Free to Be

As a small child Christopher sat with his siblings upstairs in their Rock ferry home as a family friend was murdered in the hallway below. As the victim breathed his very last breath, little Christopher's life was turned upside down and inside out. The Power family left to start a new life elsewhere in a plight to escape the shackles of trauma but it was exactly that move that launched Christopher into turmoil, torn between his intelligent conscience and the gritty reality of life on a council estate in the 1980's.Caught up in a life of petty crime and gambling, fuelled by relentless drinking and solvent abuse from a painfully young age, this once-pure child suffered harrowing consequences at the hands of corruption. Bound in a straight jacket at six years old with speech problems and extreme hyperactivity was just the start for Christopher. His childhood transpired to revolve around running riot with a local gang, falling foul of the law and eventually serving time at a young offender's institute, and later in a Remand Prison. It was during his time in prison that Christopher had a chance meeting with a stranger that would again, change his life forever...