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hen Paul Connolly was just two weeks old, his mother put him out with the rubbish. "One of the neighbours heard me crying and called
the police. They came and got me, and I was taken away by social services." Born the seventh boy of eight children to an
Irish Catholic family in Stratford, in London's East End, he spent his earliest years living with nuns in a convent. Then, at the age of eight he was moved to
St Leonard's children's home in Tower Hamlets. It was to be a life-changing move, for all the wrong reasons. From the Principal, down, the home was run by a paedophile ring. From then on, Paul's childhood and schooling was fi lled with violence and mental torture. With no real schooling and no positive male role models, Paul gained a reputation as a violent schoolboy, which at least protected him from the attentions of his potential abusers. When he was nine, he joined a boxing club. Here, he fi nally found a group of men who took him in, trained him and fed him. "These were the fi rst sort of serious role models that I found weren't trying to bugger me or beat me up." he recalls. He left school at 14 and started work on a veg stall in Romford market. He looked set to