I met Sean near Charing Cross Train Station. He has no family left due to a generic illness in his family. He is bisexual and speaks openly about it. Check this out!
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So we are here with Sean who’s been on the street of London for how long um I would say 10 months right what happened that you ended up on the streets I had um a breakup of my relationship and then my brother passed away in a car crash and I started drinking heavily and I lost my home and ended up coming to live well I basically ended up on the Streets of London is of London Yeah you mentioned that you you’re not from London yourself from outside London from I’m originally from Oxford
um I lived in New Zealand for 15 years came back went to to Oxford back to Oxford um but yeah I’ve ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves like big ones West Africa tongo yeah exactly yes the system’s broken I’ll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company and kovid obviously it wiped it out yeah what happened did you oh
ended up using crack drugs hello how are you tired I’m cold and tired how was last night cold it’s very cold last night pretty cold last night yeah yeah so you slept here and I out where it’s Archie Arctic in hospital what happened it’s got a testified it’s very bad chest infection very bad chest infection and he ended up in hospital you’re on your own yeah
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were you growing up in a dysfunctional family or something like that my um my brother was the last sibling um to be alive and he found out that he had hunterdon’s disease um and he
it’s basically a muscle wasting disease a bit like Michael Michael J fox that has got um and he he basically um it was told well the people people thoughts that he he killed himself because he couldn’t he couldn’t cope with the fact that he had the disease I’ve been I’ve been tested I don’t have it it’s generic my sister had it my dad had it my auntie had it and yeah I’m luckily touch wood if I had some wood um um it’s all concrete um I don’t I don’t I don’t have the disease so I’m clear
did you say how long probably about nine ten months and months Non-Stop and you’re sleeping rough like like this I when I first started stay um sleeping in London um I had no no sleeping bag I had no blanket I was just literally on on the pavement that was it just in my clothes yeah so it was really it was really bad and you know when it snowed always I was asleep in the park and I woke up covered in snow I had nothing nothing
absolutely I looked like a Snowman when I got up
I literally I literally had nothing at all
the way do you catch things like that you just have to go over it you just have to deal with it I’m fully vaccinated from um coved I haven’t had the monkey pox vaccination yet um but apart from that
and how you make money to survive I don’t I beg I beg you you just look like a place where you can beg no I go on to Oxford Street Leicester Square and I sat on my bag
I sell my bag put a hat in front of me and if people are kind enough to give me money then then I’ll get money but apart from that I don’t I when I first came on the streets this will tell you how much weight I’ve lost I used to be a 34 inch waist I now fit into 28 inch waist and the 20 inch 28 inch waist is is falling off me now so when I walk they they slipped down and I have to keep pulling them up so that’s how much weight I’ve lost all right I’ve gone I’ve gone from being I was 82 kgs and I’m down to
69 now you’re messing about some substances or something no never take drugs never no I I drank alcohol when I can get it
problem in your case no I don’t I don’t I don’t take drugs never ever taking drugs and I never will right that’s that’s unique among the homeless people come up to me and ask me if I want Spice um if we’re on coke heroin and it’s like no I’ve lost I’ve lost a good friends through drug taking and I’ll never do it myself never it doesn’t matter how bad it gets I I just I just will not take drugs
myself and a year dead
are you is your health going downhill well off as I said I’ve lost so much weight I feel shitty every day um I’m not I’m I mean somebody come up earlier they gave me a sandwich some fruits um a drink and I had that and that’s all I’ve had in the past five days are you not hungry I’m starving
something no no no that’s fine I don’t expect you to well you know I’m just sitting here for a short time and I feel the coldness coming from that how do you think I fell I mean I sleep on it every night if I was you I would look for another place look here man yeah the only reason the only reason I stay here it’s got cameras and it’s open and nobody tells you to get out of here yeah but you go anywhere you you see people sleeping um you see people sleeping in doorways you see people sleeping in bizarre places that’s not me I I feel safer here than what I would anywhere else
but it’s cold but you get used to it you get used to it this is why I’ve got a sleeping bag underneath me because it keeps me warm
oh he’s praying
he he does this every day he likes to pray in here he’s a he’s a street cleaner so he comes here he prays and then he goes off
right anyway to shop Sean if there’s anybody watching that you know like the family members or anything like that I don’t have family don’t have family is there anything my say to the audience my my mum um sorry my father died when I was four my grandmother died when I was 13. my mum and my sister died probably
two years ago and then my brother died six months ago and so I’m I’m just on my own I’ll just have a look after myself
I don’t get up you get abuse when you’re on the streets um I had um before I had this I had a um
I had a suitcase and it had my iPads my laptop and a phone in it and somebody come up when I was asleep and they stole it so a homeless guy stole from a homeless guy Lord they do that they do that and my shoes my shoes are in there if you don’t hide your shoes they steal your shoes and you have to sleep don’t leave your shoes around no but some some guys come here and they they just leave their shoes out right like they’ll get in the sleeping bag and leave their shoes there and it’s like why do that because somebody can just come along and steal them and you’ve got no shoes to walk in the next day so if you don’t hide them or keep them keep them in your in your um sleeping bag with you
they’ll get stolen shoes are very likely to stolen especially if they’re Nikes or Reeboks or or a well-known brand then yeah they’ll get stolen it’s like anything if you don’t nail it down or keep it with you or I go to sleep at night and I put my arm through a strap so that I know if somebody tries to take it they’ll wake me up London is pretty safe here it’s safer than most cities yeah yep yep there’s organizations that help you out um there’s a place called connections they give you free food every day you can shower um you can get all your clothes washed and dried um I was there yesterday and I got everything dried and washed and dried um but yeah they can only do so much they’re only open until three so they’re open from nine and then till three um but apart from that you get nothing like even the councils the councils do you’re receiving any benefits yeah I’m I’m getting benefits and getting benefits but it’s only three
um you get 340 pound a month is that all yep nothing else
so you expect to live on 340 a month and you expect you’re expected you’re expected to go to um appointments and to travel to the appointment
no that’s fine to travel to the appointment you’re expected to pay the money to get there and it’s like 10 10 12 quid every time and if you don’t turn up they stop your payments
stop your payments before yep last month last month yep the stopped it they paid me four pound ninety one and I said to them how do you expect me to live on four pound 91.
literally four pound ninety one for for the whole month and I went there and said how’d you expect oh they said go to a food bank and I said if you go if I go to a food bank they give me cans of stuff how am I supposed to heat it up how am I supposed to cook this stuff when I’m living on the streets
they give they give you stuff because they think you’re in a house and you’ve got a microwave and a a cooker and a fridge but I don’t I live on the streets I don’t have electric nothing so is there anything in the future that may change your faith in you no I’m gonna be dead
if there’s cold weather it Carries On The Way It Is
I don’t I’m 50 51. and I don’t see me living past 52. and that’s been honest
and I’m I’m I get no help from from the government I get no help from the council I’ll get no help from anybody and she got these cops that come round at night like one two in the morning and they wake you up to make sure you’re okay and it’s like I was asleep why are you [ __ ] waking me up sorry I don’t mean to swear um why why are you waking me up at one two o’clock in the morning when you can clearly see I’m asleep
people want to donate to you or help you in some way is there any contact that you can live and they can get hold of you like a phone number on the email yeah my email is s Mallon so s m a Double L
my email is s Mallon so s m a double l o n 71 yahoo.com or I can give you my telephone number your easy easy time when you’re not begging you’re taking it easy and then you’re going back on like a street we can stay here um Monday to Friday we can stay here until six a.m then they kick us off because the workers come in
um at the weekends we can stay here Saturday Sunday all day apart from that nothing Charing Cross they don’t like homeless people using their toilets um but they don’t open their toilets till seven so normally I go over the bridge and go to Waterloo tears the toilets yeah yeah um but apart from that and then I’ll go to connections for a shower Monday Tuesday Friday um but Saturday Sunday we’re just left out very well um it’s it’s not it’s not I wish it was
well you go you you get to know you get to know it so oh I can’t find my number
in yeah
you know what I mean I wish
you just got out I haven’t had sex in nine months
I would love somebody’s come and sweep me off my feet and take me home and yeah
it’s been hard man there’s nothing wrong with you you know you you can get it if you want to yeah but when like not being funny but when somebody sees me with this carrying this around
where am I gonna leave it it’ll get stolen
yes that can take care of it for that time they don’t do it they steal it themselves they think there’s something in it all I’ve got all I literally have in my backpack is this sleeping bag this sleeping bag this and a change of clothes that’s it there’s nothing valuable in it but people still steal it because they think there’s something in it
and people just treat you like [ __ ] they think they look at you they say you’re on the straights and they think you’re a piece of [ __ ] and that’s it they don’t give a [ __ ] about you well man put your weight together get laid anytime man oh wish are you straight
I’m bi okay it’s a shame you’re not bi as well we could have a good time
so well sorry I should n’t I said well you left your phone number we let you know we gave you a phone number you may get a phone calls from my own people
know you never know but I wish you all the best you say my thank you thank you he said you’re homosexual
he said are you gay and I said why are you asking he said um because I’m home now I don’t want to [ __ ] and that’s right
obviously as well but it was like no you’re just a random number and I could see him and it’s like it’s not interesting so you do like a maybe like anything like that you know for cash as well and things like that maybe if you offered me 20 equipment
it’s a bit you don’t have the enlightenment you know for this you know that for the for the audio man but it’s good to well see how the audio is in this one yeah but yeah you do whatever you come in it to survive and uh
you did tonight and said to me I’ll give you 20 quid if you suck me off once again
but yeah I’m not I’m not fully I mean I’d go with a woman but I go with men just
whatever happens
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