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Rachael was in the Brownies as a child. Her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother and younger brother in Leyton, London. She was happy at school with lots of friends and was a very good long-distance runner. Rachael was even enjoying being in the police cadets.
Everything seemed to change when she became a Goth, she was booted out of the cadets for failing to remove her 18 piercings and she began staying out all night, never letting her mum know where she was.
The last of the teenagers to graduate, Rachael returned to England and decided she wanted to re-join the police cadets and plan a career working with animals in the Royal Military Police. She reduced her piercings and kicked drugs.
One year after the camp, Rachael is studying for a course in animal management in a top North London college. As part of her studies she is planning a study trip working with animals abroad this year. Things are still good between her and her mum and the teenager is still a drugs-free zone.
'You can look at me and say you know she's not changed but inside I feel like I'm a completely different person now,' Rachael says. 'You just realise that you're at Redcliff and you might as well make it a positive experience, rather than being negative all the time about it.'
Helen, Rachael's mum, says, 'She looks beautiful, really beautiful. There's a glow to her face that brings tears to my eyes. That was the Rachael two or three years before and she's back to that Rachael. I think Utah and Redcliff have worked magic.'
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