09/09/2013 Inside Out East

Six years in prison for a crime he did not commit. After hit real

killer is really brought to justice, Mr White tells his story of trying

to rebuild his life. We might have still been married or have a couple

of kids. They smell came through the window and the whole of my yard was

flooded. It costs millions to sort out and it could flood your garden.

I am helping the clean—up team sought out a messy problem. Find out

how these bronze age boats are being saved for future generations.

We are revealing the stories that matter closer to home.

Tonight, we are in Milton Keynes. Imagine losing a partner and then

being wrongly accused of their murder. That's what happened to a

man from Milton Keynes who went to prison, along with a friend, for a

crime they didn't commit. 12 years on and they finally have justice as,

last week, the real killer was convicted.

The story of what has happened to the two men and their struggle to

rebuild their lives is told now by BBC reporter Mark Daly who helped

prove their innocence. This is a story of a man called

Barri White — wrongly sent to jail for the murder of his girlfriend.

Her name was Rachel Manning. She was 19. And this fancy dress party was

the last night of her life. Within hours, Rachel was dead and

the man who'd been dancing with her was convicted of the murder. His

friend Keith Hyatt was also jailed for helping to dump the body.

Eight years after Rough Justice, I've returned to Milton Keynes and

tonight on Inside Out will reveal the true cost of one of the worst

miscarriages of justice seen in recent times. How are you? I am OK.

Long time. I've come to visit Barri. He was sentenced to life in 2002 and

served six years before his conviction was dramatically

overturned at the Court of Appeal. When you got out, Barri, what was it

like the first months? Weird. Very weird. I wouldn't go anywhere on my

own, I would have go to with at least two or three people. Minimum.

Why was that? Paranoia. Constantly. I didn't want to be left alone just

in case something happened again and I got accused of it. You've got a

tattoo of Rachel written across there. If you years ago. I think I

got it done in jail. What does it mean to you? She will always be part

of my life now. I have got her permanently here. There are days

when I wish I was back in jail. Living out here is hard, when you've

done six years, when you first come out. It was so much easier there.

I first met Barri soon after his conviction when I was working for

the BBC's Rough Justice programme. We exposed flaws in the prosecution

case, uncovered new forensic evidence which proved Keith and

Barri were innocent. The hair could not have originated from Keith or

Barry. He saw the programme from his prison cell in 2005 and keeps a copy

to watch even now. I look a lot different. I look a lot

younger. There's me dancing. A lot of her friends knew you were

innocent, but there was a stigma, wasn't there? You were a convicted

killer. Yes, I was. To be known as somebody who has killed somebody,

that was horrible. A horrible feeling. You wouldn't want that on

your worst enemy. You went through a dark period. You had a drug problem?

A bad problem. What were the drugs for? It was a release from jail.

When I was off my face, I wasn't in my cell — I was in a little world of

my own. Just forget everything. It made you forget everything.

But these haunted eyes tell me that freedom has come at a cost — a

struggle with drug addiction and nightmares.

It's a pain that never goes away. It is always there. No matter how drunk

I get or what drugs I've done, it was always there.

Barri has battled his demons since his acquittal. And is trying to turn

his life around. I am holding on. This is why, his three—year—old

daughter. I love my life with my daughter. She

makes me smile every day. She gives me something to do. She is my world.

She is my everything. She is amazing.

On the night Rachel disappeared, she became separated from Barri soon

after these images were captured. She was supposed to meet him outside

this video store in Milton Keynes. But she never arrived. Keith Hyatt's

only involvement was to give Barri a lift to look for Rachel. But this

act of concern cost him three years in prison. How does it feel to be

back here? It is not a place I want to come back to. Nothing but

horrible memories. Although we got the appeal, I still feel guilty.

They made us out to be guilty. We have spent years with shrinks, god

knows what trying to get rid of all this rubbish. All that stuff that

got into my head, I have tried to forget and all of the last few weeks

I have been digging out all the paperwork.

Like Barri, Keith also feared coming out of prison. Back at home. That

paperwork of prisoner number JG4029 still fills the loft. This is a

letter you wrote to the forensic psychologist. As my release gets

closer, my anxiety grows. How can I tell my family I want to stay in

prison where I feel safe? And then come back to a world I don't like

and they don't like me. I am not leaving a free man. These are words

of somebody terrified? Yeah. ..of the prospect of being let out of

prison. They took our freedom away. Although I'm out of prison, I am not

out of prison inside. 12 years. I am still in prison. I went to a New

Year's Eve party and someone found out that I had just got out of

prison and I actually heard her saying to the person whose party it

was, do you think we should put our handbags away? Will they be safe? By

the time of Rachel's funeral, her parents had already been told that

Barri was the prime suspect. I feel like I am going to the funeral

again. Do you still miss her? Yes, every day. I think about her all the

time. I was planning on asking her to marry me, I had a ring and

everything. You never know, if she had been here today, we might still

be married and have two lovely kids. It is just a question now. You've

been here. You had a few minutes on your own. Did you talk to her? I

said, hello, hope she was doing OK. Told her I still missed her, just

sat there and chilled for a bit. Did you ever really get a chance to

mourn? No, I didn't have opportunity to

mourn for her. That was horrible. Not only had I lost my girlfriend, I

am being accused of it straightaway. I didn't have time to grieve or

anything — I did not know what to do. Did not know to do. Barri and

Keith had their convictions quashed in 2007. But neither man has

received a penny in compensation. Since the appeal, we've put in

several applications for compensation and when I get letters

back, I didn't meet the criteria. You think "What criteria have I got,

you're either innocent or guilty?" Last week, the real killer was

convicted opening the way for a fresh compensation claim. I will

never get those years back. I have to live with that for the rest of my

life, I lost all of my 20s. Pretty much all of my 20s through the

police not doing their job properly. At the end of this trial... Do you

think now that you and Barri can put this behind you and get on with your

lives? Hopefully we can. I'm not guilty. I'm an innocent person who

was found guilty and I can move on. It's almost like I want to stand on

a soap box and say ,"This is my story. This is what happened and I'm

not ashamed to tell you my story." I deserve a life back.

I lost a good life. I had a great little job, a great girlfriend. I

would like a life back. I cannot get a job. At all. I would like my

compensation, that will be my justice when I get that. But what

Barri really wants is, finally, to be believed by Rachel's parents. Did

you feel that they wanted to speak to them and tell them that this was

not you? I hope they believe now that I'm innocent and that I loved

their daughter. If there is ever anything you think that we should be

looking into, you can send an e—mail.

You are with inside out East here on BBC One, coming up, we are joining

experts saving these Bronze Age boats.

Under our feet is a whole network of sewers, the problem is, if they get

blocked on our streets and gardens can be flooded. A couple of years

ago, Anglian Water were told by the industry regulator that he had to do

something about it and improve our sewers or face being fined. I have

been underground to find out what is causing the problem and what is

being done to sort it out. This is an average sized chicken,

the kind of check and you might have for a roast on a Sunday. But just

look at how much fat is at the bottom of that roasting tin. And I

am sure that you would never dream of taking all of that fact and

pulling it down the sink. But you would be surprised at how many

people actually would. All of the fat, oil and grease ends

up down here, slowly sliding its way down our sewers. It is a head and

problem that cost millions of pounds. In the Eastern region alone,

it is estimated that at any one time there are 20,000 tonnes of fat, fat

and grease clogging up our sewers. Over the past few years, Anglian

Water have been failing to meet industry standards about the state

of sewers. The company say that most of the blockages could be avoided.

Many people quite innocently pour small amount of cooking fat down the

sink, and the poor hot water down there hoping that it will disperse

the fat. If you look at the cooking tray after a frying pan has been

used, the fat hardens and congeals. This happens even if you pour hot

water down there. We advise people that if your waste operator has a

food with Caddy attached then poor small amount into the food Caddy and

is not put it into a sealable container and fitted into the inn.

The problem gets worse because not only does the fat and grease go down

it also acts like a lewd and binds itself to other items that should

not be down there. Then you have these Fat Bergs that cannot be

shifted. Last year we had 35,000 blockages and over half of those

were caused by fat, Greece and whites that gets combined with them.

This is what happens when the sewer gets to blocked with fat and it

cannot handle it. This woman's garden was flooded when the sewer

near her was clogged with fat and other things that should not have

been there. The smell hit me. I was in my dining room and the smell came

through the window. I went to step out of the back door and the entire

garden was flooded. You have never put any fat down the drain? No, it

goes in a jam jar. You have suffered the consequences of other people.

Yes, I would have thought that in this day and age then people would

have known about this kind of thing. Fat spent £7 million last year

removing fat from the system. It is a never—ending job. That is

disgusting. What is the problem? We have had a build—up of fat, people

have been putting it down the sewer and it has been congealing. The wine

is closing in on merit and we have a blockage situation when we need to

clean the fat and get rid of it from the sewer. This is my equipment.You

will break it up around the sides, break it up around the channel and

what I will do is I will get the fat out and put it in the bin. It is

literally a question of digging out the fat. All my .Mac that is like

mud. That is just so disgusting. It is amazing just how much fat has

congealed on the side, because that channel is much wider than you would

have imagined, you would think that this could not possibly be all of

the fat, but it is. It is three or four inches thick. That is just .Mac

really disgusting. He still gets you have truly wild. You are disturbing

the fact and the sewage. And, I feel really sick. You must have a

cast—iron constitution. Definitely. But little lungs of fat make it into

the system be congealed to form giant Fat Bergs, masses of oil and

grease and anything else that should not have made it down the drain.

This pumping station must be cleaned out every four weeks. Pumping

stations literally pump our sewage to the treatment works. If the

block, you don't need me to go into that. Where there are safety stuff

on, what happens now? We use a high—pressure plans to clean the

walls and move the product down to the suction side to take it away

altogether. This is a high—pressure jet? Very high pressure.Ready for

this? : . —— go on. This is very hard work. Amazing to think that you

have to do this every morning —— every four weeks. In order to make

sure that the system keeps flowing. That is incredible. I feel like I

have been doing it for hours but I have only been doing it for a few

minutes. I actually thought that I had made quite a difference, I had

made quite a dent, but I don't think I have made much difference at all.

Not really. How long would it take you? On a normal day, four or five

hours, maybe six. Most of the fat end up at sewage works. This is one

of the biggest sites here in the East. This deep well here in

Cambridge has the feet of fat on top of the sewage. We are here to remove

the accumulated fat, Hoyle and wakes that appear in the Inlet. We do it

every few months just dotted impacting on our process to Bradley.

It is a good process that stops this ending up in the landfill in the

long run? Yes, if this ends up in the works we must collect it and

says it and put it into a landfill. In the future, the fat that end up

in the sewers could be earned for fuel. Work has begun on the plans to

recycle the fat bergs but it is a few years away yet. There are very

strict rules that make sure that businesses are responsible when it

comes to the disposal of the oil and Greeks. This man runs a fish and

chip shop in Peterborough. They are flexible and provide you with 20

metre barrels to put your oil in, with the barrels are fooled you give

them a call and they come in two weeks and collect them. You make

sure that no oil makes its down the drain. No oil makes it down the

drain, over time that would clog up the drain and then we would have

bigger problems. Anglian Water has until 2015 to improve our sewers if

they are to avoid financial penalties. Unlike businesses, we

cannot be prosecuted for pulling fat down the drain. The company are

trying to raise awareness. The campaign is being extended across

the East. There are no figures for just pulling the recent fat away,

it's just end up down here. Three and a half thousand years ago,

this was a very different landscape, a wetland where Bronze Age people

used boats and timber causeways to move around, but we only know this

because of the work of some dedicated archaeologists with the

help of a brick quarry. Archaeologists have made a discovery

that makes it just as important as Stonehenge.

Last year, a remarkable discovery was made in the quality of the

brickworks near Peterborough. Deep in the mud and clay, evidence of a

Bronze Age community was being uncovered, only found because of the

quarry. Because of the opportunity afforded

to us by the brickworks, we are the first people to venture into the

deep sediment of the fens, and in our first step into that landscape

we have produced at least eight logboats — fish weirs fish traps

things we've dreamt about but never found. The first people to really

find prehistoric fenland and that is just the beginning. And the

significance is in its depth and in its scale and the possibility of

what this tells us of prehistoric fenlan.

We've coined a term — "deep space archaeology" — because we're digging

on the same scale but at a depth like nothing... —— nothing. This is

the combination of the quality that the wreck work brings us Here's the

paradox of preservation. To the project. It is perfectly preserved

because it is buried so deep, but it is almost impossible to find. The

only way you can get at it, I think, is to have a brick pit in your

landscape. They are the only people who are digging holes big and deep

enough to find this kind of material. Six metres of sediment was

carefully removed to excavate the ancient logbooks. —— log boats. The

boats have now been taken to the flag fen conservation centre. It is

only a few miles from the farm and is the sake of the first major

discovery of Bronze Age life in the area. In 1982 the remains of a huge

timber causeway was found here. Once it was decided that they would be

preserved it was always a sensible, where would we do that? It seemed

almost natural that we came to flag fen in the sense that they are

contemporary with the Bronze Age neighbours that we have here. In a

sense, we are Bronze Age neighbours. If anything, there was a sense that

the flag then post alignment was billed as the same reason as a

logbooks. It will but was becoming more underwater, you could walk

across the causeway or canoe in one of our boards. It seems like the

natural place to be put on display. The Bronze Age boards will be

preserved using the same methods used in the Mary Rose, the Tudors

ship that was recovered from the sea in 1982. This man worked on that

project and is now overseeing the conservation of the fragile must

farm boats. They look like that, they are very

solid, but we now know that they have undergone certain sort of decay

of the various components of the cell structure in the wood, so they

have actually become embrittled. And that makes what was actually

achieved an even greater achievement because it would have been so easy

for these pieces, these vessels, to have just snapped into smaller

fragments and completely fragmented and not be complete as we see today.

A cold store has been built to house the boats, with the temperature at

around three degrees Celsius to prevent bacteria damaging the

ancient timber. The next stage is going to be the

actual conservation phase if you can imagine these vessels have been

bulked out by the water. They've come from water logged deposits

that's the reason they are preserved until now, so the water has acted as

scaffold, so we have to remove the water and we have to introduce a

consolidant which will then act as the scaffold within the timber and

replace the water. So we'll gradually impregnate the vessels

with Poly Ethylene Glycol Wax over the next two or three years,

hopefully and then once there is sufficient wax which has penetrated

in the wood we can dry them with cold refrigerated air — and that

will take upwards of two years so we're looking at a five year

conservation programme. Having the boats safely in the store

has already allowed the Archaeologists to make new

discoveries. We've just learnt what sort of wood

they were made from, some were made from, so although the majority were

made from oak some were made from lime and field maple and alder.

Equally we've taken samples for radio carbon dating so we should get

a date of when these trees were felled to make the boats. Previously

we thought the channel dated form 1300 now we know it began in 1500 BC

so some of these boats are much earlier than we thought, and over

the next few years these kinds of information as the specialists work

through the detail will keep coming through. These boats, their history,

the narrative that we can build around them will became even more

detailed, so in a sense the objects themselves re only part of that

story. Like any excavation you dig things

up and then you go into post excavation, go into your analysis,

your interpretation and that brings in a whole suite of specialists and

ideally at the end of this you have a narrative with the radio carbon

dates andcontext of the landscape. The whole sense of that sedimentary

river. We should be able to produce a picture of the Bronze Age when

these boats were being used. They aren't boats any more we'll know

where they were coming from and where they were going to. We should

be able to reconstruct a picture of the Bronze Age and I think at the

end of this story we will have a different understanding a whole new

world, one that we hadn't previously imagined existed.

Thank you for joining us this week, we hope you enjoyed the programme.

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