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As violent crimes and gangs continue to plague south Essex, a former teenage gang member has spoken out on going from a street dealer to a confident rugby player. The teenager is urging others to seek help and escape from gang culture after he was left feeling like he had no way out and “just wanted to feel happy again”. Alex, not his real name, was initially enticed by a gang into storing cannabis and selling it on the streets after he lost someone close to him. He is sharing his story after Essex police secured an injunction against 15 teenagers from two gangs - the Leigh lot an...

A TEENAGE boy has gone from a gang’s street drug dealer to a confident rugby player – and has urged other young people to seek help to get out. The teenager was left feeling like he had no way out and “just wanted to feel happy again” after a gang enticed him into keeping their cannabis and dealing it on the streets after he lost someone close to him. Alex, which is not his real name, was first targeted by a gang after someone close to him died and he had begun smoking cannabis. He was offered some drugs for free and was then offered more if he agreed to keep drugs in his home w...