Samspon said.
The family believes Sampson was tortured during his two-year prison
stay. It has medical obtained records suggesting he was beaten, Jan
Sampson said.
Although the prisoners were originally shown on Saudi television
confessing to the attacks, they subsequently retracted those
statements.
Their families said they were tortured and tricked into making the
admission, and that the bombings were actually carried out by militants
in Saudi Arabia.
The other Britons arrested were given long prison sentences.
Sampson's Saudi law firm praised the monarch of the conservative
kingdom, King Fahd, for his act of mercy.
"The law firm of Salah Al-Hejailan acknowledges the merciful action
taken by the ruler of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Fahd bin
Abdulaziz Al-Saud," the firm said in a statement.
"The grant of clemency is even more remarkable considering the
severity of the punishment all the accused were facing."
The case is being touted as somewhat of a legal landmark for Saudi
Arabia, known for its harsh treatment of prisoners and strict application
of Muslim law.
It is the first-ever Saudi case where the right to legal counsel in criminal
matters has been respected, the Salah Al-Hejailan firm said in a
statement.
Sampson's likely method of execution would have been a public
beheading.
It is also the first case where Saudi authorities allowed the United
Nations and international human-rights groups to monitor the
treatment of accused criminals, the law firm added.
Sampson's father, who lives in the Vancouver area, had travelled to
Saudi Arabia several times and reported that his son's health was
deteriorating in captivity.
Sampson was born to British parents in Nova Scotia and lived in
Canada until his late teens. He then moved to Britain where he
attended university.
Here is a chronology of events in the William Sampson case:
- Feb. 4, 2001: Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef issues a statement
on state-run Saudi television that a Canadian and two European men
are in custody in connection with two explosions - a Nov. 17 car
combing that killed a British man and injured his wife, and a Nov. 22 car
bomb that injured two men and a woman, all Britons.
- Following Nayef's announcement, three men appear on Saudi
television and confess to the bombings. The Canadian is identified as
William Sampson, 42, an employee of a Saudi government agency that
provides loans to industrial ventures.
- Canadian Embassy officials in Riyadh say they weren't allowed to see
Sampson until Jan. 27. He was arrested in mid-December 2000.
- Feb. 6: Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley says Canada has asked
Saudi Arabia for additional consular contact with Sampson.
- Feb. 11: Canadian ambassador in Riyadh meets with Prince Nayef to
discuss case against Sampson. Told the Canadian cannot have legal
representation while investigation continues.
- March 16: Sampson, complaining of chest pains, is taken from jail to
hospital for angioplasty to clear a blocked artery.
- April 23: Sampson admitted to hospital again for a blocked artery.
- May 10: Sampson's father James, 70, of White Rock, B.C., allowed
45-minute visit with his son in Saudi prison.
- May 28: Family members and Canadian diplomats say they believe
Sampson is being tortured in jail because of visible injuries. Saudi
authorities tell the family injuries resulted from a suicide attempt.
Ottawa investigated whether Sampson was tortured.
- May 31: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah cancels trip to Ottawa to protest
Canadian "meddling" in security operations after inquiries made into
Sampson's injuries.
2002
- Jan 30: British newspaper, the Guardian, says Sampson was part of a
group of western pub drinkers falsely accused, imprisoned and in some
cases tortured in an official campaign to blame the bombings on
feuding bootleggers rather than on Saudi religious extremists.
- Feb. 4: Sampson refuses to leave his cell, where he has been in
solitary confinement since his arrest, to meet Canadian diplomats. No
reason given.
- Feb. 28: Saudi newspaper reports that Sampson and six other
foreigners have been brought to trial.
- April: Ottawa receives report that Sampson has been secretly
convicted and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and two subsequent
appeals were unsuccessful.
- Saudi lawyer representing Sampson and other defendants says no
trial or conviction have occurred.
- May 3: Saudi ambassador to Canada says Sampson has recanted his
confession, which will not be used against him by the Supreme Judicial
Council, a panel of five judges that will decide his fate.
- July 26: Canadian officials say they've received confirmation that
Sampson was found guilty and sentenced to death during a secret trial
earlier in the year. Ottawa was not told at the time. Saudi lawyers file
a
final appeal to the country's Supreme Court.
- Sept. 23: Mohammed Al-Hussaini, Saudi ambassador to Canada, says
a verdict could come "any time ... Soon, I think, you will hear about it.
The final verdict."
- Sept. 26: Sampson's lawyers release appeal document saying he was
deprived of sleep for up to 10 days, punched, tied up, hung upside
down and beaten; also threatened that his family would be harmed
unless he confessed. Document signed by defence lawyers Ahmed
al-Tuwaijiri and Salah al-Hujailan.
- Dec. 2: Amnesty International launches campaign to commute
Sampson's death sentence.
2003
- Jan 7: Sampson's future in doubt after one of seven westerners
imprisoned in Saudi Arabia on bombing charges dramatically changes
his testimony and confesses to the crime.
- March 4: Sampson, in prison for more than two years, mostly in
solitary confinement, reacts violently to visit from his father, punching
him and telling him to leave.
- May 17: Eldest son of Christopher Rodway, the Briton killed in car
bombing in Riyadh in 2000, officially forgives Sampson and other
westerners convicted of the crime. This is an important factor for
clemency appeal under Saudi law.
- May 18: A lawyer for Sampson and his co-accused files appeal for
clemency.
- May 22: Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain Prince, Turki al-Faisal,
suggests Sampson and five Britons could be given some form of
clemency.
- Aug. 8: Saudi Arabia releases Sampson and five Britons.
2003 The Canadian Press
Canadian William Sampson
freed from Saudi death row; arrives in Britain
KEVIN WARD - Canadian
Press
Friday, August 08, 2003
LONDON (CP) - Canadian William Sampson, sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia
for bombings
in 2000 that he denied carrying out, arrived in London Friday with five
British co-accused after
Saudi authorities granted them clemency and freed them from prison.
The men were taken off a commercial flight at Heathrow Airport behind screens
that obscured them
from view. They boarded a van and were driven away to an undisclosed location,
bypassing normal arrival formalities.
A passenger on board the plane said the men, along with about 10 accompanying
officials, sat
in the economy section. There was nothing unusual about the group except
that they boarded the
plane last in Saudi Arabia and got off first in London - all other passengers
were held on board
until they alighted, he said.
In Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham confirmed the release of
Sampson from captivity.
"This marks the end of an extremely difficult period for Mr. Sampson and
his family," the minister
said.
"Let's hear what he says about conditions of his incarceration and let's
look at what we can do to make sure all his legal rights are protected,"
Graham said outside his Toronto constituency office.
Sampson's father James, of White Rock, B.C., met his son at Heathrow
Airport, according to a cousin in Britain.
"I can only assume his father is once again ecstatic to see that his son
is alive and well, connected to his head and in safety and freedom," the
cousin, also named William Sampson, said when reached by telephone.
He was alluding to the fact that Saudi Arabia's method of execution is
beheading.
"Their plans are just to be together for a couple of days, just to get
used to life outside prison," he told Broadcast News.
"My cousin and his father have asked for some peaceful time, without
hassles from journalists, to get the last 31 months up to speed ... Billie
doesn't know what happened in the World Trade Center. Billie doesn't
know there's been a war in Afghanistan. Billie doesn't know there's
been a war in Iraq. He's got two years and seven months of his life to
catch up on."
Asked about Sampson's condition, the cousin replied: "He is in perfect
physical health" but declined to say anything about his mental state.
Reports in recent months indicated that Sampson, 44, had refused
visits from Canadian diplomats and treated visitors poorly after
prolonged solidarity confinement in Saudi Arabia.
Canadian consulate officials were at the airport to greet Sampson. A
spokeswoman told The Associated Press it was unclear "what kind of
state" the men were in or what their plans were.
Sampson's family had said earlier they would celebrate his release if he
felt strong enough. "If he says he wants a party he can have one,"
said the cousin's wife, Jan, in Liverpool, England.
The family believes Sampson was tortured in prison and has obtained
medical records suggesting he was beaten, she said.
Sampson and Briton Alexander Mitchell were sentenced to death, while
Britons James Lee, James Cottle, Les Walker and Peter Brandon were
given prison terms in connection with two bombings in the Saudi
capital, Riyadh, in late 2000, in which a Briton, Christopher Rodway,
was killed and four other people injured.
A sixth Briton, Glenn Ballard, who was detained for 10 months but not
charged, also was released Friday.
Although the prisoners were shown on Saudi television confessing to
involvement in the attacks, they subsequently retracted those
statements. Their families said they were tortured and tricked into
making the admission, and that the bombings were actually carried out
by militants in Saudi Arabia.
According to his lawyer, Sampson was forced to confess after police
beat him, hung him upside down, kept him awake for more than a
week and threatened to harm his family. For two years, he was not
allowed to read or write, and was denied crayons and a calculator his
father sent him.
There have been other bombings in Saudi Arabia after the men's
arrests, and Saudi authorities have launched a crackdown on
extremists who have carried out violent acts in recent weeks.
Sampson's Saudi law firm praised the ruler of the conservative kingdom
for sparing the men.
"The law firm of Salah Al-Hejailan acknowledges the merciful action
taken by the ruler of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Fahd bin
Abdulaziz Al-Saud," the firm said in a statement.
"The grant of clemency is even more remarkable considering the
severity of the punishment all the accused were facing."
The clemency was issued two weeks ago but has only just been
finalized, their lawyer Salah al-Hujeilan said, speaking to AP from
southern France. He said his clients "maintained their position that they
are not guilty. This case should now be closed. It is closed from the
Saudi point of view."
Sampson was born to British parents in Nova Scotia and lived in
Canada until his late teens. He then moved to Britain where he
attended university. He was employed by a government agency in
Saudi Arabia when he was arrested in late 2000.
Friday, August 08, 2003
LONDON (CP) - Saudi Arabia has released
Canadian William Sampson and five Britons jailed in
connection with two 2001 car bombings in the kingdom,
Sampson's family said Friday.
The freed prisoners were on a flight out of Saudi Arabia
and were scheduled to arrive at London's Heathrow
Airport, where a cousin was waiting to meet Sampson.
Sampson was sentenced to death along with Alexander
Mitchell of Britain after bombings in Saudi Arabia,
including one blast in late 2000 that killed another
British man.
Sampson, a British-Canadian citizen, appeared to be out of
harm's way Friday.
"My husband's on the way to pick him up at the airport,"
Jan Sampson said by telephone from Liverpool, England. She is married to
Sampson's cousin, also named William.
Although the prisoners were originally shown on Saudi television confessing
to the attacks, they subsequently retracted their confessions.
Their families said they were tortured and tricked into making the
admission, and that the bombings were actually carried out by militants
in
Saudi Arabia.
The other Britons arrested were given long prison sentences.
Sampson's father, who lives in the Vancouver area, had travelled to Saudi
Arabia several times and reported that his son's health was deteriorating
in
captivity.
Canadian William Sampson
freed by Saudi Arabia
CTV.ca News Staff
William Sampson, a Canadian man convicted and
sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for his alleged
role in two Riyadh car bombings, has been freed
along with five Britons.
Sampson arrived at Heathrow Airport on Friday,
along with the Britons, just two days after they
were granted clemency by King Fahd bin Abdulaziz
Al-Saud.
He has been in jail since December 2000, when he
was detained along with a Briton and a Belgian for a
series of bombings late that year. Sampson faced
beheading for his alleged role in the attacks.
Sampson's father James, who has waged an
unrelenting fight for William's release, was there to
meet his son when he stepped off the plane.
A cousin, also named William, told reporters the
family hoped for some quiet time together.
"His father is once again ecstatic to see that his son
is alive and well, connected to his head and in
safety and freedom," he said.
"Their plans are just to be together for a couple of
days, just to get used to life outside prison."
The family has long accused the Saudi government
of abusing Sampson.
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said Friday that
he will wait to talk to Sampson to see if all his legal
rights were protected.
"Of course, Canada will do everything we can to
protect the legal rights of all Canadians," Graham
said outside his Toronto constituency office.
"If there's a claim for indemnity of some kind which
was justified in international law and can be
pursued, we will aid them with that."
In a statement Prime Minister Jean Chretien
welcomed Sampson's release.
"Mr. Sampson's release was secured thanks to the
hard work of many people," Chretien said. He also
thanked special envoy, Senator Pierre DeBane, who
he said "personally appealed Mr. Sampson's case to
the Saudi Royal Family on my behalf."
Michael Okane, an American lawyer working with
the Saudi law firm representing Sampson, said the
lack of solid evidence and the fact that the bombings
continue in Riyadh contributed to his release.
It's unclear when, or if, Sampson will return to
Vancouver. He travels on a Canadian and British
passport.
"I think it is remarkable," Salah al-Hejailan, a lawyer
for the detainees, told CTV's Canada AM. "My clients,
all of them, were in the wrong place at the wrong
time."
As for how Simpson is feeling, Hejailan said he is good physically but "not
feeling very well."
In recent months, Sampson reportedly refused to see Canadian diplomats and
treated visitors
poorly, following prolonged solitary confinement in Saudi Arabia.
Sampson's ordeal
Sampson, Briton Alexander "Sandy" Mitchell and Belgian Raf Schyvens were
shown confessing to
the bombings -- on Nov. 17 and 22, 2000 -- on Saudi state television in
February 2001 in the capital
of Riyadh.
They later retracted their confessions and family and friends said they
believed the men had been
tortured.
"All of them have retracted their confessions that they have made earlier,"
Hejailan said. "They have
insisted that they are not engaged in this crime.
Sampson and Mitchell were sentenced to death in a closed hearing in October
2001. Schyvens and
the four other Britons were given lengthy jail sentences of up to 18 years.
Saudi authorities blamed the bombings on a turf war over illegal but lucrative
alcohol sales. Western
diplomats believe the bombings were carried out by Muslim extremist groups.
While the lawyer reported that Sampson and the five Britons had been freed
Friday, he didn't know
the fate of the Belgian man.
Amnesty Canada secretary General Alex Neve welcomed Sampson's release, but
said there are
long-term issues that need to be addressed.
"We've said all along that one of the reasons why Mr. Sampson's case has
occurred is that
government's including our own governments have failed to hold Saudi Arabia
to account for its
dismal human rights record."
As for why Sampson was granted clemency now, Neve said we may never know
the answer.
"I think it's going to be very important over the next day or two to read
signs coming out of Saudi
Arabia," he said.
"Hopefully (we'll) get further information from Mr. Sampson and those who
have been released with
him to see if we can get a real sense as to whether there was something
at play here or whether
this is just happenstance."
The four jailed Britons include James Patrick Lee, Les Walker, James Cottle
and Peter Brandon.
A seventh man, Briton Glenn Ballard, who was to be a witness against the
others was also released
on Friday after being detained for 10 months. He had not been charged but
could have been held
until the sentences against the others had been ratified.
With a report from The Canadian Press
Freed Scot may sue Saudi over 'torture'
TRACEY LAWSON
A SCOT who claims he was tortured into confessing to a spate of fatal car
bombs
in Saudi Arabia yesterday met lawyers to discuss whether to sue the state.
Sandy Mitchell hopes to bring a legal action against the Saudi authorities
for
alleged bad treatment following his arrest and conviction.
Mr Mitchell was one of six Britons jailed in 2000 after they were convicted
of
being involved in a series of car bombings which the Saudis claim were provoked
by a turf war among rival boot-leg drink gangs.
Mr Mitchell, 44, from Kirkintilloch, faced public beheading after he was
convicted
of playing a lead role in planting a bomb which killed Briton Christopher
Rodway
when it exploded in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in November 2000.
The men were released earlier this month after they were granted clemency
by
King Fahd.
Following his release Mr Mitchell, who spent nearly three years in jail,
insisted
that he was innocent.
The hospital technician claimed: "We were tortured - absolutely. That’s
why we
had to make those confessions. We can prove we are innocent."
Confirmation that Mr Mitchell hopes to sue the Saudi government followed
a
denial by the Arab state that the men had been tortured.
Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign affairs adviser to the Crown Prince Abdullah,
told BBC
Radio 4’s The World This Weekend programme: "We deny that. Let them be
examined by medical doctors and we will see."
Mr al-Jubeir also pointed out that clemency did not equate to acquittal
in the
Saudi courts, and insisted the men were guilty.
He dismissed claims by the men’s families that the charges were trumped
up
and that the bombings were committed by Islamic fundamentalists targeting
westerners.
The Saudi official also denied reports that the men had been released for
political reasons.
"They were pardoned. When the King of Saudi Arabia pardons people it should
not be a big deal. We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t."
David Fyfe, 48, of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, a close friend of Mr Mitchell,
said
he believed the Saudi denial of torture was prompted by the threat of legal
action.
Mr Fyfe, a retired police officer, said: "They are all back in their own
respective
countries now, if they got together and corroborated each other’s evidence
they
would have a strong case for legal action.
"I can only assume that that is why the Saudis have denied the allegations."
John Lyons, the Labour MP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, who supported Mr
Mitchell’s family in their attempts to secure his release, said he will
back Mr
Mitchell’s legal action.
Mr Lyons said: "If Sandy Mitchell says he was tortured in a Saudi jail,
then I am
prepared to accept that.
"I believe that he is an innocent man, and the television broadcast of his
confession did not have the ring of truth about it to me. If he has been
tortured
and he wants compensation from the Saudi authorities, then he is within
his
rights to use every legal recourse he has."
Mr Lyons said that Mr Mitchell plans to return to Kirkintilloch within the
next few
weeks, along with William Sampson, a Scot who was jailed along with him
for the
car bombing attacks, but who is now based in Canada.
The Canadian MP Dan McTeague is pressing his government to launch a formal
inquiry into the allegation of maltreatment on behalf of Mr Sampson, who
holds
a Canadian passport.
Mr McTeague said: "I have little doubt that the harm suffered by Mr Sampson
was at the hands of the prison guards.
"I believe these claims to be accurate and compelling, but if it came down
to Mr
Sampson’s word against theirs we would have our work cut out.
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