Inside Broadmoor: Psychopathic Traits & 10 Years of Brutality

2 Jul 2026 · 1 h 7 min · 22 chapters

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In short

Paul Knight, an ex-Broadmoor patient (patient 8392), recounts his path from early violence and arson to high-security psychiatric detention, including assaults, seclusion, alleged “triple murder” police arrest, years on high-dependency wards, and eventual release to the community in 2012.

Guest backgrounds

Paul Knight is a memoir subject and self-described antisocial personality disorder/“psychopathic traits” case. The host is Bill Simmons (interviewing Paul). No other guests are clearly identified in the transcript.

Key claims

Knight says he was initially in hospital for medication review, then attacked his consultant on day two and was sectioned; he describes being repeatedly secluded and heavily medicated (including liquid “acufase”/lorazepam). He claims he was arrested by police for a “triple murder” after being accused of firebombing a Taunton house, though he says the accusation was false and he never learned who did it. He says he later strangled a patient in Broadmoor and assaulted staff/patients, including a “throat punch” attempt on another patient.

Notable examples

arson at age 18 (Old Bailey; endangering life); prison escalation after biting an officer’s ear; Broadmoor barricades and mattress destruction; saving a solicitor’s life and stopping an attack on an elderly woman; release via tribunal/DBT progress; later ADHD diagnosis and fitness instructor qualification.

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Introduction to Broadmoor and Paul Knight

0:28 to 1:58

Discussion of Paul Knight's experience at Broadmoor and his early life.

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Life Before Broadmoor

1:58 to 4:22

Paul shares his past involving violence, crime, and mental health struggles.

“I was Broadmoor patient 8392 and my name's Paul Knight.”

Escalating Criminal Behavior

4:22 to 6:14

Paul describes his criminal acts and interactions with the justice system.

“Talk about the villainy, the crime, the violence.”

Prison Experiences and Consequences

6:14 to 8:30

Paul recounts his prison experiences and the impact of his actions.

“So at the time, I was under the radar of all mental health.”

Escalation to Sectioning and Final Reflections

8:30 to 14:00

Discussion of Paul's final sectioning and reflections on his violent behavior.

“And I was walking through the town centre in, I won't say where, but in a black bag with a microwave, all happy.”

Early Life and Initial Sentences

14:00 to 16:54

Learn about the speaker's childhood, early experiences with violence, and probation period.

“Did you get time added onto your sentence for nearly biting his ear off?”

Life in Broadmoor: An Overview

16:54 to 19:49

Discover the circumstances that led to the speaker's time in Broadmoor and initial reactions to the environment.

“And I went with it for a while, but then I found out being locked up for an hour while he's on the ward, it's all right, but some days and most days he was on the ward all day.”

Life in Broadmoor: An Overview

20:17 to 20:51

Discover the circumstances that led to the speaker's time in Broadmoor and initial reactions to the environment.

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Escalation and Consequences

21:00 to 28:01

Hear about the escalation of events leading to the speaker's imprisonment in Broadmoor and their reflections on violence.

“And then they went away and they called the police and then that's when the riot police turned up.”

Life Inside Broadmoor: Experiences and Incidents

28:01 to 35:40

Hear first-hand accounts of life in Broadmoor, including violent incidents and personal experiences.

“I went from the admissions ward to high dependency because I smashed up a patient and smashed up a nurse who couldn't work on the ward again because I knocked him out before he hit the floor.”
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Life Inside Broadmoor: Experiences and Incidents

35:41 to 37:21

Hear first-hand accounts of life in Broadmoor, including violent incidents and personal experiences.

“I'd come out of my job of working kitchen gardens.”

Life Inside Broadmoor: Experiences and Incidents

37:49 to 38:18

Hear first-hand accounts of life in Broadmoor, including violent incidents and personal experiences.

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Sedation and Rehabilitation in Broadmoor

38:19 to 42:01

Discuss the complexities of treatment, sedation practices, and personal reflections on rehabilitation.

“What about the stories I hear in Broadmoor that there's constant sedation against your will?”

A Violent Encounter in High Dependency

42:01 to 44:10

Hear a shocking recount of a violent incident in a psychiatric setting and the complexities of empathy.

“Yeah, one of my, but I did end up going back to high dependency, but that was a different reason.”

Reflections on Aggression and Regret

44:11 to 47:04

Discussion on the inner conflict of aggression and the consequences of violent actions.

“Did you know it was in there until that happened?”

Life in Broadmoor and Notable Encounters

47:05 to 51:00

Insight into life at Broadmoor, including interactions with infamous criminals.

“So go back to how you got out of Broadmoor.”

Journey to Freedom and Personal Change

51:01 to 55:05

Exploration of how the speaker managed to be released from Broadmoor and the changes he underwent.

“I didn't bother with a tribunal, only the three-year ones, and I never attended.”

Life Inside Broadmoor

56:36 to 1:02:20

An exploration of life in Broadmoor and personal experiences there.

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Family Dynamics and Past Actions

1:02:20 to 1:05:06

Discussion on past actions affecting family relationships.

“Have you had any wobbles since leaving Broadmoor?”

Future Plans and Book Insights

1:05:06 to 1:07:15

Insights into future plans and the process of writing a book.

“If it's going bad, make sure you jump off.”

Reflections on Freedom and Life Changes

1:07:15 to 1:10:01

Reflections on personal freedom and the desire for a stable life.

“So what's in that book is written like by me, like me because it's me writing it.”

Reflecting on Experience and Life Changes

1:10:01 to 1:11:03

Discussion about personal experiences and the journey of recovery.

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0:00This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files, and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports. Get started at ChatGPT.com by selecting work mode available on Plus and Pro plans. Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu is now streaming on Disney+. What are you waiting for? Hop on. The must-see galactic adventure comes home on Disney+.

0:41This is the way. Our only chance is to work together. I like this kid. Always wear your seatbelt. Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu, now streaming on Disney+. Read PG-13. I found out where they lived and I burnt their house down. Now I understand, that's not right thinking. You landed in Broadmoor for a three-day assessment and come out ten years later. I weren't depressed. I was just psychotic. What happened when you attacked your consultant? I'd be a chunk out of his arm. Obviously I've been involved in barricades. First person that comes in here is getting the fucking jug of piss. The police were there to see me, the gate arrested me for a triple murder.

1:27You don't want to be saying things like that to me. No. You think I'm fucking joking? Bang. Straight in the throat. How close was he to dying? Which one? Blood splattered up against the wall. A skull was caved in. He did actually slip in the shower. Cracked his head and died. He can't kill everybody you don't like. That's why I strangled a patient. Are you a psychopath?

1:53Paul, thanks for coming on. High risk. High security, high risk. memoir of an ex-Broadmoor patient. That's me. I was Broadmoor patient 8392 and my name's Paul Knight. You landed in Broadmoor for a three-day assessment and come out 10 years later. What happened? Not exactly, Liam. The three days started off in a low secure, just a general hospital sort of thing. I've been in mental health since I was like 18, 19 years old and went into the hospital to have my medication sorted out. Right. And then on the second day, I attacked my consultant, then they sectioned me. Not my first section, but that was this time round.

2:40And then it all snowballed out of control. What happened when you attacked your consultant? Well, he walked through the door. This is day two of my three days, and I hurt him. I hurt him and then got restrained and then it got to the point where I was kept in a room a seclusion room obviously he wasn't allowed to be my consultant anymore because that could have been biased towards me having him as my doctor he could do things basically write me up for something to get his back at me so I had to have a new consultant but before that happened he put it in place called no stimuli, meaning not even no one, not even the staff, were allowed to talk to me while I was in that exclusion room.

3:30Like three days I'd been injected with what you'd call, for your viewers, a liquid cosh, a clopixel acupase. Very, very potent. And from then, three days, so I was having about eight or nine staff at a time coming, telling me, right, sit down, put your hands under your thighs. That's never happened to me before, apart from until then. Right. I was more unwell than what I thought, but it was also, it's like I went to war, just went to war with the authorities and it cost me a lot of time. Right, tell you what we do then, because I'm going to want to ask you all about life in Broadmoor. But before we get to that stage, let's go back and tell me about your life before Broadmoor.

4:26Talk about the villainy, the crime, the violence. Yeah, well, when I was 18, I was up at the Old Bailey in court number 18 for arson with intent to endanger life. I was involved in a pub fight. weren't my fight. I was helping a friend and it was me who got stabbed in the back, punching my lung. And I didn't leave it at that.

4:57So I found out where they lived and I burnt our house down. And that's something I'm not proud of, but they tried to kill me and I thought it was an eye for an eye. They tried to take my life, I took their belongings. Were they in the house at the time? No, no. But I still got charged with endangering life because I didn't check the toilet. Oh, so you went in the house before you set it alight? I jumped in through their front window, ground floor masonette. Right. I won't say where or what, but ground floor masonette on a Wednesday afternoon, summer's day, July.

5:41and that money I was meant to go get to when I got a bottle of Jack Daniels and then as I walked part I walked past I thought that's where they live people they try to fucking kill me and then obviously I see a psychiatrist while I was on battle the way I say in my book they didn't they didn't ask the right questions. They were trying to look for a diagnosis to section me, basically. So at the time, I was under the radar of all mental health. Did you have bad mental health before you was 18? Yeah, before I was 18, I had bad mental health, yeah. And what was your upbringing like? Not bad, but not good.

6:28I'd say there's worse out there. But yeah, it weren't good. Violent? Abusive? Yeah, I've seen that violence, yeah, within my family. Okay, so at what age did you realise that maybe your mind was different to others? Well, it wasn't exactly that I noticed it. I think it was other people noticed it. I mean, I committed a burglary, a crime. I won't say where or what, I don't want to incriminate myself, Liam. You allegedly burgled somewhere? Allegedly, yeah, right? on a Sunday afternoon for the fruit machine in the kebab shop. Then I see a microwave. I'll be back for that. We didn't have to go far.

7:10I'll be back for that, give that to my mum. I went back within 10 minutes later and it had gone. Some fucker had been in there, chored the microwave. Then I'm thinking, I didn't think, well, they've got it now. I thought, you can't. That was for my mum. Right. I was going to steal that microwave to give to my mum. My mum was very law-abiding. Then it took me about, literally about an hour, to find out who'd got in there, got my microwave, because I call it my microwave now, that he's stolen my microwave, even though it was out of a shop that I was burglary in. So I see that as you're nicking off me.

7:58and whether that's right or wrong now I understand that's not right thinking but at the time you was convinced that that was yours that is the way it was yeah so I gave the geezer an hour to get me back my microwave because he's already sold it and I see him and I set a snooker balls in the stock you know like scum while I was 18 years old walking around a set of snooker balls don't fuck him whatever and uh i see him i said where's my fucking microwave all right that was mine and he went running off running to a pub the local pub opposite quite quite a well-known sort of for local faces i just went running in there with a set of snooker balls and he's going up to the fruit machine geezer and i just went up there and went shut it stay out of it nothing to do with you holding a set of snooker balls.

8:56And the mate went, that ain't doing me. And then I got my microwave in an hour. And I was walking through the town centre in, I won't say where, but in a black bag with a microwave, all happy. Like, I've got this microwave. My mum didn't want it. She wanted to take it. She said, no, I'm not fucking taking stolen property, Paul. Don't care what you do with it. You're not staying here. What did you do with it? Sold it. But the thought was there. Yeah. So you always had a big heart. Yeah, the thought was there, wasn't it? I'm going to give my mum a microwave. So when did you first start getting into trouble that was no longer alleged?

9:37Burgled my brother's school, as you do as a kid. Of course. Got nicked for that. Got 30 hours attendance centre on a Saturday morning. so if you imagine I'm sort of like 17, 18 on a Friday night you go out on the lash bit of this bit of that Saturday morning comes I'm like I've got this attendance centre I've got to jump on a train all the way at Forest Gate to vote to a school to sit with a load of policemen telling me how wrong things are and turn my life around and then do half hour or an hour in the sports hall wrestling around with other people so that didn't last long i got breached on that but by the time i breached it i'd already committed my other major offense the arson so they just scrapped all the uh other bit and concentrated more on the arson and that was the first time in jail first time ever i've been in prison yeah and how long did you get for that oh three years i was looking at seven to nine and the judge said, classic revenge attack.

10:48I told him, I pleaded guilty. I went back to the actual scene. Right. All the fire brigade and everything. Not go back because I get off on fire or shit like that. I went back because I wanted, why would I do it unless I knew who'd done it? And what was your behaviour like during your first stint in prison? Well, people didn't bother me. I'd seen a lot of bullying going on. I'd see people say, don't forget, I mean, ridiculous, don't forget my two packs of biscuits on Friday and then, mate, you'll be gone. You'll be on the numbers. We're getting bullied for this. Don't forget my half out to go on Virginia, you owe me.

11:34But I don't know, yeah, you fucking do now. But they never come to me and I'm just getting on with things. Kept yourself to yourself. Yeah, you know, in Felton and all that, whether you're hearing them all shouting out the window, sing you cunt, sing. And you think, you don't want to be saying things like that to me. No. They weren't. They just left me alone. So how did things escalate up until that final sectioning? I didn't have a job or anything in the prison. They let me out to do a bit of sweeping. And matey decides, no PP9 batteries, the blue big batteries that you used to be able to get I don't know if you still get them 9 volt battery well I used to have everybody had one of them there weren't no none of these kettles in your cell and there weren't no electricity plugs in your cell and phones nothing like that no play stations they were single cells they had a little transistor radio and the batteries were so expensive you'd buy a PP9 and wire it up well mate you thought it was a good idea try and take me out with a PP9 battery for no reason.

12:44And I'm arguing with him. He went and hit me with the battery in a sock. I've got the broom. Man, it's a manhandling. We're on the floor and I bit into his ear. That's when the screws heard it, the screaming. Not no one pressing the alarm. all the other all the other prisoners were standing around that were out at the time cleaners and the surgery staff the surgery prisoners were standing there watching and I had my teeth firmly gripped on his ear I was willing to just rip it off and he started screaming then the alarms went and the only way they got me off him because obviously they pulled him I'll take his ear roll off I'll just I'll just bite down didn't turn out well because I got G.O.A.D.

13:42for that good order and discipline so I was down the block and then because I was turning 21 so as soon as I came out of the block they said we're moving you to High Point tomorrow and shipped me out of there to an adult jail High Point in Suffolk and life was perfectly alright easy no one I was the youngest on the unit I was good they got me a job on the survey like doing the dishes first of all and that built up just doing bits and bobs loved it training hard always trained hard throughout my whole life you could say apart from apart from say two three years I mean I'd even done a CYQ in fitness instructors course at Bristol City College while I was actually in a medium-skill unit.

14:37Did you get time added onto your sentence for nearly biting his ear off? I ended up doing 19 months instead of 18. Okay. Obviously, not a complete three years. When I come out, I was on probation, and back then, then they gave me a flat in East London. Went into a probation hostel, but before all that, I was seen by a doctor. not a psychiatrist just a normal doctor like they wanted the staff said we want you to take a doctor whilst they're young and naive i didn't know what they wanted what what for i said we want you to take these tablets they will help you i weren't depressed i was just psychotic right so violence was a regular thing regular thing yeah even in school violence did you fantasize about violence when you weren't in the midst of it?

15:34It would take something to trigger you into violence. Yeah, I don't commit violence for no reason. If that's what you mean. I don't look for trouble. No, I mean... I'm not one of them people that... Are you intrinsically violent where you just love violence? No. Or you just react to situations violently? Yeah. I'm learning through writing my book. I've learned a lot about myself. If that makes sense. I've done therapies. Some of the therapies I've done, I've been one of the first in the country to do it because that's where they test them in Broadmoor. Right. Yeah? Like DBT, Dialectual Behavioural Therapy.

16:19It's out and about now, but I was one of the very few in the high security to do that for personality disorders. Well, let's get into Broadmoor. So what was it you'd done that landed you in there? If I tell you the whole story, it might make a bit more sense. But after attacking the psychiatrist, I was only allowed out after a while with two or three members of staff at a time for a smoke, and then that built up gradually that every time he came on the ward, I had to be secluded. And I went with it for a while, but then I found out being locked up for an hour while he's on the ward, it's all right, but some days and most days he was on the ward all day.

17:07So I didn't get out. So the next time they said to me, I went out for a smoky little courtyard bit of Holford House it was called in Taunton. I was living in Somerset. And I was smoking away. And they said, my staff said, yeah, we're taking you back now, Paul. It's a collusion. Dr. Mawson's coming back on the ward. And I went, nah, no, I'm not. Not going. And I was quite a big... I've always been... Well, not always. I've been skinny in one point, but also when I've been away, I've bulked up and whatnot. Hit the gym. Yeah. And I don't know, but I said, no, I'm not going. and they thought I was fucking about because I said like fuck it I ain't going I'm alright here I stood up I mean look come on we don't want to go through like just go to the conclusion it'd be gone in an hour we'll bring you back out again I said no fuck off I ain't going no it ain't happening not today mate and then one of them went off and then before and there there's a load of them because that unit's connected to a normal unit an open unit like women with depression or not section where they can come and go as they please and all the staff come and then it all went off remember I'd been accupaced I'd been sedated from doing the psychiatrist in the first place so I was really medicated up on lorazepam and fuck knows what else.

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20:51got me put back in the seclusion room injected and then that's when it all went off from there when the when the riot team arrived because i i said right sit down on under your hands we're coming and changing your your jug of piss and i was standing there i went nah first person that comes in here is getting the fucking jug of piss and what and you some of you are going to be in the hospital and you don't know which one it is and that's the thing, you can fuck with the mind that can because they don't know who's going to get hurt and who isn't, do they? So who's going to take it on? And then they went away and they called the police and then that's when the riot police turned up.

21:34So they took you to Broadmoor from there? No, they took me to exit a prison. Security Corps refused to take me. You know, the sweat box. Blue lighted, police car in front like a Cata prisoner in the riot shield team's van with riot I was boxed with shields either side and there and there I was encased in shields and the team leader of the shield team said we're taking you and I said you got me in here you get me out and it was all going to go off again and that's just what I'm saying as in like in my mind I'm thinking this is really snowballing, but without me realising I was the snowball. Yeah?

22:22I was the one that was snowballing and creating more and more problems for myself. In your mind, did you feel like you was being, you was under attack? I felt that I was being unjustly fucked up. Right. And as I say, my three-day respite ended there. off to exit a prison I went so I said okay alright fair enough so I cuffed up there weren't no shields but they were full riot gear with helmets and everything I took me to exit a prison didn't go through reception didn't change my clothes I was treated my section 3 was suspended and I was put in there for about 8 weeks on the hospital wing They was waiting outside for me, about 15 nurses maybe, put on a three-man unlock.

23:19So the only time I came out was when I called in the team to go and get my food. Like, oh, that's cold.

23:30And on the day that I was getting out, I didn't go and call. They said, we're coming to get you, blah, blah, blah. I thought, that's lovely, on Monday, they're coming to get me Monday. and the social worker had come up. I said, well, I'm ready. I'm ready to go back. I thought, you know what I mean? They're going to let me go back to Low Secure. They did, but there was a bit of a caveat to that. The police were there to see me. The gate arrested me for a triple murder. That's got my attention. This dealer in Taunton got firebombed. Three people died. I've got arse and we're content on my record from the 90s remember yeah when I went in there I went look I don't know what you want to see me about all this business with the ABH and all that with the staff member all been sorted nah we're from we're from the murder team basically we're here to talk to you about triple murder right I just used my brain I said that is a geezer was round my flat I see that on the news I told him I eventually see him in hospital and gave him a beating, which is what happened.

24:40I did beat him up. That's where you're getting that story from. And they went, we'll get back to you. And they never did. And they found out who'd done it and arrested them. I never knew who'd done it. And to this day, I will never know whether I was right because apparently I was overheard in a pub bragging that I'd firebombed this house. total bollocks untrue stuff then I went back to the low security I remember after I'd been terrorising a whole lot of them completely and they've had their break and now they've got me back so they weren't very happy really to have me back on day three I've no complaints no nothing no just towing the line they started packing all the stuff like 6, 7 in the morning they're packing all my stuff all these 8 fucking nurses in there right Paul we want you to take medication you're going to Stockton Hall up in York got a secure vehicle outside for you you know a secure vehicle to take pregnant women it's different to a normal sweat box it's like a normal van but a police van like a Broadmoor van I've taken an air in one of them, Stockton Hall.

26:07Turns out, I found out on social media the other day, Stockton Hall is a dumping ground for people that can't be managed elsewhere in the country. And how did they manage you? I was there six weeks. Then they assessed me for Broadmoor, said, we can't have you here. And even back then, was there a time when you felt criminally insane? That's what Broadmoor's for, isn't it, for the criminally insane? I thought I'd ride with it. He wants me to be assessed with Broadmoor, I'll be assessed with Broadmoor. Then they turned around on the day of the assessment. They looked at each other and went, yeah, you're coming with us.

26:45We're making a date for you for next Monday or next week. We're coming to get you. We'll gather all your stuff. What do you want in your canteen? We're giving you£25 to keep you up and running. I'm writing out a list. I want three passages of tobacco, this, this, this, and this. There you go. All right, yep, see you Monday. This is to Broadmoor. Did they tell you how long you were going to be in there for? Three-month assessment. Like everyone else. The only difference was I had no crime. So if you look at a bad person goes into Broadmoor, that warrants it, doesn't it? A bad person commits double murder, say, as an example.

27:28Yeah. Off he goes. Me, a three-day respite, and I'm off to Broadmoor, mixing with the Sutcliffe, the fucking Napa, and people which I seriously have injured as well. People that you've injured? I've injured, yeah. In there or before? In there. Ah. Because you're... I committed a crime while I was in Broadmoor. I was on Section 3 for so many years, and on a high-dependency ward. High dependency. Friendly Henley, I used to call it. What does that mean for people that don't know? Henley Ward is a high dependency. Yeah, which means? It's not an admissions. I went from the admissions ward to high dependency because I smashed up a patient and smashed up a nurse who couldn't work on the ward again because I knocked him out before he hit the floor.

28:19A male nurse? Male nurse, yeah. My stomach dropped for a minute. No, no, no. Male nurse. No female nurses. They have been attacked by me. I will say that. Was you accused of another murder in there? No, there was another Paul Knight in there. My double ganger. Two Paul Knights. One with no crime, one's a double murderer. Right. Yeah, he's from Rygate. I'm from London. I'm not in the media. Well, now I am. Daily Mail and shit like that going on. But, yeah, two Paul Knights. in the same establishment at the same time that only holds 250 people. What was Broadmoor like on the whole? And what was your experience in there, your journey?

29:01I'd done most of it on high dependency. Obviously, I've been involved in barricades. The rooms aren't like your normal hospital setting. Right. On high dependency. It's like a fibreglass, but it's strong fibreglass. But once you get into that bed and you start smashing through, you can take out. I've took apart rooms apart. I've taken mattresses. I've gone through eight mattresses, you know, like a prison mattress, blue. Yeah. Yeah? Well, if you get your teeth into the corner of one and you sit there for long enough, you can open them up and you can rip them apart. And I was in the seclusion room.

29:45I ripped apart eight mattresses to come out. So they'd have to open me up, get me a new mattress, and I'll go for a smoke with a team of nurses. So there was methicine madness in there. On an eight-man unlock. What you would call an unlock in prison, this is what I was on. Not all the time, but when I was tilt high risk after strangling the patient. Did you feel comfortable in Broadmoor? It got comfortable. They tried to move me after a certain number of years with a bit of stability. they tried to move me to Folkestone Ward, a rehab ward and I said to them, on the Friday I was moved no, yeah, Friday I was moved usually I don't move people on a Friday because doctors ain't about on the weekends well, I only had a duty doctor but they moved me on a Friday and I said, you don't take me back to Endley Ward by Monday, I will rip through your ward and because my history obviously comes with me everywhere I go, they took me back there, to me back to Henley.

30:56That's when you find out you're institutionalised, not you're institutionalised full stop, you're institutionalised into a certain world, certain way of living. Right. With more restrictions than a normal average rehabilitation ward. And what's the treatment like in Broadmoor from the screws and the doctors? Yeah, most of them are all right. A couple of them were selling stuff to the paper. One of them was screwing about with one of the patients. They've all been in the papers. What about some of the infamous prisoners like Ron Cray, Peter Sutcliffe, Napa? Ron had died before I went in there. Right.

31:41Sutcliffe, did you ever get in his space? Yeah, I've been in his space, yeah. How did that feel? I used to sit at the, because the visiting hall, I used to have a higher table because he had a bad back. Well, I used to like my seat here, my door there, so I'm close to the entrance when they get picked up to go. Close to the vending machine where the coffee and tea are all free and everything. so I used to sit there yeah I clocked in one day and my mum visited me and I said and I thought shall I tell her who that is because I've obviously I've met him I went on the same wall because he was on Old People's Wall because people were smashing him up for the notoriety of it being in the paper like I know I know who'd done his eye

32:42so that story is untold because that's not my story and that man might be out now in the community but under a different name because a lot of people come out of there change their name since I've gone viral on TikTok I've had a lot of nurses even the member of the ward manager and they've all been positive positive messages because they could see how real I was, but how well I'm doing now, you just wouldn't believe it was the same person. What was the diagnosis? Are you a psychopath? I've got antisocial personality disorder, yes. And emotional state. I've got traits of antisocial personality disorder, which is psychopathic disorder, yeah.

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33:28So you're on the precipice of the psychopath? I've done the hair test, and I've done the first part of the hair test, which has come back at 18, 18 points. The hair test? I'm thinking you and me would struggle with that, wouldn't we? Yeah, the hair test is what's brought in. You don't do it. The team does it. Okay, they assess you. They assess what they think and they give a certain, say, for instance, manipulation. What's Paul's like manipulating other people? Well, let's think about the time when he manipulated Dave to do this, to do that, to do this. We give him five points for that. Right.

34:06And you're not in the room. They're doing it based on your history of your daily notes and what's he like mixing with blah, blah, blah? He don't like them. He's made his point quite well known and he don't like these type of people. Like nonces, no one likes a nonce. And I would go out of my way to try and... I had gone out of my way to take it upon myself to do justice to them. Everyone likes a good story where a nonce gets dealt with prison justice. Well, one of them slipped in the shower. He did actually slip in the shower, cracked his head and died. But he raped a seven-year-old girl. So I think that if there was a man upstairs, he brought justice on that man.

34:58Was there any accusations that that could have been murder? No, there wasn't none. Okay, they just put it down as an actual accident. That was an accident, yeah. But I had one on the radar that I was going to seriously hurt, and he knew it. We didn't talk, and we didn't not like each other, as in, you stay away from me, growl at him, none of that. There was just sort of like, here's a say-say, and I didn't, yeah, leave it at that. and I'm thinking I'll throat punch you so fucking hard that your windpipe will just close up and you'll suffocate. And then it got to a point where I lost my job. I'd come out of my job of working kitchen gardens.

35:45I was working with Rob Knapper. What was that like? I'd kill him. But as I say, I wouldn't be here. I'd be in there. I might have done the world a favour. Yeah. Yeah, because he's now a good cunt. And his autism, I don't believe he's autistic. Do you think he puts that on? No, I think he's just generally a cunt. But he knows it. He's timid. Manipulative? No, not to me. I made it plain and clear that I didn't like him. Tried talking to me, like when I first started working at Kitchen Gardens, some some like I used to work in the sheds where Ron Cray used to work right and it's funny enough I used to work with the the orderly or what you'd call a civilian civic worker right and he used to tell me stories about how he'd sit there smoking away drinking cups of tea not doing no work and every now and again he'd get up and he'd walk with the flowers and sit back down again.

36:56With me, I used to be down there, take my mower right up to the far end of the kitchen allotment. You're behind two fences and a 20-foot brick wall. But that's my freedom. Just on a sunny day, top off, smoke, I just lay there and just soak up the sun for a couple of hours. No one's going to come over and bother you because you can't get out. This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files, and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports.

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38:21What about the stories I hear in Broadmoor that there's constant sedation against your will? And was you a patient or a convict? Patient. Okay. People get confused with prison and hospital. Are there people in there that they could have rehabilitated, but they keep sedating them? Because I've... Well, if you look at my history, my profile, it's a bit of a complicated situation. isn't it? If you've got someone that's committing serious acts of violence, how can you let them out into the general public even though they haven't committed a crime that warrants them being in Broadmoor? I felt that I had to commit a crime to warrant me being there, to satisfy myself that now I know why I'm in Broadmoor because I've done this.

39:17Right, okay. That's when I strangle the patient. In there. in there i took me through that then i was already angry and agitated so i was being let on levels with two staff members beside me i was going up to the medication hatch and uh getting some diazepam it's always liquid on high dependency there was no tablets all liquid or injections a matey across the day room sitting in a chair laughing his head off taking the piss and I said I said now ain't basically now ain't the time I'm not gonna fuck oh do ya he's still laughing I'm laughing and joking in the end we're like hey yeah it's funny innit I'm gonna come over and I'll fucking struggle with you cunt it's funny innit and he's still laughing the staff are even thinking that it's a joke that I'm I'm being I'm being fucking serious I'm coming over and I'm taking your throat and you don't you think I'm fucking joking so before the next minute I've just run straight at him grabbed him round the throat the staff a bit slow off the mark thinking fucking hell he's just literally gone from 0 to 60 like that from laughing and joking about it now he's got his arms and this man's going blue choking like I'm suffocating him with one hand literally holding his windpipe like squeezing it together.

40:48With the intention of killing him? With the intention of killing that man, yes, to justify me being that I'd had enough. I'd been through so much bollocks and so much shit that I'd literally had enough. And I thought, if I will kill this man, now's my time to do it and I'm going to do it. Was you suffering with paranoia as well? Or did you ever imagine things that didn't actually happen, for example? No, no. Like he slighted me, so I'm going to get my revenge. No, I've seen a lot of stuff, a lot of bad stuff, but I've also done good stuff. Like, I saved a solicitor's life. So how am I that much of a bad man that I have to be high risk but I can save a solicitor from being killed?

41:33How did you do that? This old lady's been escorted onto the wall to see his solicitor. He was unhinged. He shouldn't have been on that wall. and I'm sitting there, and the doors closed, like, for privacy. No staff around. There's only four staff on that ward at the time. That was a rehab ward. This was me on my journey out of Broadmoor, you could say. Yeah, one of my, but I did end up going back to high dependency, but that was a different reason. Before that, I was, I just heard something. I felt wrong. I felt that was wrong. And I said to Manny, I said, he's doing her in there. Fuck tenure, man.

42:17And that was it. I was up. I swung the door open and he was caving her skull in with a ceramic cup, killing her. An old lady. I'm talking tartan skirt, thick stockings, brown stockings. Very old lady, about 65. Done her time on the tribunal panel. Just a slizier. And I've gone running in there and she's half up the wall, half on the floor, blood splattered up against the wall, all down everywhere, and her skull caved in. She survived. I saved her. I saved that woman's life. How did you sort that? I went running at him, grabbed him, held him up like that. And that's one thing I fucking regret, Liam.

43:09I didn't do that, man, serious harm. So I held him up like that. I said, what have you fucking done? He went, shit me fast. That's a lunatic. And then staff, the bells have gone. Manny's gone running to get a load of towels for her head, this old lady. She got taken to hospital. Matey was, by this time, because there was the whole of the ward filled up with staff, where they called in loads of staff. and they didn't manhandle me to get him off him. They just said to me, let him go, Paul. You've got to let him go.

43:54And I have a big regret because I let him go, but not without giving him a beating. It does go to show that on that psychopathy chart that there's empathy in there. Yes. Yeah. There is, yeah. Did you know it was in there until that happened? Was there a stint where you was lacking empathy? Yeah, I'm learning a lot. Since I've hit the internet, I'm finding I'm being empathetic with people. Seeing, I'm having people come to me and say, look, Paul, don't know me from Adam. I'm feeling like this, this, this and this. What do I do? and I say to her the best thing you can do right now is go and seek help in any possible way whether it be 999 ambulance hospital your GP but you need to go and get help before it spirals because that is one thing I have in mind that if there is someone out there that watches this on their phone because you're allowed phones now aren't you in your normal general psychiatric hospital but you see the videos on the TikTok in the local psychiatric, well, some of them people might be thinking, all right, I'll fuck enough of this.

45:16And end up with seclusion. And a couple of times of that, and then they get popped in the arse with acufase, like the liquid cosh. And is that the beginning of the end? That could be the beginning of the end, yeah. Because that could lead to just like permanent sedation. Well, they give it in three goes, three days. 100 mils, 150 mils. That's the maximum, 150 mils. So how did your Broadmoor journey come to an end? How did you clear yourself to be released? I was on Churchill Ward, another high dependency. After, as I say, getting this nonce, I throat punched him at the wrong time, basically. I could never catch him on his own.

46:00Oh, we never got round to you actually doing the nonce. Okay, tell me about that. I thought I'd punch him when he was getting medication. I was standing there getting medication. I just pulled his head back and went, bang. I just cracked him straight. I don't know. In my head, I thought, die, you cunt. Fucking die. And I stood there. I stood there with fucking nonce, cunt. Nonce. I got taken back to the seclusion room. He needed a bit of hospital. Not hospital, a bit of oxygen. Because I thought my theory, if you hit him hard enough, his throat will basically expand and they'll suffocate. Same theory as what I've been telling you about the other one.

46:41The throat seems to be the way forward. A throat punch, bang. Knocks people out. Puts them on the floor. That's your go-to. Well, I wouldn't like to say my go-to, would I? Not now. That would put me under pressure. But as I say... Biting and throat punching. People don't expect to do a throat punch. I expected he would be hitting the face or hitting the stomach. But not sort of like just go bang, straight in the throat. And so how close was he to dying? Which one? The nonce? The nonce? Yeah. No, he was clear. He just needed some oxygen. He was more shaken than anything. So go back to how you got out of Broadmoor.

47:23I was towing the line. I was perfectly okay. I got a little job doing printing in the print shop. They do lilograph printing. I think that's what it's called, lilograph? Lithograph. Yeah. It's really cool how they do it, how it's made, making the paper for the records and all that stuff. It's all made there. Right. That's where I met Stockwell Strangler, Kenny Erskine, or obviously what people see in the photo looks nothing like that now at all he's just a fat man and he's very very slow Was there anything about him that you thought was remotely pleasant? Nah didn't get on with him didn't want to get on with him he kept himself to himself though but that's the way it is isn't it he has a right to keep himself to himself because of what he'd done killing old grannies raping them Was he another one that you attempted to?

48:23No, no, no. I'd left him blind. I left him be. Same with Sutcliffe. He was... If I had done Sutcliffe, it would only end up in the paper. And then it would only end up in the paper because it's Sutcliffe. And you can't kill a war point. And he's an old man. You can't kill everybody you don't like or that's done a wrong one. I mean, I was on a wall with James Saunders, the wolf man. He's done a recent... He escaped. He's told me everything how he escaped. But what he didn't tell me was his crime. And I only found out his crime when I came out and I researched it. And what was his crime? I'd like not to say.

49:06People can Google it. That bad? Well, to do with children. And I never knew this. I'm going to have gym sessions with him and things like that. Oh, if you hadn't known, then it would have... If I'd have known, that shit wouldn't go on with, I don't know what to do with him. But that's front punch territory, isn't it? That's more than that. When you get there, it's more of a case of sort of like staff will give you a heads up. If you get on the right of a certain member of staff, it'll be new ones come on the wall, Paul. Just don't get too involved with him as a friend. Them little things, they're not like red.

49:48they're not of green light to do this, man, but I've also been have been escorted to the gym or escorted to a visiting hall and it'll be, yeah, Paul, yeah, we've got a holiday coming up soon, me and Mrs. I go, oh, that's nice, Albert, yeah, that's great. Yeah, could really do some extra overtime, you know. He's one of the Shield team. Right. A nurse on days, yeah, normal nurse but when things go down he gets called out he's part of one of the Shield team so when he says to me I could do a bit of overtime what he means is Paul why don't you just do one what you usually do call us out so we can get paid our extra money pay for my holiday how mad is that he's indirectly telling me to commit a a barricade to call out the Shield team so he can get paid extra money that month to take his wife on an holiday.

50:50But what do I get? Yeah, where's your cut? What do I, exactly, what do I get? I get nothing. You leaving Broadmoor, how did you get out? Tribunal. I went in front of it, I thought, okay, you have one every three years, mandatory. I didn't bother with a tribunal, only the three-year ones, and I never attended. But then this time I see myself, it had been projected onto a screen like this, me in an incident on the ward, and that's what turned it around for me. I see myself in an incident. Ah. And the looks on the staff's faces, these are big, and the nurse is saying to me, the manager with the DBT lady, therapist the one meet do DBT dialectical behavioral therapy saying to me look at their faces Paul there's me in this clip you know it jumps little stage by stage on CCTV yeah well there's me with a metal chair over my head 17 and a half 18 stone lump nice and they some of them that are backing off and now they're meaty yeah oh like rugby players and a bodybuilder one well I know one of them was a bodybuilder proper I mean a professional body but that's his job and they're backing away and she look at their faces that's empathy when I when I look at their faces because I don't see expressions that's a mad thing as well i could you don't see what is it i read in my notes out about that don't recognize people's faces i could know them and someone would say yeah well i remember you and i'll be thinking in my head it'll be spinning around thinking who do i know who are you and i'll have to say to him look i really apologize but who are you who do i know you can you read faces though expressions if someone looks scared for them sort of things yeah yeah of course you learn body language so the tribunal yeah the tribunal you watch yourself on the screen and you think i'll go for a tribunal now's my time lucy scott moncrieff lisa vaughn i got him name her my sister got me out of brawmore and where did you go from there to a medium secure unit they come to first of all They come to visit me.

53:29After I got the all clear that, yes, okay, we'll accept you to move. We will recommend a recommendation to move to medium security. So then from there, how did you get released back into the general public? So my medium security towed the line completely. You did? I did, yeah. How does a man do that, go from being a psycho to, I'm actually going to toe the line here because that's a big change progression I've seen progress that snowball that was getting bigger was slowly getting smaller if you get what I mean by the ice the snow was melting and I was coming back out of it did it feel nice? it did my first day out was 15 minutes with two staff to walk around the grounds you can't walk around the grounds in 15 minutes and you could have a smoke and there was a little tea room.

54:27Before you knew it, 15 minutes is up, it's time to go back. Then that progressed. I even went to college and done a CYQ in fitness as a gym instructor. I never used the qualification. I used it on myself sometimes in the gym. It was just my own. But nice to use your brain to do something other than hurt people. How many years did you spend in Broadmoor? In Broadmoor, in total, from 2002. And I was finally released to the community in 2012. For someone that's been institutionalised and spent years and years in Broadmoor, which is a psychiatric ward for the criminally insane, should Charles Bronson be freed?

55:16See, I'm a mind reader, right, Liam? I knew you was going to say that one, Because I know Charlie. I visited him. And I'm friends with his family. Good friends. Me and my wife are good friends with his cousin. Whether that sits well with him right now, I don't know. At the moment, he's got my book. He asked for a copy, so I sent him a copy.

55:45He deserves to have his time out here. Is he fit enough for it? Trouble is, I can read between the lines. I know I'm not qualified in mental health, but I suffer from mental health. So I think I have an upper hand on quite a lot of stuff to do with mental health, especially forensic mental health. This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files, and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports.

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57:11Charlie won't cope out here. Not with the way the world is and the way he is. he doesn't deserve to be in the cage he's in Wakefield cages at the moment now hearing stuff about he's in Ian Huntley's cell that's bullshit bullshit and being in the cages if he's in the cages he won't be in there that long in the cage he'd be back up on the CSC unit closed supervision centre in Wakefield, yeah, with the rest of them, the few others. So I've had the chance, the opportunity of visiting him and that being an open visit. Not a closed visit with a screen, but an open visit. So I've had a man hug, proper handshake.

58:09I've known him since 2002. but you ask the question because everything that's being done to get him out now that rodeo's been rode before you need to come up with something more original does he think he'd survive on the outside world he doesn't know the outside world he doesn't know it and it's changed how did it change for you in that direction when I went in there weren't no internet on phones or in your house It was a Nokia 3310, I think, when I went in. And how have you managed to adapt? Because you're married, so you've got a healthy relationship. I'm married. I take medication every day.

58:51What meds are you on? I'm on antipsychotic medication. I take melatonin at night. I'm waiting for a titration for ADHD because I was recently diagnosed with ADHD. When people ask, if we'd been diagnosed, because my son's ADHD, and if I'd been diagnosed when I was little, do you think maybe it wouldn't have turned out like it did? Have you got many regrets? I do, yeah. And that's why I'm writing a second book about my time after, the people that I've met and have introduced me into a good way of living. Good mentors? A good mentor, like my good friend Dave Courtney. Talk to me about your relationship with Dave Courtney because a lot of people watching this will be interested in Dave.

59:40Some people didn't know the real Dave, you know. And he took me under his wing. That's what he'd done for me. He took me under his wing. He's met many people in his life when he was alive. Many people of all walks of life and he could have just seen me as that Natter from Bullmore. We'd just palm him off at a party. Great parties with Dave. or I think but when it comes to it it's all like you get to know him and you become friends he's throwing me up my life get your suit on Paul be over mine by 10 over the castle I get over there and I'm eating Michael Franzese my boss for a photo shoot me and Dave Morgan and a few others stilts to drop a name you can drop as many names as you like Well, that's for the second book, the people I've met.

1:00:42But Dave, you loved him, trusted him? Yeah, I trust that man in my life. And do you trust many people? I trust my wife. I trust Mr Morgan, as I say, my friend Dave. I trust him, yeah. There's very minimum people. But when you think about it, you shouldn't be trusting everybody. God, no. No? No. I mean, that's testament to Dave. Read the room. You have to read them. It's testament to Dave Courtney that you trust him if you've got low trust issues. That's what I mean. Yeah. Because anyone I know that knows Dave, they all say he looked after me, took me under his wing and I could trust him. He was a good mentor.

1:01:23He was a good man to look out for you. I'm not saying, I mean, there's been a time when I was going off my nut, you know, in lockdown and I went to see him. I'm sitting there with me and, you know, my friend outside and Dave I said look Dave I'm telling you they're making crack upstairs I'm going loony here this is me going crazy man Paul you know they're making fucking crack I'm telling you they're doing this and that upstairs they're fucking got bodies coming out left right and centre they're bringing in people off the boat Dave he said Paul you don't need my help you need a psychiatrist looking back on it Fuck it.

1:02:09I was mental. I got taken into the local hospital and put straight onto the intensive care unit. They weren't having me on. Their words were, we've handled Frank Bruno in here. We can handle you. At Goodmays Hospital. Have you had any wobbles since leaving Broadmoor? That is a... That was... Yeah, that was a... I've had a couple of wobbles, yeah. I took my brother hostage. What did he do wrong? He was bad to my mum. Oh, okay. Yeah. financially bad to my mum so I dealt with it. Did he press charges? No, he didn't, no. They sprayed me up and took three cans of gas and a bang on the back of the head with a trunction and they called that normal, false, in court.

1:02:57So when's the call? Yeah, I got charged. Did they recall you? No, no, I went on 041. They can't recall you. My sentence was up. That was it. I was out. This is after. I've taken over the police station. Got a taser. Took three tasers. One went, barbed went in my leg. I looked at him while I'm fighting with these. So in my eyes, I was thinking at the time, I was still institutionalised. My family life was still unstable, even though I wanted stability so much with me and my wife. and she's really she's been there for me she doesn't ask a lot from me do you get what I mean she doesn't ask get a 9 to 5 job do this do that she's a very supportive wife I've known her since I was 18 years old she wasn't my girlfriend or anything mixing the same circle sort of thing years ago.

1:04:07How about that? Yeah, and then all these years later I married her and Dave was my was my best man. What would you say to a younger Paul? If you could sit opposite him what chap would you give him? At what age? 18? 17? 16? What age? 15. Just before the madness really started to kick in. I didn't like school. If there was another way of being schooled and bullying they might have left me alone within the bullying but I was literally left alone so standing in a corner on my own sort of thing do you get what I mean? they weren't willing to engage in you but they also weren't willing to either fight you or bully you just left so I see that as I would say to myself if I was my younger self just keep the ball rolling forward If it's progressing good, keep it going and ride that wave.

1:05:11If it's going bad, make sure you jump off. And what would you say to yourself about your violence or your temper? Yeah, that's controlled. That's under control. Never hurt my family. Never, apart from my brother, but I didn't hurt him. You just detained him? I detained him, yeah, in his flat, yeah. But, yeah, I feel my other brother's doing very well, but him, that brother, I don't talk to at all. He tried to contact me, but I don't have it. And how does the future look for you? What can people expect? Because I'm going to put all your social media links in the description. What can I expect to see from you in the future?

1:05:58Book number two, After Brawlmore. as I say meeting with Dave and my other links with certain individuals you know Freddie Foreman for proper decent people this is going to be in your second book in my second book yeah obviously dealing with institutionalisation yeah that was a big problem and it took me a number of years to realise how to manage and self-regulate emotions. As I say, I'm waiting for titration for my ADHD but really whether the medication had worked for me is irrelevant now because I feel that I know myself better now because I wrote that book myself. I didn't get a ghostwriter.

1:07:01To tell you the truth, I was offered a ghostwriter. I couldn't afford it. But then even though they're a good ghostwriter, the man, I don't think he'd probably be able to step into my shoes to actually write like as me. So what's in that book is written like by me, like me because it's me writing it. And I had it professionally edited and then professionally put on Amazon. because I didn't know about how to do all that. Are you confident that you won't engage in violence again or end up back in jail? I wouldn't end up back in jail of anything. I'd end up back in a hospital or an hospital where I placed it.

1:07:43It would just need being where I'd been needed to be. But we hope. We can't predict the future, Liam, but all we can do is engage with the services, which I am, and as I say, like, my stepdaughter, Jess, she's got a qualification in psychology and I listen to people and she says a bit of therapy because the stuff I've spoke about and wrote about, I had therapy for that. Yeah, I'd recommend therapy, mate. Because all that that's gone on, I've had therapy for a condition, like the emotionally unstable person it's all right you need therapy for you but therapy for the carnage and the car crash that happened and all the all the riot shit i've never had therapy for no and maybe realizing from these podcasts and engaging with certain people and writing the book The book took two years.

1:08:52And I've sat down before and I've looked at the screen on a computer and I've read it. You couldn't make it shit up. No. You think to yourself, so much has happened. Are you grateful for your freedom? Oh, of course. Of course. Me and my wife, we went to Broadstairs recently in Kent. Yeah. Just the two of us for two nights. It was lovely. Just me and her. I plan on taking my family on holiday. That's what I like. I don't go out. I'm not gallivanting around, getting pissed out in my nut, doing this, doing that, whatever people want to call it these days. I just call it cocaine or amphetamines, but people call it other things now.

1:09:41I don't know, they pack it or this or that, and they're all getting out there on a Friday night and they all want to hurt people. they all want to hurt each other and then they end up with A &E me I like I've been through carnage I don't look for it why look for something that you've been that you've experienced not many people have experienced Riot Police but when you experience it you don't want it again well I've experienced it a bit too many times Right if you've enjoyed this interview and you want to hear Paul's story in depth. This is his book. I'm going to put the links so you can purchase this in the description and all of Paul's social media.

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Paul Knight reveals his terrifying journey from a routine 3-day mental health assessment to spending a decade in Broadmoor Hospital — Britain’s most notorious high-security psychiatric facility.

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