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Q: Your work as an anti-drugs campaigner in our local schools is well known. Perhaps you could tell us how you became involved in this important area of work? A: It was because of my young brother, Kieron. Our parents died when he was a young child and I was a teenager so we were closer than most brothers and sisters. Kieron was a sensitive child and I saw just how easy it was for him to be distracted from his school work by wicked people. Q: In what way? A: Well, he never did very well academically. Boys in his class poked fun at him and the girls laughed and encouraged them. He was small for his age when he started at the comprehensive school. A bit puny, really. Many boys like Kieron would be a sitting target for those people who used to hang about outside the school gates. He was miserable and I worried about him a lot. It was hard as I was the only family he had. No father figure. Q: But Kieron was different, wasn't he? A: Yes, Kieron was luckier than most of the boys in this situation. He was good at sport. Q: And he was lucky enough to have been spotted by an Oxford Rovers coach when he was 16? A: That’s right. What he lacked in stature he more than made up for with speed. He was good at lots of sports but he chose football. I wasn’t sure it was the best thing for him because I don’t think it’s a sport for a sensitive boy. But those boys who teased him when he was younger started to look up to him. Some of them became really envious of him just before his class left school. I think their envy was a contributing factor to what happened to them. They didn’t have much going for them, really. Q: What did happen to them? A: Those men – I hesitate to call them that – hooked the most vulnerable ones on narcotics by giving drugs to them outside the school. It didn’t take long. Then they turned the screws and demanded payment. Of course, the kids couldn’t pay so they started stealing. Often, they had little support from their families… Q: So that’s when you decided to step in? A: Yes. Kieron was lucky. He did so well at sport. The kids took notice of him and of what I had to say. So I talked to classes about what life had been like for him at school. It made me feel that I was doing something useful. Q: So Kieron’s death must have been totally unexpected and hit you very hard? A: It did. I thought he was well clear of anything to do with drugs and he’d never consider messing about with anything like ecstasy. I’d drummed in the anti-drugs message while he was at school and he knew what had happened to some of the boys in his class. Maybe he thought ecstasy was harmless – to him at least. Q: Do you feel that the club let Kieron down? A: Yes. He’d done so well for himself. He had hopes of playing for a premiership team before too long. Everyone thought he was good enough. I blame that club. Too many people of dubious morality in senior positions. Like that Fergus Hackett. And Warren Taylor was a dreadful influence on Kieorn. Clubs, cars, women, that sort of thing. I think he envied Kieron’s talent. Kieron was on the way up when he was on the way down. I suspect that both of them tried to change the way that Kieron played in some matches for reasons better known to themselves. I tried to tell him to keep clear of them but Kieron took no notice of anything I said against Hackett or Taylor. Q: But some people associated with the club had a very positive attitude towards Kieron? A: Yes. Delilah Morris-Piper was always very encouraging. She had the best interests of the club at heart. I think she’d had enough of Hackett and Taylor as well. And she’s very influential. She should have spoken out before this happened to Kieron. Q: But, all things considered, you think Kieron would still be with us if he hadn’t joined Oxford Rovers? A: You know I’ve been warned by the police about speaking out against the club. What are you expecting me to say? But I can tell you that Kieron’s death wasn’t investigated properly. I don’t care what the police say. There’s evil at that club – and someone needs to get to the bottom of it and punish those responsible for Kieron’s death. | 
