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Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Michael Alexander speaks to Jill Brown, the creator of Conviction Records – a new record label which aims to give a voice to jailhouse Scots and inspire them on the road to redemption. It was a “moment of madness” that resulted in Ryan Kershaw serving six months in jail for ordering a banned pepper spray online. But the time served by the father-of-two in Addiewell Pri...

HE ended up serving six months in jail after ordering a pepper spray online. However, what Ryan Kershaw describes as a moment of madness led to him picking up a guitar again after several years. He began strumming away during his jail term and started to pen his own songs. And while it might not have been the way he had planned it, he is now on the verge of being signed to a record label whose aim is to help ex-offenders, Conviction Records. Read more: With his heart set on a career as ...