Mortley journeys back to his early days. Growing up in south-east London, he played school rugby, turned out for Surrey juniors, and achieved 14 GCSEs. But in his later teenage years, he fell into the wrong crowd. At 16, he was stabbed at a house party, and though his early career in London kitchen was promising it wasn’t long before he started dealing drugs, as much out of circumstance as any keen desire to build a criminal enterprise.
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