Youth workers tried to engage David Metcalfe in a variety of activities, but a rugby team, Army Cadets and Connexions had all failed to stop the teenager being excluded from school.
It wasn't until David, 19, was persuaded to attend a rock festival and a camping weekend with Youth for Christ three years ago that the troubled teenager saw the error of his ways. "I was a bad kid and came from a tough family," he admits. "At first I thought they were Bible-bashers and talking rubbish, but I gradually realised that they were doing what they did because they cared - it wasn't just a job."
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