Written by Shaun's sister, the report Karen Attwood.

Shaun Attwood grew up in the North West of England where he was an early participant in the burgeoning rave scene that soon took over the whole country.

Graduating from Liverpool University in 1991 with a business degree, he emigrated to Phoenix to try his luck in the world of finance and rose quickly through the ranks to become the top-producing stockbroker at his company two years in a row.

But it was not quite plain sailing, bipolar Shaun lost control of his life and finances in the mid-nineties, declared bankruptcy and quit his job.

The rave bug had never left him, and Shaun started to throw raves in Arizona while investing in international technology stocks online. By 1999, he was living in a million-dollar mountainside house in Tucson's Sin Vacas, working as a day trader by day and partying at night. It was the time of the Dot.com Bubble and he made a fortune on paper, but the bubble was soon to burst and Shaun lost all the money he had made and moved back to Phoenix.

In May 2002, he was arrested in Scottsdale during a SWAT-team dawn raid, and alleged to be the head of an international criminal organization with hundreds of underlings all involved in a club-drug conspiracy. The local media described him as "Bigger than Sammy the Bull," and reports suggested he was facing a life sentence.

In 2004, Shaun started a blog documenting the inhumane conditions at the cockroach-infested jails run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. After two years of being held on remand in various hellhole jails while three trials were canceled, Shaun signed a plea bargain admitting guilt to three class 3 felonies: Money Laundering, Attempt to Commit a Dangerous Drug iolation, and Use of an Electronic Device to Commit a Drug Transaction. He was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison.

In September 2004, blog excerpts were published in The Guardian, attracting further media attention. Shaun is currently in Tucson prison awaiting deportation.