Sweet Agony

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Despite believing his drinking was harmless, he went on to be banned from Wakefield city centre for his anti-social behaviour. Other careers

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It’s all the same machine and I didn’t realise I had such a good brain until I took the wraps off and started using it. I've got a brilliant brain.”And during one legendary trip, he claimed he had no choice but to swim across the Straits of Johor, a stretch between Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia that's avoided by locals because of the sharks lurking. He left behind children - including Paul Leighton Sykes and Michael Sharp who are serving life sentences for murder.

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While jailed for violence, Sykes spent his time passing an Open University degree in Physical Sciences and earning the Arthur Koestler prize for prison literature. And former Governor of Hull Prison, Philip Wheatley, described Sykes as a “short tempered” lag who assaulted staff “on a number of occasions”. She said: “I’ve been used to brutality with my husband - perhaps that’s why Paul thinks he’s got to use force because his dad’s always used force.” Much traveled in the U.K. Prison system: 25 transfers in 20 years, 21 of 26 years were spent in various British jailsIn March this year, The Gazette told how a Teesside author had taken an uncompromising look at the life of Paul Sykes - a professional boxer, violent criminal and notorious jailbird. Sykes was known for many things during his turbulent life - including being a professional heavyweight boxer, a prison hard nut, an author and an intimidating debt collector. Contested three timer for the British and Commonwealth Empires heavyweight titles as a professional, but did not win those bouts

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He said: “I've altered the physical side to the intellectual and academic side. Using my brain instead of my body. One of the most bizarre stories Sykes enjoyed to tell was his apparent encounters with sharks during his travelling days.Sykes added: “I like being drunk. I've never had any complaints about being drunk if I have been drunk. I still manage to keep my wits about me although I don't remember what I have done. But it runs in the family anyway.”

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And he also suggested the hydration was “necessary” for his kidney after he ruptured it playing football in 1966. Having been born in Wakefield in 1946, by 1990 Sykes had spent 21 years in 18 prisons for many violent acts including assaults against prison officers and police officers. There was a lot of stuff I didn’t use in the first book because I felt it was too raw - but my publisher said I should use it for a second book.

Speaking to The Gazette about the release of his first book Jamie, who now lives in Northallerton, said: “Sykes was a fascinating character - someone who fought for the British and Commonwealth title but spent many years in prison and ended up dying a broken man. But Wilson ended up badly hurt in hospital where it took him one month to recover from the bashing.