The indelible marks of a very colourful life: The reformed gangster, drug dealer, addict and thief who covered every inch of his body in tattoos - even his EYEBALLS - out of self-loathing (19 Pics)

John Kenney, 60, has tattoos on every part of his body including his eyeballs, inside his nose and on his tongue

He left domestic violent home at seven after 'hidings from everyone' and says he was raped by four men at age 10 

Mr Kenney lived on the streets before becoming a drug mule and pimp and tattooed his face to 'give him an identity'

The 60-year-old cut off his own finger to get $12,000 compensation to buy speed and LSD in the 1970s

His earliest ill-gotten gains came from emptying milk bottles on doorsteps to get recycling money, from age 12 he was tempted by 'every drug except that thing they use now, the ice', then began the break-ins before turning pimp

On one of several occasions in which he claims to have attempted suicide he washed down half a bottle of Valium with a bottle of whiskey, but 'every time [he] tried to die [he] came back'

Mr Kenney claims he was raped by four men inside a correctional centre when he was just 10-years-old and became so addicted to drugs in the 1970s he hacked off his own finger with a meat cleaver to claim compensation to fund his habit

Mr Kenny, pictured here at Australia Zoo, said he regrets half of his life, from 'the day [he] was born until [he] straightened himself'

He now has a permanent home with Wintringham Housing Aged Care and speaks to school students about the perils of drugs. John Kenney told he finds it hard to make friends but his tattoos have given him an identity

Mr Kenney's fascination with tattoos began at 18 but would also bring on Hepatitis C from a dirty needle and he speaks to schoolchildren about the perils of drugs and 'danger' associated with getting a tattoo

Mr Kenney, pictured here in the 1980s, said his tattoo fascination began at 18 but would lead to him contracting Hepatitis C