Ryan remembered trying to get up, but the ex-paratrooper had kicked him in the head. Then, at some point while he was unconscious, Ryan’s arm had been bent backwards and snapped at the elbow. It took six months to fully heal. Ryan’s mum had been furious, distraught, and had wasted no time in calling the police. The man who had attacked her boy was Neil Mitchell, and he had received eighteen months in HMP Wakefield and a nasty newspaper article written about him in the Manchester Evening News. Aaron had gone to his bedroom and had stayed there for the next nine years, surviving on Pot Noodles
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