Knife crime campaigner and ‘male role model of the year’ is serial domestic abuser, say victims
We exclusively report that Quinton Green, who is regularly lauded by local dignitaries for his anti-violence work, has been in prison on at least two occasions for violence against women.
By Sarah Ward
West Northants Male role model of the year 2024, was sentenced to twenty weeks in prison for a vicious assault on the mother of his child
A series of women he has been romantically involved with say he violently beat them, including one incident with a hammer. At least two women have also needed restraining orders against him
Green, who was given a court sentence for an attack on a minor, has been working with children in libraries this summer
We have also spoken with women who have worked with him professionally and been threatened by him
Green says he has deep regret over his actions and is a changed person.
A knife crime campaigner, awarded ‘Male Role Model of the Year’, is a serial domestic abuser, say several women who had long relationships with him.
Quinton Green, the youth worker, musician and campaigner, who works with a number of public organisations in Northants, has been to prison for his assaults on women and his convictions include an attack on a 14 year old girl, whose mum was in a relationship with him.
Our exclusive investigation has found that Green, 48 is a serial abuser, who has committed a series of violent assaults on his partners for more than two decades, including an attack with a hammer in the early 2000s.
One young woman was so scared of him, she handed out flyers with his face on at her London university so that fellow students could warn her if they saw him in the area.
Today, a number of his victims have bravely decided to share their stories, in order to expose the man, who in 2024 won West Northamptonshire Council’s ‘Male Role Model of the Year’ and last year was given a prestigious award for community work by the High Sheriff - the King’s representative in Northants.
These women - some of whom’s identity is being protected - say he is a fraud and a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ who should not be working with vulnerable people, receiving public funds or being applauded by local dignitaries.
They have been living in fear of him for many years, but as his profile continues to rise, they say the Northamptonshire public, local schools, businesses, councils and the charity projects that fund him, need to know who Quinton Green really is.
Serial domestic abuser
Emma Cherry* (her identity is being protected) first met Quinton in a bar in the late 1990s. He was then in his early 20s and she was a few years older and had a young child. They were together for three years, but their relationship ended after he attacked her in her home with a hammer.
Emma recalls:
“The abuse started in the first year, a slap and then physical punching. He beat me up a couple of times and the worst one was when he attacked me with a hammer. He tried to kill me.”
She says they had been out at a bar with friends and then had gone back to her home to continue the party. Green took offence to something Emma said and he punched her. She tried to escape upstairs to her bedroom but he followed her and picked up a hammer that had been in the room as they had just built a new bedframe. He rained down blows on her, but luckily friends intervened and protected her.
She said:
“If the people were not there, I would not be here today, because it took three guys to pull him off me.
“The police came, I went off in an ambulance, they took statements, but they could not find him and it just got dropped and I was so disappointed in that, because he should have gone to prison for what he did to me.”
Tanya Evans* (her identity is being protected) was just 20 when she met Quinton in 2010. Green, who then was rapping under the moniker Champagne Bubblee caught her as she stumbled down the stairs of a Milton Keynes nightclub and after chatting that night, they went on to have a year long relationship.
Tanya says she did not see a violent side to Green - he once made a comment that he did not have a temper around her - but that all changed one night as their relationship was starting to fizzle out. He rang her and asked her to meet him outside a bar in St Giles Street, Northampton, where he was drinking with friends. When she arrived in her car he came outside and told her to park some spaces back and returned to the bar, telling her he would be back shortly.
After 40 minutes he had not come outside, so Tanya pulled the car forward. When he came out he saw Tanya’s car had moved and started shaking his head. He then got in her car.
She says:
“He said ‘come here’ and I thought he was going to give me a hug, so I turned round to give him a hug and then, I don’t know whether he punched or slapped me, I just saw a massive flash. I was confused for a second and I said ‘Did you just hit me?’
“He just shouted ‘Drive the car, drive the car now.’ It was this weird fight of flight moment and I thought to myself ‘get out the car’ but then he started banging on the dashboard and it just scared me so I started driving. And whilst I was driving he started pulling my hair and then he was pulling my handbrake up, so I was skidding everywhere.
“I drove out of St Giles Street and then I can’t remember what the road is called, but left would have been the police station and I kind of hesitated and thought ‘shall I go there?’ , he looked and was pulling my hair and so I drove forward.
“And he was just shouting loads of random things like, he was saying stuff like he was going to get my dad, put him in the back of a van and stab him in the heart. He said ‘You moved your car - why would you do that? So everyone can see you?’ And I was just crying. I was scared. I am holding my handbrake down while I am driving because he kept trying to pull it up.
“He told me to pull into this really dark alley near the boy’s school. I thought ‘if you go in there I don’ t think I am going to come out’ so I just put my foot down and drove really fast. I just headed towards his brother’s house and he told me to pull up at the bus stop.
“I just sat there and then he stroked my face. I was just shaking. I thought is he going to rape me? He then stroked my chest. He pulled my head round and told me to give him a kiss. He kissed my lips and then he said ‘Sorry’ and he said ‘Don’t be scared - I’m the same old Bubblee. I will call you later’.
“I just locked my doors and drove round and drove to my best friend’s house. I was in a state.”
Her friend called her family and the police. That night Green was arrested for common assault and was put in prison as he was serving a suspended sentence for an assault on a previous partner.
Tanya says while he was inside she received pressure from his family to drop the charges - he even wrote her a letter from prison, which she read in his mum’s house - but she decided to continue.
She gave evidence against him during the hearing at Corby magistrates court, but he was found not guilty after the magistrates had deliberated.
Tanya says:
“In the court he was saying that he did not do anything to me and making out I was obsessed with him and I am a fan, who made it up.”
By the time she went to court, she had moved to a London university to study, but she was so anxious that Green would pursue her, that she printed off flyers of his face and handed them out to other students in case he turned up.
Michelle Mackenzie began a relationship with Green in 2016 after knowing him socially for many years. Throughout their on-off relationship he was regularly violent, including when she was pregnant. Tragically their baby daughter Nia died after being born prematurely in April 2017 and the couple had a son together, in 2018, who Green has no contact with.
Michelle went to hospital on two occasions after he had attacked her. She describes Green as a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’.
One night he told her he had cheated with an ex and she remembers:
“He threw a phone at me, that burst a vessel in my boob, because he had thrown it that hard. I was in agony. He came into my bedroom and started hitting me with bottles, a chair that was in my room, coat hangers, whatever he could put his hands on he just threw at me.”
At the hospital she told staff she had fallen down the stairs.
On another occasion after they had been to a music event in Somerset where he had been MCing, he assaulted her in the hotel.
Michelle says:
“He threw cans of beer at me. I had to go for a head scan, where he bust my head open. He beat me so badly. I had his footprint on my face. He took a run at me. I hit the wall and split my head open. I thought he’d broken my arm.”
She had to drive herself to hospital and when she was receiving treatment he called her from outside the hospital telling her to hurry up.
After that occasion she went to the police and made a statement.
In April 2019 he was sentenced to 40 weeks in prison after a trial at Northampton Magistrates Court for actual bodily harm and disclosing private sexual photos of Michelle to others (commonly referred to as revenge porn). He also received a community order and was ordered to pay compensation for a different assault on Michelle, her daughter Paris and a male friend, one winter evening.
After drinking downstairs he then went up to the room where Michelle was and hit her in the mouth with a phone charger when she was on the phone to a work client. He then attacked her then 14 year old daughter Paris and beat her friend up outside in the snow.
Paris, now 22, said:
“I remember just hearing shouting and crying and I came out of my room and I remember seeing my mum outside her bedroom covered in blood.
“I’m pretty sure she was on the phone to the police and wanted him to get out of the house.
“I took her downstairs and she was sat in the living room and on the phone. He was stood in the hallway and I was stood in front of him trying to make sure he did not get into the living room to my mum.
“He barged past me and got to my mum - I ran after her and managed to grab the phone, as she was on the phone to the police and he wanted her off the phone.
“I took the phone because I thought if I had the phone he is not going to do anything to me, so I ran to the kitchen with it. He came after me - I remember him grabbing me up. My T-shirt was all ripped afterwards and I had marks on my shoulders and near my neck. He grabbed me and pulled me to the floor and was wrestling me to get the phone off me and hurting me at the time.
“I have seen him angry before and I had mainly heard incidents. But it was like him seeing red. It was like he did not care about what he was doing or who he was hurting. He was just full of rage. I just remember being really scared and I was not sure what he would do, or how far he would take it.”
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Rise of a knife crime campaigner
Green, 48, is well known in Northampton, having made a bit of a name for himself in the UK garage scene in the 2000s. He has performed at venues across the country and at party nightspots across Europe, working with (according to his own claims) big names such as Stormzy and grime artist Wiley.
Then he was known as Champagne Bubblee and had his own Facebook TV channel, where he would share his performances. A poet and lyricist he today performs under the name Mr Milise and has written the acclaimed poem Knife Sentence, which has been used in a number of schools and education initiatives to highlight youth violence.
After his prison sentence for assault and revenge porn against Michelle Mackenzie in 2019, he established himself as a knife crime campaigner, setting up Knife Crime Victim Support that year. According to a conversation he had on a podcast he says he was inspired to do so by a dream in which actor Idris Elba told him if he set up a knife crime charity, he would help him promote it (Last year he met Elba, appearing at a knife crime event with him where he performed his Knife Sentence poem).
After having what he describes as a ‘dysfunctional childhood’ the story he promotes is that he is a survivor of serious youth violence as aged 17 was stabbed in the back, stomach and multiple times in the arm after an argument.
Using his personal experience and following a number of tragic fatal stabbings of teenagers across the county Green has become a prominent figure in the Northants community work scene, often working with bereaved families to raise awareness about the dangers of carrying knives.
Knife Crime Victim Support and its later spin off MMAP CIC [Music, Mentoring, Arts & Poetry] also has a national profile, with 49,000 followers and Green often asked to perform at local municipal events.
He says a book about his life is also in the pipeline.
Threats to women he has worked with since becoming a campaigner
Green has also threatened and intimidated women he has not been romantically involved with. NN Journal has spoken to women who have known Green in a professional capacity in recent years, who say he has been menacing. He threatened to dig up dirt on one woman who challenged him in 2022 and posted lies online about her. She reported the incident to the police and her work put in place safeguarding measures for her. He also allegedly threatened the family of another co-worker.
‘Male role model of the year’
In 2024 Green was named West Northamptonshire Council’s ‘Male Role Model of the Year.’
The council said in the promotion of the honours that: “These awards are set out to raise awareness around men’s wellbeing and to shine a spotlight on acts of kindness, those that inspire others and have a positive impact on the lives of people in their communities or workplace.”
Green beat 46 other nominees to win the accolade and a social media post by the council from the evening says: “Nominated for his exceptional role as a youth mentor and his invaluable support to numerous victims of knife crime and serious violence. Quinton’s dedication and impact are truly inspiring!”
Green references the award frequently in his promotional material and it is the header in his Linked in profile.
2024 was the same year then leader Jonathan Nunn had to stand down after NN Journal, the BBC and Private Eye exposed his own past as a serial domestic abuser.
In September last year Green was one of four people in the county to receive the prestigious Northamptonshire High Sheriff Award at an event hosted at Rushton Hall. He was honoured by the King’s representative for his work with MMAP.
This summer he has been delivering holiday workshops for children in venues across the county.
He has also performed at the West Northants Liberal Democrat Summer Celebration and at at Northampton Carnival, been invited to many public events such as the mayor making in Northampton at which Mayor Mike Hallam called him ‘legendary’ and a Garden party at Delapre Abbey hosted by the outgoing chair of West Northants council Alison Eastwood.
Speaking out to protect others
The organising by Green of a community support event at a Northampton community centre in July following two knife related deaths in the town, was the catalyst for victims to come forward. The event was attended by many local councillors, and upon seeing posts on social media, one woman who had been on the receiving end of his threats was so incensed she contacted a person who had attended to ask whether they knew about Green’s history.
The person put the woman in touch with NN Journal and from there the personal stories of abuse have unravelled. Each woman we spoke to knew of another woman who had experienced violence from or been threatened by Green. Over the course of the past few weeks we have spoken to several women, plus friends and neighbours who have corroborated their accounts, and heard of the violence that Green had inflicted upon his victims or the fear he had put them in. Not all of their stories have been told in this article.
Angela, who after her experience with Green, now works as a volunteer at a domestic abuse charity, said:
“Since he has been out in the public I wanted to do something, and I am so glad this is coming out now, because he should not be looked at as this amazing guy. Because he’s not.”
Paris says:
“In reality, he should not be able to be around the public.
“I find it mind blowing. I don’t know how someone can be such a hypocrite. Or even to be in the public eye like that. He assaulted me at 14 - how is he even allowed to work in schools?
“I don’t know how he can act like the good guy and people look up to him. If people knew what he was truly like he would not have that platform or any followers.”
Tanya said:
“I just saw his violence that one day, and that was at the end, but before that I just thought he was so nice. People would think ‘No, he would not do anything like that’. “Because he is very manipulative, the way he comes across. You’d think, ‘he’s harmless, he’s so nice’. But no.
“I feel like I was one of the lucky ones, which is mad, because it was the worst thing that has happened in my life.”
Kerry Incles* (not her real name) who was also in an abusive relationship with Green, said:
“I’ve had to stay silent for years, just to protect myself and it makes me so angry, because I feel like I am watching other people get hurt. But on my own I had no power.
“I have been waiting a long time for something like this [article] to happen. And I had started to give up hope to be honest.”
Fearful in their home town
While Green may have been convicted for some of his crimes, his victims say they still live in fear of bumping into him around town. They try to avoid music events where he may be, but have come into contact with him by chance and many say he has continued to intimidate.
Paris was working in a Northampton bar collecting glasses, when he came over and handed her a glass. She felt so anxious she had to go home. Her mum Michelle saw him at a funeral wake and despite there being hundreds of people in the large venue he came and stood close by her. She decided to leave after becoming very uncomfortable.
After the attack with the hammer, the first time Emma saw Green afterwards he threatened her. Emma said:
“He said ‘If you cause anything else I will finish what I started with you’. I was petrified to see him.
“The police did not do anything, and I have to live here. I wanted peace, so I had to come to terms with it and let it go.”
More recently she came across him after she had commented on a social media post and he started shouting at her in the street.
Tanya says since he attacked her in her car more than 15 years ago, she has not gone into town alone in case she bumps into him.
Quinton Green’s response
Ahead of publication we spoke to Quinton Green yesterday, and asked him why he had not been open about his past domestic abuse convictions. He said:
“I have been ashamed, I have deep regret for what I have done.
“Police have not been called to my house [during recent relationship] and people can change.
“Everyday I say to myself I don’t want to be the person I once was.”
He asked us not to publish this article and said he did not want to respond through NN Journal. In the past hour he has published this statement on Facebook.
Northamptonshire Police
After learning of our investigation Northamptonshire Police has provided support and safeguarding to the women who have come forward. The force has set up an incident number for any victims or people with information to come forward to them on 101 and quote Incident 123 of the 18th August. People can also come forward anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Or if you don’t want to contact the police, but want to share further information, you can contact Sarah Ward on WhatsApp at 447887500545 or email sarahward@nnjournal.co.uk
Why we have decided to run this investigation
The reason we have decided to publish this article is because Quinton Green is in the public eye and has not been honest about his past, instead leading people to assume his past violence is related to knife crime. Many are unaware of his domestic abuse convictions and the continued threats against women he has worked with professionally indicate he still has the capacity to frighten and intimidate women.
Today women are afraid in their home town and try to avoid social media posts where he regularly self promotes and is lauded by those in positions of power and influence. Many thanks to them for sharing their personal stories.
We think it is important the public and any organisations and schools who work with him, know about his past.
If he's working with children he should have a DBS check.
Keep up this incredible journalism 👏🏼👏🏼. Hiding in plain sight it seems 😡😡. Those poor women