The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗
As a young man I had a car accident on a foggy night that left the vehicle looking like a squashed box, even though, by some miracle, I walked away unscathed.
When I was a kid in Tooting, our house caught fire. We didn’t realise until the fire brigade turned up.
Before I was DPP, I did a lot of work trying to get rid of the death penalty in various countries, and one was Malawi. We’d been in court in Zomba and had to get a plane in Lilongwe, about 200 miles away. We got a local taxi: the guy changed his wheels for the journey because the car wasn’t roadworthy and then hurtled at speed, mostly on the wrong side of the road. I’ve never been so terrified.
Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day.
Beijing 2008 – not making the Olympic final.
Being dad to my kids and having a family.
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
I have worked in McDonald’s.
Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
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