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‘A freak incident made me rethink my life — and led me to Cambodia’
Born in Roundhay, Leeds, I moved to south London when I joined the Metropolitan Police after finishing school. I spent three and a half years in the Met until something happened that made me have a complete rethink [says John Brown, 62]. I was on the beat …