'I knew what I did was wrong': Ex-convict Jon Watts who turned his life around to become TV chef after stabbing rival opens up about how prison made him a better man
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'I knew what I did was wrong': Ex-convict Jon Watts who turned his life around to become TV chef after stabbing rival opens up about how prison made him a better man

Daily Mail  

A TV chef has recalled the horrific moment he stabbed a young man as a teenager before learning to cook in prison and turning his life around. Jon Watts, 35, fell into gangs in his home city of Oxford after leaving school aged 16 with no qualifications. Jon Watts, 35, fell into gangs in his home city of Oxford after leaving school aged 16 with no qualifications Inspirational: He is seen making his cooking debut on This Morning Recalling the immediate aftermath of the stabbing in 2007, he said: 'I remember looking at him and knowing I'd done something wrong. Mr Watts said a police officer had come across the victim shortly after the stabbing and gave him first aid. Mr Watts now has more than a million followers on social media The chef showed This Morning presenters a moon board, which he said was 'very personal' to him The chicken and prosciutto milanese that he rustled up Mr Watts was charged with GBH in February 2008 and pleaded guilty before being sent to HMP Reading, a young offenders' institution.

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