:00:01. > :00:07.Hello, and welcome to Inside Out South West - stories and
:00:07. > :00:14.investigations from where you live. Tonight, the Jersey child abuse
:00:14. > :00:18.scandal. Will a long-awaited enquiry bring justice to victims?
:00:18. > :00:21.This is the last chance for the survivors to be able to have their
:00:21. > :00:24.say, for the truth to be exposed, and for everything to be documented
:00:24. > :00:28.and evidenced. And as police investigate claims on the island
:00:28. > :00:31.against Jimmy Savile, we speak to the man who ran the Jersey abuse
:00:31. > :00:38.enquiry. If we had got that evidence, all of what's happening
:00:38. > :00:43.now might not be happening, because we would have gone and got him.
:00:43. > :00:46.Nick Baker explores a jewel of the South Devon coast.
:00:46. > :00:50.What a great place it is! Berry Head's always been a favourite of
:00:50. > :01:00.mine. I'm Sam Smith and this is Inside
:01:00. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:15.Out South West. The Jimmy Savile scandal is posing
:01:15. > :01:17.tough questions of many institutions, including the BBC. A
:01:17. > :01:19.criminal investigation into Savile and his possible accomplices in
:01:19. > :01:25.child abuse has thrown the spotlight onto Jersey and the
:01:25. > :01:28.island's past enquiry into the abuse of children in care.
:01:28. > :01:35.Campaigners hope there will now be prosecutions of suspects identified
:01:35. > :01:41.during that enquiry but never brought to court.
:01:41. > :01:45.The public face of Jimmy Savile. Good morning Spotlight viewers.
:01:45. > :01:48.Here we are in Jersey creating a bit of litter lout, but it doesn't
:01:48. > :01:52.really matter because I'm going to sweep up afterwards for three
:01:52. > :01:59.shillings an hour. The DJ, TV star and charity fundraiser holding
:01:59. > :02:02.court at Jersey's Battle of Flowers in 1969. Have a look at my queen.
:02:02. > :02:06.This is my queen. There she is - gorgeous. My queen is marvellous.
:02:06. > :02:09.She is the most beautiful queen you ever saw in your life - how about
:02:09. > :02:14.that, then? But the revelations about Savile's dark side have
:02:15. > :02:22.revived appalling memories on the island. Sarah was abused for years
:02:22. > :02:25.at Jersey's now notorious children's home, Haut de la Garenne.
:02:25. > :02:32.Now she lives in chaos, dependent on alcohol. But she's clear about
:02:32. > :02:40.one thing. Jimmy Savile came to Haut de la Garenne. He came several
:02:40. > :02:50.times. Sarah says she became a victim of Savile during one of his
:02:50. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :02:55.regular visits to the home in the '70s. He was a dirty bustard.
:02:55. > :02:58.Carrie Modral campaigns for victims of abuse. She told me that in 2008
:02:58. > :03:01.she went to the police on other accusations whilst living at Haut
:03:01. > :03:06.de la Garenne, on abuse that she suffered, and that she'd also
:03:06. > :03:09.mentioned that Jimmy Savile had visited. And they were in the great
:03:09. > :03:12.hall at Haut de la Garenne and he started touching her
:03:12. > :03:18.inappropriately - hands rubbing up and down her body and tried to put
:03:19. > :03:22.his hand up her skirt. She was 11 at the time. Her sister, who was
:03:22. > :03:25.also there, was nine at the time. I believe that because of the abuse
:03:25. > :03:29.she was already suffering, she knew what was going to happen or likely
:03:29. > :03:36.to happen and she quickly got away from him, grabbed her sister and
:03:36. > :03:39.dragged them out of the hall. disturbing as such allegations are,
:03:39. > :03:45.Savile is only the most high profile of a number of suspected
:03:45. > :03:48.abusers linked to Jersey's care homes. Victims like Sarah believe
:03:48. > :03:54.the island's authorities failed to bring not just Savile to book, but
:03:54. > :03:59.many other perpetrators. She's one of more than 100 people now
:03:59. > :04:03.claiming compensation for what they suffered. Joe, who says he was
:04:03. > :04:08.abused while in care, is one of them.
:04:08. > :04:14.Well, sexual abuse and other things happened. I was in there for more
:04:14. > :04:21.than 18 months and the abuse went on almost the full 18 months.
:04:21. > :04:23.you tell anybody about it? I was told not to. By? By the persons.
:04:23. > :04:31.Because we were just children, If we told anyone they wouldn't
:04:31. > :04:34.believe us anyway. Joe, Sarah and others feel they've
:04:34. > :04:44.been denied justice, despite a long and costly inquiry into allegations
:04:44. > :04:48.of abuse on Jersey stretching back to the 1940s. What had lain a dark
:04:48. > :04:50.secret for so many decades began to be exposed in 2006, when the then
:04:50. > :04:55.commanding officer of the Jersey Sea Cadets was arrested for
:04:55. > :04:59.downloading pornographic images. Jersey police began reviewing other
:04:59. > :05:06.complaints. They made their investigation public and by 2007
:05:06. > :05:10.nearly 70 people had come forward with allegations of abuse. Sarah
:05:10. > :05:15.decided it was time to tell her story. Her son went to the police
:05:15. > :05:21.with her. My mum gave details of what happened, very harrowing
:05:21. > :05:24.details. I found it very, very distressing to be there with my mum,
:05:24. > :05:27.but I felt I had to support her because there was no-one else.
:05:27. > :05:35.flood of allegations against Savile has brought back his mum's worst
:05:35. > :05:39.memories. The news re-ignites this, recently Jimmy Savile. She's, she's
:05:39. > :05:45.crumbled under it, she hasn't... She's not strong enough to cope
:05:45. > :05:51.with it. Jersey police say they have no record of Sarah reporting
:05:51. > :05:55.abuse by Savile. They do say, however, they had a complaint about
:05:55. > :06:01.him from someone else. The man - John - recently went on Jersey's
:06:01. > :06:05.Channel TV to repeat what he told police in 2009. He put me on his
:06:05. > :06:15.knee and he put his hand up my leg and then it went further and that
:06:15. > :06:25.was it. When he'd finished doing whatever he did, I felt dirty
:06:25. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:34.afterwards. And horrid. We've learned that John's complaint was
:06:34. > :06:43.passed to the island's prosecutors, who decided there wasn't enough
:06:43. > :06:53.evidence to proceed. I'm very, very angry because I did mention it to
:06:53. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:08.the police before and I don't think they even spoke to him. The officer
:07:08. > :07:12.who started the wider abuse investigation had retired by then.
:07:12. > :07:16.I never saw statements saying that "Jimmy Savile assaulted me." I wish
:07:16. > :07:18.I had, I really wish I had because if we had got that evidence, all of
:07:18. > :07:27.what's happening now might not be happening, because we would have
:07:27. > :07:32.gone and got him. That would have been a huge, significant boost to
:07:32. > :07:35.the confidence of the victims if we'd gone and arrested Jimmy Savile.
:07:35. > :07:38.And I make no apologies for saying that because we were in that
:07:38. > :07:43.situation at the time where we needed to boost the confidence of
:07:43. > :07:46.the victims in coming forward because they'd been so badly
:07:46. > :07:49.treated. While John's allegation didn't lead to a prosecution, the
:07:49. > :07:56.wider inquiry had been making progress since 2008 when a
:07:56. > :07:59.disturbing find ignited media interest worldwide. This was not a
:07:59. > :08:04.chance discovery. Specialist police search teams had been working their
:08:04. > :08:08.way through Haut de la Garenne and its grounds since Tuesday. This
:08:08. > :08:11.morning they discovered what appear to be the remains of a child's body.
:08:11. > :08:16.Harper had received allegations of torture and even possible child
:08:16. > :08:19.murder at Haut de la Garenne. So he ordered a search of the home and
:08:19. > :08:27.under this stairwell was found what appeared to be part of a child's
:08:27. > :08:33.skull. Obviously we now have a duty to make sure that there are no
:08:33. > :08:36.other remains there, and if there are then we have to find them.
:08:36. > :08:42.the search went on, the team found around 60 teeth and what appeared
:08:42. > :08:47.to be more human remains. We found a number of human bones, which were
:08:47. > :08:49.sent off to a laboratory at Sheffield University. The
:08:49. > :08:57.anthropologist in the laboratory there, Professor Chamberlain I
:08:57. > :09:00.think, said in his opinion the bones were human juvenile. Said
:09:00. > :09:09.that they had been fleshed and fresh when they had been burnt and
:09:09. > :09:12.buried, and as you can imagine this set alarm bells ringing. But the
:09:12. > :09:15.scientists couldn't accurately date the bones. And while initial tests
:09:15. > :09:18.on the skull-like fragment indicated it could have been human,
:09:18. > :09:25.another expert suggested it was actually a piece of wood, or
:09:25. > :09:29.coconut. That was a blow to the reputation of the inquiry and the
:09:29. > :09:35.officers in charge. An independent report criticised Harper's handling
:09:35. > :09:39.of the investigation, in particular his releases to the media. Today,
:09:39. > :09:43.Harper is unapologetic for searching the building. In many
:09:43. > :09:52.ways I suppose it was a diversion which led to nothing, but it was a
:09:52. > :09:55.road that we had no choice but to go down. And I think if we'd walked
:09:55. > :10:03.away at any stage then I'd be sitting here now trying to defend
:10:04. > :10:06.the indefensible because we really had no choice but to go in there.
:10:06. > :10:10.Despite this development, Harper and his team were amassing files of
:10:10. > :10:16.evidence against a mounting number of suspects. They included police
:10:16. > :10:20.officers, civil servants and members of the caring professions.
:10:20. > :10:26.When I left we had what I termed 18 priority suspects, but we had well
:10:26. > :10:30.over 100. So I think it was somewhere in the region of 150
:10:30. > :10:33.suspects. We would have put forward files on most of the 18 priority
:10:33. > :10:43.suspects, and I think I reckon that I had enough evidence to charge
:10:43. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:50.probably 12 of them. So far, four people connected to Haut de la
:10:50. > :10:54.Garenne have been prosecuted. Gordon Wateridge, who worked there,
:10:54. > :11:00.was jailed for indecent assaults. Former resident, Michael Aubin,
:11:00. > :11:05.pleaded guilty to gross indecency. And house parents Morag and Anthony
:11:05. > :11:08.Jordan were jailed for cruelty. Their trial was the last to be held
:11:08. > :11:14.in connection with the care home abuse inquiry, which closed in
:11:14. > :11:16.December 2010. Now retired in Scotland, Lenny Harper remains
:11:16. > :11:22.convinced there are other suspects who could have been brought to
:11:22. > :11:26.court. Some of those cases were turned down by the office of the
:11:26. > :11:29.Attorney General - the island's chief prosecutor.
:11:29. > :11:39.On a number of occasions when the law officers' department through
:11:39. > :11:39.
:11:39. > :12:30.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds
:12:30. > :12:32.the Attorney General's office But Lawyer Alan Collins, who is
:12:32. > :12:35.acting for more than 50 people claiming compensation says he
:12:35. > :12:38.understands the concerns over some prosecution decisions. I struggle
:12:38. > :12:48.to understand why in some cases the evidence was not allowed to be
:12:48. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :13:00.tested in the courts. So, I can understand where the victims are
:13:00. > :13:00.
:13:00. > :13:04.coming from. But for all we know there may well be legitimate and
:13:04. > :13:07.very credible explanations, OK? But that's not clear and I can
:13:07. > :13:10.certainly recall one example where a particular victim was told that
:13:10. > :13:14.there was going to be a prosecution, only to be told no there wasn't
:13:14. > :13:16.going to be a prosecution. So you can easily understand as a result
:13:16. > :13:26.of being told that, that there is confusion which then engenders
:13:26. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:37.In 2008 an investigation has promised, four years later the
:13:37. > :13:43.terms of reference have finally been announced. They have waited a
:13:43. > :13:47.long time the victims hope it will lead to some cases being reopened.
:13:47. > :13:52.This is the last chance for the survivors to be able to have their
:13:52. > :13:57.say, the treat to be exposed, and everything to be documented with
:13:57. > :14:02.evidence. The man in charge of criminal justice policy in Jersey
:14:02. > :14:08.says the inquiry would have a wide remit but it might not necessarily
:14:08. > :14:13.mean pieces are revisited. Part and parcel of this inquiry process will
:14:14. > :14:19.be looking at the process that was followed by prosecutors in relation
:14:19. > :14:26.to the decisions. If we discover weaknesses and we have let these
:14:26. > :14:31.people down, what are we going to do? Have you decided? This is more
:14:31. > :14:39.complicated than you are making it. Prosecutors it could not revisit
:14:39. > :14:48.cases that are already looked at. Why? Unless there is new evidence.
:14:48. > :14:55.Why not? Why not? Yes. There might be cases... They could be look at
:14:55. > :15:01.some of these cases. In some cases they have. Should they? I am happy
:15:01. > :15:06.to leave it to the inquiry to come up with a view. Haven't these
:15:06. > :15:11.people waited long enough? criminal justice process never news
:15:11. > :15:19.very fast in relation to these matters. At the moment we do not
:15:19. > :15:24.know if mistakes were made by prosecutors. The government has
:15:24. > :15:28.apologised for failings in the care system and pledged compensation of
:15:28. > :15:34.�60,000 for each victim. Those who grow up suffering cruelty and
:15:34. > :15:40.sexual abuse say they want to seek their tormentors in court. Money
:15:40. > :15:48.isn't the point. It is getting justice. It is getting justice. It
:15:48. > :15:55.has devastated my life. To be a man from Jersey, people with space to
:15:55. > :16:02.work for you, working against you, it is wrong. I just hope that with
:16:03. > :16:09.the Jimmy Savile affair bring this back into the limelight again, that
:16:09. > :16:16.justice for the victims is now going to happen. I have watched my
:16:16. > :16:20.mother go from somebody who was one of the funniest people, one of the
:16:20. > :16:27.most happy-go-lucky people to a real shadow of herself. She is not
:16:27. > :16:35.the person she was. They were in care and it's the one thing they
:16:35. > :16:39.never got. Care. The independent inquiry begins next year, more
:16:39. > :16:47.waiting but also more hope for those who say this is their last
:16:47. > :16:57.chance to justice. And if you have been affected by the issues in
:16:57. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:15.tonight's programme, you can call Next, a stroll around one of the
:17:15. > :17:23.highlights of the South West Coast Lines, a wildlife haven that looks
:17:23. > :17:29.calm and tranquil but is something of a battleground.
:17:29. > :17:32.Berry Head - near, in fact, almost in the fishing village of Brixham.
:17:32. > :17:42.If there's a better nature reserve near a major town in the South West
:17:42. > :17:45.then I'd like to know about it The reserve is run by the Torbay
:17:45. > :17:55.Coast and Countryside Trust perched on the cliffs above Torbay - right
:17:55. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:10.on the doorstep of 100,000 lucky Where land meets the sea is a good
:18:10. > :18:16.place for wildlife. The maritime heath gives way to lovely vertical
:18:16. > :18:21.cliffs complete with breeding seabirds and then this wonderful
:18:21. > :18:24.pristine foreign and Rusland. And some rather lovely rarities. Like
:18:24. > :18:28.this - white rock rose - a real speciality here but nationally rare.
:18:28. > :18:34.And this rest harrow - more of a meadow specialist and abundant at
:18:34. > :18:44.this time of year. And another - viper's bugloss - a beautiful very
:18:44. > :18:48.distinctive plant you tend to find in drier, waste places. One reason
:18:48. > :18:55.in this place is good for wild flowers is beneath my feet. There
:18:55. > :19:00.isn't an awful lot of it, very thin skin of soil. It is so thin the
:19:00. > :19:04.bare bones of the landscape of picking through. This thin soil is
:19:04. > :19:10.a new treat poor which means those big hungry nutrient thirsty plants
:19:10. > :19:14.cannot get a hold and it allows these lovelies to flourish. Plants
:19:14. > :19:17.like this beautiful pyramidal orchid doing well here. Good news
:19:17. > :19:20.for these rare wildflowers then and the insects that thrive on them
:19:20. > :19:30.like this bee taking the last gram of pollen from this valerian and
:19:30. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:35.these beetles mating on a dandelion And in their turn the insect
:19:35. > :19:44.attracts farmland birds. Like this relatively common one a whitethroat
:19:44. > :19:54.in early June singing its heart out. And this much more of a rarity. The
:19:54. > :19:57.This bird has been reintroduced in South Devon and in Cornwall and
:19:57. > :20:00.it's really great to see them thriving some way from the places
:20:00. > :20:03.they been brought back. But all this mix of plant insect and bird
:20:03. > :20:13.life needs a lot of support because left to its own devices nature can
:20:13. > :20:17.take over. The problem is course. They can nest in it and sing but it
:20:17. > :20:24.does have a tendency to get carried away. It swamps other species. It
:20:24. > :20:30.needs to be kept in check. That is easier said than done. This looks
:20:30. > :20:40.like a beautiful floral bank, a perfect place for a picnic but you
:20:40. > :20:41.
:20:41. > :20:45.can see these spiny sections, this course Bush. It could be a course
:20:45. > :20:47.bang. Time to bring in the heavy mob .These beautiful sheep are
:20:47. > :20:50.Solways from St Kilda - really rugged sheep for testing coastal
:20:50. > :21:00.conditions and they like nothing more than gorse shoots and coarse
:21:00. > :21:01.
:21:01. > :21:06.grasses to nibble at and take out. These animals have a job to do.
:21:06. > :21:13.What do you use them for? They are very good at grazing the scrub
:21:13. > :21:18.which is what we want. At this time of year they take out grass species
:21:18. > :21:24.and in winter they will move on to the scrub, the blackthorn and they
:21:24. > :21:28.are good at eradicating it in quite large areas through grazing. It
:21:28. > :21:36.allows the other grasses to flourish. I assume it is working.
:21:36. > :21:40.The flowers have been incredible. He yes, definitely. They are
:21:40. > :21:46.getting into the inaccessible areas that the Rangers cannot cut. They
:21:46. > :21:51.are a valuable tool in our conservation efforts. I guess they
:21:51. > :21:56.add another level of interest as well. They are nice animals to look.
:21:56. > :22:03.Attractive sheep. Yes, I shouldn't say it but they are more
:22:03. > :22:06.intelligence than what to find on most farms. You will get letters!
:22:06. > :22:09.Of course they don't want to eradicate the gorse - it can be a
:22:09. > :22:15.valuable habitat in its own right. Heathland specialists like this
:22:15. > :22:17.stone chat will eat spiders living on the limbs of the gorse. They
:22:17. > :22:22.have a good plant variety here- this linnet taking advantage of
:22:23. > :22:28.seed from a dock head. It's all about getting it things in balance.
:22:28. > :22:33.I have to watch my footing because even though it is not a sharp drop,
:22:33. > :22:38.it is a rather rapid roll into the ocean. It is worth the risk because
:22:38. > :22:47.from here I get to do some of the best sea bird watching available in
:22:47. > :22:51.The place abounds in outstanding seabirds - these razor bills with
:22:51. > :22:59.those unmistakeable beaks. These gannets ever ready to dive into the
:22:59. > :23:01.It's also a bit of an aerial battleground - this peregrine with
:23:01. > :23:11.its unmistakable silhouette rising above the cliffs before swooping
:23:11. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:19.down and past a lucky, and startled This shag is flying to a series of
:23:19. > :23:26.limestone ledges that make a great breeding ground for kittiwakes and
:23:26. > :23:32.the standout species here - the You can spend all day studying
:23:32. > :23:36.these creatures - there over nine hundred of them on the ledges. It's
:23:36. > :23:39.breeding season and you'd think this would be a safe place to breed.
:23:40. > :23:43.But guillemots only lay one egg and they are vulnerable to predators -
:23:43. > :23:50.a study being done here has counted over 20 eggs taken this year it's
:23:50. > :23:56.likely as much as four times that get taken. And these seem to be the
:23:56. > :24:00.culprits - crows. The crows are very intelligent - they've learnt
:24:00. > :24:05.it's hard to get at eggs when the adults are in a row - like an army
:24:05. > :24:11.they can stick together and protect their flanks. The guillemots take
:24:11. > :24:14.it in turns to swoop at the crow. By targeting an isolated bird they
:24:14. > :24:17.have a better chance - the crow goes for the guillemots legs and
:24:17. > :24:27.flicks it off but the guillemot won't give up it comes in and
:24:27. > :24:51.
:24:51. > :25:01.The crow flies back and attacks It's all over. The egg is
:25:01. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:07.unprotected and the crow flies off But there's a twist - all set to
:25:07. > :25:17.tuck in on a nearby ledge the crow is mobbed by a gull who gets the
:25:17. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:26.There's evidence of the cows work all around - empty egg shells right
:25:26. > :25:30.on the cliff edge. This aid has been retrieved from the top. It
:25:30. > :25:34.gives us an opportunity to look at what it's all about. The guillemots
:25:34. > :25:41.have come to breed. This is the focus of their lives. Look at the
:25:41. > :25:46.beautiful marbling on the egg. Every a key is unique. It enables
:25:46. > :25:53.the adults to recognise their own eggs. The other thing but it's
:25:53. > :26:01.quite call about this egg is its shape. It is extreme. There are
:26:01. > :26:06.lots of theories as to why, my favourite is a if you are on a
:26:06. > :26:11.naked rock shelf, you roll off into the sea but a guillemot egg would
:26:11. > :26:15.roll around in a big arc and stays on the shelf. With a precarious
:26:15. > :26:18.ledge and with predators around - it's good to see that most of the
:26:18. > :26:24.eggs do indeed hatch and emerge as chicks. Once they fall off the
:26:24. > :26:28.ledge and into the water they are off. And there is some further good
:26:28. > :26:37.news - parents of eggs that have been lost often have another in the
:26:37. > :26:40.The ledge is the largest breeding site in the south of England and
:26:40. > :26:43.numbers thankfully are on the slight increase. The cliff is
:26:43. > :26:53.protected by law as it's vital the birds aren't disturbed during the
:26:53. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:56.breeding season. When they are disturbed they display this
:26:56. > :27:00.characteristic head bobbing movement. It's thought to be
:27:00. > :27:10.anxiety behaviour. We need to appreciate these birds only from a
:27:10. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:24.I am almost at the end of my visit. You can walk around in a couple of
:27:24. > :27:28.hours but you might want to spend longer in the breeding season. What
:27:28. > :27:37.a great place, it's a favourite of mine. Consider the birds we have
:27:38. > :27:44.seen, most of the species are birds of Conservation Concern, many are
:27:44. > :27:49.struggling against old school farm practices. Birds are suffering
:27:49. > :27:59.because of falling fish stocks but for the time being here everything
:27:59. > :28:04.
:28:04. > :28:06.seems to be doing OK. A rare place this. Long may it continue to be a