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so using an old typewriter my family had brought in, I started submitting articles to magazines from my cell which has led to a career in writing.”
While in prison, David also signed up for a social sciences foundation course through the Open University which was quite a leap, because he left school with no qualifications whatsoever, so when he passed, he was delighted.
Seven years after going to prison, he was graduating from Teesside University with a bachelor’s degree in criminology, then Two years later, a master’s degree in social research methods.
In 2005, his first article for a regional newspaper appeared in the York Press, and ever since, he has regularly contributed articles to the Evening Gazette, Northern Echo, York Press, Sunday Sun and various
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ocal journalist and lecturer, David Honeywell, is launching his first book in the hope it will inspire others. The 48 year old, of Redcar, who spent many years suffering with mental health issues, was in youth custody, prisons and psychiatric hospitals, eventually turned his life around though writing and education. And now, he has documented it all in his autobiography, Never Ending Circles, which he hopes will offer encouragement to others who have had similar experiences and now wish to turn their lives around. He also hopes his story of crime, carrying knives and alcohol abuse, will help deter some young people from falling into the same life of self- destruction as he did, which ruins so many lives, he says. To celebrate the launch of his book, he will be holding two book signing events at Redcar’s, Clarendon Hotel on Saturday November 26, between 11am and 1pm, then Grangetown library on Monday December 19, between 10am and 12pm. Coastal View was the brainchild of David which he launched in 2009 as a platform for fledgling businesses, but now in his new role as an author and lecturer, we decided
to catch up with him to talk about his latest venture.
In his book, he talks openly and frankly about his childhood, schooling and short army career, leading up to his first convictions at 20, for two attempted robberies, resulting in a 30 month youth custody sentence. He talks about how he then spent the rest of his early adult years drifting aimlessly, but also committing relatively petty, mostly impulsive and occasionally violent crimes, such as criminal damage and assaults. His aimless existence included several periods in psychiatric hospitals for clinical depression where he was once sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Then in July 1995, David was sentenced to a five year prison sentence on a wounding charge. He said: “I had massive social and personality issues to address and was later diagnosed with having borderline personality disorder. Then while sitting in my cell, I found through writing down my entire thoughts and feelings, I could unravel my issues through putting pen to paper which became an outpouring of emotion. “I then realised I had a flare for writing,
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