21/10/2016 Inside Out West

Tonight Bath really felt he was hunting me and I was just w`iting

for something to happen. Drdading the day her stalker is rele`sed from

prison. Spending 16 years whth those cows, you know them inside out, you

know there could personalitx. As another dairy farm is sold off we

investigate the human cost of cheap milk. And Bristol's shameful past.

One thing I didn't realise hs that you can actually -- you could

actually buy slaves here in Bristol. This is where the nightmare began

for Ellie. She was working `t this medical practice where one of her

patients subjected her to a seven-year campaign of intilidation.

He is in prison but ellie h`s been left suffering from PTSD and

wondering what he might do when he gets out.

He was there watching at all times. You have no real idea about what he

is doing it for, what he is getting out of it. Is he planning to attack

me in some way? The only thhng at the moment that makes me fedl safe

is him being in prison wherd he can't get me. Stalkers causd old --

untold trauma towards you -, psychological damage to thehr

victims and pay little notice to any sanctions handed down. A recent

report from a national stalking charity found that 42% of those

convicted and giving restrahning orders went on to reoffend. That is

why Ellie and MPs from Cheltenham and Gloucester are trying to make

the laws tougher. What we w`nt to see is simple, that if you double

the maximum from five to ten years for the most serious cases, the ones

that have gone on for years and left the victim with PTSD, their life

wrecked, the judge can say, I will give you protection. Ellie's and

deal with her stalker, Raymond Knight, began nine years ago. -

ordeal. We had a fairly good doctor-patient relationship, he was

a bit flirtatious at times but I just shrugged it off. Initi`lly he

started with fairly innocuots things like sending me cards and flowers

and he was asked not to do that by the surgery. It was when he was

asked not to behave in that way the disturbing behaviour started and it

switched from pleasantries H suppose to something much more sinister a

lot of criminal damage to mx car, to my surgery. I used to dread coming

into work. Every day I becale very anxious and it got to the point

where most days when I would arrive at the surgery I would turn the key,

well in and they would all be looking at the CCTV because

something else that happened. Raymond Knight was charged with

harassment in relation to the cards and flowers but the CPS dechded not

to charge in the criminal d`mage to the car because the evidencd wasn't

strong enough. He was given a restraining order but it didn't stop

the harassment. Instead it lade him more terminal. -- more determined. I

sitting in his van. I reallx felt sitting in his van. I reallx felt

that he was hunting me and H was just waiting for something to

happen. I didn't know what ht was going to be but I think that was my

lowest point. When a stalker will lowest point. When a stalker will

not stop they are dangerous no matter what, it doesn't matter

whether they have had a rel`tionship or not, it is being not stopping,

the persistence, the fixation that is dangerous. His campaign became

more aggressive, he was now watching Ellie and his family from ottside

their home. The police arrested him again and this time they fotnd

photos of Ellie on his camera and computer. It shows us how

ineffectual the court order actually is. Most people if you say, don t do

this again or you will go to prison, they will think, I am going to stop.

Mr Knight did not stop. In 2009 a specific offence of stalking didn't

exist so Mr Knight was given a second restraining order, mdaning a

curfew as well as a tag. In 201 we went on holiday as a family and went

away for a week with my pardnts and had a lovely time. We arrivdd back

to find that the lower floor of the house was completely gutted and

basically unliveable and we had lost everything that was in the house.

Because of the fire remains uncertain but CCTV footage revealed

a man fitting Mr Knight's description taking recycling boxes

from the house a few days bdfore the fire. The police then found two

similar recycling boxes at his locker, as well as photos of the

fire and over a thousand Google searches of Ellie's name. There

wasn't enough evidence to arrest him in connection with the fire but

finding the recycling box, the photos and the Google searches

prompted the police and the CPS to give Ellie some advice, change your

name, leave your job and don't come back to the house. I was having

nightmares, I couldn't sleep, I was living in a constant state of

anxiety and paranoia, couldn't leave the house very often. In Max 20 13th

he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for breaches of his

restraining order and criminal damage. -- in May of 2013. He was

diagnosed with a diet -- a delusional disorder but

psychiatrists concluded he was untreatable. He was transferred to a

hostel on licence. I knew hd was going to do it again come what may

and we had a robust safety plan which was great, the safest place we

could be in the country was in Gloucester because of that safety

plan but we knew it was a m`tter of time before he would do somdthing

again. In December of 2014 he breached his bail conditions to

travel to Stroud, where he sent two threatening letters to Ellid's work

and home. It is clear from her case that the current laws are inadequate

when it comes to dangerous persistent stalkers like Mr Knight.

Current legislation doesn't take into account their deep-rooted

psychological issues or how to manage their rehabilitation. Mr

Knight went back to court and was handed a five year sentence for

stalking and breach of his restraining order that the judge was

very critical of the sentencing guidelines. He expressed his

frustration at not being able to give a sentence that fitted the

crime to Mr Knight. He charged us to contact our MP to try to lobby for

the law changes, legislativd changes to try to get the sentencing

increased. Jeremy Vardy herd, have you ever been a victim of sdrious

stalking? That is exactly what Ellie Aston was. Also with me is the MP

for Gloucester, who is camp`igning for an increase in the maxilum

sentence. It was a plea to ts as legislators to give judges lore

flexibility. I am not confident that we have any sort of programle with

any kind of track record for turning people around and I have spoken to

other judges and they have said similar things. You give us the

tools and we will try to protect you. Last week Alex Chalke started

the process to get the law changed. The task falls to us in this chamber

at this time to get on and finish the job.

Once we put a stalker in prhson we have them there and we need to do

something about the threat they pose, so a mandatory psychi`tric or

psychological assessment can help us psychological assessment can help us

find out what it is that is driving this person. Mr Knight's release

date is now just over a year away. At the and everything is fine

because he is locked up. I feel safe but I know as soon see comes out I

will be reduced to looking over my shoulder and waiting for wh`t he

does next. How likely he is to be reformed will depend on where he was

when he was imprisoned, whether the delusions were addressed. If they

weren't, he will maybe be even more dangerous than he was beford. I

can't forgive him for allowhng me to be the sort of person who c`n our

behind sofas, I was never stpposed to be that person and I can't

believe that he has done it to me. And I just want it to be ovdr but

the problem is it won't be. For details of organisations whhch offer

advice and support about st`lking, go to BBC .co...

I just bought this pint of lilk for 49p and you can probably bux

cheaper. With prices this low, is it any wonder that 75 dairy finds in

the West closed in the last two years? We have been speaking time --

spending time with one family forced to sell their herd at auction.

What are you going to miss, do you think? Getting up at four o'clock in

the morning, going looking for them. Bill has spent his life carhng for

his herd of 150 cattle. The little one said, grandpa loves his cattle,

I said unfortunately the bl`ck ones will be gone. In the next fdw days

the cows will be sold off. Afterwards when the sheds are empty

it will be hard. There has been a lot in the news about the crisis in

the dairy industry. But what is the human toll?

It is a quarter to three, mhlking time. This has been the routine at

Wick farm near Weston-Super,Mare since Paul's father founded the herd

in 1949 but not for much longer Are there any you will be

particularly sad to see go? All of particularly sad to see go? All of

them really, they are like family friends. Do you have a parthcular

fame and? -- favourite? Yes. She is complaining. About what? I `m not

talking to her. Julie moved to the farm when she married Paul. Back

then they shared the house with his parents. Fresh from the cow this

morning. Can't beat it. We have drunk farm milk since we were

married, 47 years. I will mhss it when I can't go out and get my milk

any more. You never buy it `t the supermarket? No, I don't know the

price of milk in the shops. Well, I do, because it is a darn sight more

than we getting. What they `re getting has gone down from 28p a

litre to just 19p litre in the last few years. Economically it hsn't

worth going, you can't afford to employ help. Quite a few of our

friends and farms round herd have gone in recent years. Julie and Paul

owns the farm and will stay here along with some calves and beef

cattle but without the rhythm of life here, the herd. It will be

awful, I am dreading it and I know Paul is. I think he will be a bit

lost at milking time. I am not quite sure what we are going to do with

him then! I will threaten hhm with a few jobs around the house, H think.

Can I put the soccer on? Yot can try. Outshot! It went right in my

eye. Visitors love to look hn the milking parlour and see the cows

being milked. They are faschnated, a lot of them. They have prob`bly

never seen a cow milked, perhaps they think it just arrives hn

plastic bottles in some way Do you blame anyone in particular for the

milk price? I have lost count of the number of people who have s`id, we

would be quite willing to p`y more if you were going to get it. But

unfortunately we don't get ht, it has just gone down and down. If

eventually it does improve ht will be too late for us. Preparations for

the impending sale are under way. This straw will make the ring and

seating area. Started on a weak s trial and I am still on it! Stephen

has worked with them for 16 years. Our cows are friendly and wd want

them to go to the same kind of farm as we have so they are not `bused. I

am hopefully going to get a job as a lorry driver, get out of farming

completely. I don't see a bright future on little farms like this, it

will be big farms milking thousands of cows, not small numbers. I don't

think the big herds are the ones for me. How do you think your f`ther

would have felt? I don't know. I think he would have said, don't lose

it all. Don't lose everything we have worked for.

The day they dreaded has arrived. I woke up this morning and didn't have

to milk them. I went back to bed at half past four, a lot of mo`ning and

groaning. The cows thought H had overslept! You have lots of friends

supporting you. Yes, but nobody wants to buy any because thdy have

all retired. Fingers crossed there are some buyers here. Hopeftlly One

or two anyway, otherwise I will have to buy them back and start `gain.

Despite a slow start, peopld do show up. But who is buying at thhs tough

time? The TB situation is pretty serious,

two or three people are comhng because they have to replacd what

they have lost through TB, but there is natural wastage in dairy herds

and quite often people will be buying two or three to repl`ce them.

Tell me about the prices yot will get for a dairy cow. You ard hoping

for 30,000, 40,000, up to 2000 for your good animals. -- 1300, 140 . A

big thank you to Paul, sellhng his Friesian cows. A thousand, 600, 650,

680, 700, 720, I still at 720. In the last 20 years more than 60% of

dairy producers in the UK h`ve left the industry. Most of those who have

quit our small-scale farmers. There is now a trend towards largdr, more

efficient herds of several hundred cattle. 1000, selling at 1000. But

small herds. We were tied up with TB small herds. We were tied up with TB

so we couldn't sell the herds - herd so I am taking a few more to

make a living with. Were yot pleased with the price you got todax? Yes,

it was good. I will be milkhng them tomorrow morning. I look forward to

that. One person missing in the crowd is Julie. I find it a bit

upsetting. But I am going up again now. I want to support my htsband.

Seeing them all going brings it out. But it has to happen so, ye`h, I

have to get used to it. I don't know what to do with myself really, I am

wondering about. I will go back up. Are you pleased with how it has

gone? I think they are worth a lot more than what they are makhng.

Spending 16 years with thosd cars you know them inside out, their

personalities, everything. H can't do it. No.

At last it's the final lot. Is it a relief it is over? Xes, it

is. I was dreading it but it is over. We have still have sole

animals so we still have sole to look at. Thank you very much,

everybody. All that is left for Paul to do is see the cows off.

How was it? Nerve wracking but we got through it. Were you pldased

with the prices you got? Sole made good prices and some I thought would

make more. Average, not too bad What about tomorrow, how will that

be? Empty. It is Black history month and in

Bristol there is a lot to rdflect on. From the city's role in the

slave trade to the recent Black Lives Matter protest, race relations

is firmly on the agenda. Radio presenter Jenny K -- Gemma Cani has

been looking at the last nine facts about Bristol's slave trade. --

lesser-known facts. It is a difficult scenario to even

imagine now but 250 years ago Bristol was at the epicentrd of this

triangular trade in goods and people. At its height 50 sl`ve ships

set sail from here every ye`r, trading goods like coal and cloth

for enslaved people in Africa. They were transported to the plantations

of the Caribbean where they were forced to work often to death

producing coffee, cotton and run, commodities that were brought back

to Bristol to be sold on at substantial profit. -- Rana. While

Bristol's connection to the slave trade is no secret there is a layer

of history that doesn't seel to be widely talked about so I want to dig

deep into Bristol's murky p`st dealings.

Bristol was involved in the transatlantic slave trade bdfore it

had a legal right to do too. 16 8 was the year in which Bristol was

officially allowed by Royal Charter to trade in African slaves, Bristol

merchants petitioned to do so. Restore profited very rapidly, it

was a whole industrial systdm will upon it. -- were still profhted

Bristol. There is a whole ecology Bristol. There is a whole ecology

dependent on the slave tradd. It was the sheer scale of wealth

accumulated by Bristol as a leading slaving port which inspired

historical novelist Philipp` Gregory to write A Respectable Tradd 20

years ago, a work of fiction based on some of Bristol's darkest facts.

I was brought up here and it was striking as a girl that everybody

knew the fortunes of Bristol were based on the triangular trade but it

was like it was a secret. The Central library has fantasthc

documents on slavery, like information about the ships, the

newspapers at the time, and I wanted to write a story of 18th-century

Bristol that takes in not jtst the slave trading past but the whole

economic basis of the city, so much based on slavery. This is where the

up-and-coming merchants madd their first move, they wanted to love

somewhere a bit away from the docks, more clean and safe, so thex built

this beautiful square and moved here. In the novel, Philip depicts

the flight of an enslaved African man who is transported to Bristol on

the slave ship. Something that I didn't realise and

really struck me from the book is that you could actually buy slaves

here in Bristol. Certainly, and every slave in town, becausd the

ship's captains were allowed to bring back five or six slavds for

their personal use. In the liddle of the 18th century there is a

population in London of run`way slaves of as many as 10,000. One of

the accounts of the time sahd there was a black place in every town in

England. It is hidden history. Literature can be a restorative We

forget that people had another life, they were not erased, they carried

all these possibilities, thhs identity that they had before

enslavement into this new lhfe and in many ways it kind of highlights

the tragedy. While we don't know the exact number of enslaved Africans

who ended up in Bristol, thdre are reminders across the city today An

18-year-old slave is buried with an elaborate gravestone in this

graveyard. In the centre of town, this bridge is named after ` slave

belonging to a wealthy merchant and Plantation owner. What you see when

you look around you, partictlarly in the beautiful area of Clifton, is

city that we still benefit from city that we still benefit from

today, the charitable found`tions, the public works, the great

buildings, the beautiful architecture was all fundamdntally

founded on slavery. To learn about it so viscerally in fiction has been

quite mind blowing and very saddening. Because the still is so

visual, you can see what sole of my ancestors might have experidnced. It

is very gut wrenching, to bd honest. The fact that it is a true part of

history makes me quite distraught. It is a crime against humanhty on a

scale we have never repeated. It was a terrible thing to do, but what was

interesting to me was to trx to write a novel but wasn't just the

sufferings or the terrible lust of the slave trade and to say, here are

the best people involved in it and why are they doing it. Why hs it a

good thing if you are a Bristol person at that time to work in this

business, why does nobody challenge you? The abolition movement rises

and falls in the course of the book. There was no real moral feeling that

it was a bad thing. When thd abolition movement did finally

gather momentum, Bristol pl`yed a big part. This pub is where writer

and abolitionist Thomas Clarkson began his campaign to end the slave

trade. The seven stars pub hs a place where Thomas Clarkson met with

a number of slave is and got to know the reality of the slave tr`de. Many

people told a fiction about plantations and it took people who

were working across the indtstry to come back and say, actually this is

what it is like, to really open our eyes. Clarkson was a tenacious

campaign. He knew it would be hard to change the minds of thosd making

money from slavery. So he focused on the deplorable conditions enjoyed by

both slaves and British sailors on the ships. He secured the stpport of

influential politicians such as abolition front man William

Wilberforce. Slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833, almost

50 years after Clarkson beg`n his campaign in Bristol. But not a

moment too soon for the millions of moment too soon for the millions of

African lives ruined by the slave trade.

And you can see more from Gdmma on the books that made Britain on the

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