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Podcast: Anything Goes with James English
Episode: Shot 27 times and Survived - Manchester gang member Darryl Laycock tells his story
Description: Darryl Laycock tells his story.
Darryl Laycock was lucky to survive one of the most violent periods in Manchester's criminal history. After being shot over 20 times and spending half his life behind bars, Darryl has now dedicated the rest of it to keeping others off the same path he took when he was younger.
Darryl grew up in Moss Side in the seventies and eighties, in a house where his dad battered his mum.
By the age of nine, he was seeing a child psychologist because he smashed a chair over a classmate...