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What life behind bars is really like for Tom Hayes, a rich, privileged, white-collar conJail diary of a bank cheat: In the morning he dropped his son off at nursery. Then he got 14 years for fixing Libor rates. Now read what life behind bars is really like for a rich, privileged, white-collar con... 

His colleagues dubbed him 'Rain Man' because of his ability with numbers. But last year, trader Tom Hayes, pictured arriving at court with his wife (left), became the first man to be convicted of rigging Libor, the international benchmark for interest rates. The maths graduate and self-confessed 'scruff' maintained his actions had been common practice, but was handed a 14-year jail term, forcing him to leave his family home (top right) in Caterham, Surrey, for HMP Wandsworth (bottom right). Here, in a series of candid letters written from his prison cell, Hayes offers a devastating portrait of a filthy, chaotic and drug-riddled prison system.

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