:00:11. > :00:14.Electricity theft is on the increase. The meter was tampered
:00:14. > :00:20.with. The lights were on burning on here and burning on. There didn't
:00:20. > :00:26.care, like. It is putting lives at risk. You are putting a �30 price
:00:27. > :00:35.tag on the life of your family for some cheap electric. It's big
:00:35. > :00:39.business for the meter cheater we track down. Five, six maybe 10 a
:00:39. > :00:49.week. Is it adds �8 million a year to our bills. I think it's morally
:00:49. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :01:38.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 49 seconds
:01:38. > :01:41.wrong. I don't think it's something A growing number of people are
:01:41. > :01:46.stealing it. It's happening in every community across Northern
:01:46. > :01:53.Ireland. Where ever you live, there will be someone willing to bypass
:01:53. > :01:56.your meter. They are just a phone call away. I wanted to see how
:01:56. > :02:01.difficult it would be to get cheap electricity. We have heard that
:02:01. > :02:11.some of these people actually advertise online. I will do a
:02:11. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:14.search to see what I can find. An ad has popped up on the screen
:02:14. > :02:21.offering to help to reduce electricity bills. There is a
:02:21. > :02:26.number here, there is also a name. Are you able to help me out at all?
:02:26. > :02:31.Are you able to Who was the friend who recommended me? They seemed
:02:31. > :02:35.cautious at first. He said the cost would be around �30 or �40
:02:35. > :02:41.depending on the area. He had an answer ready when I asked about
:02:41. > :02:45.safety. It's 110% safe. I've done quite a few over the last while
:02:45. > :02:49.back. I've never had one problem. That is not the case. Tampering is
:02:49. > :02:53.never safe. We asked what if the meter man calls round? I'll explain
:02:53. > :02:57.to you. There is nothing out of place. Everything is as you have
:02:57. > :03:01.seen it. If you look at your electric box now, that is how you
:03:01. > :03:08.will see it. It sounded too good to be true. With contact now
:03:08. > :03:13.established, the first part of our undercover sting was in place.
:03:13. > :03:17.Electricity transformed life when it first arrived in Northern
:03:17. > :03:27.Ireland. It was so precious in the 40's that the Government had to
:03:27. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:32.warn people not to waste it. NEWSREEL: He see there is is no
:03:32. > :03:35.light. He sees there is no tea. He see there is is no breakfast. He is
:03:35. > :03:42.late for work. Loses his job because the clock has stopped. This
:03:42. > :03:45.is why. It's a power cut. There are few problems with electricity today,
:03:45. > :03:51.except for people like John McCarter. Until recently, this was
:03:51. > :03:57.how he got his power. Even the most basic of tasks like switching on a
:03:57. > :04:03.light involved a trip to his sthod fire up his generator. It -- shed
:04:03. > :04:09.to fire up his generator. It wasn't cheap. To charge up my mobile phone
:04:09. > :04:13.took a couple of hours. You look at �4 or �5 to charge up a mobile
:04:13. > :04:19.phone. John got power three months ago. It's still very basic. Cable
:04:19. > :04:22.ties on the pipe down there. Eventually, ends up down underneath
:04:22. > :04:27.here, at what they call the distribution board. What was it
:04:27. > :04:33.like, John, being able to flick a switch, to turn on your light to
:04:33. > :04:39.have power for the first time in 29 years? Absolutely, amazele couldn't
:04:39. > :04:43.believe it. After missing out for most of his life, John McCarter is
:04:43. > :04:46.happy to electricity, regardless of cost. I find it very hard to
:04:47. > :04:51.believe that people go to the extent of stealing their
:04:51. > :04:56.electricity to bypass meters etc. Because, at the end of the day, you
:04:56. > :05:02.know, they're getting something that I would consider an essential
:05:02. > :05:06.for very little money, why steal it? The rest of us take our
:05:07. > :05:16.electricity for granted, but more and more people just want to take
:05:17. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:22.it. I set out to discover what sort of people are using the meter
:05:22. > :05:26.cheaters. This house near Enniskillen was rented out and
:05:26. > :05:34.without the owner's knowledge, was using as much electricity as a
:05:34. > :05:40.small hotel. This is why. It was being used as a cannabis factory. A
:05:40. > :05:44.criminal gang had bypassed the meter to run the heat lamps and
:05:44. > :05:47.saved themselves around �40,000 in free electricity. This was one of
:05:47. > :05:53.30 uncovered in Northern Ireland last year. That cost in total �1.4
:05:53. > :05:57.million. We all paid for it. The electricity we use is generated
:05:57. > :06:01.from coal, oil or gas. From the power station, it passes along a
:06:01. > :06:05.massive network of overheadlines run by Northern Ireland Electricity.
:06:05. > :06:12.Once it reaches your home, the supplier takes over and bills the
:06:12. > :06:17.customer. The market was opened in 2007 and there are four main
:06:17. > :06:22.suppliers, Power NI, Airtricity, Budget Energy and Electric Ireland.
:06:22. > :06:26.The industry might have changed, but one key problem remains - how
:06:26. > :06:31.to cover the cost of electricity fraud? For anyone who think it is's
:06:31. > :06:37.a victimless crime, think again. Everyone of us who pays for our
:06:37. > :06:41.electricity is footing the bill for fraud. That's the hidden cost. The
:06:41. > :06:47.suppliers don't want you to know about. The Consumer Council says
:06:47. > :06:52.the system needs to change. Clearly, it's not fair that consumers
:06:52. > :06:55.continualy bear the majority of the risk in relation to fraud. Or
:06:55. > :06:58.indeed other electricity risk issues because they are always
:06:58. > :07:01.passed on to the consumer. That is an issue that the Consumer Council
:07:01. > :07:04.has in the past, and will continue to raise within the regulatory
:07:04. > :07:09.framework. You think the structure could be changed so as those who
:07:09. > :07:12.steal electricity, their bills are not passed on? I think it is
:07:12. > :07:17.certainly worth exploring because we don't believe it's fair that
:07:17. > :07:20.consumers bear all of the risk in relation to these matters. Eleanor
:07:20. > :07:26.McEvoy moved into the electricity market after selling her mobile
:07:26. > :07:32.phone business, which had a turnover of 50 million euro. She
:07:32. > :07:37.runs Budget Energy, the smallest of the suppliers, with just 4% of the
:07:37. > :07:41.market. Unlike the other suppliers, she was willing to speak out.
:07:41. > :07:45.sure there are people who are experiencing a loft bad debt
:07:45. > :07:49.because of the way the economy is and would be horrified at the idea
:07:49. > :07:53.that the number of customers should somehow also pay for all the people
:07:53. > :07:58.who are not being paid for. I think it's morally wrong. I don't think
:07:58. > :08:01.it's something that should be a common practice. We were interested
:08:01. > :08:06.in another common practice, how the meter cheaters operate. To get our
:08:06. > :08:10.sting in place, we rented a house and got experts to install a fake
:08:10. > :08:15.meter box. Posing as a couple, who had just moved to Belfast, we
:08:15. > :08:22.around our meter cheater to come round. We were about to get a rare
:08:22. > :08:26.insight into the criminal world of electricity thieves. For the first
:08:26. > :08:32.time in the UK one was about to be captured on camera. With hidden
:08:32. > :08:36.equipment in place, we secretly filmed him at work. His methods
:08:36. > :08:46.might have been basic, but the illegal service he was providing
:08:46. > :09:09.
:09:09. > :09:19.seemed to be in big demand. He has a well-rehearsed line for
:09:19. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:33.tricky questions about the Every house has a meter. Pay-as-
:09:33. > :09:38.you-go, where you top-up your electricity as it is needed, is
:09:38. > :09:42.fast becoming the most popular. Tom Doran is the NIE manager in charge
:09:42. > :09:46.of Northern Ireland's meters. He has come across all types of
:09:46. > :09:51.tampering. There are various methods from the down right stupid
:09:51. > :09:58.tor the more technically advanced. It doesn't matter how technically
:09:58. > :10:03.they are, the end result will be the same. Word wrd cheating is a
:10:03. > :10:08.menace for both sides of the community, in housing estates,
:10:08. > :10:12.rural areas and upmarket streets -- electricity. Our own meter cheater,
:10:12. > :10:22.who claims he has bypassed 300 houses, say it is's not just people
:10:22. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:51.Retired meter reader, George McFarland, has come across many
:10:51. > :10:57.people cheating. People have got greedy. He put back his meter 100
:10:57. > :11:07.unions this quarter. He put it back 200 the next quarter. He kept going
:11:07. > :11:07.
:11:07. > :11:12.on until he owed virtually nothing. En one case I came across where one
:11:12. > :11:17.guy got so greedy he put it back past his previous reading which
:11:17. > :11:24.meant we owed him money. So it was flagged up right away. In one case
:11:25. > :11:32.a man who lived in a massive house accused of stealing around �34,000
:11:32. > :11:37.worth of electricity. He's being prosecuted. We can't tell you who
:11:37. > :11:41.they are. They both got off with a warning. If it's your first offence
:11:41. > :11:45.and you have the noun pay back, you can avoid the shame of going to
:11:45. > :11:51.court. How would you like free electricity for two years? That is
:11:51. > :11:56.what the owner of this takaway Gavin Vallely enjoyed after he
:11:56. > :12:02.pulled what he thoughts with a clever stroke. He plugged into the
:12:02. > :12:05.empty house next door which had been cut off from power but then
:12:05. > :12:10.mysteriously reconnected. Nobody told the meter men. They never
:12:10. > :12:13.called to check. He was caught and fined �300 and ordered to repay the
:12:13. > :12:18.electricity company. We were helping to pay for his electricity.
:12:18. > :12:24.He could well afford to pay his own bills as he once had a property
:12:24. > :12:28.portfolio which stretched all the way to Bulgaria. Our meter cheater
:12:28. > :12:38.was so confident he wouldn't be caught, he wasn't worried about
:12:38. > :12:52.
:12:52. > :13:00.We are not aware of any cases where the meter cheat verse been
:13:00. > :13:05.convicted. It's the person who pays the bill who usually takes the rap.
:13:05. > :13:08.Raymond Magee from Limavady was one of them. To look at it, would you
:13:08. > :13:13.know it was tampered with? would know by the security tag
:13:13. > :13:20.there. You can see that wee tag there. There's actually a sign
:13:20. > :13:26.there warning spwenches with Northern Ireland electricity
:13:26. > :13:29.equipment is both dangerous and illegal -- spwefrence. He claims
:13:30. > :13:35.visitors to his home bypassed his meter without his knowledge. He
:13:35. > :13:38.took full advantage. When it was going free I was thinking, well I
:13:38. > :13:42.was burning lights here and electric fires and what not because
:13:42. > :13:45.I thought, well, I don't want to get caught. If I saw the
:13:45. > :13:50.electricity van out there I Champs Elyseesed the blinds and ignored.
:13:50. > :13:55.It the boy came in to read the meter the first time. Then I
:13:55. > :14:00.realised then more or less the game was up. He was brought to court and
:14:00. > :14:06.fined. Because he couldn't pay, he was disco nexted. He says he lived
:14:06. > :14:14.for two years without power. Christmases came and went. I was
:14:14. > :14:19.saying to myself, "if my meter wasn't rigged and I didn't have
:14:19. > :14:23.this problem I could have the house nicely lit with Christmas lights
:14:23. > :14:28.and not sitting here in the dark." What about those who would say it
:14:28. > :14:32.was your own fault? I would agree. It was my own fault. Raymond Magee
:14:32. > :14:36.wasn't the only one caught in Limavady. 14 others were also found
:14:36. > :14:39.with tampered meters. All were convicted and fined. The number of
:14:39. > :14:46.prosecutions for electricity theft has been rising dramatically. In
:14:46. > :14:51.the past five years, the figures have gone up by a massive 900% from
:14:51. > :14:56.19 to just under 200 last year. This woman asked not to be
:14:56. > :15:00.identified. Her mother is one of those people who was prosecuted.
:15:00. > :15:05.She went to court that day and she thought she was going to just get
:15:06. > :15:10.off with a fine or something like that Instead, her 46-year-old
:15:10. > :15:16.mother got six months because it was her second offence. Like others,
:15:16. > :15:20.she was shocked electricity theft left her with a criminal record.
:15:20. > :15:25.The whole family was devastated. Couldn't believe it. She could have
:15:25. > :15:29.avoided jail if she'd repaid the �4,000 she owed her electricity
:15:29. > :15:33.supplier. Where are you going to get it? Nobody has it like to give
:15:33. > :15:37.it to ye. She went to the benefits office. They couldn't help her.
:15:37. > :15:42.They couldn't give her that kind of money. Some people out there
:15:42. > :15:45.mightn't have a lot of sympathy for your mum because she was caught
:15:45. > :15:49.twice? You shouldn't tamper with the electric and whatever. There
:15:49. > :15:54.are things that people shouldn't do, but they do it. She didn't it
:15:54. > :15:58.deserve to be sent up to jail. everyone who gets caught stealing
:15:58. > :16:02.electricity ends up in court. Even though 200 people were prosecuted
:16:02. > :16:07.last year, that's only a fraction of the 2,000 people who were caught.
:16:07. > :16:13.Most of them got off with warning if they paid for the stolen
:16:13. > :16:17.electricity. Among them, people who had paid for more elaborate scams.
:16:17. > :16:21.This is where some of the more sophisticated operations were
:16:21. > :16:25.carried out, here in South Armagh along the border. We know of one
:16:26. > :16:29.case where a developer built a number of new homes. He installed a
:16:29. > :16:32.special device which allowed the householder to switch on and off
:16:32. > :16:37.their meter. They could get free electricity at the flick of a
:16:37. > :16:42.switch. It's known in the business as a switch neutral. It can be very
:16:42. > :16:47.hard to detect. In this case, all the devices were found and the
:16:47. > :16:52.householders were ordered to pay the money back to the electricity
:16:52. > :16:58.company. They too escaped prosecution, elsewhere, elaborate
:16:58. > :17:02.bypasses costing up to �3500 have been found by inspectors. We're
:17:02. > :17:08.looking at a property with manicured gardens, the electric
:17:08. > :17:13.gates, the walls, everything. We did our tests and the tests
:17:13. > :17:18.indicated to us that something was amiss. The owner didn't take too
:17:18. > :17:23.kindly to NIE's questions about a bypass. He put his hands in the air
:17:23. > :17:27.said, "absolutely no way, my meter there. I'm paying my electricity
:17:27. > :17:30.bill." I he gave the instruction to start at the back door with a kango
:17:30. > :17:35.hammer and follow the cable from the back door to the meter. Once
:17:35. > :17:39.the hammer was produced all of a sudden he jumped and said, "no, no
:17:39. > :17:45.it's there." He got a child's crayon and he marked the floor.
:17:45. > :17:51.After three hours of digging, they found the bypass underneath the
:17:51. > :17:54.cement floor. He was caught and he held his hands up to it, which was
:17:54. > :17:59.good because, you know we don't want to go into a property and dig
:17:59. > :18:07.from one end to the other. Unusually, this man was taken to
:18:07. > :18:17.court, despite paying the money back. Meanwhile, back at our rented
:18:17. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:47.house, our meter cheater is pleased He tells us how to outsmart the
:18:47. > :19:02.
:19:02. > :19:06.meter readers. You don't actually The job of catching the cheats
:19:06. > :19:08.falls to the Revenue Protection Officers. They're employed by
:19:08. > :19:13.Northern Ireland Electricity and are called in to investigate cases
:19:13. > :19:16.which have been spotted by meter readers or picked up through tip-
:19:16. > :19:20.offs. You want to make sure you don't fall out with your wife or
:19:20. > :19:26.your spouse or have an affair because they tend to take unkindly
:19:26. > :19:29.to it and can let us know. The four suppliers have a key role to play
:19:29. > :19:35.in detecting fraud. It's part of their licence. Only one of them,
:19:35. > :19:39.Budget Energy, was willing to talk about it. If we have a customer who
:19:39. > :19:43.we know they have, you know, two children and they have a three
:19:43. > :19:47.bedroomed house, that, in general, we know what their spend will be on
:19:47. > :19:51.a weekly, monthly basis. You can watch and see if somebody for
:19:51. > :19:55.instance is putting in �5 for a month, you know there is something
:19:55. > :19:59.wrong. In most instances people own up and that is case closed. Eleanor
:19:59. > :20:02.McEvoy admits they prefer to talk to them and get the money owed
:20:02. > :20:06.rather than prosecute. Nine times out of ten we have come out of it
:20:06. > :20:10.where we have come to an agreement with the customer. They have paid
:20:10. > :20:14.over their money. Since then they have been operating in the proper
:20:14. > :20:19.legal manner. Electricity theft is also a big problem in the Republic.
:20:19. > :20:26.It's doubled in the past three years, costing 10 million euro a
:20:26. > :20:29.year. They've invested in a special camera and demonstrated how they
:20:29. > :20:34.search behind meter boxes for suspect wires. It's a quick and
:20:34. > :20:38.easy way to catch those who pay for more elaborate scams. We are
:20:38. > :20:43.sending a camera down to the duct, to the duct coming into the house.
:20:43. > :20:47.We are checking for tampering along the cable itself. We have a good
:20:47. > :20:52.picture. We'd look for a sophisticated type of tampering
:20:52. > :20:56.here. They have also come across unsophisticated devices. You can
:20:56. > :21:01.see, at the side of the meter here, there is an object protrudeing from
:21:01. > :21:06.the meter. I think, from this picture, it looks like a biro that
:21:06. > :21:11.was stuck in and, basically, the customer is trying to jam this here
:21:11. > :21:15.from going around and recording the electricity reading. You would find
:21:15. > :21:18.a lot of those in domestic situations. Not always. Sometimes
:21:18. > :21:24.you would find them in businesses as well. These botched efforts were
:21:24. > :21:28.found in homes in the Republic, the same crude methods are beinged here.
:21:28. > :21:33.This is a very strong magnet. Basically, it's been put onto the
:21:33. > :21:37.side of the meter. It prevents the disk from going around. As you can
:21:37. > :21:41.see, this magnet is so strong that it has actually moved the face
:21:41. > :21:47.plate on the meter. When businesss in the Republic get caught, they
:21:47. > :21:53.will be prosecuted. We do believe that there are more businesses now
:21:53. > :21:58.getting involved in this. We take a very strong line. When we do, we
:21:58. > :22:06.will prosecute cases and bring people to court. Among them this
:22:06. > :22:09.Donegal hotel. The Holyrood in Bundoran was found have used 30,000
:22:09. > :22:13.euro worth of stolen electricity when it was brought to court.
:22:13. > :22:15.Things aren't so clear here. We have discovered that a hotel in
:22:15. > :22:22.Northern Ireland got caught stealing electricity towards the
:22:22. > :22:26.end of last year. The owner hasn't been prosecuted. The big problem is
:22:26. > :22:30.getting into homes to find the tampered meters in the first place.
:22:30. > :22:36.That's why the majority of electricity thieves are never
:22:36. > :22:41.caught. Some areas are off limits without the police. This was once a
:22:41. > :22:45.no go area for meter readers, the Drumbeg and Meadow Brook estates in
:22:45. > :22:48.Craigavon. In the space of 10 months, eight of them were attacked
:22:48. > :22:51.or threatened and five vehicles were damaged. It has to be said
:22:51. > :22:57.that the vast majority of people living here weren't involved in the
:22:57. > :23:01.trouble, but it did result in meter readers being pulled from the area.
:23:01. > :23:05.When they did finally get access to the homes, they found a small
:23:05. > :23:10.number of tampered meters. It's not just a problem here. Police were
:23:10. > :23:16.also on hand when meter readers earlier this month visited a number
:23:16. > :23:20.of housing estates in Derry. They have to go into areas and, after
:23:20. > :23:26.they go with police warrants, to get into homes to disco next meters.
:23:26. > :23:34.As I say, their primary motivation is to do with safety. It is a real
:23:34. > :23:37.danger. I can't actually reiterate that enough. So why is it that the
:23:37. > :23:41.electricity industry is slow to pursue people who cheat? We
:23:41. > :23:49.couldn't get answers here, so we went to London to ask an
:23:49. > :23:54.independent analyst. David Cox worked in the energy sector for
:23:54. > :23:57.more than 30 years and understands how the companies deal with fraud.
:23:57. > :24:01.They're looking at the cost of their teams to do all that and then
:24:01. > :24:06.do the prosecution and try and get the money back from somebody that's
:24:06. > :24:13.maybe stolen because they're poor, it's often not necessarily very
:24:13. > :24:16.easy either. The temptation, I think, is to be... Is to... Is to
:24:16. > :24:20.not be so rigorous in the investigation in going after every
:24:20. > :24:24.theft. It's not always in their financial interest to chase down
:24:25. > :24:32.these electricity thieves? might spend �10 to recover �1. That
:24:32. > :24:35.is obviously not worth it. Ofgem is planning to set theft targets and
:24:35. > :24:41.offer greater financial incentives to supplyers to tackle electricity
:24:42. > :24:45.fraud. There is no sign of such targets being set here. One of
:24:45. > :24:49.those licence obligations on the supplier is to detect theft and
:24:49. > :24:55.deal with it and recover the money. The regulator has a duty to try and
:24:55. > :24:59.make sure that's done and make sure the supplier does it. The regulator
:24:59. > :25:02.should be monitoring it and making sure the suppliers are doing the
:25:02. > :25:06.best they can. It's one of those problems that isn't very sexy. It
:25:06. > :25:10.tends to go down the priority order in dealing with bigger issues.
:25:10. > :25:15.Northern Ireland, the man who has the final say is the regulator,
:25:15. > :25:20.Shane Lynch. How much of a priority is electricity fraud for him? The
:25:20. > :25:25.answer to that is, we don't know. He has refused to talk to us on the
:25:25. > :25:29.programme. His office did tell us that they offer some incentives to
:25:29. > :25:34.tackle fraud. He decides what is spent on chasing electricity
:25:34. > :25:38.thieves here. As it stands, we spend much less than other parts of
:25:38. > :25:42.the UK. We wanted to talk to him about that and what's he doing
:25:42. > :25:47.about a fraud, which is not only costing �8 million a year, but is
:25:47. > :25:52.also putting lives at risk? We can't. So we are all in the dark.
:25:52. > :26:02.We know one man in the electricity business who was happy to talk. He
:26:02. > :26:11.
:26:11. > :26:18.even had advice on how to spend the Tom Doran has seen the damage
:26:18. > :26:22.people rigging meters can do. cables, as you see, have melted
:26:22. > :26:28.totally encrusted. These will catch flame, ignite. The next stage after
:26:28. > :26:33.this here is when you lose the property and possible life. This is
:26:33. > :26:38.the first time the authorities have seen a meter cheater at work. We
:26:38. > :26:44.showed the pictures to Tom Doran. Actually seeing, it it makes me
:26:44. > :26:49.cringe. This guy has absolutely no worry or concern for him, the risk
:26:49. > :26:54.is that he might be seen as opposed to the risk is that you are putting
:26:54. > :26:59.a �3 0prietion tag on the life of your family and your property --
:26:59. > :27:04.�30 price tag on the life of your family and your property for some
:27:04. > :27:08.cheap electric. This man has told us he has done 100s of meters. What
:27:08. > :27:12.would your message be to those people out there who employed him.
:27:12. > :27:16.If you are one of those hundreds you need to come through to
:27:16. > :27:20.ourselves and give us your name and address and we will go out and help
:27:20. > :27:24.you and work with you. My concern, having looked at that there, what
:27:24. > :27:30.he has done, you have a potential time bomb at your meter position
:27:30. > :27:34.because of what this guy has done. It had taken our meter cheater just
:27:34. > :27:44.30 minutes to bypass our fake electricity board. Outside, we had
:27:44. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:15.We'd wanted to ask him why he was putting lives at risk, but he was
:28:15. > :28:16.
:28:16. > :28:20.so quick we didn't get a chance. There you have it. He's gone now
:28:21. > :28:23.with his bag of tricks with him. I'm sure there are a lot of things
:28:23. > :28:27.going through his mind at the minute as he heads up that road.
:28:28. > :28:32.I'm sure one of the thoughts is, whenever you are doing something
:28:32. > :28:37.illegal it doesn't do to advertise online. As for those who have
:28:37. > :28:41.experienced the other side of electricity theft, they've learnt a
:28:41. > :28:44.hard lesson. I wouldn't even dream now of tampering with my
:28:44. > :28:49.electricity. Wouldn't think about it. I would sit here in the dark
:28:49. > :28:57.before I would even do that again. I would say, don't even tamper with.
:28:57. > :29:00.If they are going to send them to jail for, it it's not worth it.
:29:00. > :29:03.Especially losing out on a couple of months of your life, being
:29:03. > :29:08.locked away. That woman is due to get out of prison next week and