:00:00. > :00:17.The man the system let down. I am 49 this year. Answers have not been
:00:17. > :00:20.recognised. I have had nothing. The extraordinary story of one person's
:00:20. > :00:29.search for justice and his long— lost family. Scores of arrests and
:00:29. > :00:36.millions of pounds spent policing. We get behind the scenes on the
:00:36. > :00:41.fracking debate for Sussex and Kent. This is about money and all about
:00:41. > :00:46.the Government with $sic in its eyes and not the welfare of the
:00:46. > :00:49.community. —— signs. I'm Natalie Graham with untold stories, closer
:00:49. > :01:06.to home. From all round the South East, this is Inside Out.
:01:07. > :01:14.Hello, tonight we're in Butts Brow above the town of Eastbourne, for a
:01:14. > :01:17.story of survival against the odds. It is the story of a little boy who
:01:18. > :01:27.was placed into foster care here in Eastbourne in the 1960s. But
:01:28. > :01:30.instead of care and protection, he encountered abuse and torment.
:01:30. > :01:33.There are failings and there is misery. But there is also hope. And
:01:33. > :01:53.for the last year Colin Campbell has been helping Brian in his
:01:53. > :01:56.search for happiness and answers. For his entire life, Brian has kept
:01:56. > :01:59.the horrors of his childhood buried away. But this year he has
:01:59. > :02:09.confronted his demons and embarked on a journey that will change his
:02:09. > :02:16.life for ever. I want to know who I am as a person. I need to know
:02:16. > :02:25.where things went wrong. Happiness is where he wants to end up. But he
:02:25. > :02:42.doesn't know if that's possible. This is what I have waited for for
:02:42. > :02:45.a long time. Wish me luck. A smiling little boy on his second
:02:45. > :02:48.birthday, this is the only photo Brian has from his childhood. Born
:02:48. > :02:58.in Birmingham, he was placed into care when he was a baby. His single
:02:58. > :03:01.mother was unable to cope. A child in need of love and protection,
:03:01. > :03:06.Brian ended up here in Eastbourne, hundreds of miles away from his
:03:06. > :03:10.birth family. An eleven month old baby, he was placed into foster
:03:10. > :03:18.care. It was 1965. And he was supposedly under the watchful eye
:03:18. > :03:21.of social services. At the beginning of the year, Brian gave
:03:21. > :03:26.me his social services file in the hope I'd be able to help him piece
:03:26. > :03:33.his life together. The pain and suffering of his formative years is
:03:33. > :03:36.in black and white to read. Made to stand outside a shop for two hours
:03:36. > :03:39.without moving, the file documents how a little boy was let down by
:03:39. > :03:47.those who were supposed to care for him. Not allowed to cry if he hurt
:03:47. > :03:51.himself. Eyewitness accounts reveal there was psychological and
:03:52. > :04:08.physical abuse. Left badly bruised. He was violently mistreated by his
:04:08. > :04:14.foster mother. We taking out of here and taking to London. Brian
:04:14. > :04:16.has worked all his life in Eastbourne. Aged 49, he delivers
:04:16. > :04:23.freshly caught fish to top London restaurants. You have to try to
:04:23. > :04:30.keep your job going. But also still go into the questions that need to
:04:30. > :04:33.be answered. In particular, the role played by social services, who
:04:33. > :04:38.failed him. They allowed Brian to remain in the clutches of an
:04:38. > :04:41.abusive foster carer. Staff shortages meant his case didn't get
:04:41. > :04:44.the attention it needed. One social worker admits in the file that
:04:44. > :04:49.Brian should have been removed from the foster home years earlier. The
:04:49. > :04:58.cruelty lasted until he was 12, when he was eventually placed with
:04:59. > :05:02.foster parents who cared. I think the timing might be right now
:05:02. > :05:08.because a few ghosts have been laid to rest I think. At the beginning
:05:08. > :05:11.of the summer, Brian asked me to try to track down his birth family.
:05:11. > :05:17.He had tried many years earlier but had drawn a blank. To meet my
:05:17. > :05:21.family now, if it comes about, who knows, it could be a good thing
:05:22. > :05:25.that I do before I leave this Earth. To meet my family. Why shouldn't I?
:05:25. > :05:28.That was my right but unfortunately it was taken away from me when I
:05:28. > :05:41.was little and that is all part of the journey. After all this time,
:05:41. > :05:47.will my natural family accept me? Will they embrace me as an older
:05:47. > :05:51.brother? It is a tall order but one that I am willing to take. I see
:05:51. > :05:58.being —— people being reunited on the television and I would like to
:05:58. > :06:01.think that would be me. Compounding his suffering as a child, Brian was
:06:01. > :06:07.also violently sexually abused over a prolonged period by a Church of
:06:07. > :06:09.England priest. The Reverend Roy Cotton took advantage of Brian's
:06:09. > :06:17.vulnerability. At one stage, he even sought to adopt him. An
:06:17. > :06:28.associate of the priest also sexually abused Brian. Cotton died
:06:28. > :06:33.before justice could be served. If my mother was still alive I would
:06:33. > :06:43.probably keep that from her. The Guild with just kill her. —— the
:06:43. > :06:48.guilt. Within the pages of his social services file it is clear
:06:48. > :06:53.Brian's mother wanted him back. She made numerous attempts to be
:06:53. > :06:58.reunited with her son. When Brian was five, it says here that his mum
:06:58. > :07:00.stated that she on no account wished for him to be adopted. A few
:07:00. > :07:04.years later, his father also tried to get him back, so as to have the
:07:04. > :07:08.family complete. And in 1971, a visit was set up for Brian's mother
:07:08. > :07:10.to travel down to Eastbourne from Birmingham with a social worker,
:07:10. > :07:18.but the visit never went ahead. Brian's mother couldn't afford the
:07:18. > :07:23.rail fare. She was £3 short as she had to pay a large electricity bill.
:07:23. > :07:26.Although separated by miles, Brian never stopped thinking about his
:07:26. > :07:31.real family. Despite numerous attempts, they were never reunited.
:07:31. > :07:36.I know they attempted to get me back. Unfortunately, decisions were
:07:37. > :07:42.made but I was better off where I was. That was not the case. Brian's
:07:42. > :07:53.always known somewhere out there he has siblings. Brothers and sisters
:07:53. > :07:59.he has never seen. The Bishop of Chichester is today making a
:07:59. > :08:03.personal visit to Brian's house. I have to take a deep breath. I am
:08:03. > :08:08.not a violent person. But, going back a few years, even a year ago,
:08:08. > :08:21.I would not have him near the doorstep. He is here to apologise
:08:21. > :08:36.for the sexual abuse Brian suffered as a child and for the church's
:08:36. > :08:44.failings. How long have you lived here? Brian didn't want us to film
:08:44. > :08:51.the whole conversation, so I left him to discuss matters alone. I
:08:51. > :08:59.thought this was going to be easy. Because of what you have got on.
:08:59. > :09:03.When one hears what somebody has been through in the way that he has
:09:03. > :09:03.it is extremely humbling. But he's a person of amazing integrity,
:09:03. > :09:12.honesty and courage. facing the damage that's been done
:09:12. > :09:16.to his life and working through the way he is, that he's looking for
:09:16. > :09:20.peace and a new start. He gave me the impression that during the 45
:09:20. > :09:23.minutes he was here that, I felt like what he said to me I actually
:09:23. > :09:26.believed him I actually got some kind of comfort and I admired the
:09:26. > :09:35.way he said there was failings and cover—up and lies. He did say, I'm
:09:35. > :09:49.sorry for what the church stole from you. My childhood right up to
:09:49. > :09:52.now, the present day. It's July, and I'm on my way to Birmingham.
:09:53. > :09:55.After months of searching for Brian's birth family, I've managed
:09:55. > :10:20.to track down the younger brother he's never met. To my astonishment,
:10:21. > :10:31.Barry has himself been searching for Brian for 25 years. When I knew
:10:31. > :10:42.he was out there I did not give up in my mind nor my heart. What
:10:42. > :10:50.impact did it have on you? Just to know that there is somebody there,
:10:50. > :10:55.I can put a name to a face. It has always been like a story, like a
:10:55. > :11:01.chapter in the lives —— our lives, this time it is like it is real. I
:11:01. > :11:05.want to see him now. Not tomorrow, next week, I want to speak to him
:11:05. > :11:12.today and to speak to him today. It has been too long. This is the only
:11:12. > :11:20.photo Barry has ever seen of his older brother. But I've got a
:11:20. > :11:30.surprise for him. A recent photo of Brian. It's like I'm opening a door
:11:30. > :11:33.now. If I see him on the street at least I'll know that's my brother.
:11:33. > :11:44.It's been a long time. The person I've always wanted to know and see.
:11:45. > :11:50.It's made my day this has, it's made my life this has now. Barry
:11:50. > :11:53.had tried to find Brian through social services departments in
:11:53. > :12:05.Birmingham and Eastbourne but to no avail. It was really hard because
:12:05. > :12:09.of my mum, she wanted him and every time I'd see her cry it would make
:12:09. > :12:16.me more determined to keep edging on because she couldn't handle it.
:12:16. > :12:32.Brian's mother Margaret died peacefully in Birmingham in 2010.
:12:32. > :12:38.She loved him. Even before she died, two weeks before she died she was
:12:38. > :12:41.crying over him with the photograph. Even on her death bed if she would
:12:41. > :13:07.have just walked through that door and had one look at him, that's
:13:07. > :13:11.what hurts. I'm on my way to Brian's house to inform him of the
:13:11. > :13:14.news about his birth family. I am anxious and nervous about telling
:13:15. > :13:20.him what I discovered. I do not know how he will take the news. He
:13:20. > :13:25.has told me that he believes his birth mother is not alive any more.
:13:25. > :13:32.I do not know whether he is saying that, to try to protect himself.
:13:32. > :13:37.That is in the hope and expectation she might still be around. It will
:13:37. > :13:54.be a very difficult conversation that I will have with him. As you
:13:55. > :13:59.know you asked me to track down the alive members of your birth family.
:13:59. > :14:08.I have found your younger brother Barry. He's 40 years old, he lives
:14:08. > :14:15.in Solihull and has for the last 25 years been searching for you. He's
:14:16. > :14:19.missed you massivley in his life, and he is desperate to get in
:14:19. > :14:34.contact with you, to hear your voice to speak to you and to see
:14:34. > :14:47.you. I thought it was going to be easy... You've got three sisters.
:14:48. > :14:51.Gillian, Michelle and Delia, who is your youngest sister, they are also
:14:51. > :15:06.all desperate to meet you. And are incredibly excited that you've
:15:07. > :15:21.tried to get in contact with them. As you suspected, your mother isn't
:15:21. > :15:41.around any more. She's passed away, but what your brother has told me,
:15:41. > :15:45.she did not stop thinking about you. This is it. This is what I've been
:15:45. > :15:56.waiting for for a long time. Wish me luck.
:15:56. > :16:21.How why you're doing? —— how are you? It has been a long time coming.
:16:21. > :16:38.You look like us. A bit older! Welcome home. I am being brave. Are
:16:38. > :16:43.you all right? You have the same nose and eyes. Everything. It is
:16:43. > :17:32.good to see you. You can't keep hiding behind what
:17:32. > :17:34.happened in the past all the time but to actually get out there get
:17:34. > :17:39.hold of stressful at times. I'm not denying
:17:39. > :17:43.that it hasn't, but it has been well worth it to find out who I am
:17:43. > :17:47.to realise people love me people have been looking for me and that
:17:47. > :17:59.is just worth more than any money in the world I think.
:17:59. > :18:11.Colin Campbell with that special report. Also known as energy gold,
:18:11. > :18:23.lodged Apostles of gas run from Dorset in the West to Kent in the
:18:23. > :18:33.east. —— energy gold. The debate about fracking has been going on
:18:33. > :18:41.for several months. Over the past weeks, protests
:18:41. > :18:46.against exploration have hit the headlines. In Balcombe, news spread
:18:46. > :18:50.that a controversial technique called fracking might be used to
:18:50. > :18:55.extract shale gas if it was discovered. As they attempted to
:18:55. > :19:02.blockade an exploratory well operated by Unlock Democracy, the
:19:03. > :19:09.protesters were joined by an MP. Officers are using pressure points
:19:09. > :19:20.to make them on link their arms. On the left is the Green Party member
:19:20. > :19:23.for Parliament, Caroline Lucas. And she is led away, protesters applaud
:19:23. > :19:31.her and the media rush to get pictures. Alongside the emotions,
:19:31. > :19:35.what are the facts? How realistic is it that the rocks beneath our
:19:35. > :19:39.feet from Dorset to Kent are rich in oil and gas. Only now, new
:19:39. > :19:52.technology can release it. The journey begins on the Dorset coast,
:19:52. > :19:56.not here in West Sussex. This is on the Isle of Purbeck, famous for
:19:56. > :20:02.snorkelling and fossil hunting. This did not bring me to the Dorset
:20:02. > :20:07.beach, but the shale. A professor from Plymouth University has come
:20:07. > :20:11.along to help me understand what it is about a common rock that has got
:20:11. > :20:15.oil companies and the Government excited. While it might be buried
:20:15. > :20:23.underneath land across the south, here, it has risen to the surface
:20:23. > :20:32.and I am about to get a look. You have a body sea bed with life. It
:20:32. > :20:35.gets buried. And then it is cooked, like a pressure cooker. The rocks
:20:35. > :20:45.above press it down and it gets warmer as you push down. That means
:20:45. > :20:51.there is a lot of organic material. Plant and animal February. It is
:20:52. > :21:00.cut into hydrocarbons. And that is what we can see as oil and gas. ——
:21:00. > :21:05.February. Fracking enables us to get at this. The first stage is to
:21:05. > :21:10.drill down one mile and then turned it horizontally and run it through
:21:10. > :21:17.the shale rocks. The aim is to reach to tiny cracks in the rocks.
:21:17. > :21:21.Inside them are molecules of gas. What is left of the cooked up
:21:21. > :21:26.organic matter. The next stages to pumping water and chemicals at high
:21:26. > :21:34.pressure. This will widen the cracks. Tiny grains like sand are
:21:34. > :21:38.added and they are designed to halt the cracks open. It releases the
:21:38. > :21:45.gas, which is flush through the pipe and back—up to the surface.
:21:45. > :21:52.With the arrival of Cuadrilla, Balcombe started to say no as a
:21:52. > :21:59.peaceful protest by residents began. Cuadrilla claims Britain has a lot
:21:59. > :22:10.of reserves right for exploitation. There are fears of an energy
:22:10. > :22:14.Bonanza and pollution. I do not trust the fracking industry, to be
:22:14. > :22:22.honest. It has worked in America, great, good for them, they have
:22:22. > :22:25.vast wide—open plains and maybe it suits their topography. The South
:22:25. > :22:29.East is densely populated. Why would they think of doing it here?
:22:29. > :22:37.There are too many risks to pollution, to water. This is all
:22:38. > :22:48.about money, all about the Government with dollars in its eyes
:22:48. > :22:53.and not the welfare of communities. Within days, people described as
:22:53. > :22:58.professional protesters and others joined from nearby Brighton. They
:22:58. > :23:04.pointed out Cuadrilla had been forced to suspend fracking in the
:23:04. > :23:08.north—west after minor earthquakes. They had to withdraw a brochure
:23:08. > :23:13.which the Advertising Standards Authority said exaggerated evidence
:23:13. > :23:20.about the safety of fracking. Cuadrilla has said repeatedly it
:23:20. > :23:24.has no plans to carry out extraction at Balcombe. We are in
:23:25. > :23:34.deep exploration phase. That is the whole point, Wells such as
:23:34. > :23:38.Cuadrilla. You need data. This is a scientific driven process and you
:23:38. > :23:43.need to assess the data and make the assessment. You need to decide
:23:43. > :23:49.if it needs to happen and it did, would it work? Can it be done
:23:49. > :23:55.safely and sensibly? Until you have done exploration, you need the data.
:23:55. > :24:08.I do not answer questions without data. A lot of people have said,
:24:08. > :24:14.Look, we do not want fracking here, it is bad for the environment. What
:24:14. > :24:23.is the alternative? That is an interesting line, the alternative.
:24:23. > :24:27.The South Downs, recently, of which many of us try to help, they wanted
:24:27. > :24:32.to put wind turbines on the South Downs. It was given open discussion.
:24:32. > :24:39.Planning made the decision to say no. That was three wind turbines to
:24:39. > :24:43.power a number of houses. That is taking you off the grid and that
:24:43. > :24:50.makes sense. People get misled when they think we can provide energy
:24:50. > :24:55.needs from renewables. Energy needs are not just electricity, that is
:24:55. > :24:59.probably one third. Where will the heating come from? Where will
:24:59. > :25:09.people cook? Where will fuel come from? They will need gas. They will
:25:09. > :25:16.need oil. I have no issue with renewables. We need to be realistic
:25:16. > :25:22.that we will need it for decades. The question is should we have them
:25:22. > :25:29.or not, the question is, while we build that share, which is up to 4%
:25:29. > :25:35.of the total energy supply, we have 96% to go, where do we get energy
:25:35. > :25:40.from? Why are we giving five times more taxpayers' money to fossil
:25:40. > :25:45.fuel companies instead of renewables? Because they have power
:25:45. > :25:50.behind the scenes. Lobbyists have their interests served. I am
:25:50. > :25:55.shaking with frustration. Any kind of decent future for our children
:25:55. > :26:01.is sold down the river. How realistic is it that an oil bonanza
:26:01. > :26:09.lies beneath our feet in the south of England? Let's head to Balcombe
:26:09. > :26:14.where the protests are. We do not think the shale is right for
:26:14. > :26:17.fracking. It probably does not have the right type of gas and it
:26:17. > :26:26.probably is not brittle enough to break it to make gas come out. It
:26:26. > :26:32.is to plastic. The place we think is the most perspective is the
:26:32. > :26:38.North of England. Shale is 130 million years old. It sits under
:26:38. > :26:55.Karl that gave the North of England the Industrial Revolution. In Kent,
:26:55. > :27:05.there has been a history of —— coal. People have extracted coal. But the
:27:05. > :27:11.shale underneath that in the North of England is not present in Kent.
:27:11. > :27:15.In Balcombe, many long for the protesters to go home while others
:27:15. > :27:22.welcome the economic benefits. Campaigners remain fearful and
:27:22. > :27:26.determined. I cannot think about having an oil company arriving and
:27:26. > :27:32.telling you that they are planning to drive tankers up and down and
:27:32. > :27:39.pour chemicals into the ground. Our response was not to believe it
:27:39. > :27:43.would ever happened. I have worked in oil and gas exploration all of
:27:43. > :27:52.my working life. You find good Wells, you find and ones that fail.
:27:52. > :27:59.You find some that are fantastic. If you are a betting man, Balcombe?
:28:00. > :28:06.I will not wager. We will wait for the data. How can it be worth the
:28:06. > :28:18.risk? How can you promise you will keep us safe? And you can get more
:28:18. > :28:21.information about the show on the Kent and Sussex website and you can
:28:21. > :28:32.watch the programme again on the website. Next week, on the front
:28:32. > :28:41.line in accident and emergency in Margate. And now it is the GPs who
:28:41. > :28:49.control the budgets, what does it mean for us in Kent and Sussex? I
:28:49. > :28:53.am here because I am concerned about the creeping privatisation of
:28:53. > :28:54.the NHS. Goodnight.