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A man who spent 20 years in prison has revealed the most chilling thing he experienced behind bars.
Dwaine Patterson was handed a discretionary life sentence for attempted murder at the age of 20 after shooting two people during a gang war in 2000.
He spent 22 years in prison, seven of which he spent in solitary confinement, where he endured 23 hours each day without any human contact.
Dwaine, who grew up around Clapham Junction in south west London, was also sent to a young offenders institute for five years after cutting a rival gang member's finger off with a knife when he was just 13 years old.
Speaking on the Anything Goes podcast with presenter James English, Dwaine revealed how dangerous it was to be in the canteen in jail.
Dwaine Patterson was handed a discretionary life sentence for attempted murder at the age of 20 after shooting two people during a gang altercation in 2000
Dwaine (pictured far right) spent 22 years in prison, seven of which he spent in solitary confinement, where he endured 23 hours each day without any human contact
Dwaine is pictured bottom right sat next to host James English after appearing on the Anything Goes podcast
He said: 'One of the first things that I identified when I went onto the wing in high security when somebody would come out of the kitchen with a pot in their hands everybody would be moving sideways all would be observing.
'A person would tap me and say "you don't know where that is going".
'Nine times out of ten it is just someone cooking their food but sometimes it could be used as ghee.
'Remember this, in dispersals where you can cook food where you had oil, butter or ghee I think that's some of the worst incidents I have ever seen.
'Where you leave it to bubble up for such a long period of time that it goes black and someone pours it over a person, it's horrific when you hear them scream.'
Dwaine also revealed how once saw a man beaten 'inhumanely' by prison guards to the point where he wet himself.
He explained the man's mother had recently died and he wanted to make a phone call to his family to make sure they were ok.
However, his request was refused by prison officers and he began kicking his cell door in frustration.
According to Dwaine this provoked the prison officers who beat him to the point where it became 'inhumane' and caused the man to wet himself.
Dwaine said he remembered the officers laughing and wiffling their fingers at the man before
