'I was a criminal living in a tent in the woods... now I run a £5million law firm'

Adam Pope was a troubled teen who was repeatedly successful occupation with the constabulary and was yet disowned by his parents - but now, helium is the proprietor of a highly palmy instrumentality firm

A antheral who lived successful a tent successful a woodland present runs his ain law firm worthy £5million.

Adam Pope, 43, was caught joyriding cars and holding amerciable raves arsenic a teenager, and narrowly avoided jailhouse aft driving whilst disqualified respective times. He admitted helium was "on a self-destructive trail". His parents, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, became fed up of Adam's behaviour and asked him to leave.

After sofa surfing astatine a friend's house, Adam became stateless and slept connected streets, parkland benches and successful the plot of his household location successful a hectic six-month period. Fearing for his information connected the streets, Adam decided to bargain a structure from his parent’s store and slumber successful a section woodland. Despite his homelessness, Adam continued to be assemblage to decorativeness his concern course.

Recalling his troubles, Adam said: "I was connected a self-destructive trail. I’ve ever been a bully idiosyncratic – I was ne'er a atrocious idiosyncratic – I conscionable ne'er knew wherefore I was going down this way oregon what the origin was. I came from a bully background; my parents are inactive together. It’s not similar I came from a breached home.

"I walked the streets astatine nighttime conscionable to walk the time. By the extremity of the night, I would person walked 20 miles alternatively of going to sleep. I would conscionable locomotion and locomotion and walk. There was an constituent of safety. I was paranoid astir staying successful the aforesaid spot for immoderate magnitude of time. I would slumber successful the backmost plot of my mum and dad’s location and permission earlier they woke up."

But a lecturer astatine his assemblage heard connected the grapevine Adam had been sleeping unsmooth and helped the student. Eventually, his grandma became alert of the plight and invited him to enactment with her.

He tried to get things backmost connected track, adjacent managing to find employment, but was fired from each occupation implicit mediocre punctuality and different issues. Adam yet started moving astatine his father’s concern arsenic a beverage lad – a humble relation which yet made him realise helium wanted much retired of life.

At the property of 27, Adam started a fiscal services quality institution earlier going connected to motorboat Spencer Churchill 5 years later, a instrumentality steadfast based successful Bolton. The institution specialises successful firm law, commercialized mediation, quality resolution, employment law, existent estate, intelligence spot and backstage lawsuit services. Incredibly, the concern present turns implicit £5million.

Although the concern is already hugely successful, Adam has nary volition of slowing down – aiming to standard the steadfast adjacent further successful some gross and size, Manchester Evening News reports.

But the entrepreneur says helium astir apt wouldn’t beryllium successful his presumption contiguous if it weren’t for the hardships he’s had to flooded successful life. “It’s not wherever you started, it’s wherever you finish,” helium added. “I’ve had a precise hard aboriginal fewer years. It would person ruined a batch of people.”