Terry Ellis, 54, fell into a life of crime when he was a teenager and would dress as a policeman to steal goods worth up to £4 million at a time.

But after 28 years of crime, the armed robber was finally caught by police while on the run and forced to confess all to his children.

He has now completely turned his life around and is supporting a new campaign called More Than My Past that aims to show that ex-offenders and recovering addicts are ‘more than the labels provided to them’.