At his worst, Steve Pope would down two bottles of vodka in a day. On another occasion, while sober but distracted by his troubles, he crashed his car into a ditch. Thrown into despair by redundancy and divorce – and without a home to call his own – he even thought of taking his own life. “I could have deliberately driven my car into a wall,” he says. “I could see no other way out.” But now he has turned his life around with the help of Dover homelessness charity Emmaus and is preparing to open his own gym. The 55-year-old told KentOnline: “The hardest thing to say is two words and one letter:…
