To say Adrian Clifton did everything he could to avoid the move that changed his life would be something of an understatement.
He barricaded himself into his cell and sat tight until the prison officers drilled through the wall to remove the door, stormed in, cuffed him and escorted him to a van for the transfer to Portland prison, in Dorset.
‘To be fair, by the time they were in, I wasn’t putting up any resistance,’ admits Clifton with a wry smile. ‘When I saw them drill the door off, I thought, “Wow, OK, they’re coming in, there’s no point”.