A man who was arrested while holidaying in Jamaica as a 17-year-old published a book based on the true accounts of his experiences.
Ashleigh Nugent’s book ‘Locks’ was signed by traditional publishers Pan Macmillan Picador. He launched his book with a reading and a talk with Jennifer Hayashi Danns the Liverpool author of Beneath the Burning Wave at Liverpool’s Waterstones bookstore on June 28.
The child of a Black Jamaican and White Scottish mother, Ashleigh grew up on the outskirts of Liverpool. In 1993, two days into a three week holiday he found himself in a Jamaican detention centre.
