At 17 years old, Nick spent more than a month under conditions likened to that of farm animals and in breach of his human rights. Here’s his story
There is no daylight in the watch house. No window. No crack of sun that inches along the concrete somewhere among the mass of tiny police holding cells.
“There was a few nights where I was wishing that I wasn’t alive,” Nick told Guardian Australia in July. He agreed to be interviewed about his experience alongside his mother. He talks in a soft, considered way and takes a long pause after the word “alive”. His mum starts to cry.“But since I’ve been out … it’s been a bit hard … I don’t know, it kind of doesn’t feel the same since before I was in there. I came out a different person.
“The place … wasn’t really all that clean. I saw a cockroach run through once. It’s not clean. My feet would always be filthy. My room after two weeks you’d look on the floor and there was a bunch of hair on the floor. “I remember like around the eighth day, just breaking down in the room by myself, crying. Eight days. I’d never been in a watch house for that long. Eight days. Even eight days was crazy to me.
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