:00:07. > :00:13.Hello from Oxford and welcome to Inside Out. He is what is coming on
:00:13. > :00:19.tonight. We investigate a serial fraudster who has been posing as
:00:19. > :00:29.her reality TV producer to target the rich and famous. I can't sleep
:00:29. > :00:30.
:00:30. > :00:35.at the minute. It has led to a lot of problems. How much more can I
:00:36. > :00:42.take. We are out and about with the noise patrols cracking down on
:00:42. > :00:49.student parties in Oxford. It has gone midnight. It is midweek.
:00:49. > :00:54.People are wanting to go to work in the morning. And born the wrong sex,
:00:54. > :00:58.we meet some of the people who have taken the radical step of changing
:00:58. > :01:04.their gender. I can see that life really is worth living because I
:01:04. > :01:14.feel happier myself. I feel comfortable in my body. This is
:01:14. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:32.First, we live in a world obsessed with celebrity. No surprise it
:01:32. > :01:35.became the latest stomping ground for an infamous con man. Convinced
:01:35. > :01:45.big brother contender to take part in a fake reality show and wait for
:01:45. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:57.the backers money to come rolling Reality shows and celebrity
:01:57. > :02:02.television. For those who take part, a quick step to greater fame and
:02:02. > :02:06.fortune, the perfect hunting ground for a fraudster on the make. We are
:02:06. > :02:12.on the trail of a notorious conman who has been back in business using
:02:12. > :02:18.reality TV to target the rich and famous. This guy claimed the world
:02:18. > :02:24.and delivered nothing. We find out how these stars opened their hearts
:02:24. > :02:30.for a reality show that never even existed. How low can someone go to
:02:30. > :02:39.get footage to convince people that you have your TV show. We uncover
:02:39. > :02:44.what our fame loving fraudster was really up to behind the scenes.
:02:44. > :02:49.This is Mario and Lisa. You may recognise them. They shot to fame
:02:49. > :02:59.money appeared in Big Brother. As the spotlight fell off, the couple
:02:59. > :02:59.
:02:59. > :03:03.were left looking for a new project. That is when Mr Michael walked into
:03:03. > :03:09.their lives. He seemed to have it all and was generous with his
:03:09. > :03:14.wealth. A proud supporter of celebrity back to charity, the five
:03:14. > :03:23.stars appeal. I met him through a mutual friend who we were doing
:03:23. > :03:27.some charity work with. He introduced himself as managing
:03:27. > :03:32.director of World screen group. I thought I had met the Almighty God
:03:32. > :03:39.of the industry. They threw in their lot with the silver fox who
:03:39. > :03:45.promised he could relaunch their careers. His famous signature was,
:03:45. > :03:53."I will put you through another level." you will have your own
:03:53. > :03:58.reality show. He was working on an Asian version of Miami Vice. With a
:03:58. > :04:08.contract signed, they set about filming with him and this is the
:04:08. > :04:21.
:04:21. > :04:27.Mario and Lisa spent several months filming with him, sharing their
:04:27. > :04:35.most intimate moments. Filming 18 hours a day, three hours' sleep
:04:35. > :04:45.sometimes and all this pressure. It was hard work. They even recorded a
:04:45. > :04:45.
:04:45. > :04:52.single, supposedly for charity. All the hard work seemed to pay off. He
:04:52. > :04:57.told them a national TV broadcaster had agreed to run the show. He was
:04:57. > :05:03.proper. We were so excited. cried, thinking we have finally
:05:03. > :05:07.done it. But there was no deal and the footage ended up as an eight
:05:07. > :05:15.minute trailer, dumped on the internet. Mario and Lisa were
:05:15. > :05:19.furious. We left him. We parted. We told him we were leaving and wanted
:05:19. > :05:27.nothing more to do with him. said we would never work in the
:05:27. > :05:33.media again. He was horrible. after, the Silver Fox disappeared.
:05:33. > :05:38.Who was Mr Michael and what did he want with Marianne to Lisa? All was
:05:38. > :05:44.not what it seemed. This is the Silver Fox 10 years ago. He was
:05:44. > :05:50.using a different name. He arrived at court to plead guilty to the
:05:50. > :05:54.large-scale fraud on a large number of small investors. He Ranby
:05:54. > :05:58.Corporation from offices here Bristol using the latest in a long
:05:58. > :06:04.line of a Leicester's. -- he ran. His name wasn't the only thing
:06:04. > :06:08.about him. He was running a Spanish property scam, taking thousands of
:06:08. > :06:13.pounds from investors and taking it into his pocket. Even then, he was
:06:13. > :06:18.making friends but celebrities. This is him with Stephanie Beacham
:06:18. > :06:23.who knew nothing about his camp. What he wanted was the touch of
:06:23. > :06:32.glamour that celebrity could bring to his own carefully crafted image.
:06:32. > :06:37.He was very charismatic, he was dressed impeccably. He had dyed
:06:37. > :06:40.blond hair and a charming manner. I trusted him. Maggie was one of
:06:40. > :06:45.those who fell for his chums back in the late 1990s. She even ended
:06:45. > :06:48.up working for the Carmichael Corporation but eventually
:06:48. > :06:53.discovered it was a friend. crunch of it happened when the
:06:54. > :07:00.police arrived in the office in Bristol and arrested everybody. I
:07:00. > :07:05.realised then, oh, my guard, this whole thing has been a lie. I am
:07:05. > :07:09.entreat -- I am in deep trouble. Malik -- Magee had been duped and
:07:09. > :07:13.left counting the cost for letting Carmichael into her life.
:07:13. > :07:22.friends had lost their money, my boyfriend had lost his money, his
:07:22. > :07:28.family had lost their money. I was devastated. Carmichael was
:07:29. > :07:35.sentenced to 3 1/2 years. On release, he disappeared. Only for
:07:35. > :07:40.Sylvan Michael, the Silver Fox to pack -- to crop up as Mario and
:07:40. > :07:44.Lisa's saviour. We have discovered it is not just these stars he has
:07:45. > :07:54.been targeting. One celebrity he tried to win over was this man,
:07:55. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:05.He offered to back a new children's TV project for him and tried it to
:08:05. > :08:09.wine and dine him at a charity gala. He came up to me saying that if
:08:09. > :08:16.something comes off tonight, could you please tell them I am your
:08:16. > :08:21.manager. I said, "listen to my eight -- listen to me now. You are
:08:21. > :08:26.not my manager, you are not my representative, I have only met two
:08:26. > :08:34.twice. We are not in any business venture or anything like that.".
:08:34. > :08:38.was clear what he was trying to do. He wanted the friendship and the
:08:39. > :08:48.contacts, the celebrity contacts and friends that I had so he could
:08:49. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:55.build a roster of celebrity friends that he could use to Le Riche -- to
:08:55. > :08:59.get in rich and unsuspected victims. We have spoken to several of his
:08:59. > :09:04.investors. Some part with thousands of pounds hoping to appeal one of
:09:04. > :09:09.his shows. Now they are too embarrassed to speak out on camera.
:09:09. > :09:14.Their money, it simply disappeared. Documents released to the BBC by
:09:14. > :09:22.the High Court show one investor is selling, Kohl and his real name for
:09:22. > :09:30.the return of more than a �42,000. Even a celebrity charity, the five
:09:30. > :09:34.stars appeal, was stung by Carmichael. A luxury yacht holiday
:09:34. > :09:39.failed to materialise, as did a 10,000 pit he made on the same
:09:39. > :09:44.night. For Mario and Lisa, it has been tough coming to terms with
:09:44. > :09:51.their fact that their names with used to help scam intelligent
:09:51. > :09:59.victims. I can't sleep at night. We Raul a lot about it. It has led to
:09:59. > :10:05.problems and psychological as well. How much can one take? It is only
:10:05. > :10:12.now that other people are coming forward and telling what he has
:10:12. > :10:16.done. At the time, they didn't know. I feel sorry for them as well.
:10:16. > :10:22.Where is Carmichael now? He failed to appear at the High Court two
:10:22. > :10:27.weeks ago. He is bankrupt but his wife owns this to a �725,000 house
:10:27. > :10:30.in Buckinghamshire. The car he drives his here but he is not. Just
:10:30. > :10:37.when we thought he had gone to ground, we found a man who knows
:10:37. > :10:41.where he is. A bomb was the last time you saw Mr Carmichael? It was
:10:42. > :10:46.when he was being sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment for his
:10:46. > :10:51.money laundering as part of major fraud. It turns out he's more than
:10:51. > :10:55.just a fame hungry conman. He is part of a major criminal network
:10:55. > :11:01.whose members try to steal half a million pounds from the Santander
:11:01. > :11:06.Bank. We have fraud, money- laundering, he is hardly that
:11:06. > :11:10.person you would trust to make the famous. If more likely penniless.
:11:10. > :11:16.From what I have seen that, if you have dealings with him, be very
:11:16. > :11:22.careful. What might be a good and convincing front doesn't bear any
:11:22. > :11:28.examination in detail. For Mario and Lisa, the news that he is
:11:28. > :11:35.behind bars comes as a shock. Really? What for? They hope it
:11:35. > :11:41.marks the end of their journey with the silver fox. Knowing Mr
:11:41. > :11:51.Carmichael now, he is a compulsive liar, he lives in deluded land and
:11:51. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:02.Next, with his music, culture and museums, it is easy to see why
:12:02. > :12:12.Oxford is one of the most desirable places to live. Until the sun goes
:12:12. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:21.It is the start of a new term for students across the south, and
:12:21. > :12:26.there's want them on all their minds - studying. But also party in.
:12:26. > :12:34.Oxford has more than 32,000 students, making for a lot of late
:12:34. > :12:44.nights. For some residents, students having fun means one thing
:12:44. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:51.- a lack of sleep. Noise nuisance can make you feel isolated. Is
:12:52. > :12:59.anyone else having the same problem as you? You question whether it is
:12:59. > :13:05.just your problem, other people's problems, who it is affecting, and
:13:05. > :13:10.I'd been silly? It is come the next day. Last year, Oxford City Council
:13:10. > :13:18.received more than 1,000 complaints about late night parties. To try
:13:18. > :13:25.and reduce those statistics, they came up with a noise busting plan.
:13:25. > :13:31.We have got a noisy party, loud music. They call themselves the
:13:31. > :13:35.party patrol, a �12,000 scheme involving council workers
:13:35. > :13:45.responding to noisy complaints. I joined them on a Wednesday evening,
:13:45. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:04.and it did not take us long to get Is this your party? Can I have a
:14:04. > :14:10.word? Come out here. We have had a call about a party, and it is
:14:10. > :14:16.causing... It is too loud. You need to turn it down, close your windows
:14:16. > :14:21.and doors, so you do not disturb people, and you need to calm people
:14:21. > :14:31.down. It is passed at midnight and now, midweek, people want a good
:14:31. > :14:36.
:14:36. > :14:43.work in the morning. Pipe people are generally polite. They are
:14:43. > :14:49.willing to do whatever they asked them to do. There is no nor which
:14:49. > :14:54.says you cannot have a party. This is about trying to balance the
:14:54. > :14:59.needs of residents with the needs of students. We are trying to
:14:59. > :15:03.minimise the impact they are having. These patrols come as welcome
:15:03. > :15:13.relief to residents like Ed Wood, whose family has suffered from
:15:13. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:17.A long a run of unbroken sleep. It feels like water torture. It has to
:15:17. > :15:22.be broken. You cannot break yourself because you do not want to
:15:22. > :15:26.be the guy who is threatening people at 1am. You have got to go
:15:26. > :15:32.through the right channels to do it, and that is the sensible thing to
:15:32. > :15:36.do. Around here, the council and police are quite geared up their it.
:15:36. > :15:41.He back at the party patrol, we are responding to a second complaint of
:15:41. > :15:47.the night. The next door neighbour has come out, they have young
:15:47. > :15:56.children, and it is keeping them awake. They need quiet now. It is
:15:56. > :16:00.near one am now. I needed to wind your party up. They have now
:16:00. > :16:05.contacted us and saying that there is a problem. They have had enough,
:16:05. > :16:15.OK? Noise nuisance is something both universities and Oxford are
:16:15. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:20.trying to tackle. At Oxford Brookes, big fund to PCSOs, and Lucy liaises
:16:20. > :16:24.between the university and residents. The full-time university
:16:24. > :16:30.is stressful. You have deadlines, living away from home, trying to
:16:30. > :16:36.start your life as an adult by beginning with a stressful Clause.
:16:36. > :16:42.When students at parties, they are letting their hair down. They are
:16:42. > :16:47.living this sense of freedom they have. What they have not thought
:16:47. > :16:52.about, the reasons why their parents asked them to turn the
:16:53. > :16:58.music down. They just haven't got far enough along been living in the
:16:58. > :17:05.community to learn these things. Now, they have to try and build up
:17:05. > :17:11.this knowledge base as to how to live in a community. It is 2am, and
:17:11. > :17:19.a fifth Corps of the night. Local residents out on the streets..
:17:19. > :17:24.have a lot of people in there are, haven't you? We made repeated
:17:24. > :17:33.appeals for them to turn the music down and not to bring it out.
:17:33. > :17:40.Normally... It is a Wednesday, man! They are too frightened to come out,
:17:40. > :17:46.I do not know why it is always meal the neighbour. On a road like this,
:17:46. > :17:51.lots of houses have young people, students in. What used to be quite
:17:51. > :17:57.a quiet residential street is now a buzzing centre for young people and
:17:57. > :18:07.students, and inevitably, parties break out. I think it is game over
:18:07. > :18:11.for this one. We have asked them to wind the party up. A lot of the
:18:11. > :18:17.students have left. It is just the stragglers. A lot of people coming
:18:17. > :18:23.out of their house. Looks like it was quite a big party. I was not
:18:23. > :18:28.counting the students, but there seemed to be a lot. His early
:18:28. > :18:34.stages in the initiative, but for some, it is leading to a good night
:18:34. > :18:39.sleep. There was a party next door. It was allowed. After midnight, we
:18:39. > :18:45.thought it was time for them to turn it down and leave. A person
:18:45. > :18:47.holding the party did not have much control over it. We went to phone
:18:47. > :18:56.the environmental health and party patrols, and turned up before we
:18:56. > :19:02.had a chance to dull the number. Within 15 minutes, the place was
:19:02. > :19:09.empty acquired. I was impressed. It can be isolated. But you have to
:19:09. > :19:15.report it. In July, Oxford University changed
:19:15. > :19:19.its rules as to how students should dress. It was in response to
:19:19. > :19:27.concerns that its rules were unfair to transit agenda students. Now,
:19:27. > :19:37.men can wear skirts and women can wear suits. It all goes to show the
:19:37. > :19:41.
:19:41. > :19:46.South's transfer gender community We might tend to think of the world
:19:46. > :19:51.as male or female, goal boy. But there are people who are in between,
:19:51. > :19:56.and some who want to become the other. Those who were born male,
:19:56. > :20:04.who do not identify with it. Life is unbearable not to live as
:20:04. > :20:10.Michelle. And vice versa, for people born female. I was pretty
:20:10. > :20:14.much a classic a tomboy. I did not like wearing dresses. I through
:20:14. > :20:22.massive tantrums about having to wear anything female. But life can
:20:22. > :20:32.be tough. There is a myth, worry. Based upon that ignorance, there is
:20:32. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:36.a fear and hostility. Gen dir dysphoria is a medical term. Some
:20:36. > :20:46.people say they feel trapped in the wrong body, and for many, the pain
:20:46. > :20:51.
:20:51. > :20:54.Michelle was born male, but it was an identity she did not recognise.
:20:55. > :20:59.I have known that there was something different about me since
:20:59. > :21:07.I was five or six years old. I did not know what it was back then. As
:21:07. > :21:11.I grew up, I started to realise. I liked to wear women's clothes and
:21:12. > :21:17.wanted to where gender. But it is so unacceptable to do that that I
:21:17. > :21:23.try to live a male role - I had a son, tried to get married. It is
:21:23. > :21:30.such a dark time there. I could not do it any more. I had to change my
:21:30. > :21:37.agenda. I lost most of my friends. I had quarrels of my family. Very
:21:37. > :21:43.difficult time, psychologically as well as physically. Experts say
:21:43. > :21:48.changing your gender can mean a widespread discrimination, and that
:21:48. > :21:53.life for her people can be worse than we might think. Rafael Fox was
:21:53. > :21:56.born a female, but always felt he should have been a boy. What was
:21:56. > :22:03.going through my mind was unhappiness. I felt uncomfortable
:22:03. > :22:09.with myself, he I could not do all the normal things a wanted to do.
:22:09. > :22:14.As a child, six years old or whatever, my family would go up to
:22:14. > :22:20.the local supermarket and I would make friends. Me and the guys would
:22:20. > :22:26.hang out. I had my hair cut really short, so why don't think they
:22:26. > :22:32.recognised I was female. At the end of the played eight, they would say,
:22:32. > :22:38.what's your name? I would be, like, Rachel. They gave me away. I felt
:22:38. > :22:43.embarrassed. It is so odd to look back and think that I really was a
:22:43. > :22:47.time had be an uncomfortable MI and body. Raphael decided to transition
:22:47. > :22:54.by taking hormones and having surgery to be closer to the agenda
:22:54. > :23:01.he felt he should have been. Bernard read set up a charity to
:23:01. > :23:08.research gender identity, and has spent the past 15 years studying it.
:23:08. > :23:17.So side he needs to be more aware that trams agenda people have a
:23:17. > :23:21.natural condition, which is to say that in their brains, from the very
:23:21. > :23:27.earliest time, they are pre- programmed to have a sense of
:23:27. > :23:33.gender which differs from dead bodies. Many of them repress this.
:23:33. > :23:37.But they can't do so completely because the feeling is very intense.
:23:37. > :23:42.And while oppressing those feelings can be hard, telling your own
:23:42. > :23:50.family can be even more difficult. Ryan was born a girl, but lost
:23:50. > :23:54.contact with his mother after she found out. I have not spoken to my
:23:54. > :24:02.mother in newly two years. I understand that it is difficult for
:24:02. > :24:07.parents. They do not believe that I am the person they brought up. It
:24:07. > :24:15.is quite difficult to relate to that one man been told I'm not that
:24:15. > :24:20.person any more. Some experts say the isolation and rejection people
:24:20. > :24:25.face can have a serious impact on mental health. Dr Catherine Johnson
:24:25. > :24:32.is a gender identity expert. She says the reasons for this are
:24:32. > :24:37.complex. A mental health, generally, has to do with the social
:24:37. > :24:42.circumstances in which we find ourselves. Depression is often a
:24:42. > :24:49.response to the environment in which we are in. Trams people,
:24:49. > :24:54.because of levels of discrimination, because of issues like not passed -
:24:55. > :24:59.- passing as male female, affecting employment, poverty and so on, can
:24:59. > :25:04.therefore increase the likelihood of having a mental health problem.
:25:04. > :25:07.The outside world can be a scary place for Trans people. Feeling
:25:07. > :25:12.comfortable on the street is some think most of us take for granted,
:25:13. > :25:19.but even in a tolerant place like Brighton, there are no-go areas for
:25:19. > :25:29.Michelle. There are certain areas I do not go by myself up. A D Phil
:25:29. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:37.about that? I feel it is very unfair. We are happens? People
:25:37. > :25:43.shout insults. It just makes me feel as if I am unsafe. What about
:25:44. > :25:49.in terms of violence? A bit further down the road here, I was attacked
:25:49. > :25:53.by someone. They pulled my hair, kicked and punched me. It was a
:25:53. > :26:01.very bad attack. According to official figures, over the past
:26:01. > :26:07.four years, they have been fortified incidence of Trans gender
:26:07. > :26:11.hate crime in Sussex. They are also problems in the workplace. Despite
:26:11. > :26:17.laws to prevent discrimination, there are lots of examples that it
:26:17. > :26:22.is happening. For a Trans woman, in a large office, was asked to turn
:26:22. > :26:32.her desk so that she faced the wall, so the rest of the people could not
:26:32. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:38.see her face. In another situation, somebody in a work situation
:26:38. > :26:44.discovered that a person was Trans and said, unless you provide sexual
:26:44. > :26:49.favours for me, I will out you in the workplace. Michelle was made
:26:49. > :26:55.redundant from her job in IT after she transition to. Unable to find
:26:55. > :27:00.employment, she set up her own company. The interviewer would
:27:00. > :27:05.refuse to shake my hand. I have also had other interviews where, as
:27:05. > :27:10.soon as I have walked in, they have said, I am not suitable for the
:27:10. > :27:16.position. Without even interviewing you? Were that even interviewing
:27:16. > :27:25.the. The challenges people face in Brighton are the same up and down
:27:25. > :27:28.the country. By work is taking place to tackle discrimination and
:27:28. > :27:35.prejudice. There have been challenges and the past, but they
:27:35. > :27:40.are there to overcome. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We
:27:40. > :27:44.don't want to be treated specially. I am hoping everyone will be more
:27:44. > :27:53.accepting of us. Raphael says changing his gender has made him
:27:53. > :27:59.happier than he has ever been. was a do-or-die situation. I really
:27:59. > :28:09.wanted to live, to experience what everyone else seems to be enjoying.
:28:09. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:15.I felt like I had missed the point end life. Finally, I can see life