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0:00:05 > 0:00:08Happy as Larry. Could not be happier.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31A year ago, six very different families from one large
0:00:31 > 0:00:35housing scheme in Kilmarnock agreed to be filmed.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Their day-to-day lives were captured showing the ups...
0:00:39 > 0:00:43Met wee Steve, running amok non-fucking-stop.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47..and downs of life in the scheme.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51"I'm so, so sorry and I'll love you forever and a day."
0:00:51 > 0:00:56A year on, have their dreams been realised
0:00:56 > 0:00:58or dashed?
0:00:58 > 0:01:00How are you doing?
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Have their families stayed together or been torn apart?
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Has the last year been plain sailing or not?
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Seen somebody jumping and putting something straight into my forehead.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16And what does the future hold for them now?
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Just sitting,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22just wasted, man, just to pure block everything out.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29When Marvin Baird was first shown in The Scheme,
0:01:29 > 0:01:34he was living the single life with his much-loved dog, Bullet.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37He just loves getting kisses and cuddles, so he does.
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Having kicked drugs, Marvin was looking to start a family and got together with ex-girlfriend
0:01:43 > 0:01:4718-year-old Dayna, after she was released from prison.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48Happy as Larry.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Could not be happier.
0:01:51 > 0:01:57Marvin and Dayna, though, fell back into using drugs and things turned ugly.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Dayna! Stop shouting!
0:02:00 > 0:02:06- Dayna, fuck off!- Dayna was accused of sleeping with Marvin's cousin, Chris...
0:02:06 > 0:02:09"I just shagged Marvin's bird."
0:02:09 > 0:02:11..and fell out with Marvin's family.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17- What age are you? Got a punch right in the face.- The relationship was already in trouble.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19I just cannae put up with it any more.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23And then Marvin was caught with drugs.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Eventually, Marvin was locked up,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30leaving Bullet in the care of Dayna, who was struggling with her addiction.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32I'm glad he's away.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39But other times, situations like this, I wish he was here.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Despite Marvin being behind bars,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Bullet being run over and re-homed,
0:02:45 > 0:02:49and Dayna giving up their house because of fighting in the Scheme,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51the relationship survived.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55A year on, Marvin is out of jail,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57drug-free and looking for work.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03I went in there to sign on, Jobs Seekers' Allowance,
0:03:03 > 0:03:07because I'm actively looking for a job rather than laying about.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12But they're advising me to go back on the sick, because of my left-hand injury,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14they're saying... CAR HORN BEEPS
0:03:14 > 0:03:18That's constantly what happens, people beeping and waving that I don't know.
0:03:18 > 0:03:19Hey!
0:03:19 > 0:03:24See what I mean? That's it, that's Kilmarnock everywhere I go.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27But they've advised me I'd be better going back on the sickness benefit
0:03:27 > 0:03:30because there's no' many jobs that you can do one-handed.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33But I says, "There's nothing wrong with me sitting in front of a computer..."
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- Hey!- That's everywhere I go.
0:03:36 > 0:03:42If it's a female, a lot of the time they get out and they'll say, "Can we get a picture with you?"
0:03:42 > 0:03:46I set up a Facebook site of my own. See, within three days,
0:03:46 > 0:03:51I had 931 friend requests within three days.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52I like the attention.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57Cos it's a big difference from being a drug addict to being back to just...
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I mean, all I'm on is my prescription. I'm stable.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05I've got a great relationship with my parents again, the way things used to be.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Marvin has got himself back on his own two feet
0:04:08 > 0:04:11with a rented bedsit in the centre of Kilmarnock...
0:04:13 > 0:04:17..while he now waits for Dayna to get out of jail.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21I sleep with Dayna's pyjama top on my bed, look, since she went to prison.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I've no washed it. I still smell her off it.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25I don't... Oops.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Did you see the picture of her in the paper?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Dayna was caught trying to get drugs into jail for Marvin
0:04:32 > 0:04:35and was sentenced to over a year behind bars.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40The last visit, I couldnae believe how beautiful she was looking.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42There wasn't even a blemish on her skin.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Her hair was all healthy looking.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Her nails, everything. She was just looking great, so she was.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51The situation is we're engaged now, so we are.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54I've picked my best man, she's picked her bridesmaid, everything.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56We've got everything all ready.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Since being filmed, Marvin has built up a special relationship with the Sun newspaper.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06I got my teeth done one night. They put me up in a hotel
0:05:06 > 0:05:08in case any other papers came and tried to get a snapshot.
0:05:08 > 0:05:15Then the next day, it was my day out, that was the day I had out.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18All the different treatments.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20It was a laser treatment they done to whiten my own up.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Apparently, it's £600 for one course of it.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27I got three in the one sitting.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29The difference is unbelievable.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32That was the one that the Government phoned me
0:05:32 > 0:05:36and asked me if they could start using my picture to warn young ones
0:05:36 > 0:05:38no' to go down that road.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43Then I got a phone call saying that they're wanting me to go round the schools myself now and speak to them.
0:05:43 > 0:05:48I 100% want to do drug counselling, definitely.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53Even my counsellor, my drug counsellor Jeff, right, he said, "The person that I first met
0:05:53 > 0:05:56"to the person I'm speaking to now is like day and night."
0:05:56 > 0:05:59I didn't realise how away with it I was.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03I hate when people go by like that and they go by and shout, "Oh, where's Bullet? Where's Bullet?"
0:06:03 > 0:06:05As if, to them, it's a joke.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08To me, that was...heartbreaking, so it was.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12See, when I got out of prison, it felt like there was a part of me missing.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15See, because I was that used to him.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20I mean, for six years, he was on my side, or if I had to nip somewhere,
0:06:20 > 0:06:24I knew I was coming back and his wee face would be at the window waiting for me.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29As soon as I found out he was away, I lay in my room in Bowhouse
0:06:29 > 0:06:33for four days and the tears, I just couldn't stop them.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38Marvin has lost Bullet to another family, but he still has Dayna
0:06:38 > 0:06:42and is waiting to see whether she'll get early release with an electronic tag.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53A year ago, the McMurray family were all living together in the same house.
0:06:55 > 0:07:00Mum Libby was desperate to keep her kids on the straight and narrow. Not an easy job,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04when her eldest, James, was a long-time heroin addict.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08There used to be a couple of hours of normality, but there's none now.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13I just feel like ending it, killing myself, but I couldnae do that to my family.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Her daughter, Kerry, had recently got out of jail.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19I'm going to drink alcohol.
0:07:19 > 0:07:26And cousin Brian was sleeping on the floor, also a heavily-addicted drug user.
0:07:26 > 0:07:33Libby's youngest son, 15-year-old Steven, had seen the effect heroin was having on James and Brian
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and was determined to stay drug-free himself.
0:07:42 > 0:07:49Steven had already been excluded from school and had started to get into trouble in the Scheme.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53But Libby managed to get him to go to a local charity,
0:07:53 > 0:07:57which encouraged him to apply for a place at college to study joinery.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00So far, this is my biggest achievement.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I feel great, man, that he's doing something with his life.
0:08:03 > 0:08:08With Steven getting a course at college, things were looking up for Libby's family at last.
0:08:08 > 0:08:14But a year after being filmed, her hopes have disintegrated.
0:08:14 > 0:08:20After being accused of causing trouble, James and Kerry fell out with other nearby families.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Libby was forced to leave the Scheme and both her boys ended up
0:08:24 > 0:08:28behind bars, with Steven getting jailed for a serious assault.
0:08:28 > 0:08:34Today, though, Steven is being released and Libby and Kerry have come to Glasgow to meet him.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Hey, is that him up there with the hood up?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57No, it isnae. What did he say to you on the phone?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59He says Buchanan Street.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01- Buchanan Street? - Buchanan Street Bus Station.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Did you not say wait there?- Aye.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16Unfortunately, there's no sign of Steven at the bus station in Glasgow
0:09:16 > 0:09:20and Libby and Kerry think he might already be drinking his liberation grant
0:09:20 > 0:09:22and getting into trouble.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31But you know Steven, he's nae patience.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- He's a wee bit like yourself. - I would have at least waited for you.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38With no sign of Steven, Libby and Kerry head back to Kilmarnock.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- I'm hoping that he's made his way home.- See, when I get out the jail,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45everybody's like, "Come on, we'll go and get mad with it and that."
0:09:45 > 0:09:48I was like, "No, I'm just going home to see my family and that."
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I think that's what Steven will do as well. PHONE RINGS
0:09:58 > 0:10:01You just got there?!
0:10:01 > 0:10:06You said you were at Buchanan Bus Station to my mam. I need money now to come back and fucking get you.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08That's him just got there.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Fucking hell, man! "It takes an hour and a half to get there."
0:10:21 > 0:10:24In the end, Steven finds the bus fare back to Kilmarnock.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27I cannae wait to see him, my young blood, man.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- My wee brother.- I feel better knowing that he's coming here now.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I don't need to hunt the town looking for him.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Its been hell, because he was always round about us.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- He was always with me constantly. - Aye. Joined at the hip.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Aye, joined at the hip.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43There he is. There he is.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00All right, Mam?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03All my Christmases all came at once.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04We found him.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08I feel like screaming, letting the world know how happy I am.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10They forgot about me.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- Three meals a day. - That's what I'm talking about!
0:11:14 > 0:11:20Woo! One thing I'll never see, I'll never eat custard again, cos that's all you get, man.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Duff, wasn't it, son?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- It was fucking... - No, seriously though, how was it?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26I didn't like it to start wi', man.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30It was shite to start wi', but once I started knowing people and that, it was good.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34It's all right, man. No saying I want to go back any time soon.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Steven is going to join his mum and Kerry
0:11:36 > 0:11:41sleeping on the floor of Kerry's one-bed flat, on the edge of the Scheme.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46He's going to stay here with Kerry the now, till he gets his head together.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49A day at a time the now.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Got to go and get my money and then sit about for a wee while,
0:11:53 > 0:11:56take in Kilmarnock again, know what I'm talking about?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59There's more good news for Libby, as the whole family is due to be
0:11:59 > 0:12:05reunited again when James gets out of Barlinnie in three days' time.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07"How're you doing, my wee ma?
0:12:07 > 0:12:13"As you can no doubt spy from the top of the page, it's just the one and only Jazzy boy here
0:12:13 > 0:12:17"on the fantastic plastic wi' a wee few words to say.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19"I pure miss yous loads and loads.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22"Be seeing yous all real soon."
0:12:22 > 0:12:26Eh, he's getting out on Wednesday and he'll be coming here to see Kerry and me.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30I don't know what his plans are from there.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Probably stay a day or so and then he'll do what he's intending to do.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42A year ago, ex-alcoholics and self-confessed hellraisers
0:12:42 > 0:12:49Gordon and Annie Cunningham were keen to make sure their kids didn't follow in their footsteps.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Don't start shouting at me. You're no' staying out.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Aye, all right.
0:12:54 > 0:13:00Their daughter, Kimberley, was into dancing and had a job, but their eldest son, Brian,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04was locked up for a racially aggravated breach of the peace.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06He gave him the full whack.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10That man had said he called him all the Bin Laden bastards and all that.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Worse than that, the 20-year-old son Chris seemed to be taking heroin
0:13:14 > 0:13:20just after he got 16-year-old Candice pregnant.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23We were talking about having a wean and that, and then it just happened.
0:13:23 > 0:13:30Candice was keen to keep the baby, against her mum Kay's advice.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33What are you going to do if you've got a tenner, right,
0:13:33 > 0:13:38and you're needing nappies and milk, and Chris needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Kay was worried about Chris's drug habit
0:13:41 > 0:13:46and thought Chris was slipping more and more heavily into using heroin.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51Fuck. Oh, man, they can say what they want, know what I mean? Doesn't bother me.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Gordon and Annie lost hope of helping Chris.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The amount he's taking,
0:13:56 > 0:14:03he's just going to go downhill rapidly and rapidly and rapidly and there's no' much I can do about it.
0:14:03 > 0:14:10And Candice ended up having the baby, despite her mum's worries about Chris's drug use.
0:14:11 > 0:14:17A year on, Chris has spent time in jail, but is now out of prison and living at home.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24I tried to get him off the heroin a couple of times by locking him in
0:14:24 > 0:14:28and buying him tablets and that, but it didn't work.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32But when he got lifted and got put to prison, he had nae other option.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35He couldnae get it and that was that.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40So, I think it gave him time to think and all about the wean and everything.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42The social worker was saying
0:14:42 > 0:14:46he isnae allowed to be near the wean because of the drugs.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51I says, "But he's no' on drugs now, he's on a methadone prescription."
0:14:51 > 0:14:54She says it's in case he's got the wean with him and he bumps into any of his old pals.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56He'd been easily led. He was just out.
0:14:56 > 0:15:02It's all right, Christopher, saying it wouldnae happen, but you don't ken till you're put in that position.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13After she come up here and done a meeting with me, Christopher and Candice,
0:15:13 > 0:15:18she says she was happy for the wean to be here with Christopher,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21but before that,
0:15:21 > 0:15:25he wasn't allowed to be in the same house as the wean.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29So that's how he thought they were calling him a beast and all that.
0:15:33 > 0:15:38In Kilmarnock, at Marvin's bedsit, an old friend, Tam, has moved in next door.
0:15:38 > 0:15:44Marvin's dreams of working as a drug counsellor and fronting an anti-drug campaign in schools have been
0:15:44 > 0:15:50devastated by mobile phone footage which the Sun newspaper had put on their website
0:15:50 > 0:15:53allegedly showing Marvin smoking heroin.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59The video's between two-and-a-half to three year ago.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02It has been somebody in my company that has took a video.
0:16:02 > 0:16:07They've forgot they've had it on video, I think, or they would have put it in before now.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12Then they've been looking maybe through a memory card, an old SIM card or something,
0:16:12 > 0:16:17and they've came across this video and they've thought, "I'll get money for it."
0:16:17 > 0:16:24And, before this happened... Where I volunteer, there've been a few people discussing trying to set me up.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Cos they were all talking about, "Oh, they're offering £1,000.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29"They're offering £1,000 if we can get him taking smack."
0:16:29 > 0:16:34They can buy me as much as you want, but they'll no' get me sitting taking it any more.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39Worse thing was they portrayed me as being back on it.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42I mean, that was the headline - Back On Smack.
0:16:42 > 0:16:49Marvin claims that politician Nicola Sturgeon has even asked him to help front an anti-drugs campaign.
0:16:49 > 0:16:54It was in the paper that she withdrew any allegations that I was to go round the schools with her, right?
0:16:54 > 0:16:59Which obviously, she's going to withdraw her name as soon as that's been put in the paper.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02I can understand that.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Right, she's saying, "No, it was the photo, it was his photograph we were
0:17:05 > 0:17:09"thinking about using, but now we have to look into even using that."
0:17:09 > 0:17:16But I was asked into the schools, right, and I don't need to prove that to anybody.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Marvin and Tam have both had chaotic lives
0:17:18 > 0:17:22and both of their girlfriends are in prison.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25But Tam has had good news.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27I just found out a week ago that my girlfriend...
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- She went to Greenock, right? - He's gonnae be...
0:17:29 > 0:17:34- I've been choking for that... - You're gonnae be...- A daddy.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I've been choking to be a daddy all my life.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39'Marvin!'
0:17:39 > 0:17:43She'll keep shouting. Just say, "He's still no' back. I've got somebody in."
0:17:43 > 0:17:45She's no' getting in the now.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47It's Dayna's sister.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51It's no' in a stable predicament the now, right,
0:17:51 > 0:17:55so I do not know whether I can give these away or not.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59That's Dayna's mum's ashes, right, which are just newly been packed.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02That's her dad's. SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM STREET
0:18:02 > 0:18:05She's wanting in, but she's saying it's just this she's wanting in for.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11It's not a case she would come in, take them and go. She would make some excuse to sit around.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13No other woman interests me now, you know.
0:18:13 > 0:18:19Would you not be proud to have that wee hottie walking down with you, arm-in-arm?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21That's my wee woman there.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Love her to bits, so I do. I cannae wait.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38Steven is out of prison and staying with his sister, Kerry, but it's a one-bedroom flat.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42His mum is also sleeping there sometimes and he's nowhere else to go.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Aye, I've no' been supported with money.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50She's just gave me food when she's had it, but she's no' got any now.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55She was expecting me to pay for it and I'm getting thrown out the night if I don't get her money.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00But it's hard to sleep out in the streets until I get paid, cos you won't give me money.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Under these... Fuck off, you daft cow, man.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Fucking screwing me about, man.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09I went for a crisis loan so I could pay Kerry digs
0:19:09 > 0:19:12and I've no' to get paid for weeks and I need to buy food.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15They're saying I'm no' in a crisis.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I'm in a crisis. I've got no' money or nothing, know what I mean?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20I told them I was going to get thrown out and they were like,
0:19:20 > 0:19:23"Obviously, your sister's been supporting you until now.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26"She's no' going to throw you out." How the fuck do they know that?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28She could be throwing me out for all they know. Fucking idiots, man.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31My sister's letting me stay a wee while...
0:19:33 > 0:19:35..and hopefully, I'm getting a house.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38That'll be a start.
0:19:41 > 0:19:46At 17, Steven already feels trapped into a chaotic lifestyle.
0:19:46 > 0:19:53See, like, places like this, man, jobless people just have to make do with what they've got.
0:19:53 > 0:19:59End up fucking mad alkies and all that, wanting to fight with cunts, all sorts of shit like that, man.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03That's how heavy family feuds and all that start, know what I mean?
0:20:03 > 0:20:06I think that's how this place gets a heavy bad name, man.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09That's how the people in it get a bad name. If you leave school with nae qualifications,
0:20:09 > 0:20:13you're not going to get a healthy job unless you want to work in ASDA or something
0:20:13 > 0:20:16where, if you've got a criminal record like me,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19you get told to fuck off because you've been done for robbery.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You cannae work on tills. That's my life for the future, man.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Be on the brew rest of my days,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28dossing in my sister's house,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31either a mad alky
0:20:31 > 0:20:32or a mad pot-head.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Never a smack head, never a smack head.
0:20:34 > 0:20:42Just sitting, just wasted, man, just to pure block everything out, just block the shite out.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44So, it's all a big circle, man.
0:20:44 > 0:20:49Every place you go to, people are the same, lifestyle's the same,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51drug taking's the same.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56Everything, man. And no matter where you go, you don't change so...
0:20:56 > 0:20:59it's the same at the end of the day, isn't it?
0:21:08 > 0:21:12One person who seems to be breaking the cycle is Chris.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25From the way he used to be to the now, he has changed a lot.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- I'm proud of him.- I don't even drink or nothing now.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34I just don't do nothing. I just sit in with Candice and the wean.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36You have drunk a couple of times.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Aye, but, no...
0:21:39 > 0:21:42No' went out and, like, drank for days at a time and all that.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44No, he doesn't do that any more.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47We're just waiting to get a house, me, Candice and the wean,
0:21:47 > 0:21:52and we'll just settle down from there. Just whenever.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Marvin's local celebrity has backfired after
0:22:07 > 0:22:12a girl asked Marvin for a photo and her boyfriend took offence.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16I was in court today for an incident when the boy held a knife at my neck
0:22:16 > 0:22:20and I managed to get the knife off him, and when I've ran away,
0:22:20 > 0:22:26I've ran into where the police were and I was done with possession of an offensive weapon.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28So it's...
0:22:28 > 0:22:30no' exactly looking good.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33It's one of the worst charges to be up for the now, so it is.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36As you see, I've got my bag and that.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38I'm prepared for the worst.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41But it's going to muck Dayna up for the tag, so it is.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Cos she was due out maybe next week probably,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49but the tag was to my flat
0:22:49 > 0:22:53and if I go to prison, then obviously I lose the flat, so she's no' got an address.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56So it's going to hold her in prison to May.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I just hope Neil's got the gift of the gab.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02He's a good solicitor.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Marvin! How you doing?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- All right.- How's Bullet?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Wouldnae know. I've no seen him for two year.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12HORN BEEPS (Fucking idiot.)
0:23:15 > 0:23:17See you later, mate. Go away.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19No, go away, mate.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- Don't be shy.- I am shy.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26I'm very shy.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Even though Dayna's out of prison soon,
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Marvin's dreams of marriage are again in jeopardy,
0:23:33 > 0:23:37as possession of a knife normally carries a long sentence behind bars.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Marvin may be heading for jail, but round at Kerry's flat,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49James, Libby's eldest boy, has just got out of Barlinnie.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Ah-ha, ha!
0:24:16 > 0:24:22James is going to be staying at Kerry's until he decides what to do next.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Time in prison has meant that he is now truly drug-free
0:24:25 > 0:24:27for the first time in years.
0:24:27 > 0:24:33It's some people's lives, isn't it? My case, me, cos I was in a bad way before I went in.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35But now... I don't even want that now.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40Before he went into jail, he was fucking off his nut, man.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Pure skinny. Pure looked as though he was dying, man.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47Looked in a heavy bad way. See, now, I think he looks healthy for it, man. The jail's done a lot for him.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50It's the way he used to be,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53when he looked after himself, before the drugs got a grip of him.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56I suppose everybody does it.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58The three of them back together,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00that's my life complete.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23Marvin has managed to persuade the judge that he is the innocent party
0:25:23 > 0:25:28concerning the knife and has walked out of court a free man.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30I'm happy as Larry.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36Cos of my circumstances, and it was
0:25:36 > 0:25:40an unprovoked attack on me just because his girlfriend was getting a bit too friendly.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Honestly, I can't even explain how I feel.
0:25:44 > 0:25:4795% sure I was getting jailed today.
0:25:47 > 0:25:53Marvin has escaped time behind bars, but he's more concerned that he's found out who has scuppered
0:25:53 > 0:25:58his chances of fronting a drugs campaign by sending in old footage to the Sun.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05Although Chris Cunningham is denying it, Marvin is certain that he is the culprit.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06He got £500 for it,
0:26:06 > 0:26:13so £500 for losing a relationship to somebody that's been a friend for you.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16He's took the memory card out, put it in his new phone and these
0:26:16 > 0:26:18pictures have come up and he's went like that -
0:26:18 > 0:26:22"Oh, I'll say that's just the now, like, two days ago."
0:26:22 > 0:26:26I'm disgusted at him for doing that after everything I done for him.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30I took him in when he was 15.
0:26:30 > 0:26:36It was nine months when he moved in with me and my parents and I took him everywhere.
0:26:36 > 0:26:42Then when he was 15, when I moved into Argyle Place, he moved in there and I bought him everything.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Every bit of clothing, everything. I kept him going, didn't I?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48It wasn't just normal clothes. It was clothes that were designer.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50It was costing me a lot of money.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00James has been drinking heavily since he got out of prison.
0:27:00 > 0:27:06He had a traumatic childhood and he turned to heroin use as a teenager, becoming heavily addicted.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11He's trying to see the best way forward.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Go away from here, for a starter.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19And that's the biggest hope I've got.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Just take us away from this shit hole.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26Look at the state of it. You don't get opportunities down in this dump,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29you don't get nothing.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33All you get's a drug habit down here.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36It doesn't need to be perfect, just normal.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Just a normal life like everybody else, that's all I want.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Nae drugs, nae nothing.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I've never had any goodness, never.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59It's only a month till Dayna gets out of jail, but Marvin has been
0:27:59 > 0:28:03badly beaten up after declining a photo while out drinking one night.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Because of his head injuries, Marvin's family are making sure that
0:28:08 > 0:28:13one of them is always there to keep an eye on him.
0:28:13 > 0:28:19The police came at ten o'clock the next morning. Apparently, they'd been here all during the night
0:28:19 > 0:28:25cos the CCTV had seen me staggering all the way round with blood running down my face,
0:28:25 > 0:28:31cos my nose was burst, my mouth was all burst, and the cuts...
0:28:31 > 0:28:33my full face was covered.
0:28:33 > 0:28:38I come in and I wet a sponge and I cleaned it a wee bit as best...
0:28:38 > 0:28:42I thought I'd cleaned it, but I hadn't, it was all dirt inside it,
0:28:42 > 0:28:47and I just held a sponge to it and put the sponge against the bed and just lay
0:28:47 > 0:28:51and put my forehead against the sponge, but it was the worst thing I could have done,
0:28:51 > 0:28:53I could have ended up in a coma or anything.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56I actually burst out laughing cos I got that much of a fright.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58I was like, "What happened to your face?"
0:28:58 > 0:29:02They gave me a CAT scan, like a CT scan for my brain.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04I don't know if they found one, mind you!
0:29:04 > 0:29:08Maybe found a wee bit of a brain, a Malteser or something like that.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Round at Kerry's flat, James has disappeared
0:29:18 > 0:29:22and Libby fears that he may already be back to his old ways.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Cos he was heavy on with the drink last time I seen him.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Just waking up in the morning and starting again.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35I just don't know.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Don't want to say he has if he's not.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41It'll just knock his confidence away again.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45I'd know if I'd seen him, whether he'd touched heroin or not.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49But I haven't seen him, so I don't know.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Nae job prospects. Do nothing all day, shut in a room.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Anybody that has got a record, they've nae chance.
0:29:59 > 0:30:05Steven has another assault charge pending and may soon be heading back to prison.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Sometimes, I think it would be a laugh to go back to the jail.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10It's pure boring out here. I've got nothing to do here.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13- At least in there, I've got things to do.- Nothing happens out here.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17You feel like the pressure gets to you and you want to go back to the jail,
0:30:17 > 0:30:20cos it's somewhere you can sort your head out and that.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24- It's just the jail for you. - It gives you time to think away from everybody.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27Fucking... Cos you're locked in a gaff all the time.
0:30:27 > 0:30:32I went for an interview last Monday. They told me they'd phone me in two weeks for an induction,
0:30:32 > 0:30:37so that's me basically got the job, innit? Working in Belchers food factory.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41They make sausages and that, meat factory.
0:30:41 > 0:30:46It's pure freezing. You need safety boots and about 25 layer of clothing.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49Kerry's picking her life up.
0:30:49 > 0:30:53Kerry's picking her life up with her can in her hand, as you do.
0:31:00 > 0:31:06A month after he was assaulted, Marvin has travelled over two hours to Stirling to visit Dayna in jail.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Marvin and Dayna had talked about being engaged,
0:31:11 > 0:31:16but Marvin now has a ring and is ready to make things official.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19I've just never had enough money to get a ring I wanted to get her.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21So I've got a ring here for her.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25I just want to place the ring on her finger just to give her a wee bit
0:31:25 > 0:31:30more reassurance that I'm deadly serious about it.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33We're having a fresh start.
0:31:33 > 0:31:38The two of us have agreed when she comes out, like, everything in the past, we're forgetting about.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Getting married, that'll be...
0:31:40 > 0:31:45the biggest step towards our fresh start. Every time she sees me,
0:31:45 > 0:31:47it's like that, "You've put on more weight,
0:31:47 > 0:31:51"you've put on more weight, you're looking great." I think she's getting a wee bit paranoid,
0:31:51 > 0:31:55because she thinks I'm going to go with someone else.
0:31:55 > 0:31:56It never crossed my mind.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59I've waited eight months and been loyal to her, so I don't think
0:31:59 > 0:32:02I'm going to muck it up in the last four weeks.
0:32:02 > 0:32:04I love her too much.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08She means the world to me. If she says yes, I'll be happy as Larry.
0:32:08 > 0:32:13Time will tell if Dayna is really keen to make their engagement official.
0:32:19 > 0:32:25James has been away from Kerry's flat for days and the whole family feared the worst.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27But he's back...
0:32:27 > 0:32:30and has started a new relationship.
0:32:30 > 0:32:31Bring me some tobacco back.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33I want that...
0:32:37 > 0:32:40I've got food in my mouth, babe.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43'That's Kerry, my girlfriend.'
0:32:43 > 0:32:44I've known her for years.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48It's just that she was with somebody else and now she's no'.
0:32:48 > 0:32:53I've...I've got her now.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56She's done nothing but look after me from when I got out.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00If it wasnae for her I'd probably be locked up again.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02So everything's rosy.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04I've never felt so good.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07This is the best I've felt in years, honestly.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10She gets me, she knows what I'm about.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14Instead of other birds trying to take the cunt out of me.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18Come back here calmly.
0:33:18 > 0:33:19Just don't be getting into trouble.
0:33:19 > 0:33:24As an ex-addict herself, James's girlfriend Kerry
0:33:24 > 0:33:27knows getting together with him is a risky decision.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29I'm bipolar.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33I've been off everything for eight years, so...
0:33:33 > 0:33:40um, but I've known James for years and I just wanted to take him away from it.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43So I am taking him away from it.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Taking him to Girvan.
0:33:45 > 0:33:50Kerry is keeping James on the straight and narrow and knows what she's taking on.
0:33:50 > 0:33:56Got out of prison. I was 21 and I got out after that full of committal.
0:33:56 > 0:34:01I just didn't look back, didn't touch nothing but put on a prescription,
0:34:01 > 0:34:06prescription for my mental health problems.
0:34:06 > 0:34:13James is going to have to pull it together because I need somebody to look after me because of my illness.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16It's, like, you know the way Stacey Slater is in EastEnders?
0:34:16 > 0:34:18The part she plays, that's the way.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Up and down, up and down.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25If he wants a normal life, then...
0:34:25 > 0:34:29he needs to stop all this, so he does.
0:34:29 > 0:34:33He's no touched anything like that-wise
0:34:33 > 0:34:36and if he does, he knows it's over cos it disgusts me.
0:34:36 > 0:34:41I try and tell him after the first few months the more you get,
0:34:41 > 0:34:45like your laptops and your phones and
0:34:45 > 0:34:49your tellies, the more respect you start to feel for yourself.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51The more respect.
0:34:51 > 0:34:57Even your enemies start to respect you but a lot of people do try and drag him back in.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06Marvin's visiting time is up and he's proposed to Dayna.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10Every mental case. She said yes and she put the ring on her finger.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13Made me so happy.
0:35:13 > 0:35:14My train's at 33 minutes past.
0:35:14 > 0:35:19I've got eight minutes to get to the train station. If I miss this, I've got to wait another hour.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Marvin's dreams have all come true
0:35:23 > 0:35:28but not missing the train home seems to have become number one priority.
0:35:28 > 0:35:33How's that not going in? Eh? What am I doing wrong? Pushing it in.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35That's your return, that's Dalmarnock-Glasgow.
0:35:35 > 0:35:39Right, catch you later. Right, cheers, mate.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42Robert! Right, here I'm coming.
0:35:43 > 0:35:49James is back from his shopping trip and against Kerry's advice has bought more alcohol.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Don't argue with me, baby.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53I need that pint of milk for my guts.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56- Don't argue... - INDISTINCT
0:35:56 > 0:36:00Don't think kissing me will put my soft side out.
0:36:00 > 0:36:01Aye, you'll take...
0:36:01 > 0:36:04Don't even kid on you've got a soft side.
0:36:04 > 0:36:09She doesn't want me to drink but I need it because I'm fucking rough as a badger's.
0:36:09 > 0:36:14Trying to hide them from me? Fuck's sake. You're caught. Just sit them down.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17Caught blue-handed. Where's the ashtray, bruv?
0:36:17 > 0:36:19James, I've never looked this rough.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23It's cos of you. Scared to go to sleep.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27That's his option, me or the smack.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29He seems to be picking me the now.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32They just take it cos they want the buzz and everything.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36They're just chasing the buzz, but some of them take it to escape the past.
0:36:36 > 0:36:42Aye, to escape life, just to escape what's in front of you, all your problems.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44It's just a short-term fix.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59Marvin and Dayna have at last been reunited as she's just been released from jail.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03They've come to Glasgow on a shopping spree for Dayna,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06who's over the moon to be free again and back with Marvin.
0:37:06 > 0:37:12Good, happy. Relieved that I'm walking back with him.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16But it's weird walking back next to him because of the hype.
0:37:16 > 0:37:21- Lovely, guys. Thank you ever so much. Enjoy the rest of your day.- Nice meeting you, pal.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25When I've been cutting through to go and visit Dayna, I've been stopped
0:37:25 > 0:37:29loads of times, people asking for pictures, but I'm always in a romper stomp.
0:37:29 > 0:37:34The happy couple are planning to get his and hers tattoos to celebrate their reunion.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Excuse me, pal. Have you any idea where the tattooist is about here?
0:37:37 > 0:37:39No, I cannae see for looking at it.
0:37:39 > 0:37:44I'm getting "Dayna" tattooed on the inside of my arm and Dayna's going to... I don't where.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46I'm getting Marvin's name somewhere.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48I'm thinking about there, right, but then it would fade off.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Thinking about getting it on my neck or the back of my neck or something.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55I want it somewhere where people can see.
0:37:55 > 0:38:00They just need to find a place that can take them without an appointment.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03- On the left or right?- The right.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07- Where's Bullet?- Oh, I've no' had Bullet for nearly two years, mate.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10INDISTINCT Aye, thanks, dear.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13- Can I get a picture? - All right, batter in.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15THEY LAUGH
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Do any of yous boys know where Terry's Tattooist is?
0:38:20 > 0:38:22See yous later.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Even given their new-found popularity,
0:38:25 > 0:38:31Marvin and Dayna are having no joy finding a tattoo parlour that can squeeze them in.
0:38:44 > 0:38:50After hours on the shopping spree, trouble is brewing.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54I don't want to. I don't want to go to Primark.
0:38:54 > 0:38:58- I don't want to go this way. - We're gonnae find Primark.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01No, we're going to find the tattoo.
0:39:01 > 0:39:06If he's happy then I'm happy and I know the tattoo's going to make him happy. So I'm happy if he's happy.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08I know we've no' got time.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12But he's thinking of me, wanting me to go get clothes.
0:39:22 > 0:39:27A month after getting together, James and Kerry have set up home in a new flat.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29But that's not the end of their good news.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31It's just a temporary one.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33I know what I want but this one's just temporary.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Need to save up, so we will.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40No' bad. Will do us the now, eh, baby?
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Been here about three weeks or something.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Everything's going pretty well. All right,
0:39:47 > 0:39:51bit by bit. We're getting this wee gaff done up.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54James is still battling his heroin cravings
0:39:54 > 0:39:58but is controlling things with a proper methadone prescription.
0:39:58 > 0:39:59Couple of weeks I was out the jail.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03I took at bit here and there. I was like that, "This is fucking...
0:40:03 > 0:40:07"If I'm gonnae do this, it's gonnae...back to square one."
0:40:07 > 0:40:09I'm on my script and that now, so...
0:40:16 > 0:40:20He has his good days and his bad days
0:40:20 > 0:40:27but I just have to be there and support him as much as I can, knowing what it was like.
0:40:27 > 0:40:33We were going to Girvan but it was too far away for James and his mum
0:40:33 > 0:40:38because they've got really, really close, cos James has been off the heroin.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41Him and his wee brother never had a relationship and now they have.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47He'll say it to me on the phone but he'll no' say it to James.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49He'll just say, "Tell James I love him."
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Although James and Steven have now rebuilt their relationship,
0:40:57 > 0:41:03it may be cut short as Steven's assault charge has finally caught up with him.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Having admitted his guilt but failed to show up for social reports
0:41:06 > 0:41:10and final sentencing, the outlook is bleak.
0:41:11 > 0:41:18My lawyer sent me a letter telling me what my co-accused got and all that and telling me, um...
0:41:18 > 0:41:20they'd issued a warrant for me.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40I just feel like a pure...dick, like a pure...
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Honestly, cos I've got myself in all this trouble, know what I mean?
0:41:43 > 0:41:46When it could have been easily sorted.
0:41:46 > 0:41:51Could have went and got my reports done. I should have woke up earlier, got my reports done, went to court.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55Probably wouldn't even have got the jail, got the community service or something.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57But now, I've fucked everything up now.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00Steven is expecting the police to come for him
0:42:00 > 0:42:04but across town they've just arrested someone else.
0:42:05 > 0:42:11Marvin has breached a probation condition by missing a meeting and is on his way to the cells.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19Just a day into a new start, Dayna is devastated.
0:42:44 > 0:42:49He makes me feel good about myself. He always give me compliments.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51He'll do anything for me.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55I don't know, I just love everything about him.
0:42:55 > 0:43:00Like, most people will say, "Oh, what are you doing with him?" I can do better.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02But to me, I cannae do better.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08It's no' on the outside, it's what's in the inside.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10And I don't think...
0:43:11 > 0:43:14I find him attractive
0:43:14 > 0:43:19and if I love him then that's all that matters, don't it?
0:43:24 > 0:43:28The police arrested Steven and he's now back in jail,
0:43:28 > 0:43:30facing a long sentence behind bars.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36Chris and Candice fell out and have now separated.
0:43:39 > 0:43:44Marvin was released after a night in the cells and he and Dayna are still determined
0:43:44 > 0:43:49to make a good life for themselves and get married as soon as possible.
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