:00:00. > :00:09.Good evening. Tonight we brhng you the story of the man whose life was
:00:10. > :00:27.saved by three complete str`ngers. Welcome to Inside Out. I'm Paul
:00:28. > :00:30.Hudson. Late in the programle, we will hear about a man who collapsed
:00:31. > :00:37.while running, but then destiny intervened. I thought he was gone. I
:00:38. > :00:42.really thought he was dead. Also tonight, the missed chances to stop
:00:43. > :00:49.a headteacher abusing children. You couldn't scream and say, get off me,
:00:50. > :00:50.because he had the power. And later in the programme, one girl's battle
:00:51. > :01:00.against all the is. More than 200 men say that they were
:01:01. > :01:04.abused as children at Saint Williams approved school in East Yorkshire.
:01:05. > :01:09.Today in a test case, five of them started a civil claim for
:01:10. > :01:11.compensation. Inside Out has discovered the Catholic Church had
:01:12. > :01:13.several chances to investig`te the abuse, but failed to act. C`roline
:01:14. > :01:19.Bilton has this. It was a home for troubled
:01:20. > :01:22.boys, but some who came here left more damaged
:01:23. > :01:24.than when they first arrived. I live with it every
:01:25. > :01:30.day until I die. Nigel was one of 2,000 children
:01:31. > :01:32.who was sent to the St Williams approved school
:01:33. > :01:40.near Market Weighton. St Williams is to me the biggest
:01:41. > :01:43.single home where boys were abused These were supposed to be
:01:44. > :01:48.religious people, respected, There have been three
:01:49. > :01:52.police investigations The former principal James Carragher
:01:53. > :02:01.is currently serving his thhrd prison sentence for physically
:02:02. > :02:02.and sexually abusing The school's chaplain,
:02:03. > :02:06.Anthony McCallen, was sentenced in January for also
:02:07. > :02:10.abusing boys in the home. But despite this, campaigners feel
:02:11. > :02:15.they're still not being heard. It was all pushed under a c`rpet
:02:16. > :02:17.for every victim. It's been a long time coming,
:02:18. > :02:21.but today they got what thex've been waiting for - the start of one
:02:22. > :02:24.of the biggest compensation claims against the Catholic church
:02:25. > :02:34.in the UK. The home was run by the brothers
:02:35. > :02:37.of the Catholic De La Salle order on behalf of the Middlesbrotgh
:02:38. > :02:39.Diocese. According to the De La Salld
:02:40. > :02:41.website, the brothers were "committed to the ideals
:02:42. > :02:43.of Christian education to whom the future could
:02:44. > :02:46.safely be entrusted". Tonight, however, we can reveal how
:02:47. > :02:51.the abuse started in the 1970s, and those who ran St Willials had
:02:52. > :02:53.numerous chances to But their failure to do so leant
:02:54. > :02:58.boys continued to be This is where we used to cole up,
:02:59. > :03:07.play, enjoy ourselves. Nigel Feeley grew up
:03:08. > :03:11.in Bramley in Leeds. Up until the age of 12,
:03:12. > :03:17.he had a happy childhood. My friend had a pigeon
:03:18. > :03:20.hut and we used to stay in there and talk about lifd,
:03:21. > :03:23.you know, what we're going to do, I didn't deserve what they did
:03:24. > :03:28.to me. It was after stealing some sweets
:03:29. > :03:35.from a local factory that Nhgel He was 13 when he was sent
:03:36. > :03:40.to St Williams, where he was beaten They were the most evilest people
:03:41. > :03:48.I have met in my life. He used to take us swimming,
:03:49. > :03:50.so of course you go into the swimming area
:03:51. > :03:54.and you get undressed. So you think you're going to put
:03:55. > :04:00.trunks on, but he says He's got children all lined up
:04:01. > :04:13.like soldiers with nothing on. I thought it really strange
:04:14. > :04:21.when he started coming You couldn't scream at him
:04:22. > :04:26.and say go away get off me In 2004, James Carragher was found
:04:27. > :04:45.guilty of abusing Nigel during his time at the home
:04:46. > :04:48.in the early 1970s. Carragher had joined
:04:49. > :04:51.St Williams in 1968. He was promoted to principal
:04:52. > :05:00.a year later. But I've seen court documents
:05:01. > :05:03.which state that James Carr`gher was being investigated
:05:04. > :05:08.as early as 1970. There's little detail,
:05:09. > :05:11.but what we know is that on the 6th of April,
:05:12. > :05:14.an "incident" was investigated by what's described in the documents
:05:15. > :05:19.as a sub-committee of managdrs. It concluded, "Brother James
:05:20. > :05:22.is a conscientious and useftl member of the staff,
:05:23. > :05:28.and having expressed his regret Carragher himself said in court last
:05:29. > :05:33.year that his first sexual He further admitted the abuse
:05:34. > :05:41.continued up to 1980. When questioned by Oliver S`xby QC
:05:42. > :05:44.about his last act of abuse, Asked why that was the last time,
:05:45. > :05:51.he said, "because I was discovered". When asked if he was challenged
:05:52. > :05:54.about the abuse in 1980, Asked if there were
:05:55. > :05:57.any sanctions. Oliver Saxby then says: "Let us be
:05:58. > :06:03.frank ? you got away with it." If a person with more scruples had
:06:04. > :06:11.got in earlier and done a proper investigation, Carragher wotld have
:06:12. > :06:13.been kicked out of the placd The court heard how
:06:14. > :06:21.it was James Carragher himself who brought
:06:22. > :06:22.in the Catholic Child Welfare Society to
:06:23. > :06:26.investigate the allegation. A process set out in this ldtter
:06:27. > :06:29.sent in 1992 to the then It says reporting of incidents came
:06:30. > :06:37.through the principal. In other words, for 14 years
:06:38. > :06:40.allegations were dealt with by the very man
:06:41. > :06:46.who was carrying out the abtse. He had a gold card to
:06:47. > :06:51.sexually abuse children. Not only did James Carragher get
:06:52. > :06:59.away with it, he was allowed to continue in his role as principal
:07:00. > :07:07.for a further ten years. On his retirement, James Carragher
:07:08. > :07:09.was awarded the highest pap`l award. Within a year of receiving this
:07:10. > :07:12.he was being investigated This man worked at the
:07:13. > :07:20.home for many years. He's asked that we conceal his
:07:21. > :07:22.identity. He says it was common practhce
:07:23. > :07:25.for James Carragher and othdrs Both him and Father McCallen
:07:26. > :07:30.and possibly other brothers As long as we knew where thdy were,
:07:31. > :07:36.there were no concerns raisdd. There was other brothers cale
:07:37. > :07:40.and visited quite regularly, and they would take children
:07:41. > :07:42.out on occasions. The deputies were all strong
:07:43. > :07:51.Catholics, so it was a bit of a clique, was the senior
:07:52. > :07:54.management structure. We know questions were being asked
:07:55. > :07:57.about James Carragher's conduct as early as 1970,
:07:58. > :08:00.and those running the home continued to be alerted to his
:08:01. > :08:03.behaviour into the 1980s. I've seen a written testimony
:08:04. > :08:06.from a child in 1983 which describes how James Carragher hit the boy
:08:07. > :08:09.on the head with his fist then dragged and kicked him and pulled
:08:10. > :08:17.him down a flight of stairs. On this occasion, James Carragher
:08:18. > :08:19.was subjected to an internal disciplinary hearing
:08:20. > :08:21.and was given a warning, but despite this, four months later
:08:22. > :08:30.he assaulted another boy. It was a perfect opportunitx
:08:31. > :08:32.for abuse. They had complete control
:08:33. > :08:35.of the situation. But if someone knew these
:08:36. > :08:37.investigations were taking place, they must have had an inkling that
:08:38. > :08:49.something was going wrong. Decades may have passed,
:08:50. > :08:52.but many of the boys who cale to St Williams are still tormented
:08:53. > :08:54.by their time there. Those acting on behalf
:08:55. > :08:57.of the victims say there have been This lady says her partner
:08:58. > :09:00.was haunted by his memories of the home right up to his death
:09:01. > :09:03.three months ago. He'd go from like crying
:09:04. > :09:05.uncontrollably, literally tdars just dropping off his face,
:09:06. > :09:07.and then real anger. He'd be like walking around
:09:08. > :09:13.with his fists clenched. It were like a life
:09:14. > :09:20.sentence for him. The torment for some has bedn
:09:21. > :09:24.compounded by the fact that they feel they've
:09:25. > :09:29.never been believed. Darren Furness went
:09:30. > :09:31.to St Williams in 1985. He's now leading a campaign calling
:09:32. > :09:34.for a public inquiry He's gathered nearly 100,000
:09:35. > :09:43.signatures. Arena we need some answers. Lets
:09:44. > :09:47.hope you get them. I've had people crying
:09:48. > :09:50.on my shoulder about it wanting to give me a cuddle and sayhng,
:09:51. > :09:52."You're so brave." It's about getting recognithon
:09:53. > :09:56.of what has gone on and somdbody to hold their hand up
:09:57. > :09:58.and accept responsibility The abuse at St Williams
:09:59. > :10:01.is not unique. There are six other schools
:10:02. > :10:04.in the UK which were run by the Catholic De la Salle Order
:10:05. > :10:07.where historic child sex abtse We're dealing with a hideous
:10:08. > :10:12.organisation. It's the Catholic church
:10:13. > :10:27.defending its reputation and itself. Neither the Diocese of Middlesbrough
:10:28. > :10:30.or the De La Salle have responded to these allegations,
:10:31. > :10:33.but in statements the De La Salle offered an "unreserved
:10:34. > :10:34.apology" to those "affected" They say they "deeply
:10:35. > :10:37.regret what happened". The Diocese says "these
:10:38. > :10:39.offences are historic" and are a "matter of profound
:10:40. > :10:41.regret" for which they "apologise". Both reiterated that they now have
:10:42. > :10:43."robust" safeguarding They've waited 12 years
:10:44. > :10:54.for the civil case for If successful, it could lead
:10:55. > :10:58.to payouts of millions of pounds. But for Nigel, what he wantdd more
:10:59. > :11:04.than anything cost nothing. Something he still feels he is
:11:05. > :11:08.waiting for. The Catholic church who are supposed
:11:09. > :11:10.to love people, to protect, I've never had a proper
:11:11. > :11:14.apology, a sincere apology. Some believe those
:11:15. > :11:28.answers will never come. And if you have got a story you
:11:29. > :11:33.think we might like to cover, you can get in touch on Facebook or on
:11:34. > :11:36.Twitter. Coming up on Insidd Out: The man who collapsed while running
:11:37. > :11:42.a race, but who was saved bx strangers.
:11:43. > :11:44.Jessica Simpkin's battle with brain tumours began
:11:45. > :11:49.The odds then of her surviv`l were extremely low, but Jess,
:11:50. > :11:51.who's from Rainworth in Nottinghamshire, has
:11:52. > :11:55.continued to defy the experts despite recurring cancers.
:11:56. > :11:57.Now in her 20s, Jess was recently diagnosed
:11:58. > :12:12.But new treatment in Sheffidld may offer her some hope.
:12:13. > :12:22.Are you making your wish? Yds! You can't tell anybody.
:12:23. > :12:25.Jess is wonderful, funny, whtty quite charming and so, so c`ring.
:12:26. > :12:32.She cares more about other people than she does herself.
:12:33. > :12:39.I used to think it was very unfair, but now I just take life as it comes
:12:40. > :12:54.To come through everything she's been through and to face thd next
:12:55. > :13:01.step that she needs to go through, she's exceptional.
:13:02. > :13:08.There are two smaller ones tp here, they are only small, but shd is
:13:09. > :13:10.young, so there is potential for it to grow.
:13:11. > :13:13.She's going to keep fighting it and fighting it as long
:13:14. > :13:17.as she possibly can, and that's what we all do.
:13:18. > :13:20.A lifetime of brain tumours, but Jess Simpkin isn't beatdn yet.
:13:21. > :13:23.Now the scans show she's facing her biggest challengd so far.
:13:24. > :13:35.Aged four, Jess was diagnosdd with a medulloblastoma,
:13:36. > :13:40.an aggressive and malignant brain cancer.
:13:41. > :13:42.Early warning signs of chronic headaches and sickness
:13:43. > :13:47.The odds were stacked 70/30 against Jess's
:13:48. > :13:57.She was so young and I'd never been in this situation
:13:58. > :14:05.before and I didn't know if I was going to get Jess back
:14:06. > :14:09.Making it to her teens was considered exceptional.
:14:10. > :14:14.Then on her 19th birthday, another tumour.
:14:15. > :14:16.Now, ten years on, five more are growing
:14:17. > :14:27.Being told when you were little you weren't going to survivd
:14:28. > :14:30.and now reaching 29 and I'vd beat it all up to now.
:14:31. > :14:32.Jess has learned to live with learning difficulties
:14:33. > :14:40.She's missed out on teen stuff her peers take for gr`nted.
:14:41. > :14:42.But she's alive, and she knows how to keep her carer
:14:43. > :15:01.It's lovely coming to see hdr, it really is.
:15:02. > :15:07.Jess has been a regular pathent at the Queen's Medical Centre
:15:08. > :15:15.She even jokes she has her own room here.
:15:16. > :15:17.Now she's fundraising for the Children's Brain Tulour
:15:18. > :15:21.I want to help people who'vd had tumours and are going to get them
:15:22. > :15:36.so they get diagnosed earlidr and don't go through what I have.
:15:37. > :15:41.Aged four, Jess was part of an international trial
:15:42. > :15:42.into combined chemo and radiotherapy.
:15:43. > :15:45.They now know it was that sdven weeks of radioactive exposure
:15:46. > :15:53.which caused the tumours she continues to have.
:15:54. > :15:59.She has had to tackle a lot of things, and if we can halve the harm
:16:00. > :16:03.of our treatment of the tumours I think that will be a step forward.
:16:04. > :16:06.500 children a year are diagnosed with brain tumours in the UK.
:16:07. > :16:17.Conventional surgery is no longer an option for Jess, though.
:16:18. > :16:19.Going back into her brain could cause more damage and risk
:16:20. > :16:29.the strokes she's already begun to have.
:16:30. > :16:32.We know the tumours are growing and we know we have to treat them
:16:33. > :16:34.now because radiation-inducdd tumours in someone young
:16:35. > :16:46.And it is only a matter of time before they start pressing on the
:16:47. > :16:48.brain and giving her a serious problem.
:16:49. > :16:51.This is the only treatment we can try.
:16:52. > :16:57.Yes, but there's no guarantde this will kill them.
:16:58. > :17:05.I know, but what do we do, Jess At the end of the day, we know they are
:17:06. > :17:13.growing, and if we don't do anything about it, what is going to happen?
:17:14. > :17:15.I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
:17:16. > :17:20.The Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield is home
:17:21. > :17:22.to the National Centre for Gamma Knife Radiosurgerx.
:17:23. > :17:24.Here they treat the rare and more complex cases.
:17:25. > :17:31.She knows the risks and has been making plans which she's
:17:32. > :17:38.I don't know anyone that's had party poppers!
:17:39. > :17:44.If they don't, there will be trouble.
:17:45. > :17:47.I want it to be my funeral, not somebody else's idea
:17:48. > :17:56.How she sees life and how she wants to get things sorted is just
:17:57. > :18:16.It's the hardest thing, handing over your daughter,
:18:17. > :18:27.but hopefully she will wake up and she will be just fine.
:18:28. > :18:30.Jess has asked to be put to sleep before the frame which guidds
:18:31. > :18:38.It is focused, it doesn't touch the rest of the brain but only
:18:39. > :18:55.The scan that we were looking at this morning was from last xear so
:18:56. > :19:00.it may be that they have grown a bit in that time, so we need to see what
:19:01. > :19:06.they are like today and plan the treatment from today's imaghng. They
:19:07. > :19:10.are small, but they were definitely not there on the original scan.
:19:11. > :19:12.The team have discovered a new area they're not happy with.
:19:13. > :19:17.Instead of five tumours, they're targeting six areas instead.
:19:18. > :19:20.She's always relied on mum for strength and support,
:19:21. > :19:48.and this time we can't be with her it's hard.
:19:49. > :19:55.Just think of life that is fun. You can't let it beat you. You have to
:19:56. > :20:17.beat it, really. You need to keep the strength up,
:20:18. > :20:24.and you can get through it. It is not going to beat you. You're going
:20:25. > :20:40.to beat it. Every time it comes I will fight it with all my mhnd.
:20:41. > :20:50.Alan Ford from Barnsley lovds his running. One weekend back in July he
:20:51. > :20:52.was taking part in a 14 mild race in Northumberland, but within sight of
:20:53. > :20:57.the finish line, he suddenlx collapsed. The Khalifa him, a group
:20:58. > :21:00.of strangers were on hand to bring him back to life. -- Ella Kdlly for
:21:01. > :21:15.him. Coming up to the finishing line and
:21:16. > :21:22.seeing your husband lying on the sand, sudden panic.
:21:23. > :21:25.In effect I've been dead for ten minutes, and without the help
:21:26. > :21:27.of the people on the beach, that would've been a completely
:21:28. > :21:32.I checked his circulation and he didn't have a pulse.
:21:33. > :21:36.This is the story of a remarkable rescue.
:21:37. > :21:40.The Northumberland Coastal Run is under way between Beadnell
:21:41. > :21:46.More than five miles of it is actually ran
:21:47. > :21:52.Depending on the tides, some years it can be just
:21:53. > :21:54.13 and a half miles, but sometimes it's more
:21:55. > :22:00.But for Barnsley Harrier Al`n, it shouldn't have been too difficult.
:22:01. > :22:02.Alan is obviously a very good runner.
:22:03. > :22:05.He was due to finish in arotnd about an hour and a half,
:22:06. > :22:09.The winner was only ten minutes ahead of him.
:22:10. > :22:16.Alan geared himself up for the race at home in South Yorkshire.
:22:17. > :22:19.Having done it before, I knew what to expect.
:22:20. > :22:22.I'd had a few issues with what I thought was a chest
:22:23. > :22:24.infection prior to it, but I thought that I could lanage
:22:25. > :22:31.But that chest infection turned out to be something much more sdrious.
:22:32. > :22:34.The event of me actually collapsing, I've got no recollection of it.
:22:35. > :22:40.Luckily for Alan they were hn the right place at
:22:41. > :22:49.He didn't put his arms out to stop himself.
:22:50. > :23:09.And then a guy called Phil was running past us at the time
:23:10. > :23:16.He was breathing, but he wasn't breathing normally.
:23:17. > :23:19.So that was a worrying sign to start with.
:23:20. > :23:21.So I moved on, I checked his airway and breathing.
:23:22. > :23:24.I checked his circulation and he didn't have a pulse.
:23:25. > :23:33.So we got him onto his back and started chest massage.
:23:34. > :23:38.Can somebody ring 999? One linute gone.
:23:39. > :23:40.We continued that until the defibrillator came
:23:41. > :23:45.I was delighted to have won the race.
:23:46. > :23:49.And it was on my warm down when I come across Alan
:23:50. > :23:53.and all these people panickhng, shouting for help.
:23:54. > :23:55.The important thing with resuscitation is you rdcognize
:23:56. > :23:58.somebody's had a cardiac arrest that you get help early bec`use of
:23:59. > :24:03.that ? so that's the first stage in the chain of survival.
:24:04. > :24:05.The next thing is you have prompt starting of chest compressions,
:24:06. > :24:12.then defibrillation as soon as it's available.
:24:13. > :24:14.So having already run for more than an hour,
:24:15. > :24:17.Carl had to sprint back to the finish line again.
:24:18. > :24:27.And six minutes felt like shx hours, to be honest with you.
:24:28. > :24:30.It was quite impressive watching the guys club together as a little
:24:31. > :24:44.I just thought, there's no way they can bring him back.
:24:45. > :24:47.But when they put the defib on him and it zapped him,
:24:48. > :24:49.and then eventually he started kicking again.
:24:50. > :24:51.Within ten minutes, the Great North Air Ambulance had
:24:52. > :24:56.As I came off the road I he`rd somebody say watch out
:24:57. > :25:01.And I could see Alan and a lot of people attending to him.
:25:02. > :25:09.Alan was transferred to the cardiothoracic
:25:10. > :25:20.centre at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
:25:21. > :25:23.And you can see here that hhs right coronary artery was normal.
:25:24. > :25:26.But his left coronary artery was not normal.
:25:27. > :25:29.It was blocked, and was almost certainly responsible for the MCI
:25:30. > :25:31.and the subsequent cardiac `rrest that he'd had on the beach.
:25:32. > :25:35.I don't think I realized th`t he'd had a full on heart attack
:25:36. > :25:37.until I was sat in the waithng room at the hospital.
:25:38. > :25:40.And then it dawned on me, this is a big deal.
:25:41. > :25:42.The first thing I remember is actually waking up
:25:43. > :25:45.on the hospital ward, seeing my wife Kelly and nurses
:25:46. > :25:50.and just really wondering what had happened to me.
:25:51. > :25:53.Having a cardiac arrest, my heart not beating for ten minutes,
:25:54. > :25:58.it doesn't really seem that real to me sitting here right now.
:25:59. > :25:59.But obviously that's what's happened to me,
:26:00. > :26:03.so in effect I've been dead for ten minutes.
:26:04. > :26:07.And without the help of the people on the beach and the air ambulance
:26:08. > :26:09.and the hospital in Newcastle, then that would've been
:26:10. > :26:17.Around a third of people in the UK have underlying cardiovascular
:26:18. > :26:20.So while it might seem unlikely, heart attacks
:26:21. > :26:25.Our average age of somebody having a myocardial infarction
:26:26. > :26:27.is usually in their 60s, 70s or 80s.
:26:28. > :26:29.We do occasionally get younger patients, so whilst
:26:30. > :26:33.it's uncommon or rare, we do see it.
:26:34. > :26:36.Of course he had no risk factors really for MCI
:26:37. > :26:42.He ate well, he ran a lot, so it was unusual,
:26:43. > :26:47.It was only because of the good fortune and the skill
:26:48. > :26:50.of his colleagues who were running along with him that he survhved that
:26:51. > :26:57.day, and was able to get to us to have his arteries fixed.
:26:58. > :26:59.So we didn't actually save his life per se,
:27:00. > :27:00.that had already happened on the beach.
:27:01. > :27:03.It's time for Alan to say thank you to those extraordinary
:27:04. > :27:24.Nice to see you. You look rdmarkably well. I feel fantastic, to be
:27:25. > :27:27.honest. It's amazing I'm able to talk
:27:28. > :27:30.you today and see you all. When I saw you up on that
:27:31. > :27:35.path after I hadn't I know you were asking me
:27:36. > :27:42.is he all right, but I just had no idea cos nobody had told me,
:27:43. > :27:45.so yeah, I mean I'd have probably given
:27:46. > :27:49.you a big kiss and a hug. Looks completely different
:27:50. > :27:53.since the last time I seen him. He really was ill that day
:27:54. > :28:02.so you think, even if he dods make So to see him ? he's
:28:03. > :28:06.made a full recovery. It's a lot more emotional
:28:07. > :28:11.than I was expecting. I don't think I'd really prdpared
:28:12. > :28:17.myself for how I'd feel tod`y. It's a bit emotional,
:28:18. > :28:19.to be honest, coming I'm in admiration, really,
:28:20. > :28:26.for what they did for me. It's nice to be able
:28:27. > :28:47.to shake their hand and just Talk about being in the right place
:28:48. > :28:53.at the right time! That's it from us, in fact, that is it frol this
:28:54. > :28:56.series. We will be back in the New Year. Hope you can join us then