 Around this time they noticed their son's behaviour starting to change—he was getting involved in petty crime.From the age of 9 until he was 17, Bell was in and out of the Weymouth Residential Centre, with the state believing his parents were not fit to bring him up.His father said his son would tell him he was going to be like him, but he "wanted to be better than the gang that I was in, he wanted to be in another bigger gang, bigger than me."