Matthew Ridge

And like I just, I kind of froze.

And you know what?

He was like, he was my best mate.

He was like, oh, Matthew, congratulations on making the All Blacks.

And I just looked at him, I said, fuck you, cunt, and just kept going.

But by that stage, I was so, like, I was so, like, I was really bitter, too.

Like, I was bitter.

And I was filthy on the cops.

Filthy.

And to this day, like, I don't trust them.

How did that change your perception?

So when my son, like, any of my children, like, and that's because a lot of them are good, but there's a lot that are bad.

And we've got to make peace with that, right?

So I'd say to anybody out there that gets in trouble, if the police knock on your door, say nothing, call a lawyer and say, that's it, don't want to talk to you.

Are you going to arrest me or fuck off until you are?

And I know I'm getting aggressive and shit, but, like, it actually raises my hackles that, like, my family were put through three years of shit and they were prepared to let me go down even though they knew.

We hadn't done it.

They had the evidence right there that we hadn't done it.

They cost us so much money that we didn't have.

I think it was about my grandparents stumped up about $80,000.