CRIME is a dead end career - your freedom is priceless.
These are the defiant words of a Southend campaigner who has spoken of his involvement in organised crime as a teenager to deter others from going down the same path.
Sonny Green, 26, turned to organised crime alongside some of his peers while he was a student at Cecil Jones in Southend, as a way of making money.
Despite the criminal activities in the past, Sonny is now working to help educate and guide other teenagers away from crime and help encourage them to earn money legitimately.
He said: “I was involved in organised crime as a teenager and it was only through music and a TV/film career that I managed to find a way out and began to turn my life around.