Thanks to you both "expressions" it is. Just for interest his name was Richard Hulcup and was transported to Australia for seven years for stealing turkeys. He wasn't the best behaved convict and served eight years. Some of it in solitary confinement. I actually spent 15 minutes in the pitch black solitary confinement cell in Port Arthur, Tasmania and you literally cannot see your hand in front of your face. Upon release he married and moved to Melbourne where he was in an altercation with police. He died from his injuries.
