Byline: JILLY BEATTIE PETER Lavery sits in the Hudson Bar in Belfast with a chicken wing in his hand and a prison A-Wing on his mind.
What does A/W stand for?
A/W stands for A-Wing (Star Wars)
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Dad-of-eight Grant - convicted of 29 crimes but feared to have carried out hundreds more across South East London - is held on A-wing with Soham murderer Ian Huntley.
If you're a fan of British television and movies you'll recognise A-wing from episodes of the Oxford-based Inspector Morse, the 1969 version of The Italian Job or the more recent Bad Girls.
I was then shuffled along to see a more senior screw, who informed me that I was to be put on the lifers' wing - A-wing.
I was then shuffled along to see a more senior screw, who informed me that I was to be put on the lifers' wing - A-wing.
The set included (and this next part is for the Star Wars fans) an A-wing pilot, Anakin Skywalker, Barada, EV-9D9, Han Solo in carbonite, an Imperial dignitary, an Imperial gunner, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian in his general's uniform.
The jury concluded that putting Anne-Marie, a juvenile, on the prison's A-wing, the most difWcult wing in the adult part of the jail, was "inappropriate".
It is hard not to feel you are staying somewhere completely out-of-the-ordinary whether residing on A-wing, C-wing or in the House of Corrections.