Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
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Interviewed for the Strangeways ITV documentary, killer bodybuilder Michael Sharp painted a bleak picture of life inside Manchester's notorious prison. "There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so there's a lot of stabbings, a lot of slashings, people boiling up tubs of butter, turning it into oil, throwing that over the faces, over the body, they don't care what they do," he said.
Sharp was just 25-years-old when he was jailed for life for murdering ex-policeman David Ward in a brutal robbery at his West Yorkshire home.
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But violence ran in the family. He'd grown up in the shadow of a notorious dad - ex-heavyweight boxer and alcoholic Paul Sykes.
Once dubbed the the UK's 'hardest lag', Sykes spent much of his adult life behind bars. He came to prominence in the cult documentary, Paul Sykes: At Large, before succumbing to alcoholism and a pitiful death aged 60.
One former Governor of Hull Prison called him a 'short tempered' lag who assaulted staff 'on a number of occasions' and Sykes also left an impression on Charles Bronson. The pair met behind bars and Bronson wrote in his books, Legends: "A notorious hard man from Yorkshire, a fighting man in every sense. A lot of people never liked him, even feared him but I respected the man and what he stood for."
And it appears Sykes' brutality rubbed off on his son. In the early hours of January 23, 2008, just a few months after Sykes' death, Sharp was one of three men who planned to rob Mr Ward - along with the victim's ex-girlfriend, Stacey Foster.
Sharp was in a relationship with Foster who told him that Ward, a car salesman, kept £20,000 in a safe in his home in
Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
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