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Real Lives - Renton Baker

  • Holy Ascension Church, Oddington Oddington Moreton-in-Marsh, England, GL56 0XA United Kingdom (map)

Renton Baker led a double life — simultaneously a loving father and football hooligan using baseball bats, knuckle-dusters and ammonia to temporarily blind his victims. It reached a crisis point when he planned to kill a man for landing his son in hospital.

Renton began a life-changing path, but a year later his youngest son asked him to help retrieve £2,000 inheritance money that he had lent to a cocaine addict.  For a brief moment Renton’s rage spilled.

The police were already at the scene when he was armed with a knife to fight for his son’s rights. Renton was charged with the attempted murder of a policeman and his intended victim.

He encountered God and his life was Changed.


A series of interviews arranged by The North Cotswolds Gospel Partnership and led by evangelist Roger Carswell talking to people in order to discover their real life stories.