‘It was all planned out,” says Adam Johnson. “I knew exactly what I was going to do.” In early 2007, Johnson, then 22, had just finished his degree at the University of Wolverhampton, and was looking forward to a career in glass-blowing.
He had moved into his family home in Seaford in East Sussex with a friend and her one-year-old. He had a job at a bar, with flexible hours to allow for his art and the shows he had lined up. And though he was not yet out to his family, he had a boyfriend, whom he’d been seeing for a few months.
