:00:12. > :00:15.Welcome to Ensay out. We are in Chester. We will find out how the
:00:15. > :00:25.city's historic treasures are falling victim to an unpleasant
:00:25. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:33.crime. Tonight: the crimes that are damaging our unique heritage.
:00:33. > :00:38.There are up to 30 incidents on any night of the week.
:00:38. > :00:47.A conman targeting reality television stars.
:00:47. > :00:54.He promised the world are delivered nothing.
:00:54. > :01:04.And the 5th Beetle, more famous for painting and playing his guitar. --
:01:04. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:17.Chester's medieval Rows attract tourists and shoppers from all over
:01:17. > :01:24.the world. But air coming under attack from night-time revellers
:01:24. > :01:32.causing severe erosion. Heritage crime is not just a problem in
:01:32. > :01:42.Chester. It affects to rest sights right across the North. -- to
:01:42. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:51.prison sides. -- tourism sights. If these streets could top what story
:01:51. > :01:58.with a tell? Invaded by the Romans in 79 AD. Besieged by royalists
:01:58. > :02:03.during the English Civil War. Now facing an even bigger challenge.
:02:03. > :02:10.Spending a penny, whatever you call it, the call of nature, you have to
:02:10. > :02:14.answer. But surely you would not do it here. Yet that is exactly what
:02:14. > :02:21.late night revellers have been doing. Turning the historic Rows
:02:21. > :02:31.into open-air toilets. Businesses began complaining to us
:02:31. > :02:36.
:02:36. > :02:42.about the problem of you Tina dripping from a bath. -- urine to
:02:42. > :02:47.dripping from above. So we began looking at the extent of the
:02:47. > :02:55.problem. A clean-up teams would report to us. They were horrified
:02:56. > :03:04.to find up to 30 incidents on any night of the week. And many of them,
:03:04. > :03:08.on these ancient rose. Cities the world over are plagued
:03:08. > :03:17.by public order offences like this which carry a hefty fine of up to
:03:17. > :03:20.�400. But when it threatens to Chester it is a heritage crime.
:03:20. > :03:30.It is a centre of archaeological importance and a major conservation
:03:30. > :03:35.area. 126 listed buildings. We depend on tourists, investment, for
:03:35. > :03:41.the vibrancy and continued prosperity of the area. The rows
:03:42. > :03:48.are very important. The council has come up with a
:03:48. > :03:56.unique way of tackling the problem. Friday night, and Chester's
:03:56. > :04:03.medieval past is forgotten, drowned out by boozy revellers. Everyone is
:04:03. > :04:09.out on the town - except Paul Hunt and his team.
:04:09. > :04:14.We are in the CCTV control room for the council. We operate 24 hours
:04:14. > :04:24.every day, a 365 days easier. We are looking out for people's
:04:24. > :04:31.interests. Everything is recorded, 24 hours at a. We store all the
:04:31. > :04:35.information for 31 days. It is 2 am in the morning and the
:04:36. > :04:42.pubs and clubs are closing. If you're caught short and then even
:04:42. > :04:52.at this hour public loos are still open.
:04:52. > :04:55.
:04:55. > :05:05.We just saw you. I never! Don't you realise that this place
:05:05. > :05:05.
:05:05. > :05:15.is eroding and one be able to be saved? -- want. So where else
:05:15. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:27.should I P? This man is about to get a rude
:05:27. > :05:28.
:05:29. > :05:32.awakening for. Have you got any idea on you? Anything?
:05:32. > :05:39.Offenders face a court appearance and the criminal record. But
:05:39. > :05:45.Chester is pioneering a different approach. Anybody caught can pay
:05:45. > :05:52.�75 to go on an away and the squat -- course, after which their slate
:05:52. > :06:00.is wiped clean. They need to know how it affects
:06:00. > :06:08.schools, residents. The feedback is very positive. They say they had
:06:08. > :06:14.not thought of the consequences. So that is a very good thing. And on
:06:14. > :06:23.other people have been on the course have real fended. -- none of
:06:23. > :06:30.the people have real fended. 75 listed buildings were damaged in
:06:30. > :06:36.the last year. But the greatest threat is to our churches. Howarth,
:06:36. > :06:42.a traditional village. Little more than a footnote in a guide book
:06:42. > :06:47.except for one thing. This was home to the nineteenth-century literary
:06:47. > :06:53.dynasty, the Bronte's. It was in this very room that Emily Bronte
:06:53. > :07:03.wrote the masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. The village depends on two
:07:03. > :07:04.
:07:04. > :07:12.arrests for its survival. -- tourists. It once attracted over
:07:12. > :07:17.one million visitors pair in here. You can see the damage, the water
:07:18. > :07:24.coming in, exasperating the problems we suffer.
:07:25. > :07:33.How much do the repairs cost? Cap we have reached our insular has
:07:33. > :07:39.learned. �500,000 at least. It is only when you step inside that the
:07:39. > :07:45.true cost of the lead theft is revealed.
:07:45. > :07:52.It is destroying the plaster and the paint work.
:07:53. > :08:00.Is it damaging the art work? You can see there, just the way the
:08:00. > :08:04.paint is chipping away. You must feel a responsibility to
:08:04. > :08:08.protect the church for future generations.
:08:08. > :08:14.Absolutely. For the sake of our community. It is an income
:08:14. > :08:20.generator. There are many types of heritage
:08:20. > :08:25.crime but they are often fuelled by its metal theft. This can take on a
:08:25. > :08:30.sinister form. Entering at night, targeting historic sites,
:08:30. > :08:38.plundering and stealing our national heritage. Welcome to the
:08:38. > :08:45.world of the Night Hawk. Nighthawking is unauthorised metal
:08:45. > :08:52.detecting. You do not know what they are taking. You do not know
:08:52. > :08:57.where it is going. These ruins of a fourteenth-century
:08:57. > :09:01.monastery run by the Knights Templar in Northumberland as a
:09:01. > :09:06.protected archaeological site. It is under threat from illegal metal
:09:06. > :09:12.detecting. We had a couple of incidents which
:09:12. > :09:18.led to an English Heritage visit. Some of the turf and grass had been
:09:18. > :09:25.lifted back. We think this monument is 700 years
:09:25. > :09:28.old. What are you concerns for the future?
:09:28. > :09:33.That they will damage the structure. People taking around the
:09:33. > :09:39.foundations, as you can see, it has been left for people to come and
:09:39. > :09:46.enjoy but if they continued pecking there as an issue with the
:09:46. > :09:49.integrity of the building. If you found something that
:09:49. > :09:54.significant you would not just pocket it and take it home, but
:09:54. > :09:58.some people actually do that, don't they?
:09:58. > :10:05.In some instances. They could find themselves charged with criminal
:10:05. > :10:11.offence. His ignorance a defence?
:10:11. > :10:15.No, it is fenced off, there are signs telling you what this as.
:10:15. > :10:22.There are signs telling you cannot disturb the side. Ignorance would
:10:22. > :10:27.be no defence in my opinion. Northumbria police are still
:10:27. > :10:31.monitoring the site to guarantee there is no more Nighthawking.
:10:31. > :10:36.We're happy to report that the roof of the Church Revisited has now
:10:36. > :10:42.been faxed and St Michael's is now open to be enjoyed. -- the Church
:10:42. > :10:47.that we visited. And in Chester pioneering approach to anti-social
:10:47. > :10:50.behaviour is paying off. But until there is a wider understanding of
:10:50. > :10:55.Heritage Crane's the past remains under threat and that means keeping
:10:55. > :11:05.a watchful eye on our unique heritage for future generations to
:11:05. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:11.Coming up: 30 years since the Beatles released their first record.
:11:11. > :11:20.But a lesser known, more poignant anniversary approaches.
:11:20. > :11:25.It is tragic that he died so young. When a self-proclaimed media mogul
:11:25. > :11:29.targeted to big brother contestants here but the promise of a new
:11:29. > :11:33.reality television show, it seemed too good to be true. He also
:11:33. > :11:41.pledged thousands of pounds of donations to charity in Manchester
:11:41. > :11:48.and caught the attention of an X factor *. But the so called Silver
:11:48. > :11:56.Fox was actually a convicted conman. Reality shows and celebrity
:11:56. > :12:05.television. For those taking part, a step to fame and fortune. The
:12:05. > :12:15.perfect hunting ground for fraudsters. He claimed the world
:12:15. > :12:19.This Cheshire couple shot did tabloid fame when they appeared in
:12:19. > :12:23.season nine of Big Brother but when the spotlight fell off than the
:12:23. > :12:27.couple were looking for a new project. That is when self-styled
:12:27. > :12:32.media mogul Silvio Michael walked into their lives, a man who liked
:12:33. > :12:37.to be known as the Silver Fox. He seemed to have it all and was
:12:37. > :12:45.generous was -- with his wealth, a proud supporter of a Manchester
:12:45. > :12:50.charity, the five stars appeal. met him through a mutual friend who
:12:50. > :12:55.he was doing some charity work with and he introduced himself as
:12:55. > :13:00.President, producer and managing director. I thought I had met the
:13:00. > :13:07.Almighty God of the industry. threw in their lot with the Silver
:13:07. > :13:14.Fox, who promised he could relaunch their careers. His famous signature
:13:14. > :13:21.was, I am going to catapult you to another level fame. He was working
:13:21. > :13:26.on a silk -- a series called Bombay Weiss, an Asian version of Miami
:13:26. > :13:36.Vice. With a contract signed, the pair set about filming with Silver,
:13:36. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:48.Mario and Lisa spent months filming with Silver, sharing some of their
:13:48. > :13:53.most intimate moment -- moments. Filming 18 hours a day, two or
:13:53. > :14:02.three hours' sleep sometimes, and all of this pressure. It was hard
:14:02. > :14:07.work. They even recorded a single, supposedly for charity. All of the
:14:07. > :14:15.hard work seemed to pay off. Silver told them and national TV
:14:15. > :14:18.broadcaster had agreed to run the show. We cried. We actually cried.
:14:18. > :14:22.But there was no deal and the footage ended up as just another
:14:22. > :14:28.eight minutes try it -- trailer dumped on the internet. Mario and
:14:28. > :14:32.Lisa were furious. We actually parted, giving written notice that
:14:32. > :14:39.we were leaving him and his company and we wanted nothing more to do
:14:39. > :14:43.with him. Soon after, the Silver Fox disappeared. Who was A silver
:14:43. > :14:48.Carmichael and what did he want with Mario and Lisa? All was not
:14:48. > :14:55.what he's -- what it seemed. This was the silver fox 10 years ago,
:14:55. > :15:01.using a different name. Silver Carmichael arrived at court to
:15:01. > :15:04.plead guilty to fraud or. He ran the Carmichael Corporation from
:15:04. > :15:10.offices in Bristol, using the latest in a long line of aliases,
:15:10. > :15:14.but his name was not the only fake thing about him. Carmichael was
:15:14. > :15:18.running a Spanish properties could -- scam, taking thousands of pounds
:15:19. > :15:23.from investors and putting it into his pocket. Even then he was making
:15:23. > :15:29.friends with celebrities. This is Carmichael would-be actress
:15:29. > :15:32.Stephanie Beacham, who knew nothing about his scam. -- with the actress.
:15:32. > :15:40.He wanted the touch of glamour of the celebrity could bring to his
:15:40. > :15:45.image. He was very cast -- charismatic, dressed impeccably, he
:15:45. > :15:50.had dyed blond hair and a charming manner and I trusted him. Maggie
:15:51. > :15:54.Haynes was one of those investors who fell for his chance in the late
:15:54. > :15:59.1990s. She even ended up working for the Carmichael Corporation but
:15:59. > :16:03.eventually discovered it was all a front. The considered happened when
:16:03. > :16:09.the police arrived in the office in Bristol and arrested everything.
:16:09. > :16:15.the crunch of it. I realised then, oh, my God, this whole thing has
:16:15. > :16:19.been a life. And I am in deep trouble. She had been duped and
:16:19. > :16:22.left counting the cost of letting Carmichael into her life.
:16:22. > :16:27.friends had lost their money, my boyfriend had lost his money, his
:16:27. > :16:33.family had lost their money, my best friend had lost her money. I
:16:33. > :16:41.was devastated. Carmichael was eventually sentenced to three-and
:16:41. > :16:46.a-half years. On release, he disappeared. Only for the Silver
:16:46. > :16:51.Fox de Pop Art last year as Mario and Lisa's television saviour. --
:16:51. > :16:57.to pop up. It is not just big brother stars he has been targeting.
:16:57. > :17:07.One celebrity he tried to winnowed or was this man, a former X Factor
:17:07. > :17:11.contestant, seek. -- to win over. Carmichael offered to back a
:17:11. > :17:17.children's TV project for him and wine and dine him at a charity gala.
:17:17. > :17:22.He came up to me and said, if something comes off tonight,
:17:22. > :17:27.business Wise, could you tell them I am your manager? I said, listen
:17:27. > :17:36.to me, first of all, you are not my manager, second lead, you are not
:17:36. > :17:42.my representative. I have only met you twice. -- secondly. It was
:17:42. > :17:47.clear what Carmichael was trying to do. What he wanted from me was the
:17:47. > :17:51.friendship and the contacts, the celebrity contacts and friends that
:17:51. > :18:01.I had so that he could build a roster of celebrity friends but he
:18:01. > :18:04.
:18:04. > :18:08.could use to a urine which unsuspecting people. Victims that
:18:08. > :18:12.he posed -- persuaded to invest in his company. Some of them invested
:18:12. > :18:16.tens of thousands of pounds hoping to appear on one of his shows but
:18:16. > :18:21.now they are too embarrassed to speak out on camera and then money
:18:21. > :18:25.has simply disappeared. Documents released to the BBC by the High
:18:25. > :18:30.Court show that one investor is suing Carmichael under his real
:18:30. > :18:37.name for the return of more than �42,000. Even the celebrity charity,
:18:37. > :18:42.the fide stars appeal, was stunned by Carmichael. -- five stars. A
:18:42. > :18:47.yacht he had promised for a charity auction failed to materialise, as
:18:47. > :18:52.did a �10,000 bid he made on the same night. For Mario and lease it
:18:52. > :18:58.has been tough coming to terms with the fact that their names have been
:18:58. > :19:02.used to scam innocent victims. -- Lisa. Other people have come
:19:02. > :19:10.forward and said, he has done this to me, he has done that, and at the
:19:10. > :19:14.time we did not know. So where is Carmichael now? He failed to appear
:19:14. > :19:21.at a High Court in Manchester for a hearing. He is bankrupt but his
:19:21. > :19:28.wife owns this �725,000 house in Buckinghamshire. His car is here
:19:28. > :19:35.but he is not. But we found one man who knows exactly where he is.
:19:35. > :19:37.When is the last time you saw Carmichael? When he was being
:19:37. > :19:43.sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his money laundering
:19:43. > :19:46.as part of fraud. It turns out Carmichael is more than just a fame
:19:46. > :19:52.hungry con man, he is part of a major criminal network whose
:19:52. > :19:57.members tried to steal half a million pounds from the Santander
:19:57. > :20:02.Bank. For Mario and Lisa, the news that Carmichael is behind bars
:20:02. > :20:08.comes as a shock, but they hope it at least marks the end of their
:20:08. > :20:18.journey with the silver fox. Knowing him now, he is a compulsive
:20:18. > :20:19.
:20:19. > :20:23.liar, he is deluded and he is a serial con man.
:20:23. > :20:27.It is 50 years since four young men from Liverpool released their first
:20:27. > :20:32.record but there is a lesser known and more poignant Beatles
:20:32. > :20:36.anniversary this year, but death of former band member Stuart Sutcliffe.
:20:36. > :20:41.Banks to family and friends, he is becoming famous, not because of his
:20:41. > :20:51.time with the band but because of his paintings. It is a tragic story
:20:51. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :20:57.of what might have been. These paintings a seldom seen. They
:20:57. > :21:02.form a unique legacy and offer a rare and tantalising glimpse into
:21:02. > :21:08.the world of what might have been. The work of an artist just
:21:08. > :21:13.beginning to realise his talent. Some now say that the young man who
:21:13. > :21:18.painted these abstract images could have come on -- gone on to be an
:21:18. > :21:22.abstract name alongside Picasso or Jackson Pollock. He was an
:21:22. > :21:26.innovator in the Beatles style but also in his own field. He basically
:21:26. > :21:30.painted his feelings. You look at the later works and he was on to
:21:30. > :21:36.something. To the fact that he died so young was a tragedy because he
:21:36. > :21:41.could have gone on to achieve so much more. Stuart Sutcliffe was
:21:41. > :21:44.just 21 when he died. At the time he was experimenting and pushing
:21:44. > :21:51.out the boundaries that constrain art. He was a young man with
:21:51. > :21:54.everything to live for, until fate intervened. He is known to many as
:21:54. > :22:00.the 5th Beatle, the boy with the James Dean looks and a sense of
:22:00. > :22:04.style who played bass guitar with the Beatles during their time in
:22:04. > :22:08.the seedy nightclubs of Hamburg but tonight we will be reading at --
:22:08. > :22:12.revealing another side of Stuart, the boy who was born to paint.
:22:12. > :22:18.is all he ever wanted to be. He never had an ambition to be
:22:18. > :22:25.anything else, when parents ask children, what are you going to be
:22:25. > :22:30.when you grow up, he would always say, I want to paint. And he did.
:22:30. > :22:38.These works were done in the last year of his life. I am told that
:22:38. > :22:45.the bread ones come across as angry and fiery and the dark ones as
:22:45. > :22:51.sombre and almost like a death knell. That is not my perception of
:22:51. > :23:00.them. One could say that, that they are dark, sombre tones, but they
:23:00. > :23:09.are so balanced and so beautifully executed. Did he know he was going
:23:09. > :23:14.to die? Are these his last statement? They may be. Stuart was
:23:14. > :23:17.born in Edinburgh in June of 1940 but moved when he was three to his
:23:17. > :23:24.family -- with his family to Liverpool. It was obvious from an
:23:25. > :23:28.early age he was a gifted artist. The whole process -- process of
:23:28. > :23:32.watching an artist work was so familiar to me from a little girl
:23:32. > :23:37.because he used to sketch be quite a bit. All of us were sitting ducks
:23:37. > :23:45.and sometimes we would get fed up and say, leave us alone, so he
:23:45. > :23:48.would sketch us from behind so he was not so in our faces. It is
:23:48. > :23:55.interesting because my sister and I, it never occurred to us but that
:23:55. > :23:59.was unusual. -- that that was unusual. To sit in his room and
:23:59. > :24:04.watch him work before he had a studio, which we both did, we
:24:04. > :24:08.enjoyed it. We thought there was something rather wonderful about it.
:24:08. > :24:13.Because of his talent he was allowed to leave school and joined
:24:13. > :24:18.the Liverpool School of Art at just 16. It was here that he joined --
:24:18. > :24:22.he met John Lennon and the cause of his life would change forever. He
:24:22. > :24:26.became the driving artistic -- influence on the Beatles from the
:24:26. > :24:31.way they dressed to the way they appeared on stage. He left in 1961
:24:31. > :24:37.to return to his art studies after becoming engaged to Astrid
:24:37. > :24:40.Kirschner, a local photographer. He died of the brain haemorrhage in
:24:40. > :24:46.Hamburg in 1962 just months before the Beatles had their first hit
:24:46. > :24:50.with Love Me Do. John Lennon would never get over his death. Stuart's
:24:50. > :24:55.paintings are looked after by his sister Pauline in the Hamptons in
:24:55. > :24:59.New York. She helps run the Stuart Sutcliffe estate, set up to
:24:59. > :25:04.preserve and promote the numerous works of art, poems and drawings he
:25:04. > :25:10.had accomplished in such a short and tragic life. Pauline lives
:25:10. > :25:17.surrounded by her brother's work every day. It is a great privilege
:25:17. > :25:20.to have such amazingly good art work. I could not afford to buy
:25:20. > :25:25.this art work. It is such a privilege. I think it is right that
:25:25. > :25:29.people are catching on to Stuart after a period in which he was
:25:29. > :25:33.overlooked. People who appreciate art can understand what is going on
:25:33. > :25:38.in his paintings and how much validity he had so the fact that
:25:38. > :25:42.there is a resurgence of interest in his work is fantastic. Christian
:25:42. > :25:46.Furr is one of Britain's most respected artists. He has put
:25:46. > :25:56.together a unique exhibition, Liver Paul Allott, featuring this
:25:56. > :25:59.
:25:59. > :26:03.painting by Stuart Sutcliffe. -- Liver pour la of. -- Liver Paul.
:26:03. > :26:07.Who knows what he might have achieved five or 10 years down the
:26:07. > :26:12.line? This is just one period in his life and I think that the way
:26:12. > :26:14.his mind worked and how innovative he was meant that he could have
:26:14. > :26:20.gone on for two completely surprised us with something else
:26:20. > :26:23.longer -- later on in his career, so it is a tragedy he died so early.
:26:23. > :26:28.The Beatles fans have always been interested in Stuart but for many
:26:28. > :26:32.people he was a remote, forgotten figure. At a new book, In
:26:32. > :26:36.Conversation With Stuart Sutcliffe - His Life, Work And Relevance,
:26:36. > :26:40.released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his life, features
:26:40. > :26:46.much of his art work that has never been seen before. He now has his
:26:46. > :26:50.own website. It has been a catalyst for creating massive global
:26:50. > :26:55.interest, a new generation brought up on the Inter -- the internet
:26:55. > :27:00.learning all about Stuart Sutcliffe the artist. I could not conceive of
:27:00. > :27:06.the meaning of it because from while I was not social network
:27:06. > :27:14.savvy, so it is only when people say, do you realise there are 3.5
:27:14. > :27:19.million hits today on Google about Stuart? I said, you must be out of
:27:19. > :27:26.your mind. Then, of course, when the Facebook page the steward was
:27:26. > :27:35.set up to commemorate his death on 10th April this year. -- for Stuart.
:27:35. > :27:44.And we now have 55,000 likes, somebody said go and Google slow
:27:44. > :27:51.and so and we Googled somebody else and they had 20,000. -- Google so
:27:51. > :27:54.and so. People want their work and -- want his work and they have
:27:54. > :28:03.almost stopped mentioning the Beatles to me and they want him as
:28:03. > :28:10.an artist. A critique him as an artist, not, he painted quite well
:28:10. > :28:18.for the Beatles. -- Bay critique. He painted so well. It is
:28:18. > :28:25.marvellous. And if you want to see any of Stuart Sutcliffe's paintings
:28:25. > :28:30.or any of the others that exhibition runs at the Museum of
:28:30. > :28:37.Liverpool. If you have missed any of Inside Out North West you can
:28:37. > :28:43.watch it again on the BBC iPlayer. I am back next week on Monday at