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  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781845966195
  • Imprint: Mainstream Publishing
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99

The Hate Factory

Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains




You've read The Ferris Conspiracy. Thought Paul Ferris was bad? Meet his brother.

Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.

Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced betrayal and treachery on the inside. He unexpectedly formed friendships that led to his being labelled a 'bombers' crony' and found love while on the run after a dramatic escape. He vividly describes the cruelty, savagery and degradation that go hand in hand with prison life and details the nightmare that was Wormwood Scrubs, the prison he christened 'the Hate Factory'. He relays what happened when his cell was used as a courtroom for an IRA punishment trial and how he hatched a plan to assassinate the son of a legendary underworld godfather and plotted to murder an informer.

Over the 30 years during which Ferris has been imprisoned, his fellow inmates have included some of the UK's 'most wanted' from London underworld enforcer 'Mad' Frankie Fraser to Archie Hall, the serial killer dubbed 'the Monster Butler'.

  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781845966195
  • Imprint: Mainstream Publishing
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

David Leslie

David Leslie worked for the News of the World for over four decades before retiring and is now a freelance journalist and true-crime author.

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