When Hugh Collins was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder he earned a reputation as one of Scotland's most feared and violent prisoners until he was eventually transferred to Barlinnie's Special Unit where he took up sculpture and writing.This, the second part of Collins' autobiography, is a painfully raw and candid account of an ex-lifer trying to come to terms with his bloodstained past as he struggles to cope with freedom in the full glare of the media spotlight.Walking Away is a unique insight into the mind of an individual who was institutionalised and brutalised by decades of crime and jail. It is a searing indictment of the failures of the prison system. But most of all it is the painfully honest story of a human being attempting to carve out a new life while his past threatens to drag him under.
