:00:00. > :00:10.The programme does contain material some viewers may find disturbing.
:00:11. > :00:21.Hello, welcome to Inside Out. Over the next few weeks, we will be
:00:22. > :00:24.bringing you in-depth reports on form of the best stories from around
:00:25. > :00:30.England. Also coming up: Is no way you can say no. We will
:00:31. > :00:32.meet the woman trying to stop the writers of female genital middle
:00:33. > :00:40.-ish in and finding out how young girls in the UK are still at risk.
:00:41. > :00:45.The high society scandal, a man in search of his mother becomes part of
:00:46. > :00:48.the mystery. And who has one of the oldest Korans
:00:49. > :01:05.in the world ended up in Immingham. And NHS midwife in Berkshire is
:01:06. > :01:09.speaking out for the first time about her efforts to end an ancient
:01:10. > :01:15.practice is still affecting women in the UK. Female genital mutilation,
:01:16. > :01:18.or if GM, is illegal but as we have been finding out, some women still
:01:19. > :01:25.face pressure to have it carried out on their daughters.
:01:26. > :01:31.It is a secretive practice but originate along way away from the
:01:32. > :01:35.south of England. You're having a boy, is that right?
:01:36. > :01:40.And yet here in Berkshire, this midwife is dealing with a problem
:01:41. > :01:44.you would not expect to find affecting committees in the UK. You
:01:45. > :01:49.can never talk about it. If you do talk about it, it is a taboo. There
:01:50. > :01:53.is an author did you have to swear, that if you do talk about it,
:01:54. > :02:00.something would happen to you. You would die, your entire family would
:02:01. > :02:08.die. We have normal anatomy. In type one... She is talking about female
:02:09. > :02:12.circumcision, known more wildly as female genital mutilation. -- more
:02:13. > :02:14.widely. It isn't age-old ritual practised often illegally in 20
:02:15. > :02:19.countries in Africa and some in the Middle East and Asia. Even your
:02:20. > :02:22.mother and sisters, even though you know they have actually been
:02:23. > :02:30.mutilated as well, it is not up for discussion at all. FGM is outlawed
:02:31. > :02:34.in the UK and has been for 30 years. But it is still going on and the
:02:35. > :02:37.survivors of it are living amongst us all. The World Health
:02:38. > :02:43.Organization estimates 3 million girls every year undergo some form
:02:44. > :02:50.of female genital mutilation or FGM in Africa alone. It says the
:02:51. > :02:53.practice has devastating physical, psychological and social
:02:54. > :02:57.consequences for women and girls. And as a midwife at the Royal
:02:58. > :02:59.Berkshire Hospital, this woman sees that here. Mothers and daughters
:03:00. > :03:06.suffering health problems because they have had FGM. Many still
:03:07. > :03:13.frightened to speak out. Growing up in Sierra Leone, at ten years old,
:03:14. > :03:18.it happened to her as well. My grandmother actually said to me,"
:03:19. > :03:24.you're going to go and get initiated and be less of else." So I was
:03:25. > :03:28.excited. I was looking forward to it and asking what the clothes I had
:03:29. > :03:31.and shoes and things like that. As a child, those other little things
:03:32. > :03:37.that you are more interested in. You get woken up first by the singing
:03:38. > :03:41.and chanting outside. I was blindfolded, so a piece of cloth was
:03:42. > :03:46.obviously wrapped up and then put over my face and tied up. I was
:03:47. > :03:51.told, "You need to lie down, we need to check you. " I lead on, people
:03:52. > :03:59.were holding my legs and hands. I was held down whilst I was mutilated
:04:00. > :04:02.at that point in time. I just felt something really, really sharp going
:04:03. > :04:16.through my skin and taking away my clitoris. I felt... I was going to
:04:17. > :04:20.die. Immediately after the war procedure, you're told that this is
:04:21. > :04:25.what makes you a woman. Or you start to accept it. And this is what makes
:04:26. > :04:31.you to be who you are and wanting to belong to this community. You accept
:04:32. > :04:34.it and move on. In spite of it being illegal, BBC inside out has
:04:35. > :04:39.discovered some hospitals are now seeing a growing number of patients
:04:40. > :04:45.identified as having undergone FGM. Sometimes I come across them
:04:46. > :04:48.antenatally and they tell you they have not been mutilated and end the
:04:49. > :04:52.discussion. They come into the brand that is when you find out. The Royal
:04:53. > :04:57.Berkshire 's 30 women with FGM last year, up from 22 the year before.
:04:58. > :05:02.Elsewhere, the figures are much higher. University Hospital Bristol
:05:03. > :05:08.have been seen between 20 and 50 new cases each month. Tragically, it is
:05:09. > :05:15.believed some young girls born in the UK are taken abroad to be
:05:16. > :05:18.subjected to FGM. Cecilia, who lives in the South of England, asked to
:05:19. > :05:23.talk to other anonymously, for we have changed her name. She also
:05:24. > :05:30.comes from Sierra Leone, where around 90% of girls are circumcised.
:05:31. > :05:34.If you are a child, if your child is not part of that society, it is like
:05:35. > :05:41.you do not belong to that group. So you have been forced. There is no
:05:42. > :05:45.way you can say no. Cecilia was a her own daughter would not have it
:05:46. > :05:55.done. But her family believed it was the right thing to do. They wanted
:05:56. > :05:59.her to be part of it, I decided to leave. The whole family go at me.
:06:00. > :06:03.Nobody back to me to say I did not want my children to be part of it.
:06:04. > :06:09.It is a family thing. Cecilia tells me her family, Doctor underwent FGM
:06:10. > :06:16.aged seven, along with her cousins, on a family visit home. I was
:06:17. > :06:21.paralysed. All of my body was... Oh, my God, when I saw the state. All
:06:22. > :06:29.the girls lying on the floor with all the bloodstream. Oh, my God. It
:06:30. > :06:33.is terrible. Terrible. It is believed the practice even takes
:06:34. > :06:38.place in the UK, with coming into the country to perform the operation
:06:39. > :06:42.in secret. It is often done with no anaesthetic. Many women experience
:06:43. > :06:49.health problems for the rest of their lives. Another woman told me
:06:50. > :06:53.her daughter is at risk of undergoing FGM back home with family
:06:54. > :06:58.in Somalia and like Cecilia, there may be little she can do to prevent
:06:59. > :07:05.it happening. I am afraid for her. I worry a lot about her. My daughters
:07:06. > :07:10.are mine, so I do not want to circumcised them. It is a bad
:07:11. > :07:16.tradition. I do not want my girls to go through difficulties. It is
:07:17. > :07:22.difficult to know the true number of women in the UK who still practice
:07:23. > :07:25.FGM. A unique piece of research was carried out in Portsmouth and
:07:26. > :07:30.Southampton are these other domestic abuse service and Portsmouth
:07:31. > :07:35.University. More than 50 local woman from countries practising FGM were
:07:36. > :07:41.interviewed. If I had a daughter, I will put her through it. Because it
:07:42. > :07:45.is part of our cultural identity. Many did want FGM to stop, but some
:07:46. > :07:50.still supported it. These are their words. It is part of a girl's
:07:51. > :07:56.initiation process. The government should leave us in peace. Women who
:07:57. > :08:00.are circumcised and be faithful. Others cannot handle themselves.
:08:01. > :08:06.They will never bring anyone to justice because they do not have a
:08:07. > :08:11.clue where and who operated. We are Africans and rates and practices be
:08:12. > :08:19.respected. I think it is one of those things that has grown through
:08:20. > :08:22.tradition, that unless a woman is subjected to this practice then she
:08:23. > :08:27.will not be faithful and a marriage. And as such, parents want their
:08:28. > :08:31.daughters to be married or remained married, or even for men then, would
:08:32. > :08:40.want to put their daughters through the practice. Patience has been
:08:41. > :08:44.employed in a new rule to tackle FGM in Southampton and Portsmouth. She
:08:45. > :08:50.helps educate women and says unless myths about FGM can be challenged,
:08:51. > :08:58.the next generation will be at risk. There is normally a cutting season
:08:59. > :09:01.for FGM, which would be usually in this country is during the summer
:09:02. > :09:05.holidays, when girls are most likely to be taken out of the country to,
:09:06. > :09:10.you know, countries of origin whereby this practice is still going
:09:11. > :09:15.on. And so it is during that time when girls are more likely to be at
:09:16. > :09:20.risk. Our investigation revealed that 16 cases of girls under 18 who
:09:21. > :09:23.were victims of FGM have been reported to Thames Valley Police.
:09:24. > :09:28.But there may be many more that never come to the attention of
:09:29. > :09:37.authorities. Mothers would not normally have the last say in what
:09:38. > :09:43.happens to their children. A child belongs to the whole community. They
:09:44. > :09:48.do not belong to a single family. And so, the pressure could come from
:09:49. > :09:55.the wall community itself. So that would limit the mother's chances of
:09:56. > :10:00.protecting her daughter from FGM. Victor, a community worker with a
:10:01. > :10:04.charity in Reading, tells me he is working on a new campaign trying to
:10:05. > :10:11.encourage more men to help end FGM. The starting point, as with any
:10:12. > :10:14.cultural challenge, is, "You're challenging our culture and
:10:15. > :10:18.tradition we have practised for years. It is good for us, why are
:10:19. > :10:22.you bringing it out into the open?" It is something men are not allowed
:10:23. > :10:25.to talk about. They do not ask questions about it or engage with.
:10:26. > :10:29.If a new breed of men starts challenging from an informed point
:10:30. > :10:33.of view, I think we will be able to make that breakthrough. No matter
:10:34. > :10:37.how terrible the practice may sound, it is clear it is impossible to stop
:10:38. > :10:43.FGM overnight. Woman brave enough to confront the taboo are gradually
:10:44. > :10:47.changing attitudes. But until those beliefs become more widely accepted,
:10:48. > :10:58.young girls in the South will continue to be at risk.
:10:59. > :11:01.He wanted to find out who his mother was, but he ended up being part of
:11:02. > :11:05.the murder mystery of the century. Eight years ago, Neil Berryman
:11:06. > :11:11.discovered that his mother was in fact the nanny Lord Lucan is alleged
:11:12. > :11:13.to have murdered in 1974. Now it is time for his day in court, as Vince
:11:14. > :11:19.Rodgers reports. In a Sussex garden, a builder is
:11:20. > :11:36.busy at work. Everything seems normal. But this
:11:37. > :11:41.builder has a remarkable story. His name is Neil Berryman and he was an
:11:42. > :11:48.adopted child. But when his adoptive mother died, she left him a package.
:11:49. > :11:54.Basically, it all started with this. The dreaded brown envelope! It
:11:55. > :12:01.stated that I was the secrets fun of sand or is it, and she is the nanny
:12:02. > :12:12.murdered by Lord Lucan. -- the secret son of Tim two.
:12:13. > :12:17.The nanny employed by Lord Lucan was found bludgeoned to death at his
:12:18. > :12:24.home in London in the 1970s. He drove to Sussex, first 20 field and
:12:25. > :12:30.then to New Haven am aware his car was found abandoned. He disappeared,
:12:31. > :12:40.never to be seen again. It is now commonly assumed that Lord Lucan
:12:41. > :12:48.murdered sandal, Neil's mother. What do you think happened? Good
:12:49. > :12:56.question. The truth is probably Lord Lucan is guilty of... Organising the
:12:57. > :13:01.crime. I am not 100% sure he did it himself. He is definitely guilty
:13:02. > :13:06.because why would you run off for 41 years?
:13:07. > :13:10.But what concerns Neil is that the focus of attention is on Lord Lucan.
:13:11. > :13:16.For decades, the nation has been fascinated by the mystery and
:13:17. > :13:19.whether or not he is still alive. Neil feels people have lost sight of
:13:20. > :13:25.the victim in this, his mother. Especially the way in which he was
:13:26. > :13:30.-- she was murdered and forgotten about. I feel that I have had to
:13:31. > :13:38.just pursue this until we get justice and the truth, really.
:13:39. > :13:43.Now, Lord Lucan's fan of applied for his missing father to be declared
:13:44. > :13:46.dead so he can inherit the title. Neil opposed the application at
:13:47. > :13:52.first, but then withdrew his opposition.
:13:53. > :13:58.Big smile to the front! I wanted to be involved in the court case,
:13:59. > :14:08.because it might throw new light on to obviously the mystery.
:14:09. > :14:14.Neil's main concern is a document unearthed by as in 2012. It is this
:14:15. > :14:18.police report from 2002. In it, they reveal that then they suspected Lord
:14:19. > :14:24.Lucan may still have been alive and living in Africa. His plan is to
:14:25. > :14:30.raise this document in court. That could be enough for the judge to
:14:31. > :14:44.actually want to investigate this document further with the police.
:14:45. > :14:50.And so it is his big day in court. Public and get my base across, stir
:14:51. > :14:53.it up a bit and see if it gets any closer to the truth.
:14:54. > :15:12.He is joined by his partner, Kim. There is no turning back now!
:15:13. > :15:19.What do you make of it all? I am not sure! Somebody knows something,
:15:20. > :15:23.don't they? The two somebody somewhere north something,
:15:24. > :15:28.definitely. That is what I don't understand, actually. The two he
:15:29. > :15:32.loved his children so much. I don't understand, whatever he did, whether
:15:33. > :15:37.he murdered my mother or not, or even if he was involved in it, which
:15:38. > :15:42.obviously he was, why did, you know, I know there is embarrassment etc,
:15:43. > :15:47.but he could have done 20 years or even less in prison and been added.
:15:48. > :15:51.Live life with his children. He could have been out by now? Exactly.
:15:52. > :16:05.I am not the famous one! In court, Neil drew the judge's
:16:06. > :16:12.attention to the tradition Met police report. But Lord Lucan's fun
:16:13. > :16:15.protest written statement by close relatives saying they had not seen
:16:16. > :16:21.him for decades. The loss of that must be shown that he had not been
:16:22. > :16:25.known to be alive for at least seven years, since 2009. So the judge
:16:26. > :16:30.ruled that Lord Lucan could be declared dead. George Bingham, the
:16:31. > :16:37.new Lord Lucan, made a statement outside the court. Good morning. The
:16:38. > :16:42.court this morning declared my father, known to most people as Lord
:16:43. > :16:47.Lucan, to be dead for all legal purposes from 1981. I want to take
:16:48. > :16:53.less time to applaud the efforts of Mr Neil Berryman to secure justice
:16:54. > :16:56.for his mother, our beloved family nanny. We extend acidity to him and
:16:57. > :17:01.his broader family. That committee is well grounded in that matter
:17:02. > :17:05.their family nor ours know what whose hand is unfortunate lovely
:17:06. > :17:12.lady died in 1974. And then it's tragedies the cameras.
:17:13. > :17:19.They can at least there is image abroad and police internal document
:17:20. > :17:23.that states he is possibly a in 2002 onwards. At the end, we have to get
:17:24. > :17:29.to the truth and justice for Sandra Rivett, a horrible death, a young
:17:30. > :17:32.woman beaten, my mother. There is no getting away that whatever happened
:17:33. > :17:36.that night, Lord Lucan is guilty of something in my eyes. Reasonably
:17:37. > :17:43.forgotten victims here. Truth will prevail. Thank you.
:17:44. > :17:47.This all started when Neil opens that envelope. He found out who his
:17:48. > :17:48.mother was and then found himself in the Royal Courts of Justice at the
:17:49. > :17:56.centre of the world's attention. And it is not over yet, because since
:17:57. > :18:03.the court case, the Metropolitan Police have asked Neil to come to a
:18:04. > :18:05.meeting. All this began here. Do you regret opening that envelope? What a
:18:06. > :18:26.question! No. Last year, the world's media
:18:27. > :18:31.spotlight was focused on Birmingham, as some of the oldest manuscript
:18:32. > :18:34.from the Koran was rediscovered. They were in the archive of a
:18:35. > :18:38.research library, set up by the renowned primacy of chocolate
:18:39. > :18:41.makers. So where did this precious ancient scripture come from and had
:18:42. > :18:48.just how did it end up in Birmingham? We sent a reporter to
:18:49. > :18:53.find out. The Koran, it is the sacred book of
:18:54. > :18:59.Islam. It is what the Bible is to Christianity and the Torah to
:19:00. > :19:06.Judaism. To Muslims, the ratings in the Koran are more than just words.
:19:07. > :19:09.They are believed to have come directly from God, through the
:19:10. > :19:13.Prophet Muhammad Bakken the seventh century.
:19:14. > :19:18.It has shaped the lives of millions all over the world, including my own
:19:19. > :19:25.right here in Birmingham. Those were the days! Soul and ancient Koranic
:19:26. > :19:31.manuscripts were found in the city last year, it caused quite a stir.
:19:32. > :19:37.News spreads fast and soon the whole world had heard about the Birmingham
:19:38. > :19:41.manuscripts. Pilgrims visitors and journalists all travelled to the
:19:42. > :19:45.city and I was about to take an unexpected journey as well, to
:19:46. > :19:53.answer what seemed to be an obvious question. How did manuscripts so
:19:54. > :19:57.important end up here in Birmingham? There is a great story here. The
:19:58. > :20:02.ancient Koranic scriptures were found accidentally amongst some
:20:03. > :20:06.papers at the Cadbury research library, here at Birmingham
:20:07. > :20:10.University. So it is a great place to start. It was a real shock. It
:20:11. > :20:15.took a few seconds for me to take it in and really understand the numbers
:20:16. > :20:18.and what they really meant. In the morning, I phoned the laboratory to
:20:19. > :20:25.check we really had understood the data correctly, but it was... And
:20:26. > :20:31.indescribable moment. I had something with such significance, so
:20:32. > :20:36.big, found in Birmingham, how does it get there? Yes, the manuscript
:20:37. > :20:40.has actually been in Birmingham for over 80 years, so it was collected
:20:41. > :20:47.in the 19... The early part of the 20th century by an Iraqi priest.
:20:48. > :20:51.That collection was gifted to the University of Birmingham in the late
:20:52. > :20:56.1990s, and that is Eddie collection comes to in Birmingham today. So
:20:57. > :21:02.manuscripts have been Birmingham since the 19 30s. But where do they
:21:03. > :21:07.come from originally? I have been doing some digging and I think I
:21:08. > :21:11.have got a lead that I have been speaking to the man who rediscovered
:21:12. > :21:16.that made the women who rediscovered the manuscripts who knows more about
:21:17. > :21:22.the history and where they come from and she has asked me to come to
:21:23. > :21:26.Paris, of all places. In 2014, the Ph.D. Student was doing some
:21:27. > :21:30.research, Boro go in the archives of Birmingham University. About to make
:21:31. > :21:35.the biggest discovery of her life. She noticed two of the parchment
:21:36. > :21:42.were 200 years older than anything else they are. I have got so many
:21:43. > :21:48.questions for you. I want to know what happened to the manuscripts
:21:49. > :21:52.after the priest's death? Two leaves of the manuscript were stored and
:21:53. > :21:57.kept in the library and they were bound together with seven other
:21:58. > :22:03.leaves of another Koranic manuscript. History is riddled with
:22:04. > :22:07.irony, and this story is no different. A simple admin error led
:22:08. > :22:15.to the now world famous scripts being locked away in folder one 570
:22:16. > :22:17.with other documents, and their significance would not be realised
:22:18. > :22:26.until she found them again 80 years later. Why here? Why can you not
:22:27. > :22:30.tell me this in Birmingham, why are we in Paris? There is something I
:22:31. > :22:37.would like to assure you to do with the two leaves. Let's go and have a
:22:38. > :22:41.look. Al-Badr is taking me to the French National Front are. They have
:22:42. > :22:44.got their own set of Koranic structures get here. What is the
:22:45. > :22:52.connection between them and the ones in Birmingham? The little shapes are
:22:53. > :23:03.identical and also the device used for marking the end of affairs the
:23:04. > :23:09.same. These little... Tiny strokes for distinguishing different letters
:23:10. > :23:18.are the same. I would say that they are identical. So two sets of
:23:19. > :23:25.Scripture is from Paris and Birmingham. Bold from that used to
:23:26. > :23:28.be in the first mosque of Egypt at the start of Islam. And what is
:23:29. > :23:34.more, it is that they could even have been written before that, in
:23:35. > :23:40.the time of the Prophet himself. I cannot believe that! What she has
:23:41. > :23:44.just told me and what have just seen, I mean, I knew that the Koran
:23:45. > :23:46.manuscript are old and obviously they have been carbon dated but to
:23:47. > :23:51.know that they could come from one of the first mosques in Egypt and
:23:52. > :24:01.did all the way back to the start of Islam, almost... It is strange to be
:24:02. > :24:04.so close I could physically have reached out and touched the origins
:24:05. > :24:08.of my day. Heading back home, I want to share what I have found and I
:24:09. > :24:14.know exactly who to talk to. -- the origins of my face. And emotional
:24:15. > :24:19.because it is the true script which is written in the time of Muhammad
:24:20. > :24:27.himself. And then exciting to hear about this Koran was found in the
:24:28. > :24:31.Egypt mosque, built first. We are honoured that we are taking this
:24:32. > :24:37.lead to bring communities together through this manuscript and if this
:24:38. > :24:42.whole Koran comes together, I think this is the next task.
:24:43. > :24:50.The next task to find the rest of this ancient Koran. Would that not
:24:51. > :24:54.be something? Well, that is it from as for this
:24:55. > :24:58.week. If you would like to see more stories from your area, join our
:24:59. > :25:04.team is on Monday evening at 7:30pm on BBC One, or on the BBC iPlayer.
:25:05. > :25:19.If early wintry filling weekend ahead with temperatures lower than
:25:20. > :25:20.women expect. -- we would