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Oct 11, 2018 · The prisoner who sparked the Strangeways riot has been jailed again - for aggressive begging. Paul Taylor, who is now 53, has been jailed for robbery and breaching an injunction handed out...
- Strangeways: The riot leader's story - Manchester Evening News
On April 1 1990, prisoner Paul Taylor turned a Sunday...
- What happened to the ringleaders of the Strangeways riots
Paul Taylor Taylor bellowed the words that sparked the riot...
- Strangeways: The riot leader's story - Manchester Evening News
Jan 12, 2023 · Paul Taylor, from Birkenhead, was serving a three-year sentence for theft, deception and assault at the time of the Strangeways riots. He had served two and a half years of that sentence when...
- Kieran Davies
Prisoners protesting on the badly damaged roof of the prison. Paul Taylor is in the centre with his arms outstretched. The 1990 Strangeways Prison riot was a 25-day prison riot and rooftop protest at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England.
Mar 23, 2015 · One prisoner, Paul Taylor, interrupted proceedings by shouting out. It was the spark. Within minutes, the men inside had taken control of the chapel. Before long, a riot had spread throughout...
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- Sally Williams
Mar 31, 2010 · On April 1 1990, prisoner Paul Taylor turned a Sunday service at Strangeways jail into the biggest prison riot in British history. Twenty years on, he reflects on the events...
Apr 12, 2020 · Paul Taylor Taylor bellowed the words that sparked the riot when he took the microphone from a prison chaplain and told the congregation: “Let’s take the prison.”
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Apr 2, 2015 · Paul Taylor, 50, from Birkenhead, was serving three years for theft, deception and assault when he sparked Britain’s worst prison violence on April Fool’s Day 1990.
