NOT TO “REFORM” HIM, EVIDENTLY: Prison boss ‘had a two-year affair with Britain’s biggest gangster – in his own jail cell.
She claims it lasted two years and only ended when he was convicted of drugs smuggling and transferred to a prison on the mainland.
‘We had sex in his little cell most days,’ says Lisbon-born Ms Rodrigues. ‘Yes, it was insane but I was in love like never before, and I still am.
There were butterflies, feelings of intense excitement. I know what Curtis is, who he is, but love overrode everything.’ . . .
What was it that attracted this ‘middle-class girl from a respectable Lisbon family’ to a man who, among a litany of criminal acts, once kicked a fellow prisoner to death?
‘His charisma and charm,’ she says without hesitation. ‘He’s an old fashioned gentleman.’
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.