It was George Williams’ first Sunday as a free man, and his family made certain that he had a hearty dinner and experienced the warmth and togetherness of being at home in Ewarton, St Catherine.

Williams was arrested and charged with killing another man during a violent attack on a family driving through his St Catherine community in July 1970, but the then 20-year-old was declared unfit to plead.

Journeying back to his first night battling bedbugs in prison 50 years ago, Williams erupted into laughter, saying, “Whole heap a chink bite mi.

During his prolonged imprisonment, Williams recalls hearing the cells of the maximum-security prison open and close roughly at the same time daily.

Williams also remembered that his mother once visited him on his birthday, April 23, and took him fried chicken.