Well, when we were kids, some of the kids in my street went to a little church as Sunday school. And one day, Miss Williams, a Sunday school teacher said, next week there's a new boy coming and you better be kind to him. He doesn't have a mum and dad like you, lives in something called a care home, and we're going to pick him up from the care home and bring him to Sunday school. And when Ronnie arrived, he's a couple of years older than us,

and he was unusual. First thing he did was hide Miss Williams handbag. Second thing he did was put

my friend Cecil in a headlock. He was a bit unusual. And then when he was 11, he disappeared.

We didn't see him for five years. When I was researching my book, I discovered he'd been sent to

a home 200 miles away that

the report described as disgracefully for subnormal boys.

He was there for five years.

And eventually that school was closed down because the carers had sexually abused the kids

and they were imprisoned.

But Ronnie comes back at 16 and occasionally he would drop into a youth club.

I ran and then he wouldn't see him again.

But now it's two days for Christmas and he's on my front door.

He's found out where I live.

And he's got all his worldly possessions in a black plastic bag.

And how old was he at this point?

2930. Wow. So a fully grown man. Oh yeah, a fully plastic bag. And how old was he at this point? 2930.

Wow, so a fully grown man. Oh, yeah, fully grown man. And how long was it since you'd seen him? Probably. Well, I used to see him around the best. You'd see him around, you know? So I'd probably seen him perhaps six months before or a year before. It might have been a little sooner, but you'd see him around

and he'd be occasionally drop into the youth club where we were.

But he was always distant and always different.

But now he turned up at one of my kids' youth clubs' homes the night before,

and his father's father said, there's a tramp at the door.

And the boy came down and told Ronnie to come up to me.

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