JAILED tycoon and ex-Blackpool FC chairman Owen Oyston will be driven out of the gates of Wymott Prison tomorrow morning (Friday Nov 21) - hoping never to return.
He will be taken to Brixton Prison in south London where he will spend the weekend before his appearance at the Royal Courts of Justice next Monday morning for a two-day hearing at the Appeal Court when Tony Scrivener QC will argue that he was wrongly convicted of rape and sexual assault on a 16-year-old East Lancashire model at his home, Claughton Castle, near Lancaster.
"Owen is looking very well. He's very buoyant and looking forward to the appeal. He's lost a bit of weight and he's very fit because he exercises every afternoon. His hair is whiter and shorter but his goatee beard is quite pronounced. He looks fine."
It will be the first time Oyston has been outside prison walls since his transfer from Liverpool's Walton Jail to Wymott, near Leyland, in the summer of 1996 - a few weeks after he was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
The Appeal judges could announce their decision on Tuesday. They could allow the appeal, reject it or possibly order a retrial.
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