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20 Jul 2018

Career criminal’s story turned into critically-acclaimed film

North of England Correspondent

It sounds like your standard rags to riches tale. Billy Moore, a career criminal from Liverpool, who was jailed in Thailand for handling a stolen phone, wrote a best-selling book about his experiences which became a film, A Prayer Before Dawn, which is getting high praise from critics. But Billy Moore is now back in jail. We were allowed into the prison where he’s serving his sentence to speak to him.