:00:09. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to Inside Out North West with me, Dianne Oxberry.
:00:16. > :00:20.Tonight, ten years after the Morecambe Bay disaster when Chinese
:00:21. > :00:25.cockle pickers drowned, we talked exclusively to the only man rescued
:00:26. > :00:30.alive from the waters. I tried so hard to swim through the channel. I
:00:31. > :00:34.just could not do it. The man who led Cumbria Police tells us about
:00:35. > :00:41.the day his 30 year career came tumbling down. I felt like I had
:00:42. > :00:46.dropped out of life basically. And the people bringing their Liverpool
:00:47. > :00:50.community back to life through food. This to me is a good news story It
:00:51. > :01:06.is growing and can belong to the community.
:01:07. > :01:14.Ten years after the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when 23 Chinese
:01:15. > :01:18.workers drowned here, Peter Marshall talks exclusively to the only man to
:01:19. > :01:25.be rescued alive from the waters and the relatives of the victims speak
:01:26. > :01:26.of their continuing pain. Morecambe Bay is both beautiful and
:01:27. > :01:52.brutal. We have visual with one person only
:01:53. > :01:57.on a sandbank. TRANSLATION: I tried so hard to swim
:01:58. > :02:01.through the channel. I just could not do it. I thought about my
:02:02. > :02:07.parents. I thought, am I going to die tonight?
:02:08. > :02:15.Ten years have passed since this new tourist tides and channels claimed
:02:16. > :02:20.the lives of 23 Chinese cockle pickers. But time has not diminished
:02:21. > :02:30.the pain of those who lost their loved ones. In China, Lin Meiqin
:02:31. > :02:37.still mourns her husband who died in the Bay. He was 38. She has not
:02:38. > :02:44.remarried. She works hard and raises their grandson on her own. I still
:02:45. > :02:48.think about him, she says. When he was around, I did not realise how
:02:49. > :02:57.much he meant to me. When he died, it was such a loss.
:02:58. > :03:02.It is a community of ramshackle houses and new mansions, built with
:03:03. > :03:08.money sent back by migrant workers. Her husband's death meant their
:03:09. > :03:21.hoped for better life never materialised. Charitable donations
:03:22. > :03:24.from Britain have helped pay the debts to the groups. Sometimes I
:03:25. > :03:29.think if he had not died I would have a better life, she says. In the
:03:30. > :03:37.past we owed people money so I have to work to pay people back. In
:03:38. > :03:42.February 2004, hundreds of people worked the sands of Morecambe Bay in
:03:43. > :03:46.search of cockles. But the Chinese illegal in the swell controlled by a
:03:47. > :03:51.gang master with little knowledge of the bay's dangerous. And little
:03:52. > :03:57.concern for their safety. In the dark on the 5th of February, they
:03:58. > :04:04.were cut off by the incoming tide. In distress and 999 call, one of the
:04:05. > :04:06.cocklers, Guo Bing Long, makes a desperate plea for help as the
:04:07. > :04:25.waters rise. He was washed away and drowned. He
:04:26. > :04:34.was a young man with a wife and two children, here to earn money to
:04:35. > :04:39.support them. Cockle picker Li Hua now lives under witness protection,
:04:40. > :04:43.having given evidence in the criminal trial which followed the
:04:44. > :04:47.tragedy. He was in seconds of becoming a victim himself, trapped
:04:48. > :04:53.trying to help others who would not survive the night. When did you
:04:54. > :04:58.first realise that you were in serious danger? TRANSLATION: That
:04:59. > :05:02.was when the water covered wheel and the vehicle could not move. Everyone
:05:03. > :05:06.was panicking. They got out and tried to swim but the water was
:05:07. > :05:15.flowing so quickly, some were dragged under it straightaway. I was
:05:16. > :05:20.in despair. I thought, am I going to die tonight? I have parents, wife
:05:21. > :05:25.and a child. How have I ended up in this situation? I just could not
:05:26. > :05:34.understand why God would do this to me. He stripped off his waterproofs,
:05:35. > :05:41.struggled, swam and stumbled in the darkness. I tried so hard to swim
:05:42. > :05:51.through the channel. I just couldn't do it. I thought about my parents. I
:05:52. > :05:56.thought, am I going to die tonight? It was pitch black and I was
:05:57. > :06:00.desperate. I thought I might just as well wait to dive. It was freezing
:06:01. > :06:10.cold but I didn't feel it. I was numb. Then, I do Howell, a wave may
:06:11. > :06:16.be turned me around. I was on my own and I was in the shallow water. And
:06:17. > :06:21.then a helicopter came. I kept praying and praying like my mother
:06:22. > :06:29.used to do. And I kept waving. They didn't seem to see me. But then they
:06:30. > :06:36.stopped. We have visual with one person only at this stage on a
:06:37. > :06:41.sandbank. He was the only person plucked alive from the water by
:06:42. > :06:47.rescuers that night. The other Chinese survivors had left the sand
:06:48. > :06:53.before the tides closed in. Believe it or not, I thought I saw God. The
:06:54. > :06:57.feeling at that moment is very hard to explain. I could not believe I
:06:58. > :07:05.was going to be rescued and that I was alive again.
:07:06. > :07:11.What followed was the most complex investigation ever undertaken by
:07:12. > :07:18.Lancashire Police. From the cockle beds of Morecambe Bay, it was spread
:07:19. > :07:22.across the globe. Mick Gradwell was the detective superintendent charged
:07:23. > :07:29.with uncovering the complex web of criminality behind the Morecambe Bay
:07:30. > :07:34.deaths. Usually, as a senior investigating officer you deal with
:07:35. > :07:38.domestic type murders. Suddenly you have grown into investigating
:07:39. > :07:44.international organised crime gangs, snakeheads, triads, international
:07:45. > :07:49.human trafficking. It would take two years to bring people to justice. In
:07:50. > :07:54.March 2006, Lin Liang Ren was found guilty of 21 counts of manslaughter
:07:55. > :07:59.and was later jailed for 14 years. The court heard he had cynically and
:08:00. > :08:04.callously exploited his countrymen. He tried to mix in with the
:08:05. > :08:08.workers, the survivors, and pass himself off as just a worker bee on
:08:09. > :08:12.the night. But what he actually did was threaten people and told people
:08:13. > :08:16.to tell a particular story. The first story that came out was the
:08:17. > :08:22.survivors were forced to tell the police they had been on a picnic and
:08:23. > :08:27.it was nothing to do with cockling on this particular night. Li Hua
:08:28. > :08:32.almost lost his life because of Lin Liang Ren's actions. I feel this man
:08:33. > :08:37.is despicable because he, for the sake of earning his own money,
:08:38. > :08:42.without thinking about our safety, just did not even watch the tide. He
:08:43. > :08:49.just said, go and work. We were just a tool for him. I think a lot about
:08:50. > :08:52.those who did not survive. Particularly, at Chinese New Year,
:08:53. > :08:59.because it happened around that time. From time to time, I wake up
:09:00. > :09:05.in the night with a panic attack and remember them. We all came for the
:09:06. > :09:09.same reason. We left our families to make a better life and they were
:09:10. > :09:18.gone just like that. I was just lucky.
:09:19. > :09:22.The tragedy here came down to money. The cockle pickers, illegal
:09:23. > :09:26.immigrants, had no choice but to work where their traffickers sent
:09:27. > :09:30.them, to pay debts and help support their families back home. At that
:09:31. > :09:37.time, nationally, ?1 million a day was leaving the UK for China, as a
:09:38. > :09:42.result of the profit made from human trafficking. That trafficking still
:09:43. > :09:47.goes on, but after the tragedy, the gang masters licensing authority was
:09:48. > :09:53.set up to try and protect workers. Since 2007, it has revoked 200 gang
:09:54. > :09:58.master licenses and brought 70 prosecutions. Permits for fishermen
:09:59. > :10:03.have been tightened. They now training course. But last time the
:10:04. > :10:09.beds in the Riddler history were opened, rescuers were called out 26
:10:10. > :10:11.times in two months. Li Hua has rebuilt his life under witness
:10:12. > :10:17.protection, together with the wife and son he feared he would never see
:10:18. > :10:21.again. He hopes no one will experience what he went through My
:10:22. > :10:28.family are all healthy and we are happy. I have a job. We do not have
:10:29. > :10:34.a lot of money but we are happy to go through each day peacefully. I am
:10:35. > :10:36.very grateful to the police and the British authorities. I am glad to be
:10:37. > :10:52.alive. Coming up: A taste of home, reviving
:10:53. > :11:02.the Anfield bakery. I had the Scouse one. The best pie I have ever had, I
:11:03. > :11:08.think. He was Cumbria's top cop But out of the blue, Stuart Hyde was
:11:09. > :11:11.suspended as police constable. His colleagues had been interviewed and
:11:12. > :11:17.his diary and emails have been gone through. The enquiry cost taxpayers
:11:18. > :11:25.hundreds of thousands of pounds It all, Stuart Hyde stayed silent.
:11:26. > :11:31.Until now. We have to meet him. It doesn't feel like a fair process
:11:32. > :11:35.at all. What it feels like is a one`sided process. Why don't think
:11:36. > :11:39.that is what justice is about. You are always told you are part of a
:11:40. > :11:46.policing family and then the day he was suspended, suddenly, that went.
:11:47. > :11:50.I didn't understand it but I think I understand it now. The 13th of
:11:51. > :11:57.September 2012, Stuart Hyde was travelling back from a meeting in
:11:58. > :12:00.London. 6pm in the evening, received a phone call saying, could I go
:12:01. > :12:05.immediately to committee room number two and see the chair of the
:12:06. > :12:10.authority. Just before midnight at police headquarters, he was handed a
:12:11. > :12:15.letter. I was absolutely devastated. They suspended me. I got
:12:16. > :12:22.woken up at 1am and both of us did really know what was going on. I
:12:23. > :12:28.felt as if the world had dropped out of my life. In just a few hours a
:12:29. > :12:33.30 year police career was facing ruin. Stuart Hyde joined the police
:12:34. > :12:39.in 1983. I had been involved in fights, been punched... Involved in
:12:40. > :12:46.riot disorder and things like that. But I have loved every minute of it.
:12:47. > :12:50.It looked like there might have been some early signs from your
:12:51. > :12:54.photograph album that you would be in the police force! It had the
:12:55. > :12:58.right sort of discipline I needed at the time. I also had the chance to
:12:59. > :13:04.give something back. Stuart Hyde took the number two job here in
:13:05. > :13:09.Cumbria in 2009. The Queen 's police medal followed. An officer heading
:13:10. > :13:17.for the very top. The day terror came to Cumbria ` at least 12 killed
:13:18. > :13:23.as the gunmen goes on the rampage. We are not able to understand at
:13:24. > :13:33.this stage the motivation behind it. Three years later , after this, he
:13:34. > :13:38.was promoted to chief constable For almost a year, the man who loved
:13:39. > :13:41.policing could only walk the fells. Stuart Hyde said he was given no
:13:42. > :13:45.information about the allegations being made against. South Wales
:13:46. > :13:49.Police were brought in to investigate but he says he was still
:13:50. > :13:55.in the dark. It is only now he feels he is starting to piece together the
:13:56. > :13:58.whole case against him. The South Wales report investigated claims
:13:59. > :14:03.that Stuart Hyde spent more than a fifth of his time away from the
:14:04. > :14:08.county. Quite frankly, the numbers given in the report of wrong. I have
:14:09. > :14:12.been able to go through my diary completely and they haven't take any
:14:13. > :14:19.account of weekend working or of the work used to do during the evenings.
:14:20. > :14:23.So why don't accept those figures. The figures also took interest in a
:14:24. > :14:33.flight to China's ear. Stuart Hyde was taking part in a swimming event.
:14:34. > :14:39.They were my Emma was and they did not belong to anybody else in the
:14:40. > :14:44.Constabulary. `` air miles. In hindsight, I should have been very
:14:45. > :14:51.clear what I was using them for and what I was doing. And the trip
:14:52. > :14:56.raised eyebrows in another way. This photo was criticised taken during
:14:57. > :15:00.the event. I was somewhat surprised, particularly as some people might
:15:01. > :15:06.think I was on duty. I really do not CI did anything wrong in having a
:15:07. > :15:11.photograph of me. `` I do not see that guy did anything wrong. Had I'd
:15:12. > :15:17.been stood there in uniform swimming, it would have looked a bit
:15:18. > :15:22.daft to say the least! The investigation also probed meetings
:15:23. > :15:25.he held with private companies. Customers said there were grave
:15:26. > :15:35.concerns about the impression these meetings gave. `` officers. It is a
:15:36. > :15:39.very large contract with the radios we used and my contact with them was
:15:40. > :15:44.to get the service being delivered cheaper. They seem to think I was a
:15:45. > :15:50.very corrupt officer doing dodgy deals but that was clearly not the
:15:51. > :15:54.case. Investigators asked whether he had been favouring his local pub
:15:55. > :15:59.holding business meetings in return for favours. I have had no benefits
:16:00. > :16:03.in kind from the landlord and the only reason to use it is it is very
:16:04. > :16:09.convenient and it doesn't involve me having to get drivers out to drive
:16:10. > :16:15.me around the county. Yes, it was convenient for me but it was
:16:16. > :16:23.maximising my time. Stuart Hyde was speaking about wildlife crime at one
:16:24. > :16:28.meeting. I have spoken at many conferences. Yes, take the point it
:16:29. > :16:32.could be considered of supporting a political side but, equally, I was
:16:33. > :16:38.talking to the other organisations as well. So I was being impartial.
:16:39. > :16:42.The final allegation levelled at him was that he was tweeting
:16:43. > :16:44.inappropriately and misusing his police credit card. One tweet which
:16:45. > :16:50.may have caused offence was a picture of a pie. I'm still not
:16:51. > :16:54.entirely sure where this has come from. Nobody has come to me and
:16:55. > :17:00.said, Stuart, we don't like the fact you have posted a picture of a pie.
:17:01. > :17:03.If they did, I would have removed it if it had caused offence. We'll stop
:17:04. > :17:17.eating them? Absolutely not! They are delicious! `` will buy stop
:17:18. > :17:20.eating them? `` will I? Figures were about a private meal and I've paid
:17:21. > :17:26.for that immediately afterwards Some cash had been handed in for
:17:27. > :17:29.Sports Relief and thought it was the best way to demonstrate the cash had
:17:30. > :17:36.got to where it should be and why wasn't pocketing it and spending it
:17:37. > :17:41.on anything else. `` I. The South Wales Police report concluded there
:17:42. > :17:44.was no evidence of misconduct in any of the allegations. It made
:17:45. > :17:49.recommendations for Cumbria police and Stuart Hyde to follow. In
:17:50. > :17:53.essence, the net result of this investigation, Stuart, get your
:17:54. > :17:59.paperwork right, tell people what you are doing, talk to them a bit
:18:00. > :18:02.more, and move on. So, in the clear, Stuart thought you could get back to
:18:03. > :18:11.work. But there was another twist in the tale. `` he could. The
:18:12. > :18:19.Commissioner thought there was some discrepancy in the findings and
:18:20. > :18:27.wanted to suspend him again. This would have sent up an appalling
:18:28. > :18:34.signal. That you were guilty of something and you thought you would
:18:35. > :18:41.run away. It is an outcome could have expected. But it is not an
:18:42. > :18:45.outcome I was happy with. The process took nearly a year. The
:18:46. > :18:50.suspension was reviewed every month but Stuart Hyde was left in limbo.
:18:51. > :18:54.He could not work. The investigation costs are estimated at more than
:18:55. > :18:58.half ?1 million. These are met by the taxpayer. And it was only last
:18:59. > :19:03.week that he was finally given a copy of some of the statements made
:19:04. > :19:10.against him. Does this process feel like a fair, just system? Absolutely
:19:11. > :19:15.not. Not like a fair process at all. What it feels like is a one`sided
:19:16. > :19:18.view. People have made allegations and their information and
:19:19. > :19:24.allegations have been treated as correct without any opportunity for
:19:25. > :19:27.me to address them. Cumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner Richard
:19:28. > :19:30.Rhodes told us he had given detailed interviews about his Stuart Hyde
:19:31. > :19:32.back in August and heeded not want to be interviewed again. In a
:19:33. > :20:01.statement he told us... I have learned a lot about the
:20:02. > :20:05.support from my family and a lot about the support from my friends.
:20:06. > :20:09.And I know who my friends are. I have also, unfortunately, learned
:20:10. > :20:14.that you cannot always trust and rely on everybody who works with
:20:15. > :20:19.you. I am proud to have done something for Cumbria. And I want to
:20:20. > :20:23.continue doing that. Irony want to see the county proud of itself. It
:20:24. > :20:25.is a special place and it will always be a special place for me. ``
:20:26. > :20:35.I really want. Now, what would you do to improve
:20:36. > :20:39.the area you live in? Well, a group of people from Liverpool have got
:20:40. > :20:52.together to bring a much loved part of their community some sunshine.
:20:53. > :21:05.And field. Home to Liverpool. A world`class football club in a less
:21:06. > :21:11.than world`class Anfield. `` less than world`class setting. ``
:21:12. > :21:17.Anfield. It is a dive. But if you just came here, you would think
:21:18. > :21:21.what have I arrived in?! Tinned up, boarded up, yeah. It looks like a
:21:22. > :21:34.riot area! They must think the people who live
:21:35. > :21:39.here have caused all this decline, that they have made it look the way
:21:40. > :21:44.it is. Vandalised. Boarded up. But actually, I don't believe that is
:21:45. > :21:56.true. I'd think it has been managed, the decline. `` I do not think. Sue
:21:57. > :22:00.was born here. There have been plans for the last 20 years for
:22:01. > :22:06.regeneration. We were told the properties here were not fit for the
:22:07. > :22:09.20th century. We have probably had five different plans of what is
:22:10. > :22:15.going to be happening in the area, none of which have come to fruition.
:22:16. > :22:20.Apart from boarding up more and more houses. And they have just been left
:22:21. > :22:25.empty. It makes me feel sad because this is my home. It is three
:22:26. > :22:31.generations. And they are lovely houses. And it is just so sad to see
:22:32. > :22:35.them boarded up. At the heart of this community lies Mitchell 's
:22:36. > :22:38.bakery. A family run business which fed the people of Anfield for
:22:39. > :22:44.generations until it closed a couple of years ago. It belongs to an
:22:45. > :22:50.field. It is one of the last independent shops on this road. A
:22:51. > :22:58.road which had every kind of shop that you would want. In the
:22:59. > :23:03.neighbourhood. Which is a fish shop, chemists, this shop, greengrocers,
:23:04. > :23:10.absolutely everything. And Michels was the last. The last one that was
:23:11. > :23:15.left in the area. Now Sue, together with local other people, has stepped
:23:16. > :23:19.in to reopen it as a community run bakery. This to me is a good news
:23:20. > :23:22.story. This is something that is growing which can belong to the
:23:23. > :23:27.community which the community can have a say in, running it, what
:23:28. > :23:28.happens to it. It is just like a light at the end of the tunnel for
:23:29. > :23:48.me. To have been involved in this. That is one copy. Last season, they
:23:49. > :23:52.opened on match day to raise funds for a much`needed new commercial
:23:53. > :23:57.oven. It is the feeling of togetherness. It is the interesting
:23:58. > :24:00.and fun with everybody on match day, including the fans. This is my way
:24:01. > :24:06.of seeing the public again because I've retired as a nurse. This place
:24:07. > :24:10.has been brilliant since it has opened. You can get something very
:24:11. > :24:19.good on the day of a game that is just honest cooking. And it fills a
:24:20. > :24:24.purpose, the places around the ground, but if you want to come and
:24:25. > :24:32.get a cup of tea and some soup, it is phenomenal. This is the proper
:24:33. > :24:36.way to make bread. And it is a skill. One of the volunteers is
:24:37. > :24:39.Jess. She originally came to photograph the project but she
:24:40. > :24:46.became so infused that she dreamt to be a baker and is now passing her
:24:47. > :24:50.skills on to local people. I know the bakery and remember what it was
:24:51. > :24:56.like a conveyor local to the area. I know the issues that the area is
:24:57. > :25:04.faced with as well. `` remember what it was like because I and local to
:25:05. > :25:09.the area. They have now raised enough money for an industrial oven.
:25:10. > :25:14.Hopefully we are going to get it into the bakery because it is just
:25:15. > :25:20.coming off the van. Amazing! We have been through such a lot. So many
:25:21. > :25:25.highs and lows. So we have been waiting 12 months to get the oven
:25:26. > :25:35.and have it put in, and it just means we can open as a bakery. And
:25:36. > :25:42.with weeks to go before the `` they open full`time, Sue checks on the
:25:43. > :25:49.progress. So, we can see where, in the middle of the refurbished, you
:25:50. > :25:54.can have a look at these. We have used these. We have made them into
:25:55. > :26:00.light fittings, the whisks. Very cute! So we are in the middle of
:26:01. > :26:08.doing the work. You can see we have the oven. Brilliant! It is
:26:09. > :26:13.absolutely amazing. And we have got people busy painting. We have the
:26:14. > :26:19.equipment now, as you can see. We will all learn how to use it. We are
:26:20. > :26:24.nearly there. Nearly there. Aren't we? The oven is in place, the pies
:26:25. > :26:31.are perfect and the bakery is open six days a week and doing a roaring
:26:32. > :26:36.trade. It is hectic! It has been very, very busy. Lots of people
:26:37. > :26:41.coming in in a big group, which can be a bit challenging. Serving ten
:26:42. > :26:44.people at once! But it is fabulous we are open! But despite the hard
:26:45. > :26:48.work and commitment, the bakery has been dealt some bad news. The
:26:49. > :26:54.Liverpool City Council has unveiled the new Anfield reject. This could
:26:55. > :27:00.see much of the area, including the bakery, pulled down. Most of the
:27:01. > :27:09.businesses along here now are either closed during the week or just open
:27:10. > :27:13.for match days. You know, there is a chemist and a few fish and chip
:27:14. > :27:18.shops but there isn't much else really, and that needs to change. So
:27:19. > :27:23.that is what the council is planning. You know, to offer new
:27:24. > :27:29.premises to new businesses. It is a massive development and it is
:27:30. > :27:33.exciting. After all these years of living through demolition,
:27:34. > :27:37.boarded`up houses, I really can t wait to see the area regenerated and
:27:38. > :27:42.I want to be part of it. As a bakery, we just see ourselves as
:27:43. > :27:50.part of that community and that we could be a big part of that
:27:51. > :27:53.regeneration. Although the future of the premises is uncertain, they are
:27:54. > :27:59.still hoping to serve pies for generations to come. I had the
:28:00. > :28:06.Scouse one! That is the best I have ever had, I think! Full of taste.
:28:07. > :28:12.The meat is fantastic. The pastry is excellent. Brilliant value! I would
:28:13. > :28:18.come here again. Much, much better than the majority of stuff you would
:28:19. > :28:25.get. Very reasonably priced. And you get the sense you are giving
:28:26. > :28:31.something back. It is good. Well, wish them all good luck. We
:28:32. > :28:38.are back next Monday at 7:30pm on BBC One. Then, goodbye.
:28:39. > :28:43.Next week, Les Dawson's daughter Charlotte reveals her father's
:28:44. > :28:45.hidden talent. This... This is something very, very special.
:28:46. > :29:11.Extremely special. A longer day, more exams and tougher
:29:12. > :29:16.discipline. That is what the government wants for pupils in
:29:17. > :29:20.England's state schools. Ministers believe it would bring standards
:29:21. > :29:24.closer to those in private schools. There is a warning over a social
:29:25. > :29:28.network raise after it was linked to guess in Ireland. It involves
:29:29. > :29:34.drinking and filming a stun. The body of the young man was found in
:29:35. > :29:38.the River. Tributes have poured in for the actor Philip Seymour
:29:39. > :29:41.Hoffman. It is thought he died from a heroin overdose.
:29:42. > :29:46.More of us are undergoing plastic surgery. The number of operations
:29:47. > :29:51.jumped 17% last year. Most were for breast implants, but the biggest
:29:52. > :29:54.rise was for liposuction. Imagine parking your car outside
:29:55. > :29:57.your house and waking up to this dash a
:29:58. > :30:01.Hello, I'm Annabel Tiffin. Jurors at Preston Crown Court have been told
:30:02. > :30:04.to leave emotion out of their decision making. The judge made the
:30:05. > :30:07.comments while summing up the evidence in the Coronation street
:30:08. > :30:08.actor William Roache's trial. Blackpool could ban late night
:30:09. > :30:09.boozing if