Latest update: After his father was convicted of murder, a snooker player took the snooker trophy to prison.
Ronnie O’Sullivan recently won his eighth UK Championship title, having first lifted the trophy in 1993, when he also showed it to his incarcerated father.
After winning his first snooker major, Ronnie O’Sullivan paid a visit to his father in prison.
The Rocket won his first UK Championship in 1993, just months after his father was sentenced to death for murder. In 1992, Ronnie Sr received a life sentence for the murder of Bruce Bryan, a driver for gangster Charlie Kray, the elder brother of the notorious Kray twins.
But the snooker champion stood by his father, who was released after serving 18 years in prison. And Ronnie, who won the UK Championship for the eighth time last weekend, brought his first trophy to his father.
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In footage from his Amazon Prime documentary ‘Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything,’ the 48-year-old can be seen holding the trophy outside Gartree prison.
O’Sullivan described his visit to the prison as “emotional” after defeating Stephen Hendry in the final. He did, however, admit to thinking about life without snooker.
“I didn’t want to blame everything on that situation with my dad,” Ronnie explains in the documentary. “But I used to think I’d rather have a normal family and not play snooker.”
“I didn’t have to go through that, forget snooker, whatever normal life is.” It was a dream, but in retrospect, it was a nightmare.”
When recounting his father’s arrest and time behind bars, O’Sullivan burst into tears on the candid documentary.
“Nothing can prepare you for that, I couldn’t make sense of any of it, I just couldn’t believe it,” said the Rocket.
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