Aged 12, Julian Bell fractured his spine in a motorbike accident. It left him paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
Six years later he was awarded £500,000 in compensation. Still reeling from the death of his older brother Orville, who was gunned down at the wheel of his car, aged just 17, by members of the Gooch Gang, the teenage Bell could have used the money to escape the drugs and violence that threatened the tear apart his childhood home of Longsight.
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