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Outlaw : how I became Britain's most wanted man

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Follow Britain's most wanted man into London's underworld and back out again Ray Bishop was on the run, skulking in a dealer's house in north London, when an image of his face flashed up on the TV, accompanied by a public warning.

The assembled company were aghast, and Ray felt sick at what he saw.

How had he become Britain's most wanted man? Growing up in a council estate in South East London, where he and his friends were regularly brutalised by the police Ray tells all of his early days of petty crime.

Being despatched to notoriously violent youth-detention centres where he was further criminalized he graduated with flying colours to a career in London's underworld as an armed robber, a drug smuggler and a people trafficker, developing a serious addiction to cocaine and heroin along the way. But Ray's is also story of redemption, of coming back from rock bottom and learning lessons the hard back.

Enrolling in a rigorous rehabilitation programme, Ray turned his life around.

He went on to realise his childhood dream of becoming British Middleweight Boxing Champion, setting up his own business and advocating for others along the way.

Here's how he did it.

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Virgin Books
0753555670 / 9780753555675
Paperback / softback
17/03/2022
United Kingdom
English
320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 2014.