Out of the Box - The Story of Leroy Smith: outoftheboxbook.uk

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I never hated Leroy. I certainly didn't like him. But I didn't hate him because it wasn't personal. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Then Leroy pulled out a handgun out, he hit Simon in the leg with it, then the gun went off again, breaking his thigh bone, he told me to ‘disappear’. Leroy’s story and previous interviews recounting his incredible early life experiences have been featured in numerous published articles.She said ‘if I bring you somewhere? What are you going to say when people ask you what you do?’” Leroy continued. “And it's true. When you go somewhere, [it’s] the first thing people ask. Leroy Smith and James Seymour, the police officer he shot in 1993, are now friends (Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon) From community stories and news covering every borough of London to celebrity and lifestyle stories, we'll make sure you get the very best every day.

Things took a more serious turn after he started carrying a gun. “One one occasion I pulled it on somebody as a joke and I was totally surprised at the fear in the person and the power that I felt. This was a turning point in my mindset.” They're all in their own little bubbles and they get their porridge [sent to prison] to learn. They're in a goldfish bowl and they're not realising." Out of the Box is an excellent read, a brutally honest account of the making of a criminal, which pulls no punches, or makes excuses, just says it as it was. This is a fascinating and valid account of the cost to society when young, damaged lives are not repaired. It deserves to be very widely read. Now out of the box and free, Leroy Smith is setting out on a new and straighter path. I wish him every success. He has more than paid his dues.’ The average person is nice and people are cool with you. I know people in Handsworth and other places. I knew Burgers, Johnnies in prison got on with all of them. I often tell kids who are struggling, 'Get respect the right way, make something of yourself. Then you'll be someone.'"His then partner agreed, she supported him financially for the year it took to write the book and helped him with parts of the text.

To sign up to any of our newsletters, simply follow this link and select the newsletter that's right for you. New recruits initially undertake 17 weeks of extensive and wide-ranging learning. This includes a classroom-based session on how restorative justice can be used to repair harm caused by criminal behaviour and to help deter people from committing further crimes. Half an hour later it came through on the radio, one of the group in the vehicle had been spotted with a handgun. Reaching out to Leroy Now I must stop here to remind you that prison is a cage. Therefore, the only thing that matters, if you wish to control the whole system, is numbers. Ironically, faith or deep belief or conviction can bring you solitude and peace within, which in itself can be very appealing to anybody in a cage. Things continued in this vein, but slowly more and more brothers, or inmates that were brothers, were coming into the prison. Then around 2005 Sheikh Faisal came to the prison on terrorism charges, but in reality all he had been doing was speaking his mind, based on the facts as he saw it. I met him when he came to Long Lartin and I liked him. He was a Jamaican and very, very clever, with a wide range of political and religious knowledge from all round the world; he spoke Arabic and knew the Quran by heart. He used to get into arguments with other prisoners who were way less enlightened than him – and that’s putting it politely. When they could not win their argument verbally, they would want to resort to violence and on more than a few occasions I had to jump in and stop it and then I would say to people things like ‘If you can’t beat the man with an intellectual argument, then don’t talk to him, but do not turn around and try to use violence because you know that your argument is weak.’ As he got older Smith began to do small-time burglaries and ended up in a borstal for his troubles. But the strict regime didn’t reform him; it just made him stronger and more determined to be a criminal.Leroy is Founder of the initiative, Out of the Box Community Effort, which targets young people in inner-city communities. His charity is dedicated to encouraging youngsters to avoid a life of gang inclusion, crime and violence and instead, look towards enrolling in education to ultimately achieve a safe and prosperous career path. Leroy Smith, 49, was jailed in 1993 for shooting down two police officers in Brixton (Image: BBC / Gun No.6) When you bust it, you feel that power. Only those who have fired a gun know what it feels like. It's cold." In addition to Leroy going in and out of the doors of the Atlantic within a minute, he and his friend had jumped a red light on their motorbike, a vehicle the officers then discovered was unregistered.