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Good to see you. I'm glad to be here.

You've done a video on Tech Talk. A lot of people tagged us in talking about the struggles

of life, talking about your struggles of being a kid, raped at 12, being a through the

system and in out prisons. I know you're here today to tell your story.

Yeah, it's a great opportunity. I'm very, very grateful. Good to have you on. But before

we get into everything, Peter, I always go back to the start of my guests where you grew

up, how it all began. Well, as far as I know, because it all happened

very young and mainstreamly young, I believe by the reports I've been reading in the last

year because I've started writing a book about what happened. And my dad tried to kill my

mum with a knife and it was sold to him in five of his kids being put into the guest

system. And I was put into the guest system when I was eight months. And because I was

the youngest, I was too young to go into a children's home so they put me into a nursery

into I was two. I'm not sure where the nursery was, but all I know is once I was two, I joined

my, my brothers, I've been North London, a children's home called 82, Maslow Hill. And it was

a detached house and it was a children's home and it was about 10 kids and a four staff

there. So I grew up there basically in North London in Maslow Hill.

There was North Skilling enough and then just, I don't know, care homes from a very young

age. Well, yes, from eight months and I went and I left when I was 18, but during them

years, I mean, you know, it was in the 1960s. So there was no care really. I mean, it's

called a children's home and a care home. There was no care. There was no love. There

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