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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Liam McInerney & Damon Wilkinson

The killer bodybuilder attacked by Kiaran Stapleton in Strangeways - and his notorious dad dubbed 'UK's hardest lag'

Interviewed for the Strangeways ITV documentary, killer bodybuilder Michael Sharp painted a bleak picture of life inside Manchester's notorious prison. "There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so there's a lot of stabbings, a lot of slashings, people boiling up tubs of butter, turning it into oil, throwing that over the faces, over the body, they don't care what they do," he said.

Sharp was just 25-years-old when he was jailed for life for murdering ex-policeman David Ward in a brutal robbery at his West Yorkshire home.

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