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John Lawson: enforcer, bodyguard, extortionist, kidnapper…

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John Lawson was the son of a policeman who abandoned his family to the toughest housing estate in Europe, Drumchapel in Glasgow. He has since been a bouncer, enforcer, bodyguard, debt-collector 4 the underworld, extortionist, kidnapper, prisoner… He’s done high profile work with the Rolling Stones, and short-term contracts for REM, AC/DC and Neil Diamond. […]

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Joey Daniels: Abused, violence, 25 inside, contracting, despair

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“I remember when I was six some kids tried to take a few sweets off me – I didn’t get that many in this school-place so I got a bread knife to him and he never did it again.” His first crimes were thefts and he moved on to more serious offences, eventually being jailed […]

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Bobby Matheson: Ex-loyalist, lifer @ the Maze

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Ex-footballer, former loyalist paramilitary, 9 years into a life sentence at the Maze he discovered he was rotten before he ever turned to the things the courts of this world sentenced him for. This led him to psychiatric block for 2 years, and many years later, after finding a successful career outside, he again broke […]

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Michael Emmett: Career criminal’s kid, 4500kg cannabis

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Michael Emmett grew up with a villain for a dad, and a tendency to do that. A taste of money, and a love of it led him ever deeper into crime and drugs. Tragedy accelerated his descent into addiction until at last he’d meet someone who’d set him free while serving 12 years inside.

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Trevor: Abused@8, mum murdered, 4 life sentences

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Kicked out of army for being too violent. Got into too much drink, drugs and violence. Became an alcoholic and drug addict on leaving the army. Then got involved in the gang scene to make a living, and being paid to hurt people. This reached a height when climbing the gangland ladder in the late […]