:00:13. > :00:19.Hello. Welcome to inside del. This week we are in Manchester where we
:00:19. > :00:22.are meeting the murder squad giving a TV's New Tricks a run for its
:00:22. > :00:27.money. At the UK's first real civilian a
:00:27. > :00:31.murder squad. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.
:00:31. > :00:36.investigate whether we are doing enough to protect our children and
:00:36. > :00:41.find out what lessons we can learn from Europe. The Dutch government
:00:41. > :00:45.seemed to be 10 years ahead of the British. And why the Isle of Man is
:00:45. > :00:51.now the 4th most likely nation in the world to next land a person on
:00:51. > :01:01.the Mona. This expedition will take someone further than anyone has
:01:01. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:15.You may have seen the TV drama New Tricks which features veteran
:01:15. > :01:19.detective solving murders. Police here in Manchester have their own
:01:19. > :01:24.homicide unit which can match Denis Waterman and his pals and they are
:01:24. > :01:28.all civilians. The Manchester unit is helping Bobby's get back on the
:01:28. > :01:36.beat. When it comes to murder, the police
:01:36. > :01:40.in Manchester are busier than most. This community have been trying to
:01:40. > :01:46.comprehend what exactly happened at this house behind me. This city is
:01:46. > :01:51.consistently in the top three areas in the country for murder rates.
:01:51. > :01:59.Guilty of murder, sentencing him to life in prison. Was between the
:01:59. > :02:04.summers of 2011 and 2012, at GMP had to deal with 41 homicide cases.
:02:04. > :02:08.0 a number of people see some of the crime series that take place on
:02:08. > :02:13.television and think all these things are done within an hour. The
:02:13. > :02:20.hard work starts when people are arrested and charged and that is
:02:20. > :02:24.the primary responsibility of our unit. Monday morning at Chadderton
:02:24. > :02:30.Police station and the category C murder unit holds its weekly
:02:30. > :02:36.debrief. But this is no ordinary team. This is the country's first
:02:36. > :02:41.civilian murder squad. None of the team are police officers and they
:02:41. > :02:46.do not have powers of arrest. But their rhino butchers, bakers or
:02:46. > :02:51.candlestick makers here. They are predominantly former detectives and
:02:51. > :02:58.they are very good at wrapping up murder cases. We have accrued loss
:02:58. > :03:02.of experience. We are specialists. I retired as a detective after 30
:03:02. > :03:08.years and they were advertising for people with experience to come back
:03:08. > :03:15.to the units. We are not at the sharp end and I accept that, I have
:03:15. > :03:20.done my time as a police officer. We are as close as we can be to
:03:20. > :03:27.frontline policing. The team's high average age means they have been
:03:27. > :03:37.likened to the detectives on a certain TV programme. How long have
:03:37. > :03:40.
:03:40. > :03:50.I have seen New Tricks and it is good. There are some resemblance of
:03:50. > :03:52.
:03:52. > :03:58.asked their. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.
:03:58. > :04:02.would like to think I am not Denis Waterman but he has a requisite
:04:02. > :04:06.amount of experience and so do I and why waste that if you can put
:04:06. > :04:10.it to good use. The unit was formed by Greater Manchester Police in a
:04:10. > :04:14.bid to reduce the amount of paperwork done by a frontline
:04:14. > :04:19.detectives. It is the first of its kind in the UK and so far it seems
:04:19. > :04:24.to work. What we have allowed this for our detectives to hit the job
:04:24. > :04:30.for our detectives to hit the job at the beginning, really do a
:04:30. > :04:34.thorough job and then hand over that volume of information and
:04:34. > :04:39.evidence to a team to support. Police divide murders into
:04:39. > :04:43.different classes, category A are high risk cases where the killer's
:04:43. > :04:49.identity is unknown. Category B refers to cases where the identity
:04:49. > :04:53.is not clear but there is less risk to the public and category C is
:04:53. > :05:01.where the offender is known and the evidence is likely to be relatively
:05:01. > :05:06.easy to gather. Relatively easy to that there is a joke. Their
:05:06. > :05:10.business such thing. Most murders come at you usually as a category A
:05:10. > :05:20.but the role of the police is to turn every category A as a category
:05:20. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:28.Wednesday morning at Bradford Park. Home to the forensic services unit.
:05:28. > :05:32.Investigating officer at Ian Storey is taking two murder weapons for
:05:32. > :05:42.examination. This may be a category C murder but without rigorous
:05:42. > :05:47.
:05:47. > :05:52.attention to detail, they will not Part of the examination is to try
:05:52. > :05:59.and obtain fingerprints from both weapons that we have got the
:06:00. > :06:06.offenders fingerprints in the victim's blood. I joined a GNP in
:06:06. > :06:16.1975, I retired. This job was created on the major incident team.
:06:16. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:24.I came back and I have been working my socks off. Not all members of
:06:24. > :06:27.the team are former detectives. Charlotte Wood worked as an
:06:27. > :06:33.organisational consultant before joining the unit. Gory details are
:06:33. > :06:39.now a part of her everyday life. did think that would be very hard
:06:39. > :06:47.to handle at first before I started at the unit, it has not been as bad
:06:47. > :06:51.as expected. I have been attending post-mortems and attending the
:06:52. > :06:56.images because you need to know everything about the case. The ones
:06:56. > :06:59.involving children are harder because I am a mother of a two-
:06:59. > :07:05.year-old and with experience it makes it easy, but that is
:07:05. > :07:09.difficult for me at the moment. Under the watchful eye of an
:07:09. > :07:15.experienced mentor and after just 12 months in the job, Charlotte has
:07:15. > :07:20.been asked to lead an investigation. Operation Scarcroft. Be it was a
:07:20. > :07:27.young male who was strangled and put into a wheelie bin and dumped
:07:28. > :07:32.on open land. It is not the nicest of jobs to be dealing with but it
:07:32. > :07:42.has to be dealt with. It is very traumatic. The young man was
:07:42. > :07:45.
:07:45. > :07:51.strangled. And then his body turned It is really upsetting when you
:07:51. > :07:55.have to look at those sort of photographs, you go to the second
:07:55. > :08:01.post-mortem. She put together a really good file. Anything she is
:08:01. > :08:06.unsure about, she can ask anyone about it. An investigator will do a
:08:06. > :08:10.piece of work but it is checked by a supervisor and there is a change
:08:10. > :08:15.of command that is checked and rechecked before it goes to the
:08:15. > :08:21.unit. Friday morning an investigating officer at Lyndon
:08:21. > :08:25.Wright is coming to the end of five men's work of a gruesome case.
:08:25. > :08:29.people have been charged following the discovery of a body. Police
:08:29. > :08:35.were called to Victoria Street last Thursday evening after reports of a
:08:35. > :08:40.burglary. It was a difficult case to bring and it was a difficult
:08:40. > :08:45.case to manage at court. There were a lot of issues with witnesses and
:08:45. > :08:52.evidence in the case was not easy to present, so yes it was a
:08:52. > :08:59.challenge. We had a five week trial, both defendants were convicted of
:08:59. > :09:05.murder and we are now on our way to Preston Crown Court for sentencing.
:09:05. > :09:09.The role that the category C unit performs is vital admitted some of
:09:09. > :09:15.the unsung activity that is necessary within the judicial
:09:15. > :09:20.process. We are getting cases to court twice as fast. Both
:09:20. > :09:24.defendants are sentenced to 23 years in prison and another case is
:09:24. > :09:30.closed by the category C unit. A dead body found in a flat and two
:09:30. > :09:36.people there, you could not ask for an easier cased yet six months down
:09:36. > :09:42.the line, after a six-week trial, it is only now we get our justice
:09:42. > :09:49.for the family. A team will carry on with their
:09:49. > :09:54.usual good humour. It was really all the detectives who thought, we
:09:54. > :09:58.have a bunch of old cops here, you only have to look at the work we
:09:58. > :10:04.are doing, the detail and presentation of the files at court.
:10:05. > :10:09.My team is doing as good if not a better job. The results produced
:10:09. > :10:12.mean it is the category C team having the last laugh. We are good
:10:12. > :10:22.at our job and if you need someone to investigate your relatives
:10:22. > :10:27.murder, who D one? You want people who know what they are doing.
:10:27. > :10:33.Coming up: is there life on Mars? Quiet the Isle of Man could hold
:10:33. > :10:39.the answer. If life were discovered on Mars are it would be the first
:10:39. > :10:42.time that extra terrestrial life has been proven.
:10:42. > :10:47.Never have there been so many questions about whether we do
:10:47. > :10:52.enough to protect our children. It is not just the allegations about
:10:52. > :10:56.Jimmy Savile, it is the sexual grinning of white girls bike
:10:57. > :11:06.largely Pakistani men and whether authorities have turned a blind eye.
:11:07. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:12.We investigate what more can be What we are talking about is
:11:12. > :11:19.hardcore criminality. She went to hell in back in terms of what these
:11:19. > :11:25.perpetrators did to her. Nine men convicted of exploiting young girls
:11:25. > :11:30.in Rochdale have been given prison sentences. The shame of what
:11:30. > :11:40.happened here is detailed in every newspaper. I tried to overdose
:11:40. > :11:42.
:11:42. > :11:46.because of what happened. I am a broadcaster. Our organisation works
:11:46. > :11:51.to build a better order and that -- understanding between diverse
:11:51. > :11:55.communities and that is why I am on a personal journey across the North
:11:55. > :12:00.of England and to Holland to discover more about the realities
:12:00. > :12:05.of grooming and child sexual exploitation. Recent scandals
:12:05. > :12:09.centred on Rochdale and Rotherham raised questions not only about why
:12:09. > :12:14.Asian men are disproportionately involved in the crime but also
:12:14. > :12:18.broader questions about how the system failed to prevent it. This
:12:19. > :12:23.is the street where the Rochdale grooming gangs operated from. A
:12:23. > :12:27.recent report admitted that the police and social services
:12:27. > :12:34.repeatedly failed to listen to the cries of help from victims. What
:12:34. > :12:37.did they miss and what were the consequences? A I think what is
:12:37. > :12:42.important as a starting point is that it can happen to any child
:12:42. > :12:47.from any family. This woman is an expert in identifying the signs
:12:47. > :12:52.that so many people seem to have missed. A definite pattern of
:12:52. > :13:00.behaviour in both of the grooming gang and their behaviour. It is
:13:00. > :13:04.highly sophisticated and the men and know what they are doing.
:13:04. > :13:09.in Harrogate there is an acceptance that the problem can be found in
:13:09. > :13:14.virtually all towns and cities and as girls and parents from across
:13:14. > :13:19.the country have told us, most victims are not from a children's
:13:19. > :13:26.home. You will find what you hear next a disturbing. The men had
:13:26. > :13:29.given her vodka or, mobile phones and some cards. They received a
:13:29. > :13:34.text messages all the time and sometimes that they would demand
:13:34. > :13:38.that they immediately leave the house. I talked to a young guy and
:13:38. > :13:45.went to his house and we ended up in a hotel. I was drunk and I woke
:13:45. > :13:52.up with no clothes on. She may be passed from man to man. I slept
:13:52. > :13:57.with a lot of men, it would be around 30. The consequences of this
:13:57. > :14:01.are lifelong, both for the child and the family. There are two of
:14:01. > :14:06.you, parents trying to make a living and you have a daughter you
:14:07. > :14:13.love falling apart in the most horrific circumstances. It affects
:14:13. > :14:19.all aspects of your life. I tried overdosing, I cut myself, my arms
:14:19. > :14:23.are scarred, I did not want to live. In the cases of the victims and
:14:23. > :14:28.parents we spoke to, the horror and suffering were compounded when
:14:28. > :14:33.police and social workers failed to take action. We had photos, a
:14:33. > :14:39.number plates and we gave them all to the police, gave it to them on a
:14:39. > :14:44.plate. If I had had more help, I would have stopped. You think the
:14:44. > :14:49.police will step in and social services will help, you would think
:14:49. > :14:53.that would make arrests more likely, but that is not what happened.
:14:53. > :14:58.police forces and social service departments have recently dedicated
:14:58. > :15:02.more staff and introduced more training but given that the
:15:02. > :15:06.failures by a authorities across the North that we have uncovered it
:15:06. > :15:12.is fair to say that strategies to get grooming of our streets is
:15:12. > :15:17.still patchy. This is why I have come up to Amsterdam. When it comes
:15:17. > :15:20.to developing at plan to tackle child exploitation and the Dutch
:15:20. > :15:25.government seemed to be ahead of the British government and they are
:15:25. > :15:32.claiming some degree of success. Police and social services began to
:15:32. > :15:37.knit together an approach and decade ago. In 2002, we figured out
:15:37. > :15:45.it was necessary to co-operate with different parties but if you see
:15:45. > :15:49.this situation in 2002 and compare it to the 2012, you see an enormous
:15:49. > :15:55.increase in agencies, organisations that combine their efforts in
:15:55. > :16:03.solving the problem. You cannot solve it as law enforcement alone.
:16:03. > :16:06.In the spirit of this, they have played their part. The Pakistani
:16:07. > :16:12.community should confront exploitation and this man has done
:16:12. > :16:16.the same in Amsterdam by campaigning against remain in his
:16:16. > :16:23.Moroccan community. In my neighbourhood there was a problem
:16:23. > :16:33.of guys in grooming some girls. It was hard core criminality. I
:16:33. > :16:40.started to make alliances with mosques and we combined forces. In
:16:40. > :16:47.the UK, our mosques say it is nothing to do with them, yet here
:16:47. > :16:53.in Holland, you and the masks have taken a proactive stance, why is
:16:53. > :17:00.that? I think it is important to take responsibility and raise
:17:00. > :17:05.social issues, put them on the agenda and get rid of the taboos. I
:17:05. > :17:10.think that for England and other countries it is important that
:17:10. > :17:17.mosques are developed to tackle the issues of modern-day society. A
:17:17. > :17:26.young people are looking for mosques that are relevant. I hope
:17:26. > :17:31.that my brothers in England will do the same as what we have done.
:17:31. > :17:36.in West Yorkshire, these sentiments have residents, but the reaction of
:17:36. > :17:46.English mosques is complicated by hostility from the far right which
:17:46. > :17:49.call this demonstration following allegations of child grooming.
:17:49. > :17:53.Whilst at the English Defence League calls for the Pakistani
:17:53. > :18:00.community to stand up and take action, a youth group has been
:18:00. > :18:05.doing that. Only a few weeks ago, the English Defence League were
:18:05. > :18:12.here. This is an anti- grooming workshop, attended by members of
:18:12. > :18:16.the pack this do -- Pakistani community. It is completely unique.
:18:16. > :18:23.It affects us a very severely because when a picture like this is
:18:23. > :18:32.on the news, imagine what kind of impact it will have on how people
:18:32. > :18:37.perceive us. The workshops came about through our normal youth work.
:18:37. > :18:41.That is the best thing to do is to advise the girl. We have no support
:18:41. > :18:48.from the Government in terms of financial backing. The groom her is
:18:48. > :18:53.isolating him the victim. We talk about had to tackle issues like
:18:53. > :18:58.this. School has are taking a more precautions in educating young
:18:59. > :19:04.people. It is not often that I am speechless, but this has been an
:19:04. > :19:11.amazing experience to with his best. If we can deliver this in every
:19:12. > :19:19.part of our country, then I believe we can start to eradicate this evil.
:19:19. > :19:24.This in video is encouraging the victims to speak out and be heard.
:19:24. > :19:31.I think everyone has a few regrets but if I could, I would go back and
:19:31. > :19:35.have a word with myself. I still believe that there is an over-
:19:35. > :19:41.representation of Pakistani men convicted of child grooming and my
:19:41. > :19:46.community has to come from this. At the same time, wider society has to
:19:46. > :19:50.recognise that 80% of child sexual abuse is carried out by white men.
:19:50. > :19:54.For me, the story should not be about comparing of the racial
:19:54. > :20:04.identity of abusers, but the about protecting these vulnerable young
:20:04. > :20:04.
:20:05. > :20:10.victims. Now, a traditional industry here in
:20:10. > :20:15.the north-west is based on the expansion of canals and railways.
:20:15. > :20:20.One part of our region is looking deep into outer space for future
:20:20. > :20:30.growth and as Jacey Normand reports, the Isle of Man's ambitions are not
:20:30. > :20:34.
:20:34. > :20:43.as far-fetched as you might think. Three weeks ago Felix Baumgartner
:20:43. > :20:49.leapt from the edge of space and into the record books. For over 50
:20:49. > :20:53.years, man has been enthralled by space travel, first we orbited the
:20:53. > :20:58.earth and then landed man on the moon and we have sent robots to
:20:58. > :21:03.Mars. Until Felix made his jump, these milestones were all achieved
:21:03. > :21:08.by government sponsored space programmes. The idea of private
:21:09. > :21:13.space tourism is a relatively new concept. Like Richard Branson's
:21:13. > :21:23.Virgin Galactic flights, they will allow people to fly into the
:21:23. > :21:29.earth's atmosphere and experience weightlessness for six minutes. But
:21:29. > :21:32.if you want more than a short trip into space and then head to the
:21:32. > :21:37.Isle of Man. They do things differently. They have big
:21:37. > :21:42.ambitions. According to analysts, it has become the fourth most
:21:42. > :21:45.likely nations to return someone to the moon. It seems unlikely, but
:21:46. > :21:55.with government backing it has become the leading place in Europe
:21:56. > :22:09.
:22:09. > :22:15.for space business. This is a frame from a Soviet space station that
:22:15. > :22:21.was built during the Soviet period. About seven of them have flown in
:22:21. > :22:25.space. This company believes it can send anyone into space by using it
:22:25. > :22:30.second-hand Russian spacecraft and paying a hefty fee. Its presence on
:22:30. > :22:36.the island is the main reason why the Isle of Man is rated one of the
:22:36. > :22:39.most likely nations to return to the moon. The people who buy this
:22:39. > :22:44.expedition will have to tell us how long have they would like to stay
:22:44. > :22:48.there and exactly where they would like to go. It is a private
:22:48. > :22:54.expedition just like to the South Pacific in the last century.
:22:54. > :23:01.are the people who will go on these trips? I wish I knew their names.
:23:01. > :23:05.We had a market study down and they told us that there were 29 people,
:23:05. > :23:10.in their opinion, he would go in the next ten years, so that is
:23:10. > :23:15.about three people per year and that is what we can handle. The
:23:15. > :23:19.first one is going to be the most difficult because it is new. It
:23:19. > :23:23.will either be a government who will have their astronauts go to
:23:23. > :23:27.the moon or it will be a private individual or individuals who want
:23:27. > :23:31.to fly there in the spirit of exploration. You get to see the
:23:31. > :23:38.moon, you get to see the earth and you will even get to see both of
:23:38. > :23:43.them at the same time. This is our capsule which has already flowing
:23:44. > :23:48.into space. It went up and stayed there for one month. It was in
:23:48. > :23:54.space for a month and it landed and came back down and it was
:23:54. > :23:58.relaunched again. It is a little space shuttle. It is small. I took
:23:58. > :24:07.the opportunity to step inside of this surprisingly spacious quarters
:24:07. > :24:17.for the astronauts. Just go up that ladder and stick your head end.
:24:17. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:23.This is amazing. It is really a DoE. How far could they go? This
:24:23. > :24:29.spacecraft would go approximately 60,000 miles beyond the moon. This
:24:29. > :24:34.is further than any a human being has ever been. Only 28 people have
:24:34. > :24:38.been to the moon and no one has been 6 in thick -- significantly
:24:38. > :24:44.further than that. Someone on a commercial space flight will go
:24:44. > :24:49.further than any of human being has done, then? Do not expect to see
:24:49. > :24:56.these trips in your local travel agent, the price tag is spitting at
:24:56. > :25:01.an astronomical �100 million. -- fitting.
:25:01. > :25:06.You may think that businesses were drawn to the island because of
:25:06. > :25:11.corporation tax cuts, but it must offer more because it is now half
:25:11. > :25:20.a... This range of companies is what contributes to the incredible
:25:20. > :25:25.Isle of Man story. This is a polishing lap. He Helmut Kessler
:25:25. > :25:29.has been here for 40 years and thinks it is ideally placed for
:25:30. > :25:33.space exploration. His company's lenses were used on the curiosity
:25:33. > :25:39.Rover which landed on the surface of Mars in the Aegean and is
:25:39. > :25:48.currently exploring of the Martian surface. The optics we made went
:25:48. > :25:56.into one of the lasers. They will see what is going on and what is in
:25:56. > :26:02.of the soil. They will look for life on Mars. The optics look
:26:02. > :26:07.fairly unremarkable compared to some of the other optics we do.
:26:07. > :26:14.Just to clarify, made in the Isle of Man is an optic which is
:26:14. > :26:19.currently on Mars looking for a life there? That is correct. It has
:26:19. > :26:25.travelled a long way and is probably the furthest any Manx made
:26:25. > :26:31.product has been exported. It is very exciting for us and for our
:26:31. > :26:36.work for us to be able to contribute to a mission like that.
:26:36. > :26:40.It traces of life or former life were discovered on Mars it would be
:26:40. > :26:50.the first time in a human history that extra-terrestrial life has
:26:50. > :26:51.
:26:51. > :26:56.been proven. It is easy to see why the government on the Isle of Man
:26:57. > :27:02.is backing the space business, it is worth billions of pounds. If you
:27:02. > :27:07.look at the projected turnover for the company is based on the Isle of
:27:07. > :27:12.Man, it has been estimated to be in excess of �1.7 billion over the
:27:12. > :27:19.last eight years it has brought in a �36 million in Exchequer benefits.
:27:19. > :27:23.It has created jobs and help diversify the economy. We have an
:27:23. > :27:28.amazing collection of companies on the Isle of Man, satellite
:27:28. > :27:34.operating companies, the first International Institute of Space
:27:34. > :27:41.commas, so it is not just a one horse show, we had many aspects to
:27:41. > :27:45.our industry. That growth has led to the European Space University to
:27:45. > :27:49.base part of their course on the island. These graduates hope to one
:27:49. > :27:54.day take part in future space missions and they will have the
:27:54. > :27:57.Isle of Man to thank for their training. In order for the space
:27:57. > :28:02.business to take off in the Isle of Man are they still need to find
:28:02. > :28:07.that first special Astra not. have always been people that wanted
:28:07. > :28:11.to do something for humanity and the exploration of space is an
:28:11. > :28:16.activity that humanity will do and the people that do it will be
:28:16. > :28:25.remembered for ever. So if everything goes to plan, it will be
:28:25. > :28:31.a small step for man but one giant leap for the Isle of Mankind. I am