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Byline: DAVID COHEN

SAM Johnson arrives late for our interview, his pants sagging fashionably halfway down his backside. He is not 15 minutes late, nor even an hour. No, Sam does "late" in style - arriving a good 15 hours late.

"I was nicked by the police, yeah, for smoking cannabis," he apologises matterof-factly in his south London drawl when we eventually hook up, our 8pm meeting at a coffee shop having morphed into an 11am one the following day.

But he's pitched up, which is something, because with teenagers like Sam - the kind left to fend for themselves on the streets of London and whom the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John ...

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