'Daylight drug deals and car break-ins — I felt so unsafe in East London I had to leave'

A street in Leytonstone, near where Matt lived - (Juliet Murphy)

I moved to London in 2008. I was living in South London before I met my partner, and then moved in with him in Leytonstone. Then in 2017 we bought a property in Leyton.

London's always had a bit of an undercurrent of criminality and drugs, and when we moved to Leyton there was that undercurrent, but it wasn’t too in your face.