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Article: At 10, Sam nearly killed a boy. Now his life in crack dens is showing at the Tate; One of London's 'feral' children has created an art installation as powerful as works by Tracey Emin.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2004
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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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