He was devoted to his teenage boys. Then he was sent to jail — and broke his solemn vows

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He put his troubled past behind when he became a father, until he slipped up after a decade and a half. While serving his latest sentence, he talks about the mistakes he has made, on the podcast Imperfect by CNA Insider.

. The limited series delves into the questions parents face, with heartfelt stories about dealing with parental dilemmas.After his children were born, James went on to run his own mobile phone business. But it failed when Alpha and Bravo were aged five and three respectively. His marriage soured, then one day his wife left after a quarrel.

But he made time for them whenever possible, cheering them on at school sports days and taking them for rides in his lorry. Every night, he says, the boys hugged him to sleep. Even when he met someone new, the boys were happy for him. “We’ve grown up already,” he remembers them telling him. “It’s okay for you to have a girlfriend — you don’t really need to spend so much time with us.”

With remission for good behaviour, he had hoped he could be out in less than two years, “maybe just a year” if he could get into a community-based programme. “A short sentence,” as he puts it.

 

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