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172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse

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How I Survived the War

I'd been given a new bike for my birthday and doing a bit of anti-social behaviour. I was with some friends and I stupidly parked the bike in front of another car. An elderly couple, they took me in, made me a cup of tea and gave me biscuits. They had to get their police involved but they were so nice. When my mum saw the state of my bike or mangled up, she was furious. And again,. I suffered a severe beating with the belt and the buckle of the belt. But the police couldn't interfere with domestic violence back then. It was something that changed in the law many years later. So I didn't grow up with a

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