It's The Future
But Not As You Know It!
by Ed Kilpatrick
Part Two – The Euro Lottery:
Okay, 76-million-to-one and that one was me! My £1.50 investment paid off in a £92m pay out from Camelot, the UK operator of the UK and Euro lottery at that time in the early 21st century. I really never did the lottery but this time I did and what a difference it would make to my life back in 2008.
Like most large lottery winners, I gave up my job and bought a new house. My new estate; this time in rural Oxfordshire cost me just under £10m and took me nearly a year to find! Yes, I did buy cars and took several holidays but travelling BA first class was a whole lot different than the usual trips to California down the back of a 747 in those days.
The reason it took me a year to find the estate was simple. I wanted an estate with a sizable basement. A basement that enabled me to take my private fanaticises to a whole new level. I installed several cells:
One was a typical US barred style;
Another was a modern pod style with thick Perspex glass;
Another was a more medieval style cell with thick wooden door and mock stone walls with heavy manacles hanging on the wall;
I also enjoyed spending hours in the UK styled cell with a heavy steel door and the peep hole.
One thing that didn't separate these cells was the timer based locking system. This meant I could spend any preset time in any of my basement cells and know that once the timer had reached its preset time, the door would unlock. The failsafe solution meant if there was a power cut; the magnet locking system would automatically release, unlocking all of the cell doors immediately. Another failsafe process meant the lock couldn't engage for more than 24 hours. Even if I'd made a mistake, all cell doors would once again, automatically release after 24 hours.
After winning £90m, buying my dream cars and my dream estate in rural Oxfordshire; you'd think I'd done enough for one year. Oh no, not me! BY now I still had over £80m in the bank and this was growing month in, month out. You've no idea how difficult it is spend a million quid, never mind the interest that keeps coming in. Yes I know, I shouldn't complain as it was (sort of still is) a really nice problem to have!
In May 2009, just after my 40th birthday, I was sitting in the conservatory reading the local newspaper when I came across an interesting contract notice. Just like in most countries, the UK government must advertise contracts across Europe to show a Best Value, equality process across all the member states. This Advert was looking for a private company to bid for and take over the running of the local female prison in Oxfordshire. This brought forward a whole new set of fantasies but I did what any curious person would do, I lodged an interest in the tender documents and started my research into the market of prison operation.
I don't want to bore you with the details but I got together with the current Oxfordshire prison (government) management team and put forward a Best Value bid based on the current management team led by Elspeth Rutherglen and her team and financially backed by "Tyler Law Enforcement Ltd," my newel registered company. I'd no idea where this business would lead but I had to be allowed to diverge at any time in the future. My bid won and part of the bid meant, I would invest £30m in a brand new female prison facility in the same grounds as the current prison.
In late 2009, the Tory's finally got back into power after 12 years of Labour ruin in the UK and one of their key policies was to build more prisons and get more bad-eggs off Britain's streets.
By mid 2010 my state-of-the-art female facility was taking in and housing some of the worst female inmates north of London. I had a hard, no-nonsense policy that played into my deviant nature but keeping it all above board meant by 2015 and my 46 birthday, I was now running 5 more female prisons in the UK from Durham to Avon and Somerset.
Nope, I still had no serious female in my life; I actually had nearly a thousand to look after in my facilities. Okay this meant my female inmate population either spent a lot of time in their cells or working for the spin off companies that the new right-wing Conservative government allowed me to run using these rejects from society. I employed techniques direct from the United States to control all female inmates using the latest range of handcuffs and leg-iron technology. While I constantly got criticised for my harsh polices, within two years they were returning excellent results via much reduced re-offending when these girls had done their time.
Tyler Law Enforcement was therefore a great success and my original £30m investment had now valued me personally at over £300m.
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