A gun-toting bounty hunter wants to return to Angus to set problem youths back on the right track.
Christian Matlock emigrated to America for a fresh start three years ago after going off the rails while living in Brechin. The former Andover Primary and Brechin High School pupil was brought up as Christian Allday by his mum Linda.
He wanted to be a policeman, but was instead forced to move to the States to make his dream of catching criminals a reality.
As a youngster he was constantly in trouble and was fined £175 and ordered to pay £200 compensation by Forfar Sheriff Court in 2006 for assaulting a man who allegedly threatened to squirt his then girlfriend with a water pistol.
After realising he was throwing his life away by drinking, fighting and causing trouble for the police, the 6ft 2in, 18-stone, 25-year-old decided to move to the States and turn his life around.
He tracked down his birth father Ricky Matlock, a retired American marine, and then changed his name because it “suits as a bounty hunter”.
Christian joined the National Bail Enforcers And Security Alliance of America and became the first UK citizen to get recruited as a bounty hunter in the USA.
He told The Courier: “I moved to the United States to become a bounty hunter and I have become very successful at it.
“My arrest count is nearing 350 but I want to help kids back home. My goal is just to do something fun for the kids that maybe they can learn from and look forward in life.
“I want to come back to Angus and do talks with troubled kids and people who misbehave because that’s the kind of childhood I had.
“The youth of today throughout Scotland is just getting worse with behaviour and lacking ambition. I’m looking to come back to Angus to speak to the younger kids and prove that you can come from nothing and still become something.”
Christian chases some of America’s most wanted as soon as they skip bail, wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with a Beretta .38 handgun and a Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun.
He took his inspiration from TV show Dog The Bounty Hunter, which follows the exploits of real-life bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and his family chasing down actual fugitives in the Hawaiian Islands.