I’m a former criminal and I’ve lost count of the number of people who hired me to stab. I was paid £100,000 to murder someone.

A former criminal admitted he lost count of the number of people he was hired to protect and says he was paid £100,000 to murder someone.

The unnamed man appeared in the Channel 4 documentary series Ask The Mask, in an episode titled Ex-Hitman Reveals Gang Life.

In the episode, which was shared on YoutubeThe man, who hid his face behind a badger mask, revealed that he was convicted of armed robberies, drug trafficking and violent crimes, and claimed that he “lived as a person who had nothing to lose.”

The Ask The Mask panel questioned the criminal, whose voice was distorted to protect his identity, questioning him about how he became involved in violent crimes and challenging him about his morals.

The man, who called himself ‘Badger’, revealed that he began offending at the age of eight, saying he was a product of his environment.

He said: “I was in my teens when I saw my father use a knife, I grew up in that sort of area and it fueled some of my anger.”

Speaking about how he became involved in violent crimes, he said: ‘The gangs chose me, I didn’t choose them.

‘They were aware of my violent reputation, a member who operated in one of the big cities approached me, I felt good that they needed me and I could live this life.

I have drugs on tap and money. I was offered £100,000 to commit murder. The people involved are very rich gentlemen, multimillionaires.

He added: ‘100,000 was a lot of money for me, I liked my drugs. I lived the party life and spent a lot.’

Although Badger said he wanted to go through with the murder for the money, the plan changed at the last minute.

Badger, who was in and out of prison over 21 years, said: “I didn’t make the decision not to do it. I had to choose a chance and shoot him and make 100 percent sure he’s dead. But they gave me another job: that was something very valuable to the organization in a safe.

“I had to go back and tell them that I hadn’t received the contents of the safe, so after that job went wrong, the organized crime gang became angry and cut ties with me, so they canceled all the jobs they had prepared “. me.’

He said that, looking back, he is now glad he didn’t have the opportunity to take someone’s life.

Although the ex-criminal did not murder anyone, he claimed to have left many with lifelong injuries.

He said: ‘People almost died in my hands, (I gave people) a hole in their necks, scarred faces, scars on different parts of their heads, I cut a guy’s leg open with a knife. hNow he has a permanent scar there, he almost died.

‘Someone who was supposed to commit an armed robbery with me swindled me out of some money. I took out a pilot Survival knife, which is like a mini rambo knife. I stuck it in his neck.

“It went through his mouth, through his tonsils and almost out the other side of his head, I felt like it was justice.”

He admitted to wounding at least 50 people and said it was only by sheer luck that they all survived his attacks.

He stated that he feels remorse for his past, but stated that he is now “a new person” and has been reformed.

He said: ‘I was a bad person for several reasons. My upbringing was very difficult, I suffered a lot. Domestic violence family life. and I suffered sexual abuse. When I was raped I found myself with an off switch, it gave me a different edge for violence.’

‘I was in and out of prison for 21 years and served about 15 years of actual imprisonment. The last time I went to prison I wrote to the judge and told him to throw away the key.

“He said, ‘I’m not going to give you a life.’ phrase, I don’t think you really wanted to do this,’ those were his words and then, instead of sentencing me to life in prison, he gave me three years.’

The former offender said he now works to help get children and teenagers out of gang life and goes to therapy for past traumas.