Meet the ex-gang member who turned his life around after a friend 'died in his arms' - and now runs anti-knife crime campaigns.
Carl Scott, 42, decided it was time to get on the straight and narrow after 22 years of drug and burglary-related crimes.
Carl had led a "pure dysfunctional lifestyle" - which saw him stabbed in the leg, watch his friend get stabbed to death and spend multiple years in prison.
Carl Scott, 42, decided it was time to get on the straight and narrow after 22 years of drug and burglary-related crimes.
Carl had led a "pure dysfunctional lifestyle" - which saw him stabbed in the leg, watch his friend get stabbed to death and spend multiple years in prison.
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00:00My name's Cole Scott and I'm the co-founder of Project Youth.
00:08What we've been doing in Sussex over the last year, we've been running a youth project where
00:12we've been engaging with young people that are showing signs or that are at risk of being
00:16groomed or exploited, gangs or campy lines.
00:19What comes with that is knife crime.
00:21So part of that, we've added a scheme into the youth project where we've been installing
00:25Catastrophic Bleeds in Sussex, soon to be also we've been doing in London as well.
00:30So the reason why I'm putting these cabinets up is because knife crime is literally like
00:34through the roof at the moment and there's so many young people that are dying due to
00:37Catastrophic Bleeds, parents having to bury their children at an early age and it's devastating
00:42families.
00:43Not only is it, they're going to have to then go through trials and grueling trials to hear
00:47about how that case started, how the offence actually took place.
00:52They're then going to have to live many, many years moving forward where they're not
00:56going to see their children anymore.
00:58Within our cabinets, there's instructions of how to use the items that's inside.
01:02There's instructions in the gauze, there's instructions in the bags itself, because a
01:06lot of people question or wind up, well, if we've got no medical experience to use these
01:10kits, how can we use them?
01:11Well, there is instructions inside that tells you how to do so, but you are going to be
01:14on the front of the ambulance at the same time.
01:17They're going to know exactly what items you've got and they're going to tell you how to apply
01:20them onto the patient while you're still there.
01:23You can bleed out within three minutes, within three minutes, and an ambulance is not going
01:27to arrive to you for at least seven.
01:28So within that space of time, you're going to bleed out every ounce of blood that you
01:31have in your system.
01:33So having these kits in our local communities, I don't see it being a massive issue having
01:39them in our communities because they can save lives, but I feel if we can get more of these
01:44in our local towns and our local streets, far more people are going to be surviving
01:48knife attacks, car accidents, accidents at work.
01:51Currently, the amount of kits that I've got up in the UK is around 17.
01:55I've got a couple more that's due to go up over the next couple of months.
01:57I've got one going up in London and I've got one going up in Fabersham in Kent, just first
02:02flush for Kent.
02:03So we're also the first to do it there as well as that we were in Sussex.
02:06So as of three weeks ago, we had an email from London Bridge because we've got two cabinets
02:10up at London Bridge as well, and we were told that our cabinet was used and successfully
02:15saved somebody that had been attacked by a bottle.
02:17So it's a proven point and a proven fact that our kits actually do work.