Early Biography
Michael Groce was brought up in Tinworth House, on a rough housing estate in Vauxhall, England. Much of his early life was spent in residential care. He was involved with street gangs, and had been exposed to guns from his childhood. He fluttered in and out of prison - through his life, he accrued 50 convictions and 15 different spells in prison.
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