:00:15. > :00:19.Whole and welcome to Inside Out from Huddersfield. This week, we
:00:19. > :00:25.investigate whether evidence which sent a man to the gallows was in
:00:25. > :00:31.accurate. 60 years on, a medical expert cast doubt on the key
:00:31. > :00:40.witness statement. A I would have said do not contemplate using this
:00:40. > :00:47.as evidence in court. Also tonight, Christmas shopping. We return to
:00:47. > :00:57.the market town of Dewsbury at what should be the busiest time of the
:00:57. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:07.year. So sometimes I wonder if it's worth bothering. Stuart taught
:01:07. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:29.returners to Yorkshire to relive 60 years ago, two policemen were
:01:29. > :01:35.shot dead and a far more called Alfred Moore was trained for his
:01:35. > :01:41.part. But now it appears that the key piece of evidence in the case
:01:41. > :01:47.for the prosecution could have been unreliable. I am about to meet a
:01:47. > :01:50.woman who is searching for justice for her father, 60 years after my
:01:51. > :01:53.was hanged for murder. Tina Harris is back in Huddersfield.
:01:53. > :01:56.She was born here, but she does not have happy memories.
:01:56. > :02:01.Tina's father Alfred Moore was convicted of a terrible crime -
:02:01. > :02:04.killing two police officers. But we have found fresh evidence
:02:04. > :02:14.which suggests he could have been the victim of a tragic miscarriage
:02:14. > :02:15.
:02:15. > :02:25.of justice. My think it is very distressing. I think there is the
:02:25. > :02:31.case for a thorough review of the evidence. I think it was an
:02:31. > :02:34.injustice that he lost his life at the hands of the hangman. Her
:02:34. > :02:43.For Tina, the memories of what happened to her father have never
:02:43. > :02:47.gone away. Life was very difficult. Be faced poverty and life for me
:02:47. > :02:49.was turned upside down. Huddersfield in 1951, the scene of
:02:49. > :02:52.a crime which shocked the whole of Britain.
:02:52. > :02:55.Two police officers were shot dead just outside the town. It happened
:02:55. > :02:57.near this farm, where Alfred Moore lived with his wife and four young
:02:57. > :03:07.daughters. Tina and I have come to the field
:03:07. > :03:15.where the policemen were killed. Does it feel strange coming back to
:03:15. > :03:19.here after all this time? He yes, it is very emotional, both good and
:03:19. > :03:22.bad. Tina's father was a poultry farmer,
:03:22. > :03:25.but he was also a part-time burglar. While the police were carrying out
:03:25. > :03:27.a surveillance operation on his house, an inspector and a constable
:03:27. > :03:29.were shot dead. It was a night-time mission that
:03:29. > :03:33.went terribly wrong. Eight police officers, unarmed and
:03:33. > :03:43.in plain clothes, were waiting around Moore's farm. They believed
:03:43. > :03:48.
:03:48. > :03:53.he was behind a spate of break-ins at local shops. We wanted to catch
:03:53. > :03:56.the people early in the morning. Moore said he had been to his
:03:56. > :03:58.brother's house and walked home on his own at midnight, without seeing
:03:58. > :04:01.anyone. But two hours later, two of the
:04:01. > :04:04.officers came across a man in a nearby field.
:04:04. > :04:14.Moments later, one of the policemen, Inspector Duncan Fraser, was dead
:04:14. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:23.and the other, PC Gordon Jagger, was dying. From the start, he was
:04:23. > :04:26.identified at as the killer. It looked like an open and shut case.
:04:26. > :04:29.But it now appears there are serious flaws in the evidence
:04:29. > :04:37.against him. Steve Lawson is a former detective
:04:37. > :04:43.who has reinvestigated the case. Overall, there are that it be any
:04:43. > :04:45.discrepancies, that I do not think Alfred Moore was responsible.
:04:45. > :04:49.At the start, there was little evidence against Moore. The gunman
:04:49. > :04:51.carried his weapon in his coat pocket and was said to have run
:04:51. > :04:54.towards Moore's farmhouse, but no forensic evidence was found on
:04:54. > :05:01.Moore's clothes or at his home. Patrick Robertshaw is a retired
:05:01. > :05:03.judge. He has got serious concerns about the case.
:05:03. > :05:05.At the time of the shootings, Moore's house was already
:05:05. > :05:08.surrounded. No-one could get in or out.
:05:08. > :05:18.For weeks afterwards, there was a massive search. The army were even
:05:18. > :05:28.called in, but the gun was never found. Failure to recover the
:05:28. > :05:28.
:05:28. > :05:32.murder weapon almost inevitably means that fee killer was not at
:05:32. > :05:36.the scene afterwards, but had gone away from the scene taking the
:05:36. > :05:39.murder weapon with him. Moore's oldest daughter Pat was
:05:39. > :05:43.questioned about her father's alibi. He said he was at home in bed at
:05:43. > :05:49.the time of the murders, but she says police wanted her to say her
:05:49. > :05:54.father came in much later - AFTER the time the policemen were shot.
:05:54. > :05:57.Instead of sticking up for my father, they wanted me to say what
:05:58. > :06:00.they wanted me to say. The only real evidence against
:06:01. > :06:03.Moore came from PC Jagger, who was fatally wounded, but survived for
:06:03. > :06:06.just over 24 hours - long enough to identify his murderer.
:06:06. > :06:09.At an identity parade around his hospital bed, PC Jagger picked out
:06:09. > :06:18.Moore. He also made a statement naming him
:06:18. > :06:28.as the killer. Throughout the procedure, Alfred Moore was on his
:06:28. > :06:33.own. If you are on an investigation as part of the double murder and at
:06:33. > :06:43.a time when the death penalty applied, you might have thought he
:06:43. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:50.would have been afforded the legal protection that he deserved.
:06:50. > :06:54.was the evidence accurate and reliable? Moreover, was it enough
:06:54. > :06:57.to send a man to the gallows? We have asked a professor of
:06:57. > :07:00.anaesthesia to examine the case. From medical evidence produced at
:07:00. > :07:09.Moore's trial, he does not believe the police officer was in a fit
:07:09. > :07:15.state to give reliable evidence. had received drugs which it are
:07:15. > :07:24.renowned for their effect on the main to, the brain and the
:07:24. > :07:27.perception of events. I think one would have to summarise that has in
:07:27. > :07:30.been your neck and acute state of confusion.
:07:30. > :07:32.Professor Hopkins found PC Jagger would still have been affected by
:07:32. > :07:35.two doses of morphine, as well as anaesthetics.
:07:35. > :07:45.He was also bleeding to death from an internal injury which surgeons
:07:45. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:52.had failed to spot. There are all sorts of confusing and delirious
:07:52. > :08:00.states of mind that can be present in someone who appears to be alert
:08:00. > :08:06.and rational. If I had been his daughter and advising him and the
:08:06. > :08:16.police and the magistrates, I would have said, do not even contemplate
:08:16. > :08:19.
:08:19. > :08:26.using this evidence. In February 1952, it was a national day of
:08:26. > :08:36.mourning as King George the 6th died. Later that day, Alfred Moore
:08:36. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:53.I was upstairs I was upstairs and on the steps. My mother was on
:08:53. > :08:57.their hallway and she, and the core where we knew he was going to die,
:08:57. > :09:00.just broke down and and eight broke down to.
:09:00. > :09:03.But if Alfred Moore did not kill the two police officers, who did?
:09:03. > :09:07.Steve Lawson has been to Fleetwood in Lancashire to meet a man who
:09:07. > :09:17.claimed to know the truth. John Mead was the son of Clifford Mead,
:09:17. > :09:17.
:09:17. > :09:25.a criminal associate of Alfred Moore. We arranged to meet in here.
:09:25. > :09:31.When we got in deeper conversation, he said that on her deathbed, his
:09:31. > :09:34.wife said that it was him who had actually killed a policeman.
:09:34. > :09:41.John Mead has died, but he gave Steve a signed statement naming his
:09:41. > :09:45.father as the killer. Alfred Moore's case is with the
:09:45. > :09:48.Criminal Cases Review Commission. We have passed them our fresh
:09:48. > :09:52.evidence. A decision is expected soon on whether the case will go
:09:52. > :09:55.back to the Court of Appeal. Two brave policemen were shot down
:09:55. > :10:05.in cold blood, but it looks increasingly likely that the wrong
:10:05. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:16.man could have been hanged. It has brought some hope. There is some
:10:16. > :10:26.hope that one day my father may be pardoned. When that happens, I can
:10:26. > :10:26.
:10:26. > :10:29.talk proudly about 10 and hold my head up high. They were told to the
:10:29. > :10:38.that the case would not go back to the review court and they are now
:10:38. > :10:48.applying for a judicial review. Coming up, the return of It's A
:10:48. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:55.With just 12 shopping days left to Christmas, retailers are bracing
:10:55. > :10:59.themselves for some of the worst trading conditions in living memory.
:10:59. > :11:02.So spare a thought for Dewsbury. It is said to have more empty shops
:11:02. > :11:10.than any other Yorkshire town. Asha Tanna has been back there for
:11:10. > :11:14.Inside Out to see if there are any signs of a festive upturn in sales.
:11:14. > :11:16.This is supposed to be the busiest time of the year if you are a
:11:16. > :11:19.shopkeeper. But will the optimism of this
:11:19. > :11:28.festive switch-on help to set the cash tills ringing here in
:11:28. > :11:38.Dewsbury? I believe we're doing as much as can to make this the
:11:38. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:47.As the festive sparkle gives way to Denner -- daylight, be problems
:11:47. > :11:51.become apparent. We have become what was a bustling town, to 1pm on
:11:51. > :11:55.a Saturday, you can stand at my door and you might only see one or
:11:55. > :12:00.two people. There are businesses investing in Dewsbury that field
:12:00. > :12:06.the town has a future. I think here, we have got an opportunity to
:12:06. > :12:10.revive the town, and put ourselves on the map. The latest figures for
:12:10. > :12:15.vacant shops are shown nationally, Dewsbury is the 4th worst for a
:12:15. > :12:20.town of its size. And still the worst in the Horn of Yorkshire. I
:12:20. > :12:24.have come back to Dewsbury a year after I first looked at how the
:12:25. > :12:28.recession had affected the town. I wanted to see if those figures were
:12:28. > :12:33.there. Dewsbury is a market town, and it is the stalls here which
:12:33. > :12:42.have traditionally been the lifeblood of the retail trade.
:12:42. > :12:47.and 75. Ken has been betrayed a hit for more than a quarter of a
:12:47. > :12:51.century. He has seen good times and lean. We have had 15 to 20 good
:12:51. > :12:56.years. The last four and five years have been harder. Why do you think
:12:56. > :13:01.that is? With more competition, supermarkets, late night shopping.
:13:01. > :13:05.Stuff like that. It makes a difference. Despite the figures, a
:13:05. > :13:09.good few of the shops that I saw last year that were empty have now
:13:09. > :13:15.opened again and are trading. It is a Saturday and it should be busier
:13:15. > :13:21.than less. It has been a year since I saw you, how his trade? At the
:13:21. > :13:25.moment, not good at all. We are currently down approximately...
:13:25. > :13:30.Light many trade is in deep -- like many traders in the Daisy Hill area,
:13:30. > :13:34.Mark Rourke's business is struggling. He is hoping he will
:13:34. > :13:38.see a pre-Christmas sales boost but he is not optimistic. It is
:13:38. > :13:42.diabolical at the motion -- at the moment. Some days, we do not take a
:13:42. > :13:46.penny. Well you'll be here all day and we will not take any money.
:13:46. > :13:50.When you know you have got bills to pay, and you'll rates which are
:13:50. > :13:53.constantly creeping up, you run the shop for nine hours and you don't
:13:53. > :13:58.take any money, you go home sometimes and think, is it worth
:13:58. > :14:03.it? Why am I bothering? Are you worried about closing down? I said
:14:03. > :14:08.club months ago, if things did not improve I would shut up and move
:14:08. > :14:13.towns, but I'm not going to give up on Dewsbury. Near by, and
:14:13. > :14:17.neighbouring shop is faring even worse. Last time, the photos centre
:14:17. > :14:21.is struggling. This time it looks like it is falling apart, literally.
:14:22. > :14:25.Business was so bad that David had planned to retire this year and
:14:25. > :14:30.shut up shop. The building has become so dangerous, it has had to
:14:30. > :14:35.be propped up. But passport photos and a new line in dry cleaning has
:14:35. > :14:39.kept the business afloat. I got a letter saying I would consider
:14:39. > :14:45.leaving, because of the dilapidated state of the building. They were
:14:45. > :14:49.not forcing me. As I chose to say, it would be my responsibility. If
:14:49. > :14:56.there building falls down it will fall down. Retirement is the only
:14:56. > :15:01.option. Who do you blame, and what can be done? I don't think Kirklees
:15:01. > :15:05.accounts will have helped a lot, to me, they don't mean -- Council,
:15:05. > :15:11.they don't seem interested in Dewsbury. I think more free parking
:15:11. > :15:17.would help. People say they do not come here because they have got to
:15:17. > :15:22.go to a centre where it is free. have an incentive scheme for free
:15:22. > :15:27.parking, whereby if customers spend in the town centre, there is a car
:15:28. > :15:31.park where they can redeem the cost of parking. For many, this building
:15:31. > :15:39.represents Dewsbury's declined -- declined. Change is happening but
:15:39. > :15:43.that does smile -- but at a snail's pace. Pioneer House stands derelict.
:15:43. > :15:46.The only apparent physical change in the last year has been the
:15:46. > :15:52.removal of the scaffolding. It was to have been the centrepiece of a
:15:52. > :15:58.retail revival, as part of a �150 million investment in Dewsbury. But
:15:58. > :16:01.the developers went bust, and the council won a compulsory purchase
:16:01. > :16:05.order to take back the building. have spent millions taking that
:16:05. > :16:09.building into public ownership, and we will spend further millions
:16:09. > :16:15.bringing the iconic building back into use. 12 months ago, I went to
:16:15. > :16:24.see Taz Marshall who had just begun to share her comic shop at a scene
:16:24. > :16:30.stress -- we do seem stress. How has the last year been? Really well.
:16:30. > :16:35.We have now gone into profit with our first year, that business has
:16:35. > :16:39.built up. Dewsbury is considered the 4th worst town in the country,
:16:39. > :16:44.is it really that bad? It has improved. Since October last year
:16:44. > :16:49.until now, we have had 21 new businesses opening in town.
:16:49. > :16:55.there is no better to showcase that Thant looking at one of the town's
:16:55. > :17:00.newest shops. An upmarket gents outfitters and bespoke tailors,
:17:00. > :17:06.which left one of the -- led one of the most exclusive names in retell
:17:06. > :17:10.to relocate here. Why did you leave Harvey Nichols? We wanted to have a
:17:10. > :17:16.niche in the market. If we opened up in Leeds, we would have been
:17:16. > :17:21.annulled T4 couple of months. In Dewsbury, we have an opportunity to
:17:21. > :17:25.revive the town and put ourselves on the map. When you started seeing
:17:25. > :17:30.the vacant shops, but the alarm bells ring? No, we thought it would
:17:30. > :17:34.be a great opportunity. We have got an ideal space. Fantastic location,
:17:34. > :17:40.a stone's throw away from a train station. We wanted to have its to
:17:40. > :17:45.have a good feel. What you think Dewsbury needs to do to attract
:17:45. > :17:50.businesses like ourselves? -- yourself? The council can see where
:17:50. > :17:54.the problems are. They have got the money, even if it means doing a
:17:54. > :17:59.shop front to revitalise its. The ball is in their court. What more
:17:59. > :18:02.can I say? They need to be more proactive. Traders have told me
:18:02. > :18:09.that they feel like they are the poor cousin of Huddersfield, they
:18:09. > :18:14.are not getting their first -- their fair share from Kirklees
:18:14. > :18:19.council. We are doing whatever we can in very difficult times for the
:18:19. > :18:22.council. We have invested over �2 million in a new customer service
:18:22. > :18:27.centre which means for the population of 200,000 in North
:18:27. > :18:30.Kirklees, this will be the premier place for them to come and access
:18:30. > :18:36.face-to-face Council, NHS and police services. That will bring
:18:36. > :18:40.football into the town centre. There are some encouraging signs,
:18:40. > :18:44.but will it be enough for the traders of Dewsbury? I have seen a
:18:44. > :18:49.lot of empty shops, but I have seen them filling up at the moment.
:18:49. > :18:54.Nobody has a magic wand, do they? The countdown to Christmas has
:18:54. > :19:04.begun in Dewsbury, and trading traders are hoping a prosperous few
:19:04. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:12.weeks lie ahead. Long-term It's A Knockout it is the legendary
:19:12. > :19:17.1970s television programme where people fell of obstacles, but got
:19:17. > :19:21.drenched but always came off smiling. 35 years ago, a team from
:19:21. > :19:27.Yorkshire had a brief taste of TV stardom when they appeared on the
:19:27. > :19:34.programme. Stuart Hall has been back to Kirklees to see whether the
:19:34. > :19:40.spirit of it to knockouts -- It's A Knockout still survives.
:19:40. > :19:47.A glorious day. It always is! It is not exactly Rome or Paris, we do
:19:47. > :19:54.not have monuments, we do not have a piazza, but we have a rather
:19:54. > :20:04.charming town hall. Altogether, it is really pleasing to the ear.
:20:04. > :20:09.THEME. Do you hear what I here? Are you thinking but I am thinking? It
:20:09. > :20:13.heralds crazy antics, mad frolicking, lots of balloons!
:20:13. > :20:20.People going absolutely berserk! Yes, it is the Greatest Show on
:20:20. > :20:27.Earth, It's A Knockout! It was just like one big happy family until you
:20:27. > :20:31.actually got down to the games. ended up being the back end of the
:20:31. > :20:36.horse. The costume broke as I went up the ladder but that might have
:20:36. > :20:41.been premeditated. The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living
:20:42. > :20:45.memory. Back then, Eileen Marchant and Dave Millman were a trifle
:20:46. > :20:51.younger and fitter than they are now. 100 people applied for the
:20:51. > :20:56.Kirklees team, only 15 were chosen. We had to do things like climb up a
:20:56. > :21:02.rope as many times as you could in a minute. Press ups and the shops.
:21:02. > :21:07.I have to swim as well which is not my strength. The chief Luddite,
:21:07. > :21:14.Uncle Eddie Waring! Eddie Waring was one of my favourites, being a
:21:14. > :21:18.rugby player. If I could get in that, it would be really good fun.
:21:18. > :21:24.A team captain was Rob Blackshaw. He had been on the show before, and
:21:24. > :21:29.he had learned a few things along the way. It's taught me how to
:21:29. > :21:34.cheat within the confines of the game. How or it could be best done.
:21:34. > :21:43.Not to show everybody how good you were in practice. Do you remember
:21:43. > :21:47.1976? Cleckheaton was awash. The sky was black but we still had a
:21:47. > :21:52.fantastic It's A Knockout. This is where the team got their first team
:21:52. > :21:56.of the -- taste of the game, battling against Leeds and
:21:57. > :22:01.Doncaster or on a muggy field. I remember it well! It was the
:22:01. > :22:08.wettest day we had had all summer! A local film club recorded once
:22:08. > :22:12.went on. The Games, you might think, are very simple, crude and
:22:12. > :22:20.rudimentary. Let me put you right. They were simple, of crude, and
:22:20. > :22:26.rudimentary. Hello, Eddie! The pride of Yorkshire, what a great
:22:26. > :22:32.man he was. He was always doleful until the camera was on him, and
:22:32. > :22:38.then suddenly, he would be very enthusiastic. He was a dear heart.
:22:39. > :22:44.We got on very well. In the pouring rain, it was time for Kirklees to
:22:44. > :22:48.put their training to the test. actually went in as the underdogs.
:22:48. > :22:53.Everybody was convinced that Leeds were going to win. But we felt we
:22:53. > :22:59.got the upper hand, we trained, we practised the games. And we were on
:22:59. > :23:05.top of our game. Are you ready, teams? I remember being wet, cold,
:23:05. > :23:10.catching flour bags. Flower got catapulted towards us, we had to
:23:10. > :23:16.catch as many as we could. I think you just concentrated on your own
:23:16. > :23:20.game and just tried to do your best. Paul Dallas's training did not
:23:20. > :23:27.prepare him for his task, kicking footballs while wearing a Humpty
:23:27. > :23:31.Dumpty outfit. What I can remember is I put this Humpty Dumpty outfit
:23:31. > :23:35.on, and you cannot see anything, I was desperate to try and cheap. Try
:23:35. > :23:44.and get a little crack so I could see what they were saying, but I
:23:45. > :23:49.could not. Take! Kick! Right, right, right! I remember getting Hawker --
:23:49. > :23:53.hotter and hotter in this costume, a bit claustrophobic and very
:23:53. > :23:56.disorientated. I did not know where I was meant to be facing. It is
:23:56. > :24:00.probably not my proudest, and that remains the only time I have ever
:24:01. > :24:08.been on television. It is a sad affair if that is my only claim for
:24:08. > :24:13.framed! Show me that motion again. That was magic! Their legs! Leeds
:24:13. > :24:23.were still the favourites but Kirklees a hand in the end --
:24:23. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:32.A mistake! Kirklees have done it! We felt like total heroes. The
:24:32. > :24:37.crowd just went balmy. It was such a big deal at the time. We were
:24:37. > :24:42.like football stars, we did a lap of honour, waving at everybody with
:24:42. > :24:49.people cheering. It was great. The any disappointing thing was that we
:24:49. > :24:55.were going to Jeux Sans Frontieres, but it was at Leeds! So, later that
:24:55. > :25:01.summer, Kirklees took on Europe. It was the big time! But they have not
:25:01. > :25:06.got out of Yorkshire! I remember just the enormous crowd
:25:06. > :25:09.that was there. One of the highlights was watching the Germans
:25:09. > :25:13.training, they were ever so efficient. Until the day came, they
:25:13. > :25:17.made some mistakes and they also pick -- fell to pieces and we
:25:17. > :25:22.thought it was our chance. Now we have the joker of Great Britain
:25:23. > :25:28.being played on game at four. The first big test was a game where
:25:28. > :25:33.Kirklees played their joker which meant they had to win. I was
:25:33. > :25:40.dressed up underneath a huge costumed with a duck speak on and
:25:40. > :25:46.flippers. I got through to a -- the final, it was me and a Dutch lad. I
:25:46. > :25:51.can remember running over a bridge, I was ahead, just. And just diving
:25:51. > :25:55.into the straw, and we could not find the ball. We were up on the
:25:55. > :25:59.hill at the back, and we could see roughly where the white ball and
:25:59. > :26:05.the black balls were going. So we just sort of intimated, top right,
:26:05. > :26:10.left to right -- top left. So he had an inkling as to where the
:26:10. > :26:18.correct balls were. I seem to remember coming out with it, and I
:26:18. > :26:25.was just ecstatic! You did well. And off they go! A ended up being
:26:25. > :26:30.back end of the horse. The lad in front of me had a belt, so if I
:26:30. > :26:34.fell, he would drag me anyway. as the final results came in,
:26:34. > :26:42.Kirklees had the chance to be champions of Europe, in a manner of
:26:42. > :26:47.speaking. Kirklees win with 45 points! It was
:26:47. > :26:52.a fantastic India it -- experience. We all enjoyed it, now, it would
:26:52. > :26:58.not be allowed under health and safety rules and regulations.
:26:58. > :27:04.you very much, people of Yorkshire! 35 years later, some of that
:27:04. > :27:11.triumphant team are back together, for one last go It's A Knockout. OK,
:27:11. > :27:21.we are all a bit older, but the knockout spirit is still there.
:27:21. > :27:24.
:27:24. > :27:32.Here is a number one. Don't worry about the rules, it is all about
:27:32. > :27:36.water guns, trying to stay upright, and not falling in the water. Now
:27:36. > :27:43.there is an inflatable Oxford -- obstacle course. It looks so
:27:43. > :27:53.simple! Let's wait and see. Ilene is having a few problems. Did the
:27:53. > :28:04.
:28:04. > :28:11.girl a cheque, she is doing her For what it is worth, Jonathan is
:28:11. > :28:19.the winner. And we have all had a great time.
:28:19. > :28:24.Get him, Jonathan, get him! Get him!
:28:24. > :28:31.Sadly, since that film was made, one of the competitors, Jonathan,
:28:31. > :28:38.who you saw in the swimming pool, has died. That is all from us in