Guns, Knives & Gangs: Growing Up in a Violent UK City

As violent crime and gang culture surge across the West Midlands, this powerful documentary dives into the lives of teenagers trapped in a cycle of violence. Through emotional interviews, raw testimonies, and striking animation, we hear directly from young people involved in knife crime, youth gangs, and street violence. We also meet the mentors, youth workers, and community leaders fighting to steer them toward a better future. This gripping insight exposes the reality behind rising crime rates and the efforts to break the chain before it’s too late.

[Music] is involved in drug supply and is in current possession of a foreign [Music] west Midland home to some of the most notorious gangs in the UK kon Lincoln was just 15 years old when he was set upon in Hanssworth in Birmingham he died in hospital 2 hours later we just see him laying on the bench just blood coming out basically on the verge of dying a region where people as young as 11 are being drawn into gang life i always told myself why am I like still like this like why am I doing the same thing again and again and getting caught for the same thing again and again we are following the young people stuck in gangs what’s brought you to counseling i get like nightmares from like what happened their lives are in danger so we’re blurring their faces changing their voices and using animation to tell their stories when you’re in this gang life it’s that feeling that makes you like you need to do this you need to do this a 15year-old boy died following a stabbing in Wolverampton the way I see like kids get stabbed nowadays and felt trapped in my own area we have exclusive access to the cops dealing with the young people caught up in gang rivalry all you do is struggle that ends all day doing jack [ __ ] jack [ __ ] same how you doing no jack [ __ ] and the charity trying to help them break free basically I’m just unstoppable oh if you look on you’re either gone permanently or you’re in prison [Music] with more than 80 gangs in the West Midlands over 1,500 young people are at risk as a result of their involvement [Music] one of these people is 17-year-old JJ [Music] 5 years ago he started to get drawn in so basically in school one of my friends I was really close with he got into a little issue then it came to a one point one my friend was like just bring the knife into school i showed the knife i remember just getting him on his knees and everything that’s when I got kicked out of the school pupils who have been excluded are more likely to carry knives pupil referral units or crews are supposed to be a safe place for them but in some areas they can be the perfect place for gangs to recruit new members it’s a form of grooming this is what happened to JJ and in that proof there was gang members in there that in 11 and everything you see people just getting stabbed up there were people around my age they were like people in your age they were growing up to be like that [Music] jj’s gang involvement developed outside of the crew yeah it was a gang and it was known to make money only it wasn’t known to for beat like any violence i’m the youngest one in there these people are around like in 18 then it was like in 1920 20 and we always just find ways to just sell weed or anything and the older people just used to sell hard stuff just a month in like we were just making like couple thousand within the week i wouldn’t say no to something like whatever they wanted to do and in my heart that time I think it was in my heart to like to be around these people jj’s fierce loyalty to the gang is a common symptom of grooming teens often think they’ve made a choice to join a gang they’ll do whatever it takes for their mates and the post code they come from this includes dealing drugs it can lead to serious violence with rival gangs but there was this one day there was another gang they started violence with one of my friends they just smacked them up and everything left in the hospital and that and it came to point all of us we started just carrying weapons just to protect myself and also like score a point as well it’s like I always wanted to do something back as well like it was always in my heart police were called just after 11 p.m following violence between a group of youth we believe that all were carrying knives he was stabbed over 40 times and at least three of those wounds on their own would have been fatal according to West Midland’s police the number of under 18s involved in knife crime has more than doubled in the last 5 years a 15year-old boy died following a stabbing in Wolverampton last year there were 836 knife crime victims under the age of 16 recorded by West Midland’s police with over 450 teenagers arrested for knife crime an increase of 54% on the previous year west Midland’s police has teams of officers trying to reduce the growing gang violence one of these is led by Sergeant Tony Webb he’s a dad so for him it’s personal and frightening the amount of young children that you see you know turning up at hospital with gunshot injuries or knife wounds or get arrested carrying machetes and zombie knives it’s it’s you know ridiculous this evening Tony is trying a different approach to policing urban street gangs there’s a perception that all we do is try and arrest people put people in prison just arresting our way out of it is not going to solve the problem tony wants to try and reach the young people at risk of gang exploitation before the grooming begins for me what looks as a a success would be is if we identified a group which we know may be involved in gang activity but also identify people that are with them or are looking up to them if we can engage at a a young enough age or at an early enough point that gives us an opportunity to to break that mold people that we may not be currently aware of so that we can then uh gives us opportunities to look at speaking with their family speak with their family Sergeant go ahead as you’re most likely aware there’s a group in the area which label themselves as a as a bit of a gang so what we’re looking at doing is just some lowlevel nice engagement hopefully they’ll speak to us sounds silly okay lovely thank you that gent is one of the ones that represents the uh the group we’ve discussed yes yes i think unfortunately they know our car gangs use social media to share the details of unmarked police cars and this is a car that the group recognized so one of these is one of them going on across the way i don’t think they want to engage with us unfortunately tony spots another group some of which are known gang members yeah man how you doing you’re all right bro how you doing video bro get off man get off what no we’re here to engage with you mom’s life all you do is harass us bro mom’s all you do so it ends all day doing jack [ __ ] jack [ __ ] same how you doing now jack [ __ ] who have you caught what have you got out running after us [ __ ] no gas [ __ ] come stop search what we got [ __ ] all right then so circle and go back to your office cuz no one need to be here bro angry FL did you recognize the others no the two of the three here were known the urban street gangs attempt to take over and gain control of the postcodes they operate in wearing colored bandanas that relate to the areas they’re representing it’s massively frustrating isn’t it get out of my area you know it’s nobody’s area and it could be somebody’s wearing the wrong color bandanna that goes into another area where that is represented by another color bandanna um and the impact that has is you’re likely to be subjected to some serious violence from that other group postcode wars are conflicts or beef between rival gangs over territory clashes can start when one gang starts selling drugs in an area controlled by another the result serious violence it happened to JJ see even when I was 15 a lot of friends call most my friends that betrayed me i was in a relationship and these people that I don’t get along with they made that set me up so I go to the station and I just see five people and these people are 17 18 and I just see balls in the hand i’m like “Okay let me just go like just let me just walk nothing’s going to happen i’m good i’m good.” Then they asked my name i just got bald in the head and everything straight away they all swung at me these tried to poke me with the bolt after Zo once they smashed on my head like the first time it didn’t smash the second time it hit me it smashed and they tried to poke me with the bottle and everything on camera as well and everything they punched me everything my nose was broken it was just blood coming out my head and I’m literally able to walk and that boosted my confidence [Music] if someone does something mad to me I can hold it i can firm it i can endure the pain and that’s when after that got me mental though the fact that they did it to me [Music] [Applause] kay is a 15year-old his contact with gangs started early i was the only little kid at the time the first thing I ever saw was just kids smoking weed dressed in black on the park and then I thought it was cool the first stage to grooming is targeting i just saw kids like doing all this gang stuff robbing people drug dealing like making money to live violence really [Music] they formed a trusting relationship with him comes as like a whole new family like you gangster and you feel like no one’s going to touch you cuz you know people and then he was trapped made me feel good at the time but then they start making you doing stuff and you get involved with their beef you start because you’re from a different area people just from different posts just like have arguments and that like start texting I’m going to come stab you and all this and that when I started getting the beef with a lot of people and I couldn’t go anywhere no more felt trapped in my own area oh no official incident we’re involved in there’s just been a shooting just been a shooting last year West Midland’s police recorded 585 firearm offenses that’s the second highest behind the Metropolitan Police possibly behind a white BMW just involved in a shooting on the A38 Great Charles Street heading out of Birmingham and there were 270 gunshots fired [Applause] four teenagers lost their lives in just 5 months group of teenagers armed with a revolver and large knives chased Keon Lincoln down the street repeatedly stabbing him before the fatal shot being fired in 2021 there were over 3,500 knife and weapon offenses committed by under 18s in England and Wales and the UK’s youngest gun killer was sentenced to life in prison aged 14 tony’s been on the gangs team for the past three years he’s seen it firsthand so what we’ve got here is a young man being stopped in a retail um shopping mall in the center of Birmingham he’s 14 years old he’s disclosed to one of the officers that he’s currently carrying a knife yeah here straight there yeah that’s been removed by the officers and that’s wrapped in a um a colored bandana which is associated with a particular area of Birmingham i’m just going to continue the search yeah I’ve got a BV gun is this loaded or something it’s only got one bullet in it it’s a situation which is really difficult to control all we can do I believe is that we can try and educate and influence people away from carrying weapons [Music] jj is struggling to escape his past he joined gangs at the age of 12 he was subjected to a violent attack that was filmed and shared online but the beating wasn’t enough to pull him away from gang life i always got laid off when I was at 14 i’ll get cool with stuff they might even catch me with a knife i got arrested at one time and they were just like we’re not going to do anything but once I turned 15 first five months each month I’m getting arrested i remember so well like I would get arrested in January February March April May after came to a point where one of my kids thinking why am I doing this i started on my social media all I see is like people serving 20 years 15 years life just with the stuff they could put with i’m thinking bro like my life can’t be like that my life cannot be like that this drugs thing is not going to get you anywhere i start praying to God about it he’s freed me from a lot i’ll be honest jj is trying not to get drawn back into gang life it’s tough hey man how you doing i’m good man how are you last time JJ was stopped by the police he avoided arrest but he was referred to St charles Trust they are one of the agencies that work alongside West Midland’s police to try and help young people escape gang life they have counselors and people with real life experience [Music] jj has been working with Peter he’s dedicated his life to helping young people break free from gangs it’s nice and peaceful in here it’s calm yeah it is it is it is i believe in in young people i believe in in that young people can make a um can make the right choices if they have the right guidance they’re vulnerable even the ones who are you know gang affiliated those who may have committed you know crimes so come on man how’s things been man now it’s all looking peaceful i’m walking with God you know I know before you was in that road stuff was going on so in what ways how’s how’s God impacted on you then if you’ve got somebody who’s got that lived experience you know young people will relate to that they’ll say actually he or she knows what I’m going through and for that alone that can make the relationship so much stronger no one expected this for me okay and it just changed my whole life my addictions flew out the window m everything me smoking like weed I threw my weed away like making money all just flew out the window you sound on fire right you sound so on fire now there was people that were kind of taking you down another route the route that that that got into trouble in the first place so are those people still around or are you able to really distant now i don’t really speak to them i see stab victims i see people who’ve been shot i’ve seen people who’ve been seriously um physically assaulted is a matter of life or death they need to have that um somebody who be able to walk alongside them help to encourage them now you see it takes boldness to do this but you okay to pray yeah and to Okay let’s do this let’s do this all right father Lord I just thank you Lord that you continue to to strengthen and guide him i I ask you Lord just to continue to to to to be the the father that you are to him and and to love him the way that you do in Jesus name in Jesus name we thank you amen that was good man i’m telling you it’s brilliant it’s brilliant it’s brilliant i love it i love it i love it i’m glad that we’ve been part of the journey with you man man appreciate everything brilliant man brilliant after being groomed into gangs 15year-old Kay found himself getting caught in an altercation with an opposing gang i don’t know what it is with post code gangs to just stop until they actually hurt you fully police records of violence in the West Midlands have risen consistently in the last 5 years every day on average there are over 400 violent crimes the highest rate in England and Wales people like K are often both victims and perpetrators in the postcode wars i was in this like big shopping center place and I just came out of McDonald’s after eating chicken nuggets now and then a whole group of 20 lads came off running at me i got punched in my face and then I dropped and loads of people stamped my head and then my mates ran and then I was down myself this one kid stopped and recorded me cuz I was dizzy loads of people posting my face all over the internet have my face all bloody and that social media is often used to provoke rival gang members this can lead to violence i carried a knife at one point because I felt like it would protect me machetes like zombie knives just like big noise in my face i struggled to like let it go but eventually I just like started looking at hey my family was taking it like my mom she said if I end up getting revenge she don’t want me around um the baby so like that hurt me a bit as well so I just had to let it all go just leave it kay is one of the 15% of under 16s in England who are suspected to have mental health problems although Kay managed to escape the gang he still found himself feeling trapped living in fear because he’s traumatized today he’s having a therapy session with Tena a counselor from St jars Trust how are you feeling now since the incident as the months gone on after the jumps like started getting anxiety and all this like PTSD okay and how does that make you feel makes me feel bad because I’m the one that started that beef and that with them lot so it could put my family in danger like if the people can’t get to me to hurt me again i feel like the people are going to hurt my mom or anyone I can get their hands on like my brothers and sisters where’s that worry still coming from the way I see like kids getting stabbed nowadays and that’s what worries me i get like woken up in the middle of night and from like nightmares from like what happened so yeah that can happen because of trauma does it scare you yeah sometimes I do get really paranoid with like motorbikes and like like see my head like two people on the ming racing around okay and that still happens yeah that still happens i just don’t like bikes and that cuz I saw so many people that jump off bikes or stab people has there been a time since the incident where you’ve seen them open and haven’t thought that or have you are you no I always do even if a car is like parking up in front of me I just get scared i think people can jump out on me okay and how do you manage calming yourself back down i just can’t i just It keeps happening till like it just stops itself it can be tough to escape gang life if you do get out it’s easy to be drawn back in jj left and found God fell back into his old ways and now he’s trapped again had like a distance from God as I was dropping this girl I used to really like when I was back in year eight when I see her texting me and I start speaking to her I start spending time with her more that took over my head where I had temptations of smoking weed start resisting them first but after a while it came to a point where I was like nah man like I just want to go have a little smoke go and just have fun i want to somewhat try to impress her me making money came into my head where I wanted to make money again and my friends started coming hitting me up but I didn’t I knew it was from the devil but the fact was I said let me just make money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money I was selling more this drugs weed and we went into cocaine that’s the only thing that’s going to go pricey make money I just wanted to feel pleasure I just wanted to feel proud about myself I wanted to get that gas feeling in me desire many more stuff I desired the clothing I desired everything my parents are working hard but I don’t go for them for stuff like there was period of times where I don’t make money but I’ll be so depressed when I’m in the world when I’m not making money I feel depressed cuz I grew up making money I always told myself why am I like still like this like I’ve learned so many lessons but I can’t but I’m not falling back like why am I not leaving this when you’re in this gang life you feel like you need to make money it’s that feeling that makes you like you need to do this you need to do For JJ the consequences of falling back into gang life could be catastrophic the mother and brother of NASA Francis have firsthand experience they’ve been living through the repercussions for the past 2 years he always wanted to play and he went to the local park and when he went to the local park and that’s where there was there there were people around that were involved in that kind of stuff and he just attached himself to them about 14 14 years old at that time joining a gang is one thing leaving it is another unfortunately because he became involved in that at a young age he winded up in the position that he was later on even though he no longer wanted to be a part of it i I can’t say it was gang related because at that time NASA had come out of it nasa may have been trying to leave gang life but it did not guarantee his safety my brother was going to get food on the day he was going to get food this is a everyday mundane activity and he doesn’t end up coming back because the people that he used to be around were engrossed in that kind of lifestyle so they see him and that person decides yeah you know what end him 12 close-range shots were fired in broad daylight by a 17year-old does gang life leave you not very quickly it doesn’t after discovering 17-year-old JJ had been sucked back into gang life his case worker Peter has arranged to meet Fana to seek advice peter wants to encourage JJ not to go down the same path as her late son Nasa who was drawn into gangs at 14 tell me a bit about him what was he what was he like as a person as a person he had his bad times he went through a bad patch and when he realized that certain ways of life weren’t correct for him he started to move towards a direction that would be better for him better for us as a family when did you notice there was a change in him just before he was 20 years old he’d got himself a job which was well paid and he was supposed to start that in in 10 days time from from the time that they um they took his life and I’m working with a 17year-old um who has been involved in drug dealing but what would you advise him go away from it save your own life if you can and if you’ve got family members that really really do mean something to you the choices that you make can have an effect on them last year St charles Trust helped over 1,700 teenagers at risk of gang involvement many of their case workers have real life experience like Nam she works with 12 girls under 18 across the West Midlands today she’s brought a teenager with Corti to a music studio i see a lot in the young people I work with i’ve been through it i’ve been through the peer pressure i’ve been through making bad decisions we’ve been around the wrong people gangs groom and exploit young people for their own criminal gains my daddy wasn’t there since the age of five the way that they’ll do it is try and establish what their vulnerabilities are for a young person’s vulnerabilities they have a sense of belonging you know they want protection that gang will make sure that they they fill that void i was an antics i never gripped a weapon they tried to tell my parents and my kids got aggression but they are now claimed within that gang so there’s no me in there now there’s wei and the problem with the wei part is that young people are very unaware of the risks and being entrenched [Music] they sold this little pretty imagery of what gang should be but once they’re in it truth is slightly different and do what it takes it’s my time i’ll shine i’ll shine making my way up out of these dark times young people with vulnerabilities are more likely to be targeted by gangs growing up around domestic violence is tough there are an average over 150 incidents every day across the West Midlands for young people exposed to this gang life can seem a welcome escape one of these people is 15year-old L she’s been working with Nan for the past 5 months my mom’s boyfriend i liked him but he was involved with like bad stuff he started drinking started going out not working started leaving us at home for like ages he started becoming like abusive my mom was pregnant like I was the one trying to defend my mom i was six but I felt so much older then i remember one day I just kept calling and calling my mom for an hour over an hour she wasn’t answering about 20 minutes after that mama calls me like screaming and shouting say come back to our house he’s hitting me see my mom like in a dressing gown she was crying like I didn’t know what to do i just blacked out i started hitting hitting a grown man i started throwing my mom’s heels at him everything like I hated him i feel like I become angrier anger and aggression can become a way of life when I get mad I’m kind of uncontrollable like I stop seeing colors get really hurt i start screaming the times when I’ve gotten into fights like the teachers they were trying to stop me like I was punching the teachers hitting the teachers trying to push them away so I can get to that certain girl so I can go back to her and fight even more than I already have like basically I’m just unstoppable [Music] el’s recklessness in violent situations makes her exactly the sort of person gangs look to recruit for County Lions city-based criminals exploit vulnerable young people sending them to rural areas to sell drugs for them once there they live in cocooned properties with drug addicts the warrant we’re going to is the believed line holder or person that’s organizing the county line today Tony is hoping to shut down one of these lines and save the young people caught up in the operation this young man has got a history of being involved in county lines and is um using children as young as 14 where you are you are under arrest for concerned in the supply of class A drugs what this will give us is you know hopefully we recover his phone which will show the the contact with with young people that he’s been involved in county lines so we’ll be able to then reach out to those children and families to look at safeguarding the alleged line holder is escorted to Birmingham Central Police Station to be interviewed uh circumstances sar um a drugs line has been operating between April 2022 and July 2022 is very young believed to have been involved in county lines for a number of years now and has clearly become the exploiter as opposed to being exploited as gangs evolve and their numbers grow so does the competition between them they need to groom new members to survive cheers [Music] st charles Trust is an agency that helps young people in danger of being groomed into gangs like 15year-old L she’s on the edge of gang life some of my male friends they are involved with gangs but no no my like my girl friends are they’re not involved like with gangs are fighters if they have to fight i like fighting like I just find it fun like sometimes I’m I get a fight because I get mad and I actually want to fight sometimes I fight just for the involvement one of the actual proper fights I’ve gotten into I walk up to the girl and then one hand I grabbed onto her head and the other I just start punching her face so I watch back at the video like her face going backwards that girl she pulled out a knife i I know I shouldn’t be going up to her trying to fight her when she has a knife but I just I’m not really bothered my friends they have been stabbed like quite severely but they still survived so I’m thinking they survived i can survive last year over 200 people died in England and Wales as a result of knife crime this one gang my male friends they ended up making songs about them and then them group of boys from the different gang they got mad this boy he runs up saying “Oh that and that has been stabbed like call the ambulance now.” We run up and we just see him on the like laying on the bench just blood coming out he was basically on the verge of dying me and my friend we came back to my house and then we got added to a group chat of where the boys that stab my friend they were actually in the group chat we started like saying that someone might be dead right now are you proud of it and I was calling them by their real names telling them to stop their mom i knew what the boys could do like I know they’re crazy but I haven’t seen them since that situation i got told they’ve been walking around town i’m thinking “What the hell what if I see them one day?” [Music] Nan wants to change Al’s mindset and make her see that hanging out with gangs can change your life dramatically it’s not easy it’s not easy standing up to people that you’ve grown up with all your life it’s not easy being that one individual that that takes a stand essentially and says don’t want to hang around with you did you see your friends around a lot while you was um off yeah well some of them um when you’re in each other’s company do you feel like you you push each other to kind of get gassed up and like do silly things so I want to see where you’re at with it so what’s the positives of being with friends in a big gang and what’s the negatives one of the pros is the safety like if I’m with my friends that are around gangs and stuff I’m going to be basically protected so safety protection what else kind of reputation okay so that’s an interesting one okay if people know what type of people I’m involved with they kind of basically would respect me el may be on the edge of gang life but the longer she spends around these people the harder it will be for her to escape without her realizing the transition that she’s just got herself into the problem she’s going to get is how she gets out of it so you said about safety and reputation you like fighting yeah you love it yeah you make no hesitation about that so in a sense you developed a reputation through fighting it’s weird because I don’t fight random people that I don’t know never spoke to or never met nothing repetition don’t always keep you safe does it but makes you more of a target if anything would you not agree kind of while L may be engaging with the support from St jars Trust Nam is worried about her future my concern is you know if she does something you know in a moment of madness moment of anger I’m worried that you know she could do something you know she might regret once she’s calmed down it’s too late then so what I would say is just be aware of your surroundings just be aware of the people you got around you what would be negatives for it a unexpected gang fight if like two different gangs going against each other just out of nowhere with knives and everything the people that would be fighting like would probably not understand that I’m not exactly in the gang that I’m just friends with them and they would try like maybe jumping me or like trying to stab me stab me or something like that okay so I’ I’d put affiliation there yeah because you’ve you said you’re not in it but it’s your it’s who you know okay that’s a really good one what other things do you think go against it one more thing is probably about my family my mom she doesn’t really understand like how how it all works basically how kind of serious it is and if anything happens like if any if my address gets baited out and if there’s people that basically want to get to me then that will put my family in danger she just wants what typically everybody wants which is a stable life happy environment nice nice upbringing where she can you know be around her brothers and her mom without feeling like she’s putting them in danger that puts you in a sticky situation there right because you just said you don’t want to have that fight unless you absolutely have to have it which is on a personal level if you look one’s eye it’s unfortunately it means you’re either gone permanently or you’re in a you’re in a situation where you’re in prison and and you’ve lost all the opportunities that you could had being outside yeah so yeah that’s why I do what I do cuz I do think she’s she’s one of many that I work with that has got crazy amount of potential but it’s just making her understand and making her aware that she’s got that following Peter’s meeting with Fazana he’s seeing JJ her words have driven home the consequences of falling back into gang life come on man what’s going on you good telling me you good yeah I’m good cool cool peter wants to deter JJ from becoming trapped again before it’s too late you know I meet parents I meet you know who Yeah and they they’ve gone through you know they’ve gone through stuff they’ve seen their children you know go through stuff and sometimes you know let’s be real about this it might end up in you know they might be they might be dead might be in prison they might be do you know what I mean and you know for me when I have those conversations sometimes it’s really you know it’s hard it’s hard do you know what I mean it’s hard to hear those stories and and cuz it’s real life people have said the same thing to me but it didn’t get to my head cuz I was young i was immature but I was like “No I just want to make money.” People have said the same thing to me i just didn’t listen it’s better to listen it’s better to take people’s advice and use that as wisdom in your life like instead of keeping that knowledge use as wisdom let practice in your life what they’re telling you and just be like “No man i don’t want to do this.” Like look at the amount of people that like going through this mhm that should be example that should set example and the thing is when I’m talking to parents now what we try and do is we try to say we try to encourage young people to distract them from what they’re getting involved in and so to find things like whether it be football whether it be you know getting back into education i’m a try go university all right that’s what my aim is to go university i just want to help out to the community and young people as well that’s one of my desires help out young people through like what they go through and I believe that’s part of God’s plan as well while JJ may have left gang life behind him there are still many more young people in the West Midlands unable to escape like 15year-old L she’s still trapped nam is doing all she can to help her control her anger and steer her away from gangs today Nam’s brought L to meet women’s boxing coach Mavakram this could be the solution to Nam’s concerns so why boxing out of any of the sports what makes you want to box cuz I like fighting and it’s just kind of another way to fight in the right way yeah uh it is a fantastic sport it allows us to really sort of work with our emotions and uh in a sense that we can control them quite well cuz she’s got a bit of a a temperament with her anger so managing it will be good for her in terms of your hands I just want you to keep your fingers loosely wrapped over and your thumb over the top okay so if you ever punched anybody else before but hopefully you’re not going to be punching people out there anymore it will be on the bags or competitively in the ring in the last year violent crimes in England and Wales have risen by 18% right upper cut boxing is now being used to support those at risk of being drawn into knife crime and gang activity that’s it i think I’ll just change her like she’ll be better for it fully extend that arm completely jab good and again jab nice and again good let’s go with the right hook good and again nice and again good that’s his basic punches with any form of like training that comes discipline tame her anger levels and she’ll learn to manage it a bit more and that’s what we want to work with not too tight no it’s okay push all the way forward that’s it in yeah we’re going to start off just with straight punches good punch head height imagine somebody’s your height that’s it good good hands back to your chin that’s what I used to do when I was on the bag you think about something that really made me angry that day or annoyed and I was like I’m letting it out on the bag 10 seconds that’s it good girl have a little break have some water in through your nose out through your mouth regulate your breathing that was a good round nice to bring it all together it takes my anger out like it helps you feel calm yeah it like takes my stress levels down because I’m taking it into a bag when you can channel them emotions and you can channel that anger in a right way it will help you massively outside of this if you’re able to start disciplining that and thinking “Okay hang on i can walk away from this situation.” always think back to how you are when you’re on these bags do you know what i feel like a proud mother you know you know I’m just sitting on the sideline because I feel like she’s got a lot of potential with it it was just like you’ve been let free and say “Yeah this is my space.” And it was good it’s such a nice such a nice place to be left hook right right i don’t want to be in situations like similar to what Nam’s been in she’s basically teaching me how to avoid them situations i’m trying just to prove to her that I can actually do good probably would have carried on fighting it’s a bit steeping i think I regret it now because it could like change my life if like I see fine I wouldn’t get involved with it the alleged county line holder pleaded guilty and was convicted of supplying class A drugs tony continues to reach out to young people who have been exploited fazana and Tamim want to speak in schools to spread the message of NASA and help influence young people kay is still suffering with PTSD and is continuing his therapy jj has stayed away from gang life and is hoping to go to university to study engineering al hasn’t had a fight for 8 months and Nam continues to try and steer her away from gangs [Music]