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Rural Britain has some of the most challenging | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
environments in the world. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
In Scotland, the mountains, lochs and coastline | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
encourage tourists and locals to get out into the wilds. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
But with that comes danger. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Keep your arms by your side! | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
The emergency services north of the border have to deal with | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
extreme challenges every day. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
-Don't stop right in the middle of there. -Keep coming. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
We need to get through. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
From severe weather and treacherous terrain... | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
-Is the pain getting worse, do you think? -Yes. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
..to covering huge distances on country roads | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
with time against them. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
So we'll just get him out ASAP. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
They work around the clock | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
battling against some of the most difficult situations. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
We'll be right at the heart of the action, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
side by side with Air Rescue saving lives, | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
on the road with paramedics caring for the injured | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
and following the police fighting crime, | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
as the emergency services work together to pick up, patch up | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
and protect the public in rural communities. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
This is Countryside 999. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Coming up - | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
rural police officers confiscate firearms following a dispute | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
between neighbours. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
We can do him for poaching, unlawfully taking a shotgun... | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
In A&E, a patient's had an accident with an air gun. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
I still expect there to be a pellet embedded quite deeply in his forearm. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
And a Royal Navy helicopter crew joins forces | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
with the bomb disposal squad. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
When Britain's rural emergency services get an urgent call-out, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
they pull out all the stops to respond, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
no matter how remote the location. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
And they have to be prepared for anything. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
HMS Gannet's Royal Navy Search and Rescue Team, based in Ayrshire, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
cover an area of 98,000 square miles... | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
..providing 24-hour assistance across Scotland, northern England | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
and Northern Ireland. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
Their Sea King helicopters help them recover climbers, rescue fishermen | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
and provide vital medical evacuations from the nation's remote islands. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
It's 1.30, and they've just received a call-out. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
The team is preparing to despatch to the remote island of Canna | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
in the Inner Hebrides. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
It's the most westerly of the Small Isles, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
measuring just five miles by one, and is home to only 12 people. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
Today, they're on a high-priority mission | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
with a uniquely dangerous twist. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
The unexploded device is a marine marker used in military training | 0:03:40 | 0:03:45 | |
to mark a position with smoke and flames. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
If not detonated, they can be lethal in the wrong hands. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
There are many exercises that go on in the Outer Hebrides | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
and up in these areas. Submarine exercises, | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
there's a lot of joint maritime exercises, NATO forces. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
And ordnance is used to pretend to be part of mock battles | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
and these things get washed up. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
Most of them are utterly harmless but if there was a little bit of explosive charge left in something, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
and a child finds it, or someone who isn't sure | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
of what they're doing with it... We can't take the risk. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
The man who found the device accidentally rode over it | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
on his quad bike, which could make it extremely volatile. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
So they've called in bomb specialists, known as Explosive Ordnance Disposal. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
The EOD team is located at the Navy's main Scottish base, Faslane. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
But when they arrive, an update racks the call up to an emergency. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:05 | |
It's emerged that the man who found the unexploded charge | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
has removed it from the beach and placed it next to a tank of fuel. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
With the bomb disposal unit on board, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
the team head straight for Canna. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Unexploded devices are a rarity in Britain, but guns are not. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
Our countryside is home to thousands of large rural estates. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
Shooting for sport is a huge business, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
bringing in £1.6 billion a year to the economy. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
There are over 700,000 gun certificates in the UK, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
and for the police, reports of possible misuse of guns | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
are taken extremely seriously. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
In Dumfriesshire, PCs Stewart Rae and Matt Tate | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
have received a worrying call. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
Stewart describes the allegations. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
Somebody's been out walking | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
and they've came across a male person out shooting. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
He went across to speak with him | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
to see if he's had permission to be there. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
The person's then threatened the gentleman. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
The man making the complaint is Harry. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
Harry alleges that his neighbour's son | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
was shooting pheasants with a friend, | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
uncomfortably close to his back garden. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
After the friend allegedly ran away, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Harry got into an argument with his neighbour's son. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
Harry's alleging that the youth was not only shooting far too close to his garden, | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
he also threatened him - and was possibly trespassing with a loaded shotgun. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
This could be a neighbourly dispute but, because there's a gun involved, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
the police have to take it very seriously. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
Back at the station, | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
Stewart has taken advice from the licensor for firearms. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:23 | |
A string of offences might have been committed, including the possibility | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
the youth has used his father's gun without permission. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
He says the boy's been trespassing because he's on his land, | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
so section 19, cos he's had a loaded shotgun. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
Poaching as well - can do him for poaching. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
Unlawfully taking a shotgun. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
His dad can get done with... The keys need to be separate | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
so that nobody can access the gun cabinet | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
so that there's about two or three charges for the father | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
if he's not kept the gun cabinet safe. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
The incident took place on a large shooting estate | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
where Harry is a tenant. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
The officers need to speak to Andrew, the owner of the estate. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
They want to see if he knows whose land the youths were on. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
The wood at the back of his house belongs to him. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
The top of that - there's a little strip of my wood next to them. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:32 | |
On either side of the burn, it comes up to Harry's garden. His ground. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:38 | |
-His ground. -Yeah. Now, where he was, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
I don't know. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Yeah, he says he's been down at the ravine just right of the veer, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
and the dry stone dyke, so that would be on his land. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
-That'd be on his land. -You're describing it, yeah. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
Stewart still needs to know if the youths | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
were allowed to be shooting the pheasants in the first place. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
And it turns out it's not as straightforward as it seems. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
The birds are whoever's property they're on. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
While they may have been most definitely released on my land, | 0:10:07 | 0:10:14 | |
if they strayed onto his land, they're his birds. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
If he shoots one, and it falls on my ground, it actually... | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
He can't go and pick it up on my ground - it belongs to me. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
If I shoot one and it falls on his ground, it belongs to him. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
Thanks very much. Cheers. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
The interview with Andrew hasn't shed much light on the incident. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
Later, Stewart and Matt visit the youth's father, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
to question him about his son's behaviour. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
The Royal Navy Search and Rescue team | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
are heading to the Hebridean island of Canna | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
along with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
the Navy's bomb squad. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
A local crofter found an unexploded device on the beach, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
brought it home and placed it next to his diesel tank. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
Observer Angela Lewis gets an update. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
Hello, this is rescue helicopter 177, hello. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
This is the crew of the helicopter | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
that's bringing the bomb disposal team up to you. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
We should be with you at the landing site in about 20 minutes. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Would be good if you could meet us there. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
Could you confirm that we can just walk | 0:11:40 | 0:11:41 | |
from the landing site to where you are? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
Brilliant. That's great. we'll see you there in about 20 minutes, then. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:57 | |
Only 12 people live on this island, so there's plenty of room | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
for the aircraft to land right next to the crofter's house. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
Might get a bit of turbulence as we come through it, | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
just to let you know. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:08 | |
We're five minutes from Canna, five minutes. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
There's limited daylight and deteriorating weather, | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
so the team land swiftly. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
A red marker guides them to the landing site. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
Steady. You're clear. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
It's been placed by Murdo, | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
the crofter who came across the unexploded ordnance. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
Murdo's lucky the device didn't explode when he rode over it. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
Now the priority is for bomb-disposal expert Alan to move | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
the device away from the diesel - and well away from the helicopter. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
Murdo had no idea he'd picked up an explosive device. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
I picked it up. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
I thought, because I can't see very good without my glasses, | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
"I'll take it home and read what it is all about." | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
And then when I was standing at the back door and I started reading it, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
we were kind of... Well, once we'd read what it was | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
we thought, "Well, we'd better inform somebody." It said on it to inform either the police or the military. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
And it also said that there was a mechanism on it that, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
if you turn one way it was armed, and the other way it was unarmed. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
I was a wee bit worried then as to what the mechanism was. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
So then I put it out away from the house, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
cos it was very close to the diesel tank. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
I never really thought about the diesel tank when I put it there. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
While the EOD team look for a safe place to detonate the ordnance, | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Alan gets ready. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
He'll lay an explosive charge next to the ordnance | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
so he can blow it up. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
Alan needs to calculate exactly | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
how much of his own explosive charge to use. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
But the daylight's starting to fade, | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
so there's only one chance to get it right. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
The emergency services | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
working across the huge area of Dumfries and Galloway | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
look after a scattered rural population of 148,000. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
Many people own guns here, so there are occasional accidents. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
In Dumfries Royal Infirmary's A&E, Emergency Consultant | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
Mike Quigley is preparing to deal with one such case. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
I'm just off to see a 43-year old gentleman who's had an injury | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
with a BB gun, a ball bearing gun. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
Apparently, he's had a gunshot wound to his forearm, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
so I'm just going to go and have a look at him. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Hello, I've come to have a look at your arm, is that right? | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
Yeah. And this is an injury that you sustained with a BB gun? | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
Aye. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
Is that, in my understanding, is that sort of an air-propelled gun? | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
Gas gun, OK, and it fires metal ball bearings. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
-Right, how big are they? -Very small. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
-Does it fire one at a time? -Aye. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
OK. Have you any numbness, pins and needles? | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
Although Daniel's been in pain, he waited three days | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
to come to hospital, and he knows who's to blame for the accident. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
What happened? | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
Well, I put it against my arm to see what the pressure was with it. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
-I'd never fired it before. -OK. -It was my son-in-law's. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
And I didnae ken it automatically loaded itself. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
-OK, so was it right against your skin? -More or less. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
OK. When did you do that? | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
-Saturday night. -Saturday night, OK. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
Mike examines the injury to determine if the metal pellet | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
is still in his arm and, if so, where it is. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
-So, X marks the spot. -It seems to be swollen. -Yes. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
And would you say that has developed over the... | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
since Saturday or has it been much the same? | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
-It's developed from Saturday. -OK. What about the hand? | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
-Everything's fine. -Works OK? Have you any numbness, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
pins and needles, tingling in your fingers, no? | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
OK, let me just check a couple of wee things out if you don't mind. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
Stretch your fingers out for me. Good man. Just relax for me. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
Just going to stretch this up a little bit. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
If the pellet is still in Daniel's arm, | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
it could cause a serious infection. But right now, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
Mike can't even feel it - and that might mean it's lodged deeply. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
I'm going to arrange for a wee X-ray first off | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
to see if we can pick this up on X-ray, and that'll give us | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
an idea of how deep it is, and how easy it'll be to get back. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
And then we'll talk about what we need to do for it. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
-Is that OK? -It's maybe... | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Just pinged away. Well, OK, OK, that's fine, | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
We'll need to check and see with the X-ray first, OK? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
Sit tight for a minute or two, thank you. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
Functionally, it doesn't seem to have involved | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
any of the important structures in his arm, | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
as in his hand and wrist are working fine. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
There's no involvement of the nerves | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
or the blood vessels, so that's good. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
But I still expect there to be a pellet embedded quite deeply | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
in his forearm, so the first thing to do is to find out if it's there, | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
where it's at, how deep it is and how easy it'll be to remove. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
Mike's hunch was right. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
The X-ray shows the BB pellet as a white dot next to Daniel's bone. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
It's penetrated deep into his forearm. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
The X-ray shows up what we expected, | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
so you've got a little air gun pellet or a little BB pellet. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
It's in very deep, Daniel. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
It's right up against the bone, actually. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
Just probably straight in somewhere in that position there. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
What I'm going to do - to get it out is actually quite a tricky job, | 0:18:21 | 0:18:25 | |
and it quite often means a small operation. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
We use special X-rays to find the metal bearing under X-ray control, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
and that would be done by our orthopaedic doctors. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
OK. Good man, sit there for a minute or two, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
and I'll come back and speak to you soon. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
While Mike talks to the orthopaedic team, Daniel reflects on his mishap. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Ach, I was drinking with the boys and... | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
You know, the boys had got somebody a BB gun for their Christmas | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
and they brought it out of the box | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
and I put it against my arm to fire it, to feel the pressure of the air. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:01 | |
And I didnae realise it automatically loaded itself. So... | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
that's the outcome. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
Similar sort of thing - gas canister fires it. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
It's too deep for me to go chasing - it's been in there for three days. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
Mike consults the orthopaedic team. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
They decide that because the pellet is made of aluminium, | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
which is a low irritant and nontoxic, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
it's unlikely to cause further problems. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
Lucky for Daniel, who can be sent home. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
So he's gone home with some antibiotics | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
and some anti-inflammatory tablets, and if everything settles down | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
in his forearm, they'll just be left alone. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
If they become more symptomatic, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
then they'll have to do something about it. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
In Dumfries and Galloway, PCs Stewart Rae and Matt Tate | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
have been investigating an allegation of illegal game shooting | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
and threatening behaviour on a large country estate. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
So far, they've interviewed Harry, a tenant on the estate. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:09 | |
Harry says he saw his neighbour's son and a friend | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
shooting at pheasants across his garden. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
They also took a statement from Andrew, | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
the owner of the estate, and now, they're visiting the youth's father, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
a local doctor and a gun licence holder. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
He could be in trouble | 0:20:26 | 0:20:27 | |
if his son was using his gun without supervision. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
We had a phone call from one of your neighbours on Saturday saying | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
there was shooting ongoing on land behind him. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
He's identified your son and one other, | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
we don't know who else has been there, | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
with shotguns shooting. Are you aware of this? | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
But at the time you weren't, no? | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
So you weren't there supervising them as such. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
No. | 0:20:58 | 0:20:59 | |
Stewart wants to know if the youth was using one of his father's guns, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
which by law must be kept under lock and key. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
What about if your son wanted to access them? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
How easy would it be for him? | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
He doesn't know where the keys are? | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
Yeah. There's always one time, though. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
-I'm just trying to discover as much as I can about one of your guns having been used. -I know, I know. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:34 | |
Regards to what's been said between your son and your neighbour, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
certain things, what I'll arrange to do, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
I'm going to come and seize your weapons | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
and your certificate as well, until this case has been finished. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:49 | |
Yes. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:52 | |
I've got concerns for public safety at the moment. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
If your son's staying at your address, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
with access to your address and there's guns there, I can seize them. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:01 | |
I've liaised with the firearms licensing officer in Dumfries | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
and also my sergeant, and they're quite happy for me to do this. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
OK? | 0:22:10 | 0:22:11 | |
Not for me, it's not. OK. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Britain has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
Until Stewart and Matt establish whether or not | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
it was his father's gun the youth was using, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
and under what circumstances, they need to take every precaution. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
We have made arrangements to go to his house tomorrow night, | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
where we'll seize his guns and his certificate as well | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
until such times as we feel appropriate to hand them back to him. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
Matt and Stewart confiscate the doctor's guns | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
but they still need to speak to more witnesses | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
in order to get to the bottom of what's happened. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
The doctor's son is called Mo and, days later, | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
Mo's friend Alan arrives to give his side of the story. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
Alan was there on the day of the incident | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
along with his own brother. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Talk me through Saturday, then. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
Saturday, well, me and two of my mates went up to Mo's. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:17 | |
Brother had his shotgun there, brother went out in front. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
Alan reveals a key piece of evidence. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
It was his brother's licensed gun that was being used, | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
not the doctor's. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
My brother was across... He went across the boundary | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
to look for this pheasant. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
Then he came walking back, said there was a guy across the river, | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
kind of mouthing off or whatever. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
Mo then went across the boundary to see what the guy was saying, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
the guy was going daft or whatever. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
The guy came up to Mo with a German Shepherd and guy took his top off | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
and was right up in Mo's face | 0:23:56 | 0:23:57 | |
and... Couldn't hear anything that was being said | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
but, there was, like... There was shouting going on | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
and the guy seemed quite aggressive towards him. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
It's clear there was a row between Harry and Mo on that day. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
What's still not clear is what part the gun played in that. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
PCs Stewart and Matt have to be cautious. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
Now they know it was the brother's gun being used, | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
they need to seize that one as well. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
-Right. It's dirty. -Is it? -Aye. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
It takes a further month for Stewart and Matt | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
to conclude what has been a complicated case. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
Now they have enough evidence to charge Mo. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
Six statements have been taken | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
and tomorrow night we'll be detaining a youth, | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
and I have enough evidence to charge him with a breach of the peace. | 0:24:56 | 0:25:01 | |
So he will be detained and brought here tomorrow night, | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
if we can get a hold of him. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
He'll be interviewed to give his side of the story, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
and then I'll be charging him with a breach of the peace. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
Even though there was a gun involved, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
in this case there were no firearms offences committed. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
For Stewart, it's a relief that this very rural case | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
didn't amount to anything more serious. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
On Canna, the Navy's Search and Rescue Team have brought | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit to an emergency call-out. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
They're conducting a controlled explosion after local crofter Murdo | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
rode over an unexploded device on his quad bike. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
He took the device home, and put it next to his fuel supply. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
The EOD unit has moved the device to the safety of the beach, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:03 | |
away from the house, the helicopter and the diesel tank. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
They've rigged up an explosive charge | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
and set it next to the unexploded ordnance. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
It's basically filled with... It's like a black gunpowder, | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
and then for my calculation, | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
I can work out how long a delay I want to put before it initiates, | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
and by working out the burn rate, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
then I can estimate, you know, by cutting it X size long. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
And it just gives us a delay to walk away safely from the item. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
With no way of knowing how much explosive is left | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
in the marine marker, they can't tell how big the blast will be. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
It's crucial everyone stands as far away as possible. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
To ensure there's no further danger, | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
bomb-disposal expert Alan does a final check. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
Just see, obviously the power of the explosives here, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
the force from our charge, how it's broken up into large chunks. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
That small amount of explosives has ruptured these rocks. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
Crofter Murdo is relieved he called the Navy. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
You always think when you find something like that | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
you're maybe wasting people's time, but I can see by what I saw there | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
just now it was obviously worth getting it disposed of properly. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
His only concern now is that the explosion | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
on the normally quiet island might have rattled the hens. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
They're only young hens that have just started laying good eggs | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
so yeah, but they'll be fine. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
It's been all go for the emergency services in Scotland's rural areas. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
Daniel's wound healed up, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:04 | |
so he gets to keep the BB pellet as a permanent souvenir. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
The doctor got his guns back, and so did the friend. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
And Mo was dealt with out of court by the Crown Office. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
And as for Murdo's hens, | 0:28:18 | 0:28:19 | |
they've recovered from the shock of the bomb blast. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
And you thought it was quiet in the countryside. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 |