Charles Lomu

And the saddest thing for me was...

I think about my son.

He had to endure an experience or some circumstances that he had nothing to do with.

And that's something that I felt, you know, always made that probably the most regretful experience for me.

You usually have to turn up at 5 o'clock at a point.

They meet, you pick you up, then you get locked up until Sunday and then you come out.

It's like a last straw before you go into full-time lock-up.

And so I had to do that for nine months.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And I think the only reason why I had that as an option was because I had children that I was responsible for providing for.

So they were trying to give me a last chance.

And while I was in there, I really started thinking about my spirituality because I had stopped it.

But in there, I found it really tough because of the atmosphere where everyone's trying to protect their manhood.

And for me, I never really bought into it.

I felt when I was in there, I always felt like these aren't bad people.

These are just people who made bad decisions.

Because I'd have one-on-one conversations with guys and then I'd see how they were in the yard in front of everybody else.

And I recognise that there's a big front going on for a lot of people.

But I just struggled because you don't really have that kind of support sometimes in there unless you've got someone motivating you.

And that came...