I watched my friend get stabbed to death...it was a huge wake-up call

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Meet the ex-gang member who turned his life around after a friend 'died in his arms' - and now runs anti-knife crime campaigns.  Carl Scott, 42, decided it was time to get on the straight and narrow after 22 years of drug and burglary-related crimes.   Carl had led a "pure dysfunctional lifestyle" - which saw him stabbed in the leg, watch his friend get stabbed to death and spend multiple years in prison.

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00:00My name's Cole Scott and I'm the co-founder of Project Youth.

00:08What we've been doing in Sussex over the last year, we've been running a youth project where

00:12we've been engaging with young people that are showing signs or that are at risk of being

00:16groomed or exploited, gangs or campy lines.

00:19What comes with that is knife crime.

00:21So part of that, we've added a scheme into the youth project where we've been installing

00:25Catastrophic Bleeds in Sussex, soon to be also we've been doing in London as well.

00:30So the reason why I'm putting these cabinets up is because knife crime is literally like

00:34through the roof at the moment and there's so many young people that are dying due to

00:37Catastrophic Bleeds, parents having to bury their children at an early age and it's devastating

00:42families.

00:43Not only is it, they're going to have to then go through trials and grueling trials to hear

00:47about how that case started, how the offence actually took place.

00:52They're then going to have to live many, many years moving forward where they're not

00:56going to see their children anymore.

00:58Within our cabinets, there's instructions of how to use the items that's inside.

01:02There's instructions in the gauze, there's instructions in the bags itself, because a

01:06lot of people question or wind up, well, if we've got no medical experience to use these

01:10kits, how can we use them?

01:11Well, there is instructions inside that tells you how to do so, but you are going to be

01:14on the front of the ambulance at the same time.

01:17They're going to know exactly what items you've got and they're going to tell you how to apply

01:20them onto the patient while you're still there.

01:23You can bleed out within three minutes, within three minutes, and an ambulance is not going

01:27to arrive to you for at least seven.

01:28So within that space of time, you're going to bleed out every ounce of blood that you

01:31have in your system.

01:33So having these kits in our local communities, I don't see it being a massive issue having

01:39them in our communities because they can save lives, but I feel if we can get more of these

01:44in our local towns and our local streets, far more people are going to be surviving

01:48knife attacks, car accidents, accidents at work.

01:51Currently, the amount of kits that I've got up in the UK is around 17.

01:55I've got a couple more that's due to go up over the next couple of months.

01:57I've got one going up in London and I've got one going up in Fabersham in Kent, just first

02:02flush for Kent.

02:03So we're also the first to do it there as well as that we were in Sussex.

02:06So as of three weeks ago, we had an email from London Bridge because we've got two cabinets

02:10up at London Bridge as well, and we were told that our cabinet was used and successfully

02:15saved somebody that had been attacked by a bottle.

02:17So it's a proven point and a proven fact that our kits actually do work.

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