Nov

Otis Ferry: I’m Like a Battery Hen (Wandering Around a Tennis Court)

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You may remember me telling you back in April that Otis Ferry – the pro-hunt ‘extremist’ son of Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry – was charged with attacking hunt saboteurs. Well, the fox killer has since landed himself in HMP Gloucester, where he is currently on remand for allegedly perverting the course of justice. And doesn’t he half bang on about it? In a letter to hunt mag, Horse & Hound, he rattles on about his “mind numbingly boring” incarceration and “namby pamby” prison life. But wait for ‘la pièce de la résistance’:

“Other than that, we go outside for half an hour every day in a tennis court-sized yard, like battery hens, walk around in circles for a while then return to our cells for the rest of the day.”

His profound knowledge and respect for animals really shines through here. What a gem. I wonder if his bed is directly below his fellow inmates’ beds, with their excrement trickling through the slats all day? Of course, that’s when he’s not wandering around the yard, just like battery hens do. For all his talk of ‘keeping to the books’, he’s not a very smart fellow, is he?

Let’s play a game! It’s called Spot the Difference, and you can leave comments below with your answers.