A Leeds area swamped with gang drug related violence has a pair of mates on a mission to save kids growing up there from a life of crime.
Curtis Campbell, 33, and Reece Cartwright, 28, want the youths of Burmantofts and the surrounding areas to join their gang instead. They’ve formed ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’, aka BST, a boxing and fitness club.
The old training partners are from the area and have become “addicted” to showing kids they can achieve better things than growing up in a gang. Burmantofts was subject to heightened stop-and-search powers last week after a man was chased through there by another wielding a machete, which is believed to have been retaliation between gangs.
