117: Britain’s most wanted man - Ray Bishop tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Anything Goes with James English Ep/117 London gangster ray bishop tells his story. Ray grow up on a council estate in South East London, where he and his friends were regularly brutalised by the police. He got involved in petty crime, and was despatched to various notoriously violent youth-detention centres, all of which served to criminalise him, and others like him, much further. He graduated with flying colours to a career in London's underworld as an armed robber, a drug smuggler and a people trafficker, developing a serious addiction to cocaine and heroin along the way. Ray eventually wore himself out, and enrolled in a rigorous rehabilitation programme which provided him with a path to redemption. In 2010 he realised his childhood dream of becoming British Middleweight Boxing Champion. A truly inspirational turnaround, and a riveting life story.

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0:00.0	Oh, Boon, today's guess,
0:17.0	today's guess we've got one of the re-bishop.
0:21.0	How are you brother?
0:22.0	Lovely to meet you at last.
0:23.0	Yeah, you've led a very interesting live brother.
0:28.0	Yeah, somewhat.
0:30.0	Yeah, your boot shot will touch on outlaw. You've just gave me it so I will get reading it brother.
0:35.6	You like the pictures?
0:37.2	Yeah, I saw, yeah, probably mate, I struggle to read, but you've led a very interesting life from being Britain's one of Britain's most
0:45.1	wanted men. You've nearly spent over 20 years in prison. Arm robberies, drugs,
0:50.4	people trafficking. You've done it all, you've done it all, drug addiction, but the beauty
0:57.1	I live probably changed.
0:58.1	Most definitely, you know, I'm a great reformist.
1:02.4	I think, now when my when my autobiography came out and I wrote it for Virgin
1:07.2	there was no razor Smith very good friend of mine fantastic author as you know he asked me to write it because he knew my story
1:14.4	you know I'd spent a lot of time with Razor when he was doing 25 years in the early
1:19.5	90s I was locked up with him and I had down and passed across again. He said you've got to write your book, you've got a fascinating tell, it's almost unbelievable. So I wrote it,
1:30.0	razor took it, he'd give it to a publisher that he knew, the publishing company read it and said
1:37.0	this has to go to a major publisher.
1:39.0	I was like, wow, you know, it's just my story.
1:42.0	It went to Virgin and Virgin said said we're going to release this you
1:45.5	know and I'm blown away the most wanted bit bit sensationalized that was Virgin to sell
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