03/03/2014 Inside Out North West

Welcome to the programme. In the next half hour, the former

gang member convicted of murder who is trying to clear his name. I

partly feel responsible because it was my group of friends that was

responsible. How families of fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster

are racing against time to find witnesses for the new inquests that

start this month. They were with my dad in his last minutes. They try to

save his life. My dad responded and opened his eyes while he was behind

the goal. PSN trick and troubled company in -- the eccentric artist

being compared to LS Lowry. One was sold for ?4000.

The Court of Appeal is set to hear the case of a former Manchester gang

member and convicted murderer. Dwaine George was jailed for 12

years when a teenager was shot dead. He denied the murder, but was

found guilty when the jury heard detailed forensic evidence about the

gun. We asked Michael Gladwell, one of the most the back country's most

experienced detectives to investigate.

He will be sadly missed. The murder in 2001 of 18-year-old Daniel Dale

shocked Manchester, a city already dubbed Gunchester as gang warfare

claimed 30 lives in just five years. Disputes over drugs, money,

territory and reputations spiralled into killings.

Bullets took criminals and innocents alike.

This is the man convicted by a jury of Daniel Dale's murder. Dwaine

George served 12 years in prison and was released late last year. He's

always denied involvement in the killing, and now hopes to clear his

name. He was a teenager when he joined the notorious Cheetham Hill

gang. People feared it. You went places, people respect you because

they feared it. As a gang, we was known for robberies, drugs,

partying. We'd get in fights from time to time. And that was the life

really. Were people scared of you? Some people were, yeah. Incidents

would happen spur of the moment. In town, in different areas. You could

just meet a group of guys, and something could happen, a

confrontation and we could end up fighting.

The events that led to Dwaine's imprisonment began here on the steps

of Manchester Crown Court on the afternoon of Tuesday July the 24th,

2001. Another murder, but a different case.

The white boys are supporting the victim's family. It includes

18-year-old Daniel Dale who is due to give evidence. Dwaine George is

part of the Cheetham Hill gang who are friends of the alleged killers.

A noisy scuffle breaks out. One witness alleges Dwaine George made a

death threat, but no-one else corroborates him. George denies it.

The confrontation is the start of a chain reaction that will lead,

within 24 hours, to Daniel Dale's murder and the start of another

trial. One day later, and there's been

another incident. Cheetham Hill has backed down in a street encounter

with the white boys who outnumbered them. Now, they feel they've been

disrespected, and some are seeking retaliation. Dwaine George admits he

was there, but says he argued against revenge. So why didn't you

retaliate on this occasion? I said leave it till another time. And what

would that have been? It could have been anything. It could have just

been bats, it could have been sticks, it could have been if people

wanted guns, but for me at my particular moment that time for me

was not the time. At his home, Aaron Cunningham stores a gun for Cheetham

Hill in return for regular supplies of cannabis. Nathan Loftus, an old

school friend of Dwaine George, makes a call. I'm coming to get that

thing. Right. A minute later, Nathan calls back. The arrangement's

changed, I'm not coming, it'll be Dwaine George. Now, Aaron Cunningham

is expecting to see Dwaine George. In Miles Platting, the white youths,

including some from yesterday's fracas at court, are on edge.

They're expecting retaliation. Aaron Cunningham waits in his house, ready

to deliver the weapon. Later he tells police, I saw the car drive

off through the kitchen window, Dwaine was driving and Ryan was in

the front passenger seat. Later, when this case came to court,

Aaron Cunningham, who was under police protection, appeared as a

Crown witness. He changed his story. He said, I didn't see him properly.

I didn't really have a proper look and that. I just presumed it was

Dwaine. The Red Honda has already been seen

once. Suddenly it re-appears further down the road. I immediately knew it

was the Cheetham Hill lads, and I just knew they would have guns.

When you start to analyse what each of the witnesses saw in this murder,

you end up with a confusing picture. Two men got out from the front near

side and rear near side doors of the red car and both had a gun. They

were about 5'10" and both wore masks. Both rear doors opened and

two black males got out. The guy behind the driver's seat was small

in height. The second guy was much bigger, about six" to 6'3". Both

didn't have anything covering their faces. I'm trying to find out why

witnesses to the same event can often see things completely

differently. So I've come here today to the Royal Holloway University

near Windsor to speak to one of the world's leading forensic

psychologists and hope that they can shed some light on exactly why that

is. Why does it happen that there are so many different accounts by

these witnesses? This is not too surprising because

the witnesses are not expecting to have their memories tested so

they'll be attending to different things, they'll be experiencing

different levels of emotion, they'll have different priorities as to what

they all notice. Witnesses find it very difficult to make judgements of

say height. For example, I'm quite short so I'm likely to describe you

as very tall. The last two decades of research show that eyewitnesses

can be unreliable. When detectives investigate a shooting they look for

gunshot residue - the microscopic particles ejected during firing.

These particles can land on the shooter and their clothing. The more

particles, the stronger the link between weapon and suspect. In a

coat at Dwaine George's house, forensic teams find gunshot residue,

but only two minute particles. And, in a car belonging to Dwaine's

mother, they discover a spent cartridge case which he admitted was

his. I was in a house with my friend, he had a gun.

He was messing around with the gun. The gun accidentally went off and he

shot me in the foot. The shell case wasn't connected to the murder, but

could it have contaminated the coat? A spent cartridge was found in a car

that is associated with Dwaine George, could that have a bearing on

anything? Very much so. One spent cartridge case will contain tens if

not hundreds of thousands of gunshot residue particles. It'll be a

repository of gunshot residue. And because these particles are so

small, normally one, two, three microns, that even from a spent

cartridge they can become easily airborne and contaminate everything

round them. In the years since the murder, courts have become cautious

about the value of gunshot residue. So with just two particles of the

dust-like material, was it reliable evidence? Today, if an investigation

found this sort of gunshot residue evidence, as an expert witness, what

would you be advising the police? I would be advising the police that

those levels are so low that you really can't come to any conclusion.

In effect, they are insignificant. Did you murder Daniel Dale? No. Do

you feel any responsibility for his do you ever think about the family?

Yes. Do you feel any responsibility for his death? I partly feel

responsible because it was my group of friends that was actually

responsible for this murder. Dwaine George's case was prepared by law

students in Cardiff working for the Innocence Project, set up to free

people wrongly imprisoned. He converted to Islam in jail, and

achieved a first class honours degree in social sciences.

He's out of prison, but he can't escape his past.

What do you feel about the friends who, you say, have let you rot in

jail? There's definitely a sense of

resentment, but at the same time there was a code that we had amongst

ourselves that was a norm to honour. You know, you don't grass. It was

just the expected thing, it was the norm. That's why if you did grass

there'd be such bad repercussions against your family, your loved ones

because it was a golden rule. And as much as now as a mature adult

I see the fallacy of them values, they were the values that we lived

by at the time. Coming up, why Cumbrian artist Percy

Kelly died penniless? He wrote a nice letter with an illustration and

would say, I am missing that painting, do you think I could have

it back? There are just four weeks to go

before the new inquests into a of the 96 Liverpool fans who died in

the Hillsborough disaster. Their families want a different result

from the original accidental death verdicts. After campaigning for 25

years, they have spent the last few months in a desperate search for new

witnesses and evidence. I didn't understand that my dad has

gone to a football match and died, because he always went to the

football. What I can change is hopefully that my brother didn't die

a life. After more than 20 years of

campaigning, the original accidental death verdict on the 96 people who

died at Hillsborough were overturned. The court sought new

inquest after an independent panel revealed alleged failings in the way

that emergency services responded to the crash. Tonight, with a new

inquest less than a month away, we report on the family's at all to

find vital witnesses ahead of the new inquests. We went to games home

and abroad, away, everywhere. Charlotte Hennessy is one of those

searching for witnesses. She was six when her dad went to watch Liverpool

play Nottingham Forest. He was 29 when he died. I don't render his

voice. I don't remember his life, but I do remember him being there, I

do remember loving him so much and being such a daddy's girl and

feeling that love back. I think if I was ever hurt or injured, it will be

my dad that I would want. The idea that their relatives'

deaths were accidental has always infuriated the Hillsborough

families. The judge who investigated the disaster said it was mainly

caused by the police losing control of the crowd. Yet an inquest jury in

Sheffield decided that all 96 deaths were accidental.

It took 20 years of campaigning to set the Hillsborough panel. They

said many had the potential to survive if the emergency response

had been different. One of the 41 was Jimmy Hennessy. Now his daughter

is searching for a St John's ambulance man who tried to revive

his father behind the goal. She hopes to find the ambulance men in

time for the new inquests. Della mac they withdrew my dad in the last

minutes. They tried to save his life. My dad responded and opened

his eyes while he was behind the goal, so of course he needs to give

evidence. Charlotte and the other families have already travelled to

London five times for hearings to sort out legal and practical issues

before the new inquests. She is hoping there may also be news of her

search in the latest hearing. Growing up, one thing that used to

bother me was whether or not my dad was frightened. That used to really

upset me. We will never know if he was still alive, if he was found, if

he died later. Shallot joins other Hillsborough Family Support Group

reign quest hearing, but there is no news today of the man she believes

helped her family. There was still no mention of St John ambulance

people who have come forward, so I think it is just waiting for another

update. Shallot's surge is important, because these new

inquests will have a wider scope than the original ones. One of the

most controversial aspects of the original inquests was the coroner's

decision not to hear evidence about what happened after 3:15pm on the

day of the disaster. He ruled that while 96 would have suffered their

fatal injuries by then. But that meant that the response of the

police, the ambulance people, and others, was never examined at the

inquest. That response will be examined at the new hearings, and

that is why it is so important for the families to find as many

witnesses as they can. I'm sure he was a Scouse in a previous life,

because anything to do with Liverpool, his favourite

programmes, he even used to talk Scouse. Louise Brooks's brother died

at Hillsborough. He was 26. Louise is still searching for a man she

thinks may have been a doctor, who apparently helped Andrew on the

peerage after 3:15pm. Entry is still searching for another man, marked

with a red arrow, pictured near Andrew in the crowd. I feel I am

against the clock. I just want my brother to... I want all of the

information possible about this at my brother's inquest. So everybody

has the full facts. I can't come back in ten years' time and say,

excuse me, I found something else, because that will never happen. What

I can change is, hopefully, change that my brother didn't die a lie.

That's what hopefully I can participate in changing. The

inquests are part of three enquiries into Hillsborough. The Independent

Police Complaints Commission is looking at the ledge of the least

misconduct after the disaster. At offices in Warrington, Operation

Resolve is examining whether any crimes were committed before it. But

both Operation Resolve and the IPCC are also gathering evidence for the

new inquests. One of the areas being investigated are safety,

preparations for the match, and crowd management, as well as the

cause of death for all 96. They have already interviewed more than 1000

people. One new feature the resulting will provide for the

inquests are individual diaries of the movements of each of the

victims. They have made compilations of CCTV, police, and TV images,

showing the victims arriving at the grounds, in the ground, and in some

cases, on the pitch after the crutch. -- crash. This woman lost

her stepson. She has already seen his video. When I saw was horrific.

It was not because the police were being brutal, but because they had

to get people out so quickly, and they were tangled, and it was like

they were being batted out of a small hole of a doorway. The new

inquest starts in Warrington on March 31. It could last until

Christmas or beyond. I never went to my brother's original inquest. If I

look back now, I feel I should have been there. I understand why my

parents tried to protect me, so I feel I have aged second chants now

to do right by my brother. -- a second chance. Is about doing the

best I could to find out what happened to my dad. I want to be his

voice, because he went to a football match and didn't come home.

Wordsworth, Ruskin, Wainwright - all famous names who've been inspired by

Cumbria's landscape. What about the name Percy Kelly? If not, you still

will -- you still will Jacey Normand has been on the trail of Percy, a

troubled and eccentric artist, who only after his death is getting

wider recognition for his work. He drew everything in sight all his

life. It was compulsive. He couldn't not paint or draw. He was amazing. A

one-off. I don't know what it is, but it is something that makes

people think, I want that, and I like it. This is the landscape that

Percy Kelly loved, so I've come to find out more about a prolific

artist with an equally incredible life story. He wasn't interested in

the chocolate box district, but of the down to earth beauty of West

Cumbria. So that is where I'm headed. I'm meeting up with Chris, a

former art gallery owner. She's researched and written about Percy's

life and work. When did Percy says come to hear? His first wife moved

here with him in 1958. They gave up the post office and bought Glen

cottage around the corner. What was his early life like? The family were

porn. The family were poor. They were a religious family, and he was

a twin. Really? Yes. Use the back room as his studio, which was a tiny

room. He had a huge printing press in there. And Percy, who was always

short of cash is still remembered in the village shop today. He used to

want to exchange his paintings for groceries. Did you take any? ? mac

know, but I wish we did now. But his time in Allonby came to a swift end

one night when he revealed a secret to his wife. She could see a fire

flickering, and thought a good, Percy is home. There was a strange

man sitting with his back to her. The woman turned around, and it was

Percy in her dress. He was asking for help with his make up. She threw

him out and locked him out and changed the locks. He never lived

here again. Throughout the rest of his life, he'd alternate between

being Percy and Roberta. My next stop is a short drive cross

country to Isel, near Cockermouth. I've come to visit an old friend of

Percy's, who spotted the potential of his work. I thought it was very

good. So original. The chief thing about it was it belonged to Cumbria,

and he adored Cumbria. Mary was the director of the Abbot Hall Art

Gallery in Kendal, and exhibited his work in the 1960s. He was fixed on

artistry. I think that was why he was successful. After the break-up

of his marriage, he came to Mendel 's Hall with his new partner

Christine. He lived in one of these cottages a few miles from the famous

topiary. Mavis Aitchison remembers visiting Percy. Mavis remembers a

prolific artist, who refused to cash in on his work. When it we came to

visit him, we went into the hall, and there was a stack of paintings

along the hall. I think they were some of the ones he painted when we

in Brittany. They were highly coloured and floral. They were very

attractive. I said, are you going to sell any of these? No, no. One

critic said he was one of those artists who believed in his own

value, and he wanted others to share that high opinion. But it is coming

come around to selling his artwork in order to achieve it. In other

words, he craved recognition, but couldn't part with his paintings. He

was always sorry when a painting went, and sometimes he asked for

them back. He would like to somebody a nice letter with an illustration

and say, I really miss that painting. Do you think I could have

it back? He changed his mind. Yes. In 1973, Percy and Christine moved

to St David's, in Wales, and then on to Norfolk.

And after years of hardship, and Percy refusing to sell his work,

Christine could take no more - she left him.

I think she couldn't stand being so poor, and the frustration of knowing

there was this wealth of dutiful art, really interesting paintings,

just sitting there not doing anything. -- beautiful art. So with

Percy alone and in exile in Norfolk, how did his work find its way back

to his home county? I'm heading to Kendal in search of answers. "Dear

Miss David. Thank you so much for your letter, which arrived today.

Your very kind and appreciative words about my work really touched

me. It is so rare to hear such compliments, and since I am

experiencing the darkest period of my life, I got quite a lift. He was

replying to join David, an art lover from Kendal. She'd been captivated

by one of Percy's pictures, and wrote to him asking to buy some of

his work. Was the tentative beginnings of a feud letters going

back and forwards rapidly developed into something on an ongoing basis.

Did he have any idea how many letters they were? No, not until we

opened the trunk after my mother's death, and it turns out they're

worth around 1500 letters in the trunk. It is amazing, because mother

and Percy only met for a five times in their lives. "Dear Mr Kelly.

"What an amazingly generous person you are. I have been living on air

since your most beautiful painted letter arrived." She sent him the

stamps, so he didn't even have to pay for the stamps to keep the

correspondence going. And it was his good friend Joan, and Chris, who

rescued the artwork crammed into Percy's tiny Norfolk cottage after

his death in 1993. Finally his work would get a wider audience. In 1994,

no one really knew about him, and yet when the catalogue went out, I

had a queue down the hill for those paintings. Every exhibition since

then, there has been a queue outside the door. Now he has hit London. He

hit London about three or four years ago, and last December, one of his

paintings sold for ?4000. I think he would be very startled at that now.

It's now highly prized - he's even been compared to LS Lowry. So Percy

Kelly - "talented", "troubled", "a genius", "warm" - all descriptions

made about him. He's certainly not been forgotten in his beloved

Cumbria. Sadly, long after his death, interest continues to grow in

his work- but then he always knew that would be the case. I cannot

paint for monetary gain. I would rather starve than sell one piece of

my work. But I know when I depart this world, people. And wonder at

the beauty and truth that I have portrayed.

What a fascinating life story. That is it from us for this week, and for

the series. Don't forget you can catch is again on I player, but we

will be back in the autumn. Until, goodbye.