Just An Ordinary Decent Criminal

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Paul, 50, is the youngest of nine children from Norris Green. He had a great childhood, but grew up watching crime all around him: “I’d see joy riders tear down the East Lancs and around Sparrow Hall.” Just an Ordinary Decent Criminal also captures Paul’s bittersweet childhood in Norris Green, surrounded by close friends and family.

It was writing a letter of apology to his mum that he learned the most: “I started writing to her to say sorry – and six months later I was still writing! I wrote 180,000 words – and that became my book,” says Paul who adds that he is in talks for Just An Ordinary Decent Criminal to be turned into a film. Who would play him? “People say there’s only one person – Stephen Graham.” It wasn’t destined he should join them. A straight ‘A’ student and a good football player he was predicted to do well, but the death of his dad when he was 14 had a devastating effect. Having a parent in prison in one of the ten defined adverse childhood experiences (ACE) according to the World Health Organisation and children of prisoners tend to have multiple of adverse childhood experiences. When children have ACEs (traumatic childhood events) and are left without support, naturally they suffer more as adults. Re-Solv is a charity committed to stopping the abuse of volatile substances like glues, gases and aerosols.

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Dr Lorna Brookes, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, has spent the last 12 years supporting children who have a parent in prison. We are pleased to give our support to this national initiative once again and give everyone an opportunity to get rid of knives and weapons that could potential cause injury or worse to someone in our area." I’d also arranged a sort of last supper party in a friend’s pub so I could say goodbye to everyone who cared. Read More Related Articles Dave Cording, Crimestoppers’ Deputy Chief Executive, said: “This is another outstanding result for Operation Captura as we see a wanted man feel the pressure of the campaign and hand himself in.

It was September 11, 2006, when everything came crashing down around him. In Europe to watch Liverpool play PSV Eindhoven, Paul got a phone call to say his home had been raided. This is a record of my journey starting in my childhood and early teens; you could say the foundation of my future crime and punishment era, and is what lead me to put pen to paper and leave a legacy of a cloaked, singular perception of a Scouse drug dealer – or as the police described me, ‘just an ordinary, decent criminal’ for all to learn from and view me, laid bare.” One of clubland's most influential figures reveals plans to end misery of knife crime in our city centre Paul added: " I think this has been a little bit of a taboo subject on Merseyside and that we should talk about it more. The truth is that most criminals in prison have children.

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In 2011, Paul handed himself in at Copy Lane police station, pleaded guilty to ‘conspiracy to supply Class A drugs’ and was jailed for ten years.

I think it's worth pointing out that although the city centre is changing, Liverpool is still a working class city. Paul, who grew up in Norris Green, said that although the city centre had attracted massive investment over the last decade, many communities across Merseyside had been neglected. Read More Related Articles The world’s changed but we – and the education system – haven’t changed with it. My eventual goal is to encourage changes in the education system and even have my own facility to teach differently, and carry out research regarding young people in deprived areas. I think that response summed up the problem in Liverpool right now in that it's all about smoking weed." On Monday he was released from jail and headed straight for the International Festival of Business to tell the world how he had reformed behind bars.

But you risk your life and the lives of other vulnerable people. You risk your liberty and freedom. In effect, you risk everything else you value,” adds Paul, who has four children and a step son. I know that the kids smoking weed sign up for certain culture. They wear certain clothes, have the Ketwig big hair look and become very lazy. I would use the exercise equipment at the gym, it's like a ski bike, but I would face it forward and use my arms to peddle it and things like that. I would just adapt the equipment in the gym and make up circuits to burn off calories."