McAvoy s road to redemption: from prison cell to Ironman
Listen | Print By Pirate IRWIN (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 in World
Former armed robber John McAvoy is acutely aware he could have become just another statistic a criminal shot dead by police on the streets of London after a failed heist in 2005.
Instead, with the help of one of his prison officers, he turned his life around to become a world-record holder in indoor rowing and a Nike-sponsored athlete.
The turning point for McAvoy was when he learned in 2009 of the death of his friend, Aaron Cloud, who was killed making a getaway from an armed robbery in the Netherlands.