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‘By the time the abuse ended, I was 16, and a husk’: how Johnny Daukes survived his childhood – and fought back

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‘By the time the abuse ended, I was 16, and a husk’: how Johnny Daukes survived his childhood – and fought back
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Daukes was an outgoing 10-year-old when he met boys’ club leader John Phillips. As an adult, he lived through years of chaos and self-sabotage, while repressing his experiences. Then he found out his brother had been abused by Phillips tooIn early 2020, Johnny Daukes found an old storage box in his loft with a big black folder inside marked Toxic Hazard. It was stuffed with old sheets of paper: every song he’d written, starting as a teenager, just a boy with a guitar, then for Fin, his 90s indie

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