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ON the morning of Monday, May 11, 2009, Mark Ward left behind his prison identity of NM6982 and re-entered the real world. After serving four years of an eight-year jail sentence for renting a house for a drugs baron, the former Everton hero paid dearly for the biggest mistake of his life. ?I've been to hell ? and I'm never going back,? he declared. He has put his experiences into print. ?Mark Ward ? From Right Wing to B-wing . . . Premier League to Prison? is published by Football World. It's a compelling account of a once idolised footballer's fall from grace. Today the ECHO carries Part 1 of a week of extracts.
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