Character Profile- Dealer

Name: unknown
Codename: Dealer
Age: 19
Occupation: Drug gang leader

Background

Despite his young age the dealer is notorious in his area where he has lived his entire life. Growing up he had a number of social problems starting with being raised solely by his mum when his dad received life imprisonment for murder during a robbery before he was born. His mum prevented him from ever seeing his dad believing that he would corrupt him through his misdeeds. Therefore he has never met his dad his entire life and so has grown up to hate authority because despite her best efforts, his mum could not control him as a child.

His first run in with the police was when he was seven years old after shoplifting with his mates. Since that first taste of crime he has gradually got worse and worse; Graffiti,vandalism, robbery, smoking in school. Eventually he ended up working for  a small time drug dealer selling at school and making deliveries to houses. When his boss was arrested when he was 17 he assumed the position as head of the gang and since then has been busy making contacts to build up his control over his area.

He brought in new and addictive drugs that were low in use in the area but 2 years later in the period in which the period in which the film takes is when he entrusts a new and rising member of his group, the main character Shaun, with the dealing of the drug at his local sixth form.

The character is violent, controlling and relentless which will be shown in the narrative in his quest to deal with Shaun towards the end of the film.