"It'd be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that
old life leads you. You're either behind prison bars or six feet
underground." Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on
Brixton's Myatt's Field estate, he was surrounded by gang culture, and
like so many other young people, he found it hard to resist the
lifestyle. By the time he was 15, he had already joined a gang, been
stabbed, shot at, and was selling drugs. A chance to play professional
football offered a way out, but the lure of an easier life -- the
promise of girls, money, and cars -- led him back to South London and
the notorious O.C., or Organised Crime, gang. Violence and drug dealing
were the norm in O.C. and Terroll soon paid the price for his
involvement with a stretch in prison. But while the association with
O.C. endures through the ink on his skin, Terroll has long since turned
his back on this world. These days Terroll's giving something back;
Block Workout, a street-gym he founded in his old neighbourhood, gives
young men an opportunity to follow a different road to the one he took
during his adolescence -- and the chance to live a better life.
