Danny Tipping

'I don't question that Deandra was under the influence of a controlled substance. But there's never any suggestion that he was ingesting it involuntarily. He was ingesting the cocaine himself. You can't go: "I drank a fifth of whisky and I don't remember killing people." It's not a defence, so that was off the table. There's got to be some responsibility on the individual here, you know. I mean, it starts with the individual. You don't blame the drug, you don't blame the gun, you blame the individual.

'I accept full responsibility for the way my life turned out and stuff. People always saying how unfair the world is and stuff, ain't nobody ever said that life was meant to be fair. People just got to accept that. There ain't no sense in just being bitter about it. That's life.'

"Would you like to be my son?“ I said I was his son, but he asked if I wanted to be adopted. I didn't know what it meant and he explained it. It was ecstatic, overjoyed. I wasn't a sex toy anymore. I could leave, I was doing it right.

'I don't know if I wanted revenge on John. I don't know if I wanted revenge on my mother... I think I wanted revenge on the system. I wanted the world to feel my pain. I didn't want to exist. I wanted to die. No more.'

'I don't remember any of her features, and I don't know why my mind clouds that. But it was the first loving hug that I had in a long time.' Tears welled in his eyes as he recalled it.

If you say you truly love someone and then you do something that harms them then you truly don't love them. So stop and think about what is going to harm them.

'You try to get into their mind but it's impossible. I try to understand but I can't, I never will. I can only accept them for who they are.'

'People always want to say I'm sorry. That doesn't work. When you ring a bell, the bell doesn't un-ring, you can't unravel time and go back.'

'If she was truly unhappy she could have just left. People do that. They pack their bags and go. But she took the coward's way out.'

I was intelligent enough to see it was more money, but I wasn't intelligent enough to know exactly where I was going.