Mikey was a student who worked in a hotel kitchen with Sian Powers and offered her and Sophie Webster a floor to sleep on when they were thrown out of their Sheffield digs for non-payment of rent when they were on the run in September 2010. Sophie was uncertain about taking up the offer as they hardly knew him but, with ten others in the flat, Sian pointed out that there was safety in numbers. Mikey took them home to his pigsty student accommodation where flatmate Craig was waiting for the food he’d stolen from the hotel kitchen, having eaten one bowl of sugar puffs all day.