:00:13. > :00:27.Was it suicide or murder? of a Nottinghamshire mum
:00:28. > :00:31.Retired detective, Tony Blockley, discovers some astonishing
:00:32. > :00:35.new evidence in the case of Claire Martin.
:00:36. > :00:38.Looking at this, if I was briefing a senior
:00:39. > :00:40.investigating officer at this
:00:41. > :00:45.autopsy, I would be suggesting that you need to go and find the
:00:46. > :00:50.Also tonight, the postman who looked like Jamie Vardy -
:00:51. > :00:59.The irony of a lookalike, it's like a fraud, isn't it, really?
:01:00. > :01:05.He's not who he looks like, he's someone else.
:01:06. > :01:14.Also tonight, as HS2 gets the go-ahead
:01:15. > :01:16.will our wildlife reserves pay a price?
:01:17. > :01:18.We're at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire to bring
:01:19. > :01:20.you the stories that matter, closer to home.
:01:21. > :01:27.This is Inside Out for the East Midlands.
:01:28. > :01:29.This week marks five years since the sudden and brutal death
:01:30. > :01:35.The 30-year-old mother from Nottinghamshire died
:01:36. > :01:37.from multiple stab wounds to the neck.
:01:38. > :01:40.An Italian judge decided she'd killed herself.
:01:41. > :01:46.But now the British authorities want the case re-opened.
:01:47. > :01:49.We asked former detective Tony Blockley to investigate
:01:50. > :02:14.She'd found love with her Italian partner Diego when they worked
:02:15. > :02:21.We got introduced after what, three or four months.
:02:22. > :02:26.She was fluent Italian, she was also fluent in Napolese,
:02:27. > :02:37.And I used to go on a more regular basis to see her than Ray, but yes,
:02:38. > :02:46.Then Diego returned to Germany for work.
:02:47. > :02:50.Claire was on the brink of joining him there
:02:51. > :03:02.Just gone three o'clock in the morning I got the telephone
:03:03. > :03:22.call from Diego to say come quick, come quick, Claire is dead.
:03:23. > :03:31.have come to meet Pat and Roy at home. This is where some of the
:03:32. > :03:34.anomalies have come from. Talking from them, you can feel not
:03:35. > :03:41.only their grief but also the frustration at how the case was
:03:42. > :03:44.handled. It has caused such lasting effects that I do not know whether
:03:45. > :03:56.we will ever get over everything that has caused it. I am sorry.
:03:57. > :04:04.5 years on, I do not wear any further forward than the day after.
:04:05. > :04:07.I think five years on, I don't think they are any
:04:08. > :04:11.It just wants starting from the very beginning and working right through.
:04:12. > :04:14.You need resources to put into it and you need time and effort
:04:15. > :04:18.I'm now a criminology lecturer at the University of Derby.
:04:19. > :04:20.Its International Policing and Justice Institute has
:04:21. > :04:21.the biggest concentration of criminal investigation expertise
:04:22. > :04:31.I'm hoping to use some of that expertise to look at Claire's case.
:04:32. > :04:36.Pat and Ray have given me the files from their solicitor.
:04:37. > :04:39.On the morning of March 1st 2012, Claire had been at a house
:04:40. > :04:46.in rural southern Italy rented by Diego's parents.
:04:47. > :04:49.When Diego's brother left the house, Claire is said to have asked him
:04:50. > :04:57.A short time later Claire set off for work, leaving her one-year-old
:04:58. > :05:13.Claire's car was reached by an external flight of stairs.
:05:14. > :05:16.Within a few minutes Diego's mother says she heard screams
:05:17. > :05:18.and Claire came back upstairs clutching her neck.
:05:19. > :05:24.When asked what had happened Claire had said, "It was a man,"
:05:25. > :05:28.and gestured towards land behind the house.
:05:29. > :05:37.As well as these witness statements, the pictures of the crime scene also
:05:38. > :06:10.have strong indications that Claire had been attacked.
:06:11. > :06:15.For example, the car key and where the car key is deposited.
:06:16. > :06:17.It's almost as if she has been dragged backwards
:06:18. > :06:28.Pat and Ray talked about the knife being wiped and when you look
:06:29. > :06:32.at the pictures of the knife the blade is still covered in blood.
:06:33. > :06:34.Arguably it's the handle that's been wiped.
:06:35. > :06:37.If somebody wanted to commit suicide why would they do that?!"
:06:38. > :06:39.Out of the three knives, this one would
:06:40. > :06:52.be the best replica of the one that was used.
:06:53. > :06:57.For me, the key evidence in Claire's case are the stab
:06:58. > :07:07.I've asked the university's forensics department to take a look.
:07:08. > :07:22.When I used to work for the police in London, we quite often did tests
:07:23. > :07:28.The Italian authorities placed a great emphasis on the lack
:07:29. > :07:38.If we can go through it and we can say this doesn't add up,
:07:39. > :07:47.this doesn't appear right, ask them why they did this,
:07:48. > :07:50.at least it will give them some right of reply.
:07:51. > :07:53.You know, if we're not careful we just accept what's happened
:07:54. > :07:55.without questioning it and where do families like this go?
:07:56. > :08:02.Every year, an average of 80 Brits die abroad
:08:03. > :08:07.20 years ago, Eve Henderson's husband was killed in Paris.
:08:08. > :08:10.She runs the support group Murdered Abroad.
:08:11. > :08:20.the University of Derby with a new organisation -
:08:21. > :08:22.Justice for All - which I hope will offer practical
:08:23. > :08:34.From that devastation at the beginning when they're
:08:35. > :08:37.on their knees, they start getting it together and then they're
:08:38. > :08:39.in fighting mode, but you can't do that at the beginning.
:08:40. > :08:43.And that is when you need the assistance, that's when you need
:08:44. > :08:51.In Claire's case, I'm hoping a Home Office
:08:52. > :08:55.Dr Stuart Hamilton is also an advisor to the BBC television
:08:56. > :09:18.Simple fact is that stabbing one's self in the neck is a very, very,
:09:19. > :09:24.There are no obvious defensive injuries on the hands or forearms
:09:25. > :09:27.where somebody sort of warded off or grasped at an assailant,
:09:28. > :09:30.but if you're taken by surprise or overcome from behind then
:09:31. > :09:43.you wouldn't necessarily expect to see them.
:09:44. > :09:50.There is so many unanswered questions for them.
:09:51. > :09:53.This just looks wrong and there's a smell
:09:54. > :09:58.just to close the case and say it was suicide
:09:59. > :10:02.is clearly not true and
:10:03. > :10:05.therefore I think we have to do all in our power to challenge that
:10:06. > :10:10.I feel we are going to the next step of a very large staircase.
:10:11. > :10:13.That next step is to ask the Italian authorities to reopen the case.
:10:14. > :10:18.If they don't, we'll consider asking the European Court
:10:19. > :10:26.In an age of celebrity and selfies, just being the double of someone
:10:27. > :10:33.Last series we caught up with Lee Chapman,
:10:34. > :10:36.a Jamie Vardy lookalike, who was having a crazy time
:10:37. > :10:39.after Leicester City won the Premier League.
:10:40. > :10:42.But just as the club's league form has crashed this season,
:10:43. > :10:44.Lee's also been left picking up the pieces following his
:10:45. > :11:04.In this age of celebrity and selfies, being the double
:11:05. > :11:07.At the height of the Leicester City story last season you could be
:11:08. > :11:11.forgiven for thinking there were two Jamie Vardys.
:11:12. > :11:13.The man who shot the Foxes to the most unlikely
:11:14. > :11:17.of sporting triumphs turned out to have a lookalike.
:11:18. > :11:19.And the day after the premier league title was confirmed Lee Chapman's
:11:20. > :11:26.life changed when he got pulled onto the team coach.
:11:27. > :11:29.They were all laughing, like jeering and cheering,
:11:30. > :11:57.The next day he was on a tour of TV studios.
:11:58. > :12:04.So there's the front page of The Sun, there he is,
:12:05. > :12:07.The next day he was The on a tour of TV studios.
:12:08. > :12:10.So there's the front page of The Sun, there he is,
:12:11. > :12:13.there's the front page of The Star, the front page of The Mirror,
:12:14. > :12:15.so Jamie Vardy, the striker the superstar, and here's
:12:16. > :12:18.you Lee Chapman, a postman, and you look exactly like him,
:12:19. > :12:20.you've been a Leicester fan all your life, does life
:12:21. > :12:23.I don't know, err, umm, I'm lost for words.
:12:24. > :12:26.Look, we've got the photographers, there's your agent with
:12:27. > :12:31.But within weeks it turned sour for Lee.
:12:32. > :12:32.And he holds one man responsible for that.
:12:33. > :12:34.I am Lee's agent, yes, celebrity agent.
:12:35. > :12:38.It was a ride but at the same time looking back it was only a ride
:12:39. > :12:41.because he was driving it the way he wanted to drive it.
:12:42. > :12:45.Well, this is a story of a Jamie Vardy lookalike,
:12:46. > :12:47.and a David Beckham lookalike getting conned -
:12:48. > :12:49.and it was uncovered thanks to a young George Best.
:12:50. > :12:52.I've never come out and said I look like Vardy, I've never
:12:53. > :12:57.I was out all day like this and I didn't realise that he's
:12:58. > :13:03.Lee has his own trophy cabinet, full of mementoes from a crazy summer.
:13:04. > :13:06.I think all Leicester fans have got one after last year,
:13:07. > :13:12.And when you look at it does it bring back lots of happy memories?
:13:13. > :13:16.Inside Out first caught up with Lee at last year's Ladies Day
:13:17. > :13:19.Behind it all, pulling the strings, was his agent.
:13:20. > :13:21.Yes, it's James Austin - and it's A-U-S-T-I-N.
:13:22. > :13:25.We've got over a thousand lookalikes on our books who work all over
:13:26. > :13:28.the world and it's absolutely brilliant, we go to some
:13:29. > :13:30.fantastic jobs and we've got a TV show as well.
:13:31. > :13:34.That agency and TV show are real, but they're owned
:13:35. > :13:37.First into the den is Andy Harmer from Eastbourne.
:13:38. > :13:39.Will he secure the ?100,000 investment he's asking for.
:13:40. > :13:41.Andy Harmer has spent years earning a living
:13:42. > :13:43.from his resemblance to David Beckham.
:13:44. > :13:46.Andy Harmer says Austin just looked after the social media
:13:47. > :13:52.We've seen numerous emails sent by Austin where he claims to be
:13:53. > :13:54.a director and owner of the Lookalikes agency
:13:55. > :13:58.Unfortunately for Lee Chapman, the misrepresentation
:13:59. > :14:07.For every booking, Lee should've received 80% of the fee,
:14:08. > :14:13.pretty standard for this kind of work.
:14:14. > :14:15.The agency gets 20%, but Andy Harmer says he agreed
:14:16. > :14:18.Austin could receive half of that for any bookings secured
:14:19. > :14:23.Here's an invoice for the Lookalikes Agency correctly
:14:24. > :14:24.submitted by Austin, with Andy Harmer's
:14:25. > :14:30.But we've seen numerous emails where Austin began bypassing that
:14:31. > :14:32.system and getting money paid into an account that
:14:33. > :14:40.For example, take that job at Leicester Racecourse.
:14:41. > :14:48.Emails show Austin billed the course ?420 up front,
:14:49. > :14:51.to be paid into the account HE controlled, with the rest
:14:52. > :14:58.Lee says he only received a total of around ?100.
:14:59. > :15:01.And this happened time and time again.
:15:02. > :15:03.But for Lee the real problem was what happened
:15:04. > :15:13.I don't really give two monkeys about the money.
:15:14. > :15:15.Whenever you associate me with Vardy, everyone always
:15:16. > :15:17.asks the same question - he blocked you, didn't he?
:15:18. > :15:20.There's a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons
:15:21. > :15:27.Jamie Vardy and his wife had become fed up of the way their names
:15:28. > :15:30.were being linked to Lee's Twitter and Instagram accounts
:15:31. > :15:36.Lee says that wasn't him - it was his agent.
:15:37. > :15:41.And to make matters worse, when the Vardys blocked
:15:42. > :15:44.the accounts, Austin sold it as a story.
:15:45. > :15:47.I've seen the invoice, he has sold that story himself
:15:48. > :15:50.behind my back and got the money for it.
:15:51. > :15:56.What we can say is we don't know what we've done.
:15:57. > :16:05.Austin pocketed ?750 for the story, in spite of the damage it did
:16:06. > :16:13.Lee only realised he'd been duped thanks to another
:16:14. > :16:24.Mark O'Hare sometimes works as a young George Best.
:16:25. > :16:29.Lee had asked me about payment for doing lookalike gigs.
:16:30. > :16:32.He had said he hadn't received any payment or he'd received very little
:16:33. > :16:36.so that baffled me obviously seeing the PR and the press that Lee had
:16:37. > :16:41.Mark worked for Andy Harmer's Lookalikes agency
:16:42. > :16:52.Austin told me that he was a co-owner of Lookalikes
:16:53. > :16:55.and that he ran it with Andy Harmer, now he mustn't have known that
:16:56. > :16:58.Andy Harmer is a friend of mine outside the lookalike business.
:16:59. > :17:02.You know for him to be doing all this work and not getting paid
:17:03. > :17:05.for it and to be totally duped the way he has been
:17:06. > :17:25.So it's a bit of a whacky world being a lookalike,
:17:26. > :17:28.people expect you to be good at football or living a bit
:17:29. > :17:30.of a high lifestyle, have a lot of money,
:17:31. > :17:44.The irony of a lookalike, it's like a fraud isn't it really.
:17:45. > :17:47.He's not who he looks like, he's someone else.
:17:48. > :18:08.In fact Austin was more of a fraud than Lee could have imagined.
:18:09. > :18:15.take a look online for Jamie Austin and his criminal past becomes clear.
:18:16. > :18:20.In 2008, he admitted using his own grandparents's identities to commit
:18:21. > :18:27.fraud totalling tens of thousands of pounds to help gambling debts. In
:18:28. > :18:32.2011, he was arrested passing fake notes at Royal Ascot. When convicted
:18:33. > :18:35.in 2012 on a number of different offences he committed were brought
:18:36. > :18:48.together, Austin was jailed for 2 years.
:18:49. > :18:57.Lee and his family are still feeling the fallout. He has had abuse on
:18:58. > :19:02.social media. Someone needs to start that Vardy lookalike. You need to
:19:03. > :19:05.stab me because I look like someone? When he split from Boston, he
:19:06. > :19:10.threatened to publish photos of lay with the drugs. I went to the police
:19:11. > :19:12.regarding this and did a professional drugs test and am
:19:13. > :19:19.completely clear. And the repeated use of 1 word
:19:20. > :19:22.online has had a direct impact. He struggled to take gyms to the
:19:23. > :19:29.parking days there was any bad comments of him being a paedophile.
:19:30. > :19:33.I have seen their hatred that he has got. All the negative side that was
:19:34. > :19:38.created as the last thing that is going to be accepted. I don't want
:19:39. > :19:42.that. This fraud of an agent that has billed this guy up, but he is
:19:43. > :19:46.also the guy that has brought him down.
:19:47. > :19:50.Plans for HS2 phase one between Euston and Birmingham is due to get
:19:51. > :19:55.the green light from Parliament any day now.
:19:56. > :19:58.-- has just been given the green light.
:19:59. > :20:01.And if things go to plan work on this multi-billion pound project
:20:02. > :20:04.could start later this year with phase two in the East Midlands
:20:05. > :20:07.But many environmentalists are saying the preferred
:20:08. > :20:09.route through our region is detrimental to wildlife.
:20:10. > :20:10.Naturalist and broadcaster Mike Dilger has been
:20:11. > :20:25.to North West Leicestershire to investigate.
:20:26. > :20:28.This disused line in Leicestershire was one of hundreds of railways
:20:29. > :20:34.It was part of a new and exciting transport network.
:20:35. > :20:40.But even back then, building new lines caused controversy.
:20:41. > :20:47.Way back in 1893 protestors managed to get the proposed route
:20:48. > :20:50.from London to Leicester diverted to save the city's roman wall.
:20:51. > :20:52.Today another proposed route is dividing opinion round here.
:20:53. > :20:55.The route of HS2 is kind of Y shaped.
:20:56. > :20:58.You've got London down here, Birmingham in the middle
:20:59. > :21:07.and from here the route splits up to Manchester on the eastern section
:21:08. > :21:36.Phase one, linking London and Birmingham, gets going this year and
:21:37. > :21:39.as many as 63 ancient woodlands will be affected. The Woodland Trust has
:21:40. > :21:44.identified another 35 ancient woodlands, which may be lost or
:21:45. > :21:51.adversely affected in phase two. The roots to Manchester and Leeds.
:21:52. > :21:56.Richard Briers lost land back in the 1990s when the then newly
:21:57. > :21:58.constructed A42 sliced through his family's property. He is no stranger
:21:59. > :22:05.to large-scale infrastructure projects. I understand why HS2 has
:22:06. > :22:08.to be built, and for you would like to see it tucked in alongside the
:22:09. > :22:12.model as close as possible, because the impact on the Woods will be
:22:13. > :22:15.less. It is possible to do that, but it comes out quite a few hundred
:22:16. > :22:18.yards away and that just cut off a whole chunk woods.
:22:19. > :22:24.You're worried about the environmental concerns? This is the
:22:25. > :22:28.last year and wildlife. Any time you put a major thing through, we have
:22:29. > :22:32.already had the A42 in my lifetime, another major infrastructure project
:22:33. > :22:39.only 20, 30 years later is very devastating for the woods.
:22:40. > :22:44.The turn ancient woodland relates to any site that has had continual
:22:45. > :22:55.wooded cover for at least 400 years, in effect dating back but nowadays,
:22:56. > :23:03.sites like this cover only about 2% of the entire British Isles. Behind
:23:04. > :23:08.does, there is a wood which will disappear underneath HS2 and behind
:23:09. > :23:16.that is a much smaller would, which was completely missed by HS2, why?
:23:17. > :23:19.We do not know. Natural England crashed into survey forwards smaller
:23:20. > :23:22.than two hectares and they said they had but one of our volunteers found
:23:23. > :23:26.that and several other woodlands that they had completely missed and
:23:27. > :23:32.have now been added to the ancient woodland inventory.
:23:33. > :23:44.In this village, people say high-speed rail will bring them know
:23:45. > :23:47.benefits and plenty of cost. Well, it is going to be a slice of bread
:23:48. > :23:52.through the National Forest. Therefore I do not see how it is
:23:53. > :23:57.going to enhance the local environment. Wear on what is called
:23:58. > :24:02.the Eastern Lake, each as to be. I am also concerned about our
:24:03. > :24:06.environment more wildly. We live in nice countryside, we are a rural
:24:07. > :24:16.village and are about to be trapped between a motorway and an HS2 line.
:24:17. > :24:25.So, is the environmental pain worse the economic game? Nigel Harris, a
:24:26. > :24:28.magazine editor, thinks it is. With double the number of passengers
:24:29. > :24:31.since the last day 1.8 million people travel, we are going to have
:24:32. > :24:35.10 million more people in the next 20 years and everybody wants to
:24:36. > :24:38.move. Parts of the network are already filled to bursting and other
:24:39. > :24:44.parts will be soon. We have to get ahead of that demand curve.
:24:45. > :24:47.And fortunately for people and nature reserves in the way, it is a
:24:48. > :24:51.question of like it or lump it? Not necessarily. If you keep pushing,
:24:52. > :24:56.there are amendments that can be had but there will be one or two losers.
:24:57. > :25:00.When age as one where build we moved one or two houses in their entirety,
:25:01. > :25:04.but there were always be a few people unhappy on a big project like
:25:05. > :25:09.this, I am afraid. When it comes to the environment,
:25:10. > :25:14.opinions on HS2 are not just evading communities, they are debating the
:25:15. > :25:20.government as well. We are walking along this line, where the tracks
:25:21. > :25:23.will be. This MP has been a vocal opponent of the whole project. I met
:25:24. > :25:28.him on the planned route near the village of Worthington in his
:25:29. > :25:31.constituency. You are conservative member of Parliament, it is an
:25:32. > :25:35.initiative pushed through by this government, does this make you sit
:25:36. > :25:38.uncomfortably? Speak and act as a biologist, you know that if you
:25:39. > :25:43.compartmentalise habitats, you're going to reduce the brooding
:25:44. > :25:46.populations, that will have a huge impact on the weightless because
:25:47. > :25:49.effectively you're building a wall Street with a to go straight to
:25:50. > :25:53.ecosystems and disrupt all those patterns. I voted against HS2 of a
:25:54. > :25:57.tenant has been on the floor of the House of Commons. It is a white
:25:58. > :26:02.elephant project and will have a huge impact on my seat. We are
:26:03. > :26:05.taking all of the paper none of the game. It is stopping noteworthy as
:26:06. > :26:08.and I will continue to oppose the project for the business case, the
:26:09. > :26:17.environmental case and the effect on the local area.
:26:18. > :26:29.We contacted HS2 and any statement, they said...
:26:30. > :26:35.Going forward, we will continue to refine the design, including the
:26:36. > :26:50.development of appropriate environmental mitigation measures.
:26:51. > :26:53.I'm ending at one of the most northerly nature reserves
:26:54. > :26:55.in the East Midlands - Carr Vale near Bolsover.
:26:56. > :26:58.The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust says the planned route will to put
:26:59. > :26:59.it bluntly ruin parts of this wetland reserve.
:27:00. > :27:02.And what's more how HS2 went about assessing the least
:27:03. > :27:15.environmentally-damaging route right across England was flawed.
:27:16. > :27:21.If you look out beyond the water bodies, from the maps we have got so
:27:22. > :27:23.far it would appear that it will come right to the back of the
:27:24. > :27:28.reserve and we are concerned that some of the water bodies will
:27:29. > :27:30.disappear completely. Do you feel they are taking the environment or
:27:31. > :27:34.concerns and mitigation seriously enough? The route selection is a
:27:35. > :27:37.major problem and we do believe the government is not listening
:27:38. > :27:41.seriously enough the wildlife trusts and other organisations raising
:27:42. > :27:43.massive concerns about the impact on the hundreds of wildlife sites
:27:44. > :27:47.throughout England. We think the government has got to do a lot more
:27:48. > :27:51.to really, seriously look at the impact on wildlife and the natural
:27:52. > :27:57.world with this mega infrastructure project.
:27:58. > :27:59.HS2 say "the current proposals in the East Midlands
:28:00. > :28:01.provide the best balance between engineering requirements,
:28:02. > :28:03.cost, and the desire to minimise impact on people
:28:04. > :28:15.environmental organisations are anxious about the planned route.
:28:16. > :28:18.So surely we need to listen to their concerns as lines just
:28:19. > :28:35.like this one will shape our local landscape for generations to come.
:28:36. > :28:44.Well, from Derbyshire, that is it from us for another week. I do hope
:28:45. > :28:49.you can join us next week. Next time, the miracle babies who are
:28:50. > :28:53.beating the odds, but we should doctors draw the line? I think we
:28:54. > :29:04.are probably around the limit of where we are going to get with the
:29:05. > :29:08.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.