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Hello, welcome to Inside Out. Trapped in Spain, waiting for the | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
bulldozers, the people who sold up here to move there and frankly wish | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
they hadn't. I am livid, because we come here to | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
end our days, in retirement, and it is all taken away from May. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
I take a close look at the science of face blindness, when you're | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
unable to recognise even your nearest and dearest. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
There were moments I would not recognise my own children, so I | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
started thinking, there is something wrong, it is not normal. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
And, how a bunch of murderers and traitors ended up on the national | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
memorial for our war heroes. It is an insult to the families of | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
the victims and to the families of the guys who are commemorated here | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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who of the rows. Imagined selling DUP and splashing | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
out on a dream villa in Spain only to be told it could be demolished | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
at any time. After living and working all their lives in Worthing, | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
John and Christine Bull sold their bungalow and ploughed everything | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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into buying this home. It had been their lifelong dream. Nice coast, | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
beautiful beaches, everything you could want when you retire. You | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
would think this is the dream. it feel like a home, knowing what | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
is handing over you? I think it does, it is still home to me, but | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
they could take it away from us. They are the regional government of | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Andalucia, the Junta, who have branded their house and | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
neighbouring properties illegal, ignoring the fact that the local | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
council has approved all the buildings and issued the owners | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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We should not be on to this level of stress at our stage of life. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Through no fault of our own. People at our age start getting illnesses, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
and stress does not help. John and Christine want to move back to | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Sussex. They now have grandchildren there, and since the move, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Christine has been diagnosed with cancer. But she and John can't go | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
anywhere. You have got that nagging think in the background all the | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
time. Will they knock it down? Will the bulldozer, over the hill | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
tomorrow? You do not know. We have lost his will, because this house | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
is worth nothing, nobody would buy it. Thanks to the politicians, | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
that's whose fault it is. If you had any doubts about the problem, | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
it is not just one or two. There are 12,697 properties in this | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
valley that have been deemed to be illegal. And in the whole of | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Andalucia, the regional government has overturned local planning | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
permissions so many times that a staggering 300,000 homes could be | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
turned to rubble. And if you think the Junta won't carry out its | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
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Hello. Hello. Hello. This was your Spanish villa. We just have the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
foundations and the swimming pool. After five years of sun, sea and | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
lounging by the pool, one morning, with 20 minutes' warning, the | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Andalucian bulldozers arrived at this villa, named Tranquillity. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
This was the entrance, this was a porch way. Just here of the front | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
door. You walk through into the hallway. We were amazed they | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
scraped all of the tiles off. were that determined? They left you | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
with nothing? The Priors have stayed put. Due to the bizarre | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
planning rules, the garage was deemed legal, so was left untouched. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
They've lived there ever since, adding a shipping-container | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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extension and a particularly novel You are standing in the van, which | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
was a caravan at, which I converted into a bathroom. Living in a garage, | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
and washing in a van. That is your life. Yes. Happy days! Helen and | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Len have good reason to feel particularly singled out. These | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
houses having problems as well? is just this one. How does that | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
make you feel? Really angry. I could put a knife in somebody's | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
back because of the stupidity of it. We think they picked our name out | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
of a hat. They just wanted to demolish a house. I think they have | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
picked on a house that was legal just to say, if we cannot this one | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
down, we can knock any bodies down. They want to force of their will | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
upon the local councils, who have always in the past have the right | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
to issue building licences. Suddenly, there is a change. It is | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
like West Sussex County Council telling Worthing Town Council, that | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
building is illegal. So, the dreams of a life in Spain for thousands of | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
Brits are left literally in ruins. Welcome to my house in Spain. Moved | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
here seven years ago. Not a brick has been laid since. The Browns | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
sold their �300,000 Hampshire home to come here. Now they are stuck, | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
unable to move in, unable to return home. This is through no fault of | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
your own? As far as we know, reported in good faith. Solicitors, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
architects, signing off every little bit of concrete they put in. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Just to be stopped. Will you ever see your money out of this | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
place,...? We have been told not to. Those who actually have inhabitable | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
homes aren't allowed mains water or electricity because the houses have | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
yet again retrospectively been deemed illegal. You are living off | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
generators and leisure batteries, but you have already paid to be | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
connected to the grid. Yes, 13 of us paid 120,000 euro between us to | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
get the infrastructure put-in. They agreed we could do it. When we got | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
it done, they said, you cannot have it put up, because you or illegal. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
To make matters worse, the Spanish government has launched a UK-wide | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
campaign to try and get more Brits to move to Spain and boost its | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
flagging economy. To have somebody from the Government over their | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
promoting ourselves, no way! He should not have been let in the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
country. It is a case of, give me money. That is all the authorities | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
want you to do. An air of limbo hangs over the whole area, as the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Andalucian Junta sticks to its guns and court actions fail to make | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
headway. While Len and Helen fight to rebuild their home, they are | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
also battling for compensation for the stress caused. You'd think | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
that'd be a no-brainer. We are just completing this questionnaire we | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
need to do for the psychiatric testing. We have 567 questions on | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
this paper. And we have 175 on the other paper. They are trying to | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
prove it has not been stressful? Living in a garage? Seeing your | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
house Knockdown. It has not done us any harm! They ask me for four | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
hours, asking about heart problems, prostate problems, headaches the. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
If this is not enough to send anybody barmy, goodness knows what | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
is. Every month, hundreds of Brits, many of whom are facing demolition | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
orders, gather to discuss tactics. The bottom line, the Andalucian | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
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government isn't budging, and the They gave us permission, we built | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
the house, then they tell us we were wrong. They are not wrong, we | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
are rock. People in the UK do not realise the full scale of the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
problems. It is horrendous. We have done everything they have given us | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
the paperwork for. Now they say, we should not have done it. It is all | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
of our money. Even if we can find a solution, the length of time it can | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
take, many people may not see a solution in their lifetime. Time to | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
ask some tough questions about what the Spanish government is doing to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
sort out the unbending line being taken by the Junta. We explain our | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
findings to the ambassador. central government has no | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
competence, because the powers have been devolved. But the Government | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
is putting pressure on regional governments and on local | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
authorities to have a look at those problems, to try to see how we can | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
help the affected families. Could you have an amnesty, could you draw | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
the line? If you are talking about houses that were built with | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
permission by the town hall and then considered not illegal by the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
regional authorities, in those cases, I hope they should be a | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
solution. The ambassador's manana response isn't what our Brits want | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
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to hear. Frustrated and trapped abroad with no road home. I know of | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
quite a few people who have gone back, they have gone back with | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
pockets empty, and they have had to throw themselves on the mercy of | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
the council and say, I am homeless, give us a flat. So many people have | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
gone back, they have closed their doors, and that is not the answer. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Why do not see why they should be allowed to win when people did | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
nothing wrong. You have got to fight. If you know you are right, | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
you'd have got to fight. I wish we had never bought. If you want to | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
come to Spain, rent. Do not buy. For God's sake, do not buy. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
If you have been caught out overseas or you think you might | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
have a story for us, drop me an e- mail. | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
How are you at faces? We all struggle from time to time to put | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
an end to a face. Imagine if you could not recognise your children | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
or even yourself. You lived in a state of low-level | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
confusion. I always believed I was socially incompetent. There were | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
moments I would not recognise my children, and at that point, as I | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
started thinking, there is something wrong, it is not normal. | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
The these women have a rare condition, they cannot recognise | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
faces. I had not realised my daughter was going to be catching a | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
bus. I stood behind her. She stood in front of me, staring at me. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
After a couple of minutes, she went, mum! Say hello! I had not realised | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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it was her. To if I am alone in the bathroom, the person in the mirror | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
is May, but if it is somewhere more public, I did not look for my own | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
face any more than I would look for anybody else's. If I gave you a | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
photo album, could you pick yourself out? If I know the | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
photograph, will pick myself out. If I do not know the photograph, I | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
might not. Monica and Joe are not alone. At Bournemouth University, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
they estimate that one in 50 of us suffer from some form of the | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
condition. Face blindness if -- is another name for the loss of memory | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
for faces. These people can recognise objects and other | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
categories of things, and it is specific to faces. They know what a | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
face is, they know the basic configuration of a face, but they | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
failed to identify individuals, no matter how close those people are | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
to them. The bomb and sat down on the bench quite close to be, anyway | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
a stranger would not -- the woman sat down. When she spoke, I | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
realised it was my daughter. Today, I'm going to play guinea pig to a | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
brand-new test that helps identify people who are good or bad at face | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
recognition. I will ask you to look at these images and process them in | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
your mind. I can show you where you were looking for each face, and had | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
you explored at face visually. look at each image for five seconds, | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
and without knowing it, my eyes are tracing a regular pattern in order | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
to take in the faces' unique characteristics. Is there a normal | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
way which people should read a face? Normally, we see a triangular | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
pattern of eye movement. This moves between the key internal features, | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
the eyes, nose and mouth. I am not looking at hair or ears or chain. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
That is what will be interesting to see in our sufferers, because we | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
expect them to come out of the internal features and a cut the | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
hair and chain, the ear shape in particular. That is an interesting | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
point, what they rely on is the stuff that can change. That is why | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
they compensation to structures break down and they failed to | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
recognise people. How would you recognise me? In this group, you | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
are the bald one. That is a bit harsh! You did ask! You are looking | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
for key features? I go to a family history group, there are 10 people, | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
free meant, and one of there is bought. -- three men. I cannot | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
expect to spot him in a supermarket, because they might be 50 bald men | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
there. Some people have elaborate strategies. They might recognise | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
somebody because they are in their local pub and they know that person | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
works behind the bar, so it must be them. They used context as a cue. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
It is when the context is taken away and they cannot rely on the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
strategies at all, and that is when they are completely stuck. I had | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
gone for an interview when I was 20, and interviews were much less | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
managed in those days, they did what they wanted to do. I was | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
interviewed by a dog head gite in a dark suit, who left the room. -- 8 | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
dark-haired man. He then came back. It was not the same man. I only put | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
this together afterwards, when we had had a disjointed conversation, | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
where he was trying to start aAt inquiry, and I was trying to pick | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
up on what had been said before. They must have thought I was mad. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Paul Schofield from the Isle of Wight has come to Bournemouth to | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
have his face-recognition skills analysed. When I was at secondary | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
school, I started realising I could not recognise people in other forms. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Paul learnt the hard way the consequences of his undiagnosed | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
face blindness as a teenager. a girl that I quite liked, she had | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
not got a telephone, so a week later, I called round her house to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
ask her out, and this person answered the door, which are | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
thought was a friend or a sister, I said, is she in? It was her. When I | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
asked if she would like to go out, she said no, because I did not | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
recognise her. Although Paul has been happily married now for 31 | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
years, he wants to gain more of an understanding of his face blindness. | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
He thinks the results might help him come to terms with his disorder. | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
It is socially awkward. It prevents you from being more for what, | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
because you do not want to cause people embarrassment as well as | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
causing embarrassment to yourself, because people do not like not to | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
be recognised. That is the end of the tests, so you can relax now. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Instead of forming a triangle from the eyes to the mouth like I did, | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
Paul seems to be focussing on less individual features. You have | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
looked at the mouth Emir, more than that I ever. -- looks at the mouth, | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
more than looking at the eye. The control subjects focus on the eyes. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
You are almost in in the reserves - - you are almost doing the reverse. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
It may seem like a small difference, but the consequences can be | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
dramatic. I found a picture of Brian Cox in the Radio Times. Not a | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
problem. I went over the page, and there was a similar picture, the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
same angle, the same hair, but the only snag was that Brian Cox appear | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
to be wearing a dress. My brain kicks in at that point, and I | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
thought, it is OK, it is Comic Relief this week. When I read the | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
caption, I found it was an actress. If that was real people, and he | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
went down a completely wrong direction like that, but you are | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
talking to someone and trying to have a conversation at the same | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
time, that can get extremely complicated, because you are trying | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
to make the facts fit what you think you are seeing. How was it? | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
Quite well, it was very interesting. He is the first person to try this. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Yes, this particular test. What did she find out? When I did the first | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
one, and we looked at the analysis, I was looking at the person's mouth | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
more than looking up the eyes, but in my mind, and was looking at the | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
eyes quite a lot. Will that change how you look at people? It might do, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
but some of the others, we discovered that I was looking at a | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
wider field of view, looking at the ears and for heads. With one in 50 | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
of the population suffering from some form of this disorder, it's | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
likely we all know someone with face blindness. Getting a diagnosis | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
is good, but once you have had it, you want to know how much of your | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
life it has affected. I am doing this to help other people. If | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
somebody has it seriously... Children cannot recognise their | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
parents, husbands cannot recognise their wives. I am helping with the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
research to help them. Since I have known about it, I do now have an | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
identity, of which I did not have before. I am not socially | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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incompetent! The sobering sight of the graves of | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
our war dead. Not the sort of place you would expect tales of murder | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
and treachery. So you would think This is the story of a Nazi spy who | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
disguised himself as a British prisoner of war so that he could | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
get information from genuine prisoners. A spy who was hanged for | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
treason, but whose name is still on a heroes' memorial here at | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
Covering 37 acres, Brookwood military cemetery is the largest | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
military cemetery is the largest military cemetery is the largest | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Commonwealth cemetery in Britain. 1,600 people from World War I are | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
buried here. Many had come to the UK to be treated for wounds from | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
which they never recover. From World War II, nearly 4,000 heroes | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
from Commonwealth countries, as well as a number of US personnel, | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
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are buried here. Overlooking their final resting place, this memorial, | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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to those with no known grace. -- grave. Here are the names of 3,500 | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
people who gave their lives for their country. They include those | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
who fell during the campaigns in Norway, commandos killed in the | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
daring St Nazaire raid and special agents who were murdered as | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
prisoners of war. But alongside the undoubted heroes are three names of | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
men who weren't missing in action, men who were hung and buried in | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
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mass graves at Pentonville and This memorial has been built in | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
honour of 3500 soldiers of the land forces of the Commonwealth. When it | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
was opened to great fanfare by the Queen, nobody realised that a | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
handful of criminals were included in the roll of honour. All upheld | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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the proud traditions of their Why have we got spies and | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
murderers? It seems incredible, but at the end of the war, the War | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Office made a decision that anybody who died in military service, | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
however they died, would be commemorated. These people who were | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
executed felons were at the time of their death serving personnel, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
because the Army either overlooked or forgot to give them a | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
dishonourable discharge. The day they were executed, they were | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
serving personnel. One of there is here on panel 17. Shurck, a serving | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
British soldier, was captured by the Germans at Tobruk in North | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
Africa. He was imprisoned, and it was then that his loyalties changed. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Whilst in the camp, he turned across to the enemy side, and he | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
would go round, befriending the British officers within the camp, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
trying to extract information from them. How was he caught? It was | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
realised at the time by other officers. At the end of the war, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
the matter was reported to the authorities, and he was arrested. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
What was his fate? He was hanged in a British prison and buried in the | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
prison yard. This memorial for heroes with no known grave, we know | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
where he lies. Absolutely. Perhaps one of the most disturbing stories | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
is that of Gunner Ernest Kemp. On a cold February in 1944, Iris Miriam | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
Deeley was returning to RAF Known as Miriam to her friends, she | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
had been away for the weekend to visit her fiance. Due to an air | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
raid, she missed her connecting train and found herself walking the | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
final part of her journey to her barracks from Lewisham station on | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
foot with three others. Just outside Kidbrooke Church, only 400 | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
yards from her destination, two of her fellow travellers turned for | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
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home, leaving Miriam and the Her body was discovered two days | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
later by allotments here. She had been strangled with her own scarf. | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Gunner Ernest Kemp, an army deserter, was arrested. He then | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
confessed to her murder. During his trial, compelling evidence led the | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
jury to find Ernest guilty of Miriam's murder. On the morning of | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
6th June 1944, Kemp was executed. And his body was buried within the | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
And it wasn't just British criminals who mistakenly ended up | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
gracing the tablets on Brookwood's war memorial. On this panel, we | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
have got a man from the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. He was a | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
North American Indian, convicted for the wigwam murder. He had a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
relationship with a younger girl. The circumstances of the murder of | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
vague and obscure, but he murdered her and buried her body on an army | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
training ground not far from here. He was a North American Indian, and | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
he constructed a wigwam, which they lived in on the edge of this | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
training ground. They were there for some weeks, they were | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
occasionally moved on, but this was their home. There was a rumour that | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
she was pregnant? Yes, it is possible that was the motive. He | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
protested his innocence until the end, but too much time had elapsed, | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
and at the post-mortem, they could not tell if she was pregnant or not. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
He was executed as a murderer in a British prison. And buried in a | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
mass grave? Yes. While some people are calling for the names to be | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
removed, others say the time has passed, and although a few names | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
are there in error, the memorial itself remains a moving tribute to | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
some of the most heroic deeds of the Commonwealth in the Second | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
World War. Although Iris Miriam Deeley was buried with military | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
honours at her local cemetery, the fact that her killer's name still | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
adorns a national memorial is a source of shame to historian Andy | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
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Here we are, in a memorial for he raised, and we have these men who | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
were far from heroes. In my view, they should not be here. It is an | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
insult to the family is of the victims, and to the family's of the | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
people who are commemorated here. From that point of view, the names | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
should be removed. We traced one of Miriam's surviving relatives to | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
Australia. In a letter to us, he said that he regards it as an | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
abomination that the murderer's name is commemorated alongside | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
those of decent men and women who paid the supreme sacrifice. He goes | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
on to say that he feels entitled in one of her precious memory to | :28:11. | :28:21. | |
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request that the killer's name be removed from the memorial. | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Despite the family's requests, the MoD says there are no plans to | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
change the memorial. Do not forget the e-mail address. I | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
will see you on next Monday. Next week, the big university | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
challenge. With fees set to rocket across the South, is that degree | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
going to be worth the cash? And, bringing the wild back home. | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
These are not cuddly bears. They can be, on their terms. What price | :28:49. | :28:54. |