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Welcome to Ensay out. We are in Chester. We will find out how the

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city's historic treasures are falling victim to an unpleasant

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crime. Tonight: the crimes that are damaging our unique heritage.

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There are up to 30 incidents on any night of the week.

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A conman targeting reality television stars.

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He promised the world are delivered nothing.

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And the 5th Beetle, more famous for painting and playing his guitar. --

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Chester's medieval Rows attract tourists and shoppers from all over

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the world. But air coming under attack from night-time revellers

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causing severe erosion. Heritage crime is not just a problem in

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Chester. It affects to rest sights right across the North. -- to

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prison sides. -- tourism sights. If these streets could top what story

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with a tell? Invaded by the Romans in 79 AD. Besieged by royalists

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during the English Civil War. Now facing an even bigger challenge.

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Spending a penny, whatever you call it, the call of nature, you have to

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answer. But surely you would not do it here. Yet that is exactly what

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late night revellers have been doing. Turning the historic Rows

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into open-air toilets. Businesses began complaining to us

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about the problem of you Tina dripping from a bath. -- urine to

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dripping from above. So we began looking at the extent of the

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problem. A clean-up teams would report to us. They were horrified

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to find up to 30 incidents on any night of the week. And many of them,

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on these ancient rose. Cities the world over are plagued

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by public order offences like this which carry a hefty fine of up to

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�400. But when it threatens to Chester it is a heritage crime.

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It is a centre of archaeological importance and a major conservation

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area. 126 listed buildings. We depend on tourists, investment, for

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the vibrancy and continued prosperity of the area. The rows

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are very important. The council has come up with a

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unique way of tackling the problem. Friday night, and Chester's

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medieval past is forgotten, drowned out by boozy revellers. Everyone is

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out on the town - except Paul Hunt and his team.

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We are in the CCTV control room for the council. We operate 24 hours

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every day, a 365 days easier. We are looking out for people's

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interests. Everything is recorded, 24 hours at a. We store all the

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information for 31 days. It is 2 am in the morning and the

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pubs and clubs are closing. If you're caught short and then even

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at this hour public loos are still open.

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We just saw you. I never! Don't you realise that this place

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is eroding and one be able to be saved? -- want. So where else

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should I P? This man is about to get a rude

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awakening for. Have you got any idea on you? Anything?

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Offenders face a court appearance and the criminal record. But

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Chester is pioneering a different approach. Anybody caught can pay

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�75 to go on an away and the squat -- course, after which their slate

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is wiped clean. They need to know how it affects

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schools, residents. The feedback is very positive. They say they had

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not thought of the consequences. So that is a very good thing. And on

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other people have been on the course have real fended. -- none of

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the people have real fended. 75 listed buildings were damaged in

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the last year. But the greatest threat is to our churches. Howarth,

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a traditional village. Little more than a footnote in a guide book

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except for one thing. This was home to the nineteenth-century literary

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dynasty, the Bronte's. It was in this very room that Emily Bronte

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wrote the masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. The village depends on two

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arrests for its survival. -- tourists. It once attracted over

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one million visitors pair in here. You can see the damage, the water

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coming in, exasperating the problems we suffer.

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How much do the repairs cost? Cap we have reached our insular has

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learned. �500,000 at least. It is only when you step inside that the

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true cost of the lead theft is revealed.

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It is destroying the plaster and the paint work.

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Is it damaging the art work? You can see there, just the way the

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paint is chipping away. You must feel a responsibility to

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protect the church for future generations.

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Absolutely. For the sake of our community. It is an income

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generator. There are many types of heritage

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crime but they are often fuelled by its metal theft. This can take on a

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sinister form. Entering at night, targeting historic sites,

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plundering and stealing our national heritage. Welcome to the

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world of the Night Hawk. Nighthawking is unauthorised metal

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detecting. You do not know what they are taking. You do not know

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where it is going. These ruins of a fourteenth-century

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monastery run by the Knights Templar in Northumberland as a

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protected archaeological site. It is under threat from illegal metal

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detecting. We had a couple of incidents which

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led to an English Heritage visit. Some of the turf and grass had been

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lifted back. We think this monument is 700 years

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old. What are you concerns for the future?

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That they will damage the structure. People taking around the

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foundations, as you can see, it has been left for people to come and

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enjoy but if they continued pecking there as an issue with the

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integrity of the building. If you found something that

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significant you would not just pocket it and take it home, but

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some people actually do that, don't they?

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In some instances. They could find themselves charged with criminal

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offence. His ignorance a defence?

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No, it is fenced off, there are signs telling you what this as.

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There are signs telling you cannot disturb the side. Ignorance would

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be no defence in my opinion. Northumbria police are still

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monitoring the site to guarantee there is no more Nighthawking.

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We're happy to report that the roof of the Church Revisited has now

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been faxed and St Michael's is now open to be enjoyed. -- the Church

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that we visited. And in Chester pioneering approach to anti-social

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behaviour is paying off. But until there is a wider understanding of

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Heritage Crane's the past remains under threat and that means keeping

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a watchful eye on our unique heritage for future generations to

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Coming up: 30 years since the Beatles released their first record.

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But a lesser known, more poignant anniversary approaches.

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It is tragic that he died so young. When a self-proclaimed media mogul

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targeted to big brother contestants here but the promise of a new

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reality television show, it seemed too good to be true. He also

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pledged thousands of pounds of donations to charity in Manchester

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and caught the attention of an X factor *. But the so called Silver

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Fox was actually a convicted conman. Reality shows and celebrity

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television. For those taking part, a step to fame and fortune. The

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perfect hunting ground for fraudsters. He claimed the world

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This Cheshire couple shot did tabloid fame when they appeared in

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season nine of Big Brother but when the spotlight fell off than the

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couple were looking for a new project. That is when self-styled

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media mogul Silvio Michael walked into their lives, a man who liked

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to be known as the Silver Fox. He seemed to have it all and was

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generous was -- with his wealth, a proud supporter of a Manchester

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charity, the five stars appeal. met him through a mutual friend who

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he was doing some charity work with and he introduced himself as

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President, producer and managing director. I thought I had met the

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Almighty God of the industry. threw in their lot with the Silver

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Fox, who promised he could relaunch their careers. His famous signature

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was, I am going to catapult you to another level fame. He was working

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on a silk -- a series called Bombay Weiss, an Asian version of Miami

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Vice. With a contract signed, the pair set about filming with Silver,

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Mario and Lisa spent months filming with Silver, sharing some of their

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most intimate moment -- moments. Filming 18 hours a day, two or

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three hours' sleep sometimes, and all of this pressure. It was hard

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work. They even recorded a single, supposedly for charity. All of the

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hard work seemed to pay off. Silver told them and national TV

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broadcaster had agreed to run the show. We cried. We actually cried.

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But there was no deal and the footage ended up as just another

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eight minutes try it -- trailer dumped on the internet. Mario and

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Lisa were furious. We actually parted, giving written notice that

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we were leaving him and his company and we wanted nothing more to do

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with him. Soon after, the Silver Fox disappeared. Who was A silver

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Carmichael and what did he want with Mario and Lisa? All was not

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what he's -- what it seemed. This was the silver fox 10 years ago,

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using a different name. Silver Carmichael arrived at court to

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plead guilty to fraud or. He ran the Carmichael Corporation from

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offices in Bristol, using the latest in a long line of aliases,

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but his name was not the only fake thing about him. Carmichael was

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running a Spanish properties could -- scam, taking thousands of pounds

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from investors and putting it into his pocket. Even then he was making

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friends with celebrities. This is Carmichael would-be actress

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Stephanie Beacham, who knew nothing about his scam. -- with the actress.

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He wanted the touch of glamour of the celebrity could bring to his

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image. He was very cast -- charismatic, dressed impeccably, he

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had dyed blond hair and a charming manner and I trusted him. Maggie

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Haynes was one of those investors who fell for his chance in the late

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1990s. She even ended up working for the Carmichael Corporation but

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eventually discovered it was all a front. The considered happened when

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the police arrived in the office in Bristol and arrested everything.

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the crunch of it. I realised then, oh, my God, this whole thing has

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been a life. And I am in deep trouble. She had been duped and

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left counting the cost of letting Carmichael into her life.

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friends had lost their money, my boyfriend had lost his money, his

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family had lost their money, my best friend had lost her money. I

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was devastated. Carmichael was eventually sentenced to three-and

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a-half years. On release, he disappeared. Only for the Silver

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Fox de Pop Art last year as Mario and Lisa's television saviour. --

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to pop up. It is not just big brother stars he has been targeting.

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One celebrity he tried to winnowed or was this man, a former X Factor

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contestant, seek. -- to win over. Carmichael offered to back a

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children's TV project for him and wine and dine him at a charity gala.

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He came up to me and said, if something comes off tonight,

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business Wise, could you tell them I am your manager? I said, listen

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to me, first of all, you are not my manager, second lead, you are not

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my representative. I have only met you twice. -- secondly. It was

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clear what Carmichael was trying to do. What he wanted from me was the

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friendship and the contacts, the celebrity contacts and friends that

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I had so that he could build a roster of celebrity friends but he

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could use to a urine which unsuspecting people. Victims that

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he posed -- persuaded to invest in his company. Some of them invested

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tens of thousands of pounds hoping to appear on one of his shows but

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now they are too embarrassed to speak out on camera and then money

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has simply disappeared. Documents released to the BBC by the High

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Court show that one investor is suing Carmichael under his real

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name for the return of more than �42,000. Even the celebrity charity,

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the fide stars appeal, was stunned by Carmichael. -- five stars. A

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yacht he had promised for a charity auction failed to materialise, as

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did a �10,000 bid he made on the same night. For Mario and lease it

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has been tough coming to terms with the fact that their names have been

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used to scam innocent victims. -- Lisa. Other people have come

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forward and said, he has done this to me, he has done that, and at the

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time we did not know. So where is Carmichael now? He failed to appear

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at a High Court in Manchester for a hearing. He is bankrupt but his

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wife owns this �725,000 house in Buckinghamshire. His car is here

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but he is not. But we found one man who knows exactly where he is.

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When is the last time you saw Carmichael? When he was being

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sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his money laundering

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as part of fraud. It turns out Carmichael is more than just a fame

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hungry con man, he is part of a major criminal network whose

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members tried to steal half a million pounds from the Santander

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Bank. For Mario and Lisa, the news that Carmichael is behind bars

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comes as a shock, but they hope it at least marks the end of their

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journey with the silver fox. Knowing him now, he is a compulsive

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liar, he is deluded and he is a serial con man.

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It is 50 years since four young men from Liverpool released their first

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record but there is a lesser known and more poignant Beatles

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anniversary this year, but death of former band member Stuart Sutcliffe.

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Banks to family and friends, he is becoming famous, not because of his

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time with the band but because of his paintings. It is a tragic story

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of what might have been. These paintings a seldom seen. They

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form a unique legacy and offer a rare and tantalising glimpse into

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the world of what might have been. The work of an artist just

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beginning to realise his talent. Some now say that the young man who

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painted these abstract images could have come on -- gone on to be an

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abstract name alongside Picasso or Jackson Pollock. He was an

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innovator in the Beatles style but also in his own field. He basically

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painted his feelings. You look at the later works and he was on to

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something. To the fact that he died so young was a tragedy because he

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could have gone on to achieve so much more. Stuart Sutcliffe was

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just 21 when he died. At the time he was experimenting and pushing

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out the boundaries that constrain art. He was a young man with

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everything to live for, until fate intervened. He is known to many as

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the 5th Beatle, the boy with the James Dean looks and a sense of

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style who played bass guitar with the Beatles during their time in

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the seedy nightclubs of Hamburg but tonight we will be reading at --

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revealing another side of Stuart, the boy who was born to paint.

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is all he ever wanted to be. He never had an ambition to be

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anything else, when parents ask children, what are you going to be

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when you grow up, he would always say, I want to paint. And he did.

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These works were done in the last year of his life. I am told that

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the bread ones come across as angry and fiery and the dark ones as

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sombre and almost like a death knell. That is not my perception of

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them. One could say that, that they are dark, sombre tones, but they

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are so balanced and so beautifully executed. Did he know he was going

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to die? Are these his last statement? They may be. Stuart was

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born in Edinburgh in June of 1940 but moved when he was three to his

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family -- with his family to Liverpool. It was obvious from an

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early age he was a gifted artist. The whole process -- process of

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watching an artist work was so familiar to me from a little girl

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because he used to sketch be quite a bit. All of us were sitting ducks

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and sometimes we would get fed up and say, leave us alone, so he

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would sketch us from behind so he was not so in our faces. It is

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interesting because my sister and I, it never occurred to us but that

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was unusual. -- that that was unusual. To sit in his room and

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watch him work before he had a studio, which we both did, we

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enjoyed it. We thought there was something rather wonderful about it.

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Because of his talent he was allowed to leave school and joined

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the Liverpool School of Art at just 16. It was here that he joined --

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he met John Lennon and the cause of his life would change forever. He

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became the driving artistic -- influence on the Beatles from the

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way they dressed to the way they appeared on stage. He left in 1961

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to return to his art studies after becoming engaged to Astrid

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Kirschner, a local photographer. He died of the brain haemorrhage in

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Hamburg in 1962 just months before the Beatles had their first hit

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with Love Me Do. John Lennon would never get over his death. Stuart's

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paintings are looked after by his sister Pauline in the Hamptons in

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New York. She helps run the Stuart Sutcliffe estate, set up to

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preserve and promote the numerous works of art, poems and drawings he

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had accomplished in such a short and tragic life. Pauline lives

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surrounded by her brother's work every day. It is a great privilege

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to have such amazingly good art work. I could not afford to buy

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this art work. It is such a privilege. I think it is right that

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people are catching on to Stuart after a period in which he was

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overlooked. People who appreciate art can understand what is going on

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in his paintings and how much validity he had so the fact that

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there is a resurgence of interest in his work is fantastic. Christian

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Furr is one of Britain's most respected artists. He has put

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together a unique exhibition, Liver Paul Allott, featuring this

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painting by Stuart Sutcliffe. -- Liver pour la of. -- Liver Paul.

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Who knows what he might have achieved five or 10 years down the

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line? This is just one period in his life and I think that the way

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his mind worked and how innovative he was meant that he could have

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gone on for two completely surprised us with something else

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longer -- later on in his career, so it is a tragedy he died so early.

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The Beatles fans have always been interested in Stuart but for many

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people he was a remote, forgotten figure. At a new book, In

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Conversation With Stuart Sutcliffe - His Life, Work And Relevance,

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released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his life, features

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much of his art work that has never been seen before. He now has his

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own website. It has been a catalyst for creating massive global

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interest, a new generation brought up on the Inter -- the internet

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learning all about Stuart Sutcliffe the artist. I could not conceive of

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the meaning of it because from while I was not social network

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savvy, so it is only when people say, do you realise there are 3.5

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million hits today on Google about Stuart? I said, you must be out of

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your mind. Then, of course, when the Facebook page the steward was

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set up to commemorate his death on 10th April this year. -- for Stuart.

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And we now have 55,000 likes, somebody said go and Google slow

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and so and we Googled somebody else and they had 20,000. -- Google so

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and so. People want their work and -- want his work and they have

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almost stopped mentioning the Beatles to me and they want him as

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an artist. A critique him as an artist, not, he painted quite well

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for the Beatles. -- Bay critique. He painted so well. It is

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marvellous. And if you want to see any of Stuart Sutcliffe's paintings

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or any of the others that exhibition runs at the Museum of

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Liverpool. If you have missed any of Inside Out North West you can

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watch it again on the BBC iPlayer. I am back next week on Monday at

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