A 28-year-old prisoner lodged in a high-security British jail has topped his class in a Masters course in criminology at the elite Cambridge University.
Gareth, whose last name and details are being withheld by the UKs Ministry of Justice, was one of the 22 inmates at Her Majestys Prison (HMP) Grendon in Buckinghamshire, south-east England.
He studied alongside nearly a dozen criminology students at Cambridge in one of their Master of Philosophy modules.
Gareth, who is five years into his sentence, is serving an undisclosed prison term, The Times reported.
“What makes Gareth great is his eloquence, his passion for social justice issues, his high capacity to process and probe complex ideas... and his deep humanity and humility. He loves ideas, was ready to challenge himself and put in the hard work necessary,” Dr Amy ludlow, law lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, and Ruth Armstrong, research associate at St Johns College of the university, told the newspaper.
The inmate described the eight-week course as “transformational”.