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.

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