Jail thug demands takeaway pizzas
Jack and Vera are simply the bust
A MUGGER who battered a man in a wheelchair to steal 40p has begged for takeaway pizza in prison.
Shameless Stephen Williams said serving up the treat would help make inmates behave and boost the local economy.
Williams wrote: “I have been mulling over the current IEP [incentive and earned privileges] system and the reality of it is that it is utterly pointless.
“It has been implemented as an incentive for prisoners to earn privileges, but there is really no ‘incentive’.
“I have an idea that would give inmates more of an incentive to behave – if you are free of negative entries, are Enhanced and wellbehaved then every three months we should be allowed a pizza delivery from an outside company.”
Williams, who is at HMP Rochester in Kent, made the brazen plea in the prisoners’ newspaper Inside Time.
He continued: “The cost could be taken from the inmate’s account and delivered on a Saturday night. Not only would this boost the local economy but would also appeal to a lot of inmates who are usually misbehaving.”
“Surely some local pizza shops could provide this service. That, my friend, has got to be worth the cheese.”
Lags arrive in prison with “basic” IEPs that can be enhanced or downgraded for good or bad behaviour.
They entitle inmates to privileges including money to spend or more frequent visits from loved ones.
Williams, 42, and his accomplice Troy Smith attacked vulnerable Christopher Harrington at a bus stop in Dover in July last year. They demanded cash from their terrified victim, who handed over 40p.
The drunken robbers punched him and Judge Simon James condemned the thugs at Canterbury Crown Court for “bullying of the worst kind”.
Williams was jailed for three years in January and Smith for 32 months. CORRIE legend Liz Dawn could be reunited with her soap hubby Bill Tarmey – in a statue at the show’s home.
Street chiefs want to immortalise the famous duo, who played bickering Jack and Vera Duckworth, in bronze or stone.
Brave Liz, 77, was honoured at Salford Cathedral on Friday in front of hundreds of mourners after losing her fight against lung disease.
She had played battleaxe Vera for 34 years until quitting through ailing health in 2008.
Her close friend Bill, who died aged 71 five years ago, had been a heavy smoker – just like mum-of-four Liz.
Now Corrie bosses are working on plans to mark the pair’s contribution to the soap with a joint statue at their studio in MediaCity, Salford. A source said: “It’s a fabulous idea and something that the cast and all the families would relish.
“A statue of them together would be such a lovely tribute. The thought of them actually being reunited in this form of tribute is superb.”