Shooters [DVD]

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School? Tottenham Tech was a decrepit wasteland, violent and unruly, plagued by staffing shortages and soon to be shuttered. A mute, often absent student like Adam was unlikely to command any attention at all, let alone raise alarm bells. But midway through the trial Mr Stretford was exposed for providing unreliable evidence and the case came crashing down. Just after 8.30am on the morning of July 18, 2011, a gang of masked men, armed with a sledgehammer and a gun, ambushed the G4S van containing Downes and Bradley in Trinity Way, Manchester. I always protected him. I just couldn't have handled it. And it was a secret. I had to hide it from everyone." Why are you so glum? Where have you been? What have you been doing? He'd say 'just at the football club'. He couldn't describe why he was angry. Or he wouldn't.

I am just a businessman who wanted to see the right thing done and the notguilty verdict proves that. But a few years removed from the 20-year treadmill he stepped onto, Adam now sees what he could not at the time. He sees now that he'd developed an "unhealthy" relationship with money, but it was not about the cash. More compelling was the confusing mixture of guilt, trauma and shame, and the fear he held of being "found out" and exposed. Like so many victims of childhood abuse, Adam had been convinced by his abuser that only he was at fault, a dilemma that silenced him. PETER McGHEE, 36, of The Pottery, Melling - Nine years in jail for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and prevented from leaving the country for six years after his release As 2000 progressed, two decisions — one his own, one someone else's — would shape the next 20 years of Adam's life.Moods? Lyn recalls her strong sense in the ensuing years of "losing my little boy" — Adam's inexplicable aggression, the banging of pots and pans, his constant scheming and lying, the calls about his absences from school.

To his lifelong regret, from the age of 16 and until his report to police, with both the mother of his daughter and in a previous relationship, Adam's anger became violence. Adam fixated on the most obvious attraction of his new neighbourhood: it was a footy town and league football matches were now walking distance from home. 'Football was big in our family' Tony Downes and Kirk Bradley were on remand at HMP Manchester after being accused of presiding over a wave of contract violence across Merseyside. For reasons that become obvious once he starts talking about his life, Adam Kneale is one of those people whose many personal qualities are hidden to all but the handful of people who know him well.He also recalls what he refers to as "the freeze" — he can still feel it, but he can't quite explain it. I felt like I was on eggshells the whole time. It was just so easy to trigger something. I didn't realise how hard it was going to be." Perhaps it is just Adam's calm, even-handed retelling of the horrifying stories of his life that throws such people, convincing them he is doing fine. There was no private apology, either. For Adam, that was and remains particularly galling. The club's president at the time was Peter Gordon, a cousin of Adam's father Chas.

ALAN DAVEY, 37, of Haydn Road, Knotty Ash - five years in jail for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs

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His brother lives in the country now, and he'll call and say he's broken a chainsaw. I say 'that's an incident, not a disaster'. Adam has had disaster after disaster and they're two very different things. To lose the boy when he's becoming a man is heartbreaking." Experience working with dogs is highly preferred, and an understanding of dog behaviour is essential. We work outdoors in all weathers so you must be happy to work outside in a British Winter!" STEVE NICHOLLS, 32, of Uppingham Ave, Aintree - seven and a half years for Class A drugs conspiracy and prevented from leaving the country until six years after his release

He told Nicholls: “This was a widespread conspiracy. It spread its wings to Scotland and the north east as well as trips abroad to further the conspiracy. This is a conspiracy involving Class A drugs and considerable sums of money.” He has his family's support, he reminds himself. His children are healthy. It hurt his ego to accept charity from loved ones when his forced retirement depleted the family's finances, but they have a roof over their heads.There was a certain prestige, too. Wandering through the inner sanctum with a Footscray insider, a timid, starry-eyed little boy in a new and unfamiliar neighbourhood suddenly felt a part of big-time footy.