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The downfall of Eric Watson: 60 days inside 'squalid' UK prison

Jane Phare
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Senior journalist, NZ Herald·NZ Herald·
10 mins to read

Embattled Kiwi businessman Eric Watson has been unceremoniously forced to swap his Playboy-style life of luxury for a squalid prison cell in London's dilapidated Pentonville Prison. Jane Phare reports on the longest two months of the former rich lister's life.

Sixty days. That's how long disgraced millionaire businessman Eric Watson will have to endure North London's grim Pentonville Prison, locked in a small Victorian cell for up to 23 hours a day, stripped of his dignity, his mobile phone,

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