Early Life
Murphy was raised in a two-bedroom flat in Arden, Glasgow, until the age of twelve, when he emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa, after his father became unemployed.
Murphy returned to Britain at the age of eighteen to study Politics and European Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where he worked as a waiter in order to fund his studies.
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