They are the little hard men, the untouchables. Nothing will get them down.
Yet the vast majority of such young people have a much more fragile private side, something I witnessed time and again when I met many of the Milltown Boys I wrote about in my book on the day of their release from custody.
With some exceptions, most served their sentences in a detention centre in Gloucestershire or in borstal in Portland. Either way, they had to pass through Bristol on their way back to Cardiff. As a result, I would travel to Bristol to meet them, though they wouldn't know I was coming.
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