21/11/2011 Inside Out North West

Hello. This week I am in Liverpool, where I will be investigating the

devastating effects of hate crime. One tonight's programme: How people

with disabilities are becoming victims of hate crime. Nine out of

ten people with learning disabilities experience bullying.

We have to do something about it. We investigate the lengths that

councils are going to to clean up the north. We have some footage of

a lady who, on a night out, has ripped up the yellow pages. The

talking camera spoke to her and asked her to pick up the litter.

She went back and that every piece in the bin.

And while Liverpool company is made up with its Hollywood success.

have been lucky over the years to be involved in loads of great films.

Now, it might be hard to believe but every day throughout the north-

west disabled people are becoming the victims of hate crime. And the

effects are not just the moralising, they can sometimes lead to tragedy,

as Annabel Tiffin reports. Gary Skelly died over a year ago.

Dust now gathers on his toy collection, left undisturbed since

the night see what -- the night he was attacked. Gary was killed by a

single blow to their head. His senseless death has left a void

that can never be filled. I have been with him 53 years, I wasn't

there then. Call God! Sorry. -- Oh, god.

Gary was looked after by his mother, Agnes, in Norris Green in Liverpool.

He died on September 14th last year while walking home from a friend's

eyes. His killer, who is 21, is serving a seven-year sentence for

manslaughter. He said he did not know him. He just said he irritated

him because he asked him for a cigarette. Those close to Gary are

convinced that his death should have been reported by the police as

I hate crime. They have rate -- launched an awareness campaign

called Face Facts. They say they want a change in the law that come

Pels -- that compels the police to report such attacks as hate crimes.

Gary suffered years of torment but never revealed the true extent of

the bullying he had to endure. used to making dance. You know,

dance for a cigarette or whatever. I knew there were a few lads that

mocked him, but, as I say, he never complained, he would not come in

and tell you that. I would have to say to him, are you afraid of them?

Sometimes they would come up to the door on bikes and ask if Gary was

in. If I was -- if he was out in the evening, I would never go to

sleep until he was back. Even if your children are normal you do not

sleep until they are rain. I used to worry about him. -- until they

are home. What happened is my worst nightmare.

The Face Facts campaigners say that Gary's death is part of an

increasing trend of attacks in the north-west on people with

disabilities. Two other men with learning difficulties have died in

tragic circumstances. Greater Manchester Police were severely

criticised for failing to recognise that David Askew was the victim of

hate crime. He had suffered years of abuse. Carl Chadwick, who was 40,

was murdered in January this year. He was found dead at his flat in

Warrington. A 40-year-old man is now serving a sentence in jail.

is shocking and it should not be allowed. Nine out of ten people

with learning disabilities Experience bullying. That is an

absolute shame. It is a shame on civil society and we have to do

something about it. Gary was targeted and did not tell his

family that he was a target because he viewed those individuals

contacts in his local community. -- those individuals as contacts. He

would not tell farm -- family members for fear of being kept at

home. That was his contact with the local community and, unfortunately,

he was seriously taken advantage of. Gary used to call for weekly

sessions with a charity based at Liverpool University of. It is

called moving on with life and learning and was set up to help

those with learning difficulties to read and write.

He is missed. Our members have university student status. They can

access the swimming pool, library and the computer suites. For Gary

to experience being respected, learning, widening his social

network while he was here, you could see him walking past the

canteen to the main door and you could see him go role two inches

taller. It was just pure pride. -- you could see him grow.

Gary's loss is still felt deeply by his friends there. To help with the

Face Facts campaign they have made a 15-minute film about hate crime

as a tribute to Gary. It is being shown to council leaders, police

and social services. The group are hoping that it will change the way

that people think about disability and will help prevent eight cranes

in the future. What is your name again, make? John. See you later,

John. Yeah, in a bet. Going to a shop in town, I came out

and there were about half-a-dozen lads and they were all shouting at

me. I cannot always tell if they are teasing or if they are serious.

That is what gets me paranoid. I was in school I got bullied quite

a lot. I got called a window leapter and it made me sad. --

licker. Gary was volunteering at his local

hospital in the hope of finding a job. He would have been a good

asset because he was a real wit. It would have been the icing on the

cake for him and his family that he would be a volunteer in a

prestigious hospital, doing good work, and how people would have

viewed him so differently there. is sad. Who could want to do

something so horrendous to garage. He always like this -- up like they

giggle, a cigarette. There needs to be more legislation to protect us,

more law coming in and more awareness. You can change attitudes.

With Gary, we are certainly not going to let his death be in vain.

We will carry on until there is a change in the law. You're not going

to give up fighting? Absolutely not. His life, actually, was worth a

damn sight more than seven years. I just hope that, if it makes one

person a where even, you know, are aware of the disadvantaged people

and what they have to put up with... And what they leave behind. That

will be something. When people needed him he was there for his

friends. When he died everyone was devastated that such a special

person had been lost. Thank you Coming up call on JC get a taste of

Hollywood glamour. What is happening to me? Were we are making

you more gorgeous, don't you know? -- we are making you.

It is a huge problem that we cannot afford to have - litter. It costs

the North of England about �500 million a year. But how can

councils stop it when they are having to cut costs. Chris Jackson

has been investigating. Three northern towns trying to

become cities, trying to deal with one problem. It is disgusting.

Everything is on the floor - sickness, chips, grease. They

cannot control themselves and they do not care about the public space.

Councils are told us that picking up litter is a waste of money. It

comes out of your pocket. And if you thought it was not a problem,

take another look. Every place has a different tactic.

In Doncaster, they will hunt you down then catch you. I am from the

council import -- enforcement team. You have dropped a cigarette end.

This is possibly the toughest council in England in terms of

litter enforcement. It is �75 for littering.

Paul and his colleagues have targets for the amount of fines

they hand out because they say that being all nice does not work.

in a situation where we have to have teeth. The �75 is the teeth.

They do it because they would rather not spend money from

increasingly stretched budgets on picking up our rubbish.

In England alone, the local authorities spend over �880 million

every year on street cleansing. That is money that could be much

better spent on other things, obviously. Doncaster would have �3

million every year to spend on other things. Across the Pennines

in Bolton, letter costs �2.8 million. In Middlesbrough they do

not know the exact cost but the council takes a different tack. It

focuses on changing behaviour. If that does not work, they tell you

what. Could the man in the black jacket and the grey pants please

pick up your letter? Five years ago, talking cameras were brought in.

do think it works. We have 21 cameras. That covers a lot of

ground and a lot of people. Have you ever seen it work? Yes, we have

some footage of a lady who, on a night out, has ripped up the yellow

pages. The talking cameras spoke to her and asked her to pick it up.

She went back, picked up every piece than pitted in the bin.

In Doncaster or they find that fear works better. You will be fined. It

is in the back of people's minds. The zero-tolerance thing works.

not with everyone. They ended up fining me and putting me on a

course. The Government can sit on their backsides and get paid for

other people's mistakes. In Doncaster last year, they raised

a cool �120,000 in fines, compared to �6,000 in Bolton. At

Middlesbrough? Just �250. I think we have a success. We do not need

to fine people. For you do not worry that Doncaster is raking in

money and you are not? Is Doncaster cleaner than Middlesbrough or not?

No, but little is such a tricky issue, even campaign groups are

Keep Britain Tidy has been around 50 years. Now a new band of

activists say continuing to fund it is throwing taxpayers' money in the

bin. The campaigning just hasn't worked. If you ask me to provide

evidence of that, I say, well there are streets like this all over

England. John launched Cheen Up Britain this year w -- Clean Up

Britain this year w the help of celebrities. They are a group of

individuals who have got together, on a voluntary basis to run this

campaign. By saying keep Britain tidwri is failing, they have caused

a stir. It is disappearing to be attacked. We campaign and get

things on the media as well. If seems daft to set up something

which is setting up against us. Keep Britain Tidy Campaigns are

funded by the taxpayer. Can we afford it? In Bolton, they are

already feeling the pinch. With the cut-backs and everything, it has

deteriorated because of the workforce We are trying to make

sure people don't drop litter. It is a mind-change. In the north of

England people used to go out and clean the street in front of their

houses. It didn't stop that pride in where they lived. Where did that

pride go? I wrote a book about litter and the meaning of litter.

It's a symptom of a break down of our society, in which people don't

really have ar close relations with each other. They don't even eat

together, except for in the street. If you look in the street you can

see a lot of what we have become. It is not an urban problem alone.

Some of the most disturbing things about the litter is the way it is

distributed along a rural road. Even if you think it is wrong, dare

you intervene. A man in Manchester was assaulted after challenging a

gang. If we see somebody do it, what are we supposed to do? I don't

know if you noticed you dropped some litter just there, a fag

packet. Oh, yeah. Why did you do it? Just a habit. Are you going to

stop it? Why did you put it down there? You

have put it up for someone else to pick up. I'm sorry. I know you are

sorry. Let's find a bin. Just there. Thank you.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It's embarrassing.

Most people, when you tell them about it, they know they have done

wrong and they put it right, but they've done it.

If councils didn't pick up litter, then who would? Middlesbrough and

Bolton Councils have accepted our challenge not to clean the street

to see would happen. Bolton agreed to leave 100 metres of a town

centre street uncleaned for a day. This is what we found.

I am shocked. The majority of people who saw that litter were

shocked at what they saw there. That would normally be cleaned away

in the early hours. We asked local children to clean up the mess.

In Middlesbrough it will be a tougher job. The council left a

mile of its busiest road uncleaned for a whole weekend. It is

disgusting. Loads of plastic bags everywhere. In this Middlesbrough

road we collected 26 full bags of rubbish. Food for thought?

thing I say to people, is next time you see somebody dropping a crisp

packet on the floor, imagine it is them dropping your �5 note, you are

paying to pick it up. Where does Hollywood go when it

wants the best in special effects make-up? Well, Liverpool, of

course! I am outside St George's Hall. Around the corner in Victoria

Street there is a small firm w a big reputation for providing the

best in aliens, gremlins and good old blood and gore. Now f you are

having your tea you -- now, if you are having your tea, you might want

to find out more. Greg Norman has been to find out

more. -- Jacey Normand has been to find out more. I was excited; but I

have had a look aroundnd aam starting to feel a -- around and I

am starting to feel a little bit nervous. I was right to be worried.

I am in the very capable hands of these people. What is happening to

me? We are making you look more gorgeous. Eddie Jones is not just a

make-up -- Davy Jones is a master of prosthetics. At his training

school he has come up with weird and wonderful effects for TV shows.

We have been lucky over the years to be involved in loads of great

films, like with Pirates of the Caribbean. Blade II.

Narnia, the Life And Death of Peter Sellers. We did Shadow Line.

His hands have worked their magic on the faces of stars like Geoffrey

Rush, Wesley Snipes, Martin Shaw and Timothy Spall. So, I was in

good company. Take a little breath. Pull yourself

gently backwards. Take a breath. Lean forward. Keep forward. Pull

slowly. Dead slow. Slow,, slow! Oh, my make-up is on the inside of

it. Thousand creative is that! The plan is for Davey to make me a

prosthetic face. I don't know what it will be and I will not find out

until it is finished. They are a busy team. They have been working

on a major drama. We have been doing the Body Farm. From our point

of view it is a fantastic opportunity. We are going to make a

load of decome position bodies, set in tropical, heat and arid, things

like that. It is a great opportunity to play for loads of

forensic stuff. This is my promise to the victim - I will do whatever

it takes to unlock the mechanism of your murder.

That is where your killer is hiding from justice.

The Body Farm, filmed in Manchester and Chester, it is about a team of

pathologists. It is not for the faint-hearted. I think all the

series of this genre have this, when you are dealing with death,

murder, the psychosis of people who commit murders and then I think it

is inevitably dark. It also, hopefully, has some humour in it.

Davey and the team have been asked to make a prosthetic for an autopsy

scene. This actor is getting the same treatment as me, but on his

torso. He's been murdered and he's been held under the water about 40

feet deep. When he's died, his accomplish has let him shoot up to

the service. It looks like he has the bends. When they cut me up,

they find out he has not died, it's murder.

Normally I like a bottle of wine and flowers.... We will make a

prosthetic chest with heart and lungs. He will be laid on the slab.

We have to get him into a cast, turn it into a plaster cast and

mould it into the prosthetic. other things have you had to

replicate for Body Farm? Corpses, skeletons - various stages of

decome position. You get a skeleton like leather, so no flesh on it.

Tropical, so the body goes bloated. Eyes popping out. Things like that.

A handy skill to have at Hallowe'en? Definitely!

Now we very carefully pop that off. As well as working on the Body Farm,

the team will crack on with my new face. The sculptor explains the

process. Once we have your life cast, we need to make a copy, just

of your face, we can skult on to. We have clay to build up the make-

up. Once we have it made, we create a mould in plaster. We put in

silicon, to create the final piece. It can be attached to your face,

like this one I made earlier. Three weeks later the Body Farm is

in studio. Tara is going to carry out an autopsy, Brendan is playing

a korls and Davey and Mike have -- corpse and Davey and Mike create

the prosthetic. How are you finding working prosthetics? Some are

gruesome, aren't they? I am always intrigued by them. I find them

beautiful n a way. Almost like sculptors. You are aware when you

are dealing with them, you are aware of the work, the artistry

that has gone into them. I can't watch them, I don't watch Waking

The Dead. You don't watch your own stuff?

this kind of stuff. I am a bit of a whimp.

Right. Everyone stop what you're doing. A drama centred on medicine

runs the risk of dropping clangers. Fortunately the Body Farm has a

resident expert on hand. Some have been amazing with what they have

done, latex and silicon. When you see them for the first time, you

think wow, that is so impressive. Once you see the final edit they

look amazing. So, how do you think that went?

It's a bit scary at first. Basically because it comes together

after weeks apart of bringing little bits to the table. Once

everybody chipped in our department it came together. If they don't say

anything like it. That's the best thing You can go and have a cup of

tea now. A cup of tea - that would be nice. A few weeks later Davey is

back at base for my big day. I am going to get my new look. I don't

What do you think of it so far? want to take the teeth out. Take

the teeth out. It is great. What the hell am I? Who are you!

More to the point you are a Who, like a Grinch character. How long

does it take to create these kind of effects? Three hours or so. A

lot of detail into the silicon and blending it. Today we have rushed

it and got you done and dusted in an hour or so. Normally it is a

three-hour make-up. It goes to show f you have time, patience and make-

up special effects artists, you too could look as good as me. Here's

one for the album! Well, that's all from me. Remember

you can watch on the BBC iPlayer. I am back next Monday, 7.30pm, BBC