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Lee, 22, Burrbury cap, Hackett shirt, Versace jeans, no socks, down the Brief Thursday night, bottle of Bud, JD & Coke, works in Ikea, lives with parents, modified Astra, Trance nation on the Kenwood, Burns over to McDonald’s drive thru, not even hungry, owns the Die Hard Trilogy, and not for the amusement value.

Lisa 18, slim, bottle blond, she got 4 GCSE's, C in Art, works in a call centre, also lives at home, earns enough to buy clothes and a 2 week holiday to Ayia Nappa, meets Lee at the Brief, he buys her a Luis Vuitton handbag while she gets pregnant by his best mate Shane, she tells Lee its his, they get engaged, she gives birth to a baby girl, Lambretta, 5lbs 2oz, baby clothes bought from Next, have plans to move out of Lisa’s mother’s house in Addiscombe.  Separated 4 years later, three kids, can’t meet the payments on the Ocean Finance loan.  They argue, he hits her twice, she chucks him out, not for long, she is not as strong as she thinks, and she will get weaker, he dreams of bombing down to Brighton in his Fiesta and getting mashed while he’s screwing a woman he’s robbing from, she is dreaming of living in a big house with an rich husband who’ll give he what she needs, she cries, he shoots up while Lambretta drowns in the bath.

Matt Osborne