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Turning the Tide of Youth Offending
26 January 2011
Ex-offender Charles Young tells the Guardian's Lynne Wallis how he's trying to give young people the chances that he never had.
Charles Young, arriving smartly dressed at his office in south London's Blackheath, is the epitome of respectability. He straightens the collar on his black leather coat, under which is a crisp white shirt. Young, who is fast becoming one of London's most well-known ex-offenders, finds it hard to take a compliment. "Christ, black coat and white shirt, I look like a screw," he says with a toothy laugh.