'They are lost; fallen through the net.'
Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences have left families broken Clara White hasn’t heard her little brother Thomas sing in years. Her memories of the ‘kind, loving and musical’ little boy have been replaced by a barefoot, dishevelled man wearing his bedsheets as robes and claiming to be Jesus Christ. Thomas, 40, has been experiencing psychosis as a result of paranoid schizophrenia caused by a 12-year-and-counting prison sentence after he stole a phone in Manchester in 2012.
Tommy and his sister Donna, 18 months his junior, were best friends growing up; he taught her how to ride a bike, but by the time he was 14 Tommy had fallen in with the wrong crowd and started stealing cars. By age 16 he was serving time in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution. Tommy, 37, was given a four-year IPP sentence for robbery in 2009 – when he had been out on parole. At first, he was ‘as positive as you can be in prison,’ his sister Donna tells Metro.co.uk. ‘He always owned what he did.
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