05/04/2017 BBC Newsline

This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines

We're on the trail of a serial child abuser now living in Canada -

he admits his crimes, for which he's never

For that, I have got no... Other than I thought an opportunity and I

took it. We also speak to one

of the abuser's victims, who says he's still having

nightmares about it He should be in hell, seriously, he

should be. Why should I live in hell on my own? And I was the victim.

Prosecutors consider appealing the jail terms given to a couple

who abused a vulnerable woman in their home for eight years.

The BBC to invest an extra ?11 million in its operation

Pioneering the possiblities of 3-D printing here in Belfast.

And cloud amounts are the main issue at the moment,

First on BBC Newsline, an untold story from a dark

It sheds light on an apparent failure by the police

to charge a Belfast man who, in 1985, admitted abusing children

The abuser left Northern Ireland and got on with his life abroad.

His victims were left behind to pick up the pieces.

Here, with the first of two exclusive reports,

is our investigations reporter Kevin Magee.

This was a search that brought us to Canada.

The man's past first came to light at the recent Historical

Institutional Abuse Inquiry, but his identity was protected.

BBC News Northern Ireland legally challenged that decision and won.

We can now tell you his name is Henry Clarke, a man

We went to a remote part of Canada to find him.

I'm on the trail of a Belfast man who now lives in Canada.

He's a church pastor, husband, father and,

as we can reveal for the first time, a serial child sex abuser.

But he's never been brought to justice, even though

he confessed his crimes to the police in Northern Ireland.

We're making a 4,000 mile journey to confront him.

Two flights later, we took to the road and drove

for hundreds of miles north, leaving Canada's major cities behind,

searching for the church pastor who emigrated

The trail eventually took us to the edge of the Canadian

wilderness, a vast tract of land that stretches

We have found out that there's a Henry James Clarke living

We have discovered he's originally from Belfast

and we have a current address for him.

The place Henry Clarke has chosen to live in is hundreds of miles

In winter, temperatures can drop to -50.

Hi, may I speak to Mr Clarke, please?

I think if you and I could sit and have a chat?

This is the first time he's been challenged publicly about abusing

young boys in his care at three different children's homes

where he worked in Northern Ireland in the late 60s and 70s.

One of his victims was a 12-year-old boy at the former Bawnmore

How many children did you abuse in Bawnmore?

But you shared with me today that the young man

But I remember one and I remember it quite well.

And this happened in your parent's house.

You brought a vulnerable child to your parent's home.

You introduced him to your parents and then abused him in their house.

Other than I saw an opportunity and I took it.

He's Billy Brown and he was a 12-year-old resident at Bawnmore

As a victim, he's waived his right to anonymity.

He says he wants the truth about the abuse he suffered to be made known.

How was it in his head to pick me to come and ask me

Anybody who says they do, they need their head looked at.

He was in his own mother and father's house.

And for him to get into bed beside me and done what he done.

He shouldn't even have got to Canada.

Why should I be in hell on my own and I was the victim?

In 1985, while visiting Northern Ireland, Henry Clarke

was questioned by police and confessed to abusing Billy

It would have been in the mid 80s, we were on holiday in Belfast

and two detectives from the RUC came to talk to me and on that day,

I admitted I had interfered with a boy at Bawnmore,

From there, he made a further admission.

He wrote to the RUC telling them he'd abused a third boy -

this time a Boys Brigade camp in Newcastle, County Down.

When I was in Northern Ireland, I omitted to mention a boy that

I had interfered with sexually, and I wanted to deal

with everything, and so I wrote to them and admitted

that there was another boy that I had missed,

or omitted telling them about, and asked them to take

Well, I realised at that time my behaviour was wrong

And I believe that, in my mind, that I would probably finish up

going to prison or something of that nature, but there

This time, the police didn't even attempt to have him prosecuted.

And not only did they fail to press charges, they also failed to tell

the Canadian authorities that there was a self-confessed paedophile

living in their jurisdiction - much to Henry Clarke's surprise.

So you thought that the RUC would have told the Canadian authorities?

I did. I expected them to.

Does it feel just to you that you have lived a full

life here in Canada, while your victims'

lives were blighted back in Northern Ireland by your actions?

That I've had a good life and they've had a bad life?

I hope they haven't had a bad life, I really do.

I couldn't take it back and I was hoping that by my honesty

that it would be dealt with and I would have the freedom

I thought that the system would deal out to me

And he should have had it done years ago.

I can't understand it. Why?

With no charges brought against him and the Canadian authorities

unaware of his confessions, Henry Clarke continues to live

out his life in Canada, where he has been a pastor

for the past 30 years, moving around the country

So Henry Clarke, having admitted child sex abuse

to the authorities not once but twice, expected

I'll be looking for answers on tomorrow evening's programme.

There are organisations offering information and support to anyone

affected by the sexual abuse of children.

Their details are on the BBC's Actionline.

This is BBC Newsline and still ahead on the programme:

Can Rory McIlroy achieve golfing green is by winning a career grand

slam? Join me for a special interview ahead of the Masters in

Augusta. The Public Prosecution Service

is considering appealing against the sentences handed down

yesterday to husband and wife They were jailed for 15 years and 18

months respectively for abusing a vulnerable woman who they kept

as a virtual prisoner. Today there've been calls

for an inquiry into how the Bakers were able to get away

with their abuse for so long. Just how was Keith Baker

able to keep and abuse a vulnerable woman, known

as she was to the police and social services

in England, for eight years? Ask those who knew him and knew

the faily set-up described in court Ask those who knew him and knew

the family set-up described in court as "grossly unconventional" and one

word keeps cropping up - "control." It was Baker's second partner,

Mandy Highfield, who brought the abuse to an end just before

Christmas 2012. Baker had gone to England

and she took the chance to escape from his control,

something that for years, she told If you wanted to go to the toilet,

you'd have to tell him that you wanted to go to the toilet

and he would get somebody to stand at the bottom of the stairs to make

sure you didn't go If you wanted to make a cup

of coffee, you had to tell him you were making a cup of coffee

and he'd come and stand there, just You couldn't do nothing

without tellng him, The woman was reported

missing to Suffolk police Suffolk Constabulary

gave us this statement: Lord Morrow has been

following this case since 2014. He has written many letters

and tabled many questions, but says Now he wants an inquiry

into what went wrong. We need to know why this was allowed

to continue for so many years, it seems to be that one department

doesn't know what the other is doing and there has been no joined up

thinking or strategy. It is time some questions were asked. I would

hope that these agencies, including the police, will take a look at

themselves now and reflect on this and I suspect when they do that,

they will come up with the answer, we could have and should have done

better year. This evening it emerged prosecutors are considering

appealing against the sentences handed down to the Bakers yesterday.

They said the PPS is considering if there is a basis to refer the

sentences handed down in this case to the Court of Appeal on the

grounds they may have been unduly lenient.

A charity which enables 20,000 vulnerable people

to live independently, says its budget has been cut by 5%

Supporting People say the cut means loss of ?3 million

to its programme providing housing related support services

At Stormont today Sinn Fein said there has been plenty of engagement

in the latest phase of inter party talks but no progress.

Michelle O'Neill, its Stormont leader, said both the DUP

and the British government need to change their attitudes

if there is to be any prospect of agreement.

We have had a lot of meetings and engagement but not a lot of

progress. It is clear the DUP and the British Government have failed

to focus on the key issues of the recent election. Our position is

clear, we will not return to the staters call. -- staters call.

The police service is changing its recruitment process

to try to address the low number of Catholics signing up.

The changes include reducing the length of the selection

procedure from 12 to 6 months and allowing candidates to take

the initial test online rather than in an exam centre.

The PSNI has ruled out the reintroduction of

the controversial 50/50 recruitment policy which operated from 2001

to 2011 and significantly boosted the number of Catholic recruits.

It's reported that in three recent recruitment drives 31%

of those who applied were from a Catholic background.

The European Parliament has approved negotiating guidelines for the UK's

exit from the European Union, ruling out any trade

deal until the terms of withdrawal are settled.

During the debate Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson challenged

the Taoiseach to act as the voice of Irish people north and south

The DUP's Diane Dodds said the triggering of Article 50 had

And the Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson said he wouldn't

accept either a hard border with the Republic or an internal

border within the UK, and he had this rebuke for the EU

Commission's Chief Brexit negotiator.

I hope you're listening and not twiddling with your telephone

With the greatest respect, can I say to you clearly,

The BBC is to invest an extra ?11 million

in Northern Ireland over the next three years.

Making the announcement today, the director general Tony Hall said

it was the biggest single investment the BBC had made here

Our arts correspondent Robbie Meredith has more.

As of now, we are investigating how are charging of Michael Farmer.

Today's investment should mean more of this.

This is what our younger audiences want, more money and more money in

news and sports online but the second area is 50% increase in the

money spent in Northern Ireland for Northern Ireland services, more

drama, comedy, documentary is that reflect the life of Northern

Ireland. So good news, but the most recently

published accounts for BBC Northern Ireland show that it

brought in ?99 million in licence But that just over ?73 million

was spent by the BBC here in return. So are local licence fee payers

being short changed? Part of what we are paying for is

the entire BBC. You are paying for the sports rights for the FA Cup,

the World Service, the entirety of the UK's output of the BBC. It is

the balance we have got to work. The BBC is also renewing

a partnership with Northern Ireland Screen, which will mean hits

like The Fall and Line Of Duty There is fact and then there is the

truth. That was the most watched drama on BBC Two ever and has no

move to BBC One. It is an air and will come back and be made in

Northern Ireland. Moar returning series and drama, children's comedy,

factual, film, all of those areas, which are not only of importance for

the audience to consume but I helpful in terms of developing our

economy. Ablest, though the BBC has announced much more substantial

additional effort in Wales, and Scotland, given the scrutiny over

how the BBC spends the licensee, the fact that more of it will be staying

here will be widely welcomed. A group of foootball clubs

from north and west Belfast have joined forces in a cross-community

initiative to address mental health A number of young men

in some of the clubs have taken their own lives

in the last year. Our reporter Kevin

Sharkey has the story. A new campaign with a simple

message for footballers. 28 clubs in all have come

together from west Belfast Different communities,

similar losses to suicide. Craig Volkmann was involved with the

football club, Johnny Little, Woodvale has had four deaths through

suicide over the last number of years. Twice in the last year and a

half, and under 19 player. Taking their own life. It really brings it

home. It is so close to home. There are many services based on the

community providing help for people suffering from mental health issues.

The big difference with this initiative is that it provides that

help in the heart of local football clubs. It's OK to ask for help, it's

OK to talk. Imagine a future in which a new

technology could be used to create everything from entire houses

to replacement human organs. Well those days are just

about upon us thanks It uses printers to build up layers

of materials to create objects. Our economics and business

editor John Campbell The technology's been

around since the 1980s, but in recent years it's grown

from a niche market to something It's particularly used in precision

engineering sectors, like aerospace. And increasingly in the medical

sector, which is where They take 2-D scans and turn

them into detailed 3-D What we are doing is 3-D printing

something from patients's CT scans. We take a patient's CTD data made up

of two slices and we reconstructed in the 3-D visualisation in the

office to give to the surgeons. While they look at the three

visualisation, we put it into the 3-D printer and it will reconstruct

layer by layer at the CT scans to create one of physical model of a

patient's pathology. And here's one of the surgeons who's

recently started using the models. There is no surprises. We know

exactly what we are getting. We have got a 3-D model there, we are not

going to say we weren't expecting that bit of bone it to be there or

that bit of bone to be somewhere else. We know exactly what we are

getting. There were about 45,000 3-D printers

sold worldwide last year. The cheapest ones, for home use,

can be had for under ?200. There are also big industrial

printers used by major companies, So is there much scope for local

firms to use the technology? Experts at Queens are

working in this field. And they say the speed

and versatility of the technology Local companies can produce

prototypes quickly and efficiently and to bring it to their customers

for review. If the customer doesn't like it, they can quickly go back

and change the design and reproduce a new prototype. In the past that

may have taken months, with 3-D printing that can take a matter of

days. Meanwhile, Axial 3-D has recently

landed fresh investment, which will allow it to refine

its products and grow the company. The final day of practice for the US

Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia was cut short

because of bad weather today. In an interview for BBC Newsline,

the Holywood man told Stephen Watson -- Rory McIlroy he's

never felt as comfortable and well prepared ahead

of the On the verge of something special. A

win for Rory McIlroy at golf's most iconic tourist would feel a career

grand slam. The Masters is the only one of the sports's for majors he is

yet to win and Rory McIlroy sounds confident. I feel more relaxed this

year coming into it and I have in previous years. I feel we build up

hype around it hasn't been quite as much as in previous years, but I

feel I have been able to prepare quietly and they have come up here

and had a couple of good trips. I have played a lot of golf around

here. Mentally, I am in a good place, my game is any good shape, it

is just a matter of going it and hitting the shots when they have

come up here and had a couple of good trips. I have played a lot of

golf around here. Mentally, I am in a good place, my game is any good

shape, it is just a matter of going it and hitting the shots when the

only did to win all the majors. Nearly 20 years on from that BBC

interview, he knows what's within touching distance. It would be a

lifelong dream, to be the best golfer in the world and win majors.

I have done most of that and this would honestly complete that. It

would pick me any place in golf history that very few people have

gone before. I realise that, but I have two park that someone else this

week and just try in women's golf tournament. If I do that, all that

other stuff will take care of itself. McIlroy has had a chance to

win the Masters before. In 2011, he blew a four shot a final-round lead.

But that experience was all part of the learning curve. I have to treat

it as a single goal to lament and not think about the consequences. I

want to win a green jacket and that would be the same whether I am going

for a slam or my first major arm attends major. I just want to win

the Masters. It is the only one that's missing. And I may feel some

work pressure because of that, at the same time, everyone I have

beaten before in this field and I might necessarily not to beat them

around as golf course, I feel I have the ability to. McIlroy was one of

just the few golfers to squeeze in nine holes and a very early practice

this morning before the threat of thunder and lightning meant because

it had to be evacuated. If McIlroy is to try and win the Masters at his

ninth attempt, it's not just the mental pressure and the expectation

he will have to battle but the windy weather.

Angie Phillips is here with the latest weather news.

Lots of dry weather it still in the forecast over the next few days

because we have high pressure in charge at the moment and to date

that high was centred to the south-west of it. That meant we had

a slow around this northern edge coming off the Atlantic which

brought moisture in the form of cloud and that cloud was big enough

to give a futurist during the first part of the day. The cloud by no

means solid, some breaks here and there, particularly in eastern areas

and towards the north coast. Finally forgetting it in the water there.

Back to this evening and one or two bright intervals but generally a lot

of cloud. Once again through the night that cloud will close in

places. Clear it does over the hills and the north, odd pockets of

gazelle. For many of us, the dry weather holds and it will be a mild

night with loads of six 8 degrees. Tomorrow, mucking around with cloud

once again. Large amounts of cloud, but that mainly dry steam is with

us. If you have some dreadful first thing in the morning, it would be

long before they fade away and things become largely drive.

Hopefully the cloud Wilson out at times, lifting up as we go through

the afternoon, particularly late afternoon. We may see a few bright

intervals. Temperatures 11, 12 degrees, possibly a degree higher

somewhere in the east if we get those bright spells. That takes us

into tomorrow night, a lot of cloud around which could thicken to bring

some drizzle. A frost free night. Friday, doing it on again. A few

patches of drizzle in the morning, thicker cloud and then as it dies

away in the afternoon, we see some bright or sigh intervals starting to

break through. Towards the weekend, it is not until later on Sunday some

rain on the way. Variable cloud and a few bright spells.

Our late summary is at half past ten.