A free man

A?CONVICTED?MURDERER, hailed as one of the success stories of the rehabilitation programme at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds, was released yesterday after 28 years.
Michael Taylor, then 17, was jailed in 1984 for bludgeoning to death 81-year-old Bank Hall, St Michael shopkeeper Millicent Lyder.
Now 45, Taylor, who was illiterate when he entered the jail, can now read and write, and was involved in most of the rehabilitation programmes.
Dressed in peach long-sleeved shirt and black pants, and carrying a black bag in his hand, a smiling Taylor stopped by the sentry gate at the St Philip institution where he had a lengthy conversation with Assistant Chief Officer William Harvey and prison officer Ryan Phillips, before waving to other inmates who shouted his name from the yard, and walking through the gate to freedom.