Biographical Notes
Alan Jones aka Alan Dogs Jones / Dogsey was born on the 19th of April 1942 in the Llewellyn Arms Hotel in Pentre, South Wales. At the age of 15 he ran away from home and went to London for several months but eventually came back to live with his parents in Wales.
At the age of 16 he was caught with two of his friends burgling petty cash and alcohol from Solicitors and Lawyers offices in Pontypridd. At the courts of quarter sessions Alan and his friends were sentenced to Borstal. Before they were allotted to a specific Borstal they had to spend several weeks in Cardiff prison with adult criminals. At Cardiff prison he met the serial killer and paedophile John Straffen.
He was later sent to the borstal in Hollesley Bay where he befriended Edwin Bush. Edwin Bush committed murder when he left Hollesley Bay and was the first man to be caught for his crime by the identikit system. Also he was the second last man to be executed in London.
In 1973 Alan was sentenced to four years for stealing two cars and a safe from Lockyer and Peacey garage in Ferndale in the Rhondda valley. He served his sentence in Bristol Prison and at Shepton Mallet. At Bristol prison the prisoners in his neighbouring cells were Mad Frankie Frazier and Patrick Joseph Hill, one of the Birmingham six.
From 1975 to 1978 Alan was involved with smuggling hashish from Ketama to Oslo with business partners. In 1975 they received offers to join Howard Marks and his associates, but they turned this down. July 11th 1978 Alan was caught in Ceuta, Morocco carrying 60lbs of hashish and sent to Los Rosales prison.
At Los Rosales prison August 1978 Alan headed an escape attempt with 10 other Europeans but was later caught and brutally punished by the guards. After Alan spent a couple of weeks in solitary confinement he and 9 of the escapees were sent to Algeciras Prison on October 3rd 1978. Due to the escape attempt Alan was deemed dangerous and was moved from prison to prison across mainland Spain.
He was sent to prisons in Herez, Puerto Santa Maria, Ceville, Cordoba and then back to Ceuta again. On June 8th 1979 Alan was sentenced to 7 years. After a few weeks in Ceuta prison he was moved around again and sent to Herez, Cadiz, Ceville, Cordoba, Carabanchel and Burgos. In 1980 Alan was sent to the heavily secure El Dueso prison near Santander and told by the British consulate that he would serve the rest of his sentence there.
Towards the end of 1980 Alan was transferred to Carabanchel prison after being accepted for the prison job of psychiatric nurse at Carabanchel's prison asylum for the criminally insane. At the asylum Alan nursed rapists and serial killers such as the infamous Spanish serial killer Manuel Delgado Villegas. It was from working at the asylum he had his sentence greatly reduced. Alan was released from Carabanchel prison and thrown out onto the streets of Madrid February 5th 1982 and was given an extradition order to leave the country in two days.
On February 7th he left Madrid and flew back to the UK. Once back in the Rhondda Alan spent many years adjusting to normal life. From then to now Alan has coasted from job to job. These have ranged from taxi driver, builder, painter and decorator, park warden etc. Now Alan is ambitious to be a writer. In collaboration with Anita Child he plans to write his autobiography, No Half Measures. He also plans to write a further two books with Anita on his experiences from borstal and how he thinks the criminal justice system should be reformed.
