20/03/2017 Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

This week, a woman whose testimony helped convict notorious Rotherham

child abusers reveals her identity the first time.

The child victims of Rotherham who stood up to the abuses, the woman

who blew the whistle for years ago takes a brave step of revealing her

identity. I am nervous, I am so glad, I am ready to move forward in

my life. Also, the top sports coaches who say they would be better

off abroad. In my experience, coaching, there is an element where

it is expected but not enough. And later, fairies at the bottom of the

garden, one of the great photographic hoaxes of the 20th

century. They believe this is a genuine photograph? I do. My mother

was honest. I think this is absolute proof she saw fairies.

Child abuse victims often reluctant to reveal the identities and that is

in the case the last four years for the Rotherham child abuse

whistle-blower known as Jessica, but the first time she has now taken the

brave step of revealing her identity and spoke to Amy.

The girl known as Jessica has spoken to hundreds of journalists over

the past four years but she s never shown her face.

As a victim of sexual crime, she is entitled to lifelong

anonymity but she has chosen to speak to me for the

My name is Sammy, I ve been known as Jessica for 4 years now,

Which I did that because I came forward as a victim who suffered

from child abuse as a child and I came forward to try and raise

awareness, but of course my main priority was to be safe

How does it feel to be known as the real you?

I m nervous, it was such a big move to make but I m so glad I m so ready

to move forward in my life, I m ready to move in to my next

Let s go back to your childhood, what kind of child were you?

I was bubbly, confident, I loved to always be active,

I loved dancing, I started dancing at the age of 4, that s all I really

Sammy met serial child abuser Arshid Hussain

He was talking to my friend and he said, do

So we got in the car and we went to a flat.

He had some friends there and one of his brothers.

So I remember sitting in the car and he stroked my face

and he said You re not really 16, are you?

And I said No, I m 15. And he said No you re not.

And I said OK then, I m 14. And then it was, yeah,

Pretty much we were boyfriend and girlfriend from then on.

Within a few days my parents found out, they weren t happy

at all as you can imagine - he was 24, I was 14.

As well as my parents knew of his reputation and they knew

he was a person that I shouldn t be getting involved with

and they contacted police and the police said that

as I was consenting to it that there was nothing that they could do

So he was a 24 year old man, the police said

We can t do anything about this, she s consenting ?

Yeah and as well he was extremely well known to the authorities,

he was involved in just about every crime you can imagine.

I wasn t the first or the last child that he was abusing and he was known

Sammy s family were very unhappy about her new relationship.

We found out pretty quick to be honest.

I don t know whether it was the age gap but she become

I was seen on many occasions with him by the police.

There were times that I was actually found in bed with him half naked.

Nobody really wanted to do much apart from my parents.

I was going missing from home and school for days,

weeks, sometimes even months at a time.

Our relationship broke down really quickly.

I saw my mum crying and my dad searching for her.

It was just like she was completely brainwashed.

There was times when I was having fun.

We went to the cinema, went out for meals.

It felt like a normal relationship with two adults.

It was a few months later that he became

He started hitting me and then it was on a daily basis.

I knew I needed to get away from him but it was like a drug and I kept

The kind of education we d had around paedophiles

They were smartly dressed, they had flash cars.

My parents put me in care thinking I d be safe but that

The authorities said if he met me at the end of the street and had me

back by 10 for school, he could have access to me.

While in foster care, Sammy gave birth to her son by Arshid Hussain.

Many years later, in 2016, Arshid Hussain, now in a wheelchair

after a shooting, was finally sentenced to 35 years in prison

for abusing many young girls over two decades.

Ash is now doing time for what he did to you and many other children.

It depends what frame of mind I m in.

There s times when I still feel angry at him, there s times

when I want to cry and then there s times when I think a part of me

will always love him because he gave me my son.

That s really difficult isn t it, he s the father of your child

and there s always going to be that connection with him?

In 2014, Rotherham made headlines all over the world as the scale

of abuse that had taken place in the town became clear

How did you react when you heard that number ? 1400 children victims

I was saying from the beginning that there was a cover-up

I kind of felt, in a way, that my name had been cleared

Of the amount of men you know were involved in child sexual

exploitation in Rotherham, how many of them

There s still a long way to go but I think that now it s time

We ve seen perpetrators held accountable and

But I don t think any of us will be able to move forward ?

or move forward as a town, until those professionals

How many perpetrators do you think are still walking the streets?

And I think unfortunately a lot of those will always remain

There s going to be so many people get away with this.

That s something that every single person that failed or that

committed a crime has to live with for the rest of their life.

These people were paid to protect these children,

no matter where they were from, what agency they were from.

What s the situation in Rotherham at the moment?

I d love to be able to stop CSE but we never will.

It s about reducing it, making it hard for paedophiles.

Do you have any confidence that the authorities are dealing

Let s face it, couldn t get any worse.

The Operation Clover team have been brilliant with me and I now expect

every police officer to reach that standard and it s not happening.

The strength she s shown to educate people about this is amazing.

How do you feel coming out as Sammy, not as Jessica any more?

I feel like I can get on with my life.

I think there are positive things to come for me and the rest of the

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Coming up, the girls who said they saw fairies at the bottom of the

garden. Behind every Olympic medal winner,

there s an outstanding coach. But now some top sports coaches

in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire fear their work is being undervalued

? and they could leave for It s a chilly Tuesday night in

Bolton upon Dearne, near Rotherham. Young rugby league

players are in training. It s like this at hundreds

of sports clubs - as usual, Next minute, you are taking the

session. I just enjoy giving something back to the sport that has

given me so much. Dearne Valley Bulldogs have 13 teams

and nearly 40 volunteer coaches. For most people, this is what sport

coaching is all about. There is also volunteer coaching who

have a big input in the future stars of this country.

But, sometimes, amateur coaching isn t enough.

Elite performers need top class coaches.

And, in some Olympic sports, despite Lottery funding,

there doesn t seem to be enough money to go round.

In the Rio Olympics last year, City of Leeds divers Jack Laugher

and Chris Mears won Britain s first-ever diving gold.

It was a triumph shared with their coach, Adrian Hinchliffe.

He has been key to making city of Leeds the top performance Centre in

the country but after 24 years, you sleeping.

When I broke the story Ady was going, it was clear

there was anger and regret from the divers he d coached.

He has his reasons for why he's leaving and I think to be honest, he

has been forced to leave. I think it's a massive insult to him and his

legacy. Ady leaves Leeds for an elite diving

coach job in Australia next week. And he s got a farewell message ?

he says we don t put enough value on full-time professional rather

than amateur, coaches. I think British sport, my experience

in British diving, there isn't an where it is expected, but not

enough. People outside the sport will be surprised you got a

full-time coach, your job is with the council? I know, it's the

pick-up to get your head around. Apart from running be developed

programme, the development, I have been tasked with managing and the

after swimming and synchronised swimming.

After his success in Rio, Ady wanted to coach full-time,

so he had a meeting with British Diving.

Unfortunately we had that meeting, it was just that money hasn't been

allocated in other areas, other priorities, that have been prepared,

there may be an opportunity, they were very much thinking it would be

something they could do. How do you think they are valued by the powers

that be? They are not rewarded enough, professional developer isn't

considered enough, so I think there is something missing.

So how do you encourage top-level professionals in a coaching industry

A survey last year found 74 per cent of coaches in all sports

across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are unpaid volunteers.

In Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, there are nearly 170,000

So is that the end of it? Or with the success in London and real,

could others be set to follow? Sheffield-based Jessica Ennis-Hill

became one of our most She won Olympic gold in the women s

heptathlon in London, followed by a silver in Rio

four years later. And her coach Toni Minichiello

was with her all the way through. I got the coaching by accident

really. I think there is a need at any sport for somebody to do the

organising, and so forth, I think its last man standing, so basically

I took the plunge and went full and gave up a job in the civil service

and said, if you're going to work with people who can achieve at the

highest level, if they are going to be training 30 hours a week, you

better be around. So at some point you have two turn pro. I think I

just need to stay back over and work on this. Was the turning point the

Young Jessica Ennis-Hill? Definitely, that's where the

opportunity came. I need a few more degrees. 2012, she wins the gold,

everybody would think you would be a wanted coach? Planned change, every

four years when lottery money is decided upon, it is given to the

governing body, they use the money and shape their programme

accordingly, after 2012 the changed the shape of their programme and I

was surplus to requirements. The whole purpose of the run-throughs is

Seppi shape... Since then, Toni has worked

as a freelance coach. Following Jess s retirement he s got

a group of young athletes. You just keep working, charge the

athlete a bit of money but there are a few athletes here, they are at the

cusp point whereby, if they put the hours and the time in, maybe they

could make that transition to the top flight. You can either help them

we can abandon them, what do you do? Have you had offers to work abroad

in other countries? I had a couple of discussions. But whatever reason,

it's kind of, it's not what I want to do.

In Rio, Bryony Page won Great Britain s first-ever Olympic

She s based in Sheffield, and I m about to watch her coach

As well as working with Bryony, he s a university lecturer,

teaching students who want to be coaches themselves.

For his students, it s an unexpected bonus.

In some sports, coaches get a lot more recognition, like football and

rugby. You have coaches like Paul, with the success, gets minimal

attention. I'm surprised there aren't coaches full-time. There is

not a lot of money within high-performance coaching but at the

same point, you could say, surely I should be coaching full-time, as it

happens with my situation, I managing to juggle both but it is

complex. Since Bryony s success,

Paul s had job offers from abroad, and he s about to go to Australia

on a three-week working trip. Bryony s hoping he

doesn t decide to stay. He has been the backbone to

everything, but a lot of effort in and pushed me on and has been

through the highs and lows, he's always there for me when I need him.

UK Sport told us they highly value coaches and are committed

Meanwhile, top coaches are having to make decisions

Paul Greaves is back from his trip to Australia.

And he s settled on his future ? at least for now.

I did think, the weather, the lifestyle, great opportunities over

their, they do pay coaches well in Australia, but my roots are here and

I love Great Britain so much. Now, once upon a time

on the outskirts of Bradford, fairies were seen on the banks

of a small beck at Lucy Hester investigates one

of the great hoaxes of the 20th century which took place exactly one

hundred years ago this year. It s a place where you can

imagine magic happening. She got so excited

she shouted to Frances, In the dark days of the Great War,

a little bit of fairy dust was sprinkled here on the outskirts

of industrial Bradford. In the summer of 1917,

two young girls claimed to have taken photographs of fairies ?

here at the bottom of The legend of the Cottingley

fairies was born. It wasn't until the 1980s that one

of the girls ? Elsie - by now well into old age -

finally admitted how Sticky tape at the back, the fairy,

and have managed to limit down. But one of the girls maintained

throughout her life that one of the five fairy

photographs was real. And her daughter

is also in no doubt. Do you believe that this

is a genuine photo of fairies? I do, my mother was honest,

she always said she saw fairies and I think that this

is absolute proof. This is Cottingley ? a small,

quiet suburb of Bradford. Frances Griffiths and her mother

came to live here in 1917 with her uncle and aunt

and her older cousin Elsie. Her father had been sent

to fight in the war. After school Frances would often

play in the beck which ran along She loved it, she said

it was very magical, peaceful. men coming down to the woods hopping

across the beck and then But when Frances told her aunt

and uncle that she had seen fairies at the bottom of the garden,

she got short shrift. So her cousin Elsie hatched a plan

to prove the adults wrong. She managed to fake up three fairies

and two extra ones all dancing She painted and cut them out,

In those days people wore very large hats so had large hat pins,

she got the idea if they got one of these hat pins, we stick it

on the back of the paper and stick it in the ground, it will look

like they're dancing. They had to have hat

pins about that length. If it had been later on,

we couldn t have done it because they only stayed that long

for a while. And so the first two fairy pictures

were created in 1917. The first called the Fairy Ring

featured Frances with The second had Elsie

posing with a paper gnome. But it wasn't until three years

later that the photographs caused worldwide headlines,

when they came to the attention of the creator of Britain's

most famous detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

got involved, that was Beginning of the agony

for my mother as well. It was never meant to get that far,

but once they got into it, how In 1920 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote

an article about the Cottingley fairies after they came

to the attention of an associate Soon the whole world

began to take notice. Conan-Doyle was just one of those

people who very sincerely and very honestly believed in something

which most people nowadays don't. Particularly in the period

after the First World War when there is a lot of interest

in spiritualism and a lot of people had lost loved ones,

including Conan Doyle, What was it about the images that

caused people to think So when the first photographic

expert to examine the first two photographs looked at them,

he believed that he saw movement on one of the fairies and for him

that introduced an element It's a paper cut out

in the outdoors, and a gust of wind This is the very camera

with which the two original fairy photographs were taken

100 years ago. How

easy would it be to take a quick Almost impossible? it would require

you to set up the shot. People asked afterwards why

she wasn t looking at the fairies. It was because she could only

see five bits of paper In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sent

two brand new cameras for Elsie and Frances to take

more fairy photographs. Elsie had prepared two

photographs, two fakes. One of them she had promised

Gardner a leaping fairy, so she had manufactured one

that was flying. An academic called Joe Cooper

who lived in Leeds was fascinated by the fairies story and made

it his business to get to know Did he approach it thinking it was

real or a thinking it was a hoax? But around seven years

after he first met Frances and Elsie, Joe Cooper finally

discovered the truth. Accounts vary as to

how that happened. I believe Frances confessed

in Canterbury cathedral I can t imagine what that must have

been like for my dad. But Frances told her daughter that

Joe had actually read her secret She didn't realise what he was going

to do but two weeks later the news broke that the Cottingley story

was based on fakes. Joe Cooper subsequently wrote a book

about the Cottingley fairies hoax which led to a definitive fall out

with Frances and Elsie. But there was one thing

on which he and Frances did agree. While both cousins agreed that four

of the five pictures were fakes, they told completely different

stories about the fifth picture ? Christine Lynch describes to me how

she says the fifth and most She pulled out the lens to this

distance and set the timing for it then she just clicked it

and took the photograph. There is one on the left hand side,

almost invisible. It's a wonderful, wonderful

photograph. If it was examined with today s

modern technology, maybe we d be But Michael Terwey from the media

museum thinks there may be a more This looks like it might have been

exposed twice the different scenes so those qualities of that image,

which for some people made feel if the real and more authentic, as an

image of fairies, is consistent with what we call double exposure.

Do you believe that s a true photograph of a real fairy?

And despite the fallout, Joe's family say he believed too.

I don t think he had any doubt that it was real.

One of his favourite phrases was It s not

whether you believe in fairies, it s whether they believe in you.

One thing's for sure ? even if the photographs were fakes,

Frances Griffiths really did believe she had seen fairies down

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