'You disgusting n*****,' screamed the SAS officer as he tried to break me in a mock interrogation... but I'd heard it all before on the council estate where I grew up: MELVYN DOWNES tells brutal truth about being Britain's first black SAS soldier

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The wooden cabin in the remote Welsh mountains was packed with hulking blokes sitting silently on bunks with our kit taking up whatever space was left.