:00:08. > :00:14.Hello. Welcome to inside del. This week we are in Manchester where we
:00:14. > :00:17.are meeting the murder squad giving a TV's New Tricks a run for its
:00:17. > :00:22.money. At the UK's first real civilian a
:00:22. > :00:26.murder squad. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.
:00:26. > :00:31.investigate whether we are doing enough to protect our children and
:00:31. > :00:36.find out what lessons we can learn from Europe. The Dutch government
:00:36. > :00:40.seemed to be 10 years ahead of the British. And why the Isle of Man is
:00:40. > :00:46.now the 4th most likely nation in the world to next land a person on
:00:46. > :00:56.the Mona. This expedition will take someone further than anyone has
:00:56. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:10.You may have seen the TV drama New Tricks which features veteran
:01:10. > :01:15.detective solving murders. Police here in Manchester have their own
:01:15. > :01:19.homicide unit which can match Denis Waterman and his pals and they are
:01:19. > :01:23.all civilians. The Manchester unit is helping Bobby's get back on the
:01:23. > :01:31.beat. When it comes to murder, the police
:01:31. > :01:36.in Manchester are busier than most. This community have been trying to
:01:36. > :01:41.comprehend what exactly happened at this house behind me. This city is
:01:41. > :01:46.consistently in the top three areas in the country for murder rates.
:01:46. > :01:54.Guilty of murder, sentencing him to life in prison. Was between the
:01:54. > :02:00.summers of 2011 and 2012, at GMP had to deal with 41 homicide cases.
:02:00. > :02:03.0 a number of people see some of the crime series that take place on
:02:03. > :02:08.television and think all these things are done within an hour. The
:02:08. > :02:16.hard work starts when people are arrested and charged and that is
:02:16. > :02:19.the primary responsibility of our unit. Monday morning at Chadderton
:02:19. > :02:25.Police station and the category C murder unit holds its weekly
:02:25. > :02:31.debrief. But this is no ordinary team. This is the country's first
:02:31. > :02:36.civilian murder squad. None of the team are police officers and they
:02:36. > :02:41.do not have powers of arrest. But their rhino butchers, bakers or
:02:41. > :02:46.candlestick makers here. They are predominantly former detectives and
:02:46. > :02:53.they are very good at wrapping up murder cases. We have accrued loss
:02:53. > :02:57.of experience. We are specialists. I retired as a detective after 30
:02:57. > :03:04.years and they were advertising for people with experience to come back
:03:04. > :03:10.to the units. We are not at the sharp end and I accept that, I have
:03:10. > :03:15.done my time as a police officer. We are as close as we can be to
:03:15. > :03:22.frontline policing. The team's high average age means they have been
:03:22. > :03:32.likened to the detectives on a certain TV programme. How long have
:03:32. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:45.I have seen New Tricks and it is good. There are some resemblance of
:03:45. > :03:48.
:03:48. > :03:53.asked their. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.
:03:53. > :03:57.would like to think I am not Denis Waterman but he has a requisite
:03:57. > :04:02.amount of experience and so do I and why waste that if you can put
:04:02. > :04:05.it to good use. The unit was formed by Greater Manchester Police in a
:04:05. > :04:09.bid to reduce the amount of paperwork done by a frontline
:04:09. > :04:15.detectives. It is the first of its kind in the UK and so far it seems
:04:15. > :04:19.to work. What we have allowed this for our detectives to hit the job
:04:19. > :04:25.for our detectives to hit the job at the beginning, really do a
:04:25. > :04:29.thorough job and then hand over that volume of information and
:04:29. > :04:34.evidence to a team to support. Police divide murders into
:04:34. > :04:38.different classes, category A are high risk cases where the killer's
:04:38. > :04:44.identity is unknown. Category B refers to cases where the identity
:04:44. > :04:49.is not clear but there is less risk to the public and category C is
:04:49. > :04:56.where the offender is known and the evidence is likely to be relatively
:04:56. > :05:01.easy to gather. Relatively easy to that there is a joke. Their
:05:01. > :05:05.business such thing. Most murders come at you usually as a category A
:05:05. > :05:15.but the role of the police is to turn every category A as a category
:05:15. > :05:19.
:05:19. > :05:23.Wednesday morning at Bradford Park. Home to the forensic services unit.
:05:23. > :05:27.Investigating officer at Ian Storey is taking two murder weapons for
:05:27. > :05:37.examination. This may be a category C murder but without rigorous
:05:37. > :05:42.
:05:42. > :05:47.attention to detail, they will not Part of the examination is to try
:05:48. > :05:55.and obtain fingerprints from both weapons that we have got the
:05:55. > :06:01.offenders fingerprints in the victim's blood. I joined a GNP in
:06:01. > :06:11.1975, I retired. This job was created on the major incident team.
:06:11. > :06:14.
:06:14. > :06:19.I came back and I have been working my socks off. Not all members of
:06:19. > :06:22.the team are former detectives. Charlotte Wood worked as an
:06:22. > :06:28.organisational consultant before joining the unit. Gory details are
:06:28. > :06:34.now a part of her everyday life. did think that would be very hard
:06:34. > :06:42.to handle at first before I started at the unit, it has not been as bad
:06:42. > :06:47.as expected. I have been attending post-mortems and attending the
:06:47. > :06:51.images because you need to know everything about the case. The ones
:06:51. > :06:54.involving children are harder because I am a mother of a two-
:06:54. > :07:00.year-old and with experience it makes it easy, but that is
:07:00. > :07:04.difficult for me at the moment. Under the watchful eye of an
:07:05. > :07:11.experienced mentor and after just 12 months in the job, Charlotte has
:07:11. > :07:15.been asked to lead an investigation. Operation Scarcroft. Be it was a
:07:15. > :07:23.young male who was strangled and put into a wheelie bin and dumped
:07:23. > :07:28.on open land. It is not the nicest of jobs to be dealing with but it
:07:28. > :07:38.has to be dealt with. It is very traumatic. The young man was
:07:38. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:46.strangled. And then his body turned It is really upsetting when you
:07:46. > :07:50.have to look at those sort of photographs, you go to the second
:07:50. > :07:56.post-mortem. She put together a really good file. Anything she is
:07:56. > :08:01.unsure about, she can ask anyone about it. An investigator will do a
:08:01. > :08:05.piece of work but it is checked by a supervisor and there is a change
:08:05. > :08:10.of command that is checked and rechecked before it goes to the
:08:10. > :08:16.unit. Friday morning an investigating officer at Lyndon
:08:16. > :08:20.Wright is coming to the end of five men's work of a gruesome case.
:08:20. > :08:25.people have been charged following the discovery of a body. Police
:08:25. > :08:30.were called to Victoria Street last Thursday evening after reports of a
:08:30. > :08:36.burglary. It was a difficult case to bring and it was a difficult
:08:36. > :08:40.case to manage at court. There were a lot of issues with witnesses and
:08:40. > :08:47.evidence in the case was not easy to present, so yes it was a
:08:47. > :08:54.challenge. We had a five week trial, both defendants were convicted of
:08:54. > :09:00.murder and we are now on our way to Preston Crown Court for sentencing.
:09:01. > :09:05.The role that the category C unit performs is vital admitted some of
:09:05. > :09:10.the unsung activity that is necessary within the judicial
:09:10. > :09:15.process. We are getting cases to court twice as fast. Both
:09:15. > :09:20.defendants are sentenced to 23 years in prison and another case is
:09:20. > :09:25.closed by the category C unit. A dead body found in a flat and two
:09:25. > :09:31.people there, you could not ask for an easier cased yet six months down
:09:31. > :09:37.the line, after a six-week trial, it is only now we get our justice
:09:37. > :09:44.for the family. A team will carry on with their
:09:44. > :09:49.usual good humour. It was really all the detectives who thought, we
:09:49. > :09:54.have a bunch of old cops here, you only have to look at the work we
:09:54. > :10:00.are doing, the detail and presentation of the files at court.
:10:00. > :10:04.My team is doing as good if not a better job. The results produced
:10:04. > :10:07.mean it is the category C team having the last laugh. We are good
:10:08. > :10:17.at our job and if you need someone to investigate your relatives
:10:17. > :10:23.murder, who D one? You want people who know what they are doing.
:10:23. > :10:28.Coming up: is there life on Mars? Quiet the Isle of Man could hold
:10:28. > :10:35.the answer. If life were discovered on Mars are it would be the first
:10:35. > :10:38.time that extra terrestrial life has been proven.
:10:38. > :10:42.Never have there been so many questions about whether we do
:10:42. > :10:47.enough to protect our children. It is not just the allegations about
:10:47. > :10:52.Jimmy Savile, it is the sexual grinning of white girls bike
:10:52. > :11:02.largely Pakistani men and whether authorities have turned a blind eye.
:11:02. > :11:03.
:11:03. > :11:08.We investigate what more can be What we are talking about is
:11:08. > :11:15.hardcore criminality. She went to hell in back in terms of what these
:11:15. > :11:20.perpetrators did to her. Nine men convicted of exploiting young girls
:11:20. > :11:25.in Rochdale have been given prison sentences. The shame of what
:11:25. > :11:35.happened here is detailed in every newspaper. I tried to overdose
:11:35. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:41.because of what happened. I am a broadcaster. Our organisation works
:11:42. > :11:46.to build a better order and that -- understanding between diverse
:11:46. > :11:50.communities and that is why I am on a personal journey across the North
:11:50. > :11:55.of England and to Holland to discover more about the realities
:11:55. > :12:00.of grooming and child sexual exploitation. Recent scandals
:12:00. > :12:04.centred on Rochdale and Rotherham raised questions not only about why
:12:04. > :12:09.Asian men are disproportionately involved in the crime but also
:12:09. > :12:14.broader questions about how the system failed to prevent it. This
:12:14. > :12:18.is the street where the Rochdale grooming gangs operated from. A
:12:18. > :12:23.recent report admitted that the police and social services
:12:23. > :12:29.repeatedly failed to listen to the cries of help from victims. What
:12:29. > :12:32.did they miss and what were the consequences? A I think what is
:12:32. > :12:37.important as a starting point is that it can happen to any child
:12:37. > :12:42.from any family. This woman is an expert in identifying the signs
:12:42. > :12:47.that so many people seem to have missed. A definite pattern of
:12:47. > :12:55.behaviour in both of the grooming gang and their behaviour. It is
:12:55. > :12:59.highly sophisticated and the men and know what they are doing.
:12:59. > :13:04.in Harrogate there is an acceptance that the problem can be found in
:13:04. > :13:09.virtually all towns and cities and as girls and parents from across
:13:09. > :13:14.the country have told us, most victims are not from a children's
:13:14. > :13:21.home. You will find what you hear next a disturbing. The men had
:13:21. > :13:24.given her vodka or, mobile phones and some cards. They received a
:13:24. > :13:29.text messages all the time and sometimes that they would demand
:13:29. > :13:33.that they immediately leave the house. I talked to a young guy and
:13:33. > :13:40.went to his house and we ended up in a hotel. I was drunk and I woke
:13:40. > :13:47.up with no clothes on. She may be passed from man to man. I slept
:13:47. > :13:53.with a lot of men, it would be around 30. The consequences of this
:13:53. > :13:57.are lifelong, both for the child and the family. There are two of
:13:57. > :14:02.you, parents trying to make a living and you have a daughter you
:14:02. > :14:08.love falling apart in the most horrific circumstances. It affects
:14:08. > :14:14.all aspects of your life. I tried overdosing, I cut myself, my arms
:14:14. > :14:18.are scarred, I did not want to live. In the cases of the victims and
:14:18. > :14:24.parents we spoke to, the horror and suffering were compounded when
:14:24. > :14:28.police and social workers failed to take action. We had photos, a
:14:28. > :14:34.number plates and we gave them all to the police, gave it to them on a
:14:34. > :14:39.plate. If I had had more help, I would have stopped. You think the
:14:39. > :14:44.police will step in and social services will help, you would think
:14:44. > :14:48.that would make arrests more likely, but that is not what happened.
:14:49. > :14:53.police forces and social service departments have recently dedicated
:14:53. > :14:57.more staff and introduced more training but given that the
:14:57. > :15:02.failures by a authorities across the North that we have uncovered it
:15:02. > :15:08.is fair to say that strategies to get grooming of our streets is
:15:08. > :15:12.still patchy. This is why I have come up to Amsterdam. When it comes
:15:12. > :15:15.to developing at plan to tackle child exploitation and the Dutch
:15:15. > :15:20.government seemed to be ahead of the British government and they are
:15:20. > :15:28.claiming some degree of success. Police and social services began to
:15:28. > :15:32.knit together an approach and decade ago. In 2002, we figured out
:15:32. > :15:40.it was necessary to co-operate with different parties but if you see
:15:40. > :15:44.this situation in 2002 and compare it to the 2012, you see an enormous
:15:44. > :15:50.increase in agencies, organisations that combine their efforts in
:15:50. > :15:59.solving the problem. You cannot solve it as law enforcement alone.
:15:59. > :16:02.In the spirit of this, they have played their part. The Pakistani
:16:02. > :16:07.community should confront exploitation and this man has done
:16:07. > :16:11.the same in Amsterdam by campaigning against remain in his
:16:12. > :16:19.Moroccan community. In my neighbourhood there was a problem
:16:19. > :16:28.of guys in grooming some girls. It was hard core criminality. I
:16:28. > :16:35.started to make alliances with mosques and we combined forces. In
:16:35. > :16:42.the UK, our mosques say it is nothing to do with them, yet here
:16:42. > :16:48.in Holland, you and the masks have taken a proactive stance, why is
:16:48. > :16:55.that? I think it is important to take responsibility and raise
:16:55. > :17:00.social issues, put them on the agenda and get rid of the taboos. I
:17:00. > :17:05.think that for England and other countries it is important that
:17:05. > :17:13.mosques are developed to tackle the issues of modern-day society. A
:17:13. > :17:21.young people are looking for mosques that are relevant. I hope
:17:21. > :17:26.that my brothers in England will do the same as what we have done.
:17:26. > :17:32.in West Yorkshire, these sentiments have residents, but the reaction of
:17:32. > :17:41.English mosques is complicated by hostility from the far right which
:17:41. > :17:44.call this demonstration following allegations of child grooming.
:17:44. > :17:48.Whilst at the English Defence League calls for the Pakistani
:17:48. > :17:55.community to stand up and take action, a youth group has been
:17:55. > :18:00.doing that. Only a few weeks ago, the English Defence League were
:18:00. > :18:07.here. This is an anti- grooming workshop, attended by members of
:18:07. > :18:11.the pack this do -- Pakistani community. It is completely unique.
:18:11. > :18:19.It affects us a very severely because when a picture like this is
:18:19. > :18:27.on the news, imagine what kind of impact it will have on how people
:18:27. > :18:32.perceive us. The workshops came about through our normal youth work.
:18:32. > :18:37.That is the best thing to do is to advise the girl. We have no support
:18:37. > :18:43.from the Government in terms of financial backing. The groom her is
:18:43. > :18:49.isolating him the victim. We talk about had to tackle issues like
:18:49. > :18:54.this. School has are taking a more precautions in educating young
:18:54. > :18:59.people. It is not often that I am speechless, but this has been an
:18:59. > :19:07.amazing experience to with his best. If we can deliver this in every
:19:07. > :19:14.part of our country, then I believe we can start to eradicate this evil.
:19:14. > :19:19.This in video is encouraging the victims to speak out and be heard.
:19:19. > :19:27.I think everyone has a few regrets but if I could, I would go back and
:19:27. > :19:30.have a word with myself. I still believe that there is an over-
:19:30. > :19:36.representation of Pakistani men convicted of child grooming and my
:19:36. > :19:41.community has to come from this. At the same time, wider society has to
:19:41. > :19:46.recognise that 80% of child sexual abuse is carried out by white men.
:19:46. > :19:49.For me, the story should not be about comparing of the racial
:19:49. > :19:59.identity of abusers, but the about protecting these vulnerable young
:19:59. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:05.victims. Now, a traditional industry here in
:20:05. > :20:10.the north-west is based on the expansion of canals and railways.
:20:10. > :20:15.One part of our region is looking deep into outer space for future
:20:15. > :20:25.growth and as Jacey Normand reports, the Isle of Man's ambitions are not
:20:25. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:39.as far-fetched as you might think. Three weeks ago Felix Baumgartner
:20:39. > :20:44.leapt from the edge of space and into the record books. For over 50
:20:44. > :20:48.years, man has been enthralled by space travel, first we orbited the
:20:48. > :20:53.earth and then landed man on the moon and we have sent robots to
:20:53. > :20:58.Mars. Until Felix made his jump, these milestones were all achieved
:20:58. > :21:04.by government sponsored space programmes. The idea of private
:21:04. > :21:08.space tourism is a relatively new concept. Like Richard Branson's
:21:08. > :21:18.Virgin Galactic flights, they will allow people to fly into the
:21:18. > :21:24.earth's atmosphere and experience weightlessness for six minutes. But
:21:24. > :21:28.if you want more than a short trip into space and then head to the
:21:28. > :21:32.Isle of Man. They do things differently. They have big
:21:32. > :21:37.ambitions. According to analysts, it has become the fourth most
:21:37. > :21:41.likely nations to return someone to the moon. It seems unlikely, but
:21:41. > :21:51.with government backing it has become the leading place in Europe
:21:51. > :22:04.
:22:04. > :22:10.for space business. This is a frame from a Soviet space station that
:22:10. > :22:17.was built during the Soviet period. About seven of them have flown in
:22:17. > :22:20.space. This company believes it can send anyone into space by using it
:22:20. > :22:25.second-hand Russian spacecraft and paying a hefty fee. Its presence on
:22:25. > :22:31.the island is the main reason why the Isle of Man is rated one of the
:22:31. > :22:35.most likely nations to return to the moon. The people who buy this
:22:35. > :22:39.expedition will have to tell us how long have they would like to stay
:22:39. > :22:43.there and exactly where they would like to go. It is a private
:22:43. > :22:49.expedition just like to the South Pacific in the last century.
:22:49. > :22:56.are the people who will go on these trips? I wish I knew their names.
:22:56. > :23:00.We had a market study down and they told us that there were 29 people,
:23:00. > :23:05.in their opinion, he would go in the next ten years, so that is
:23:05. > :23:10.about three people per year and that is what we can handle. The
:23:10. > :23:14.first one is going to be the most difficult because it is new. It
:23:14. > :23:18.will either be a government who will have their astronauts go to
:23:18. > :23:23.the moon or it will be a private individual or individuals who want
:23:23. > :23:26.to fly there in the spirit of exploration. You get to see the
:23:26. > :23:33.moon, you get to see the earth and you will even get to see both of
:23:33. > :23:39.them at the same time. This is our capsule which has already flowing
:23:39. > :23:43.into space. It went up and stayed there for one month. It was in
:23:43. > :23:49.space for a month and it landed and came back down and it was
:23:49. > :23:53.relaunched again. It is a little space shuttle. It is small. I took
:23:53. > :24:02.the opportunity to step inside of this surprisingly spacious quarters
:24:02. > :24:12.for the astronauts. Just go up that ladder and stick your head end.
:24:12. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:18.This is amazing. It is really a DoE. How far could they go? This
:24:18. > :24:24.spacecraft would go approximately 60,000 miles beyond the moon. This
:24:24. > :24:29.is further than any a human being has ever been. Only 28 people have
:24:29. > :24:33.been to the moon and no one has been 6 in thick -- significantly
:24:33. > :24:39.further than that. Someone on a commercial space flight will go
:24:39. > :24:45.further than any of human being has done, then? Do not expect to see
:24:45. > :24:52.these trips in your local travel agent, the price tag is spitting at
:24:52. > :24:56.an astronomical �100 million. -- fitting.
:24:57. > :25:01.You may think that businesses were drawn to the island because of
:25:01. > :25:07.corporation tax cuts, but it must offer more because it is now half
:25:07. > :25:16.a... This range of companies is what contributes to the incredible
:25:16. > :25:20.Isle of Man story. This is a polishing lap. He Helmut Kessler
:25:20. > :25:25.has been here for 40 years and thinks it is ideally placed for
:25:25. > :25:29.space exploration. His company's lenses were used on the curiosity
:25:29. > :25:34.Rover which landed on the surface of Mars in the Aegean and is
:25:34. > :25:43.currently exploring of the Martian surface. The optics we made went
:25:43. > :25:51.into one of the lasers. They will see what is going on and what is in
:25:51. > :25:57.of the soil. They will look for life on Mars. The optics look
:25:57. > :26:02.fairly unremarkable compared to some of the other optics we do.
:26:03. > :26:09.Just to clarify, made in the Isle of Man is an optic which is
:26:09. > :26:15.currently on Mars looking for a life there? That is correct. It has
:26:15. > :26:20.travelled a long way and is probably the furthest any Manx made
:26:20. > :26:26.product has been exported. It is very exciting for us and for our
:26:26. > :26:31.work for us to be able to contribute to a mission like that.
:26:31. > :26:35.It traces of life or former life were discovered on Mars it would be
:26:35. > :26:45.the first time in a human history that extra-terrestrial life has
:26:45. > :26:46.
:26:46. > :26:52.been proven. It is easy to see why the government on the Isle of Man
:26:52. > :26:57.is backing the space business, it is worth billions of pounds. If you
:26:57. > :27:02.look at the projected turnover for the company is based on the Isle of
:27:02. > :27:07.Man, it has been estimated to be in excess of �1.7 billion over the
:27:07. > :27:14.last eight years it has brought in a �36 million in Exchequer benefits.
:27:14. > :27:18.It has created jobs and help diversify the economy. We have an
:27:18. > :27:23.amazing collection of companies on the Isle of Man, satellite
:27:23. > :27:29.operating companies, the first International Institute of Space
:27:29. > :27:36.commas, so it is not just a one horse show, we had many aspects to
:27:36. > :27:40.our industry. That growth has led to the European Space University to
:27:40. > :27:44.base part of their course on the island. These graduates hope to one
:27:44. > :27:49.day take part in future space missions and they will have the
:27:49. > :27:53.Isle of Man to thank for their training. In order for the space
:27:53. > :27:57.business to take off in the Isle of Man are they still need to find
:27:57. > :28:02.that first special Astra not. have always been people that wanted
:28:02. > :28:06.to do something for humanity and the exploration of space is an
:28:06. > :28:11.activity that humanity will do and the people that do it will be
:28:11. > :28:20.remembered for ever. So if everything goes to plan, it will be
:28:20. > :28:26.a small step for man but one giant leap for the Isle of Mankind. I am