A Porsche, a gambling debt and a lap dance club.... the downfall of notorious gangster 'Gunz'

Growing up Kieron 'Gunz' Bryan didn't feel like he had many choices.

"My only options were the roads or football, so I thought I got to put a foot in the roads then," he said. "I didn't comprehend any other options - that was just the mentality at that time."

Bryan bounced around as a teenager between Hackney in east London and Moss Side. And on those tough inner city streets, good role models were few and far between.

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"Everyone I knew and looked up to, that looked like me, was either doing music or the roads, football or the roads. It's only understandable when you live that life and everyone around you was doing the same thing," he told podcast The Blue Tick Show.

Soon Bryan followed them into a life of crime. Smart, resourceful, charismatic and ambitious, he quickly made a success of it.

Aged 15, he organised a football tournament where teams had to pay to enter with a cash prize up for grabs. His own team won and used the proceeds to set himself up as a cannabis dealer. And, for £800, he also bought his first gun.

The weapon never left his side - Bryan claims he even used to use it as a post while playing football. Older lads on the streets, amused at the youngster who was always armed, sardonically dubbed him 'Gunz'. But just a few years later the nickname didn't seem so funny.

By his late teens and early 20s Bryan says he was making tens of thousands selling guns and smuggling wholesale amounts of drugs into the country. But, inevitably, the whole thing would come crashing down.

He got into a feud with a bouncer from Blackley. The doorman, it was said in court, accused Bryan