A career criminal who turned to hard drugs to numb the pain of a traumatic childhood says he felt nothing when he got shot – because he was so high on crack cocaine.
Lee Marvin Hitchman had a rough start in life, with both of his parents in jail when he was born, and soon got mixed up in petty crime himself. The part of Manchester where he grew up was nicknamed “Gunchester” because of all the shootings.
“There were two armed gangs vying for a small area, and it was just a road separating them – not even a main road, it was a small road,” Marvin recalls. At this point, he admits, he was deeply addicted to crack. He managed to persuade a local dealer that he could help him out and sell some crack on to his friends.
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But the arrangement didn’t go to plan, because Marvin just used all the drugs himself. Soon the dealer caught up with him: “He went like Marvin, where’s my money?’” Marvin told podcaster James English, adding “I said ‘Bro, I smoked it, I'm gonna be honest with you’”.
Amazingly, the dealer gave Marvin a second chance, but warned him that if he messed up again he was going to get shot. “I think he just did that to try and help me out, and not to lose face,” Marvin said. But predictably, he smoked all of the second batch of crack as well.
He managed to avoid the man for a few days, but then made the mistake of taking a taxi into the town centre to buy more drugs in a nightclub. The drug dealer who Marvin had cheated happened to be outside. “He's seen me and gone 'Marv, come here. I want you…’
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“I thought ’S***, I’m going to get shot here, I know it”. He accepted there was no way out of getting shot, but just hoped the wound wouldn’t be fatal. “He took me around this corner and he just pulled this big f*****g long-nosed revolver out and went bang! bang! The second shot went straight through my leg. I'm not sure if it can't remember if it dropped me to the floor but I made it back to the car anyway”.
One of Marvin’s mates was waiting for him. “He's gone ‘You've just been shot?’ and jumps out the car like an idiot and start shouting…” He told his mate to get back in the cab, fearing that he might get himself shot as well. But by this time the taxi driver had realised what was going on and legged it with his “dreads flying in the hair”.
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Luckily, the taxi driver had left his keys in the ignition. “I said, ‘Let’s go, I'll just do a Rambo’. I’d been watching a few Rambo films and remembered how gets a ribbon and ties it around when he’s wounded.
“I just thought I was Rambo… just being a d*** head basically”. But instead of rushing straight to hospital the two friends went to another club. We’ve gone in this nightclub toilets and started smoking crack. Obviously my heart's pumping faster so the blood's coming out of me faster”.
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A woman who came in to use the loo saw Marvin’s blood all over the toilet floor and walls and alerted club security. "One of the bouncers got a black bag and put it on his car seat and dropped me off at the hospital”. Marvin even managed to borrow £20 on the way so he could buy more drugs. “That's how bothered I was. A normal sane man, I'd be glad to be alive but I was thinking about where I’d get my next crack from.
“I discharge myself after they cleaned it all out and they put something like a big Tampax in my leg. So that was my party trick then I was going around saying ‘Hey do you want to see this?’ and I was pulling this big piece of cotton wool right through my leg.
“I was begging people for money, showing them a party trick – just like raging crackhead style”. Marvin eventually managed to get clean, and wrote a book about his experiences in and out of jail.
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