Rachael Venables, news correspondent Corrie was just 13 when someone first pulled out a knife on him. Now, he says, "even the sound of cutlery gets me". "So if we're in a kitchen and there's cutlery shaking, my eyes are alert and I'm not cooling down. That's the PTSD I still hold today," he adds. After a difficult childhood, alcohol dependency, and two years of being homeless, he says his life was saved when he met youth worker Bradley Stephenson at King's College Hospital.