Here's old Willy Wonder comin' at ya with some news from the real...You old timers from Overgrow may remember POM-plural of mongoose, he was also NOTAGROWER at OG at first. He went to work for Gypsy like Sub did back in the day.
"Until the other day, I hadn't visited PG in well over a year, and saw the hes gone thread about Mia Stoner, and Munchy mentioned he's probably chillaxin at the big coffeeshop in the sky with Mongoose. Not so.
About 2 months ago I went to visit my cousin at Wandsworth Prison because he was arrested during riots in London. While going through the search line before the visit, I saw Nicky who used to run Gypsy Nirvana where I have got several tattoos over the years, and asked her what she was doing at Wandsworth. It turns out she was there visiting Mongoose.
When we got in for our visits, I ended up sitting at the table next to them, and it was in fact PoM, looking a little worse for wear than he was a few years ago when I saw him. Honestly, he looked like he weighed about 7 stone, or under 100 pounds. He was in great spirits though, and he remembered me from coming in to buy seeds back in the day.
He is in Wandsworths B wing, the same wing my cousin is in, and according to my cousin he is the kind of guy that 'does time easy' which is rare for a guy pushing 50. My cousin says that he teaches reading to some of the inmates, and is working on a book. He also apparently holds court in the exercise yard a couple of times a week and teaches the basics of growing weed, something the guards are all aware of and think is funny as hell. He moves a little slow and is a bit shakey on his feet, but my cousin says he doesn't have any problems in there, described him as sitting at the top of the food chain with the other prisoners.
I've been back to visit my cousin a couple of times since then, and the story I've pieced together is that a few years ago PoM was at a large commercial grow when it got busted, and they traced a second grow from there, and he was charged with them both. He pled guilty to both charges at his first court appearance, and refused to answer any questions for the prosecutor and judge, only insisting he acted alone. Normally in the UK if you plead guilty at the first opportunity, you automatically get 1/3 off your sentence, but the prosecutor painted him as the head of a complex criminal organization, so he got a full sentence of 5 years with no 1/3 off. They also used that to classify him as high-risk for escape, which is why he's at Wandsworth, one of the toughest prisons in the UK, instead of some country club prison in the country.
My cousin is going to be there until around Christmas, so I'm sure I'll get a chance to see PoM again on another visit. I certainly hope so, I want to hear about that book he's writing.
With good behaviour, he should be released around May of next year."