Episode 4 Inside Out

The programme does contain material some viewers may find disturbing.

Hello, welcome to Inside Out. Over the next few weeks, we will be

bringing you in-depth reports on form of the best stories from around

England. Also coming up: Is no way you can say no. We will

meet the woman trying to stop the writers of female genital middle

-ish in and finding out how young girls in the UK are still at risk.

The high society scandal, a man in search of his mother becomes part of

the mystery. And who has one of the oldest Korans

in the world ended up in Immingham. And NHS midwife in Berkshire is

speaking out for the first time about her efforts to end an ancient

practice is still affecting women in the UK. Female genital mutilation,

or if GM, is illegal but as we have been finding out, some women still

face pressure to have it carried out on their daughters.

It is a secretive practice but originate along way away from the

south of England. You're having a boy, is that right?

And yet here in Berkshire, this midwife is dealing with a problem

you would not expect to find affecting committees in the UK. You

can never talk about it. If you do talk about it, it is a taboo. There

is an author did you have to swear, that if you do talk about it,

something would happen to you. You would die, your entire family would

die. We have normal anatomy. In type one... She is talking about female

circumcision, known more wildly as female genital mutilation. -- more

widely. It isn't age-old ritual practised often illegally in 20

countries in Africa and some in the Middle East and Asia. Even your

mother and sisters, even though you know they have actually been

mutilated as well, it is not up for discussion at all. FGM is outlawed

in the UK and has been for 30 years. But it is still going on and the

survivors of it are living amongst us all. The World Health

Organization estimates 3 million girls every year undergo some form

of female genital mutilation or FGM in Africa alone. It says the

practice has devastating physical, psychological and social

consequences for women and girls. And as a midwife at the Royal

Berkshire Hospital, this woman sees that here. Mothers and daughters

suffering health problems because they have had FGM. Many still

frightened to speak out. Growing up in Sierra Leone, at ten years old,

it happened to her as well. My grandmother actually said to me,"

you're going to go and get initiated and be less of else." So I was

excited. I was looking forward to it and asking what the clothes I had

and shoes and things like that. As a child, those other little things

that you are more interested in. You get woken up first by the singing

and chanting outside. I was blindfolded, so a piece of cloth was

obviously wrapped up and then put over my face and tied up. I was

told, "You need to lie down, we need to check you. " I lead on, people

were holding my legs and hands. I was held down whilst I was mutilated

at that point in time. I just felt something really, really sharp going

through my skin and taking away my clitoris. I felt... I was going to

die. Immediately after the war procedure, you're told that this is

what makes you a woman. Or you start to accept it. And this is what makes

you to be who you are and wanting to belong to this community. You accept

it and move on. In spite of it being illegal, BBC inside out has

discovered some hospitals are now seeing a growing number of patients

identified as having undergone FGM. Sometimes I come across them

antenatally and they tell you they have not been mutilated and end the

discussion. They come into the brand that is when you find out. The Royal

Berkshire 's 30 women with FGM last year, up from 22 the year before.

Elsewhere, the figures are much higher. University Hospital Bristol

have been seen between 20 and 50 new cases each month. Tragically, it is

believed some young girls born in the UK are taken abroad to be

subjected to FGM. Cecilia, who lives in the South of England, asked to

talk to other anonymously, for we have changed her name. She also

comes from Sierra Leone, where around 90% of girls are circumcised.

If you are a child, if your child is not part of that society, it is like

you do not belong to that group. So you have been forced. There is no

way you can say no. Cecilia was a her own daughter would not have it

done. But her family believed it was the right thing to do. They wanted

her to be part of it, I decided to leave. The whole family go at me.

Nobody back to me to say I did not want my children to be part of it.

It is a family thing. Cecilia tells me her family, Doctor underwent FGM

aged seven, along with her cousins, on a family visit home. I was

paralysed. All of my body was... Oh, my God, when I saw the state. All

the girls lying on the floor with all the bloodstream. Oh, my God. It

is terrible. Terrible. It is believed the practice even takes

place in the UK, with coming into the country to perform the operation

in secret. It is often done with no anaesthetic. Many women experience

health problems for the rest of their lives. Another woman told me

her daughter is at risk of undergoing FGM back home with family

in Somalia and like Cecilia, there may be little she can do to prevent

it happening. I am afraid for her. I worry a lot about her. My daughters

are mine, so I do not want to circumcised them. It is a bad

tradition. I do not want my girls to go through difficulties. It is

difficult to know the true number of women in the UK who still practice

FGM. A unique piece of research was carried out in Portsmouth and

Southampton are these other domestic abuse service and Portsmouth

University. More than 50 local woman from countries practising FGM were

interviewed. If I had a daughter, I will put her through it. Because it

is part of our cultural identity. Many did want FGM to stop, but some

still supported it. These are their words. It is part of a girl's

initiation process. The government should leave us in peace. Women who

are circumcised and be faithful. Others cannot handle themselves.

They will never bring anyone to justice because they do not have a

clue where and who operated. We are Africans and rates and practices be

respected. I think it is one of those things that has grown through

tradition, that unless a woman is subjected to this practice then she

will not be faithful and a marriage. And as such, parents want their

daughters to be married or remained married, or even for men then, would

want to put their daughters through the practice. Patience has been

employed in a new rule to tackle FGM in Southampton and Portsmouth. She

helps educate women and says unless myths about FGM can be challenged,

the next generation will be at risk. There is normally a cutting season

for FGM, which would be usually in this country is during the summer

holidays, when girls are most likely to be taken out of the country to,

you know, countries of origin whereby this practice is still going

on. And so it is during that time when girls are more likely to be at

risk. Our investigation revealed that 16 cases of girls under 18 who

were victims of FGM have been reported to Thames Valley Police.

But there may be many more that never come to the attention of

authorities. Mothers would not normally have the last say in what

happens to their children. A child belongs to the whole community. They

do not belong to a single family. And so, the pressure could come from

the wall community itself. So that would limit the mother's chances of

protecting her daughter from FGM. Victor, a community worker with a

charity in Reading, tells me he is working on a new campaign trying to

encourage more men to help end FGM. The starting point, as with any

cultural challenge, is, "You're challenging our culture and

tradition we have practised for years. It is good for us, why are

you bringing it out into the open?" It is something men are not allowed

to talk about. They do not ask questions about it or engage with.

If a new breed of men starts challenging from an informed point

of view, I think we will be able to make that breakthrough. No matter

how terrible the practice may sound, it is clear it is impossible to stop

FGM overnight. Woman brave enough to confront the taboo are gradually

changing attitudes. But until those beliefs become more widely accepted,

young girls in the South will continue to be at risk.

He wanted to find out who his mother was, but he ended up being part of

the murder mystery of the century. Eight years ago, Neil Berryman

discovered that his mother was in fact the nanny Lord Lucan is alleged

to have murdered in 1974. Now it is time for his day in court, as Vince

Rodgers reports. In a Sussex garden, a builder is

busy at work. Everything seems normal. But this

builder has a remarkable story. His name is Neil Berryman and he was an

adopted child. But when his adoptive mother died, she left him a package.

Basically, it all started with this. The dreaded brown envelope! It

stated that I was the secrets fun of sand or is it, and she is the nanny

murdered by Lord Lucan. -- the secret son of Tim two.

The nanny employed by Lord Lucan was found bludgeoned to death at his

home in London in the 1970s. He drove to Sussex, first 20 field and

then to New Haven am aware his car was found abandoned. He disappeared,

never to be seen again. It is now commonly assumed that Lord Lucan

murdered sandal, Neil's mother. What do you think happened? Good

question. The truth is probably Lord Lucan is guilty of... Organising the

crime. I am not 100% sure he did it himself. He is definitely guilty

because why would you run off for 41 years?

But what concerns Neil is that the focus of attention is on Lord Lucan.

For decades, the nation has been fascinated by the mystery and

whether or not he is still alive. Neil feels people have lost sight of

the victim in this, his mother. Especially the way in which he was

-- she was murdered and forgotten about. I feel that I have had to

just pursue this until we get justice and the truth, really.

Now, Lord Lucan's fan of applied for his missing father to be declared

dead so he can inherit the title. Neil opposed the application at

first, but then withdrew his opposition.

Big smile to the front! I wanted to be involved in the court case,

because it might throw new light on to obviously the mystery.

Neil's main concern is a document unearthed by as in 2012. It is this

police report from 2002. In it, they reveal that then they suspected Lord

Lucan may still have been alive and living in Africa. His plan is to

raise this document in court. That could be enough for the judge to

actually want to investigate this document further with the police.

And so it is his big day in court. Public and get my base across, stir

it up a bit and see if it gets any closer to the truth.

He is joined by his partner, Kim. There is no turning back now!

What do you make of it all? I am not sure! Somebody knows something,

don't they? The two somebody somewhere north something,

definitely. That is what I don't understand, actually. The two he

loved his children so much. I don't understand, whatever he did, whether

he murdered my mother or not, or even if he was involved in it, which

obviously he was, why did, you know, I know there is embarrassment etc,

but he could have done 20 years or even less in prison and been added.

Live life with his children. He could have been out by now? Exactly.

I am not the famous one! In court, Neil drew the judge's

attention to the tradition Met police report. But Lord Lucan's fun

protest written statement by close relatives saying they had not seen

him for decades. The loss of that must be shown that he had not been

known to be alive for at least seven years, since 2009. So the judge

ruled that Lord Lucan could be declared dead. George Bingham, the

new Lord Lucan, made a statement outside the court. Good morning. The

court this morning declared my father, known to most people as Lord

Lucan, to be dead for all legal purposes from 1981. I want to take

less time to applaud the efforts of Mr Neil Berryman to secure justice

for his mother, our beloved family nanny. We extend acidity to him and

his broader family. That committee is well grounded in that matter

their family nor ours know what whose hand is unfortunate lovely

lady died in 1974. And then it's tragedies the cameras.

They can at least there is image abroad and police internal document

that states he is possibly a in 2002 onwards. At the end, we have to get

to the truth and justice for Sandra Rivett, a horrible death, a young

woman beaten, my mother. There is no getting away that whatever happened

that night, Lord Lucan is guilty of something in my eyes. Reasonably

forgotten victims here. Truth will prevail. Thank you.

This all started when Neil opens that envelope. He found out who his

mother was and then found himself in the Royal Courts of Justice at the

centre of the world's attention. And it is not over yet, because since

the court case, the Metropolitan Police have asked Neil to come to a

meeting. All this began here. Do you regret opening that envelope? What a

question! No. Last year, the world's media

spotlight was focused on Birmingham, as some of the oldest manuscript

from the Koran was rediscovered. They were in the archive of a

research library, set up by the renowned primacy of chocolate

makers. So where did this precious ancient scripture come from and had

just how did it end up in Birmingham? We sent a reporter to

find out. The Koran, it is the sacred book of

Islam. It is what the Bible is to Christianity and the Torah to

Judaism. To Muslims, the ratings in the Koran are more than just words.

They are believed to have come directly from God, through the

Prophet Muhammad Bakken the seventh century.

It has shaped the lives of millions all over the world, including my own

right here in Birmingham. Those were the days! Soul and ancient Koranic

manuscripts were found in the city last year, it caused quite a stir.

News spreads fast and soon the whole world had heard about the Birmingham

manuscripts. Pilgrims visitors and journalists all travelled to the

city and I was about to take an unexpected journey as well, to

answer what seemed to be an obvious question. How did manuscripts so

important end up here in Birmingham? There is a great story here. The

ancient Koranic scriptures were found accidentally amongst some

papers at the Cadbury research library, here at Birmingham

University. So it is a great place to start. It was a real shock. It

took a few seconds for me to take it in and really understand the numbers

and what they really meant. In the morning, I phoned the laboratory to

check we really had understood the data correctly, but it was... And

indescribable moment. I had something with such significance, so

big, found in Birmingham, how does it get there? Yes, the manuscript

has actually been in Birmingham for over 80 years, so it was collected

in the 19... The early part of the 20th century by an Iraqi priest.

That collection was gifted to the University of Birmingham in the late

1990s, and that is Eddie collection comes to in Birmingham today. So

manuscripts have been Birmingham since the 19 30s. But where do they

come from originally? I have been doing some digging and I think I

have got a lead that I have been speaking to the man who rediscovered

that made the women who rediscovered the manuscripts who knows more about

the history and where they come from and she has asked me to come to

Paris, of all places. In 2014, the Ph.D. Student was doing some

research, Boro go in the archives of Birmingham University. About to make

the biggest discovery of her life. She noticed two of the parchment

were 200 years older than anything else they are. I have got so many

questions for you. I want to know what happened to the manuscripts

after the priest's death? Two leaves of the manuscript were stored and

kept in the library and they were bound together with seven other

leaves of another Koranic manuscript. History is riddled with

irony, and this story is no different. A simple admin error led

to the now world famous scripts being locked away in folder one 570

with other documents, and their significance would not be realised

until she found them again 80 years later. Why here? Why can you not

tell me this in Birmingham, why are we in Paris? There is something I

would like to assure you to do with the two leaves. Let's go and have a

look. Al-Badr is taking me to the French National Front are. They have

got their own set of Koranic structures get here. What is the

connection between them and the ones in Birmingham? The little shapes are

identical and also the device used for marking the end of affairs the

same. These little... Tiny strokes for distinguishing different letters

are the same. I would say that they are identical. So two sets of

Scripture is from Paris and Birmingham. Bold from that used to

be in the first mosque of Egypt at the start of Islam. And what is

more, it is that they could even have been written before that, in

the time of the Prophet himself. I cannot believe that! What she has

just told me and what have just seen, I mean, I knew that the Koran

manuscript are old and obviously they have been carbon dated but to

know that they could come from one of the first mosques in Egypt and

did all the way back to the start of Islam, almost... It is strange to be

so close I could physically have reached out and touched the origins

of my day. Heading back home, I want to share what I have found and I

know exactly who to talk to. -- the origins of my face. And emotional

because it is the true script which is written in the time of Muhammad

himself. And then exciting to hear about this Koran was found in the

Egypt mosque, built first. We are honoured that we are taking this

lead to bring communities together through this manuscript and if this

whole Koran comes together, I think this is the next task.

The next task to find the rest of this ancient Koran. Would that not

be something? Well, that is it from as for this

week. If you would like to see more stories from your area, join our

team is on Monday evening at 7:30pm on BBC One, or on the BBC iPlayer.

If early wintry filling weekend ahead with temperatures lower than

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