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Welcome to Inside Out. Park yourself on the sofa, here is what | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
is coming up. I go undercover to meet the South's controversial car | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
clamper. Are you Mr White? How can you | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
justify �600? Disgusting the amount of money he charges. You cannot | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
just take my car. Go on then. Dressing up for a taste of the 16th | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
century. We almost felt we were there. Instead of being dull | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
history, it is real. Keeping your mind active and getting a feel for | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
the past. I am sure you'll wander round and | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
let them feel the jewels. Not those jewels. | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
And the most difficult decision He was the life and soul of the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
party, next rugby player, alpha male. One man's fight to change the | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
law on assisted suicide. I can't see how anybody would think is | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
right to take his own life has been taken away. Some days this life | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
gets too much for me had a break down and cry. This is Inside Out | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Stop at any private car park these days and you may well find a sign | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
warning that you could be clamped. Here in the Southampton area one | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
firm seems to be everywhere, White's Car Park Solutions. Its | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
boss Jason White has certainly hit the headlines. In the past angry | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
motorists have even beaten him up. Most recently in Winchester he was | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
threatened with a meat cleaver. So what is it that makes them so | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
angry? After all, he's only doing his job. All these motorists have | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
been clamped by Mr White's company and what makes their blood boil is | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
how the costs can rack up, especially if you are towed away. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
We were talking �800, you have to pay �420. Tough, �400. �564 in | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
total. �684, 40 p. We thought we'd have a look at the way he operates. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
We did ask Mr White if we could come out clamping with him, but he | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
declined, so I'm going to go undercover. Using possibly one of | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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the worst disguises ever seen on TV, roller skating accident. Nasty. It | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
appears young or old, crutches or no crutches, anyone's fair game. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
It was an area I have parked in lots of times before. I visit a | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
friend there. I had no idea it had been made a prohibited area so | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
didn't look for any signs or anything like that. Then when I | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
came back later the car had gone. I thought it had been stolen. It was | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
a big shock. 90-year-old Dennis Wilson wasn't | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
displaying his disability badge, when he parked on a site patrolled | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
by Whites. His car was seized, and because it was a Friday, they said | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
he couldn't collect it till after the weekend. And the total bill? | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
By the Monday it was �300 for towing away, 184 the clamp. Four | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
days' storage at �42. Then on top of that, you are virtually a | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
obliged to pay by credit card because not many people can lay | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
their hands on �800 on the spur of the moment. And they charge 5% of | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
the total. So my total I paid was �680.40. That's a tidy sum! Now | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
we're on our way to a car park to get clamped. So what are the rules | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
on this business? There's never a car parking expert when you need | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
one. What Patrick Troy doesn't know about parking isn't worth knowing. | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
Clamping on private land is an unregulated industry. We have a | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
code of practice our members have to comply with. But it is voluntary | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
and company you are investigating isn't a member. So Whites, by not | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
signing up, don't have to keep to the guidelines. OK, so what are | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
their rules? Let's park somewhere we shouldn't. A private staff car | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
park in Eastleigh in Hampshire. Sorry, Blockbuster. While my | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
pretend sister and I go off shopping this happens. Been | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
clamped? You are joking. How much will it cost? Her 180. 180 quid? | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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Yes. For pudding a Camborne? Yes. - - for put in a clamp on. To make | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
matters worse, if I don't pay up, this guy tells me he will summon | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the tow truck and take my car away. How will I get �180? Not our | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
responsibility. If we can't get the money? You will be towed. Cos it | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
will cost it more to get it towed, won't it? Cost you �300 if I have | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
to call the tow truck. �300! That's ridiculous. My wallet's emptying | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
fast. �180 for the clamp release and on top of that a possible �300 | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
tow-away fee. It seems there's nothing I can do it about it. It | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
wasn't reasonable and by any definition that was excessive. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
we say in our code is that you either have a clamp release fee or | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
you have a towaway fee, you can't charge both. If you are removing | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the vehicle after you've clamped it. There should be one charge it is | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
meant to be a deterrant, and it's a deterrent to the motorist to park | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
in there in the first place. It shouldn't be excessive and it | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
shouldn't be unreasonable. After a fake trip to the cash point | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
I pretend I can't get the �180. The car therefore will be taken to the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
compound. But then there's the matter of getting it back. And then | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
do I go there and get the car? our compound, he deals with it in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
other ways. What do you mean other ways? We'll, he'll bring it back. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Now I know the Whites compound is just a few minutes away, but I'm | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
told I can't collect my car. They'll have to deliver it to me, | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
and guess what? That's another 50 quid. He'll charge for delivery. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Well I don't want him to deliver. want to come and pick it up. You | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
are saying that if it does get towed back to the compound I can't | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
come and pay the money tomorrow. Overnight charges I'll get charged | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
as well and then on top of that he's going to say I'm going to you | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
and that will cost me money. I can't come and get it. You're just | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
making it up. Now there's no going back on the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
fact that I've parked somewhere I shouldn't. But imagine what's it's | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
like if you haven't parked wrongly in the first place and you still | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
get clamped. Like Holly who says she'd simply parked in her own | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
parking space outside her flat. knew my pen it was displayed, I was | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
in the right car-park, the right space -- my permit. It wouldn't be | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
out of date for another six months or so. She says White's told her | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the permit was out of date and she had to pay up. Holly took the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
matter to the county court and White's were told to pay back the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
clamping fee. To date she hasn't received a penny. Mark says he was | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
also wrongly clamped. He claims it was a case of an overzealous | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
clamper operating in a neighbouring car park. Next door's premises have | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
clamping zone and I asked him to release the clamp but he phoned his | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
office and was told he wasn't allowed to until the fee was paid. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
So Mark decided to take matters into his own hands. I got an angle | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
grinder from my premises and cut if off. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
But you got in trouble for doing that. I got arrested for criminal | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
damage and taken to court. On second court appearance I pleaded | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
not guilty. Mr White and his merry men didn't turn up and the case was | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
Meanwhile the boss himself Jason White has arrived and is preparing | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
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to take my wheels away. And it's all going to cost me �614. Are you | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Mr wide? How can you justify �600? Doesn't cost you �600 to run a tow | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
truck. Government doesn't say �600. That is rubbish. White's signs do | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
list all the charges he's come up with so he could say we've all been | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
warned. But there's a lot of charges, and a lot of small print. | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
Aren't you going to give me paperwork? You can't just take my | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
car. The law's not clear enough. I'm in the wrong straight away. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
It's disgusting the amount of money he charges. Disgusting the way he | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
conducts his business. If you don't pay it there and then. Looking at | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
hundreds of pounds. Not fair at all. The next day at a time decided by | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Whites Car Park solutions, I'm told to return to Blockbuster car park. | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
Our man wants his cash, but there's no sign of my car. You got to pay | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
me now, sign a receipt and then he'll bring it back. Until you hand | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
it over to me that vehicle's not coming back. Look there's the cash, | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
I need it in my hand I need to take the payment. Even though I'm | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
showing you the money I cant see my car. I need to take the payment. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
It's the way he does it, mate. a joke. You guys get funnier every | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
time. So I hand over the �600. And Mr White rings to check the | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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transaction is complete. Yeah, all While he writes the receipt it all | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
starts to come out. This clamper seems to have a heart. I really do | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
feel sorry for people really, but if I felt that sorry why would I do | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
the job. But I genuinely do feel sorry for people. The worst part is | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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taking money. I hate taking money off people I really do. I earn good | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
money every month. Heart to heart over, it's back to business. Cue Mr | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
White and my car. Now the small matter of getting my car off his | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
truck. Do you want to drive it off? I can't drive. I've got to wait for | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
my sister. In the end we push it off. How do you come up with your | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
fees? You need to speak with the government about that. They | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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authorise to do this. The fees. government? Yes. So if I want to | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
complain about the fees. You need to write to us or the SIA. Who are | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
they? They regulate us. In fact, it's the SIA, the Security Industry | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Authority, who issue clampers like Mr White with their licences, but | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
they won't investigate individual complaints. And as for Mr White's | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
claim that the government authorises the fees, that's rubbish. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
In fact, next year there's expected to be a new law that bans clamping | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
on private land altogether. We did ask Mr White for an interview but | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
he didn't take us up on our offer. So for now he's at liberty to carry | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
on clamping and charging fees that the British Parking Association | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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says considerably exceed it's guidelines. This isn't about | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
extortion this is about managing private land and clamping is simply | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a means of managing private land. It shouldn't be seen as a way of | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
making lots of money out of people or of extorting money out of people. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Seven months after he was clamped World War II veteran Mr Wilson is | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
still fuming. The man is absolutely beneath | :12:34. | :12:43. | |
contempt. A lot of my friends were killed fighting for the freedom | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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that Jason White uses, misuses to If you think you have been unfairly | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
treated, get in touch. Next, where we you when they raised the Mary | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
Rose? It was 11th October, 1982. And Monday, I believe. He would | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
have full back then nearly 30 years on she would still be changing | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
Today a group of visually impaired people from Waterlooville are going | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
back in time. Henry, are you going to get dressed now? Artefacts from | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, along with replicas, are giving | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
this place a Tudor makeover. You be the doctor, Brian. This is a scheme | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
that channels the magic of the past into contemporary lives, by taking | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
historic relics out of the museum. I think they're meant to be tied, | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
let me put your arm. I have incorrectly untied them. Are you | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
managing? In your transformation process? I don't think Anne Boleyn | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
lived as long as you. Well done, Henry, take a seat. I will go and | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
see if I can find a codpiece. of people don't understand how the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
men were living, so by me taking the artefacts out to them, they can | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
start to understand and handle the pieces they were using on-board the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
ship. And are there specific groups you target? Yes. There are special | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
needs groups like the stroke people, recovering from a stroke. Visually | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
impaired, day centres, any group who would really benefit by me | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
going to them, rather than them and to the museum. Let's touch a bit of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
wood, from the Mary Rose. Shall we? Just to get into it. Let's feel | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
some of the original wood from the Mary Rose. So the pieces of wood | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
you are holding now, this would be at least 100 years older than the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
ship. This piece of wood going around would be about 600 years old. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
So nearly as old as me. Here at the Mary Rose Museum in | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Portsmouth the hull of the once great flagship now rests in a | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
special drydock where she is 29 years into a conservation programme. | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
And her contents bring real insight into life during the Tudor period. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
I think one of the reasons why the Mary Rose has such an incredible | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
endurance appeal is that she gives us a real glimpse into the choose | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
your world, as it once was, on board the ship nearly 500 years ago. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Just take a look at some of these. Beautiful artefacts. This is a | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
pewter plate. OK, it has seen better days, but it gives you a | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
real idea that this was what the officer used when in comparison | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
with them all humble members of the group would have eaten from these | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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wooden bowls. One man who is directly inspired by the history of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
the Mary Rose is Neil Clements. of these pieces you can see on the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
table are genuine pieces of the Mary Rose. These are all over 500 | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
years old. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Navy Raiders | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Freefall Parachute Display Team when during a training session he | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
faced his worst nightmare. As I had to steer the parachute away from | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
avoiding a collision with somebody else, we got out the plane, the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
parachute collapsed at 400 foot above the ground so I felt at 80 | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
miles an hour and hit the ground and broke my neck, broke my leg, | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
shattered my pelvis, and a crash helmet I was wearing pierced my | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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skull and gave me a brain injury. I was left in a coma for up to 12 | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
weeks afterwards, totally unconscious. The last thing I can | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
remember is going to see my mother just before the accident happened, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
a couple of days beforehand, to see my mum at Mother's Day. This | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
cannonball here was fired from the iron guns on board the Mary Rose. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
That is handcarved from a limestone called Kentish rag stone. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Eight years on, and after painstaking therapy Neil has become | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
part of the Mary Rose team. I volunteer here at the Mary Rose | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Museum giving presentations every Monday. Basically, it helps improve | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
my speech, and my memory. My short- term memory was very bad. That has | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
improved. My mobility has now improved as well. I have to travel | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
from where I live over to here. So that has helped me as well. This is | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
King Henry. Back at Waterlooville Trevor and | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
the group are getting into the swing of things, with some old- | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
fashioned bawdy humour. This is King Henry's undergarments. This is | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
quite good, because for those who can't see it, I am sure you will | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
wander around and let them touch you. Feel the jewels and the fine | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
materials. Not those jewels. behind the fun and frolics this bit | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
of hands-on experience has made a real difference. Go on then, right | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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back! Trevor is excellent. He really explained everything to us. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
He let us touch things we couldn't see, feel them, a lovely lecture, | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
it really was. Trevor made it real. We almost felt we were there. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Because he brings it to life. And instead of being just a bit of dull | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
history, it is real. It has educated us. Now we are looking | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
forward to it, we are looking forward to going to the museum and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
see some more. We can learn some more. The more you can learn, the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
better. When Sam Davis attended one of the | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Mary Rose presentations he didn't know it would change his life. At | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
the time he had just come through a major health scare. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
I was a taxi driver, and all of a sudden I thought, I don't know | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
where this is, I don't know where I am going. I literally pulled the | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
car over into a parking space, stopped the car, and radioed | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
through to the leaders and I said, I'm sorry, I can't remember where I | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
am going, can you help me? In the wake of the stroke, what | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
were your symptoms? Apparently I just switched off for | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
five days. Woke up, I couldn't speak, can read, couldn't do | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
anything. I had to learn to actually speak again and as you can | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
see, now after nearly two years, I have moved on from that. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Sam now works as a volunteer at the Mary Rose Museum. It has given me a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
reason to be here, quite frankly. To be honest, without something to | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
do on a regular basis, I didn't see much point in it. But I was looking | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
for work. Not necessarily for the money, just to feel useful, really. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
In some way. Even if I wasn't using all of my old skills, at least I am | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
coming down here and feeling a little bit more useful. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
There is a sort of sense of community, really, that has built | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
up around the project, around the legacy of the ship, if you like. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Yes. There are a lot of people out there who have got something to do, | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
if they are given the chance. And fortunately now I am one of them. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
There is the wreck of the Mary Rose, what an amazing sight. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
30 years after these images first inspired the nation the Mary Rose | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
is still touching and repairing Finally, it is one of the most | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
controversial ethical questions of our time. Is it ever right to | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
assist in the death of a loved one. In a few weeks' time the Commission | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
on assisted dying will publish its recommendations on what system, if | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
any, should be put in place. Like most people I didn't give suicide | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
are thought despite being able to do it legally. Then I had my stroke | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
and it was of life-or-death was taken away from me. It is true you | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
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don't know what you have until you Tony Nicklinson would like to end | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
his life. Six years ago, a massive stroke left him paralysed below the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
neck and unable to speak. His condition is called locked in | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
syndrome. He is rarely able to leave his home in Melksham. Right | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
from the word go, when he was still in intensive care, I said to the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
doctors, he won't want to live like this. We knew it would come. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
because of his disabilities, Tony needs his wife Jane to help him to | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
end his life. For this, she could face a murder charge. So together, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
they are trying to change the law. I can't see how anybody could think | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
it's right that Tony's right to take his own life has been taken | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
away. Jane has told her husband's story to a commission set up to | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
explore whether people should be given assistance to die. In the | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
coming weeks, it'll report its suggestions to Parliament. | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Something in excess of 80% of the population in the UK would like | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
some change in legislation. But the work of the commission has enraged | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
those campaigners who don't want a change in the law. There's no | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
chance of it producing any worthwhile conclusion at all. It's | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
purely a publicity exercise. Tributes have been paid to the | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
husband and wife who travelled to a Swiss euthanasia clinic. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
More than 150 people have ended their lives by travelling from the | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
UK to countries where assisted suicide is legal. Nobody has yet | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
been prosecuted for accompanying them. But assisting somebody to end | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
their life is illegal in the UK, which means Tony Nicklinson must | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
continue to live a life that's unrecognizable from the one he | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
enjoyed before his stroke. He was the life and soul of the party type. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
An ex-rugby player, a real alpha male, bit of a daredevil. You know, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
he went sky diving, did all sorts of crazy things. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Tony could outlive Jane. His condition might not cut his life | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
short. But now, being unable to speak, move or do anything for | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
himself life has become unbearable for him. He communicates using a | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
computer that recognises his eye movements. In my case, I awake with | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
dread, knowing that I will have to endure another session of being | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
manhandled by the carers as they shower and dress me to get ready | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
for yet another tedious day. Some days, this life gets too much for | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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me and I break down and cry. This is not helped by knowing this | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
I have another 20 years or so because they don't have a way out. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
He knows that a time will come when he says enough is enough, and | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
really his only option is Switzerland, which he might | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
possibly consider eventually, if our legal case doesn't pan out, or | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
starvation, which is a very nasty way to go. It seemed critically | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
important to all of us, that we went out to see how those countries | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
that had changed legislation, how the change was managed in practice. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
But I think it's unlikely we'd be able to import any particular | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
system in a country straight into England. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
But some pro-life campaigners think they've already won the debate and | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
the commission is a waste of time. What has happened all over the | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
world is pro-euthanasia societies have spoken a lot about the very | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
rare but very emotive cases of people who could not kill | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
themselves and are seriously want to. This is a tiny number of people. | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
One has to be sympathetic, but it is very important to make sure | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
people understand that disabled people in general are very opposed | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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to any change in the law which protects them at the moment. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
Michael Wenham has motor neurone disease, a degenerative condition | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
that damages the nervous system. He is also worried that a change in | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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the law could affect how society Michael relies on his wife Jane to | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
help him. There may be a time when, like Tony, he is unable to do | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
anything for himself. So Michael agreed to come to Tony's home to | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
discuss face to face, how legalising assisted dying might | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
affect society. Hello, common. Welcome, please make yourself | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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comfortable. Thank you for agreeing But you can determine your own fate, | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
because you can commit suicide without assistance whereas some | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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people cannot. Why deny them the That isn't the issue. It's about | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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Both Tony and Michael await the recommendations the Commission on | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
Assisted Dying will make in the coming weeks. But Jane Nicklinson | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
is determined to keep fighting for the right to help her husband. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Obviously nobody wants to give their husband a lethal dose of | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
something, under any circumstances. If I had to do it, would I be able | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
to do it? I don't know until the time comes. I like to think that I | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
would. It's what he wants and if you love someone, you'd do anything | :27:52. | :28:01. | |
to help them. What more can I do? There's nothing I can do. I don't | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
think people realise what am awful thing it is to see the person that | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
you love in there, and you can't relieve their pain. This is all I | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
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That is it for this week. And if you'd like details of organisations | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
which can offer help on strokes and locked in syndrome then you can | :28:25. | :28:35. | |
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call the BBC action line. Or go to Next week, the so six brothers who | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
designed Britain into the record books. -- Sussex. It was so ahead | :28:40. | :28:45. |