1 00:00:37,205 --> 00:00:40,233 Hello, Alexander. It's Stuart. 2 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:41,540 Hello, Stuart. 3 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:48,479 You know, admitting I've had lots to drink and that, but I can't help reflect— 4 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,950 I'm Alexander, the bloke in the glasses driving, 5 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,600 not the mumbly one on the tape. That's Stuart. 6 00:00:56,750 --> 00:01:01,400 I got to know Stuart in 2000 and decided to write his biography. 7 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,199 All my friends said it was mad. I mean, after all this man was unknown, 8 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,410 he wasn't famous, not a celebrity, but the book turned out okay. 9 00:01:11,535 --> 00:01:14,300 Just wish Stuart could have been here to see it. 10 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,450 I think it was the first ever biography of a homeless man. 11 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,390 From birth to the present day. 12 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,050 So, back in 2000 I was earning a bit of extra pocket money 13 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:39,300 working as a fundraiser at Wintercomfort, 14 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:45,500 which is a busy little day shelter in Cambridge, normally full of homeless people. 15 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,300 Full, that is, until the morning that the police decided to raid the place. 16 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,400 They've been arrested. 17 00:02:52,830 --> 00:02:54,700 All of them? 18 00:02:55,050 --> 00:02:56,200 What a good idea. 19 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,300 Uh, no, no. It was, um, just my boss, Ruth, 20 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:05,300 and um, her deputy, John. 21 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:09,000 Some of the clients have been secretly dealing drugs on the premises 22 00:03:09,002 --> 00:03:11,875 but because Ruth and John ran the charity, they were held responsible. 23 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,350 They've got evidence, on film. 24 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,300 I was furious at the injustice of it. 25 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,100 And, uh, then really, for the first time in my life 26 00:03:24,101 --> 00:03:27,000 I actually began to take a real and practical interest in the homeless. 27 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,500 Fuck off, pisshead! 28 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,900 I'd like to introduce to you Alexander Masters, 29 00:03:35,010 --> 00:03:38,520 a dedicated friend of the homeless himself, chairman of the campaign. 30 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:44,500 Oh, we were convinced they'd never be convicted. 31 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,900 I mean, if prisons can't control drugs then how could Ruth and John be expected to? 32 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,999 As everyone knows, we're here this evening about Ruth Wyner and John— 33 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,200 The judge, Justice Howarth, sent them down— —for five years, and four years. 34 00:03:58,510 --> 00:04:00,000 - Shame. - Thank you. 35 00:04:00,030 --> 00:04:02,300 - Fascist. - Thank you. 36 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,450 But this is the crunch, what are we going to do about it? 37 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,400 How is this campaign going to get Ruth and John out? 38 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:11,800 - Yes? - We could send them books. 39 00:04:11,870 --> 00:04:14,000 Bunyan, he's good for prisons. 40 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,480 Hardly. Miracle of the Rose, by Genet, if you must. 41 00:04:17,505 --> 00:04:21,800 Excuse me, this isn't gonna work. 42 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,400 Sending them books, eh? It won't fit in the box. 43 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,400 - Sorry? - The inmate's belongings. 44 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,700 Everyone's got one. 45 00:04:37,990 --> 00:04:43,500 - Who is that? - No idea. They all look the same to me. 46 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:47,950 —you're also allowed a piece of carpet what won't fit in your box, 47 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,700 and a budgie or, or a canary, 48 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,985 and obviously the cage is not going to fit in the box. 49 00:04:58,350 --> 00:05:02,800 But, it is Ruth and John what will suffer. 50 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:16,500 All of them books, the screws will just chuck them out because they won't fit in your box. 51 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:23,200 I'm not being funny, but you should really know about boxes if you're gonna have a campaign. 52 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,600 Me name's Psycho, but you can call me Stuart, if you like. 53 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,750 - Um, what's your address? - Umm... 2 Laurel Lane. 54 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:53,250 Yeah, they help me: doctors, a couple clothes, outreach, sometimes lunch with two puddings. 55 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,150 Yeah, they put it all on, those two. And the staff. 56 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,400 I'm not being funny, yeah, but I am really grateful. 57 00:06:08,010 --> 00:06:11,500 - The other day I got a really [indiscernible]. - Oh, great. 58 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,010 - Can I help? - Yeah, uh, yeah. 59 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:19,500 That's how I first met Stuart Shorter. 60 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,480 Street brawler, alcoholic, a heroin addict, sociopathic street raconteur with a fondness 61 00:06:25,481 --> 00:06:30,950 for what he called "little strips of silver". Knives, to you and me. 62 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:49,250 - Thank you very much for agreeing to store these. - Oh, no problem. 63 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:01,700 Mind the step. Oh, dear. Here you go, mate. 64 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:06,850 Welcome to my humble abode. 65 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,200 2 Laurel Lane. Well, they are laurels, aren't they? 66 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,500 I only heard about the meeting this morning when I was picking up my breakfast. 67 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,900 - Your address? - Mm-hm. 68 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:32,200 A bad idea, number one, mate. You could get any old riff-raff showing up. Oh, dear, dear. 69 00:07:41,970 --> 00:07:43,300 Yes? 70 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:50,900 I've addressed some envelopes. 71 00:07:56,450 --> 00:07:58,500 - Which, uh... - They alright? 72 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:01,400 Horrible. 73 00:08:01,750 --> 00:08:07,550 I've had a blinding idea for the campaign. Yeah, get us on television and all. 74 00:08:07,990 --> 00:08:12,850 Not even violent, if we leave out the kidnapping. 75 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,500 - Do you want to come in? - Oh, yes please. 76 00:08:21,650 --> 00:08:22,800 It's a bit wet out there. 77 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:26,200 Ooh, that's nice. 78 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,200 - How many sugars? - As many as you got, mate. 79 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:25,600 H—hot. 80 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,200 All them books. 81 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,500 Have you read all of them? 82 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:38,500 No. 83 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:39,900 Half? 84 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,000 Not exactly. 85 00:09:44,990 --> 00:09:48,500 The Hunting Wasp. 86 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:52,200 A whole book about them little summer things. 87 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,600 This one. What is this one about? 88 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:04,500 The colour mauve. 89 00:10:10,210 --> 00:10:13,250 How do you fucking get away with this? 90 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,500 Now, this blinding idea. 91 00:10:27,060 --> 00:10:28,700 Have you got a car? 92 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:30,800 No. 93 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,400 What do you like better: Volvo or VW? 94 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:47,600 And then a few weeks later I had the idea about the book and started doing a little research. 95 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,400 That boy has suffered. He deserves a book. 96 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,300 You should write a book about me. 97 00:10:57,100 --> 00:10:59,100 Always such a caring boy. 98 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,100 Happy-go-lucky little thing. 99 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:05,000 Legs all over the show, bless him. 100 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,499 Three months after that we carried out Stuart's blinding idea 101 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,999 which was a sleep-over protest in front of the home office 102 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,200 to persuade the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, to release Ruth and John. 103 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,600 Which was better than his first idea, which was to kidnap him. 104 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,300 Stuart took care of our transport. Somehow. 105 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,460 And on the way to London I read him the first few pages of my book idea. 106 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:36,700 "Stuart Clive Shorter was a happy-go-lucky little boy, 'the most considerate of my children', marvels his mother." 107 00:11:36,990 --> 00:11:39,500 Bollocks! Boring! 108 00:11:39,990 --> 00:11:42,200 Why do you want to write this fucking book anyway? 109 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,050 To make lots and lots and lots of money. 110 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,450 Seriously? You think you can make money out of it? 111 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,100 Could, maybe. 112 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,900 Something as boring as that? 113 00:11:51,990 --> 00:11:54,550 Don't be so rude. Anyway, it's not my fault that you started out so dull. 114 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,100 You got make it more exciting. 115 00:12:01,110 --> 00:12:06,900 Do it backwards. Like a murder mystery. Like a best-seller. 116 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,990 You know, like what Tom Clancy writes. 117 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,800 Yeah! How'd I get to be like this? 118 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:15,350 What murdered the little boy I was? 119 00:12:16,990 --> 00:12:19,100 Make them nine-to-five sit up. 120 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,750 I mean, you put ten socks in the washing machine and only seven come out. 121 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,500 Where do they go? 122 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,750 - Stuart? - I'll tell you another thing and all— 123 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,990 - Stuart? — You take the machine apart and it ain't in it neither. 124 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:39,990 - Stuart? - What? 125 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,990 - What's this? - What? - This. 126 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:48,100 That, Alexander, is a lice. 127 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:57,350 The main place you get those is around your bollocks. 128 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,400 That lice, that'll grow. 129 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Scabies are smaller and they go under the skin and live there, literally nibbling. 130 00:13:14,990 --> 00:13:20,000 It took five and a half hours for our convoy to do the 50 miles from Cambridge to London. 131 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,000 Stuart would never drive above 30 miles an hour. 132 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,800 Hey, Buckingham Palace. 133 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,800 What a load of bollocks! Huh! 134 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:35,850 Who needs a queen? 135 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,300 - Oh, no, no, no, no. No, not like that. - What? 136 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,600 Use this, right? Underneath, yeah? Here you are. 137 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:57,800 You lose more heat that way than you do that way. 138 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,090 Ruth and John need these: eyes on the back of their heads! 139 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:03,900 End [indiscernible] police state now! 140 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,500 People are being wrongfully imprisoned for working in a charity 141 00:14:08,501 --> 00:14:09,930 and doing nothing but trying to help the homeless. 142 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:15,850 Charity workers in prison because of a miscarriage of— oh, fuck off. 143 00:14:30,250 --> 00:14:34,475 Charity workers in prison because of a miscarriage of justice. 144 00:14:34,482 --> 00:14:35,500 Okay, listen up, everyone! 145 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,800 Okay, everyone! Listen up! Everyone, please. Quiet, please! 146 00:14:40,050 --> 00:14:42,500 Everyone, we need you to move this way, thank you. 147 00:14:42,750 --> 00:14:44,900 Wait a minute, hold on, hold on. Why? This is a peaceful protest. 148 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:45,999 Yeah! Fucking why? 149 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,999 You can't cross these brass flags if the Home Office doesn't want you to. 150 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:49,999 That's social fucking fascism, that is! 151 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,200 And then we must put a fence in behind you to ensure you're not trespassing 152 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:57,700 and ones on either side to protect you. - What? 153 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:02,990 From the public, sir. They might step on you. And a fence in front just in case 154 00:15:02,991 --> 00:15:05,355 during the night you roll onto the road and get run over. 155 00:15:05,375 --> 00:15:07,600 Oh, I see. So you mean to cage us in completely. 156 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:11,380 I didn't say cage, sir, no. That was your word. 157 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,800 Do prisoners really get wages? 158 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,600 Yeah. 159 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,800 You mean a lot like normal people? 160 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,500 Yeah, make a fucking fortune. 161 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,250 Millionaires coming out of the nick every week. 162 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 You've been in a lot of prisons then? 163 00:15:41,990 --> 00:15:44,800 Have I? Fucking hell. 164 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:46,900 How many? 165 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:49,700 Well, um... 166 00:15:56,700 --> 00:16:02,300 Well, start off, when I was a nipper there was Send Detention Centre, 167 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,350 Baintnow House, back to Send again, 168 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,000 Eriestoke, Norwich, 169 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:16,800 then I grew up and went to big boy prison. 170 00:16:19,750 --> 00:16:24,300 Whitemoor. Aw, now that's what I call a real prison. 171 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,100 You got everything there, mate: 173 00:16:13,150 -->00:16:23,900 terrorists, psychopaths, security threats, murderers, manslaughters, crazies... 172 00:16:26,150 --> 00:16:36,900 terrorists, psychopaths, security threats, murderers, manslaughters, crazies... 173 00:16:36,990 --> 00:16:38,300 Which lot do you belong to? 174 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,200 Crazies, really. Mm, yeah. 175 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:49,300 Norwich, Whitemoor again. 176 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:54,400 Grendon Underground. 177 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,700 Thirty-one. 179 00:16:47,500 -->00:16:49,700 I don't think I've missed any. 178 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:02,700 I don't think I've missed any. 179 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:10,200 Oh yes, I have actually! I've been to Leicester three times as well. 180 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,100 Wayland was me last one. 181 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,100 Good night. Sleep well. 182 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,350 Thank you. Same to you. 183 00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:32,050 Oi, you. Since you got so much fucking time on your hands, yeah, 184 00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:37,750 answer this one: do you know how many people 185 00:17:37,751 --> 00:17:42,900 get killed by screws in prison every year? Murders. 186 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,200 Oh, sorry, Gov. Excuse us, how was we supposed to know that bending him in half 187 00:17:48,201 --> 00:17:52,000 the wrong fucking way was bad for his health? 188 00:17:52,005 --> 00:17:56,990 It was only people like me what is really rotten, isn't it? Really bad. 189 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,200 Beyond hope. You haven't got the faintest fucking clue, have you? Huh? 190 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,750 - Yeah, all he said was "Good night". - You can fuck off and all you fucking geeky— 191 00:18:06,751 --> 00:18:14,200 - Oh, shut up yourself, Stuart. - You fucking wanking middle class cunt fuck, Alexander. 192 00:18:14,210 --> 00:18:20,500 You want to know how I became what I am? I'm giving you fucking answers! 193 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,830 Why don't you write a book with no fucking answers, eh? 194 00:18:30,650 --> 00:18:35,000 Go on, you fuck off. You find your fucking answers. 195 00:18:50,650 --> 00:18:56,900 On a scale of anger, one to ten, I'm probably on four and Stuart's on eleven. 196 00:18:57,050 --> 00:18:59,600 You never can tell... 198 00:18:46,950--> 00:18:50,350 how families have been down and they've been up then they've been down again. 197 00:18:59,950 --> 00:19:03,350 how families have been down and they've been up then they've been down again. 198 00:19:03,351 --> 00:19:06,700 You just like Stuart, you know? 199 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:10,600 Drugs, prison, being a beggar. 200 00:19:12,990 --> 00:19:13,700 Go on, go on. 201 00:19:23,350 --> 00:19:24,350 Yeah, mate. 202 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:26,600 - Bastards! - Morning. 203 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:30,250 Like the taste of piss, eh? 204 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,800 You bastards. 205 00:19:34,010 --> 00:19:35,800 Someone smells nice. 206 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:39,750 After three months of preparation. 207 00:19:41,850 --> 00:19:44,495 I mean, who's bloody stupid idea was it that we camp out over the weekend anyway, 208 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,700 the one time Mr. Straw's not going to be there? 209 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:49,675 - I bet it was yours. - Oh, fuck off. 210 00:19:57,750 --> 00:20:00,050 - Oh, I like this song. - This is a good song. 211 00:20:21,950 --> 00:20:24,400 Still, one blimey thing did come out of that weekend: 212 00:20:25,450 --> 00:20:28,200 Stuart's idea that his life should be written backwards. 213 00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:42,300 It was cutting me throat what done it. 214 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,370 Put a beer glass into me neck. Just lost it. 215 00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:59,570 Sometimes you wouldn't believe how hard it is to fucking die. 216 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,250 So, you got a council for that, because you tried to kill yourself? 217 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,900 Works a trick for the old housing points, doesn't it? 218 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:10,850 Whoosh! Straight to the top of the list. 219 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,950 It's not all gone though. 220 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,500 What's not all gone? 221 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 The hatred. 222 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:25,200 I got so many enemies. Up here, mate. 223 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:29,250 Somebody's going to get hurt though, that's what scares me. 224 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,700 When's this thing going to happen? 225 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,300 I call it me "black mists". 226 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,800 Next week? Next month? Next ten seconds? 227 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,750 That is lovely bit of workmanship. 228 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:24,550 That's value. That's value. 229 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,200 Oh my God. This for the series. 230 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,950 For my son. 231 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:52,700 You've got a son!? 232 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,500 Yeah. In Glasgow with his mum. 233 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,500 Fourteen years of age to mind. 234 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,200 Always out on the golf course, the little 'un. 235 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,500 Not bad there, mate. Not better than Laurel Lane. 236 00:23:30,250 --> 00:23:33,520 Wine always smells like sick. 237 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,150 Here, have a beer. 238 00:23:41,450 --> 00:23:43,010 Fancy something to eat? 239 00:24:15,650 --> 00:24:18,000 So why do you want to be a writer, then? 240 00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:22,550 Oh, I don't know, really. Bit like a disease, all my family's got it. 241 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:25,100 Didn't want to be left out, did I? 242 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,450 Nah. I know what you mean, mate. 243 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:30,070 Me dad is a thief, 244 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,500 and, um, me mum's a barmaid. 245 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:37,350 What's the colour orange highlighter in your diary for? 246 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,700 Family stuff. 247 00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:43,845 Yellow? 248 00:24:43,850 --> 00:24:45,150 Social. 249 00:24:51,850 --> 00:24:58,250 Now, uh, this book that you're writing about me, 250 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,700 is it just to make your name? 251 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,500 And yours. 252 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:13,000 I've, uh, had an idea for a job, too. 253 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 For the foreign businessman what doesn't have time to waste, 254 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:23,000 what does he need? 255 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,500 An office... in a van. 256 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,520 It's lateral thinking, isn't it? 257 00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:39,980 Gets off the plane at Stansted, straight into the back of me van. 258 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:43,150 That will have everything: 259 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,450 good-looking bird what can do shorthand, 260 00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:55,250 fax, internet, wires all over the fucking gaff. It's brilliant. 261 00:25:56,020 --> 00:25:58,450 Red sauce or brown? 262 00:25:58,670 --> 00:26:01,150 Oh, yes please. I mean, uh, red. 263 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,200 - What—What's— - Oh yeah, that fella upstairs 264 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:12,200 is gonna make me a bed what folds up against the wall, like what James Bond has. 265 00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:15,959 - Ooh. - Yeah. It's got to have, um, 266 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:21,825 springs and latches on the floor otherwise it's boing, boing, whoosh! 267 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,000 Boing, boing, whoosh? 268 00:26:24,550 --> 00:26:29,950 You know what I mean, bird's not going to be too happy if she gets her face 269 00:26:29,951 --> 00:26:33,350 squeezed up against the plaster, is she? 270 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,400 Hey. 271 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:41,700 Sorry. 272 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:48,000 Good stuff, that. You can use it with anything. 273 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:57,500 See that right by the bed? This should be a huge stain where I overdosed there last week. 274 00:26:57,501 --> 00:27:05,000 And all the spilled cans and vomit. That cleaned it up really, really well, actually. 275 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:15,250 But you want to, um, you want to leave it, uh, for about... about a week before you vacuum. 276 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:44,000 Here you are, mate. 277 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,515 Careful, yeah? It's a bit hot. 278 00:28:03,470 --> 00:28:06,150 I never asked you why you were in prison. 279 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,750 The last time— Stupid things. 280 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,500 Me mate, Smithy, well bubblegum chap, 281 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,100 I'm not being funny, he's in the Guinness Book of Records. 282 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,150 1983 edition, as it goes. 283 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,200 Like brothers fighting the world. 284 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,200 Respect, trust, and honour. 285 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:44,100 Go, go, go, go, go! 286 00:28:46,050 --> 00:28:46,600 Right. 287 00:28:54,150 --> 00:28:55,250 Ow. 288 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,900 - Oh, fuck. Did you get menthols? - Menthols? Fuck off. 289 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,950 - She'll fucking kill me. She asked for menthols. - Well, give her the vodka. 290 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,395 She don't want vodka, she wants menthols! 291 00:29:27,150 --> 00:29:28,900 Go, go, go, go, go! 292 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,900 Aw, I don't believe it! These aren't fucking menthols either! 293 00:29:32,950 --> 00:29:36,370 They're just in a green packet. I've got ten packets of green cigarettes. 294 00:29:40,415 --> 00:29:42,000 Hurry up. 295 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,000 25 quid, 60!? 296 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,670 Women! They think they can boss you about in everything, don't they? 297 00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:55,000 And one day, Smithy got a tip-off. 298 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,250 - 20,000 quid? - Just keeps it under the counter. 299 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,100 Not a cop shop in 20 miles. 300 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,300 Fucking— That's fucking irresponsible. 301 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,900 No pride of ownership. 302 00:30:17,850 --> 00:30:19,000 Go, go, go, go, go! 303 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:24,500 Right. 304 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:39,950 Let's just say it was funny because as soon as we was sent down, 305 00:30:39,955 --> 00:30:43,600 Smithy's missus moved in with the fella what told us about the job. 306 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,400 Five years. 307 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Pretty steep sentence. Were you armed? 308 00:30:53,001 --> 00:30:54,500 No. 309 00:31:00,550 --> 00:31:02,125 Only with a crowbar. 310 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:18,250 Hey, Alexander? You wanna stay for tea? 311 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,150 Me favourite, "convict curry". 312 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,950 We used to make it in jail. 313 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Ooh, mushrooms! 314 00:31:41,020 --> 00:31:43,550 - What about the first time, then? - First time what? 315 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,000 Well, that you were sentenced as an adult. 316 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:04,500 I can't— I can't really talk about that, mate. 317 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,300 But, I mean, robbing an empty post office is— 318 00:32:13,301 --> 00:32:21,200 Burgle. Rob people, burgle post offices. 319 00:32:21,370 --> 00:32:25,500 Yeah, but what I mean is it's hardly a Schedule 1 offence, is it? 320 00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:27,000 Of course not. 321 00:32:29,750 --> 00:32:31,500 Well, that's serious, isn't it? 322 00:32:45,050 --> 00:32:47,300 It wasn't kiddie fiddling. 323 00:32:54,350 --> 00:32:57,050 I didn't say that it was. 324 00:32:59,850 --> 00:33:01,350 It wasn't. 325 00:33:07,050 --> 00:33:09,250 We'll talk about it Thursday, yeah? 326 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,300 Thursday afternoon. 327 00:33:19,750 --> 00:33:21,700 Another time, right? 328 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Then you mop with the bread. Mop up your juices. 329 00:34:31,850 --> 00:34:35,550 So, smash the window, break the steering wheel lock 330 00:34:35,551 --> 00:34:38,250 by turning the wheel in opposing directions. 331 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,400 Yeah. And if the street is too public to use a brick... 332 00:34:43,450 --> 00:34:48,000 Slide stick. Remove the metal band from a pallet of bricks, reduce to eighteen inches, 333 00:34:48,001 --> 00:34:51,450 remove a notch from one side, insert into door panel. 334 00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:55,250 Ba-kow! I'm in the post office! Boot in the rubble! 335 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,500 No, there's no point in ram-raiding a post office. 336 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:01,250 - Why not? - Can't you not pay attention? 337 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:06,710 There's no point in ram-raiding a fucking post office. There's never no money in the till, is there? 338 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:11,900 Gone are them days. 339 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,200 I forgot money. 340 00:35:18,625 --> 00:35:19,850 Here. 341 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,200 No, no, no, no. I'll get a taxi, I'll stop at a bank on the way. 342 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,160 No, honestly, take it. It's me beer money. 343 00:35:28,180 --> 00:35:30,890 You'll be doing me a favour. 344 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,250 You'll be doing society a favour. 345 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,425 And buy a fucking car. 346 00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:40,750 Get yourself a fucking license. 347 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,500 Oh, I almost forgot. 348 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,250 Here. Bought you this. 349 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,200 Your black mists. 350 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,100 Thought you could talk into it next time you're in one. 351 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,000 You'll be okay? 352 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:58,100 Call if you need any help. 353 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:01,450 2am, 4am, anytime. 354 00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:05,200 Yeah, so you can bring a fucking camera? 355 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,300 Oi! 356 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,510 You're alright, Alexander. 357 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:40,399 Often used to say to Stuart, "I wish I could just pick you up sometimes, 358 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,860 turn you upside down and shake all the bad things out of your head, 359 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,400 then put you back up the right way again." 360 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:50,700 The change in him. 361 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,700 We just couldn't understand it. 362 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,310 And of course I would like to thank you all for coming here today 363 00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:02,050 to hear me talk about the campaign and the petition. 364 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:06,950 Stuart and I gave nine or ten talks together about the campaign that spring 365 00:37:06,975 --> 00:37:10,900 in Burmingham, London, Oxford, and of course villages around Cambridge. 366 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Mr Stuart Clive Shorter. 367 00:37:12,150 --> 00:37:16,549 I'd speak first, and then Stuart would get up and knock the audience off its 368 00:37:16,550 --> 00:37:18,100 seats with the story of his life. 369 00:37:18,250 --> 00:37:26,900 A typical suicide attempt, just an unbearable sense of hatred, waste— 370 00:37:26,930 --> 00:37:30,000 "I am the nightmare you frighten your children with", he said. 371 00:37:30,010 --> 00:37:33,600 "The sort of person these two charity workers were trying to help to get off your streets." 372 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,250 "We should have awarded Ruth and John medals instead of sending them to prison." 373 00:37:38,255 --> 00:37:45,100 —so I just twisted around and I emptied everything that remained into my right buttock. 374 00:37:45,105 --> 00:37:47,000 Stuart did two things for the campaign, really. 375 00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:49,700 He folded letters 376 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,800 and he exposed his soul. 377 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,000 That alright? 378 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,000 - Exactly. So, if we write— - Oh, this is your name. 379 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,500 If we solve the puzzle, do we solve you? 380 00:38:13,350 --> 00:38:16,500 He's just... He's just very, very interesting, you know? 381 00:38:16,501 --> 00:38:17,950 He tells me about a world I knew nothing about 382 00:38:17,965 --> 00:38:21,500 and... I... I just like him. 383 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,000 It's absolutely extraordinary. He knows the exact day that he changed into a sociopath. 384 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:30,000 Between 4pm and 5pm. The exact day! 385 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,300 It's like knowing what was in Dr Jekyll's potion that turned him into Mr Hyde. 386 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:43,200 This thing, Stuart's black mist, came that night. 387 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:46,500 Apparently it started by a knife fight. 388 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,050 The first I heard about it was a call a day later from his mother. 389 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,000 At least there's no blood. 390 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,650 Usually there is blood. 391 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:11,800 Perhaps the cleaners have been 'round. 392 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:14,650 Just for the blood. 393 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,600 Campaign's helped him a lot, you know. 394 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:28,750 Kept him straight. 395 00:39:29,370 --> 00:39:32,250 Ain't been this happy since he was a little boy. 396 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,050 "Alexander only." 397 00:39:49,110 --> 00:39:57,300 Hello, Alexander. It's Stuart. You know, admitting I've had lots to drink and that, but 398 00:39:57,301 --> 00:40:00,000 I can't help reflect about— 399 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,440 Stuart had been bailed to appear at Cambridge Magistrate's Court. 400 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,700 I went with him for moral support. 401 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,800 They don't look too upset to be here. 402 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:33,100 Well, wait till they get to Crown Court, that's when it gets serious. 403 00:40:33,150 --> 00:40:35,200 Godspeed the day. 404 00:40:44,510 --> 00:40:46,000 Excuse me, you're about to fall off— 405 00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:46,900 Fuck off. 406 00:40:47,810 --> 00:40:49,999 Good lad, just say that to the nasty man with the wig and 407 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,310 everything will be fine. 408 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,500 Sometimes it takes so long you forget what your fucking crime was. 409 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:04,500 Here, listen to this. It's the little 'un. 410 00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:11,350 If I don't know you, fuck off! I'm not in and I don't wanna talk to you! 411 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,700 I didn't think it was like that. 412 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,000 I was thinking maybe he should go to business school. 413 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:22,800 But now I don't know. 414 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,900 He ain't right. 415 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,300 I've had to have words with him about the importance of politeness. 416 00:41:30,550 --> 00:41:31,700 He's fourteen. 417 00:41:31,990 --> 00:41:34,300 It really shocked me, to be honest. 418 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,900 Mr Shorter? 419 00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:44,200 According to police statements they could smell smoking oil when they arrived on the scene. 420 00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:46,200 Chip fat. 421 00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:57,000 It was the anniversary of my brother's death. 422 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,320 I wanted to burn the devil out of myself. 423 00:42:38,300 --> 00:42:42,004 The Magistrate's Court decided they couldn't handle the complexities of Stuart's case 424 00:42:42,005 --> 00:42:44,500 so they referred it to the Crown Court. 425 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,450 Disgrace. Forty policemen and you still get bailed? 426 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:50,330 Beats me why you hate the system. 427 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,310 Well, my mum says she doesn't understand it neither. 428 00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:02,650 What did the barrister mean when he was talking about "attempted manslaughter"? 429 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,600 I reckon I tried to cut my neighbour's head off with a bread knife. 430 00:43:09,250 --> 00:43:10,860 You didn't. Did you? 431 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,700 Yeah. 432 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,750 And if he hadn't have moved, I'd have got him too. 433 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:32,000 So you called your neighbour who made your boing-boing-whoosh bed 434 00:43:32,001 --> 00:43:35,300 a poofter and then that's why he lost it? 435 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,360 No, he thought that I called him a poofter. 436 00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:40,900 - And you did nothing of the sort? - No. 437 00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,900 Then what did you do? 438 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,200 I just asked his friend if he was a poofter. 439 00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:50,900 It's not a joke, Alexander! 440 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,075 - Well, I mean— - When my bell's up, I'm looking at life! 441 00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:06,990 I've lost my keys somewhere. 442 00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:14,100 So you didn't call your neighbour who made your boing-boing-whoosh bed a poofter. 443 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,600 But what— What did his mate say when you called... 444 00:44:20,950 --> 00:44:23,000 What did his mate say when you asked him if he was a poofter? 445 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,770 Just... said he suffered from premature ejaculation. 446 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:35,500 Which I thought was quite interesting at the time 447 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,800 because I suffer from the same complaint myself. 448 00:44:52,990 --> 00:44:56,300 Um, I'm going to see some friends in Norfolk next week. 449 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:57,900 Come along. 450 00:44:58,200 --> 00:44:59,900 No, can't. 451 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:05,650 You heard the Magistrate, I'm not allowed out of Cambridge until me trial. 452 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,200 And another thing about washing machines, right, 453 00:45:16,350 --> 00:45:19,115 this fella on the TV, 454 00:45:19,620 --> 00:45:24,000 he put three of them washing machine inner bits together. 455 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,400 Not even a concrete one. Nothing. 456 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000 And he said it was a sculpture. 457 00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:37,200 And somebody bought it! 458 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,200 I'm not being funny, yeah? 459 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,200 But there is a viable business opportunity there. 460 00:45:47,300 --> 00:45:49,000 Rent a barn. 461 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:52,000 Lay out all the bits. 462 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,120 And when you've had enough of washing machines, 463 00:45:57,350 --> 00:45:58,800 do fridges. 464 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:04,000 You know, that's what really annoys me, Alexander. 465 00:46:04,010 --> 00:46:08,450 I'm always getting these great ideas, you know, about how to make money. 466 00:46:09,450 --> 00:46:12,200 People are always telling me that they're wrong, you know? 467 00:46:12,250 --> 00:46:14,200 I never get no encouragement. 468 00:46:15,450 --> 00:46:17,600 No encouragement at all. 469 00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:23,050 Can you hold the wheel? 470 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:27,700 You want some? 471 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:30,900 Uh, yes. Thank you. 472 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:31,800 Save me some. 473 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:33,625 I will. 474 00:46:37,990 --> 00:46:40,250 I think I've got a bit of a cold coming. 475 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:49,700 Here, listen to this! 476 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,150 I apologise for not being currently available. 477 00:46:53,152 --> 00:46:56,000 Be so kind as to leave your name and message. 478 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,300 So, why don't you just get an ordinary job? 479 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,900 - 9 to 5? - That's the one. 480 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,000 Getting up in the morning, coming home late at night. 481 00:47:12,010 --> 00:47:12,990 On the nose. 482 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,300 Full time. 483 00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:18,200 What, have you ever had one of those? 484 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,100 - Nope. - Ohh. 485 00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:25,600 I've done a bit of valeting work for a friend of me brother's. 486 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:27,800 And? 487 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,100 I head-butted the bloke. 488 00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:33,300 Your version of putting your head down and getting on with it, I suppose. 489 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,990 He tried to fiddle with me sister. 490 00:47:37,910 --> 00:47:41,400 And then later on, you know, ah s— I don't know. 491 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,900 And now you don't know what? 492 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,800 Nothing. Just later on 493 00:47:50,100 --> 00:47:53,000 my brother Gavvy killed himself. 494 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:56,255 Well, you know don't have to say anything, Stuart. 495 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,650 Talk about it another time. 496 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,600 Yeah. Thanks. 497 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,400 When the police found Gavvy they said he'd really suffered. 498 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,450 The tablets he'd taken had eaten his kidneys and his liver away before he died. 499 00:48:18,765 --> 00:48:21,300 And he had been in absolute agony dying. 500 00:48:21,850 --> 00:48:23,000 And I'm glad. 501 00:48:24,010 --> 00:48:26,300 I'm glad my brother suffered. 502 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,500 - Chainsaw carved mushrooms? - Fucking hell. 503 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:39,220 What did they do to deserve that? 504 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,500 Fucking nice little number you got going here, mate. 505 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,500 You get many knob heads falling for it? 506 00:48:51,502 --> 00:48:53,400 Yeah, plenty. 507 00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:23,450 Oh wow. 508 00:49:24,625 --> 00:49:25,700 I'm James. Good to see you. 509 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,600 Alexander's told me all about you. 510 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,299 Reuben, yes? 511 00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:33,550 - I'm Dido. - Ah, you have a lovely house. 512 00:49:33,650 --> 00:49:35,300 - Hello, darling. - Hi, hi, hi. 513 00:49:35,475 --> 00:49:37,500 - Good to see you. - This is for you. 514 00:49:37,650 --> 00:49:38,500 Ooh, thank you. Lovely, mmm. 515 00:49:38,555 --> 00:49:41,540 Now, Alexander told you that I'm an alcoholic, hasn't he? 516 00:49:41,580 --> 00:49:46,425 I'm also a Schedule 1 offender and a thief, but I won't cause no trouble. 517 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:50,000 May I have a tour of the estate, please? 518 00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:54,600 - Is that a pear tree? - Yeah. 519 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:57,550 You can make cider out of that. 520 00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:00,210 And them apples, eh? 521 00:50:01,990 --> 00:50:05,349 Famous actors used to come here and play tennis, like Lawrence Olivier and— 522 00:50:05,350 --> 00:50:07,850 Lawrence Olivier? Really? Right there? 523 00:50:10,925 --> 00:50:12,700 21-Love! 524 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,750 Hey! 525 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,475 You ought to knock all of them trees down and build a go-kart course. 526 00:50:20,580 --> 00:50:23,375 If you fix this place up it would be really lovely here. 527 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,000 Ooh, [indiscernible]. Very nice. 528 00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:25,400 Ooh, it's very tasty. Yeah. 529 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:31,100 Fucking amazing here. 530 00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:37,300 Yeah, A-fucking-One. 531 00:51:42,500 --> 00:51:44,700 They're so false. 532 00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:47,100 False tits. 533 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,700 Now, I prefer a bit of natural bounce myself. 534 00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:57,300 I mean, and if they're going to sag, they're going to sag, aren't they? 535 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,750 I don't get it, Alexander. 536 00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:13,150 How come you're so interested in homeless people? 537 00:52:14,075 --> 00:52:17,250 I'm not. I was only working at Wintercomfort because the money was good. 538 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:22,400 Nine quid an hour. And the hours, shift work. 539 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,250 How long are these onions meant to cook? 540 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:28,500 Till they feel satisfied. 541 00:52:31,750 --> 00:52:33,360 And then it meant I could write in the morning. 542 00:52:35,250 --> 00:52:37,000 Yeah, but why? 543 00:52:37,990 --> 00:52:40,999 Look, Stuart, if I was interested in you as a homeless person, 544 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,550 I'd have been sacked for unprofessional conduct ages ago. 545 00:52:43,950 --> 00:52:46,550 - So? - So I like you as a friend, is that so bad? 546 00:52:51,500 --> 00:52:52,475 Fenugreek? 547 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,650 It's a bit weird if you ask me. 548 00:52:59,780 --> 00:53:00,990 Couldn't agree more. 549 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:09,050 —seven, eight. There's always somebody what won't want two. 550 00:53:15,650 --> 00:53:17,000 Yeah, but why? 551 00:53:18,700 --> 00:53:21,200 Because you're funny, intelligent, good company. 552 00:53:21,202 --> 00:53:24,100 What do you want, a fucking love letter? Now shut up and drink your freaking beer. 553 00:53:31,100 --> 00:53:32,200 Marvellous. 554 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,100 - What was it again? - "Convict Curry". 555 00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:49,800 Hey Stuart, it's Thursday! You gotta tell! 556 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,780 No, not now. 557 00:53:51,890 --> 00:53:53,500 Come on. A promise is a promise. 558 00:53:53,620 --> 00:53:56,370 Come on, you've talked to us about everything else. 559 00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,550 Give it a rest, Alexander. 560 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,200 - You don't wanna know. - Stuart's first prison sentence. 561 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,025 He'll only talk about it on a Thursday 562 00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:08,999 because he gets his dole money Wednesday afternoons, which means that 563 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,900 if talking about it upsets him, he's still got enough heroin left to calm him down. 564 00:54:12,901 --> 00:54:14,000 Is that right? 565 00:54:18,070 --> 00:54:19,500 It was nothing. 566 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,700 I was— 567 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,000 I was in the pub one night. 568 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,500 It was the little 'un's birthday. 569 00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,450 I was, I was in the pub celebrating. 570 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,700 It was over ten years ago. 571 00:54:41,850 --> 00:54:44,000 This bloke says... 572 00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,300 It was just nastiness. 573 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:48,000 Come on. 574 00:54:48,650 --> 00:54:51,000 Alexander, please. 575 00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:53,700 Look, Thursday's the day. 576 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,000 So I come home. 577 00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:14,000 [Indiscernible] says, "you've been fucking [indiscernible]." 578 00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:16,000 You're drunk. 579 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,600 If you want it, you gotta rape me. 580 00:55:27,450 --> 00:55:29,400 I'll fucking kill you, you cunt! 581 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,500 Get out! 582 00:55:31,900 --> 00:55:33,990 You wanted a fucking baby! 583 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:46,100 And I think then I realised that I had made a proper mess of it all, really. 584 00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:47,500 I'm fucking leaving. 585 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,100 You fucking are now! 586 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,500 Did you fuck around with me!? Yeah!? 587 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,010 I'm a bit ashamed of that to be honest. 588 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:15,180 Go on, fuck off! Fuck off, [indiscernible]. Oh, for fuck's sake. 589 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:16,500 Go on, fuck off! 590 00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:20,650 Fucking hell! 591 00:56:20,950 --> 00:56:22,000 It's alright. 592 00:56:22,210 --> 00:56:23,300 Fuck off! 593 00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,000 So we sat around for a bit 594 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,300 and decided we'd come out together. 595 00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:41,000 We're coming out now. We're together. 596 00:56:42,700 --> 00:56:43,950 I'm sorry. 597 00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:48,000 Go! Get him! 598 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,500 Connie, just shoot the fucker! 599 00:56:57,500 --> 00:57:02,170 He just lost it. It's not Stuart. 600 00:57:04,350 --> 00:57:06,000 Move! Move! 601 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,500 Lovely stay, Alexander. Thank you very much. 602 00:58:09,250 --> 00:58:10,950 I really enjoyed it. 603 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,990 I was really surprised, Alexander, to be honest. 604 00:58:20,100 --> 00:58:24,175 I thought that middle class people had something wrong with them, you know? 605 00:58:24,325 --> 00:58:30,400 But they're just ordinary, aren't they? I was a bit shocked, to tell the truth. 606 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,500 Over the next few months Stuart's trial for the attempted manslaughter 607 00:58:37,501 --> 00:58:41,300 of his not poofter, boing-boing-whoosh bed making neighbour was postponed once, 608 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,000 twice, 609 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,650 a third time, 610 00:58:48,550 --> 00:58:49,800 and then a fourth. 611 00:58:53,525 --> 00:58:57,990 He needed some cash so I gave him 250 quid for his car 612 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,300 and I'm still waiting for the paperwork. 613 00:59:01,550 --> 00:59:04,400 Meanwhile, the campaign went from strength to strength. 614 00:59:04,950 --> 00:59:08,300 Newsletters, petitions, protests, even benefit gigs. 615 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,950 And then it was Stuart's bright idea to go and see our local MP. 616 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:15,500 Oh shit. 617 00:59:20,230 --> 00:59:22,800 I'm sorry, I'm just a bit nervous is all. 618 00:59:26,900 --> 00:59:28,700 Mr Shorter is not from Anne's constituency— 619 00:59:28,705 --> 00:59:32,990 I'm from Anne's constituency. I wish to take Stuart as my guest. 620 00:59:32,991 --> 00:59:34,100 Alexander... 621 00:59:34,101 --> 00:59:35,450 For that you'll have to make a new appointment. 622 00:59:35,451 --> 00:59:37,300 Oh, rubbish! She's got nothing else to do, has she? 623 00:59:38,050 --> 00:59:43,550 The council is not gonna have no emergency winter shelter for the homeless. 624 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,800 And I'm frightened— 625 00:59:52,250 --> 00:59:56,000 In winter it's smack what keeps you fucking— 626 01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,000 I'm sorry. 627 01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:05,900 —keeps you warm. 628 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:13,050 But this year there's going to be one more death a month, again. 629 01:00:14,900 --> 01:00:15,800 Why? 630 01:00:17,100 --> 01:00:18,350 Puppies. 631 01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,600 I'm not sure I follow you. 632 01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:24,500 On the streets. 633 01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:29,000 Pup—puppies. 634 01:00:35,150 --> 01:00:38,600 'Cause the homeless love their dogs, right? 635 01:00:39,900 --> 01:00:44,400 But the hostels only allow two to three places for pets. 636 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,900 So, if there has been two new litters, 637 01:00:50,150 --> 01:00:53,049 then loads more people are gonna have dogs, aren't they? 638 01:00:53,050 --> 01:00:58,800 And therefore will be forced to sleep out. 639 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:07,100 And hence... therefore... furthermore, more deaths. 640 01:01:11,900 --> 01:01:17,800 You see, on the street it's the little things that kill people. 641 01:01:26,625 --> 01:01:30,300 That Justice Howarth must hate the campaign's guts. Humiliation! 642 01:01:30,350 --> 01:01:33,950 Seven months after they were sent down Ruth and John— 643 01:01:33,951 --> 01:01:37,980 —have been released on bail after a high profile campaign by MPs 644 01:01:37,981 --> 01:01:41,008 and other homeless charities, they won the right to appeal against prison sentences 645 01:01:41,010 --> 01:01:43,000 four and five years. 646 01:01:43,010 --> 01:01:46,799 This was our first sight of Ruth Wyner and John Brock on the steps of the 647 01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,900 Royal Courts of Justice this morning. 648 01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,449 After seven months in jail, the so-called "Cambridge Two" have been released on 649 01:01:52,450 --> 01:01:56,550 unconditional bail and are now free to challenge their original convictions. 650 01:01:57,900 --> 01:01:59,600 I can't see if the light's on. 651 01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,999 Stuart, it's Alexander. Stop whatever illegal thing it is 652 01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,020 that you're doing and get down here! 653 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,100 It's me muscular dystrophy. 654 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:32,000 Humeroscapu... or something. Muscular dystrophy. 655 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,150 It's a real gobstopper, I never learnt the name. 656 01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:40,200 What you don't know can't hurt you. 657 01:02:41,300 --> 01:02:48,799 I only came in to see the nurse because I wanted a cuddle and it spits too soon. 658 01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,500 Stuart! 659 01:02:51,450 --> 01:02:55,300 I thought maybe it's because of me muscular dystrophy. 660 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,000 You know, 'cause your dick's a muscle, isn't it? 661 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,000 It started on me ticker. 662 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,100 They tried twice to put a pacemaker in me tit, 663 01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:20,100 but the veins just crumble 'cause of the amount of critic I've injected. 664 01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,800 Gotta laugh, haven't you? 665 01:03:39,500 --> 01:03:41,020 I can't believe he hadn't told you. 666 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:43,990 He tells everyone. About everything. 667 01:03:44,050 --> 01:03:46,350 - Well, now, that's not true. - Mum, yes. 668 01:03:46,950 --> 01:03:49,900 That's his way of coping, isn't it? 669 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,500 Twenty years. Non-stop. 670 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,100 Ever since he first went on the streets. 671 01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,000 Twenty years? 672 01:03:57,550 --> 01:04:01,000 But I thought it was Gavvy's, um, his brother's suicide that made him homeless. 673 01:04:01,010 --> 01:04:02,800 Don't be stupid. 674 01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,900 Stuart had been on and off the streets since he was twelve. 675 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,000 Then, all of a sudden, this little horror. 676 01:04:08,550 --> 01:04:10,850 Twelve years old, that's when it started. 677 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,600 Gavvy had to run to fetch mum. 678 01:04:15,500 --> 01:04:17,200 Come, it's Stuart! 679 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,550 Put me into care! You hear me!? 680 01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:23,000 Do it now otherwise I'll kill you! 681 01:04:23,100 --> 01:04:28,000 Put me into care now! I'll do the lot of you! Put me into care! 682 01:04:28,001 --> 01:04:31,100 I said, put me into care! 683 01:04:32,300 --> 01:04:33,900 In you get. Watch your head. 684 01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,250 He was taken into care that night. 685 01:04:37,990 --> 01:04:39,350 We didn't see him for three weeks. 686 01:04:39,550 --> 01:04:41,150 Another one for you, Mr Laverack. 687 01:04:41,300 --> 01:04:44,100 You're getting popular, he asked to come. 688 01:04:45,250 --> 01:04:48,030 Poor boy. Poor boy. 689 01:04:59,700 --> 01:05:01,500 Out of the frying pan into the fire. 690 01:05:01,700 --> 01:05:03,800 Well, we weren't the frying pan. 691 01:05:03,850 --> 01:05:05,100 You know what I mean. 692 01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,500 We just couldn't understand it. 693 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,530 People said she ought to disown him. 694 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:13,800 How can you wash your hands of your own child? 695 01:05:14,900 --> 01:05:16,500 He's my flesh and blood, I'd say. 696 01:05:17,700 --> 01:05:18,800 He's my son. 697 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,050 I just wish I could do more. 698 01:05:23,700 --> 01:05:27,324 Working on the book after the end of the campaign, writing, rewriting, 699 01:05:27,325 --> 01:05:31,360 I realised then that I could never hope to justify or explain Stuart. 700 01:05:31,380 --> 01:05:34,330 And whatever had murdered his innocence had long ago ceased 701 01:05:34,331 --> 01:05:36,800 to be simple enough to sort out with words. 702 01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:40,350 All I could hope to do was to staple him to the page. 703 01:05:46,125 --> 01:05:48,100 - Hello? - It's in me tit. 704 01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:52,900 I'm at Papworth Heart Hospital. Come visit. 705 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,790 Yeah, on your way, can you pop in to see me gran and grandpa? 706 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:00,500 They've got a present for me. 707 01:06:00,700 --> 01:06:04,200 I told them it smells like sick but they don't listen. 708 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,000 We haven't seen Stuart in years. 709 01:06:15,350 --> 01:06:16,800 Lots of years. 710 01:06:17,150 --> 01:06:20,900 Well, things haven't been very easy for him recently. 702 01:06:08,000 -->01:06:10,600 His mother says it's the buses. 711 01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,600 His mother says it's the buses. 712 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:25,750 They're not convenient. 713 01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:32,600 Stuart? 714 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:37,400 - No. - Rory, his son. 715 01:06:44,500 --> 01:06:47,500 - Stuart. - No. 716 01:06:47,550 --> 01:06:49,400 Rex, his dad. 717 01:06:51,350 --> 01:06:53,600 A bad man, his real dad. 718 01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:56,900 Gypsies. 719 01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:05,900 Stuart? 720 01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:07,800 Gavvy, Stuey's brother. 721 01:07:08,100 --> 01:07:12,150 One day when Rex was beating our Judith real bad, 722 01:07:13,550 --> 01:07:15,400 Gavvy hit him over the head with a broom. 723 01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:17,500 He was only five. 724 01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,930 Rex moved out after that. 725 01:07:26,700 --> 01:07:28,550 I know why Stuart changed. 726 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,500 Gavvy came 'round special to tell me. 727 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,600 Promised I'd never tell. 728 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,560 Three days later he committed suicide. 729 01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:49,330 To celebrate his getting better. 730 01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:52,035 Couldn't decide red or white. 731 01:07:52,170 --> 01:07:56,000 Tell him to come and see us. We've waited long enough. 732 01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,400 Can't wait forever. 733 01:08:18,750 --> 01:08:20,850 Oh, you fucking star. 734 01:08:36,500 --> 01:08:38,250 I almost died. 735 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,800 How are Ruth and John? 736 01:08:46,155 --> 01:08:47,850 Not good. 737 01:08:49,980 --> 01:08:51,000 He can't work. 738 01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:54,600 Wife says he cries in his sleep. 739 01:08:59,700 --> 01:09:00,800 And Ruth? 740 01:09:01,100 --> 01:09:02,200 Got cancer. 741 01:09:05,900 --> 01:09:07,100 Bastards. 742 01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,600 Now do you see what I mean about the system? 743 01:09:10,810 --> 01:09:13,900 The system. It's the system that's going to keep her alive. 744 01:09:14,500 --> 01:09:18,900 It's the system that's just given you a £5,000 pacemaker for nothing. 745 01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,650 - Hello? - Excuse me guys, do either of you know where the toilet is? 746 01:09:22,900 --> 01:09:25,100 Uh, yeah, sure. I saw a sign that said down there on the left. 747 01:09:25,300 --> 01:09:26,500 Thanks, mate. 748 01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:37,150 Fucking hell. 749 01:09:37,850 --> 01:09:39,750 I need a cigarette. 750 01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,150 Yeah, the whole town's like it. 751 01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,000 All cripples. 752 01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:52,275 I spent six years in a school like this. 753 01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,800 Day I end up like that, eh, 754 01:09:59,100 --> 01:10:02,100 death day. 755 01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:04,800 Care was like this? 756 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,500 No. Spagie school. 757 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,300 They sent me because of my muscular dystrophy. 758 01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:15,300 Said I wasn't allowed to go to proper school. 759 01:10:15,350 --> 01:10:17,450 Well, it was the '70s. 760 01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,010 Funny thing, that. There was nothing wrong with me at that stage. 761 01:10:21,011 --> 01:10:25,300 I was just a bit uncoordinated, but you'd hardly notice. 762 01:10:27,300 --> 01:10:30,500 But they said since I was going to die a spag, 763 01:10:30,505 --> 01:10:33,350 I might as well get used to the idea. 764 01:10:35,850 --> 01:10:39,250 Before I was too spagie to understand, I suppose. 765 01:10:39,251 --> 01:10:40,000 Now all together. 766 01:10:41,300 --> 01:10:43,500 Douchebag! Douchebag! Douchebag! 767 01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:49,200 Gimpy! Oi, gimpy, come here! 768 01:10:49,900 --> 01:10:52,000 Where's your brother now? 769 01:10:54,485 --> 01:10:57,200 'Help me! Hold me! Love me!' 770 01:11:02,380 --> 01:11:04,500 We're coming to kill you. 771 01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:19,600 Did they kick the shit out of you? 772 01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:21,600 Every day, mate. 773 01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,600 Give 'em something to do after school. 774 01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:29,900 Then Gavvy would console me. 775 01:11:32,900 --> 01:11:37,000 Please, not Howarth. Please, not— 776 01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:40,500 Only one month out of Papworth, Stuart's day in court for 777 01:11:40,501 --> 01:11:42,800 attempting to cut off his neighbour's head finally arrived. 778 01:11:43,500 --> 01:11:45,590 We were dreading it would be Ruth and John's old judge. 779 01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:47,600 Oh fuck! 780 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,200 All rise for Justice Howarth. 781 01:11:52,700 --> 01:11:55,250 At this point Stuart really was looking at being imprisoned for life. 782 01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,200 Court is now in session. 783 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:13,550 This case concerns Stuart Clive Shorter. 784 01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:21,015 Affray, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, 785 01:12:21,050 --> 01:12:24,150 an incident at the accused's flat. 786 01:12:38,500 --> 01:12:42,100 No. No, he just said the whole thing was nonsense. 787 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,999 All that adding charges, taking them away, attempted murder, not— 788 01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,150 I don't know, I mean, what can I say? 789 01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,950 The lucky bastard got off on a series of technicalities. 790 01:12:53,150 --> 01:12:56,000 You know what Judge Howarth thinks about— 791 01:12:56,005 --> 01:12:59,600 Oh shit. Stuart, I'm so sorry. Are you alright? 792 01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:01,200 I'm so sorry. 793 01:13:04,300 --> 01:13:07,650 He's free! He's absolutely fucking free. 794 01:13:39,700 --> 01:13:41,300 Oh, you're disgusting. 795 01:13:45,500 --> 01:13:47,500 Wakey, wakey. 796 01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:58,300 Sun has got his hat on, mate. Sun has got his hat on, mate. 797 01:13:59,100 --> 01:14:00,850 Rise and shine! 798 01:14:01,030 --> 01:14:03,950 Now, I've got to try on a suit for me sister's wedding. 799 01:14:04,290 --> 01:14:06,300 Can you give me a lift? 800 01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,300 Have you listened to the tape? 801 01:14:35,300 --> 01:14:40,400 I was nine, Alexander, when it started. Nine. 802 01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,325 It was three years of abuse. 803 01:14:45,950 --> 01:14:47,900 My own brother. 804 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,050 And then his mate joined in. 805 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:10,320 That night, I ju— I couldn't, I couldn't take it no more, you know? 806 01:15:12,700 --> 01:15:14,120 They had done everything. 807 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,800 There was nothing more they could do. 808 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,850 - You got any more of these? - Yeah, backseat, I think. 809 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,200 I think the reason mum still pampers him like she does 810 01:15:55,201 --> 01:15:58,150 is because she feels guilty about what Gavvy did. 811 01:15:58,700 --> 01:16:00,800 But he did the same to me. 812 01:16:02,770 --> 01:16:04,010 I'm the same as Stu. 813 01:16:04,030 --> 01:16:07,300 One minute, nice as pie; next minute, I'm a rattlesnake. 814 01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:13,000 How'd I get to be like this? What murdered the little boy I was? 815 01:16:13,001 --> 01:16:15,420 When the police found Gavvy, they said he'd really suffered. 816 01:16:18,750 --> 01:16:20,100 Legs all over the show. 817 01:16:21,350 --> 01:16:23,250 That boy has suffered. 818 01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:26,000 Happy-go-lucky little thing. 819 01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,200 Mr Laverack. 820 01:16:28,750 --> 01:16:31,100 - Poor boy. Poor boy. - Out of the frying pan into the fire. 821 01:16:31,101 --> 01:16:34,000 - Put me into care now! - Douchebag! Douchebag! 822 01:16:34,100 --> 01:16:37,850 - Douchebag! Douchebag! Douchebag! - We're coming to kill you. 823 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:42,010 The tablets he'd taken had eaten his kidneys and his liver away before he died. 824 01:16:42,011 --> 01:16:44,500 Always such a caring boy. Happy-go-lucky little thing. 825 01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:46,800 And I'm glad. 826 01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:48,355 I'm glad Gavvy suffered. 827 01:16:57,025 --> 01:16:58,650 That's Gavvy. 828 01:17:03,075 --> 01:17:05,120 That's Gavvy and me. 829 01:17:10,900 --> 01:17:13,020 So he's what murdered the boy you were. 830 01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:18,240 - What made you change. - Ah, wasn't that. 831 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:22,150 What was it then? 832 01:17:24,300 --> 01:17:30,500 So many people have had the same sort of childhood and experiences 833 01:17:30,501 --> 01:17:35,430 as what I have and they learn to accept and cope and live a very, 834 01:17:36,500 --> 01:17:40,195 in brackets, "normal and competitive life". 835 01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,100 I'm quite philosophical about that. 836 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,500 If you had to change one thing about your life, what would it be? 837 01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,050 Well, how much is one thing? 838 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:57,000 It's very easy to blame, isn't it? 839 01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:00,900 Me muscular dystrophy? 840 01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:03,400 Nonces? 841 01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:05,300 Gavvy? 842 01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,340 Honestly, it'd be easier to change me. 843 01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:11,800 One thing only. 844 01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,620 The day I discovered violence. 845 01:18:24,500 --> 01:18:26,400 Me step-father 846 01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:30,000 said if I didn't go out there and stick up for myself, 847 01:18:30,500 --> 01:18:32,500 he'd belt us once. 848 01:19:06,300 --> 01:19:09,100 Fucking fantastic. 849 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,100 Weakling became strong. 850 01:19:16,500 --> 01:19:19,200 The day that I found violence 851 01:19:20,100 --> 01:19:23,050 I felt fifty times more strong. 852 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:31,100 After you've been bullied and pushed about, called spastic, 853 01:19:31,150 --> 01:19:39,975 you learn that violence, and fear of violence, and madness, it scares people. 854 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:47,000 I used to deliberately get myself in a rage. 855 01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:51,900 And after six months, I found I couldn't stop them. 856 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,550 I wasn't making the madness up no more. 857 01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:01,400 You know what, Alexander? 858 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,100 I don't know myself or [indiscernible]. 859 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:10,000 Madness. 860 01:20:11,100 --> 01:20:15,300 Sometimes I think I'm the child of the devil. 861 01:20:16,250 --> 01:20:18,500 I let the devil in. 862 01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:23,400 Now I can't get him out. 863 01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:26,700 I tried... 864 01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:30,530 burning him out, and cutting him out, and... 865 01:20:32,900 --> 01:20:35,000 he don't take no notice. 866 01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:36,900 Why should he? 867 01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,925 He don't wanna be homeless. 868 01:20:51,700 --> 01:20:53,090 You know, there's still one question left. 869 01:20:53,110 --> 01:20:56,000 - What's that, mate? - Guess. 870 01:20:57,060 --> 01:20:59,050 We're writing the book backwards, 871 01:21:00,300 --> 01:21:03,300 so what's the last bit of information we need? 872 01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:08,500 What's your date of birth? 873 01:21:08,900 --> 01:21:10,900 Oh, right, yeah. 874 01:21:12,500 --> 01:21:15,130 I am Stuart Clive Shorter. 875 01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:22,250 I was born on the 19th of the 9th, 1968. 876 01:21:25,900 --> 01:21:28,000 So, you're... 877 01:21:28,900 --> 01:21:34,200 - You're 33. - I am 33. I'm getting older, as they say. 878 01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:42,050 And I have led a very controversial and unpleasant life. 879 01:21:44,380 --> 01:21:46,000 Oh, yeah. 880 01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:52,100 Eh? Best man or what, eh? 881 01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:59,500 It is gonna be grand. 882 01:22:22,900 --> 01:22:25,000 P—P—P—Peterborough, Cambridge— 883 01:22:27,700 --> 01:22:34,700 —on 96 and 95.7 FM. And 1026 AM. BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. 884 01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:36,200 The top story this hour— 885 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,050 —near the French entrance to the channel tunnel. 886 01:22:46,100 --> 01:22:49,000 Police have now formally indentified the man who died after being hit 887 01:22:49,001 --> 01:22:51,600 by a train near Cambridge early this morning. 888 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:55,010 He was Stuart Shorter, a 33-year-old from Waterbeach. 889 01:22:55,011 --> 01:23:00,000 The coroner has been informed and an inquest will take place at a date to be fixed. 890 01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,000 Judith? It's Alexander. 891 01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:23,100 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 892 01:23:23,150 --> 01:23:25,070 Was it suicide? 893 01:23:25,900 --> 01:23:28,325 I don't know. He didn't leave a note. 894 01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:32,000 But then, suicides often don't. 895 01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:37,600 All I do know is that he stepped in front of the 11:15 Cambridge to Kings Lynn. 896 01:23:38,700 --> 01:23:43,000 —I have overcome the world, says the Lord. 897 01:23:43,150 --> 01:23:47,100 Since the Earthly life of Stuart has come to an end, 898 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,800 we commit his body to be buried. 899 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,000 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 900 01:23:55,100 --> 01:23:59,100 In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. 901 01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:03,000 - To our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. - Amen. 902 01:24:57,500 --> 01:25:00,000 Hello, Alexander. It's Stuart. 903 01:25:00,010 --> 01:25:01,900 Hello, Stuart. 904 01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:10,000 You know, admitting I've had lots to drink and that, but I can't help reflect about my brother 905 01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:12,900 and my brother's friend. 906 01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,000 And they didn't believe me. 907 01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:17,900 And they didn't care. 908 01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:19,500 The abuse. 909 01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:24,380 Being asked to do things that I wouldn't have thought possible that anyone 910 01:25:24,381 --> 01:25:27,230 could ask of an 11-year-old. 911 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:39,000 I'm just head-butting, and head-butting, and head-butting, and head-butting. 912 01:25:39,150 --> 01:25:44,000 The more that you speak, the more they disbelieve. 913 01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,300 And nobody was listening to anything I had to say. 914 01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:51,990 When I've got my drink inside me 915 01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:57,300 I sit here having mad conversations with myself. 916 01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,310 Talking about mutilating myself, 917 01:26:01,350 --> 01:26:04,000 killing myself, 918 01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:08,000 tracking down those who are responsible. 919 01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:13,000 I want to just lay down and die. 920 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,100 I feel so dirty, and fucking horrible 921 01:26:19,130 --> 01:26:23,300 and hating and attacking anyone I get close to. 922 01:26:24,550 --> 01:26:26,000 I just wish 923 01:26:27,500 --> 01:26:28,900 once 924 01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:33,000 there could be an escape from this madness. 925 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,600 The book was finally published in April 2005. 926 01:26:54,300 --> 01:26:56,500 I think Stuart would have liked it.