Big Issue Article

Stuart OttenMedia

“Drug dealer explains how he turned his life around after realising he was ‘going to end up dead'”

The well known magazine published an article about Stuart’s story, speaking of how he overcame the drug world to helping those in trouble.

Stu Otten used to sleep with a machete under his bed. In the 1990s, the Liverpool local was part of the city’s dark criminal underbelly. He was a drug dealer of cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis – a job that brought him into violent conflict with rival Merseyside gangs.

LOTTIE ELTON