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John鈥檚 mother thinks he is involved with county lines. How can she get him to stop?

From a fun and gorgeous, football-loving youngster John has turned into an uncontrollable teen.

He has had several run-ins with the police, has vast amounts of money in the house and sleeps with a knife under his pillow.

Tanya and Antony are middle-class professionals and had big dreams for their son. Now they just want to keep him safe.

鈥淚 went from academic expectation, to no GCSEs - then I got down to be alive, and actually not harm anyone else."

They鈥檝e reached out for years for support as John has special needs; they have had to fight his diagnosis, for his education and now they are struggling to find a way to keep him from a life of drugs and crime.

They鈥檝e tried every parenting trick in the book. 鈥溾�業t's all about setting boundaries鈥�. Yeah, right! We're kind of beyond boundaries.鈥�

Now they might have to deprive him of his liberty to keep him alive.

Producer: Sarah Bowen
Narrator: Grace Dent