Terrible Confession: "I do not know how many people have stabbed me in my life" – 17/02/2019

"I started wearing a knife at the age of 12 because everyone did it at that time, "begins his story, Robert Bragg, interviewed by the BBC to denounce the wave of crimes with a knife that occurred in the United Kingdom during the last years. A figure that has increased to mark the climax of 2018.

Bragg, who is now part of a program to encourage schoolchildren not to get involved in the criminal world, explains why he entered this spiral of violence: "Just to be better seen. things, so I started stabbing people. I thought it was the right thing at that time. We were the bad guys, the gang that everyone feared. To succeed We had to commit a lot of violent crimes. To be honest, I do not know how many people have stabbed me, I just know that it was a lot", explains this young man He served six years in prison.

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Bragg defends this the penalties for this type of attacks must be hardened: "If, in my day, the sentences had been more severe, my way of acting would have changed much earlier because in this world no one wants to go to jail for 10 or 15 years just to carry a knife. "

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The number of violent and / or fatal stab wounds in England and Wales last year it was the highest since records began in 1946, as the official figures show.

"In London, it's normal," says Robert Bragg, who now works for a charity working in schools to highlight the dangers of being part of a gang. "My life was waking up, having breakfast and stabbing somebody. It was crazy because he did not really think about spoiling a life, he did not think he was going to kill anyone. I tried to kill myself when I realized what was the culture of this type of gang. It's all a lie, a deception in which they make you believe that they are there for you, whereas in reality they make fun of it, "he says.

And Bragg goes on to say, "I wanted to take my life, and my last hope was God. I told myself before committing suicide, I will try God and see if God has a plan for my life. "

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"I went to a church one day, I raised my arms and said," My God, if you are real, help me. "This gang culture I had come to forbid crying. He was a man and men do not cry. In the church, I started crying, it's at that time I started to feel like a free man. Now, I feel that I am reborn, that God helped me and I want to help others, "Bragg concludes.

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