Still Alive

Olu Akinola

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Matthew, a security guard was wrongly convicted and got ten years sentence for drug possession. He's a family man who loves his wife and children wholeheartedly. He intends to fight for his conviction to be overturned, but he would have to be incarcerated for about three years pending his appeal.In prison he comes across some of the most dangerous criminals in Ireland. His wife has stopped taking most of his calls and stopped replying to his letters after just one year in prison. A notorious criminal, John the daddy devil who was about to be released from prison has divulged his intention to Matthew, to kidnap and kill his ex-wife Cathy. Matthew's mission is to stop him from committing further murders because he revealed that he has already killed his father-in-law and kidnapped his ex-wife's best friend Lucy whom John's associates has locked up in a cage on a farmyard. Can the police stop John from killing Cathy and rescue Lucy from the farmyard?Will Matthew's conviction be overturned? Will he be reunited with his wife and children? Will John's vengeance to kill Matthew in prison come to manifestation after his informant in the police told him Matthew ratted him to the police?

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• Publié par: Distributed by eBookpartnership
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781913275570
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents
Still Alive
Copyright
No matter what...
Dedication
Preface
Chapter One - Judgement Day
Chapter Two - Cork Prison
Chapter Three - Out On Bail
Chapter Four - Back to Cork Prison
Chapter Five - Meeting the Unknown
Chapter Six - Midlands Prison
Chapter Seven - The Devil Neighbour
Chapter Eight - Unexpected Windstorm
Chapter Nine - Mission Stop Daddy Devil
Chapter Ten - Trip to The Farmyard
Chapter Eleven - Boxer Tony the Pilot
Chapter Twelve - Gordon The Malevolent
Chapter Thirteen - The Unexpected Judgement
Chapter Fourteen - Unexpected Reunion
Acknowledgements
STILL ALIVE!

OLU AKINOLA
Copyright © Olu Akinola, 2022

First Published in Ireland, in 2022, in co-operation with Choice Publishing, Drogheda, County Louth, Republic of Ireland.
www.choicepublishing.ie

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-913275-56-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-913275-57-0

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
No Matter What
I Won’t Give Up
I Will Appreciate My Life
I Will Love Myself
I Will Continue To Fight
Because I Know That
There Is Light
At The End Of The Tunnel
And I Will Get There.
This book is dedicated to Thomas Potter who is now Home in Heaven, and his wife Linda Potter, the most kind-hearted mother that I have ever known.
PREFACE

Matthew, a security guard was wrongly convicted and got ten years sentence for drug possession, he’s a family man that loves his wife and children wholeheartedly. He intends to fight for his conviction to be overturned, but he would have to be incarcerated for about three years pending his appeal.
In prison he comes across some of the most dangerous criminals in Ireland. His wife stopped taking most of his calls and stopped replying to his letters after spending one year in prison.
A notorious criminal, John the daddy devil who was about to be released from prison has divulge his mission to Matthew to kidnap and kill his ex-wife Cathy, Matthew’s mission is to stop him from committing further murders because he has already revealed that he killed his father in-law and kidnapped his ex-wife’s best friend Lucy whom John associates has locked up in a cage on a farmyard.

Can the police stop John from killing Cathy and rescue Lucy from the farmyard?
Will Matthew’s conviction be overturned? Will he be reunited with his wife and children?
Will John’s vengeance to kill Matthew in prison come to manifestation after his informant in the police told him Matthew ratted him to the police?
Chapter One
Judgement Day

Matthew Williams sat in one of the cubicles of the prison truck, he was dressed in black suit, blue checkers shirt with a blue tie and a black shoe, he’s about five feet, ten inches tall, an averagely built man in his late thirties. It was summer time, in the middle of April, the sunny weather beamed through the small window in one of the cubicles of the prison truck, it was around 5pm, the journey from the court house in Wexford to Cork prison was about one-hour drive. Clinging to his holy bible and uncontrollable showers of tears trickling down from his eyes, he has just been given the mandatory ten years sentence for the drug offence he was convicted for by the jury of six women and six men three months earlier at the circuit criminal court in Waterford City, notwithstanding that his barrister Eamon Duggan, his solicitor Luke Hoare and his senior counsel Darren O’Kelly had all advised him that the next step is to take his case to the Court of Criminal Appeal, based on the ground that he didn’t get a fair trial at the Circuit Criminal court, they believe they have a chance that his conviction can be overturn, but he has been told that his Appeal won’t come up until in about another nine months. He couldn’t stop thinking about his wife Delilah, whom he calls sweetheart, and his two lovely innocent children, Samuel his son, whom is three years old, and Debbie his daughter whom is one year old, and all his other dependants, how on earth are they all going to cope with his incarceration, he blamed himself for all the problems he has unintentionally brought upon himself and his loved ones. In fact, there is no day that passed by since he was arrested by the police about twenty one months earlier with a package containing drugs that he doesn’t blame himself for been naive and selfish not to have thought about what would happen to all his loved ones, most especially his wife and innocent children if he’s taken away from their lives. He blamed himself again and again for his naivety for getting himself involved with the guy that put him in this predicament, notwithstanding that his innocence was abused and used by this criminal to commit this heinous crime, Matthew said to himself in his thoughts as tears stream from his eyes down unto his shirt “you are very stupid, your life is now messed up, locked up, and the real criminal is out there, and he will continue to use naive idiots like you to collect his drugs.” He became angry again thinking in retrospection of when he was first arrested after signing for the package with the drugs and pleading to the police to follow him to where he was told by the real culprit to deliver the package, so that the police could apprehend the guy at where he was waiting for him to deliver the package, but the police refused to immediately go to the location, instead, the police took him straight to the police station and locked him up in a cell for about two hours, and later took him out to the interrogation room to ask him to tell them if there were other people involved in the drug importation and supply, when it was too late to arrest the real culprit, the number the guy that sent him to collect the package which he immediately gave to the police when they arrested him was now giving a message that the number is not in service when the police rang the number two hours later, and that was the only contact number that the guy gets in touch with him from. He described the guy and the black jeep that he drives but that didn’t helped the police when they went to the location he told them the guy was waiting for him to deliver the package an hour later after his arrest “you know what, you have to start telling us the truth Matthew, you knew about these drugs that came from India” one of the three police officer said to him in the interrogation room after showing him the white powder that was conceal in the carton that was used to bring in the mobile phones that he was asked to go and collect by the real culprit. “Please I never knew or was told that drugs would be coming with the package, please help me,” cried Matthew as he begged the police officers.
He thought about the ten years sentence as he sat in the prison truck, he has been told by one of the prison guard that put him in the cubicle that with good behaviour, he can be released and get out of prison in seven years’ time and become a free man again, because he already spent three months in prison before the sentence, and another three months in prison when he was initially arrested with the drugs twenty one months earlier when he had to fight for bail before been released on bail with a surety that had to deposit seven thousand Euros to the court. His wife had to start pleading to people that she knew could afford the money and could come forward to stand as surety for Matthew, it took over two months to get a good Samaritan, a man name Jim introduced to his wife by the father in-law of one of the prisoners he met in prison. Matthew now remembers in retrospection how he came out on bail that night after spending three months away from his wife and children, then, his son was two years old and his daughter was three months old, he had really missed them, his wife and his kids only came to visit him once within the three months in prison, he wasn’t allowed to touch them because of a transparent glass that was used as a barrier to block any physical contact between prisoners and visitors, prisoners and visitors can only talk through the glass and the visit only lasted for about one hour, it was very emotional and harrowing for Matthew and his wife and children that they couldn’t have a physical contact visit, it was him crying first, then his wife and then the innocent children started crying. So; getting out on bail from Cork prison that night, it was about 8pm, a little bit dark in the month of September, he was given his money that he had saved up in his prison account that was kept by the prison authority within that three months of his first incarceration which was about ninety-five Euros, and also a bus ticket to pay for his bus ride home. Matthew breath in the air of freedom as he walked for about fifteen minutes through the front of the two company building walls on the right hand side of the outside walls of the prison, and further through the housing estate of about forty houses to the bus station, all his thoughts in the bus was about his wife and children. He didn’t have any phone to call his wife, because his mobile phone had been seized by the police to be used as evidence for the communication between him and his partners in crime to use as an exhibit to convict him in the law court, but he spoke to his wife earlier that day in the afternoon when he called her from the prison phone, and his wife told him that he would be released because his bail had been granted and approved by the judge, and that