I have an old acquaintance from the pub 30+ years ago who I was chatty with but he wasn't one of our close crew. He was renowned as being a hard fucker but not keen on scrapping as he'd killed someone in a fight when he was younger; he punched him, he went down and hit his head on the kerb and died). I don't think he ever did any time for it as he was a juvenile; nobody ever asked him about it in detail (I did once when I was rat-arsed but don't remember the details )

He's now a screw at a relatively local prison with a pretty bad reputation. He was very intelligent and that incident had clearly straightened him right up but still, you would think it would be disqualifying from something like that. I actually think he'd be really good at it but still, the interview must have been interesting, "I see here you like Northern Soul music, oh and you once killed someone. Tell me more about that...".

A lot of screws are wash-outs or never got-ins from the bill that's for sure.