21/10/2013 Inside Out London

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We investigate why violent crime against sex workers is not been

published. Police are not focusing on the criminals who are raping,

killing women. They are arresting women for being in prostitution and

it is a waste of energy. They should protect the women. We reveal

the secret origins of the humble tin can.

Next time you reach and your cupboards and get one out, remember

it changed the world. It happened in South East London and was down

to one can be engineered. And find out how residents are

bringing country life to the heart of top them. We are training people

to grow food and getting them into gardening, getting them out doors

and getting them fit and getting them to eat it, as well.

Some of the most vulnerable people in the capital are those working in

prostitution. They live at constant risk of assault, rape, even murder.

According to some sex workers, police do not deal with these types

of crimes effectively and are often dismissive for people who report

them. We send Ruth Jacobs, a writer, who formerly worked in prostitution,

to check out a project outside the capital that might hold the key to

improve conviction rates and make the lives of sex workers safer.

Some viewers might find some of the report disturbing.

Hampstead Garden Suburb is safe and quiet. Most people live here with

families. They would never imagined that I was living in their midst.

It was the dangerous world of prostitution. Sometimes I saw

clients in my flat, which was 1 years ago. The memory still haunt

me. `` haunts me. Being back here, it reminds me of some of the

countless legal situations I found myself in. I did not expect to live

till 30 and I know too many people who have not made it. This is where

I lived and where I saw clients, who have not made it. This is where

I lived and where I saw clients, in isolation. I tried to hide my real

life from neighbours and family. life from neighbours and family.

When I was raped, I felt there was no one to turn to. I lived here all

my own because if there was another woman living with me, I could have

been charged for keeping a brothel, but that would have been a safer

working practice because when a client and raped me in the bedroom

of that flat, I could not call for help in case my neighbours found

out what I did. At that time I attended a clinic similar to Open

Doors in Hackney, offering medical treatment, counselling and other

services. When you have good relationships between professionals

and the police you have a chance of getting to understand the issues

that face sex workers. It is about knowing when they dialled the

emergency number, they will be treated like any other victim and

the police will say you are a prostitute, this is what goes with

the job. I hear that constantly. Those police officers, we need to

get the message to them, treating sex workers like any other victim

of crime. Basildon and an armed gang attack a flat used by three

women. Eight still money and attack the occupants. This crime has never

come to light `` they steal money. I am meeting one of the Basildon

victims in a women's centre. She wanted to tell me why the crime had

not been reported. The aim would have been more interested in

arresting me for prostitution rather than the fact that crime had

been committed `` they would have preferred. The police do not care.

A six police say they follow all complaints reported to them. They

gave the statement. How to legislate on prostitution is

hotly`contested by activists and politicians. They are divided on

whether they should decriminalise prostitution, or end demand by

criminalising clients. What they agree on is that something must be

done to make the sex trade less dangerous. Earlier this year, in

Parliament, I met MPs, including Fiona MacTaggart, on the All

Parliamentary Group on Prostitution, evaluated `` evaluating the issue.

They are resting women for being in prostitution and it is a waste of

energy. They should protect those women. The attitude of the police

means that men feel they can do things with impunity to women who

are prostituting. Until seven years ago, the same distrust existed

between people in the sex trade and the police on Merseyside. Then

everything changed. I want to find out about the initiative that

turned the tide of violence against people in the sex trade. Merseyside

Police detective Tracy O'Hara regularly patrols the area where

women operate. She works closely with Shelley Stoops, the first

independent sexual violence adviser at the NHS dropping centre in

Liverpool that offered a special service to sex trade workers.

Shelley and Tracy had been driving around Liverpool. We found a woman

in the sex trade who is sitting there with a broken leg. I can get

a car and we can make you safe and get you somewhere. It is a

different world now. That is why I am concerned. My role is to keep

people safe and protect people. I am not there to take her to a

police station. I am there to find out what is going on for her. Rosie

Campbell and Shelley Stoops have been doing outreach work on

Merseyside from the beginning. In the Eighties and into the Nineties,

this area was worked. It is not now. It shows how policing, regeneration,

can change a street, so that you are dealing with a constantly

changing situation. This was a dangerous area. We had women who

were attacked. There was a drive to do something quickly and get

something happening to protect sex workers. It was the murder of Anne

Marie Fowey that proved the catalyst to get the police in

Liverpool to declare all crimes against people in prostitution as

hate crimes. In 2006, we in front the hate crime model, in the same

way we were to address issues about homophobic attacks or racially

motivated attacks, or a tax on people for reasons of

discrimination, we decided that the tax on sex workers, if they

happened during the course of their work as a sex worker, we would

devote a similar approach to a that as we do other strands. The hind

mean there is a woman working and it is dark, dangerous and really

scary. Shelley Stoops calls in to report that the woman is possibly

at risk, having seen men in the area behaving suspiciously. We have

to leave her because she has a punt of waiting. May was also working

alone when she was attacked and raped. He slapped me and repeatedly

raped me. I still have nightmares. You thought he was going to kill

you? I did. I managed to escape because he fell asleep. I creep

downstairs, as I open the door, it was squeaking loudly and I felt and

touch the back of my hair, so I opened the door and ran. May was

introduced to Shelley Stoops, then the independent adviser in the

project he was to help her through her case. This led to the rapist

being sentenced to ten years without parole. I wanted him off

the street because I did not want other women going through what I

went through. It was horrendous The national average conviction

rate for rape is just over 6%. On Merseyside, since the project

started, their results have been staggering. In one year, 67% of

those who had raped sex trade workers. The Silence on Violence

report, commissioned by the mayor, recommends that all of these sorts

of crime should be treated as hate crime. Somebody could die as a

result of poor communication between sex workers, or reluctance

they have to report crime to police. Now the pressure is on for other

police forces to adopt the Merseyside model, to give sex trade

workers the same rights to justice and protection of the law as

everybody else. Still to come tonight,: it was not

until a couple of weeks ago we found out the school had a hidden

secret, the first team can factory. You wonder why it was forgotten.

Where you happen to live within the capital can have an impact on your

life expectancy. A recent survey found the people of Tottenham on

average can expect to live 17 years fewer than those in Chelsea. A

bunch of green`fingered people from Tottenham are bringing a touch of

healthy country living to an unlikely corner of the capital. We

sent Phil Ram, a gardener, to find out more.

In the distance you can hear the sound of soil being dug. Just across

the garden you see freshly grown produce being cooked. They are even

planning the vegetable and Channel show here. You could be in the heart

of rural England. But this is no country at all. It was once the most

notorious place in Britain. Remember for a riot and the death of a police

officer. But no more talk of that today. I am here to see what can be

done for the health of an inner`city community by turning a small, of

Tottenham into the green waste as it once was. Dash`mac a small corner of

Tottenham into the green or Asus dash`mac oasis it was. The world

might not be a better place, but I am a healthier person. This is the

harm in a garden. Volunteers come here to take part in a scheme that

from what is healthy living and eating. Two local men from different

backgrounds help run it. My father bought a garden after taking notes

of the RAF and put us to work in the greenhouses. I came here a long

while ago as a child. My grandfather came over from Jamaica. He started

to do the front and back gardens of families in Tottenham. I would help

him all the time. The purpose is to get local people using local

facilities. We are getting people, training them into growing their own

food, getting them into gardening, getting them outdoors, getting them

fit, and getting them to eat it. We fit, and getting them to eat it. We

have had money from the lottery to do this work. I volunteered after

going on a course. After a while there was a position here for a head

gardener. I applied and that is why I am here. I do workshops and

seminars. People are always passing by and asking questions. I give them

the answers, supply them with clients, seedlings, and show them

how to grow things. Some people have had gardens for a long time thought

it was too difficult to grow anything. Marrows, cucumbers,

cabbages. But I know into specialities, exotic growing. All

kinds of things are grown in this garden. As well as getting people to

eat more healthily another aim is to promote localism. They are cooked

and prepared in the cafe right next to the vegetable patch. We have

potatoes, peppers. Is there and interaction between the kitchen and

garden? Yes, we are connected. Mothers, children, they popped them.

`` pop in. And their eyes wide open? It is a good thing. Fantastic,

brings us together. This may look daft. But it is called the green

agenda. The volunteers doing warm up exercises. First thought of by the

great gardening guru, Geoff Hamilton. The aim is to help the

sick get healthy, and the long`term unemployed get motivated. It is

funded by the local council. A good way to get people to do physical

exercise without having to visit a gymnasium. I was hospitalised after

two nervous breakdowns. I will never be 100%, I get good days and bad

days, but I am happy here. I have helped do things, to see them months

later and think, yes, I was involved in that! Good to see you. Tell me

what you are doing. We're getting some in here. I have been doing this

for a couple of weeks now. I am unemployed at the moment. But this

could definitely be a future career option. If the pay is right! The pay

is never right and gardening, believe me! I was made redundant

some years ago and began doing voluntary work here. I was

encouraged to go to college. I did my diploma. Horticultural garden

design and landscaping. This simple piece of land are actually

encourages local people to look for new horizons. Today it is attracting

people from far and wide. Showtime. This is the tort of flowers show. ``

taught in him. `` Tottenham. OK. It might not be as well`known as

the famous one in Chelsea. But the mayor visited, the local MP gave out

prizes, and there was great produce onshore. `` on shore. This is all

about local communities are living with dignity, pride, togetherness.

`` on show. These local ladies summed it up perfectly. We do not

live on the estate at the moment. We come here to support the community.

We share a friendship. We do not quarrel. We try to live with love.

Local people are very friendly. You hear about some stupid miss, but I

have been here since 1956 and never had any problems with anyone. The

local area has had its problems but you do get the impression that the

future is one of hope. There is a living proof that with enough

support, faith, and hard work, there is something much regard than fruit

and veg growing from the land. `` beggar. `` vigour. 200 years ago a

corner of London saw the first mass production of an object that would

go on to gain a royal approval and revolutionise world trade. It helped

build the British Empire. It is hard to imagine life without the humble

tin can. Yet the man who invented it remains largely unsung. Chris

Jackson aims to put that right. Today, billions of cans fly off the

production lines and into our homes. It is so commonplace that the term

can seems almost mundane. But it was truly revolutionary when it first

appeared. It can be traced back to Napoleon who offered a prize to

anyone that could solve the problem hampering his ambitions to conquer

Europe. Our biggest problem is discovery. The army marches on its

stomach. `` scurvy. A French man won the prize by delivering a means of

heating food and sealing it. But that was in glass. It was only when

the idea came into rival British hands that it was turned into

something viable. It needed somebody with a bit of metal. Brian Duncan

was born in 1968. Nobody could know what impact he would have. `` 1 68.

As a child he would be found in the workshops of the blacksmith and

carpenter, tinkering away. He would spend every spare minute making

contraptions. He pursued his fathers footsteps to become a land agent.

But has inquisitive mind had intentions for much more. He was

most definitely hired. His genius led to a partnership with an

engineering business that would change the world. He was the kind of

engineer that would take an idea and turn it into a commercial reality.

In 1810 a patented was taken out in England for heat preserving tin

plate containers. He developed the process further. He developed the

world's first factory for canning. It all happened here. We only found

out a couple of weeks ago that the school had a head in secret. To

think that at the factory was here and has since been forgotten or

ignored, it makes you think, why? It has helped the world. The factory

was quite small. A single man could produce about 40 cans every day The

building behind us does not look all that historic. But when you start

begging you can find out these secrets. `` begging. `` begin. They

even got the cream to sample the food. It had to work. `` Queen. It

has become a worldwide industry Just from scratch. Like many

inventions it was driven by the military. Duncan turned Napoleon's

dream into reality. Terence became the staple fare of soldiers and

sailors. `` tins. We have got what we believe to be the earliest cancan

that has survived. It was made by Brian Duncan. `` tin can. It

contained veal. Originally it wait around ?7. It was hefty. It was

taken on the Northwest passage. `` seven lb.

For the makers of tens, this experiment was gratifying... How

would 120 volt meet compare? It was edible because some of the contents

are broken down about the contents are broken down but they tasted

rather better. It may not be the most beautiful but it is one of the

most important. It is a good job the town. He was my great, great

grandfather. I he was a remarkable man. He developed the first

papermaking machines. Got the first patents. That was the old scratchy

type that I still used as a boy at school. I bet you did not know it

was his! I did not, no! The invention of the tin opener would

not happen for another 45 years. Only then would tend to fit take

off. The Co`op introduced a whole new way of eating. `` tend food.

new way of eating. `` tend food Previously had heated flesh. Things

like the pineapple were introduced into peoples diets. They could get

hold of goods they had never seen or heard of before. Not everybody would

have taken to them straightaway But it was very exciting.

For those more used to the finer things in life the tin was not

down`market at all. The people who ran the Empire expected the things

they enjoyed in Mayfield. Even if they happened to be in Rio de

Janeiro. They expect things to arrive from 14 runs in peak

condition. `` Fortenhams. That is why we took the associate is live.

They would have found soup. Beef building your flesh. But like our

ready meals today. They still preserve food on the site. But the

canning plant is long gone. Back in Bermondsey, a plaque on the wall

that most people did not even notice now has a new meaning. Children love

the special stories that are not in the textbooks. We can look outside

of our window and see that 200 years ago this was a very different site

and link that into a different understanding of the world. So much

history in one Tim. Next time you go out of your cupboard, remember that

changed the world. It all happened in this corner of south`east London

due to one very canny engineer. Fascinating. Not certain I would

fancy eating meat that is 120 years old. Even if it did come out of a

world changing can. Here is what is coming up next week. We pay to send

them home and weeks later follow the remaining beggars targeting London

again. We are so pure. We don't have any money or work. `` poor. 50 years

after his assassination we revealed the untold story of JFK's final

visit to Britain. Unknown to him it was his last visit to Britain and

Europe. And how the iconic ace cafe has survived against all odds. We

have classic car lights. But what seems to boil down to the story of

this place is escape. That is all from this weeks inside out London.

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