Jonathan Bellamy heard Anthony Bostock's story.

Anthony: Yes definitely. At about 19 I had got a partner and she was pregnant with my first son and we went to a Stoke City game. We'd acquired a director's box and we went along with my dad and his friends. As we returned to one of the pubs on the Bentilee estate, my mum shared with me the suspicion that my dad was having an affair. I was in a drunken state and I struck my dad and knocked him to the ground. That's when I thought I was stronger than my dad now.

Jonathan: When you look back on that period do you feel any sense of regret, or do you grieve for some of the things that took place?

Anthony: I don't think I did back then. I know that the incident that I just shared about the assault on my dad really did touch me. It really grieved me, because as much as I'd decided in myself to hate my dad, deep down I really loved him and I wanted to be like him in a lot of ways. As I got on through life into my early twenties, I got into bigger things and now instead of taking drugs, I'd started to sell drugs of a high class, so cocaine and stuff like that. That led to prison, which escalated into more craziness, which led to more prison and failed relationships.

Jonathan: Did prison make a difference to you?

Anthony: The first time I was going to prison, I was very scared. A lot of my friends had already been to prison, into the young offenders and I'd escaped that. So when I first went to prison, it was in my early twenties. I remember travelling there on the van and I was very scared, but when I got there I realised that I knew just as many people in prison from the crazy life that I was living, as I did outside. I was welcomed with open arms and people knew me and they knew the reputation I'd started to acquire and in a crazy kind of way, it became home from home. It became another part of my life that my family didn't understand. It didn't become a deterrent from committing crime.

Jonathan: How many times did you end up in prison and did you come out of a stint in prison and then go straight back into the lifestyle you were in?

Anthony: The first time it deterred me. I went into prison the first time in my early twenties and by the time I got out I was about 25. I'd met a lot of people in prison who, shall we say, were connections to bigger stages in the drug industry. So when I got out at 25 I started to make a lot of money. I started to acquire a lot of jewellery. I was walking around in big gold chains, rings, bracelets, with a different pair of trainers in every colour. I'd go into shops like JD and there wasn't much that they had in there that I hadn't already purchased, or that I didn't like. That was the kind of lifestyle I lived for four or five years.

That got me into a relationship with a girl, where we acquired on the estate, the nickname 'Posh and Becks'. We didn't really want for anything with the money that I was earning. I'd say that we were in love, but there was just craziness. There was jealousy and a lot of fear in that relationship. Jealousy was the prominent thing, which led to domestic violence on both parties, but more so on my part, because I was very controlling and jealous over that girl. That then led at about 28 to my second stint in prison.

The breakup with that lady broke my heart, so then I went into a chaotic state, which led to prison, getting out for a few months, going back to prison for GBH, going back to prison for assaults and going back to prison for stuff I was now doing on the football terraces.

Jonathan: Would you go onto the football terraces in a mind-set that you wanted to get into a fight?

Anthony: Yes. By now I'd become very angry and I had a reputation for being one of the main faces. I felt the need to live up to that, so every few months I'd actually plan to do something crazier than I'd ever done before, so people didn't feel like I was going off the radar. So yes, a lot of times I'd intentionally go out with the intent to cause as much havoc in the town centre as I possibly could.

Jonathan: What was the circumstance that meant you ended up in prison for the final time?

Anthony: The final time was a conspiracy to supply class A drugs. I was part of a ring of drug dealers from in the city and out of the city that'd been pulled in on Operation Nemesis. I went to prison for that charge.