A man who spent 20 years in prison has revealed the most chilling thing he experienced behind bars.
Dwaine Patterson was handed a discretionary life sentence for attempted murder at the age of 20 after shooting two people during a gang war in 2000.
He spent 22 years in prison, seven of which he spent in solitary confinement, where he endured 23 hours each day without any human contact.
Dwaine, who grew up around Clapham Junction in south west London, was also sent to a young offenders institute for five years after cutting a rival gang member’s finger off with a knife when he was just 13 years old.
Speaking on the Anything Goes podcast with presenter James English, Dwaine revealed how dangerous it was to be in the canteen in jail.
Dwaine Patterson was handed a discretionary life sentence for attempted murder at the age of 20 after shooting two people during a gang altercation in 2000
Dwaine (pictured far right) spent 22 years in prison, seven of which he spent in solitary confinement, where he endured 23 hours each day without any human contact
Dwaine is pictured bottom right sat next to host James English after appearing on the Anything Goes podcast
He said: ‘One of the first things that I identified when I went onto the wing in high security when somebody would come out of the kitchen with a pot in their hands everybody would be moving sideways all would be observing.
‘A person would tap me and say “you don’t know where that is going”.
‘Nine times out of ten it is just someone cooking their food but sometimes it could be used as ghee.
‘Remember this, in dispersals where you can cook food where you had oil, butter or ghee I think that’s some of the worst incidents I have ever seen.
‘Where you leave it to bubble up for such a long period of time that it goes black and someone pours it over a person, it’s horrific when you hear them scream.’
Dwaine also revealed how once saw a man beaten ‘inhumanely’ by prison guards to the point where he wet himself.
He explained the man’s mother had recently died and he wanted to make a phone call to his family to make sure they were ok.
However, his request was refused by prison officers and he began kicking his cell door in frustration.
According to Dwaine this provoked the prison officers who beat him to the point where it became ‘inhumane’ and caused the man to wet himself.
Dwaine said he remembered the officers laughing and wiffling their fingers at the man before cutting his clothes off.
‘I think one of the worst things that I’ve actually seen when I was in solitary confinement and I always remember this.
‘It was a guy and he’s no friend of mine he has racist tendencies but his mother died and so all he wanted to do was phone his family and have that conversation with his family.
‘The officer said kick the door again he’s getting frustrated because he wanted to make the phone call they wouldn’t allow him to and so he kicked it and [the guards] said come on lads let’s suit up and they beat him so much.
‘It almost became inhuman and he wet himself.’
‘They were laughing about it and I remember some of the women officers as well they wiggling their little fingers because he weren’t (sic) willing down
‘So they were laughing at him and they cut his clothes and so forth.’
Dwain is pictured right in a promotional photo for his clothing brand Primrosehill Clothing
Dwaine spoke earlier in the podcast about how he chopped a person’s finger off using a knife at the age of 13.
He said: ‘Being so young, cause I was 13, you’re not understanding the magnitude of what you’ve actually done.’
Dwaine explained why he cut the person’s finger off, saying: ‘It comes down to group’s dynamics and not liking the particular group.
‘I can’t say per se that that young person done anything directly towards me but it’s just the whole of who he was connected with I didn’t like so I was just making a statement.
‘It’s bad, it’s horrendous and my heart goes out to the young person, he’s a grown man now and has a family.’
Dwaine was released from Feltham Young Offenders Institution at the age of 18, but was quickly back behind bars just two years later.
Speaking about the night he shot two people, Dwaine said: ‘I got the phone call and I said that these individuals were dealing with illegal activity allegedly.
‘My protocol was okay we’re going to go and obtain what they have and they can’t say nothing about it because they are also involved in what we’re involved in
‘We had a system in place as well that if you show your gun you use it. There’s no point in talking about something and waving it around if you’re not going to use it.
‘So that’s what I basically done. I produced the firearm and I shot them both and I thank God that they survived.’
Dwaine is pictured bottom right next to his mother
Following the incident Dwaine eventually handed himself in to police as ‘other innocent people were getting dragged into’ the incident.
Dwaine was then handed a discretionary life sentence for attempted murder at South Western Magistrates’ Court in 2000.
Dwaine has previously spoken out on another podcast, BEAMLDN, where he described some of the harrowing things he witnessed while he was locked up.
He said he saw someone get ‘their throat cut from behind’ and saw someone throw hot oil on another man’s face.
He said: ‘I’ve seen horrific things. Like someone getting their throat cut from behind or hot oil, that is horrendous.
‘When you see the person’s face and everything melts off.’
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