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Raphael Rowe

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  1. “That was my kind of environment, so I kind of grew up in this council estate that was very diverse, had lots of different cultures, and it made me comfortable. My home life was slightly different. You know, my dad is Jamaican. He was strict. He came from a very strict family back in Jamaica. So when he was in the UK, he kind of brought that chip with him. Didn't quite integrate into British society, was a laborer, had a strong Jamaican accent, still has a strong Jamaican accent because he never kind of never really kind of integrated himself. Now, whether that's because he couldn't, because he couldn't read and write, whether that's because he wasn't accepted because he was a black man who came in on the windrush, or whether it's because he didn't want to. I've never really found out because I've never really had that conversation with my dad. So that's the context. That's what I was growing up in a council estate that was working class and very poor.”

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  2. “family below that we had the kind of overweight family and opposite then we had the smelly family so there was the Scottish family over in the other block in the Irish family so it was a real mix of cultures and personalities and characters and parents and I'm not going to say that there weren't issues and problems of course there was and you'd always have the shouting but there and I'm not going to make it sound mythically like it was a great time because it wasn't but when you're a kid you don't recognize the problems that your parents are facing you're not being able to pay for the electricity you're not being able to buy the things that kids want, new trainers and stuff like that. So it's quite stable but unstable at the same time because there was also a lot of crime, but not crime that was obvious to young guys like me and the girls and having a camp in the bottom of a block of flats would be our highlight. We go in there, put dead mattresses in there and bits of blankets.”

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  3. “Go back even further and take you to the kind of environment that I grew up in. So I grew up in southeast London, Campbell, to be precise, just at the bottom of Cold Arbor Lane, which is the kind of junction between Brixton and Campbell before you get to Peckham. So that kind of circle, or that triangle, as I like to describe it in southeast London. And it was quite a typical working class environment, councillor state, and the privilege of it was that we were all the same. Nobody had anything. And the other thing about that councillor state and the environment that I grew up in was a bit of a kind of cul-de-sac, you know, in these kind of states where you've got block after block, there are little roads in, little roads out onto this estate and that little patch of grass in front of our blocks are flat. And it was quite diverse. I was from the mixed race family. My mom's white, my dad's black, you know, the floor below my flat, we had the trying.”

    2022-11-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Wrongfully Convicted Of A Murder He Didn’t Commit: Raphael Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “I was being accused of a murder and a series of aggravated robberies. They fabricated evidence and changed things to fit me into the crime Convicted us, and I was destined to spend the rest of my life in prison for the crimes I didn't commit. When I was in the isolation cell, I was stripped naked, bleeding and bruised. I screamed and I shouted through the pain that I was suffering. Nobody heard my voice. At that moment something started to grow in me that made me become the person that I am today.”

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  5. “A presenter, journalist, documentarian. This is prison. You're going to hear a story. There's only a short period after my son was born, two months in fact, my life changed forever.”

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