Miraculously though, through reading a yellow-coloured copy of the Living Bible in his cell, he became a Christian. After this change, the more he thought about it, the more his conscience told him that he should now take another very important step. He asked the prison authorities if he could be admitted to the prison hospital at Dartmoor so that the surgeons could carry out an operation on him. When permission was granted, he was delighted, although perhaps a little fearful when it came to the actual day.

No, it wasn't because he was suffering from a serious illness and needed treatment; rather, he longed for those four angry letters to be removed from the skin on his hands. In his newfound belief, he no longer wanted that to be the message that people heard from him, but rather to be a witness to his sincere Christian faith. The operation proclaimed at last that he was free of the old hatred and hostile way of life, and was a changed man.