0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains some strong language
0:00:09 > 0:00:10When last year's riots took place,
0:00:10 > 0:00:13we were all left with questions about what they meant.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Why are you stealing everything?
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Millions of pounds of damage was done to cities across the country.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23For four summer nights, the rule of law was at breaking point.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25RIOTERS SHOUT
0:00:26 > 0:00:30Five people died and thousands of businesses and homes were lost.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36I felt shame and anger as I watched the rioters -
0:00:36 > 0:00:39mostly from my generation - create anarchy.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44People wanted to see them caught and punished
0:00:44 > 0:00:45and brought to justice.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Police!
0:00:49 > 0:00:50And that's what happened.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56Justice will be done and these people will see the consequences
0:00:56 > 0:00:58of their actions.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01But what happened next?
0:01:01 > 0:01:06Nearly a year on, I wanted to know who the rioters really were.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11Why they did it, where they lived, and who their families were, too.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14In this film, we spend nine months
0:01:14 > 0:01:16with the people arrested during the riots,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19as they go through the justice system,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22with the victims of the events of those nights,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and with the perpetrators trying to rebuild their lives
0:01:25 > 0:01:28with the stigma of being a rioter...
0:01:28 > 0:01:29< You leave my keys.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32How am I supposed to leave your keys when I've got my stuff to take.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35I wanted to be gone before you woke up!
0:01:36 > 0:01:40..to find out what happened after the riots.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47SIREN BLARES
0:01:49 > 0:01:52We're on one of the busiest streets in east London.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54I remember coming down here
0:01:54 > 0:01:56the nights that the riots came near to where I live,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58which is just 20 minutes down the road.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01It was deadly quiet, shops were being boarded up
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and I was following Twitter, telling me really scary things.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05My friends were texting me,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08saying that things were kicking off outside their house,
0:02:08 > 0:02:09cars being smashed up -
0:02:09 > 0:02:1220 minutes away, a riot was coming.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15It made me feel really scared, really angsty
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and you just felt like,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20"Are things going to tip over the edge, where I live?"
0:02:21 > 0:02:23That sense of fear on those nights was really strong
0:02:23 > 0:02:25right across the country.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Thousands were arrested and their sentences harsh.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33As a society, we came down on the rioters as hard as we could.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Lorriane McGrane was 19 when the riots happened.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42On 8th August in Peckham, in south London,
0:02:42 > 0:02:43she was part of a mob,
0:02:43 > 0:02:46some of whom smashed in the windows of a local store,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49like in this footage from elsewhere on those nights.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51She stole a flat-screen TV
0:02:51 > 0:02:54and was arrested as she tried to bring the TV home.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56She received a 14-month prison sentence.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01She'd never been in trouble before
0:03:01 > 0:03:04and had been a part-time Royal Engineer in the Territorial Army -
0:03:04 > 0:03:07she was planning a career in the armed services.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10She lived in Peckham, in a cramped one-bedroom house
0:03:10 > 0:03:12with her father Paul -
0:03:12 > 0:03:15a night bus driver in London for over 40 years.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20That's from when she was going to school.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23I've got her uniforms and all upstairs.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26The night before I went to work, I told her,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28"They're rioting on the streets.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32"DO NOT go out, DO NOT run out. Stay in the house."
0:03:32 > 0:03:34But she didn't.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43After serving four months of her 14-month sentence,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46she is being released today on tag to her father's address.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49For the next few weeks he'll have to make sure
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Lorriane abides by the rules of her home detention curfew.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I was up since five o'clock this morning -
0:03:56 > 0:04:00bathed, booted, suited - groomed myself up for the big day
0:04:00 > 0:04:02for to getting me wee lost sheep.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05That's what I call her.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08All right, Lorriane? How are you, darling?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09- I'm very good.- You all right?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- Yep.- Yeah?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Freedom! freedom!- Yep.
0:04:13 > 0:04:14- Freedom.- Yeah.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15- Eh?- About time.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Basically, I've got my tag today
0:04:19 > 0:04:22and a supervision commencing order, which starts today.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25If I breach either one of them, I'll be back in Holloway
0:04:25 > 0:04:29until...8th August next year.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- We won't let that happen.- No.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33I can't even be a minute late.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Don't you worry.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Your daddy'll look after you now. Don't worry.
0:04:44 > 0:04:4720-year-old Reece James was one of dozens of people
0:04:47 > 0:04:51who ran amok in Argos in Catford, in south London.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54He's seen here being arrested as he tried to escape
0:04:54 > 0:04:56after he stole a stereo.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58RIOTERS SHOUT
0:04:58 > 0:05:03Reece was sentenced to 14 months in prison for burglary.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06He had never been in trouble with the police before the riots.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Previously, he was a dance teacher working with local kids
0:05:09 > 0:05:13and only last year, reached the semifinal of Britain's Got Talent.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20His mum Fiona was so outraged by his sentence
0:05:20 > 0:05:24that she started a Facebook campaign to raise awareness
0:05:24 > 0:05:27about the harsh treatment by the courts of the rioters.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32The campaign has got lots of press, even featuring on the local news.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35He didn't do anything evil.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37He didn't do anything towards someone else.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40He didn't beat someone up half-dead. You know...
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Come on! - SHE LAUGHS
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- Oh, man!- Oh!
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Today, mum Fiona and Reece's friend Kayla
0:05:50 > 0:05:52have come to get him out of Rochester prison
0:05:52 > 0:05:55after four months inside.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Oh, God! I'm so happy for this day.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01I've been waiting for this day.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04In prison, Reece had joined his mum's campaign,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07sharing his views about why the riots happened.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10You said you were remorseful for going into Argos.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Yeah, I'm sorry for that.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15Yeah, but not for the rioting... No, not for the cause, if you like.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18I'm sorry for taking part in the stealing,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21but I'm not sorry for taking part in what it stood for.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Most of the people that got caught and got sent down are opportunists.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28There's people in my situation, people that were going to uni,
0:06:28 > 0:06:30and they slipped up, got caught up in it.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32They got mad sentences, like...
0:06:32 > 0:06:36I remember telling you, there's a youth in there for 20 months
0:06:36 > 0:06:38and he stole Doritos and a packet of cigarettes.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Doritos! Crisps.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Hey, man. What you saying?
0:06:46 > 0:06:51This needs to come off. D'you know what I was in prison for? Riots.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55For Reece, the riots were the direct result
0:06:55 > 0:06:58of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham,
0:06:58 > 0:06:59which unleashed simmering resentment
0:06:59 > 0:07:02about police treatment of young black people.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05We want justice. When do we want it? Now!
0:07:05 > 0:07:08It was a demonstration in response to Duggan's death in Tottenham
0:07:08 > 0:07:10that sparked the riots.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13These riots...
0:07:13 > 0:07:17they started in the beginning, cos of what happened in Tottenham,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20and there was an injustice there.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24So I am sorry for getting involved in robbing the shop
0:07:24 > 0:07:26and going all out like that...
0:07:26 > 0:07:30That was unnecessary. I didn't need to do that.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34But...I'm not sorry for taking part in what it stood for.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42Lorriane is settling back into life at her dad's.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I don't like that beeping.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Good morning. I'm trying to get...
0:07:52 > 0:07:55One of the first things she does...
0:07:55 > 0:07:59is get back in contact with her old employers at the Territorial Army.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02I used to be in the TA.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03I went to prison recently
0:08:03 > 0:08:08and I was told to phone and get a 001 form about my payment.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10It's Lorriane.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14All right, then.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18All right. Thank you. Bye.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Damn it! Oh, well.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26It feels a bit weird. She goes, "I forgot your name."
0:08:26 > 0:08:28How could you forget my name?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29I'm probably one of the people
0:08:29 > 0:08:32that has done one of the worst things ever.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Lorriane was immediately discharged from the Army on her arrest.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39The career she loved now feels a long way away.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41It's nice to talk to them again after so long
0:08:41 > 0:08:43but I wouldn't want to talk to them about this issue,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45I want to talk to them about going back,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47but it's not going to happen that way, is it?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I wanted to know why someone with such a great career ahead of her
0:08:52 > 0:08:54had done what she'd done.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Lorriane took me up to the south London street
0:08:57 > 0:08:59where her arrest took place.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Coincidentally, like Reece, she had stolen from an Argos store.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06So you were walking down the road, going to see your boyfriend...
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- Yeah.- And this is the point where you veered off? Just up there?
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Yeah, to have a look at what was going on.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13What was going on at that point?
0:09:13 > 0:09:18Comet had been smashed into and they smashed into Argos
0:09:18 > 0:09:20and started comin' in and out with all their stuff.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Then, after about five minutes, I went in.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25OK. What was it actually like?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27It was a little bit scary, a bit dark.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Someone could have hurt you while you were in there.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32The atmosphere was mad. No-one could see anything.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33People were bumping into each other.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Everyone was having a laugh about it.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Was there anything that shocked you at all?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40That I actually went in. That's what shocked me.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I couldn't really care less about anyone else, there...
0:09:43 > 0:09:45They are responsible for their own decisions
0:09:45 > 0:09:47but I was a little bit shocked that I actually went in
0:09:47 > 0:09:48and done what I did.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Cos you felt guilty?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54A bit. I felt guilty for taking it,
0:09:54 > 0:09:57for trespassing onto Argos' property,
0:09:57 > 0:09:59and I felt a bit evil for doing it in the first place.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I'm supposed to be this law-abiding citizen,
0:10:02 > 0:10:04that wears a uniform and there I am,
0:10:04 > 0:10:06looting from the country itself.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08I did feel major guilty for what I'd done.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15From aged 15 to be in the Army...
0:10:16 > 0:10:21..to just bolting out of her house on her own for a new telly...
0:10:21 > 0:10:23It's messed a lot of things up.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26A lot of the people involved
0:10:26 > 0:10:30are being illustrated as being really angry still
0:10:30 > 0:10:34and blaming everyone else, where as she really isn't.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36She's not blaming society or anything.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40She wholly blames herself.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Lorriane and Reece were arrested for burglary.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Half of all the rioters were charged with this offence.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54The average prison sentence handed out for that charge was 15 months.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57The next biggest group of arrests, around a fifth,
0:10:57 > 0:10:59were those charged with violent disorder.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02These were the people who scared me most,
0:11:02 > 0:11:04as I'd watched the footage on those nights.
0:11:07 > 0:11:0920-year-old Lewis Kyriakos
0:11:09 > 0:11:11was one of those charged with violent disorder,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13for his part in the riots,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16along with a dozen other youths in a park in High Barnet,
0:11:16 > 0:11:20in north London, in scenes much like this...
0:11:20 > 0:11:24He was accused of throwing stones and even kicking a police officer.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29He claims he is innocent and so does his partner Katy,
0:11:29 > 0:11:33from Poland, and mum to their six-month-old daughter.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39I'm scared that they will find him guilty for something he hasn't done,
0:11:39 > 0:11:43and that Gabriella will not know who her daddy is and where he is.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47I don't want him to be sad because Gabriella doesn't remember him.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51Lewis is currently serving a prison sentence
0:11:51 > 0:11:53for an incident unrelated to the riots.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Last year when Katy was pregnant,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58he got angry when a bus driver wouldn't stop to let them on.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02From the resulting argument he was found guilty of criminal damage,
0:12:02 > 0:12:04receiving a four-month sentence.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10He served his time for that charge and today he's coming home on tag,
0:12:10 > 0:12:12while he awaits his trial for the riots.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Who's coming home today? Who's coming home today? Huh?
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Daddy! Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Yes, he's coming home today.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Ah, hello! - SHE LAUGHS
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- Oh, God.- I know!
0:12:34 > 0:12:37She's moaning, but she's not going to... She knows that...
0:12:37 > 0:12:39you're coming.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Hello, Papa!
0:12:42 > 0:12:44- Hello! - KATY LAUGHS
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Did you miss me? I love you!
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Feels good to be back. Really good to be back.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Whilst he's on bail, he'll be fitted with an electronic tag
0:12:55 > 0:12:57that tracks his location to make sure
0:12:57 > 0:12:59he sticks to his curfew at home.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03So, do you know what time the tag is set up for?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07The curfew is from six in the evening to six in the morning.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11- OK, so make sure you're in for six. - OK.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16We need you to walk into every single room in your house.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Lewis has to create the boundaries for the tag
0:13:19 > 0:13:24in every room of the flat, including baby Gabriella's.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Katy, she's awake.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29GABRIELLA CRIES
0:13:32 > 0:13:36Lewis's tag will stay in place until his trial in April,
0:13:36 > 0:13:37four months away.
0:13:47 > 0:13:53It's like invisible cell walls that you can't escape.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54You're trapped.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59It's a bit annoying, I've got a daughter and she got woken up.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01It's a bit frustrating but...
0:14:02 > 0:14:05At the end of the day, I haven't got a choice.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09It's better to be at home and be a dad
0:14:09 > 0:14:13than being in jail and not much use to anyone.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22On the four nights of the riots, hundreds of millions of pounds of damage was created
0:14:22 > 0:14:25as hundreds of people rampaged through our cities.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28The fallout was huge.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33One of the residents of this building in west London was Leni White.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35I wanted to see for myself what had happened
0:14:35 > 0:14:39after the chaos of those nights when the cameras had gone.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44I lived in that window which is boarded up on the first floor on this corner.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49That corner window was the room where I do my music stuff.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Leni is a composer who was living
0:14:51 > 0:14:54and working in her west London flat on the night of the riots last year.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59This was our front door.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03It's so weird.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- Yeah, this was the doorway into the living room.- Right.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- There was a wall here.- Yeah.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13That's where the fire came up through the floor and burnt that whole corner.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17That's where a picture was and another one there.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21We were looking out this window into the pub when it was all happening.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Could you hear conversations?
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Yeah, people were chatting about what they were going to do
0:15:26 > 0:15:30and someone saying they were going to start a fire.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Then I heard somebody say, "I haven't got a lighter. Has anyone got a lighter?"
0:15:34 > 0:15:38I just thought, "This is really not a good thing."
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Someone threw a bottle of alcohol up at the window.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43That's when we thought, "It's all going to go up."
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- Sounds like an actual nightmare. - Yeah.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52You know you've got to escape. You don't know what's going to be when you get outside.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55You don't know whether they're going to try and attack you.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59You think you need to travel light and not take loads of stuff,
0:15:59 > 0:16:02but at the same time, leaving all this stuff,
0:16:02 > 0:16:04which wasn't a massive amount of stuff,
0:16:04 > 0:16:08but for us it was a lifetime's work,
0:16:08 > 0:16:14stuff that we'd saved up for and worked hard for.
0:16:14 > 0:16:20I couldn't imagine what it would feel like leaving all your possessions behind.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Was anything salvageable from the flat at all?
0:16:23 > 0:16:28We took ten bin bags of mouldy, stinking wet clothes
0:16:28 > 0:16:32that were smoke damaged and had been completely covered in water from the fire hoses.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I didn't even think about that.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36We put them in a friend's car because we didn't have a car
0:16:36 > 0:16:39and then we had to drive them to another friend's house
0:16:39 > 0:16:42because we didn't have a house or washing machine
0:16:42 > 0:16:45and did ten washes of everything.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49More than her clothes, it's Leni's musical instruments
0:16:49 > 0:16:52and her career that she's most worried about.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56People did say to us afterwards, "You're both safe and well
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- "so that's all that matters."- Yeah.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03But in a way, it's hard not to think that it's not all that matters.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07I've worked so hard to do what I've been doing,
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- that it's back to square one.- Yeah.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Lorriane is taking her first steps to rebuild a new life.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24She had her first job interview since coming out of prison
0:17:24 > 0:17:28and her first time going for a job with a criminal conviction.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31She's handing out flyers at the tourist attraction,
0:17:31 > 0:17:33The London Bridge Experience.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36The more people that she can drum up,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38the more chance of getting the job.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Having previously earned a decent wage in the Army,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44she is struggling on Jobseeker's Allowance
0:17:44 > 0:17:47of £56 per week and desperate for the break.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50It went great today.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55I really enjoyed myself. It was an amazing experience.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I just hope the tag people don't take me before I get the job!
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Where do you want me to meet you?
0:18:03 > 0:18:07But by staying late to impress, she's in danger of missing her curfew.
0:18:07 > 0:18:12Her dad is ready to pick her up from the bus to try to make sure she makes it.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15I was going to leave at half five but I thought it would be better if I stayed till six.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Shows that I'm really willing to get the job.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22But I hope I'm not late home for it. The time is 6.40.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25I hope it doesn't take long.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38- Are you in?- Just about. - What time is it?- Two minutes to.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42You jump straight out and get into that passage.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- Boy, cutting it fine, aren't we? - It's not my fault, Dad.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48I told you on the phone.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Lorriane, run in there now, get in the passage, quick.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- I am, let me get out.- Go in front of the car, go on, hurry up.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58- All right!- One minute.- All right!
0:18:59 > 0:19:0159! Boy, isn't that tight?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10No wonder I have heart attacks!
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Yeah, of course I made it. Made bang on seven.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18See, no phone call.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23If that bus had been missing, she'd have been knackered.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26People would have been phoning up and the police would have been round.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29She's got a curfew licence.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Later, Lorriane gets news on her job.
0:19:45 > 0:19:50I got a phone call from the manager of London Bridge Experience
0:19:50 > 0:19:54and he told me that I didn't get the job because I didn't hand out enough vouchers
0:19:54 > 0:19:55to get people in the door,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58which is a bit upsetting, considering I was really hoping for that job.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02I'd take any job right now.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Any job.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Do I have an NVQ Level I in hairdressing? Yes!
0:20:15 > 0:20:23"I am a hard-working person."
0:20:23 > 0:20:26"Have you been convicted of a criminal offence?" Yes.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27"Please state."
0:20:27 > 0:20:29What do I write - burglary?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Do you think I should even explain that point?
0:20:36 > 0:20:40What it was about? Or should I just leave it as a "yes, burglary"?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44With another long night at home on her own,
0:20:44 > 0:20:50Lorriane's beginning to realise what life with a criminal record means.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55I never thought I'd be applying for a job and writing about my criminal record!
0:20:55 > 0:20:58I didn't think I'd ever have one so it was a bit nerve-wracking.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03I wonder what they're going to say when they open that application and see my conviction.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05It is very stressful.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07As you can see.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Very stressful.
0:21:13 > 0:21:19In north London, Lewis is preparing for his court case where he will plead not guilty.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24If convicted, he will get three years and his family could lose their flat.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27I wanted to know his side of the story.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28I chose that to walk through the park.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I look back and I wish I'd taken a different route.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Lewis says a group of young men ran past him in the park
0:21:34 > 0:21:37and that they got involved in a battle with the police
0:21:37 > 0:21:40while he stood back and watched.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43In the statements, it's alleged that you kicked a policeman.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46That's what is says, yeah.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48What actually happened, according to you?
0:21:48 > 0:21:55I wasn't even on the road. I was standing there over-looking,
0:21:55 > 0:21:56watching what was happening.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Because of my age and maybe the way I dress,
0:21:59 > 0:22:03they made an assumption that I was part of what that was.
0:22:03 > 0:22:09You're going to trial. What's at stake for you in your life?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11A lot of things.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15In the balance is two to three years of my life.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Two to three years of my daughter seeing me in her life.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23If I get found guilty,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26where are my partner and my daughter are going to live?
0:22:26 > 0:22:32Just keeping my head straight for two to three years.
0:22:32 > 0:22:37For some people, being in jail, it can break them.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41- Do you think it could break you? - It could break anyone.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43What about if you didn't have Gabriella?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46What was your life like before her?
0:22:46 > 0:22:52I was 17, 18, a little troublemaker, really.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Homeless at the time, trying to get money to get food.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Trying to find somewhere to sleep.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02I don't know where my life would be. I'm just grateful where it is now.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07What will you tell Gabriella one day when she asks?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Bad things happen to good people.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15That's what I'll tell her.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19If everything he's telling me is true,
0:23:19 > 0:23:23it's just a twisted case of events, that's really chaotic, really confusing.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29I think it is terrifying for the entire family,
0:23:29 > 0:23:33the idea that he could go back to prison for a long time.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Just the idea that the flat could be taken away from them, and the baby being so young,
0:23:37 > 0:23:40is really, really quite scary.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46I was beginning to realise that once the cameras had left the riots,
0:23:46 > 0:23:51for most people affected, it was just the beginning of a painful journey.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56Zac Hussein's life was turned upside down by the riots last August as well.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59He was four months into running his own cafe business,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02a dream come true for him.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06So this is the shop I had before it got destroyed.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08It's a great location.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12Think of a hot day looking out to that green.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16On the night of the riots, the building where Zac's cafe was housed
0:24:16 > 0:24:22was set alight and the water pumped into it caused extensive damage.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Now you can see the true extent of the damage.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36From a wire to a plug to a sofa to a chair,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40I spent out my own pocket, and everything was brand-spanking new.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42All my savings went on this.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44How long did it take you to save?
0:24:44 > 0:24:49It took me over ten years to save the money to invest into my own business.
0:24:49 > 0:24:56Now I'm left trying to make ends meet and put a roof over my head.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58It was horrifying to think
0:24:58 > 0:25:02that so much work had gone up in smoke on one night.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06I wanted to find out what Zac felt about the people who had done this to him.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10I'm interested to know who you think these people were that caused this damage.
0:25:10 > 0:25:16Do you think that they are yobs? Do you think they're angry at anything?
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Yeah, mindless yobs who caused this, who destroyed my business.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I have anger towards them.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Not only have I lost my livelihood,
0:25:25 > 0:25:26my employees have too.
0:25:26 > 0:25:33It's had a knock-on effect, even to my suppliers who've lost a contract.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35It's affected more than one person.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39There are lots of people that have been given quite harsh sentences.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41What do you think about the punishment?
0:25:41 > 0:25:45I'd rather have them come into a business like mine and help rebuild it,
0:25:45 > 0:25:50actually paying out of their own pocket towards the damage they've done.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54That would be more productive than prison.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56SHOUTING
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Of those sentenced at Crown Court for their part in the riots,
0:26:04 > 0:26:07most received an immediate prison sentence.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Those sentences were much harsher than would have been the case
0:26:11 > 0:26:13outside the riots.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18Since his release, Reece James has been living at home on tag with his mum Fiona,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21trying to get his dance-teaching career back on track.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25I wanted to know why a guy like Reece, who had so much going for him,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28got caught up in the riots in the first place.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Reece, your mum's amazing.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33You have great career prospects, you're a popular guy.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36What was it?
0:26:36 > 0:26:43A moment of weakness and I just got carried away.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45I thought, "Let's go."
0:26:45 > 0:26:49What do you mean, let's go? Let's smash something?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51No, it was just get involved in some way.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54It was kind of exciting to do that, I suppose.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00But what about the people who got affected?
0:27:00 > 0:27:04I have heard many stories of people, families and people in families,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08who are still completely and utterly destroyed
0:27:08 > 0:27:10from the riots getting out of control.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13For them, this isn't good enough.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Being caught up in momentum,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20feeling a bug, that is not a good enough excuse.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22What do you think about that?
0:27:22 > 0:27:26My reply is that everybody makes mistakes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29First time I've been in trouble with the police,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33and for a first conviction, to give me a 14-month sentence, is an injustice.
0:27:33 > 0:27:38I don't feel any sense of remorse. Is there any?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40And where is it?
0:27:40 > 0:27:44Yes. Of course there is remorse. I am sorry for what I did.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46I will say sorry.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I would like to go to Argos, where I was involved in the riots,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52and go to the manager and say sorry,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54just to clean my own slate.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58But I'm not sorry for what the riots stood for.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03I was struggling to make the connection between what Reece said had motivated the riots
0:28:03 > 0:28:06and what he had done.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Like so much of the riots, his arrest was captured on video. I wanted him to watch it with me.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I hate it.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16- It's really not me.- OK.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It's actually not like me at all.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20SHOUTING
0:28:22 > 0:28:23That's me.
0:28:25 > 0:28:30He took me off behind the van and tried to slam me to the floor.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33This makes me cringe.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35SHOUTING AND ALARMS
0:28:40 > 0:28:42- Scary.- Yeah.
0:28:42 > 0:28:47It's like a mixture of what you'd imagine...
0:28:47 > 0:28:49the end of the world or a war...
0:28:49 > 0:28:51Yeah, like one of those scenes.
0:28:51 > 0:28:55- ..where everybody just turns into animals.- Yeah.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56I hear what you're saying.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01- And that was you.- I know.
0:29:02 > 0:29:06'I felt that Reece still had a way to go to understand the impact of his actions
0:29:06 > 0:29:09'on the victims of the riots.'
0:29:09 > 0:29:12In west London, Leni White has moved into new accommodation
0:29:12 > 0:29:15and is trying to get her career back on track,
0:29:15 > 0:29:18but having left behind her musical instruments in the burning building
0:29:18 > 0:29:21on the night of the riots, it's not easy.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24SHE SINGS
0:29:26 > 0:29:28A week after the riots, she went back to her building
0:29:28 > 0:29:30to see what she could retrieve.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32SINGING CONTINUES
0:29:32 > 0:29:35Despite the fact that it wasn't safe to go back in,
0:29:35 > 0:29:38there wasn't a door, so you could just walk in there.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41So I did, and I got every single instrument I could find,
0:29:41 > 0:29:44cos these are the most important things I have.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47Despite losing many things on the night of the riots,
0:29:47 > 0:29:51she did manage to salvage one thing of huge significance to her.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54My mum saved up to get this for me,
0:29:54 > 0:29:58and I just thought that I would never see it again.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02VIOLIN STRING TWANGS The violin itself was really wet,
0:30:02 > 0:30:06and all this varnish was damaged.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08A lot of them, although they look fine,
0:30:08 > 0:30:12things like electric guitars, they don't work.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16And, you know, all the screws on the pick-ups and everything have rusted.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19You know, you can lose clothes and furniture -
0:30:19 > 0:30:22really don't care about all that stuff - but this is like,
0:30:22 > 0:30:26you know, this is not just my livelihood, hopefully,
0:30:26 > 0:30:32but also my sanity and all of my memories are kind of tied up with instruments.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35Leni doesn't know where her career is headed,
0:30:35 > 0:30:38but for now, she is happy to have her music around her
0:30:38 > 0:30:40and a roof over her head.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49In Peckham, its Lorriane's birthday, but there's not much to celebrate.
0:30:49 > 0:30:54Going to the job centre to go and sign on ON my birthday.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56Not good.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01I've been coming in at my tag time, going to bed at 7.30,
0:31:01 > 0:31:05waking up at stupid hours in the morning, going back to sleep,
0:31:05 > 0:31:08waking up again and then going out and then coming back in
0:31:08 > 0:31:13and then going back to sleep again at 7.30 because I'm so bored and there's no money to do anything.
0:31:13 > 0:31:16You need money to do everything.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Relations with her dad have worsened.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24The regular presence of Lorriane's boyfriend in the house is adding to the tension.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30My dad's taken the bottom key for the door,
0:31:30 > 0:31:33so when he goes to work at night time, he locks the house,
0:31:33 > 0:31:36and he keeps telling me if I was in Holloway that I wouldn't have the keys.
0:31:36 > 0:31:38He doesn't want no-one around his house,
0:31:38 > 0:31:41doesn't want no-one in his house. No friends to come and see me.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45I've never liked her boyfriend from day one
0:31:45 > 0:31:49and I don't know what she sees in him. Do not know.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52So I started locking her in to keep him out.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55If I'm been treated like this now, getting my key taken from me
0:31:55 > 0:31:59and being told that, "You should be in Holloway, you shouldn't be out," and all of this, by my own dad,
0:31:59 > 0:32:02I feel like, "Well, maybe I should just put my foot out the door."
0:32:02 > 0:32:06Let them come and get me, go back to Holloway and see how everyone feels.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Oh, I still feel the same as the day I first got her in my arms.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12But I told her, "Now that I got you out and you're in here,
0:32:12 > 0:32:16"you've got to show some respect and listen to what I'm talking to you about."
0:32:16 > 0:32:20'He just needs to actually sit down with me and have a talk and say,'
0:32:20 > 0:32:22"OK, what happened that night, and what went wrong?"
0:32:22 > 0:32:26And where does he feel that he has failed as a father, sort of thing, but he doesn't want to do it.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29And I'm trying to tell him that he hasn't failed,
0:32:29 > 0:32:31it's just that I've got a mind and a life of my own
0:32:31 > 0:32:34and I just want to do my own thing and I messed up on my own accord.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40She's turning 20 today.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42As it's after 7pm when her curfew kicks in,
0:32:42 > 0:32:45she celebrates the big day with just her dad.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48Happy 20th birthday to me, woo-hoo!
0:32:48 > 0:32:50# Happy birthday to you
0:32:50 > 0:32:54# Happy birthday to you
0:32:54 > 0:32:57# Happy birthday, dear Lorianne
0:32:57 > 0:33:01# Happy 20th birthday to you. #
0:33:05 > 0:33:06Happy birthday.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Paul heads off to his night shift on the buses.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20He will leave Lorianne alone in the house.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29So I'm going to work, Lorianne. Ta-ta.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Oh, you're so energetic(!)
0:33:33 > 0:33:37You used to be energetic - I don't know what happened to you today.
0:33:37 > 0:33:41- Go! I've had a crap birthday. - Did you?
0:33:41 > 0:33:43Yeah.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Right, I'm going. See you in the morning.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02The grind of no work, living off Jobseeker's Allowance,
0:34:02 > 0:34:05being cooped up with her dad and life under curfew
0:34:05 > 0:34:08is getting Lorriane down.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11My probation officer is telling me that I should go to the doctor's
0:34:11 > 0:34:15and speak about depression, because he's seen that I've sort of, kind of, slipped.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19That I'm not as happy and bubbly as what I usually am.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24And he just thinks that I should see the doctor's for depression and my lack of sleep that I'm having,
0:34:24 > 0:34:28because I really haven't slept properly at all since I've come out of Holloway.
0:34:28 > 0:34:33And I'm by myself most of the time, and when I can't go out after seven, it kind of gets to me, really.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38Me and my boyfriend's arguing, and me and my dad's at war.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42I've got no money, I've got nowhere to live when my tag comes off. I've got nothing.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46I feel like I'm a waste of space. If I feel like a waste of space,
0:34:46 > 0:34:49I'll sit at home and waste away, literally, cos that's how I feel.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Lorriane's punishment was really taking its toll on her.
0:34:56 > 0:35:01If anything, I was worrying that she was blaming herself too much for what she did last August.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05It felt like getting her tag off and creating some space from her dad
0:35:05 > 0:35:07would at least relieve some of the pressure for her.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14When I met Reece last, he told me he was willing to go and apologise
0:35:14 > 0:35:18to the manager of the Argos store where he stole from on the night of the riots.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21This week, he's heard that the manager has agreed to a meeting.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25For today, though, he has another challenge to overcome.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28He's got to face up to his dance students,
0:35:28 > 0:35:30who he hasn't seen since going to prison.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33For many of these young men, Reece was a role model.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37What you saying, lads? What you saying, lads?
0:35:37 > 0:35:39Hey, get off me! Get off me.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41LAUGHTER
0:35:43 > 0:35:47- Come off it, know what I'm sayin'? What you been saying? You still training, yeah?- Yeah, man.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49Yeah? ALL: Yeah!
0:35:49 > 0:35:52Yo, guys. I'm back, you know.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Five, six, seven, eight...
0:35:55 > 0:35:59boom-boom. Cat-cat, boom.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Yeah, boom, wa-boom, woot.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06Basically, it goes boom... boom, t-yoom.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09There's a dynamic to it. You see what I'm saying, yeah?
0:36:09 > 0:36:13One more time, from the top. Right, guys, guys - listen, watch.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:36:17 > 0:36:20Yeah? OK. Switch rows.
0:36:20 > 0:36:25It's time Reece found out what his students thought about his arrest for burglary.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28All right, guys. So, out of you lot,
0:36:28 > 0:36:34I don't know who knew that I went to prison and stuff, but obviously...
0:36:34 > 0:36:39it was a bit of a madness, as I know you all know. Erm...
0:36:39 > 0:36:44How did you lot feel about knowing who I am and who I really am?
0:36:44 > 0:36:48Like, to see me in that light? Like, how did you a lot see it, like? Go on.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Erm, like, personally,
0:36:51 > 0:36:55I kind of thought it was bad-minded for them to do that,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58because the amount of people which you teach - not, like, at our school
0:36:58 > 0:37:01but Lewisham - they should've given you a second chance,
0:37:01 > 0:37:04because I know that going to prison can ruin someone's life, in a way.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08What is your perception of prison? Like, do you know what prison's like?
0:37:08 > 0:37:12Do you know what you think it's like? Go on, go on. go on.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15I know loads of people around my area who's went to prison,
0:37:15 > 0:37:20but when they came out they're either a different person or even worse.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Go on.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Well, I think that I was, myself, I was a bit shocked when I saw you in the newspaper.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Because, I thought...
0:37:28 > 0:37:31A person like you, I thought you wouldn't do such a thing.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34- Yeah, yeah.- So, it had me down a bit.
0:37:34 > 0:37:40And as I knew you a lot, and I would like to become a dancer as well,
0:37:40 > 0:37:44you were kind of my role model as well. So, it hurt me inside as well.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48I hear that. I think that was my biggest fear, innit?
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Like, I know I taught you lot, and I know there are people who look up to me
0:37:52 > 0:37:55and they do strive to be a dancer like me and many other dancers,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58but I acted out of line that one time.
0:37:58 > 0:38:02But I don't want you lot...to...
0:38:02 > 0:38:06judge me in any other way, like, other than what you know. You get what I'm saying, like?
0:38:06 > 0:38:10- We get that. We know the real you. - Exactly.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13I was kind of nervous. I didn't know how they were going to see me,
0:38:13 > 0:38:15like if they'd changed their views on me or whatever.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18"Oh, he's been to prison. I don't want to be taught by him."
0:38:18 > 0:38:20It was silly, but there was someone who thought,
0:38:20 > 0:38:23"That's someone I looked up to." It hurt him and that hurt me.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27When he told me, I was like, "Oh, damn!"
0:38:27 > 0:38:29I so didn't want to hear that.
0:38:29 > 0:38:30But I know that must've happened
0:38:30 > 0:38:32to a couple of people, and I'm sorry for that.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35Those are the things I'm sorry for, know what I'm saying?
0:38:35 > 0:38:38I'm going to make it up to them.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46I can't get this on.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49In north London, Lewis, Katy and baby Gabriella
0:38:49 > 0:38:53are getting on with life despite his impending trial.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57The restrictions of his tag and the curfew mean getting work
0:38:57 > 0:39:00is virtually impossible for Lewis, so money is tight.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03- Who's that?- Gabriella!
0:39:03 > 0:39:07Today, they are planning to take some photos of Gabriella
0:39:07 > 0:39:11to see if they can make some money from baby modelling.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14But the stress of the case is showing.
0:39:14 > 0:39:15BABY CRYING
0:39:15 > 0:39:19- You can't do it. - I'm the cameraman.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21No. She doesn't want to.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25- I don't care what she wants. - I don't care, either!
0:39:25 > 0:39:29She's not happy now.
0:39:29 > 0:39:34She doesn't want to go on her belly.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36How many picture you took now?
0:39:36 > 0:39:38- Look.- I don't know how!
0:39:38 > 0:39:41You're pissing me off.
0:39:41 > 0:39:42Have a look at them before you turn it off.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45- There's a lot of good pictures! - Take this camera off me.
0:39:45 > 0:39:49There's a lot of good pictures, actually.
0:39:49 > 0:39:54It's been hard between us, really.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57It's OK and it's not,
0:39:57 > 0:39:59at the same time.
0:39:59 > 0:40:04- Go on. Change her, babe. - Why don't you do it?
0:40:08 > 0:40:10You hold her.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14With just a few weeks until his court date,
0:40:14 > 0:40:16Lewis is struggling to cope.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18I don't want to go back to jail.
0:40:18 > 0:40:23It's on my mind a lot, in case it goes wrong.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27Even though I know I'm innocent, I did nothing wrong,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30I just want it to be done and finished with.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33If Lewis does go to prison, they could lose the flat.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36So Katy and Gabriella will face an uncertain future.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39I'm worried if they put him in prison,
0:40:39 > 0:40:42we will lose the house and I will be homeless with the baby.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45I won't be able to get benefits
0:40:45 > 0:40:47or anything to support myself
0:40:47 > 0:40:49while he is in prison.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52They are not punishing him. I mean, they ARE punishing him,
0:40:52 > 0:40:56but on the other hand, they are fucking my life.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10For Lorianne in Peckham, relations with her father have worsened.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Her boyfriend broke a window during an argument.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Today, after three months of living under the constraint of her curfew,
0:41:18 > 0:41:19she is finally having her tag removed
0:41:19 > 0:41:23and I was coming back to see her.
0:41:23 > 0:41:26I expected her to be excited about her new-found freedom,
0:41:26 > 0:41:29but was met with a very different scene.
0:41:29 > 0:41:34- What's going on?- Dad says I have to leave today.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37As soon as the tag comes off, he wants me out.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39I'm getting my stuff ready.
0:41:39 > 0:41:45So is that really it? You're moving that quickly? Tag comes off - gone?
0:41:45 > 0:41:46Yeah, literally.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48And where's your dad?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51He's in bed, sleeping.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53How does he feel about this?
0:41:53 > 0:41:55I don't know. I haven't spoken to him.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58He's the one kicking me out.
0:41:58 > 0:42:03- Lorianne, where's your mum? - In Jamaica.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05- What's she doing there? - Who cares?
0:42:05 > 0:42:10- Do you feel lonely?- No, not really.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14I'm used to it. I've been packing bags all my life.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18First, I lived with my parents, then I moved off to my grandparents,
0:42:18 > 0:42:21then my mum. Then I've moved in with my dad.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24There's no point getting attached to someone or somewhere,
0:42:24 > 0:42:29regardless or whether they're your parents or not.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33Has there been anything good come out of this?
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Yeah. I'm never going to do it again.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39Quite literally, I will never do it again.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Never do it again!
0:42:44 > 0:42:45DOORBELL RINGS
0:42:52 > 0:42:54- Hello.- Hi, Lorianne.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56- I'm Carol from Serco.- Hello.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58- I'm here to take your tag off.- OK.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00- Yeah, OK?- Yay!
0:43:00 > 0:43:04It's coming off, it's coming off, it's coming off, it's coming off!
0:43:07 > 0:43:09Take off the boot.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12There we go. It's all ready.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14'At that point, Lorriane's dad had come downstairs,
0:43:14 > 0:43:17'and the atmosphere in the room had become increasingly tense
0:43:17 > 0:43:19'for all of us.'
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Leave it on there. Leave it on.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Leave it on!
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Or if you've got a replacement, put it on.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Yes, the site is suspended now,
0:43:30 > 0:43:34so when it's taken off, you'll be fine.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38OK?
0:43:38 > 0:43:39You leave my keys.
0:43:39 > 0:43:43How am I supposed to leave your keys when I've got my stuff to take?
0:43:43 > 0:43:44Can you stop being stupid, please?
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Seriously, can you just stop being silly?
0:43:46 > 0:43:49This is the thanks you get for taking that out of jail.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52I wanted to be gone before you woke up!
0:43:52 > 0:43:54I can't be bothered.
0:43:54 > 0:43:55Seriously, I need to go now,
0:43:55 > 0:43:59cos if I don't go now, I'm about to literally smash the place up.
0:43:59 > 0:44:02I can't be putting up with this bullshit right now.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08I had a real sense that Lorriane's life was falling apart.
0:44:11 > 0:44:14I felt really happy for Lorriane to be able to leave the house.
0:44:14 > 0:44:18I felt really sorry for her at the same time.
0:44:18 > 0:44:22I felt really uncomfortable when I was in the middle of her and her dad were kicking off,
0:44:22 > 0:44:25because there was just so much tension there,
0:44:25 > 0:44:28and I could feel the walls closing in on me, and I can imagine
0:44:28 > 0:44:31how she would feel when they're arguing and she can't leave.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36And I feel really worried about her as well.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Over months, I'd watched how the riots had impacted on
0:44:40 > 0:44:43the people who'd been arrested that night
0:44:43 > 0:44:46and been shocked by it, but the consequences of their actions
0:44:46 > 0:44:49were still impacting on the victims.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54Zac Hussein, who lost his cafe in the riots,
0:44:54 > 0:44:57is also struggling with life without a home.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00He's come to London for another series of meetings
0:45:00 > 0:45:03with the council and his landlord to see if there is a way
0:45:03 > 0:45:05of getting his cafe back on its feet.
0:45:05 > 0:45:09My car is my wardrobe at the moment. It's like a mobile home,
0:45:09 > 0:45:10cos I've got nowhere to live,
0:45:10 > 0:45:14so I'm kind of living out of my car at the moment,
0:45:14 > 0:45:15which I'm struggling with.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20Zac has been paid out insurance on his possessions,
0:45:20 > 0:45:24but whilst the building is being rebuilt, he has no income,
0:45:24 > 0:45:26and all the time, his bills are building up.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32The more stress you have, the more you tend to smoke.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33It's...
0:45:35 > 0:45:40..it's my little dirty habit, I suppose,
0:45:40 > 0:45:43just to relax my nerves, I suppose.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51A few hours of the riots happening, it's destroyed my livelihood.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54It's destroyed...not only mine, but my employees as well.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57It's turned everything on its head.
0:45:57 > 0:46:02And if people who actually committed this crime could think back
0:46:02 > 0:46:04and take a step back and think,
0:46:04 > 0:46:07"Hang on, if I'm going to commit this act,
0:46:07 > 0:46:11"I'm actually destroying someone's life here."
0:46:16 > 0:46:19For Lewis, it's the day of his trial.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22I went to see how he and Katy were getting on as they got ready.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25The next few days would decide their future.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27So how you feeling today, then?
0:46:27 > 0:46:30- I'm just glad for it to be getting started.- Yeah.
0:46:30 > 0:46:32Just...I'm glad for it to start to finish.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33Yeah.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36Here you go.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43What about if the outcome doesn't go how you want it to?
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Then, mostly likely, I'll probably be going to jail.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48That's the truth of it.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52I need to look for her hat, I need to put her drink in her bottle,
0:46:52 > 0:46:53I need to...
0:46:55 > 0:46:58Katy knows a guilty verdict could mean the end of the flat
0:46:58 > 0:47:01and the beginning of a long stretch for her and Gabriella
0:47:01 > 0:47:03without Lewis and a home.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05- Are you all right?- Not today.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08Mmm. Stressed.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12I think so. I mean, we have already had an argument today.
0:47:13 > 0:47:18So, yeah. Stressful and very tense.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Practically walking around here on tippy-toes
0:47:22 > 0:47:23with everything like this.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30Of those people brought before the courts for the riots,
0:47:30 > 0:47:32just 17% were acquitted.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36Despite this, Lewis is convinced he can prove his innocence.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40It's gloomy.
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Gabriella and Katy aren't allowed to go inside the court,
0:47:42 > 0:47:45so they're waiting outside in a dark corridor.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48I feel like Lewis is really starting to feel that gloom
0:47:48 > 0:47:51and he's becoming a bit more edgy and a lot more worried.
0:47:51 > 0:47:56And I think the reality is that this could all end really badly,
0:47:56 > 0:47:58and it's going to be really, really tough if he goes down.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Lorriane has been staying with her boyfriend.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11It's held up her benefits and they've run out of food and money.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14She's walked miles to a charity shop to see if
0:48:14 > 0:48:15she can get a food parcel.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17I've got a young lady here.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20- Yeah.- She would like tea...
0:48:22 > 0:48:25..sugar and pasta. I'll just get those ready.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27OK.
0:48:27 > 0:48:28One minute.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30SHE YAWNS
0:48:30 > 0:48:32Nearly walked eight miles.
0:48:32 > 0:48:36We've walked from Plumstead to Peckham to get some food,
0:48:36 > 0:48:39which is near enough eight miles.
0:48:40 > 0:48:41And I'm tired.
0:48:41 > 0:48:45The reason I need a food parcel is because the money hasn't lasted
0:48:45 > 0:48:47and we need to eat.
0:48:47 > 0:48:48I've got tea, milk, juice.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50- Have I missed something? - I don't think so.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52'I haven't eaten properly for a couple of days.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54'I can't remember the last time
0:48:54 > 0:48:56'I actually had something decent to eat.'
0:48:56 > 0:48:59Having to walk everywhere and not having money is draining.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01As you can see, I'm really tired.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04So, I'm just feeling a little bit depressed and a little bit agitated
0:49:04 > 0:49:06and a little but annoyed, really.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10- This is your bag.- Thank you.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14- Thank you.- I hope that tides you for the next few days.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16- Thank you.- OK?- Yeah.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Lorriane is really struggling to cope.
0:49:20 > 0:49:25She's been to her GP about her depression and is trying to find suitable accommodation.
0:49:29 > 0:49:34In north London, the jury in the trial of Lewis Kyriacous,
0:49:34 > 0:49:36charged with violent disorder on the night of the riots,
0:49:36 > 0:49:38has finally reached a verdict.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Not guilty.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44I did nothing wrong, and I'm out and I'm free
0:49:44 > 0:49:45and I can do whatever I want.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47I can get on with my life. I did nothing wrong.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50- I love you.- I know, Lewie. - I love you, K.- I know!
0:49:52 > 0:49:55- Give them a smile! - See, I've got to go...
0:49:55 > 0:49:59Lewis had spent three months on tag awaiting his trial,
0:49:59 > 0:50:02and weeks in prison on remand after his arrest.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04A huge strain had been put on his family,
0:50:04 > 0:50:06all for something he was found innocent of.
0:50:11 > 0:50:14For Reece, the big moment has come where he must finally answer for
0:50:14 > 0:50:16his actions on the night of the riots.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21On that night, he was amongst looters who ruined a store
0:50:21 > 0:50:24and created tens of thousands of pounds' worth of damage.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29Why are you hellbent on saying sorry?
0:50:29 > 0:50:32I am remorseful and sorry for getting involved,
0:50:32 > 0:50:34going into the shop and taking part in looting,
0:50:34 > 0:50:37because the energy should have been focused on the police,
0:50:37 > 0:50:39which was the problem, but I went into the shop.
0:50:39 > 0:50:41I shouldn't have done that and I'm sorry for that.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44Reece has decided he wants to apologise,
0:50:44 > 0:50:47but doesn't know what reaction he's going to get.
0:50:47 > 0:50:51He's meeting Stephen Dingwall, the manager of the store.
0:50:51 > 0:50:55- Is it weird?- Kind of. Walking in and it looking so...
0:50:55 > 0:50:59- I don't know.- When was the last time you were here?
0:50:59 > 0:51:00The day I got arrested.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05- Hiya.- Erm...my name's Reece. - Right, OK.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Basically, I am one of the rioters.
0:51:07 > 0:51:11I've been in prison, I've done my time, I'm on tag now.
0:51:11 > 0:51:15I just wanted to come back and clear my conscience, really, and say
0:51:15 > 0:51:18that I'm sorry for coming into your shop and looting.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20Thank you for taking the time to come in and apologise.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23- It's appreciated. - How do you feel towards Reece?
0:51:24 > 0:51:26Erm...
0:51:26 > 0:51:28if I'm honest, a lot of mixed emotions.
0:51:28 > 0:51:30CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:51:30 > 0:51:33Excuse me. Obviously, I appreciate you've come in to apologise,
0:51:33 > 0:51:37but obviously, there's the devastation that we were left with.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40I don't know how much you played in the actual rioting of the stuff
0:51:40 > 0:51:42or whether you just stole the item,
0:51:42 > 0:51:45but the devastation that we had to come in to clear up,
0:51:45 > 0:51:49and the fact that my team, that have worked really hard
0:51:49 > 0:51:50for the last two years,
0:51:50 > 0:51:52and to have that sort of crushed overnight
0:51:52 > 0:51:56was quite a big impact on myself and my team.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58There were tears, there was anger.
0:51:58 > 0:52:00But they just pulled together, came in on their days off,
0:52:00 > 0:52:04off their holiday, to just get their store back to where it was before,
0:52:04 > 0:52:08cos at the end of the day, they work here, spend half their life here,
0:52:08 > 0:52:10and they're proud to work here, so...
0:52:10 > 0:52:13And do you think it's right that Reece went to prison?
0:52:13 > 0:52:16I'd be biased in my answer and say yes.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21How do you feel hearing this from him?
0:52:21 > 0:52:22Erm...
0:52:23 > 0:52:26..I don't know. It's a bit of a...
0:52:26 > 0:52:29me personally, I came in when it was obliterated.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32So, you know, I didn't have anything to do with that.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34Literally, I want into the back, looking around
0:52:34 > 0:52:36and I came out with a box that was taken off me instantly.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38It wasn't like I smashed stuff,
0:52:38 > 0:52:42but knowing what I saw and the atmosphere was when I was in here,
0:52:42 > 0:52:45it was crazy.
0:52:45 > 0:52:50It was all up in arms, and hearing him talk about
0:52:50 > 0:52:52the fact that he had to work...
0:52:52 > 0:52:54they had to work hard to get to where they were,
0:52:54 > 0:52:57it does...I do genuinely feel bad for that.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03So you jumped over the table?
0:53:03 > 0:53:04OK, and where did you go?
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Reece took me to the very spot where he had stolen from
0:53:08 > 0:53:10on the night of the riots.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13OK.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17- Again, it was really dark.- Yeah.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Nothing was on, completely blackout.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25Everyone was just, like, running.
0:53:27 > 0:53:30- I don't even remember it being that long.- Right.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32That seems very far. I don't even remember that.
0:53:32 > 0:53:33I don't actually...
0:53:38 > 0:53:40I wasn't thinking. I literally was just running.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44And then on my way out, I just picked up something. Anything.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47It was on a shelf at the bottom. I just picked it up, like that,
0:53:47 > 0:53:50and just ran out. I don't know what I was thinking.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03Has this been a different experience to what you thought,
0:54:03 > 0:54:06coming and speaking to Stephen and coming back here?
0:54:06 > 0:54:08I didn't think I'd feel like I do now.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10Like I said, hearing you talk about what they went through,
0:54:10 > 0:54:13how the people that work here felt, and stuff,
0:54:13 > 0:54:15it does make me feel bad.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18And again, I feel stupid, and I am sorry for that.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21I felt like Reece really had gone a long way
0:54:21 > 0:54:23towards understanding what his crime meant -
0:54:23 > 0:54:27and I felt that, despite the criminal record, he'd be fine.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29But what of Lorriane?
0:54:35 > 0:54:39Over 10 months, I'd watched her go from a bubbly Army cadet
0:54:39 > 0:54:41to a girl who was suffering from depression,
0:54:41 > 0:54:45estranged from her family, and whose life had almost been crushed.
0:54:46 > 0:54:49She'd paid the price for her actions,
0:54:49 > 0:54:53but from where I watched, that price seemed really destructive.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56She'd split up with her boyfriend
0:54:56 > 0:54:59and found temporary accommodation for the homeless.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02Just in case I do end up having it longer,
0:55:02 > 0:55:05I don't have to bloody clean it, then, do I?
0:55:05 > 0:55:07It's really dumb.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15I had to go to my doctor to declare my depression, so...
0:55:17 > 0:55:19Yeah. I suppose it's getting there.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24Her relationship with her dad is still up and down.
0:55:25 > 0:55:29Recently me and my dad fell out again so he changed the locks on me,
0:55:29 > 0:55:32and then my mum came back from holiday,
0:55:32 > 0:55:35and she kind of told him off, so now he's talking to me again.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39So he's helping me get some stuff in.
0:55:39 > 0:55:42He got me a kettle and a toaster and a little storage unit
0:55:42 > 0:55:46and some cleaning products, so he's helping me get my place started.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48See? Good things are happening.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Good things are happening. It's OK.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58A year on from the riots, and we're still grappling
0:55:58 > 0:56:00with what they meant and why they happened.
0:56:00 > 0:56:04What I've learned from spending months with the people involved
0:56:04 > 0:56:07is that those four nights last August pulled apart families,
0:56:07 > 0:56:12businesses and careers for both victims and perpetrators,
0:56:12 > 0:56:16and that chaos was created not by anonymous hoodies
0:56:16 > 0:56:21but by real people, many of whose lives were changed for ever by the riots.
0:56:23 > 0:56:26Me, like an idiot, went and looted in a stupid riot
0:56:26 > 0:56:29that had nothing to do with me in any way, shape or form,
0:56:29 > 0:56:32got myself involved, got myself sent to prison,
0:56:32 > 0:56:33messed up my whole career.
0:56:35 > 0:56:36Put it this way...
0:56:36 > 0:56:37BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:56:37 > 0:56:40..next riot, you're not going to see my face.
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