:00:00. > :00:25.Welcome to Inside Out from the market town of Chesterfield.
:00:26. > :00:32.Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. I'm Toby Foster. Tonight, we
:00:33. > :00:37.examine claims of physical and sexual abuse at a now`defunct youth
:00:38. > :00:41.detention centre. One man from York says his life was made a living
:00:42. > :00:49.hell. I couldn't begin to tell you how I felt. Do I feel that way
:00:50. > :00:53.today? Yeah, I do. Also tonight, we talk to the teenagers putting their
:00:54. > :01:00.lives on the line by taking so`called legal highs. I literally
:01:01. > :01:03.felt like I was going to die. And I go for a drive in a classic car
:01:04. > :01:11.which was made in Yorkshire more than 60 years ago.
:01:12. > :01:18.We start tonight with a shocking story stretching back decades. More
:01:19. > :01:21.than 140 men have now come forward with allegations of physical and
:01:22. > :01:27.sexual abuse at a former youth detention centre. Tonight, Chris
:01:28. > :01:31.Jackson looks at why a prison designed to steer young offenders
:01:32. > :01:39.away from a life of crime has, instead, left are so many lives in
:01:40. > :01:44.ruin. It's always in my head. It's ruined my life, completely ruined
:01:45. > :01:50.it. Ray Poar was 17 when he was sent to Medomsley for stealing biscuits
:01:51. > :01:54.from a battery. The chap that went there with me didn't answer with the
:01:55. > :01:58.title "sir" and was shouted at and I laughed and one of the officers just
:01:59. > :02:05.punched me full in the chest, really hard. That was a wake`up call and a
:02:06. > :02:16.shock and from then on, it was pretty much an everyday thing. You
:02:17. > :02:21.were always prodded, punched, hit. Demolished in the 1990s, this is the
:02:22. > :02:28.BBC's only footage of Medomsley. It was run on military lines and
:02:29. > :02:33.staffed mainly by ex`servicemen. Come along, keep going. Smile and
:02:34. > :02:39.look as though you're enjoying it. I've spoken to a very senior civil
:02:40. > :02:43.servant who said that it was known in Home Office circles that the
:02:44. > :02:49.reputation for toughness sometimes lapsed into brutality. These will be
:02:50. > :02:53.no holiday camps and I sincerely hope those who attend them will not
:02:54. > :02:56.ever want to go back there. Of the tough approach made Medomsley and
:02:57. > :03:02.ideal home for the then Conservative's government ``
:03:03. > :03:06.Conservative government's short, sharp shock experiment and when Leon
:03:07. > :03:11.Brittain, the then Home Secretary, visited in 1985 he was pleased with
:03:12. > :03:15.what he saw. I wanted to see how it worked out in practice and I think
:03:16. > :03:20.we have got it about right. Medomsley was closed at the end of
:03:21. > :03:24.the decade. Shielded for almost 20 years in a regime wage of inmates
:03:25. > :03:28.feared they would be hit if they complained was violent rapist
:03:29. > :03:32.Neville Husband. As a prison officer, he was in charge of the
:03:33. > :03:42.kitchens where, for two decades, he arrayed on dozens of always. ``
:03:43. > :03:48.preyed on dozens of boys. He pushed his body against mine and squeezed
:03:49. > :03:54.and he was telling me, "you will do it because you could just disappear.
:03:55. > :03:58.Nobody would care. You are just scum" . I could feel myself losing
:03:59. > :04:03.consciousness and the next thing I can remember is him raping me. I was
:04:04. > :04:07.woken by an officer who had noticed I had wet the bed and he told me to
:04:08. > :04:12.get my soiled bed clothes together and made me bunny hop to the showers
:04:13. > :04:17.naked. When I couldn't make it to the showers, I was kicked. We knew
:04:18. > :04:20.we couldn't turn round to them and complain to them about what had
:04:21. > :04:23.happened with Husband because they were part of it. They were the ones
:04:24. > :04:29.that were kicking us about every day. Neville Husband and a storeman,
:04:30. > :04:34.Leslie Johnson, were finally convicted of their crimes in 2003.
:04:35. > :04:39.They were jailed for ten years and have since died. During the
:04:40. > :04:44.investigation into Husband, officers who'd been at the jail gave
:04:45. > :04:47.evidence. Medomsley was a very strict youth detention centre which
:04:48. > :04:53.operated a short, sharp shock treatment regime. Most borstals and
:04:54. > :04:59.detention centres were run the same way for the past 20 years. They were
:05:00. > :05:02.very, very tough institutions. Now, decades after the jail closed, and
:05:03. > :05:07.with more former inmates coming forward, the police have opened a
:05:08. > :05:12.new, wide`ranging investigation into what was really going on at
:05:13. > :05:15.Medomsley. We are seeing a huge amount of people come forward who
:05:16. > :05:18.have been physically assaulted. When they went to this place, they were
:05:19. > :05:23.faced with what was effectively a brutal regime and if you ended up in
:05:24. > :05:28.the kitchens in that brutal regime, you would almost certainly be raped
:05:29. > :05:31.and sexually assaulted. Second`team detectives are working on the
:05:32. > :05:37.inquiry with new cases still coming in. `` 70 detectives. He was talking
:05:38. > :05:40.about the day he went in and had his legs kicked from under him. He
:05:41. > :05:46.described it like a concentration camp. Some of the boys would lay at
:05:47. > :05:50.the bottom of the stairs and ask another boy to jump off the stairs
:05:51. > :05:54.and on to their leg so they could break a leg and be removed from
:05:55. > :05:58.Medomsley in order not to be subjected to any more beatings. The
:05:59. > :06:01.inquiry is expected to take many more months and there are clear
:06:02. > :06:07.objectives for the officer in charge. If people have committed
:06:08. > :06:10.criminal offences, they should be held to account if they are still
:06:11. > :06:14.alive. And those individuals that have come forward to the police
:06:15. > :06:20.should find themselves in a place that is better at the end of it.
:06:21. > :06:25.Today's approach of a far cry from the experience of Kevin Young, who
:06:26. > :06:28.was 17 when he was raped by Husband and tried to report the crime as
:06:29. > :06:33.soon as he was released from jail, almost 40 years ago. All efforts
:06:34. > :06:36.were made by the police to make sure I didn't make a complaint. I was
:06:37. > :06:39.threatened with three arrest and to be sent back to Medomsley. I
:06:40. > :06:47.couldn't begin to tell you how I felt that day. Do I feel that way
:06:48. > :06:52.today? Yeah, I do. So how could this have gone unreported? In the initial
:06:53. > :06:54.investigation into Husband's sexual assaults, prison officers said it
:06:55. > :06:59.was an open secret that boys were being abused. There will always very
:07:00. > :07:02.strong rumours that Neville Husband was homosexual and was sexually
:07:03. > :07:09.abusing boys that word for him in the kitchen. As soon as I arrived, I
:07:10. > :07:11.was told by two officers that Neville Husband was a domineering
:07:12. > :07:16.character and that he allegedly abused inmates. On a night`time,
:07:17. > :07:20.Husband would usually keep one of the boys back with him after the
:07:21. > :07:28.others had been dismissed. We all felt sorry for that boy. Tim Newell
:07:29. > :07:31.was the governor at Medomsley from 1978 to 1981 and socialised with
:07:32. > :07:36.Husband during his spell there. He even took part in place he produced.
:07:37. > :07:38.Reports written by the governor about Husband could not have been
:07:39. > :07:48.more different from what was really going on.
:07:49. > :07:55.I was in complete panic. I thought he was going to kill me. He was
:07:56. > :07:57.talking to me and saying, "nobody would ever care. If you went
:07:58. > :08:08.missing, you could be found hanged in yourself. You could just
:08:09. > :08:12.disappear" . I feel like I'm drowning every day, like I'm doggy
:08:13. > :08:18.paddling. I feel like I've been crushed inside. I feel like any good
:08:19. > :08:23.that was in me has been shredded. Tim Newell declined to speak to us
:08:24. > :08:28.but in a statement told us he wrote the glowing reports about Husband
:08:29. > :08:31.because he was... He added that he didn't have a particularly close
:08:32. > :08:52.relationship with him. He said he was...
:08:53. > :08:59.Sir Martin Narey was director`general of the service when
:09:00. > :09:04.Husband's crimes came to light. Had you heard about a reputation for
:09:05. > :09:08.Medomsley being tough? Yes, I started my prison career at Deerbolt
:09:09. > :09:11.and Barnard Castle. We would get boys who had been to Medomsley when
:09:12. > :09:16.they were younger and they would talk about how tough it was. Do I
:09:17. > :09:21.think young people would have been knocked around at Medomsley? Yes, I
:09:22. > :09:24.do. Is there something about the phrase "short, sharp shock" that
:09:25. > :09:29.sends a green light to officers to give people a kicking every now and
:09:30. > :09:34.again? I'm very clear that the short, sharp shock regime probably
:09:35. > :09:44.encouraged to low`level physical abuse. The philosophy goes pretty
:09:45. > :09:48.much close to saying "scare these kids straight" and I think there is
:09:49. > :09:52.an implicit encouragement which certain individuals follow to abuse
:09:53. > :09:56.people. Do you think those who are damaged by this deserve an official
:09:57. > :10:00.apology? Without reservation I apologise to people at Medomsley. We
:10:01. > :10:09.should have stopped Husband much earlier. Now 143 former inmates have
:10:10. > :10:13.come forward, a decision on whether to press new abuse charges will be
:10:14. > :10:18.made later in the year. Meanwhile, Ray has this message. Who worked at
:10:19. > :10:21.Medomsley. Come and tell the truth, just the truth, regardless of what
:10:22. > :10:27.you've done wrong. Just come forward and tell the truth.
:10:28. > :10:33.If you'd like to get in touch with the police or speak to somebody
:10:34. > :10:36.regarding any of the issues into night's report, there will be a
:10:37. > :10:41.number coming up at the end of the programme.
:10:42. > :10:46.Coming up: I take a ride in a classic car from the Bradford
:10:47. > :10:54.company that used to be a world beater.
:10:55. > :11:01.Now, they are called legal highs but does that mean they are really save?
:11:02. > :11:04.The latest figures show that deaths related to these mind`altering
:11:05. > :11:08.substances have almost doubled. We've been speaking to teenagers
:11:09. > :11:12.here in Derbyshire who have taken legal highs. One of them was even
:11:13. > :11:23.willing to share her experiences on the inter`net.
:11:24. > :11:29.We take more legal highs in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. I know
:11:30. > :11:37.the dangers and the risks. You can get them from shops, at the market,
:11:38. > :11:41.online. It's my kind of fun. You can smoke it, injected, swallow it.
:11:42. > :11:47.Legal high related deaths have risen dramatically. I know a lot of people
:11:48. > :11:51.that take them. It's not just youngsters but old people, middle
:11:52. > :11:58.aged people, as well. You can't stop them. It will not go away. So, me
:11:59. > :12:04.and legal highs. I don't do them all the time. Coran Wright is 20 and
:12:05. > :12:11.from Derbyshire. She records herself and other people smoking legal highs
:12:12. > :12:16.then posts them on the inter`net. This is a pipe I bought today and
:12:17. > :12:25.it's already wrecked. This man thinks he's sitting in a tree with a
:12:26. > :12:33.bear. He decides to escape the bear. Here, Coran is writing up with
:12:34. > :12:41.clockwork orange. `` lighting up. At other people don't find it so funny.
:12:42. > :12:49.It was a big wake`up call for me. I had a chemical reaction in the
:12:50. > :12:57.stomach which ended up rupturing the bowel. Another person committed
:12:58. > :13:02.suicide. John Marriott believes legal highs killed three friends.
:13:03. > :13:07.One of the substances used, mephedrone, is now banned. John says
:13:08. > :13:12.he became a legal high addict, sleeping rough in the park and
:13:13. > :13:17.Sutton`in`Ashfield. I was selling possessions. I wouldn't care. I
:13:18. > :13:21.would sell anything to get it. I lost my hearing and ended up with
:13:22. > :13:29.cancer of the neck. I don't know if that was to do with it. You don't
:13:30. > :13:31.know what's in them. There are concerns the very phrase legal high
:13:32. > :13:40.to describe a mind`altering synthetic demagogue is giving out
:13:41. > :13:46.the wrong message. The experts prefer the term new psychoactive
:13:47. > :13:50.substances or NPS. But if an NPS is banned, the manufacturers just
:13:51. > :14:00.create another one very similar ` and that is still legal. The science
:14:01. > :14:04.moves faster than the law but temporary bans are put in place
:14:05. > :14:08.while tests are carried out on substances causing concern. These
:14:09. > :14:15.packets say not fit for human consumption but is that they're only
:14:16. > :14:18.use? Yes. It is totally irrelevant and it is a get out clause because
:14:19. > :14:24.people selling it say if you take it you do so at your own risk. Fiona
:14:25. > :14:34.Coope and her team of forensics scientists try to find out what is
:14:35. > :14:47.in a new psychoactive substance. Police sent them here when they are
:14:48. > :14:52.linked to people being ill. This has a large amount of catamenia in it.
:14:53. > :15:00.It is a controlled substance. It is a horse anaesthetic. We bought or an
:15:01. > :15:04.legal highs then asked Fiona's lab team to test them. We found the
:15:05. > :15:08.packaging may be different but the contents can be exactly the same,
:15:09. > :15:15.like these three. Modern marketing, ?10 a packet, but you just don't
:15:16. > :15:18.know what is inside. They are things we have never seen before so we do
:15:19. > :15:24.not have a way of easily identifying them and we have to work out what
:15:25. > :15:30.they are. Not only are they knew to us, it means nobody knows what
:15:31. > :15:34.effect they will have. I have had one bad experience and I thought I
:15:35. > :15:43.was going to die. My imagination just went down. You are zoning out,
:15:44. > :15:47.you are staring at something but not thinking anything. Your friends are
:15:48. > :15:56.like, what are you doing? You say, I don't know. Matthew Hilton Turner is
:15:57. > :16:01.one of the lucky ones. He was 14 when he was rushed to hospital. He
:16:02. > :16:06.had taken legal highs with friends in the centre of Chesterfield. He
:16:07. > :16:11.told his dad, never again. He was one of five young people found
:16:12. > :16:19.collapsed in this area in one week after taking legal highs. I could
:16:20. > :16:26.not breathe and I could not move. I couldn't move my arms and legs, I
:16:27. > :16:30.thought I was going to die. Even if they ban clockwork Orange,
:16:31. > :16:36.they reduce something else that will take its place.
:16:37. > :16:40.Matthew's dad has learnt a lot since he thought his son was going to die.
:16:41. > :16:48.He has been left confused and frustrated that the trade is able to
:16:49. > :16:53.operate. I'm 55 and I can't buy more than two packs of paracetamol. The
:16:54. > :16:58.police have to sort it out because at the end of the day it is
:16:59. > :17:05.available online and my son could have died from it and it is legal.
:17:06. > :17:11.Why? The government will announce in the
:17:12. > :17:14.spring how it plans to deal with the trade in new psychometric
:17:15. > :17:17.substances, sold not just on the Internet but in places like
:17:18. > :17:21.so`called head shops in a town near you.
:17:22. > :17:26.My family are not happy with me doing this. They can't stop me, it
:17:27. > :17:33.is what I like to do for fun. There will be a time when I will just stop
:17:34. > :17:38.everything but in the meantime I have nothing to do, I am doing my
:17:39. > :17:45.best to find a job. I won't be doing it all my life. The trouble is,
:17:46. > :17:54.nobody can tell Coran if her life, her mental and physical health, has
:17:55. > :18:07.already been damaged beyond repair. I am not addicted but I smoke it all
:18:08. > :18:16.the time. Do not go away.
:18:17. > :18:20.60 years ago one of Yorkshire's best loved car`makers finally reached the
:18:21. > :18:27.end of the road. For a while, Jowitt made motors capable of conquering
:18:28. > :18:31.continents. The company stopped trading a long time ago but I found
:18:32. > :18:38.out the passion for its vintage cars is as strong as ever.
:18:39. > :18:45.Rolls`Royce, Jaguar and then flee. A roll call of high octane motors
:18:46. > :18:55.which made the British car industry the MP of the world. `` Jaguar and
:18:56. > :19:01.Bentley. But another company could have been amongst the very best if
:19:02. > :19:05.fortune had shined on it. It is 60 years since the last of these cars
:19:06. > :19:09.rolled off the production line. For the enthusiasts who keep their name
:19:10. > :19:15.alive, it is a classic case of what might have been. The word
:19:16. > :19:22.revolutionary is not out of order. It was so in advance of anything
:19:23. > :19:27.else around. Stylistically it was very futuristic and in 1956 that was
:19:28. > :19:38.not what the Yorkshire customer wanted. The story starts at the
:19:39. > :19:41.beginning of the 1900. Today I am meeting the grandson of the original
:19:42. > :19:46.owners to find out a bit more about its chequered history.
:19:47. > :19:58.Michael, good morning. These are marvellous. Tell us what we have.
:19:59. > :20:19.This is a 1929 with a brick ECT. `` a the key `` Dickie seat.
:20:20. > :20:27.This is a 1927 saloon, the oldest Jowitt saloon in existence. ``
:20:28. > :20:31.Jowett. My grandfather, William Jowett, was
:20:32. > :20:36.in business with his brother Benjamin. They dabbled in cars and
:20:37. > :20:40.bicycles and over the years they developed a migration free engine,
:20:41. > :20:47.that was the big thing in the early days. They employed only 20, 30, but
:20:48. > :20:51.it went up quickly. During the Second World War they took on more
:20:52. > :20:56.staff and latterly they employed over 1000. They were quite a big
:20:57. > :21:02.employer in the Bradford area. The Jowett Mark was designed to cope
:21:03. > :21:08.with the Yorkshire Dales, no`nonsense motor world to last.
:21:09. > :21:09.That is enough history. It is so beautiful, I would like to go out in
:21:10. > :21:35.it if we can. By all means. Tell us a bit about what it is like
:21:36. > :21:38.to drive. Hard work! In the 1920s the general public were not so
:21:39. > :21:51.discerning, the car went and that was good enough! We have a big hill,
:21:52. > :21:56.are we confident we can get up this? Shame on me for doubting. It has
:21:57. > :22:04.already coped with far bigger challenging is `` challenges than
:22:05. > :22:07.taxiing me around. The original owners toured Scotland in this car
:22:08. > :22:13.with my honourable friend adults in it and all the luggage! They may not
:22:14. > :22:18.have seen another car between here and Edinburgh.
:22:19. > :22:24.Jowett's impact went beyond sightseeing. They helped `` helped
:22:25. > :22:28.bring about a cultural shift in Bradford that helped many leave the
:22:29. > :22:36.smoky sitter. `` city.
:22:37. > :22:42.Gradually the owners of the factories moved away from their
:22:43. > :22:46.mills and the increase in Jowett cars allowed to be very wealthy and
:22:47. > :22:50.then the middle`class to start to be able to live outside the central
:22:51. > :22:55.area, meaning that Bradford spreads out and gets bigger and bigger and
:22:56. > :22:59.goes rural. In the early days Jowett were trying to stay ahead of the
:23:00. > :23:07.game, a spirit of adventure that would lead to one of their finest
:23:08. > :23:11.hours. In the 1920s they took on the challenge `` a challenge so
:23:12. > :23:16.audacious that it would put Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear presenters
:23:17. > :23:20.to shame. A journey across Africa when there were very few roads
:23:21. > :23:27.there. Here is photographic evidence of the
:23:28. > :23:35.whole journey. Basically it started when an MP called Frank Gray took it
:23:36. > :23:39.upon himself to sell British exports, mechanical in particular,
:23:40. > :23:45.and he issued a challenge to British car producers to make a trip across
:23:46. > :23:51.Africa from West to East and who would take up the challenge and the
:23:52. > :23:59.only company that did was Jowett. Would they live to regret their
:24:00. > :24:04.bravado? They christened the vehicles wait and see because that
:24:05. > :24:10.is what the owner said when he was asked whether it would work. They
:24:11. > :24:14.just had an amazing confidence and it was that idea that anything is
:24:15. > :24:21.possible. British engineering and British pluck can do it. Incredibly
:24:22. > :24:28.the two cars drove coast`to`coast in 60 days. They had 11 rest days and
:24:29. > :24:33.in order to have them they drove up to 40 hours at a stint. They drove
:24:34. > :24:39.through the night as well. The roads would have been shocking survey had
:24:40. > :24:47.to themselves out of the odd hole and mend a few breaks and punctures.
:24:48. > :24:53.When they came back, did this translate into big sales? Yes, they
:24:54. > :24:57.produced booklets and photographs and sent them all over the place.
:24:58. > :25:04.They toured the distributors of Jowett cars. Through the first 50
:25:05. > :25:08.years of its production, their hallmark was a refusal to compromise
:25:09. > :25:12.on quality and it was this to a degree that helped with its
:25:13. > :25:16.downfall. Immediately after the Second World War the company went
:25:17. > :25:20.for broke. After years of secret planning they launched what could
:25:21. > :25:28.lay claim to be Britain's most remarkable car of the time, the
:25:29. > :25:33.Jowett Javelin. When the Javelin was first taken down to the Midlands and
:25:34. > :25:41.London, eyebrows were being raised. Who was this Yorkshire manufacturer
:25:42. > :25:46.producing the Jowett Javelin? It was like somebody had made attraction
:25:47. > :25:51.engine and suddenly made a racing car. It was the first all British
:25:52. > :25:58.postwar car and the first to have a single spanker of glass windscreen.
:25:59. > :26:06.It is really quite different to other cars of the period, different
:26:07. > :26:11.handling, comfortable to ride in. It has style. However good it looked
:26:12. > :26:16.and handled, it was the wrong car at the wrong time in the wrong place.
:26:17. > :26:21.Jowett's insistence on hand building cars at a time when mass production
:26:22. > :26:27.was taking off took its toll. We don't think there was ever a drive
:26:28. > :26:33.within Jowett to be a big manufacturer. They wanted to produce
:26:34. > :26:40.a good car which performed well and attracted the buyers that it did. It
:26:41. > :26:45.should have been the crowning glory but it was not able to be
:26:46. > :26:48.competitive enough of the factory floor and rolled them out as quickly
:26:49. > :26:57.and cheaply to make money, because they certainly were popular. It was
:26:58. > :27:04.rather too expensive for the austere post`war period. In 1954 the company
:27:05. > :27:08.through in the towel and was sold to a tractor manufacturer. Today,
:27:09. > :27:13.thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of enthusiasts, the memory of
:27:14. > :27:18.those great days lives on. It is Monday night and in no warehouse
:27:19. > :27:23.full of vintage spares the family story is coming from all circle.
:27:24. > :27:27.Michael is a member of the Gerrit `` Jowett Car Club, helping members
:27:28. > :27:34.around the world keep their cars on the road. It is important to keep
:27:35. > :27:40.our heritage going, we have national rallies and we attend classic car
:27:41. > :27:46.shows. We are very high profile for a small club. While the name Jowett
:27:47. > :27:51.still survives, so is the chance that they may one day be reborn.
:27:52. > :27:58.Will somebody reopen a Jowett factory? If somebody had enough
:27:59. > :28:02.investment, they could run it in the same way that a company like Morgan
:28:03. > :28:13.does. The potential is always there. It takes the investment of course.
:28:14. > :28:18.That is all for tonight from here in Chesterfield. Make sure you join us
:28:19. > :28:23.next week. We will be investigating the causes of deaths and accidents
:28:24. > :28:29.among railway workers, asking people in Grimsby about the loss of the
:28:30. > :28:33.spare room subsidy, also known as the bedroom tax, and finding out
:28:34. > :28:45.about the role of the town of Newark in the English Civil War.
:28:46. > :28:54.After that report about Medomsley, due May wants to get in touch with
:28:55. > :28:59.people who can offer support. `` you may want to.