:00:04. > :00:08.Hello, from Wellington in Somerset. In tonight's programme... Do you
:00:08. > :00:10.know who is emptying your bins? With the so-called Casanova Conman
:00:10. > :00:14.awaiting sentencing, we investigate the devastating effects of identity
:00:14. > :00:24.theft on its victims - and I find out that my own identity has been
:00:24. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:31.stolen. You think you are here today to make a film about identity
:00:32. > :00:34.theft but actually you have become the latest victim. Narraser Gordon
:00:34. > :00:41.from Bristol hit the national headlines when she addressed the
:00:41. > :00:46.Labour party conference last year. In my own area of Bristol, ate up
:00:46. > :00:50.by family members have been murdered. -- eight of my family
:00:50. > :00:57.members. But when we looked deeper into Narraser's story, we uncover a
:00:57. > :01:01.different and astonishing version of her account. What he said was
:01:02. > :01:05.not true? And less than two weeks ago, Reverend John Suddards was
:01:05. > :01:07.stabbed to death. We investigate how risky it can be for the clergy
:01:08. > :01:17.to open to operate an open door policy. With surprising stories
:01:18. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:24.from close to home, I'm Alastair Every year, tens of thousands of
:01:24. > :01:31.people have their identity stolen by conmen looking to run up debt in
:01:31. > :01:33.their name. More often than not, the victim is the last to know
:01:33. > :01:37.they've been targeted - and it seems absolutely no-one's safe, as
:01:37. > :01:47.I found out when Polly Parsons from The Real Hustle made me the latest
:01:47. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:05.ID theft. It's one of the fastest So far, more than four million
:02:05. > :02:10.people in Britain have had their identities stolen. It is what is
:02:11. > :02:14.often seen as a high-tech online crime. ID theft doesn't just happen
:02:14. > :02:17.on the internet, it happens out in the real world too - and it's
:02:17. > :02:20.scarily simple to pull off. And no- one knows that better than this
:02:20. > :02:25.man... Kevin Castle, one of Britain's most notorious conmen. He
:02:25. > :02:28.made a fortune stealing people's identities across the south west.
:02:28. > :02:31.Identity theft is sometimes regarded as a victimless crime but
:02:31. > :02:37.that's not actually the case. A lot of these victims have actually been
:02:37. > :02:40.very, very traumatised. So just how easy is it to cash in on someone
:02:40. > :02:45.else's identity? Well, I'm going to find out and I think I've already
:02:45. > :02:55.got myself a likely victim... Alastair McKee and this is Inside
:02:55. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:06.I'm back in my hometown in Bristol to set about stealing Alastair's
:03:06. > :03:15.identity. Exposing scams like this is what I do for a living. This is
:03:15. > :03:19.The Real Hustle. New recruits. This time they have brought in two new
:03:20. > :03:23.faces. I As part of the team for BBC3's The Real Hustle, I thought
:03:23. > :03:26.I'd seen it all. But even I'm amazed by just how easy stealing
:03:26. > :03:29.someone's identity can be. Today, I'm meeting former Scotland Yard
:03:29. > :03:35.detective, Alan Evans. He now tackles fraud across the west - and
:03:35. > :03:45.that includes identity theft. a massive problem in this country
:03:45. > :03:46.
:03:46. > :03:50.it accounts for billions of pounds a year. �2.7 billion. Most people
:03:50. > :03:56.see it as an online crime but what are the thieves' tricks in the real
:03:56. > :04:01.world? Forget about that and look at the real world. Letters, bills,
:04:01. > :04:05.anything that comes through your doors. We are told, we cycled but
:04:05. > :04:10.we forget that this bit of paper actually contains a lot of
:04:11. > :04:15.information. Name, address, from the bank. They can take numbers,
:04:15. > :04:20.they can go forward with that number and assume your identity.
:04:20. > :04:23.It's so easy you can do it tomorrow. And that's why tens of thousands of
:04:23. > :04:30.people fall victim to identity theft every year. And one of the
:04:30. > :04:36.worst perpetrators was Kevin Castle. A command that stole the identities
:04:36. > :04:40.of people in Somerset has admitted fraud today... Last month, Castle
:04:40. > :04:43.pleaded guilty to 27 fraud charges and one of money laundering. He
:04:43. > :04:47.spent tens of thousands of pounds in just ten months using credit
:04:47. > :04:51.cards in other people's names. And he had previous form - he was known
:04:51. > :04:54.as the Casanova Conman for the way he scammed women. For years, he
:04:54. > :05:03.lived the high life thanks to a shoplifting scam targeting DIY
:05:03. > :05:05.stores. He has been placed on the most wanted list... In 2010, he
:05:05. > :05:08.turned up in Somerset, at this country hideaway, living on credit
:05:09. > :05:14.raised using other people's personal details. One of those
:05:14. > :05:17.victims was John Scantlebury. He only found out his identity had
:05:17. > :05:21.been stolen when he checked with an online credit rating company.
:05:21. > :05:28.latest rating is 288. That's poor to very poor. It was through them
:05:28. > :05:33.that I found out there was a problem. I had not seen any
:05:33. > :05:39.paperwork and haven't had a letter, nothing. But there is actually for
:05:39. > :05:42.credit cards that had been applied for in my name. -- four credit
:05:42. > :05:46.cards. Already, a few thousand pounds had been spent. All that
:05:46. > :05:50.debt is in John's name - and he's still trying to clean up his credit
:05:50. > :05:56.history. I can't tell your number, you have said. What are you saying
:05:56. > :06:00.I have got to do? He said I cannot tell you anything over the
:06:00. > :06:07.telephone because I do not know a few you are. I have got to go to a
:06:08. > :06:11.branch and prove who I am. consequences of ID theft may be
:06:11. > :06:14.complicated for the victim but for the criminal it can be all too
:06:14. > :06:18.simple to pull off. It's late and I'm about to steal Alastair's
:06:18. > :06:28.identity. Like most of us, Alastair has left his bin out overnight. To
:06:28. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:46.All I need to do is get my hands on a bag. The recycling. And it's as
:06:46. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:52.Now an ID thief isn't expecting to get it all in one swoop. But every
:06:53. > :06:55.little bit of personal information has its use. An average week's
:06:55. > :07:00.rubbish for Alastair's household and this is what can get thrown
:07:00. > :07:04.away unnoticed... Credit card receipts and even mail just chucked
:07:04. > :07:06.in the recycling - exactly the sort of thing an identity thief is
:07:06. > :07:10.looking for. Alastair's actually pretty good with what he throws
:07:10. > :07:15.away. And rummaging through bins can be disgusting work but there is
:07:15. > :07:18.an even easier and much cleaner way of going about things. Stealing
:07:18. > :07:24.mail before the victim has even seen it is one the most common
:07:24. > :07:28.methods used by crooks. And for conman Kevin Castle, living in
:07:28. > :07:32.rural Somerset made that a lot easier. Here, it's not unusual to
:07:32. > :07:42.see external, unsecured letterboxes. Castle was only stopped when one of
:07:42. > :07:44.
:07:44. > :07:46.his victims eventually caught him Back in Bristol, I've managed to
:07:46. > :07:53.get enough information from Alastair's personal documents to
:07:53. > :07:57.start getting to work. Just a few bits of personal information left
:07:57. > :08:05.in a bin, a little bit of know-how and a spot of blagging and
:08:05. > :08:08.Alastair's life can become an open wallet. With enough bin raids or
:08:08. > :08:12.just some plain good luck, the ID thief can set about rebuilding
:08:12. > :08:18.anyone's life for their benefit. And once you establish an approved
:08:18. > :08:21.line of credit, it's easy to start racking up the goodies. This is
:08:21. > :08:25.just some of the stuff Kevin Castle managed to pay for using other
:08:25. > :08:33.people's details... So this is all the stuff he bought with other
:08:33. > :08:37.people's money? Yes and as you can see, quite a lot. He's got the best
:08:37. > :08:40.of everything, hasn't he? How did he get away with it for so long?
:08:40. > :08:44.Well, a lot of the people didn't know there was a credit card in
:08:44. > :08:47.their name because sometimes he was stealing the bills as well, so it
:08:47. > :08:56.was quite simple really, an easy thing to do. Now this tin, what's
:08:56. > :09:00.inside? It was found buried in the back garden. Inside were all these
:09:00. > :09:06.documents and this is probably the best example of what he was doing.
:09:06. > :09:11.It has got a record of identity numbers and withdrawals from cash
:09:11. > :09:18.machines, dates and days and records of names, addresses, dates
:09:18. > :09:24.of birth. They have got names of children living in the house.
:09:24. > :09:30.Everybody in the house. You have got the maiden names of ladies.
:09:30. > :09:33.Often a maiden name is used. It's shocking to see just how far Castle
:09:33. > :09:36.was prepared to go in invading other people's lives. He's now due
:09:36. > :09:45.to be sentenced for his crimes in April. As far as Alastair's
:09:45. > :09:50.concerned, I think it's time to come clean. How easy is it to steal
:09:50. > :09:53.somebody's identity? Alastair's inside. He thinks he's doing an
:09:53. > :10:03.interview with an expert on identity fraud. He's not. I've got
:10:03. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:12.Helena. Hi, Alastair, I'm Polly Parsons, from BBC3's The Real
:10:12. > :10:20.Hustle. Now, you think you're making a film about identity theft,
:10:20. > :10:23.but actually you've just become its latest victim. Right? You have
:10:23. > :10:29.become the latest victim. We have been told you are pretty good at
:10:29. > :10:33.keeping your details private, right? I think I am. You might
:10:33. > :10:41.recognise some of these. Bank account details, credit card
:10:41. > :10:45.receipts. Store accounts. Look at that. You have been going through
:10:46. > :10:55.my rubbish bins? They have been left outside for anybody to take.
:10:55. > :10:59.How interesting! Go for it. We will go to the laptop. I have been
:10:59. > :11:04.filling out a credit card application form. Everything is in
:11:04. > :11:09.your name. We have got an advance of �10,000 in cash coming straight
:11:09. > :11:15.to me but the debt is in your name and is your problem. Because you
:11:15. > :11:21.have got all that information? You have got my address. I cannot
:11:21. > :11:24.believe this was in my recycling but it must have got out. All I
:11:24. > :11:31.have to give his press sub-let and that money will come to me. Do not
:11:31. > :11:35.do it! But one simple mistake and I could have had a massive shopping
:11:35. > :11:42.spree on a you up because I am a nice person I have bought you a
:11:42. > :11:50.present. I have brought you a shredder. You need to start
:11:50. > :11:54.shredding all of your forms. I had better get started. Definitely.
:11:54. > :11:59.always think of myself as being absolutely meticulous with all my
:11:59. > :12:03.financial things. So I am amazed that I was that careless and that
:12:03. > :12:09.it is that easy to steal my identity. I will be a lot more
:12:09. > :12:15.careful in future. Alastair is lucky that he did not lose out,
:12:15. > :12:25.this time. But remember, one simple mistake and anyone can fall victim
:12:25. > :12:26.
:12:26. > :12:35.If there is something you would like us to investigate, you can
:12:35. > :12:39.send us an e-mail. Coming up - a following the killing of the Vicar
:12:39. > :12:49.of Thornbury, we look at the dangers of the clergy's open-door
:12:49. > :12:50.
:12:51. > :12:55.At last year's Labour Party conference, a young woman from
:12:55. > :13:00.Bristol gave a moving and personal account of losing eight members of
:13:00. > :13:05.her family to knife and gun crime. But when Kirsty Hemming took a
:13:05. > :13:15.closer look, she discovered a very different story.
:13:15. > :13:21.Now is the time for us to unite... Court is 24 years old. She leads an
:13:21. > :13:31.anti- gun and knife crime in Bristol. She ran in the local
:13:31. > :13:35.election last year, up unsuccessfully. I am here to talk
:13:35. > :13:39.about why young people are dying before they see their age of 21.
:13:39. > :13:44.This is not an issue happening in one place as some people would like
:13:45. > :13:49.to think. This issue is causing a problem in all the cities in the UK,
:13:50. > :13:53.including London, Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham and in my
:13:53. > :13:58.own area of Bristol, with eight of my family members been murdered
:13:58. > :14:08.here. After a standing ovation from a senior politicians at a
:14:08. > :14:08.
:14:09. > :14:18.conference, local newspapers picked up on Naressa's speech. Around the
:14:18. > :14:22.same time, the focus on the city's youth crime intensified. Some
:14:22. > :14:28.members of the St Pauls Blood Gang were jailed for firearm offences.
:14:28. > :14:33.According to the Home Office, incidents of knife crime are
:14:33. > :14:39.decreasing, so I was keen to meet the woman who claimed to have had
:14:39. > :14:43.eight family members murdered here. I arranged to interview her about
:14:43. > :14:53.her experiences. A after I finished my speech, everyone stood up and
:14:53. > :14:57.started clapping. I could not believe that had just happened.
:14:57. > :15:01.claimed receiving applause from a high-ranking politicians is a far
:15:01. > :15:09.cry from her previous lifestyle. When it came to school, I used to
:15:09. > :15:15.fight and I used to argue. If you annoyed me, I wanted to hurt you.
:15:15. > :15:19.When I was at college, there was a girl and she really hacked me off.
:15:19. > :15:25.I rang her up saying, say goodbye to your family because tomorrow in
:15:25. > :15:31.college I am going to kill you. What progress have you seen since
:15:31. > :15:37.you started campaigning in Bristol? Naressa says she has turned her
:15:37. > :15:40.life around and is working to help others to do the same. She is
:15:40. > :15:45.regularly invited into schools to help young people with anti-
:15:45. > :15:51.violence Project. I have lost friends. One after another after
:15:51. > :15:56.another. I thought, enough is enough. She said she knew Leon
:15:56. > :16:02.Plummer, who was stabbed and died in Bristol in 2002, but I wanted to
:16:02. > :16:06.know more about Naressa's tragic story and the rest of the family
:16:06. > :16:11.she told the Labour conference she had lost. She broke down their
:16:11. > :16:15.names, but a search of the death that history told me the people she
:16:15. > :16:20.listed were not there. I was becoming more confused about her
:16:20. > :16:25.story, but she continued to emphasise to me how dangerous a
:16:25. > :16:29.place Bristol is a young people. live in a society where we hear or
:16:29. > :16:33.read about young people being murdered every day. Having lived in
:16:33. > :16:39.the region for more than 20 years and worked as a journalist here for
:16:39. > :16:44.half of that, Naressa's description of the area is not one I recognise.
:16:44. > :16:51.Violent crime does happen here, but not as a daily occurrence. And when
:16:51. > :16:56.it does, lives are torn apart. Friends of Lloyd Fouracre were
:16:56. > :17:02.trying to come to terms with his death. Adam Fouracre's brother was
:17:02. > :17:08.beaten to death by a gang of youths in Taunton. He died the day before
:17:08. > :17:14.his 18th birthday in 2005. Adam set up a charity to help young people
:17:14. > :17:19.of boy violent crime. He has made a film about his brother to show to
:17:19. > :17:28.school children. It certainly can happen to anybody. It didn't even
:17:28. > :17:33.happen in the town centre. It happened in a residential area. It
:17:34. > :17:39.was such a needless loss of life, but it was also so devastating to
:17:39. > :17:45.so many people. Hello, everyone. Today is about violence and its
:17:45. > :17:49.consequences. The charity set up in Lloyd's memory has had a cinema
:17:49. > :17:54.campaign across the south-west. After hearing about Lloyd, I wanted
:17:54. > :18:03.to find out more about the family members that Naressa said she had
:18:03. > :18:07.lost to Ireland crime. I found something strange. Naressa was
:18:07. > :18:12.talking to some of the people she said she had lost on Facebook. She
:18:12. > :18:20.did not lose eight members of her family to violent crime. Statistics
:18:20. > :18:25.show at that violent crimes are actually going down. The fear of
:18:25. > :18:31.crime is greater than the reality. One of our main aims is not only to
:18:31. > :18:36.make people be saved, but to make them feel safe. There is a
:18:36. > :18:42.perception gap across crime, but particularly in the area of violent
:18:42. > :18:46.crime. People think the city is a more dangerous place than it is.
:18:46. > :18:51.the days after filming, I asked her again about the people who she
:18:51. > :18:59.claimed had died. In an e-mail, she admitted that the majority of the
:18:59. > :19:02.people on the list she had given me had not been murdered. Nevertheless,
:19:02. > :19:11.Naressa's new-found influence within knife crime charities has
:19:11. > :19:20.got her a long way. She has organised a gig for either 1,000
:19:20. > :19:30.young people with the support of 02. Welcome. We have just started
:19:30. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:40.letting people in. It is crazy and mad right now. She is just the best.
:19:40. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:52.Naressa Gordon! We are here at the Indigo O2 where we have Chipmunk.
:19:52. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :19:59.We have Wretch 32... She has got some big names involved. Naressa
:19:59. > :20:05.Gordon is doing a lot to get the anti-violence message out to young
:20:05. > :20:10.people. She has the support of over two, the Labour Party and numerous
:20:10. > :20:13.international youth organisations. But her speech at the Labour Party
:20:13. > :20:18.conference in September simply wasn't true, so I want to find out
:20:18. > :20:23.why she felt she needed to create such a tragic story to get
:20:23. > :20:30.attention for her campaign, and why the Labour Party in Bristol West
:20:30. > :20:33.have promoted it ever since. Up until 10 days ago, the speech
:20:33. > :20:37.was still featured on the Bristol West Labour Party website. Since I
:20:37. > :20:45.got in touch with them about it, they have removed the video, but
:20:45. > :20:50.they did not wish to speak to us. Naressa is still a Labour Party
:20:50. > :20:55.Youth Officer for them. I asked her to meet me again for an interview,
:20:55. > :20:59.but instead she sent a statement. She said I have lost three family
:20:59. > :21:04.members and five close friends who I consider as family. I realise I
:21:05. > :21:09.may have used words that might have been misleading and I regret this.
:21:09. > :21:13.But this contradicts what she has already told me, that she has not
:21:13. > :21:23.lost eight front of family members to violence. I really need to get
:21:23. > :21:26.
:21:26. > :21:29.to the bottom of this. Hello it. It is Kirsty Hemming from
:21:29. > :21:33.the BBC. It is clear you did not tell the truth at the party
:21:33. > :21:36.conference and we need to get to the bottom of that. Remember you
:21:36. > :21:40.gave me a list of names and said those were the people you work
:21:40. > :21:46.referring to at the party conference. Is that correct. You
:21:46. > :21:52.don't remember? You just want us to use the statement you have given us
:21:52. > :21:56.as fact, but even though you have already told me it is not true? So
:21:56. > :22:01.you have given me a false statement. But when you said that at the party
:22:01. > :22:07.conference, you maintain that was the truth. So what she said at a
:22:07. > :22:12.party conference was untrue? She has hung up the phone on me.
:22:12. > :22:15.Naressa admits that a people she spoke about at the Labour Party
:22:15. > :22:19.conference are not all family members, but maintains that they
:22:19. > :22:24.were murdered. She gave me the names of the people she was talking
:22:24. > :22:29.about in her speech. Now I have found that they are alive, she
:22:29. > :22:33.claims they are a different set of victims. She is now working on a
:22:33. > :22:37.campaign calling for the Government to give more money to community
:22:37. > :22:44.activists like her who tackle gun and knife crime and she is aiming
:22:44. > :22:52.high. We need to try and get me to talk to one of those political
:22:52. > :22:56.leaders. David Cameron would be perfect, but any of them body. --
:22:56. > :23:06.of them will do. I don't want their minions, I want them.
:23:06. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :23:14.Two weeks ago it, Reverend John Suddards was stabbed to death in
:23:14. > :23:20.Thornbury. Tonight, we investigate clergy who run an open-door policy.
:23:20. > :23:27.The brutal killing of the Vicar of Thornbury has left this community
:23:27. > :23:34.shocked. Reverend John Suddards was found with multiple stab wounds in
:23:34. > :23:39.the hallway of the vicarage. A man has been charged with his murder.
:23:39. > :23:45.Church leaders immediately spoke of the dangers because our expose too.
:23:45. > :23:52.Sadly, this exposes the vulnerable nature of parish ministry in some
:23:52. > :23:57.of our communities today. We will, of course, in the coming months,
:23:57. > :24:04.continued to bring our care and support in every way we can to the
:24:04. > :24:13.people of Thornbury. It has now emerged that Reverend John Suddards
:24:13. > :24:19.had spoken at one of his churches about the dangers presented to the
:24:19. > :24:20.clergy. Meg Adnams is a parish councillor at St Arilda's at
:24:21. > :24:27.Oldbury-on-Severn where John Suddards was also parish priest.
:24:27. > :24:32.She remembers a sermon he gave last October. He described how he had
:24:32. > :24:36.invited someone into his home that week. He was a travelling vagrant
:24:36. > :24:43.really. He had given him a meal and let him talk, listen to hit and
:24:43. > :24:49.then the man had gone on his way. But John said I live alone in the
:24:49. > :24:53.vicarage and being a vicar anyway is a risky and these people are
:24:53. > :25:00.very vulnerable and that is how I remember it, and I had put it at
:25:00. > :25:06.the back of my head and will be awful events of this week. John
:25:06. > :25:11.Suddards, a filmed here at one of his former parishes, had continued
:25:11. > :25:15.an open-door policy. It was something he spoke about on his
:25:15. > :25:19.local community radio station. is very important. The Church has
:25:19. > :25:23.been there for the people of Thornbury for hundreds of years and
:25:23. > :25:33.I know few people who don't go in there and find something that helps
:25:33. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:48.them, lists them. It is a place where people go and encounter God.
:25:48. > :25:52.
:25:52. > :26:00.There are risks, but we are called upon to take them. This parish
:26:00. > :26:03.priest is all too aware of the situation. I am very wary. If there
:26:03. > :26:08.is someone outside I do not recognise, I have to weigh that up
:26:08. > :26:12.and think about who it might be, whether I open the door properly or
:26:12. > :26:17.open it on the chain because at the end of the day, I am responsible
:26:17. > :26:21.for my own safety and when my children were living at home, for
:26:21. > :26:25.their safety, to. Now she is calling on all clergy in the
:26:25. > :26:30.Bristol diocese to look at their own safety procedures. I think it
:26:30. > :26:37.has always been a priority, but when incidents in the community
:26:37. > :26:42.occur, it brings the importance of good self awareness and well-being
:26:42. > :26:49.to the forefront, and so it has brought that item again to the top
:26:49. > :26:57.of our agenda. At the forefront of training clergy in personal safety
:26:57. > :27:03.is national church watch. This former policeman gives seminars on
:27:03. > :27:07.personal protection to clergy and church workers. I had been told by
:27:07. > :27:11.clergy up incidents of violence. They had been punched in the face,
:27:11. > :27:15.threatened with knives, been harassed by members of the
:27:15. > :27:22.congregation. These are all common events that happen all over the
:27:22. > :27:28.country, but this area is not immune from it. One of the methods
:27:28. > :27:34.of catching a criminal is to offer a walk, isn't it?
:27:34. > :27:42.It is thought a mandatory system should be available for incidents
:27:42. > :27:47.to be reported. As far as I am aware, there is no method of
:27:47. > :27:52.reporting incidents across the country. It is therefore hard to
:27:53. > :27:56.prove what is going on because of the lack of evidence. Whatever
:27:56. > :28:03.increases there may be insecurity, church leaders are adamant that the
:28:03. > :28:09.open-door policy will remain. expect to be on the front line and
:28:09. > :28:19.we do expect things to happen, but that will not undermine hour
:28:19. > :28:28.
:28:28. > :28:37.passion and having the door open is That is all we have time for, but