0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains some strong language
0:00:05 > 0:00:08and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:08 > 0:00:11We are the generation that film everything. Even our crimes.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Go on, boy!
0:00:13 > 0:00:14HE LAUGHS
0:00:14 > 0:00:17- What are you driving? - A double-decker!
0:00:17 > 0:00:20On phones and on CCTV,
0:00:20 > 0:00:25they are uploaded and shared online.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32This film explores the world of car crime
0:00:32 > 0:00:36and the reckless decisions made by young men addicted to speed.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Some record their crimes and then post online.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47People recognise me for it.
0:00:47 > 0:00:54Why they think that we wouldn't be able to access Facebook accounts, I've no idea.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58When road crashes are now the single biggest killer of young people
0:00:58 > 0:01:03in the UK, how do they affect the lives of those left behind?
0:01:03 > 0:01:08- I thought it was some sick joke. - Stop, stop, stop.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12- Get out, get out, get out.- I can't! - Just get out.- I can't get out.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15I can't get out.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31LAUGHTER
0:01:37 > 0:01:4020-year-old Sam Hobson is no stranger to uploading
0:01:40 > 0:01:42footage of himself.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I film myself on these little electric forklift truck things,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50driving round, reversing, picking up boxes and driving out.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Just messing around.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54We had nothing to do at work, and it was like on a break.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56I uploaded it on YouTube ages ago,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00but you can't really find it on there, it's hard to find.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05One night Sam took the idea of filming himself to a whole new level.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10I was with my ex-girlfriend and one of her mates and we were just
0:02:10 > 0:02:14having a casual drink at mine - the homebrew, I made myself.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17It was probably about 9%,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19so it was quite strong, I put extra sugar in it
0:02:19 > 0:02:22and I don't know how many I had that night - a few.
0:02:23 > 0:02:28We had run out of alcohol and that's when we just, like,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31decided let's go out and do something.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Like, see who's about, see if there's anything to do downtown.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39So we went out and just, there was just no-one about at all,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41it was just dead that night.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46We were just wandering around and it was quite cold outside,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49so we thought, let's go and sit in the back of the bus and decide what do.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52We pulled the handle and it came straight open.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Then I seen a key and then started driving.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02- What are we driving?- A double-decker!
0:03:02 > 0:03:06I'd never driven one before, but it was an automatic,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08basically stop and go.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13Forward and reverse, power steering - it was quite easy to drive.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18- Take this roundabout the wrong way round. Go that side.- Right.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Go down that side. - Oh, my God, you guys.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Drove it up past the police station, up towards the Porton area,
0:03:30 > 0:03:34turned it round there, let one of the girls have a go on it
0:03:34 > 0:03:38and she came round the corner, smashed it into a tree.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Kind of smashed the window!
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- What are we driving?- A double-decker!
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- How do you feel?- I feel good, man. - What are you driving?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54A double-decker.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58SHE WHOOPS You crazy bitch.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I enjoyed it, it was like an adrenaline rush really at the time.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05That's what came through. I just like fast sports cars and driving.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09- 'How funny will this be in the newspaper?- I know.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14- 'I picture myself in a hoody... - Hopefully not.'
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Why do you think you filmed yourself on your phone?
0:04:16 > 0:04:20I just think it was a memory to look back, so I just started recording.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24It was, like, it's not every day someone nicks a bus.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26I can drive cars and lorries... No, no! Don't do that!
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- You will roll the bus over!- Oh!
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Keep going straight ahead - we'll dump it in the middle of the roundabout.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- No. I'll park it somewhere. - Outside my mum's house.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Whilst I was coming round, I was saying,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42"Where shall we park it?"
0:04:42 > 0:04:47- I thought it would be funny to park it round my mum's house.- Why?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50So when she wakes up in the morning, she'll see a bus there.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52I don't know, I thought it was quite funny at the time.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57Just not thinking properly, but thinking stupid things like that.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01But I did think it would be a funny idea.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Right, stop - slow down, slow down. Really wide, really wide.- Slower.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Steering, steering. SHE SCREAMS
0:05:11 > 0:05:14She wasn't doing too bad, and then near the end of the journey...
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Slow down.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23- Don't crash into any cars, please. - All right, I promise.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Oh my God, though.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31CRUNCHING Oh, shit!
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Park it down here, and get the fuck out, now. Stop, stop, stop!
0:05:35 > 0:05:38SHE SCREAMS Get out, get out.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- I can't. - Just get out!- I can't get out!
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Oh, dear God!
0:06:01 > 0:06:04SIRENS WAIL
0:06:14 > 0:06:17But the excitement of joyriding can lead to more serious forms
0:06:17 > 0:06:21of criminality - especially in urban centres like Manchester...
0:06:25 > 0:06:30..where car crime rates are some of the highest in the country.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35It's sort of, 13, 14,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39seems to be a time when they are easily influenced
0:06:39 > 0:06:43and if you make the wrong decisions there,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45it can affect the rest of your life.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46RAPS: Saying that I'm shit
0:06:46 > 0:06:49But I'm never going to stop till I'm number one hit in the charts
0:06:49 > 0:06:53I want to go far Have a nice life
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Have a nice car and you don't need crime to make a lot of cash...
0:06:56 > 0:07:00Greater Manchester Police are involved in Safe Gorton,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04a youth project that takes in the Ryderbrow Road.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Its purpose is to make it a safer place by steering kids like Liam away from car crime.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13The crime rate round here is high - burglaries, robberies,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15car theft - everything.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19My house has been burgled twice. I didn't like it.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21That's why I think I won't do it - I'll never do that.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27It was reports of...er...
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- vehicle and a bike. - There is a BMW 325...
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Because of the high levels of vehicle crime,
0:07:35 > 0:07:39the police had Ryderbrow Road under constant surveillance.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43There it is.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48There's quite a little crowd on Ryderbrow Road,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50just near the junction of Goredale Avenue.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55There is a motorcycle with them, which may very well be the one.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58There's also a car parked at that junction
0:07:58 > 0:08:00which is looking unusually warm.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Lad on the motorcycle has obviously noticed our presence -
0:08:08 > 0:08:11he's just dumped it and run off into an address.
0:08:11 > 0:08:18What makes a car so important to kids around here?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Speed, the looks.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Like, if you had a car, you could go anywhere. Pull the chicks.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Not getting about in the cold streets and that.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Wouldn't mind an Audi RE or an Aston Martin.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32- Is that your dream car?- Yeah.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35One of my mates is 17 - he's getting a Mini
0:08:35 > 0:08:39when he's 18 for his first car.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43I can fully understand why cars are desirable to people,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45because they are to me.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50I can understand that if you don't think you can ever have one,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52but you want one, um...
0:08:52 > 0:08:57And you're from a particular sort of background where criminality
0:08:57 > 0:09:00is not unusual, then the likelihood is that you could easily
0:09:00 > 0:09:03go into that sort of crime.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09It's very much the young males who grow up dreaming of being
0:09:09 > 0:09:13able to drive fast, high-performance cars -
0:09:13 > 0:09:15it's just the bravado that goes with it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18They like to be seen in them, they like to be seen with the keys
0:09:18 > 0:09:21to a high-performance vehicle and people talk to them about it.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28One set of teenage boys in particular
0:09:28 > 0:09:33turned their love of fast cars into an inner-city crime wave.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37This bridge was a bit of a landmark, you see.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40This is the start of Ryderbrow, the other side is Dean Road.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41I came across them really
0:09:41 > 0:09:47when they all started tagging on a lot of the walls and the bridge
0:09:47 > 0:09:53and suchlike. "RBS" and we knew it wasn't the Royal Bank Of Scotland!
0:09:53 > 0:09:55That was Ryder Brow Soldiers.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58People were telling us that they were in their houses
0:09:58 > 0:10:01and they didn't want to go out, just because they would have to
0:10:01 > 0:10:05encounter this group who were particularly problematic.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14But it wasn't just the police filming this gang - believing they
0:10:14 > 0:10:19were above the law, the Ryder Brow Soldiers started filming themselves.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Oh, yeah - that's where they smash into the lamppost
0:10:25 > 0:10:29to get the camera down, with the stolen cars. Yes.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31It's just anarchy, isn't it?
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Those cars are probably somebody's pride and joy.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39They probably worked hard to get those vehicles and to insure them
0:10:39 > 0:10:43and get them legal and they are just racing them round, trashing them.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49But you can see their mates are all there to watch.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53That's what you're up against. Outrageous showing off.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59We put the cameras in place to monitor their activity,
0:10:59 > 0:11:01but when you see stuff like that,
0:11:01 > 0:11:06you realise that they are taking the mickey.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14The type of characters that are involved and the type of bravado
0:11:14 > 0:11:18in amongst them, you could see how they could egg themselves onto doing
0:11:18 > 0:11:22more and more and then one thing would just lead to another.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Four members of the gang went from thrill-seeking
0:11:26 > 0:11:30to more advanced and dangerous levels of car crime.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Difficult to pinch cars these days. They want the keys.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40A lot of people, UPVC doors, don't lock the doors properly,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44so the family can be sat there watching Coronation Street
0:11:44 > 0:11:47and you've got a bunch of lunatics come bursting in your lounge,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49wanting the keys to your car - what are you going to do?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51In this investigation,
0:11:51 > 0:11:53there was people breaking into people's houses.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55I would suggest that's more...
0:11:55 > 0:11:58That takes more than one person to do that.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59They work as a small team.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02It was fuelled by a lot of egos
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and trying to outdo each other, I think.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Some of them, certainly, were carried along with it.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12There were some key players, but...
0:12:13 > 0:12:18Once you got them all together, they were all as bad as each other.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21I would say they were quite organised.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I think they would be at the bottom end -
0:12:23 > 0:12:26they are the risk-takers, the ones committing the crimes
0:12:26 > 0:12:29to get the vehicle, breaking into people's houses.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34The gang didn't think twice about going online
0:12:34 > 0:12:38and advertising their progression up the criminal ladder.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42The first person I heard about was Lucas Hunter.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45It came to my attention that there was some
0:12:45 > 0:12:47photographs on Facebook of him with cars,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51or certainly some comments of him with some stolen cars.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06There was pictures of, certainly the guys that we were
0:13:06 > 0:13:09talking about inside the vehicles, they were wearing gloves,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12it appeared to be a nice day, they had short sleeves on -
0:13:12 > 0:13:15it just looked peculiar that they were wearing gloves.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18There was pictures of them stood in front of the vehicles
0:13:18 > 0:13:21with their legs stood across the number plate,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23leaving maybe only one letter or number in that registration,
0:13:23 > 0:13:28stood posing with a key, almost as a trophy.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31It's something we're used to. People who have committed dwelling
0:13:31 > 0:13:34house burglaries or a lot of crime - they do wear gloves
0:13:34 > 0:13:38and it's an old tried-and-tested way of hiding your fingerprints.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Maybe they didn't think the police would find out about Facebook -
0:13:41 > 0:13:43maybe they didn't think we knew about Facebook.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46They thought we were all a bit old for Facebook.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48When you think about all the technology the police
0:13:48 > 0:13:52have got access to, why they think that we wouldn't be able to access
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Facebook accounts, I have no idea.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59After posting their crimes, four members of the so-called
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Ryder Brow Soldiers were charged and convicted of various offences.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07They received sentences ranging from 15 months
0:14:07 > 0:14:09to almost four and a half years.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15- I suppose in a way it makes your job easier?- Yes, it has done.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Yes - long may it continue. Stupidity!
0:14:19 > 0:14:21It's the key to cracking crime.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Hey, babe.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10I just wanted to remind you how beautiful and perfect you are,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12inside and out.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18I love you. You are the best part of me, without you I'm half a person.
0:15:18 > 0:15:19You are the love of my life.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24One day I'll wake up and be beside you again.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26I'll be happy, because I'll be with you.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Until then, I've just got to wait. Yours always.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37Joe Pomeroy, the oldest of three boys, was born in 1987.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41We were pretty sure it was going to be a boy
0:15:41 > 0:15:42and we even started
0:15:42 > 0:15:45calling him Joseph before he was born,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49so it would have been a bit of shock had it been a girl.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Because he was the first, we both had a lot of time to spend with him.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Changed our lives, as it does everybody's, when you have children.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05Joe grew up in a rural village in Wales, with his three best mates,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Gareth Winyard, Jon Jones, and Josh Roberts.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Hello, I want food, please. Can I have food?
0:16:13 > 0:16:17If you complete the bush tucker trial, you can obviously have food.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Joe was so open, so friendly.
0:16:18 > 0:16:23I think he didn't really have any aggressiveness or animosity
0:16:23 > 0:16:25to other people.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28I think people can relate to that, you feel drawn to him.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Josh has been successfully evicted from the Big Brother house!
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Even from a young age, I guess, he had that skill -
0:16:36 > 0:16:38once you see him, you're friends - that's it.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Cos we're a close-knit village,
0:16:41 > 0:16:44we were just really a close bunch, isn't it?
0:16:44 > 0:16:47We weren't from a big town, it was a little village,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49so it was a really close group.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51It was me, Josh, Joe, Gaz.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Joe was kind of our leader, in a sense.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Gaz, like any of us, he looked up to Joe, respected Joe,
0:16:58 > 0:16:59loved Joe, as well.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Gaz was one of his best mates in the village.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06He lived a street away from him and he was a bit younger,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08so a lot of the time
0:17:08 > 0:17:10when I saw them together,
0:17:10 > 0:17:14Gaz did look up to him as a bit of a teacher and older brother.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17As Joe grew up with Josh, Jon and Gareth,
0:17:17 > 0:17:22it soon became clear that he was academically gifted.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Mathematics, he was just... He was unrivalled.
0:17:24 > 0:17:30He'd been offered scholarships to go to universities to do maths.
0:17:30 > 0:17:35I think he was in the top percentiles for Britain for mathematics.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Truly, academically, I think he was a genius.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Not in the overused sense of the word.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Today, you get kids saying, "that's genius,"
0:17:43 > 0:17:45and that's what have you, but Joe was,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48in the classical sense, a genius.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Even when he went away to university,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Joe kept in constant touch with his friends back home.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57One of the things he was quite good at
0:17:57 > 0:18:00was keeping in contact with people.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Whether it was on MSN or by texting people,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06he would always have some conversation going.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09It didn't surprise me that he had met that many people
0:18:09 > 0:18:13- and kept in contact with them. - Sit there and open your mouth.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20As part of the Facebook generation,
0:18:20 > 0:18:25Joe documented his love for life for all his friends to see online.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31At university, he met his first serious girlfriend.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33I just remember the first time I saw him.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I thought, "He's a bit of all right!"
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Obviously then, it was just, started talking and instantly hit it off.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44I'd always said that my dream was to swim with dolphins
0:18:44 > 0:18:48and how I'd always wanted to go to America
0:18:48 > 0:18:52and he planned the whole thing out himself.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56We went to San Diego, we went to Las Vegas for a couple of nights.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00We hired a Mustang and drove from LA to Las Vegas,
0:19:00 > 0:19:05a four-litre convertible. That was a beast.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11After graduating with a maths degree, Joe moved back to Wales,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13to be reunited with his childhood friends.
0:19:13 > 0:19:19In these parts, a car quite simply is a lifeline.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Public transport is a mess,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24there's a train and bus maybe every two hours.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29Around here, it's quite important that you need a car, really.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33But it just gives the opportunity for young people
0:19:33 > 0:19:35to mess around, really.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39- They go too far.- Do you get a lot of boy racers in this area?
0:19:39 > 0:19:45Yeah, there's quite a few going around. Small towns and all that,
0:19:45 > 0:19:49so they buy all these cheap cars, soup them up and go round the town
0:19:49 > 0:19:52trying to outdo each other by who's got the best car,
0:19:52 > 0:19:57who's got the fastest, who's got the new parts for it and all that.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01It's just like competing with themselves in little ways like that.
0:20:01 > 0:20:06I remember once going on a drive with Gaz and Joe -
0:20:06 > 0:20:09going to Aberystwyth just to get a McDonald's.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13To me, that seems pretty boring, driving for an hour
0:20:13 > 0:20:16or so just to get some food!
0:20:16 > 0:20:19But clearly it's something they got a lot of fun out of,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22because of that feeling of power, being able to drive fast
0:20:22 > 0:20:25and play music loud, windows open.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Something I guess that they got kicks out of.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32You hear about these things happening,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35but you don't really expect it to happen to you,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38but you still worry about it.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Oh, my God, though.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54CRASHING Oh, shit. Shit, shit!
0:20:54 > 0:20:59Park it down here and get the fuck out now. Stop, stop, stop!
0:20:59 > 0:21:00SHE SCREAMS
0:21:00 > 0:21:03- Get out, get out, get out. - I can't!- Just get out.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04I can't get out!
0:21:10 > 0:21:11MUFFLED LAUGHTER
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Oh, dear God!
0:21:16 > 0:21:18I'm going to talk to you about
0:21:18 > 0:21:21all those weird stories that you see on the internet.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25The funniest viral I saw this week was of three West Country teenagers
0:21:25 > 0:21:30who were caught joyriding a double-decker bus.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Now, they would have actually got away with it,
0:21:34 > 0:21:36the police hadn't a clue who had stolen bus,
0:21:36 > 0:21:41except that one of the teenagers posted a clip of it on YouTube.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45That is Jedward levels of stupidity.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51That's like stabbing someone in the face with your passport.
0:21:52 > 0:22:00It was about 11.30 in the morning, so I couldn't really remember,
0:22:00 > 0:22:04because I had a bit of a hangover, but then I checked my phone
0:22:04 > 0:22:05and wanted someone to see it.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08I thought it was funny and I wanted to see if they thought it was funny.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11So I sent it to someone and they put it on YouTube.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24So tell me about the morning you heard that a bus had been stolen.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28We'd heard that it was a young lad and two girls
0:22:28 > 0:22:32and we knew who he hangs around with.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36I saw some comments on Facebook from one of the girls.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39It said it was good at the time, but that,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42"Oh, no, I wish I hadn't done it now."
0:22:42 > 0:22:45And I thought, "Yes, it was them."
0:22:46 > 0:22:50I just rang him up and said, "I heard a bus has come up
0:22:50 > 0:22:52"near where we live.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56"I just hope it wasn't any of you. I heard it was three people."
0:22:56 > 0:23:00I said, "Were you out last night?" "No, I was in. I was in bed."
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I think she knew, just the way I was talking on the phone
0:23:03 > 0:23:06and saying I had nothing to do with it.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- I think she knew deep down that I did it.- Mothers' intuition?- Yeah.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12That's the one.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15You can't get away from the fact it's all over YouTube.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16What a stupid thing to do.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20If you're going to do something like that, why put it on YouTube?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23That's when all the nasty comments came on.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Like saying, "Blame it on the parents,"
0:23:25 > 0:23:29or "They shouldn't have been born," or things like that.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Real nasty things.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34In the end, we had to get in touch and asked them
0:23:34 > 0:23:37to take the comments off because it was just so upsetting.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Why do you think he filmed himself?
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Kids do anything these days with their mobiles.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46They think anything is funny, anything good, they will film it.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49I think it's to see how many hits you can get.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53After the footage of Sam had been uploaded onto YouTube,
0:23:53 > 0:23:56it wasn't long before the police came looking for him.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59I heard a loud bang at the door and...
0:23:59 > 0:24:02I was thinking, "Oh no, what's that?"
0:24:02 > 0:24:06I looked out and seen a police car there and I was like, "Oh, no."
0:24:06 > 0:24:10My heart just sunk. I didn't know what to do.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13I didn't know whether to go out then, or just stay put until they went.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Later that day, I spoke to him and said, "Look, if you done it...
0:24:16 > 0:24:20He said, "I have done it." He said the police had been round,
0:24:20 > 0:24:21but he hadn't answered.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24I said, "You should go and hand yourself in."
0:24:24 > 0:24:28I decided to get it over and done with, basically.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31They knew it was me, because they were knocking on my door.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37So...I just thought I'm going to have to face the music.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43Sam was charged with stealing a bus and criminal damage.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48As he prepared to face a judge in the County Court,
0:24:48 > 0:24:52the consequences of his drunken prank began to take their toll.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Building up to it, I was just...
0:24:56 > 0:24:59getting drunk every day, just to try and block it out.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04Taking antidepressants and trying to block it.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08It just kept dragging on and on.
0:25:08 > 0:25:13He kept appearing to go to court and it kept getting adjourned.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15I didn't know what was going to happen -
0:25:15 > 0:25:18I knew I was going to get sent down, but I thought it was going to be
0:25:18 > 0:25:22for a really long time and I started feeling suicidal.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24He was getting very down.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29He kept saying that he wanted to end his life
0:25:29 > 0:25:33because he didn't want to be sent into prison.
0:25:33 > 0:25:39He ended up in hospital because he went to the bridge and jumped.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44He broke his ankles and ended up in hospital having an operation.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45He had to have pins put in.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I'm glad I didn't die at the end of it.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51It was just a stupid mistake that popped into my head.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53I acted impulsively on it.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Sam received a 15-month driving ban
0:25:56 > 0:25:59and a sentence of six months in prison,
0:25:59 > 0:26:02but ended up serving just nine weeks.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04What was prison like?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06It wasn't as bad as I thought was going to be.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10I got on with everyone there. They recognised me anyway.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13They seen it on TV in prison, on the news.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Then, they said what am I in for, and I told them
0:26:15 > 0:26:18and they said, "I've seen that on TV" and they said, "fair play."
0:26:21 > 0:26:25No-one was injured when Sam went on his joyride in a bus.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30But every day, five people die on British roads
0:26:30 > 0:26:34and almost one in four is under 25.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07The plan was to go to Aberystwyth to go Christmas shopping,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10because it was just before Christmas.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12About 20 days, something like that.
0:27:12 > 0:27:17Gazza stayed at my house the night before.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20We texted Joe to meet us so we could get off.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Like an overcast day, I suppose. The roads were quite damp.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26It had been drizzling.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30I'm sure it was drizzling, actually, on the way to Aber.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31The roads were a bit greasy.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Gaz was driving obviously,
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I was in the front and Joe was behind me, I think.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37We were just chatting away,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40listening to music as anybody would in the car.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43It was just a normal drive, I think.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Quite an erratic drive, just normal of Gaz, nothing was different there.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49When you say erratic...?
0:27:49 > 0:27:53It was just an above-average pace of driving, if you like.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Driving fast, basically.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Just needlessly driving fast, I suppose.
0:27:59 > 0:28:04We came up to these corners and Gaz lost control of his vehicle.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Um, and then... I can remember...
0:28:07 > 0:28:09I can remember bracing myself,
0:28:09 > 0:28:11because I knew we were going to come off the road.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14The car was fish-tailing, so I knew
0:28:14 > 0:28:18we were going to come off the road and so I just braced myself and...
0:28:18 > 0:28:19just blacked out then.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25I remember waking up.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28The car was in the ditch, pointing downwards in the ditch.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32I remember waking up and Gaz was saying to Joe, I think, shouting.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35He was saying he wasn't breathing, he wasn't breathing.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38I got out the car. I was bleeding quite badly from my head.
0:28:40 > 0:28:45Managed to make my way onto the road and I flagged down the traffic.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48I can't remember exact details.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51I actually arrived at the scene,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54fire brigade and ambulance already here.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57Joseph Pomeroy had been taken out of his car
0:28:57 > 0:29:00and was in the back of the ambulance when I got here.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04The weather was atrocious at the time.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07It was raining really hard and it was dark.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13We found a tyre track in the middle of the road
0:29:13 > 0:29:17that corresponded to his rear offside tyre,
0:29:17 > 0:29:20that showed he was going around in a bit of an arc like that.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24He's then overcompensated by steering sharp to the right.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30He came across the road here and was heading into this gap,
0:29:30 > 0:29:32but when he came off the road surface,
0:29:32 > 0:29:34he was travelling in this direction.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37The front of the car was facing that way.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40As he's gone off, he's gone sideways, like that, so the tree itself
0:29:40 > 0:29:43was collided with the roof and the back window,
0:29:43 > 0:29:46or the back passenger window of the car,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48which is where Joseph Pomeroy was actually sitting.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50So he's gone sideways into the tree.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53The car has wrapped itself around the tree to a certain extent
0:29:53 > 0:29:58and then dropped onto the driver's side into the water down below.
0:30:04 > 0:30:09Initially, the biggest problem I have at the scene of a collision like this,
0:30:09 > 0:30:11where somebody has been killed,
0:30:11 > 0:30:13because everybody has got mobile phones and Twitter
0:30:13 > 0:30:18and all the rest of it, our biggest problem is that we have to rush
0:30:18 > 0:30:22to try and tell the families first, before they find out any other way.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26I was upstairs and I saw...
0:30:26 > 0:30:30It was about the time Joe was going to come home
0:30:30 > 0:30:33and I saw a car pull up in the drive.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36It had a roof rack on it and I thought, that's odd -
0:30:36 > 0:30:39don't know any people with roof racks, then the doorbell went
0:30:39 > 0:30:42and it was two police officers and I realised that the car -
0:30:42 > 0:30:47it was the lights on top of the roof, it was a police car.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51I realised it was serious because two police officers turned up.
0:30:51 > 0:30:57They... They just told me straight that there had been a crash
0:30:57 > 0:30:59and that Joe had been killed.
0:30:59 > 0:31:06We were just at my brother's flat when David phoned and, er...
0:31:06 > 0:31:08My brother gave me the phone straightaway.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11David had just said, "Can I speak to Sue?"
0:31:11 > 0:31:13He knew something was up.
0:31:13 > 0:31:14And, er...
0:31:16 > 0:31:20I mean, there's just no describing the feeling.
0:31:24 > 0:31:29- I almost fell over, really. - I got to see Joe in the mortuary.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35He was still warm. You know, he hadn't been dead that long.
0:31:35 > 0:31:40So there was still some warmth there. But he was a bit...
0:31:44 > 0:31:48Bloated and... Well, he'd been in a car crash.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53Blood coming out of his ears and nose. I just burst into tears.
0:31:53 > 0:31:58Tried to mop some of the blood off, just thought
0:31:58 > 0:32:02if I clean him up, maybe he'll come back.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06You just can't imagine seeing your own child lifeless.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22First off, as soon as I heard it, I didn't want to believe it.
0:32:22 > 0:32:29Because that weekend, they had been down to Cardiff to see Hayley
0:32:29 > 0:32:32and on their way back, they called me to see if I wanted to go
0:32:32 > 0:32:36to Aber with them, so I could have been in that car as well.
0:32:36 > 0:32:37I was at home, actually.
0:32:37 > 0:32:45I remember Mum coming in, looking, er... Looking quite pale.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48Sort of hand on her mouth.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52She turned to me and said, "Have you heard the news?"
0:32:52 > 0:32:56And I said, because I was tired, I said, "What?"
0:32:58 > 0:33:01She said, "It's Joe." "What about Joe?"
0:33:01 > 0:33:05And er, she said, "He's dead."
0:33:05 > 0:33:06This, it's one of those things,
0:33:06 > 0:33:09you think it's a Chinese whispers to begin with.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12In a place like this, you always hear bad news
0:33:12 > 0:33:14and it's always worse than it is.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16That's the first thing that came to mind.
0:33:16 > 0:33:22A friend of Pom's from Wales, Martin, who I'd met quite a few times previously,
0:33:22 > 0:33:26he rang me up and said that there was something
0:33:26 > 0:33:29about Joe on his Facebook wall that he didn't really understand,
0:33:29 > 0:33:33and I guess at the time he didn't want to believe it was true.
0:33:33 > 0:33:34And, er...
0:33:34 > 0:33:40Then I looked at that myself and saw that people had written condolence messages
0:33:40 > 0:33:43and things saying goodbye.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46And so, then it kicked in.
0:33:46 > 0:33:53Back then, it was, like, Facebook was a pretty newish thing to me,
0:33:53 > 0:33:56so I was on there every day.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59You get into this craze of everything that happens,
0:33:59 > 0:34:01you have to post up.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Seeing other people have lost people
0:34:04 > 0:34:09and you just hear about all these memorial pages on Facebook.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13In memory of, you pay your respects on that.
0:34:15 > 0:34:16So... Yeah.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19I fully understand that I was probably the first one
0:34:19 > 0:34:21to write on his page.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24I love you, man!
0:34:24 > 0:34:27I don't want to believe any of it. You're my best friend,
0:34:27 > 0:34:31you showed me how to enjoy life and were always there when I needed you.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35The memories I hold, I will cherish.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38I just can't believe that you are gone!
0:34:38 > 0:34:40I will never forget you, Joe.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49As the news of Joe's death spread on Facebook,
0:34:49 > 0:34:54Hayley received a text message from one of his friends.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07I thought it was some sick joke.
0:35:07 > 0:35:11I asked him what he meant, what had he done?
0:35:14 > 0:35:19I texted Joe, I rang Joe, I rang Jonno countless times as well,
0:35:19 > 0:35:23because they are the only people whose numbers I had.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Um...
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Then, because I wasn't getting any answer,
0:35:27 > 0:35:29I phoned Joe's house phone.
0:35:30 > 0:35:35And then, obviously, got the confirmation.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37The image, my mum's face,
0:35:37 > 0:35:40as she came in with her hand on her mouth...
0:35:42 > 0:35:44..looking ghostly, I think...
0:35:46 > 0:35:49..convinced me that it could be true.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52'A man has died after the car he was travelling in
0:35:52 > 0:35:55'crashed on the road near Machynlleth in Powys.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59'The second man, who suffered serious injuries in the accident
0:35:59 > 0:36:01'on Sunday is being treated in hospital...'
0:36:01 > 0:36:04As the news of Joe's death was confirmed,
0:36:04 > 0:36:09it was revealed that driving the car was his best friend Gareth.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12I said to my mum, when she called me up,
0:36:12 > 0:36:14I said on the phone, "Gareth was driving, wasn't he?"
0:36:15 > 0:36:19And she said "Yes". I think...
0:36:19 > 0:36:25That speaks volumes for him, to know that everyone knew he was driving.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35I was put in charge of deciding who would be a pallbearer for Pom,
0:36:35 > 0:36:39and as Gaz was one of his best friends, I knew that even though
0:36:39 > 0:36:42he was the perpetrator in some people's eyes,
0:36:42 > 0:36:44that he should be there.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47- We didn't object at the time.- No.
0:36:47 > 0:36:51We just thought, it must be a terrible accident...
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Something that just happened.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56I think we were all very supportive of Gaz.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00I remember being at the grave and having my arm around him,
0:37:00 > 0:37:07because he was in tears and I think Gaz was one of the strong characters.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10So to see him in tears, it was clear that he was...
0:37:10 > 0:37:14You'd never see Gaz in tears otherwise. Yeah.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18He was a very strong character and to see him like that,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21it meant something that what happened had happened.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25It really, really cut Gaz and again, in the church,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28we were supportive of him afterwards, but...
0:37:30 > 0:37:32We extended that sort of...
0:37:32 > 0:37:34friendship to him, we maintained that friendship to him,
0:37:34 > 0:37:37but it wasn't really reciprocated.
0:37:37 > 0:37:41It was after the funeral, as far as I knew, immediately after,
0:37:41 > 0:37:44he kind of severed all ties.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48Within a week or so,
0:37:48 > 0:37:51there was pictures of him going out, having fun,
0:37:51 > 0:37:53getting drunk on Facebook.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59And then just things that he'd put up on there were just
0:37:59 > 0:38:01as if nothing had happened.
0:38:01 > 0:38:06- After the funeral, Gareth never came up, did he?- No.
0:38:06 > 0:38:07Never heard from him again.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11Really, after the funeral, it started...
0:38:11 > 0:38:13our thoughts started to change.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16Some people didn't go to the funeral
0:38:16 > 0:38:20because Gareth was going. That made us think, "Why?"
0:38:34 > 0:38:38In 2010, there were almost half a million reported incidents
0:38:38 > 0:38:39of car crime in Britain.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49I guess, like a lot of guys, I'm just a bit of a petrol head.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52I like the noise, smell - it's the same with motorbikes.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56It's just a very sort of gear-head attitude, I guess.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Probably a bit of a boy thing, in as much as it's fast cars, chases.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03I enjoy that sort of thing -
0:39:03 > 0:39:06not necessarily the thrill of the chase,
0:39:06 > 0:39:09but I do enjoy the cops-and-robbers element of it and winning.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20We operate at the maximum speeds of the vehicles that we use
0:39:20 > 0:39:26and in the vast majority of cases, those are limited to 155 mph.
0:39:26 > 0:39:31There are odd occasions where you can get up towards those sort of speeds.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35I think we have become slightly desensitised to speed.
0:39:35 > 0:39:40The speed of 100 miles an hour to most people don't mean anything.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43People feel overly protected by these metal boxes they are driving.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47They think that if something goes wrong at 100 miles an hour, that yes,
0:39:47 > 0:39:50there will be a horrible crash, but they will walk away from it.
0:39:52 > 0:39:58One morning in April 2011, Heath was starting a patrol like any other.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00It's all right, isn't it?
0:40:10 > 0:40:13We'd been informed by the control room that there had been
0:40:13 > 0:40:16an activation on one of the automatic number plate cameras in Peterborough.
0:40:16 > 0:40:22So that was less than half a mile away from us,
0:40:22 > 0:40:25so it was just a case of travelling towards each other,
0:40:25 > 0:40:28so we just made progress to the roundabout
0:40:28 > 0:40:33where I caught a glimpse of what genuinely looked like a red Mercedes.
0:40:36 > 0:40:40Once I'd got the number plate clarified and was 100% sure
0:40:40 > 0:40:45we were behind the vehicle, it was in traffic at a junction on London Road.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47Element of surprise, we were in an unmarked car,
0:40:47 > 0:40:49could quite easily have opened the door,
0:40:49 > 0:40:52set of handcuffs and that's the end of it.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54- That didn't work...- Why?
0:40:54 > 0:40:58The fact we had our sirens on was probably a reasonable reason.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00SIRENS WAIL
0:41:12 > 0:41:17- I've been on the railway since 1977. - TRAIN HORN
0:41:17 > 0:41:19So I was 35 years on the railway,
0:41:19 > 0:41:21I've been a driver in my own right since '82.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24I suppose, inherently, the job was safe.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27It's just other people you have to be aware of.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33CRACKLY RADIO RECORDING
0:41:33 > 0:41:36London Road... Across the green traffic lights...
0:41:36 > 0:41:40'It still raises the hairs on the back of my neck, just looking at it.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44'Go through all the thought processes and everything.'
0:41:44 > 0:41:47We're back through a residential area here, at 50, 60 miles an hour.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50The traffic's light, but if I'm honest with you,
0:41:50 > 0:41:54it's on the edge of what we'd be prepared to accept and follow at.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57There was so much going through my mind, if I'm honest with you.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00Approaching the double roundabout.
0:42:03 > 0:42:04It was an afternoon shift,
0:42:04 > 0:42:08probably around two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11It was a fairly full unit of people standing.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13Somewhere in the region of 200 plus.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Everything just went as normal.
0:42:22 > 0:42:23'I can hear the flutter in my own voice,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27'but you're desperately trying to sound calm,
0:42:27 > 0:42:29'because it's important that you're calm
0:42:29 > 0:42:31'and get the right information across'
0:42:31 > 0:42:34and get some good instructions across as to where we were heading
0:42:34 > 0:42:37and the sort of conditions we were up against.
0:42:39 > 0:42:44'Even now, I still feel a bit light in my tummy when I watch it.'
0:42:46 > 0:42:48..Towards the fire station...
0:43:04 > 0:43:06'..see if we can get this thing up and running.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08'Helicopter notified, please.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10'Dog en route, if you've got one available.'
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Wrong side of the road...
0:43:24 > 0:43:26'One minute, you're thinking,
0:43:26 > 0:43:29' I'm going to call it off, next minute,
0:43:29 > 0:43:31'no, I'll let it run for a little while.'
0:43:31 > 0:43:33I think that would have been much the same to him at any given stage.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36All he's got to do is indicate to the left and pull over
0:43:36 > 0:43:37and it's finished, isn't it?
0:43:54 > 0:43:58'It frightens me, the way I didn't see it sooner.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00'As we're approaching the railway crossing,
0:44:00 > 0:44:04'and there's no oncoming traffic, it still didn't twig with me
0:44:04 > 0:44:09'that that was primarily because the level crossing was down.'
0:44:20 > 0:44:23There's no way on this earth we were going through that.
0:44:25 > 0:44:26No, I never in a million years
0:44:26 > 0:44:29thought he'd go through the train barrier.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33I've seen a red flash and at the same time as I saw the debris,
0:44:33 > 0:44:37and put the brake on, I could hear the police siren through the window.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40Just basically pressed the brake as an emergency and hoped for the best.
0:44:40 > 0:44:45I remember hearing there were passengers on it
0:44:45 > 0:44:50and it sort of sunk in then what I could have been involved in.
0:44:52 > 0:44:58And it made me shudder. It really made me shudder.
0:44:58 > 0:44:59I thought, it sort of...
0:44:59 > 0:45:03I got quite emotional, if I'm honest and thought...
0:45:04 > 0:45:08"I could be partly responsible for a horrendous accident."
0:45:08 > 0:45:11I mean, the death toll alone would have been...
0:45:11 > 0:45:13It's not worth thinking about.
0:45:13 > 0:45:18Really can't see how people like that, how their minds work.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20No regard for his safety
0:45:20 > 0:45:25and especially my safety as well, and my passengers.
0:45:25 > 0:45:30The vehicle was found some miles further up the road, abandoned,
0:45:30 > 0:45:33with substantial damage to the front and the windscreen.
0:45:33 > 0:45:39There was DNA left actually in the damaged windscreen.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45Eventually, 20-year-old Terence Fowler was arrested and charged
0:45:45 > 0:45:48with a variety of offences, including reckless driving.
0:45:49 > 0:45:53He received a sentence of three and a half years in prison.
0:45:53 > 0:46:00The one thing I would actually like to know is why he didn't stop.
0:46:00 > 0:46:05Why not just pull over? It's just a stolen car, at the end of the day.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08What was so important, because accidents, collisions,
0:46:08 > 0:46:11whatever you want to call them, they happen.
0:46:11 > 0:46:16As a result, people die. It's almost become, well, it happens.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20That's fine, until you're the one who's got to deal with it,
0:46:20 > 0:46:25or you're immediate family or closely related to someone
0:46:25 > 0:46:29involved in something like that and, yeah, it's life changing.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35In the aftermath of Joe Pomeroy's death,
0:46:35 > 0:46:40Gareth Winyard's driving became the focus of the investigation.
0:46:40 > 0:46:42It soon emerged this wasn't the first time Gareth,
0:46:42 > 0:46:47who had recently lost his father, had been involved in a crash.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50He'd been convicted of drink-driving before,
0:46:50 > 0:46:53he'd been involved in a collision before.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56But he obviously had his licence back.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58But for a collision like this,
0:46:58 > 0:47:01what I've got to be able to concentrate on is his driving
0:47:01 > 0:47:04just before the collision and at the time of the collision.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08I've obviously seen him speeding, the police have seen him
0:47:08 > 0:47:13do this or the other, driving maybe a little bit too quickly.
0:47:15 > 0:47:19I took a statement from a local garage owner up in the village.
0:47:19 > 0:47:23He changed the tyres on the car about four times in 12 months.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27And when I spoke to the garage owner,
0:47:27 > 0:47:30as far as he was concerned, the only reason you need to do that is
0:47:30 > 0:47:33because he was doing so many wheel spins and boy racer type moves,
0:47:33 > 0:47:36he wore out four sets of tyres in a year.
0:47:36 > 0:47:43Gaz was a very sort of "look at me" kind of person.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46He always had to be the alpha sort of guy.
0:47:46 > 0:47:51When he got his car, it was kind of just an extension onto that.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54It was him, just trying to one-up.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59I did know that Gaz was a previous offender for this kind of thing,
0:47:59 > 0:48:02but it never really struck me as something too serious.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05He seemed to talk about that kind of thing as if it was a film.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08You do really when you're young, you just assume you're immortal.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11You don't think the worst thing, do you?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13There is no point of saying, "Can you slow down?"
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Is just not the thing to do, is it?
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Many held Gareth responsible.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Others were prepared to take into account
0:48:19 > 0:48:23his father's illness and recent death,
0:48:23 > 0:48:26accepting that this had had a profound effect on him.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28It was obviously mixed emotions...
0:48:28 > 0:48:33About Gaz, his situation, some people loved him,
0:48:33 > 0:48:35some people felt sorry for him.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40I was definitely one of those people that felt bad for Gaz.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43In the sense that he didn't get in that car
0:48:43 > 0:48:47to kill one of his best friends.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50I hadn't known that he hadn't spoken to Sue and Dave
0:48:50 > 0:48:53or anything about it, so I presumed everything was,
0:48:53 > 0:48:55not sorted - that's a horrible thing to say -
0:48:55 > 0:48:58but everything had been spoken about, if you like.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02I thought things were under control.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05I didn't know at this point that he hadn't acknowledged
0:49:05 > 0:49:09to Sue and Dave what had happened, or apologised or anything.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11So, you know, I...
0:49:11 > 0:49:15My reaction was, I wouldn't mind getting back friends with him
0:49:15 > 0:49:17because at the end of the day, it was an accident,
0:49:17 > 0:49:20it's happened, people have got to move on, haven't they?
0:49:20 > 0:49:26But how he's reacted, it could have been different, couldn't it, really?
0:49:26 > 0:49:31I would like to think that he lives every day
0:49:31 > 0:49:37with a little bit of regret that he is constantly thinking that
0:49:37 > 0:49:40if I had just done this, or hadn't done that,
0:49:40 > 0:49:43that things would be completely different.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47I'm sure he is. He was his best friend as well.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50Nobody wants that to happen to their best friend.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53Do you think he needed Joe more than ever?
0:49:53 > 0:49:56Trying to deal with what he had done?
0:49:56 > 0:50:04I think if that car crash had had any other person die in it,
0:50:04 > 0:50:07then Joe would have been the rock that held Gaz together.
0:50:09 > 0:50:12But without Joe, I guess Gaz just
0:50:12 > 0:50:16crumbled a little bit and didn't know where to turn.
0:50:21 > 0:50:26The investigation into Joe's death took almost six months to complete.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30Eventually, Gareth Winyard pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.
0:50:30 > 0:50:34He received a 16-month prison sentence.
0:50:34 > 0:50:38I think we would have liked it to have been longer,
0:50:38 > 0:50:42not just as a punishment to him, but to show other people
0:50:42 > 0:50:47that it wasn't socially acceptable to do that sort of thing.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49It wasn't really an accident.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51I mean, if you go into a crowded pub with a gun
0:50:51 > 0:50:56and start shooting randomly, then you're going to kill somebody.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59It's just the same with driving like that.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02You've got a car, you drive like that,
0:51:02 > 0:51:06sooner or later, you're going to kill somebody.
0:51:06 > 0:51:11It must be really difficult for Gareth to maintain friendships
0:51:11 > 0:51:15with people he's obviously hurt.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22Sure you've heard it by now, but everyone was a victim,
0:51:22 > 0:51:25everyone who knew Joe was a victim of what happened...
0:51:26 > 0:51:30..and for Gaz I think it must have been incredibly difficult.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33I can understand from his point of view, I guess,
0:51:33 > 0:51:38it must have been damn near impossible to have Dave and Sue forgive him,
0:51:38 > 0:51:43to be able to look at them and be able to get on as normal, as it were,
0:51:43 > 0:51:46after it happened - it must be quite tortuous.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52I know that for a couple of weeks after that,
0:51:52 > 0:51:56I was really, really depressed
0:51:56 > 0:51:59and so just writing on his wall constantly and...
0:52:00 > 0:52:05At that point, you think, if he wrote back,
0:52:05 > 0:52:09or if he knocked on the door now, I wouldn't be at all surprised,
0:52:09 > 0:52:12it wouldn't be like, "Oh, my God, you're alive,"
0:52:12 > 0:52:16because you still don't believe that he has actually gone.
0:52:16 > 0:52:21Facebook in a way kept him alive.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26Two years on, Joe's page is still active.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30It's weird writing on the wall like that,
0:52:30 > 0:52:32because he's never going to read it.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34You don't know who you're writing to, really.
0:52:34 > 0:52:38Sometimes messages are there just for the sake of the person writing them,
0:52:38 > 0:52:41so they can voice their thoughts aloud.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Sometimes it's there to comfort everyone else who knew him.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48I think it's testament to the guy that people still remember Joe.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51They still find time to say, "Hey, I'm thinking of you."
0:52:51 > 0:52:55For me, it's not the best thing to get over a person.
0:52:56 > 0:53:02Instead of just like, that moment has passed now,
0:53:02 > 0:53:06don't forget about it, just move on, sort of thing.
0:53:11 > 0:53:15The bond forged between us is not one that can be broken by absence,
0:53:15 > 0:53:16distance or time.
0:53:16 > 0:53:20I love you more than you'll ever know, Joe Pomeroy.
0:53:20 > 0:53:25You always were and always will be the man of my dreams.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28How does writing messages like that
0:53:28 > 0:53:31help you deal with what happened to Joe?
0:53:31 > 0:53:33It feels like talking to him.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36Sort of telling him stuff that you've done.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40It's a big help, actually.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48CRACKLY POLICE RADIO
0:53:49 > 0:53:52As part of a road safety initiative,
0:53:52 > 0:53:56police released the footage of Terence Fowler's reckless driving.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59It became an instant hit on YouTube.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04I think it became such an internet hit
0:54:04 > 0:54:07because it's one of those things you have to watch just to believe it.
0:54:07 > 0:54:10You can't believe that somebody would do that.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15Terence Fowler essentially obtained a reasonable level of kudos
0:54:15 > 0:54:18from this particular incident.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21I think there are people that are quite willing to do silly things
0:54:21 > 0:54:22for such recognition.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Fortunately, they are few and far between.
0:54:25 > 0:54:30After serving his nine-week jail sentence for stealing a bus,
0:54:30 > 0:54:33Sam Hobson has just got his driving licence back.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38But he still hasn't deleted the footage off his phone.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40I suppose it's a memory I can look back at that.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44I know it was a stupid idea and a stupid thing to do,
0:54:44 > 0:54:47but you do that and you stand out more to everyone.
0:54:47 > 0:54:53I wouldn't do it again. I've done it now and I'm not going to do it again.
0:54:53 > 0:54:58Three of the so-called Ryder Brow Soldiers are still inside.
0:54:58 > 0:55:00But the police are sceptical
0:55:00 > 0:55:04on whether or not this will be the end of their criminal careers.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07I would imagine we'll probably see them again, in honesty.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15Prison has differing effects on different people.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17Some people just can't stand it,
0:55:17 > 0:55:21other people almost enjoy it in a perverse sort of way.
0:55:21 > 0:55:27You're getting fed, you're with your mates who are like-minded,
0:55:27 > 0:55:29you just talk rubbish all day.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32Then go to sleep and start again the next day.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38And for killing his best friend Joe Pomeroy,
0:55:38 > 0:55:43Gareth Winyard served eight months of his 16-month prison sentence.
0:55:43 > 0:55:48He still lives in the village of Llwyngwril,
0:55:48 > 0:55:51just 300 yards from Joe's family.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53He's got what he deserved, hasn't he?
0:55:53 > 0:55:55He committed the crime, he should pay his time.
0:55:55 > 0:55:59But it's not going to bring back Joe, at the end of the day, is it?
0:55:59 > 0:56:01It won't bring back Joe.
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