What to us and the guards may look like a scrap of paper becomes for him a tiny piece of his ticket to freedom.

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He then is said to have tied Geoghan's hands behind his back, gagged him and wound a sheet around the former priest's neck, tightening it with a shoe before beating him severely until prison guards realised what was happening and intervened, the paper said.

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