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A self-described gangster who spent up to $1500 a day on heroin has revealed how he quit drugs cold turkey while in prison after having an epiphany.  Sydney-based rapper Spanian spoke candidly about his battle with addiction and crime in an interview published on his self-titled YouTube channel. The rapper, who has a following of 15,000 people on Instagram, said it was a 'gift from God' that he was able to give up the needle in 2007 at the age of 21. Spanian said he first got into buprenorphine - a treatment for heroin addicts similar to methadone - while serving time when he was younger. 'I was one of the first c***ts in Australia on the bupe [buprenorphine]. I was doing bupe in jail and loving life,' he said. 'I was high 24/7'.  'I used to chop $1500-a-day on gear [drugs]. I used to pride myself on that too,' he said. Sydney-based rapper Spanian spoke candidly about his battle with heroin on his self-titled documentary-style YouTube channel 'So I was loving my life, I … [Read more...] about Jailyard rapper who had a $1500-a-day heroin habit reveals how he managed to quit cold turkey behind bars – and says he hasn’t craved drugs in 12 years

Steve Dickson with his wife Debbie who followed him 24/7 in the wake of the strip club video scandal The former Queensland leader of the One Nation party has revealed that he considered killing himself after the leaking of a video in a strip club that showed him speaking derogatorily to a woman.  Steve Dickson was ousted at the party's state leader in April after an undercover news report showed him in a Washington DC strip club groping dancers and making lewd comments. The 57-year-old and his wife Debbie said  the telecast of the video pushed Mr Dickson to the 'point of suicide' due to the media attention it received.  'Every time I closed my eyes, I felt like I was in a nightmare,' Mr Dickson said in a 42 minute video uploaded on December 5.  'It almost drove me to the point of suicide; if Deb had not stuck behind me and with me, I don't think I would be here today.' The father-of-two was subsequently forced to resign from his position which saw him spiral into … [Read more...] about Wife of former One Nation chief exposed in strip club video had to follow him around the house due to fears he’d commit suicide in wake of scandal

A reformed gangster who turned to rap after spending most of his youth behind bars has lifted the lid on a 'secret' language used by criminals to fool police officers. The Sydney-based underground rapper, who goes by the name Spanian online, took to his 11,000 Instagram followers to show off the bizarre dialect.  'That's a real language brother, that's a real language cuz,' he said. 'That's jail phone language. We speak that on jail phones ... I used to order anything on a jail phone. The intel (intelligence officers) didn't know nothing.'  Sydney rapper Spanian took to Instagram to boast about a 'secret' jail language  Spanian claimed that only a handful of people knew how to speak the language, writing: 'I used to have boys ofering money in the account to teach em and I never sold it once.' 'Only taught a few (the language) out of love,' he added. The rapper's fans were quick to praise him for the strange 'lingo', with one writing: 'Should make a whole mixtape in this … [Read more...] about Gangster rapper who spent years behind bars in Sydney lifts the lid on ‘secret’ jail language he claims police officers couldn’t understand

A sign painted above the intake section of Australia's largest prison – the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, west of Sydney – greets every new inmate. 'Welcome to the MRRC. Respect every person you meet in here, and they will also respect you,' it says. Respect in this place can be hard won. Another sign on a cell door says of the wild-haired inmate wearing only underpants staring out from inside: 'Use caution, assaulted nurse on 07/06/17.' That date has then been crossed out and '25/06/17' added. Scroll down for video  One inmate shows off while another hides his face at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, west of Sydney This mentally-ill inmate came to his cell door at Silverwater prison dressed only in underpants then hid under his blanket Officers stick warnings about violent inmates outside their cell doors at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre 'I shouldn't be in here': This inmate pleaded with Daily Mail Australia to get him … [Read more...] about Twenty years’ hard labour: From sex in the visiting centre to bikies ruling the roost – the changing scenes staff face inside Australia’s largest prison

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accepted the resignation of the party's Queensland leader and Senate candidate Steve Dickson after he was caught on camera groping strippers and making derogatory comments about women. Dickson resigned from the party on Tuesday after more footage from an Al Jazeera sting was made public, following on from video released last month which showed him meeting with officials from the U.S. National Rifle Association. 'White women **** a whole lot better, they know what they are doing, Asian chicks don't,' Mr Dickson was recorded saying in the footage aired on Monday.  'I've done more Asians than I know what to do with.'   The footage showed Mr Dickson groping the breasts of one dancer before putting money into the underwear of another.   'I've asked her, she said she wants to come home and suck my d***,' he said while receiving a lap dance.  Senator Hanson said she was 'shocked and disappointed' after seeing the footage - … [Read more...] about ‘I’m upset by this, Steve is a family man’: Pauline Hanson accepts resignation of One Nation’s Senate candidate after he is caught groping dancers in strip club scandal