In 1977, Glasgow gangland leader Hugh Collins was sentenced to life imprisonment. With a reputation as one of Scotland's most feared and violent prisoners he was eventually transferred to Barlinnie's Special Unit where he took up sculpture and writing.
'Walking Away' is the second part in Hugh Collins' autobiography, and takes up this fascinating and controversial figure's story from the day of his release in 1992, when he was, in his own words, "a time-bomb waiting to go off". It is a painfully raw and candid account of a lifer coming to terms with his troubled, bloodstained past as he struggles to cope with freedom in the full glare of the media spotlight.
