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[Music] so my childhood was quite hard when i was five years old i fell in a bath of boiling hot water and i burnt the whole upper right hand side of my body so it goes all up my arm crossed my chest down onto my stomach i had a jump around at the time and i had little holes in it when i fell into the water the water was so hot that it melted my skin and my skin melted over my jumper so my jumper was on the inside of my body at that point out of panic when my mum came running up the stairs she ripped my jumper off but when she ripped my jumper off she ripped all my skin off at the same time i was in hospital for a long period of time having various skin grafts from removing the skin from my legs onto the upper right hand side of my body and when i came out of the hospital when i started school the young people couldn't understand why i looked different they couldn't understand why i looked the way i did why my skin was all funky and weird and at that point they started to call me names they started to bully me basically said to myself you know what i'm no longer gonna allow people to call me names i'm no longer gonna allow people to bully me i was fighting to school in school from school i remember there was a time where i completely blacked out and i just smashed up the whole classroom and there was also another time where i blacked out and i punched out the whole row of windows in my school just punched just put my hand through water then walked down the corridor and i punched through all the windows in my school so we got to a point where i started to build a reputation for myself i ended up having an episode where i blacked out and i ended up picking up a chair and i whacked my teacher with the chair and ended up breaking the teacher's leg this resulted in me being kicked out of the school i was also banned from going to the area as well i remember being sat in the room with the police my mom the teachers and my mum was saying to them how how much she she couldn't control me and how much i was growing out of control the relationship with my mom wasn't good i remember she took me to social services she took me to the office there and she presented me to this lady and my mum said to her i need help with him either you take him or i'm going to leave him here she picked up the bag and she left the building and she left me in there but again all that stuff was fueling my anger you know it was fueling the person that i was turning into she kicked me out again when i was 13. i was sleeping rough on the street sleeping on the canal sleeping in the bush sleeping under the bridge trying to find anywhere that i could go you know times i was sleeping in my school uniform going to school the next day and nobody even knew because i masked it i didn't want anybody to know that i was living like that that i was actually suffering that i was in that position in my head the only place that i wanted to be the only person i wanted to be around was my mom even though we was going through those hard times she was still my mom the only place that i really wanted to be was at home in my own bed i ended up going back home but it was short-lived a week later my mum kept me back out again that was the most difficult period of my life i don't think i've faced anything more difficult than that period i remember times i was going into the job center i'm saying to them can you give me money i need money i need money they're looking at me how old are you i'm like i'm 15. how come you're not in government care how come you're not in a hostel how come you're not in a in a home and i'm like i don't know the council have put me in this emergency accommodation it took the job center six weeks just to decide what money to give me because they told me that i was a unique case took them another six weeks just to actually give me the money so throughout that whole time i was without money i'm scavenging as i said scavenging through bins i'm i'm asking friends for a pound ah bro you got a pound are you on a pound four here's ah just need to catch the boss bro catch the boss but actually in fact i used to buy you know the custard cream biscuits i used to stack them up on my side you know i used to do i never used to eat them i used to crack them open lick them stick them back together and then put it back in the packet because for me it wasn't the thought of it wasn't a thought i've eaten it was the thought of knowing that i had food to eat so if it ever got to a point where i was really hungry i knew i had a pack of biscuits that i could go to but when i was at college that's when things started to go downhill started spiraling out of control again that's when i started to hang around with a certain group of people with the wrong crowd they could see that i had this attitude they could see that i had this anger problem that i couldn't control now these guys are in my flat chilling eating that my food out of my cupboard in my fridge but now i start to hang out with them even more so we're in the town centre we're walking around all the time we're getting up to mischief causing trouble and eventually that's how i slowly slipped into gang culture you know there was two main gangs in birmingham you had burger bar crew and johnson's crew now these two gangs at that time were probably two of the biggest gangs in the uk two of the most violent gangs in the uk so the guys that i knew maybe their family was quite high up or their individuals in their family were quite high up and those were some of the people that i used to hang around with i used to that i used to roll with and it was something that i clinged to because i never had it anywhere else i never had it from family members or anybody else so i knew that these are the guys that are here for me you know i was just a foot soldier you know i was a foot soldier i wasn't nowhere up in the ranking but again i was always putting myself in those situations i was always putting myself in danger led me down the path of having guns and selling drugs and doing crime i remember the first time i saw someone get stabbed and it was like didn't even phase me didn't even didn't even phase me at no point did i stand there and think i'm gonna call the police or i need to help this guy and i remember it was a guy i was with he was a friend at the time and he was fight he was fighting this guy and then all of a sudden like i saw it first and i saw that actually he had a knife and he was stabbing the guy and i dragged him got him dragged him and he stood up and then that guy stood up the guy that he was stabbing stood up and he stood up and he was beating his chest and he was like you're not going to kill me you're not going to kill me and one of his friends came put him in the car and they drove away and i was stood there like did that just happen and again it kind of made me think like oh like stabbing people is normal like stabbing stabbing someone they're not going to die in it like you can i've just watched my mess stabbing about 15 times yeah it did i knew right from wrong i knew what things or the things that i was doing were was bad i knew that but i never had no one there to to to say to me you know what has run don't do that bro like just calm down or come let me take you somewhere else and let's do something different and i'll be honest with you even though i knew that i was doing wrong i didn't care i saw it as nobody cared about me so why should i care about you that's how i seen it and that fueled a lot of the rage inside me when it came to the things that i did all the little marks on my fingers there including that one that one there's actually teeth marks there's been nights i've been sat in my house and i'm taking man's teeth out and my hands with a pair of tweezers my whole knuckle there is split down the middle that's why it's so big split down the middle doctors have told me that i'm going to have severe arthritis in a few years i'm starting to feel the effects of it now i had this scar here on my head i had a piece of glass that big sticking out of my forehead that i got a sky that runs across the top of my lip i had a fight with five guys and a guy came with a metal bat and hit me in my mouth my teeth went through my lips so my lips was inside my mouth and my teeth protruding from my lips that was all when i was what 16 17 18 all because i thought i was a bad man so how bad did things get i'm looking to 10 years in prison for a rubbery charge my own friends were sat in the dark at crown court testifying against me telling the court i don't know him never met him before never seen him before and these were guys that i was chilling with hanging out with i was the only one that was found guilty because the evidence stacked up against me and i remember i went for my pre-sentencing report at probation and i met this black woman i remember man first i literally stepped through the door as i stepped through the door this woman looked at me and she just went not another black man that was the first thing she said to me when i stepped for the door i'm thinking who is this woman it's nine o'clock in the morning i'm thinking who is this woman number one and number two who is she talking to you like that like what's going on and she looks at me and she says tell me what happened tell me what you did i looked at her and i said nah i ain't no snitch i ain't telling you what i did she's like snitch she's like little man let me tell you something you can't even be a snitch your friends have already snitched on you anyway you're the one that's been found guilty you're the one looking at prison time and i'm the person that can help you and i sat there and i told her what i did told her my involvement told her about my upbringing my lifestyle and she looked at me she was like if you go to prison your life's gonna spiral out of control even more i left that place thinking this woman was chatting rubbish i was thinking i don't know what this woman's talking about i'm going to prison that's what i'm still thinking in my head i end up going to my sentencing and in my heart my heart's beating constant i'm thinking i'm going prison for 10 years but don't get twisted on the outside i was cool calm collected sat there like normal the judge comes in mr brown stand up i stand up and when i stand up she looks at me and she goes i was gonna sentence you to prison today i don't know what you did or who you spoke to but your pre-sentencing report was glowing and when she said that all that i could think about was the woman at probation all i could think about was what that woman had said to me when she was saying hez run leave it with me you know when you just think about your life and it just comes back and you just realize that all the things that you've been through in life has brought you to the place that you are now sorry let me do that again so what happened next so instead the judge gave me a two-year suspended sentence 280 hours of community service and a hefty fine and a couple days there i was sat in my flat with a friend of mine and i just looked at him and i had this epiphany and i said you know why are we actually doing this and he looked at me and he said we're repping the end's heads repping the postcode in it he looked to me said hezron you're not gonna change i said what he said you're not gonna change you're not gonna change from being the person that you are i looked at him and i said yeah man didn't have that faith in me like i had the faith but i didn't need him to have faith in me because i knew what steps i wanted to take i tried to get a job little success reason why is because i never had no skills i ended up volunteering um for the british heart foundation volunteered with them for a while i went then and started doing courses i've done things like customer service skills employability i done health and safety i've done first aid i've done my it i've done a pair i don't i tip to level three i've done a parenting course i don't know why i'm doing a parenting course i ain't got no kids i then got involved with the princess trust and i've done a get started with theater program the prince's trust got wind of it and they were like ah who is this guy that's gone from being a thug gone from being a gangster to now being an actor at the birmingham rep theater like who is he i ended up having a meeting with the prince's trust and i became an ambassador for them going around the country telling people about my lived experience about my journey i remember the first time i did it i had the whole year group come up to me at the front and was just high-fiving me giving me firms saying yo sir i can relate to you sir i'm i'm currently going through the same thing can you help me can you offer me advice and i started to think to myself like wow when i was saying that the young people are the ones that need to hear my story it was true and then last year i got a phone call by the prince's trust and they were like hezrano do you mind coming down to scotland i was like oh yeah like what forward we're like oh we want you to tell your story we're gonna film it we went around with a film crew and they were filming me telling my story around this beautiful mansion and we got into a room i sat down and one of the cameramen looked at me and said oh i think he should stand up i said why he went oh just trust me stand up and as i stood up prince charles walked through the door and when he walked through the door i was taken back and i just couldn't stop crying man i was balling balling again i said i thought i was here to tell my story he said no no he said the reason why you are here is because you've won the pride of britain award that same person that was looking at 10 years in prison was now standing there next to prince charles with him telling me that i was the pride of britain it was an amazing moment it was an amazing moment what do you see as being a real turning point for you when i went to probation when i went for my pre-sensing report the woman that i met she could relate to what i was going through and she knew that by sending me to prison that was going to make me worse rather than make things better i don't know how she was so sure but she was so all i've got to do is just be thankful i mean listen till this day i've been trying to find this woman just so i can say to her look look at what i've become that day when you see me if you would have just made a different decision on that day if you would have looked at me and for actually you know what you deserve to go to prison i probably wouldn't be sitting here now obviously i speak to a lot of councils now and when they hear my story and what i've been through they say to me oh he's run you was just one of those people that slipped through the net well then even now i think to myself how many people have slipped through the net how many young people are out there right now in an emergency accommodation with no support no guidance no one around them yeah and i think that again that's why i do what i do now to try and offer that support to them to try and mentor people that are in those positions because for those ones that have slipped through the net at least someone is there to offer that support people will always be quick to tell you nah you're not going to achieve that nah nah nah you're not going to amount to that that's not going to work for you it's not about where you are it's about where you're heading and as long as you keep that within your brain you'll always win you'll always win you'll always win ten chinese authorities came home the really big and fat guys came to my home and they arrest me in front my five years old child my heart is just disappeared with and i know that is if i arrested and sent back to north korea i just execute or prison camp

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Published: Sun Jan 31 2021