Carted into the back of a van and locked in a holding cell for several hours... I wrote a poem.
I then told the poem to C.I.D in my exit interview, and 6 months later I found myself telling it to a reporter from Brighton's local paper, on the steps of the court house:
It would have been wonderful if I'd been able to capture what happened in that courtroom... several days stretched out over 6 months of solicitors meetings and preperation... cross examinations and accusations...
I was aquitted in May 2014 and shortly after was invited to take the stage at Ian Crane's AV5 conference in Daventry near Birmingham.
As I relived the story of my fracking summer for the audience at AV5, I became aware that the saga was almost a comedy. I have Oscar Wilde to thank for that. For it was he that famously said, "If you're going to tell people the truth, you have to make them laugh because if you don't they will kill you!"
