
172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse
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What's Your Background?
I was taken to the Caribbean until I was three years old, came back to Oxford and it was a racist time. There wasn't many black people around. And I grew up with gangs. In my area, there was a lot of gangs. They were called boot boys so that you had mods, you had teddy boys, you had skinheads. And they used to fight each other and they were racist towards the ethnic minority at the time. My background is gangs and institutions, basically prisons, all the care system. And yeah, lots of prisons. You're now reformed, of course, but you committed 22 armed robberies because you had a difficult upbringing, didn't you? That
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