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Shaun Attwood was born in [[Widnes]], [[Lancashire]] (now [[Cheshire]]) on 28 October 1968, in a middle-class household,<ref name="Echo">{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=17 March 2008 |title=Shaun Attwood on life in an American prison |work=[[Liverpool Echo]] |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/shaun-attwood-life-american-prison-3491385 |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref> which he has described as "loving".<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Heilpern |first=Will |date=June 17, 2016 |title=Meet the British millionaire stockbroker whose illegal drug empire landed him in one of America's most dangerous jails |work=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/shaun-attwood-stock-broker-to-drug-dealer-2016-6 |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>

After watching several films mentioning [[Stock market|stock- markets]], Attwood educated himself, with the help of his teacher in economics, on trading stocks by reading the ''[[Financial Times]]'' at fourteen.<ref name=":4"/> When he was sixteen, during the privatisation of many public companies by the Margaret Thatcher government, Attwood attempted to invest in [[British Telecommunications]]. After inquiring with his father, a Labour supporter who disagreed with [[Premiership of Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher government]]'s actions, Attwood sought money from his grandmother who supported the Conservative party and eventually got £50 which he invested and doubled.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Hill |first=Patrick |date=10 March 2018 |title='How am I still alive?': The nerdy north west student who took on America's biggest drug barons - and lived to regret it |work=Manchester Evening News |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/shaun-attwood-wolf-of-widnes-14395288 |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref> He regularly visited his aunts in Arizona where he became interested in living in the United States.<ref name=":4"/>

Attwood attended [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool University]], studying business studies and graduating in 1990.<ref name=":6">{{cite news |date=23 August 2010 |title=Cockroaches and classrooms – drugs tale with a difference |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10985113}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> While attending university, Attwood began using ecstasy in the [[Madchester|Manchester rave scene]] which helped him with his anxiety.<ref name=":2"/><ref name="vice">{{Cite news |last=Chester |first=Nick |date=25 April 2013 |title=I Used My Stock Market Millions to Throw Raves and Sell Drugs |work=Vice |url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5gwx38/i-gave-up-stocks-to-throw-raves-and-sell-drugs |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>