:00:00. > :00:00.Hello there. I'm Matthew Wright you're watching Inside Out London.
:00:07. > :00:11.Here's what is coming up on tonight's show.
:00:12. > :00:16.We expose the criminals offering pay`TV channels for next to nothing.
:00:17. > :00:19.That's you installing an illegal set`top box. We've been recording
:00:20. > :00:22.you secretly for the last few months. We want to know why you have
:00:23. > :00:27.been installing illegal set`top boxes, what's your explanation?
:00:28. > :00:31.Offering new hope, how the bones of the Elephant Man are being used to
:00:32. > :00:34.fight cancer. Whatever the underlying genetic
:00:35. > :00:38.problem was, it is one that is relevant to the way in which a cell
:00:39. > :00:45.grows and knows when to stop growing.
:00:46. > :00:47.And how London was saved from the full onslaught of Hitler's
:00:48. > :00:51.doodlebugs. Bringing the V1s down in Kent and
:00:52. > :00:53.Sussex actually saved as much as 50% of the potential casualties that
:00:54. > :01:14.might have been inflicted. Those of us who fork out for
:01:15. > :01:18.satellite TV subscriptions to get our fix of the latest sport and
:01:19. > :01:26.movies will know just how expensive they can be. But some customers are
:01:27. > :01:28.risking prosecution by getting themselves a cut`price alternative.
:01:29. > :01:31.Inside Out has discovered that criminal gangs are making a mint by
:01:32. > :01:35.illegally selling and installing TV channels at knock`down prices. And
:01:36. > :01:39.what's so amazing is the set`top boxes that make this crime possible
:01:40. > :01:47.are being openly sold in high street stores. Guy Lynn has this exclusive
:01:48. > :01:51.story. It's a scam costing the TV industry
:01:52. > :01:55.millions a year. It's fraud, it s theft, it's a crime. These are the
:01:56. > :02:07.pay`TV fraudsters who'd do anything to avoid detection.
:02:08. > :02:14.They're hitting big companies and legitimate customers.
:02:15. > :02:18.Me and all the other mugs who are paying for a service are going to
:02:19. > :02:21.end up paying for people who are getting it for free.
:02:22. > :02:25.Tonight, Inside Out finally catches up with them.
:02:26. > :02:28.I just want to know why it is you have been installing illegal set`top
:02:29. > :02:31.boxes. No. Yes you have, we have been recording you for the last few
:02:32. > :02:36.months. What's your explanation It's early morning. We have been
:02:37. > :02:39.given rare access to film a special anti`piracy unit of the City of
:02:40. > :02:43.London Police. A suspected ringleader of a scam to illegally
:02:44. > :02:51.screen satellite TV is led away from a quiet suburban house in Liverpool.
:02:52. > :02:57.Undercover officers show me a haul of the illegal set`top boxes they
:02:58. > :03:04.have seized. Experts say this kind of crime is increasing across the
:03:05. > :03:12.UK. It targets a lucrative prize. 24`hour pay`TV. For the companies
:03:13. > :03:17.that supply it, pay`TV is worth billions in the UK. Whether it is
:03:18. > :03:20.via Virgin Media, BT or Sky, most of us get it legitimately. But industry
:03:21. > :03:30.experts, consumers and shopkeepers have told us there was another way.
:03:31. > :03:36.I started hearing of shops with cut`price deals that were too good
:03:37. > :03:39.to be true. And hearing the name of this man, Gyula Markovits, a
:03:40. > :03:44.Venezuelan in south London, the man to meet if I wanted to get to the
:03:45. > :03:51.bottom of this trade. How are you?
:03:52. > :03:57.Gyula does not operate from a shop. Customers come to him to get his
:03:58. > :03:59.magic boxes. This is the way to get top pay`TV channels at a fraction of
:04:00. > :04:13.the cost. He's not the only one. From the shop
:04:14. > :04:21.front, you would think this place was one of Sky's official suppliers.
:04:22. > :04:31.And they are big fans. Again, a box for ?150, the answer to the jewels
:04:32. > :04:36.of the pay`TV world. This is how it should be done legitimately and
:04:37. > :04:40.legally. Paying ?27 a month, it s not an easy thing to pay for when
:04:41. > :04:43.you've got lots of other things to pay for as well.
:04:44. > :04:46.Nicola and her grandmother weighed up several suppliers before opting
:04:47. > :04:50.for Sky to get all their favourite TV channels.
:04:51. > :04:53.I think if I'm paying ?27 a month and somebody else is getting the
:04:54. > :04:56.same service I'm getting and not paying anything, why should they be
:04:57. > :05:00.getting that service? They shouldn't be getting that service.
:05:01. > :05:04.That service we found doesn't just stop at the boxes. Once you get one,
:05:05. > :05:09.you need to pay the pirates a subscription. Here's how the
:05:10. > :05:31.legitimate deals stack up. Deal of the century were it not for
:05:32. > :05:43.the risk of that pesky jail sentence. And business is booming.
:05:44. > :06:02.And tills are ringing too at this shop. We take the boxes to be
:06:03. > :06:06.examined by experts. They discover they have been encrypted to allow
:06:07. > :06:08.digital messages to be sent to the pirates. And hack into legitimate
:06:09. > :06:12.Sky TV signals. People see a monthly subscription of
:06:13. > :06:15.?30 or ?40 and they can get that much cheaper, so a lot of people
:06:16. > :06:20.would jump straight in. Not realising what they are doing is a
:06:21. > :06:23.criminal offence as well. Will they really sell us an illegal
:06:24. > :06:37.subscription? Gyula runs through the criminal maths.
:06:38. > :06:45.And the same story here. A monthly subscription, not to the programme
:06:46. > :06:54.makers, but straight into the coffers of this shop. With any
:06:55. > :07:01.payment method you fancy. The pirates keep telling us there is
:07:02. > :07:02.absolutely nothing to worry about. Is that correct, this is basically
:07:03. > :07:25.illegal? Hardly what the companies say.
:07:26. > :07:27.If you buy or sell a pirated set`top box, you may get more than you
:07:28. > :07:30.bargained for. This is a recent anti`piracy
:07:31. > :07:34.campaign. Companies like Virgin are suffering damage.
:07:35. > :07:38.Virgin Media take piracy very seriously and work with the police
:07:39. > :07:41.to prosecute offenders. And so do the content makers,
:07:42. > :07:45.cameramen, make`up artists who are behind the programmes.
:07:46. > :07:48.Is it fair, right, just, that somebody should be able to steal
:07:49. > :07:52.from somebody else and that person will not be paid for their work
:07:53. > :07:55.That impacts not just on that one, single person, but on their family,
:07:56. > :07:59.and other people who rely on that income.
:08:00. > :08:05.That income goes on pouring into the fraudsters' pockets. There is one
:08:06. > :08:08.thing left to find out. Although we purchased these boxes, what we
:08:09. > :08:14.didn't know is whether this was just these men boasting or whether the
:08:15. > :08:20.scam would really work. We have obtained a flat. It doesn't have
:08:21. > :08:29.pay`TV. We're pretending to be customers. Watch them install the
:08:30. > :08:36.full works. Hundreds of channels in minutes.
:08:37. > :08:40.There is even some cheeky advice about what to do if the authorities
:08:41. > :08:55.come round. We hear how this trade is a nasty
:08:56. > :08:59.one with violence between criminals over customers. We show our footage
:09:00. > :09:04.to the organisation in charge of policing this kind of theft.
:09:05. > :09:07.Incredible, absolutely remarkable. Fact often deal with piracy on the
:09:08. > :09:10.Internet. The Chief Executive believes the scale of the
:09:11. > :09:14.profiteering we have uncovered is very different. It annoys me really
:09:15. > :09:17.because I'm working hard on behalf of our member companies,
:09:18. > :09:20.broadcasters in the UK to try to prevent this kind of crime. It's
:09:21. > :09:25.straightforward criminal profits and I think that's why it's worse. Quite
:09:26. > :09:28.a lot of things happen on the Internet where profit is not made,
:09:29. > :09:32.but this money goes straight into the hands of the criminals. There's
:09:33. > :09:35.no money going back to people who have a right to that money.
:09:36. > :09:39.We asked Golsat at Upton Park why they were taken part in this fraud.
:09:40. > :09:47.Straight after, the shop packed up, there is no one there now. But what
:09:48. > :09:51.about Gyula? He ignored us as well. But he is still operating and has
:09:52. > :09:57.boasted to us of all his customers. Surely he won't resist one more
:09:58. > :10:00.Gyula thinks he's coming round here to install some satellite dishes.
:10:01. > :10:05.But we have a couple of surprises for him. We have rigged this place
:10:06. > :10:15.up with secret cameras and we are going to play him a video which he
:10:16. > :10:16.might just recognise. Gyula arrives. Within seconds, he touts his
:10:17. > :10:28.criminal services again. He's been so kind supplying
:10:29. > :10:40.customers with illegal video, it's only fair he sees one of ours. Do
:10:41. > :10:43.you know who that is? That's me That's you. Actually, that's you
:10:44. > :10:46.installing an illegal set`top box. We've been recording you secretly
:10:47. > :10:50.for the last few months. I'm Guy Lynn from the BBC. I want to know
:10:51. > :10:53.why it is you have been installing illegal set`top boxes. We have been
:10:54. > :10:59.recording you for the last few months. What's your explanation Are
:11:00. > :11:06.you aware it is illegal to do what you're doing? Are you aware it is
:11:07. > :11:11.illegal, a fraud? The last we see of him is as he
:11:12. > :11:14.tries to reverse his van away. It's possible the authorities might want
:11:15. > :11:18.to have a chat with him as well We will be handing them the boxes we
:11:19. > :11:21.purchased and those from the other fraudsters we encountered. We heard
:11:22. > :11:27.numerous reports of other operators across the country. It could be that
:11:28. > :11:32.the scammers we found are just the tip of the iceberg.
:11:33. > :11:40.Guy Lynn reporting there. Still to come on tonight's show.
:11:41. > :11:43.Germany's indiscriminate bombing methods runs riot in the use of her
:11:44. > :11:45.latest terror weapon, the flying bomb. They brought horror and terror
:11:46. > :12:00.to the people of Kent and Sussex. Joseph Merrick, the elephant man,
:12:01. > :12:06.was a celebrated figure of the Victorian East End. Most of us will
:12:07. > :12:11.know his tragic story through the David Lynch film, and very little is
:12:12. > :12:16.understood about the underlying disease that caused his
:12:17. > :12:20.disfigurement. But now, thanks to tests, scientists are hoping that
:12:21. > :12:23.his skeleton can help them unlock not just the secrets of his
:12:24. > :12:37.condition but also help with the fight against cancer.
:12:38. > :12:41.Joseph Merrick was intelligent, articulate and likeable. Yet because
:12:42. > :12:44.of his appearance, he has gone down in history as the Elephant Man,
:12:45. > :12:51.shunned and avoided, attacked and abused.
:12:52. > :12:58.These are Joseph Merrick's bones, stored at Queen Mary University of
:12:59. > :13:00.London. Inside Out has been granted rare access to film them and the
:13:01. > :13:11.casts taken from his body. Merrick left his remains to science,
:13:12. > :13:18.but previous attempts to extract DNA failed because the skeleton was
:13:19. > :13:21.bleached to clean it. Now, 125 years after his death, new techniques mean
:13:22. > :13:29.these bones may finally yield their secrets.
:13:30. > :13:38.He suffered from a very severe form of overgrowth, where the tissues in
:13:39. > :13:42.certain parts of his body were massively overgrown, hence the
:13:43. > :13:49.reference to an elephant. Other parts of his body had quite a normal
:13:50. > :13:54.appearance. This tells us, whatever the underlying problem was, it is
:13:55. > :13:59.relevant to the fundamentals of the way in which a cell grows and knows
:14:00. > :14:02.when to stop growing. The research has barely begun, but already there
:14:03. > :14:12.is huge excitement about what may be uncovered. I would not predict that
:14:13. > :14:16.he is sitting on the cure for cancer, but it is through studies of
:14:17. > :14:20.this nature that we will have a better understanding of what it is
:14:21. > :14:23.that determines how a cell moves from a normal state into this
:14:24. > :14:26.abnormal process of this regenerative growth. Merrick's story
:14:27. > :14:30.fascinates people throughout the world. Jeanette Sitton and Mae
:14:31. > :14:32.Siu`Wae Stroshane have been researching why he continues to
:14:33. > :14:46.intrigue us. He was such a brave individual. It
:14:47. > :14:50.makes us feel OK, if Joseph could be brave like that, in the face of
:14:51. > :14:56.everything that is going wrong with him, that could give me celebration
:14:57. > :15:02.`` inspiration to cope with my lot in life. I was an orphan in Hong
:15:03. > :15:09.Kong and adopted, so I went through abandonment, I had to grow up
:15:10. > :15:13.finding my own quest for inner worth, self`worth and humanity.
:15:14. > :15:18.There have been many theories about Merrick's condition. We still can't
:15:19. > :15:21.be sure what it was, but it may have been Proteus Syndrome, an overgrowth
:15:22. > :15:27.of skin and bones named after a Greek sea god who changed shape
:15:28. > :15:30.There are several related illnesses, and despite changes in our
:15:31. > :15:43.attitudes, they are hard to endure. We have had one suicide of a young
:15:44. > :15:50.man in his 20s, as of the difficulties he had with the
:15:51. > :15:55.condition. We have also dealt with a couple of families whose teenagers
:15:56. > :16:01.were finding it difficult, and they had suicidal thoughts. It is not
:16:02. > :16:06.something that goes away, it can get more difficult as the years go on.
:16:07. > :16:08.Lee Street, Leicester. This is where Joseph Merrick was born, but
:16:09. > :16:16.thousands walk through without knowing its history.
:16:17. > :16:20.Inside Out has asked two historians, Richard Gill and Stephen Butt, to
:16:21. > :16:29.devise a Merrick tour. And the first person to experience
:16:30. > :16:29.it is Jon Merrick, whose great`great`grandfather was
:16:30. > :16:42.Merrick's uncle. People come from all over the world
:16:43. > :16:50.to see the birthplace of Joseph It was here. How would he have been
:16:51. > :16:56.treated? Very badly, his stepmother threw him out of the house, he was
:16:57. > :17:01.sent out to sell ribbons on doorsteps, but those were slammed in
:17:02. > :17:07.his face. He came home, having made nothing, his father beat him
:17:08. > :17:17.savagely. That decided it. He left home and voluntarily went to the
:17:18. > :17:22.workhouse. In 1884, he left the workhouse, and this is where he
:17:23. > :17:34.came, this is the famous theatre of the famous theatre authorises, not a
:17:35. > :17:44.lot left here now. He must have been a bit like King Kong, but instead of
:17:45. > :17:48.a gorilla, it was him. The proprietor would warn the audience
:17:49. > :17:57.there was a terrible creature behind the screen. But for Joseph, it was a
:17:58. > :18:01.living. The only living he could make, given the circumstances of the
:18:02. > :18:14.time. He chose to go into the theatre. Jo this `` Joseph left to
:18:15. > :18:19.legacies, his remains, which hopefully will lead to people being
:18:20. > :18:24.killed or relieved of various conditions, `` lead to people being
:18:25. > :18:30.Jordan or relieved of various conditions. He also leads a story,
:18:31. > :18:38.which is being used to help break down prejudice, break down the fear
:18:39. > :18:44.of people that are different, but that it is the tree or prejudice, he
:18:45. > :18:49.is helping to break it down, because he is the common dominator.
:18:50. > :18:59.It is 70 years since Britain came under attack during World War II
:19:00. > :19:06.from the V1 rockets, the doodlebugs. They destroyed half a million homes.
:19:07. > :19:11.But London could have endured even greater loss of life at the British
:19:12. > :19:22.government not diverted them to less populated areas.
:19:23. > :19:27.It was in the early hours of a summer's morning nearly 70 years ago
:19:28. > :19:39.that an unidentified flying object was spotted over Kent.
:19:40. > :19:59.The descriptions at the time said the mysterious aircraft omitted a
:20:00. > :20:02.rhythmic low tone as it flew. Travelled at a terrific speed, with
:20:03. > :20:11.flames and bright lights trailing behind it. The year was 1944, and
:20:12. > :20:16.Britain was under attack by Robots. The doodlebugs. The flying bomb the
:20:17. > :20:25.V1, the buzz bomb, call it what you will. Germany's indiscriminate
:20:26. > :20:29.bombing methods. Heard latest terror weapon of the flying bomb. They
:20:30. > :20:32.brought horror and terror to the people of Kent and East Sussex. Nazi
:20:33. > :20:45.Germany had finally unleashed their secret weapon. It was the origin of
:20:46. > :20:48.the modern cruise missile. In the first week of June 1944, Britain was
:20:49. > :20:51.euphoric. The successful Allied D`day landings across the channel in
:20:52. > :20:55.France, just seven days before the first doodlebug attack, had given
:20:56. > :21:01.the nation a feeling that at last we were winning the war. But then, the
:21:02. > :21:03.doodlebugs were launched from secret sites along the French and Dutch
:21:04. > :21:17.coast. Their target, London. But the first one was a little off
:21:18. > :21:21.target. Luckily enough, it landed in open farmland in North Kent. But it
:21:22. > :21:26.was quickly followed by three other flying bombs.
:21:27. > :21:35.One blew the doors off a pigsty in Sussex, another landed in Platt
:21:36. > :21:39.Kent. And the other made its way to Bethnal Green, London and claimed
:21:40. > :21:51.six lives. The first fatalities of the bombings. This was killing
:21:52. > :21:56.Londoners at the same rate of the Brits, at its worst. The great
:21:57. > :22:01.legend is that the fuel ran out and they came down, and it sounded like
:22:02. > :22:06.that. It would stop, and the explosion would take place 15
:22:07. > :22:12.seconds later. What happened would be that it dived, and its fuel
:22:13. > :22:18.system could not overcome the force of gravity. In total, 2,419
:22:19. > :22:24.doodlebugs fell on London. The effect on morale was devastating.
:22:25. > :22:27.The terror of the Blitz was still fresh in the mind of many Londoners.
:22:28. > :22:33.Many people left the city, believing rural areas to be a safe haven. But
:22:34. > :22:44.were Kent and East Sussex any safer than the big city? We had control
:22:45. > :22:48.over every German spy in Britain, and if we got them to send
:22:49. > :22:55.misleading information back home, the Luftwaffe would shorten the
:22:56. > :22:59.range. Looked at coldly, it was better that they landed in the
:23:00. > :23:03.sparsely populated areas of Kent and Sussex than in the most densely
:23:04. > :23:08.populated areas round here. It is estimated that ringing them down in
:23:09. > :23:13.Kent and Sussex, sometimes on houses, saved as many as 50% of the
:23:14. > :23:19.potential casualties that might have been inflicted. So, the Government
:23:20. > :23:23.were prepared to sacrifice the lives of those in the countryside for
:23:24. > :23:26.London. We can for the first time publish secret films photographed of
:23:27. > :23:31.the killing fields in southern England. Intelligence plots, barrage
:23:32. > :23:34.balloons, anti`aircraft guns and fighter`plane patrols made Kent
:23:35. > :23:35.Sussex and Essex the two most dangerous places to be outside of
:23:36. > :23:45.the capital. When one nursery school in London
:23:46. > :23:48.was hit during the night, the officials took no risks and moved
:23:49. > :23:56.the children into the Kent countryside. The children were moved
:23:57. > :24:07.to Weald House in Crockham Hill On June 30th 1944, a doodlebug that had
:24:08. > :24:11.been flying overhead was shot down. It has hit a tree, being deflected,
:24:12. > :24:17.and it hit a children's home. They had just been evacuated from London,
:24:18. > :24:24.and 22 of them were killed, along with eight staff. They were all
:24:25. > :24:28.under the age of two. There were little bodies mixed up with all the
:24:29. > :24:38.rubble and debris and the heavy rescue squad were there, it was a
:24:39. > :24:42.total tragedy. Ken Munday is 83 and has lived in Westfield, Sussex all
:24:43. > :24:46.his life. And today, he's tending one very particular unmarked grave.
:24:47. > :24:51.Doris Lynch was 23 years old and six months pregnant when she died, on
:24:52. > :25:02.the night a doodlebug hit Westfield. An event that was etched onto the
:25:03. > :25:08.memory of a 13`year`old Ken. There was this massive explosion. The
:25:09. > :25:14.emergency services were just arriving, locals were digging at the
:25:15. > :25:33.rubble. I was standing there, watching it
:25:34. > :25:41.going on. As I am digging around, do not know if somebody tried lift too
:25:42. > :25:45.soon or something... Terrible. On September the 8th, a rumour that
:25:46. > :25:49.Hitler had surrendered had reached London. People left work early,
:25:50. > :25:54.flags began to fly. Doodlebug summer was at an end, the Second World War
:25:55. > :25:59.was at an end. Or was it? At 6: 3pm, a rocket crashed into Chiswick.
:26:00. > :26:02.Unlike the doodlebug, the rocket made no warning sound and took just
:26:03. > :26:07.five minutes to reach London from the Dutch coast. The V`2 rocket had
:26:08. > :26:13.replaced the doodlebug and brought with it even more destruction and
:26:14. > :26:16.devastation. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, mentioned in his book
:26:17. > :26:20.that the V`2s could have been fully operational at a much earlier date
:26:21. > :26:26.if they had received more support from Berlin. If that had happened,
:26:27. > :26:46.the outcome of the war might have been very different indeed.
:26:47. > :26:53.Remembering the doodlebugs strikes 70 years ago. That is all from this
:26:54. > :26:58.week, before we go, let's have a look at what is coming up next week.
:26:59. > :27:03.Facing eviction, the Lambeth residents being turfed out of their
:27:04. > :27:07.expensive council homes. They have not spent a penny on this
:27:08. > :27:13.property, they have sat by, knowing I have been improving it, and now,
:27:14. > :27:19.we will have it back. Dealing with their demons. How
:27:20. > :27:25.Shakespeare is being used to help war veterans conquer their traumas.
:27:26. > :27:29.It is amazing how playing with somebody else's emotions, without
:27:30. > :27:34.having to deal with your own, is liberating.
:27:35. > :27:39.And, the new nature reserve being built from Crossrail's waste.
:27:40. > :27:44.We are creating a legacy, it will be there for the protection of the bird
:27:45. > :27:52.species, and we have done more than just ailed atonal.
:27:53. > :28:00.That is all from this week. If you have missed any of the show, a chap
:28:01. > :28:02.on the iPlayer. Click on London Thank you for watching, see you
:28:03. > :28:22.again next week. Last month, we looked at the FSA's
:28:23. > :28:28.star rating for food providers in London. The programme, broadcast on
:28:29. > :28:36.the 6th of January, focused on this restaurant. It was inspected by
:28:37. > :28:39.Westminster's officials for the first time in December and was
:28:40. > :28:44.awarded five stars, its highest rating for hygiene. We inadvertently
:28:45. > :28:50.suggested that it had previously been given a one star rating. This
:28:51. > :28:53.was not the case. The one star had been awarded to a completely
:28:54. > :28:57.unconnected Indian restaurant that had previously operated from the
:28:58. > :29:01.same premises. We would like to apologise to the owners for this
:29:02. > :29:06.error and for any misunderstandings caused.
:29:07. > :29:11.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update. More flooding
:29:12. > :29:13.misery. Thousand of homes in Berkshire and Surrey are now
:29:14. > :29:16.vulnerable as Thames river levels reach record highs. 14 severe flood
:29:17. > :29:20.warnings are in place ` meaning lives are at risk. Full update at
:29:21. > :29:22.ten. Two men have been convicted of helping triple killer Joanna
:29:23. > :29:25.Dennehy. Gary Stretch was found guilty of one count of attempted
:29:26. > :29:28.murder. Leslie Leyton was convicted of perverting the course of justice.
:29:29. > :29:30.An online drinking game has been linked to another death. Police in
:29:31. > :29:31.Cardiff are investigating