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Terry Ellis spent part of his jail sentence for robbery having therapy at Grendon Prison alongside child killers and paedophiles. After the recent escape of ...

"The whole place was a learning place. not chasing that elusive rainbow that was never going to be there." "We didn't want to hurt anybody. "I used to drink quite a bit, I used to take drugs, I used to womanise, everything else," he says. "This guy jumped through all through the rehabilitation hoops and was deemed a success to leave prison," he says. Terry Ellis spent part of his jail sentence for robbery having therapy at Grendon Prison alongside child killers and paedophiles. After he was detained over the Verizon robbery, Ellis says a psychologist suggested he consider going to Grendon Prison, in Buckinghamshire, which operates as a "therapeutic community". Ellis says he feared the gang were "doomed" due to the attention the high-profile robbery attracted. "For us, the worst bit was the entry," he adds. Ellis says: "I was on reception and just said: 'We've had a surge in the mainframe computer system, our tech guys are on it now and it should be up and running in 20 to 25 minutes.' "It was deemed by most people in the game as an impossible job," Ellis says. "We wanted to do something that took it to a different level - the art of robbery I suppose," Ellis tells Sky News.