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may find disturbing,

deals with suicide, and with sexual
abuse

What have you done?

They said an incident.
What sort of incident?

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I've been concerned about his
behaviour for some time now,

but all we can get out of him
is a yes or a no.

Is he like that at home? Yeah.

And do you know why?

He's a teenager.

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You know his history? Yes.

And obviously, we think
that that could be linked.

That's why we'd like
the Bureau to take a look at it.

And how do we go about that?
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Hello?

Thanks.

Yeah, thanks.

Bye. Yeah, bye.

She's died.

Sorry to have to tell you this, Joe.
Your mother's died.

Don't leave the house
until I get back.

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Hey, there's fucking bacon
on the wing!

Yeah, go on, fuck off, you bastard!

Wait till they find out
who you are!

ANGRY SHOUTING

You're going to die in here!

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Hello?

Has Mum gone?

Yeah.

What was it, her heart?

Yes.

Is she still there? No.
And she died at home.

She's here now.

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I'll write the referral,
of course I will.

But there's no guarantee

the mental health team will think
him sick enough to be seen.

What do you mean, not sick enough?

There's an epidemic of mental
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Right. I'm sorry
I can't do more to help.

One...

..I work in a supermarket on
the till, and it's getting to me.

One...

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Right.

You can make an appointment
on the way out.

Right.

I want you to read at
your grandma's funeral.

Peter's reading one, and I want
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He's just a knob.

Are you doing it for a bet? No.
To give? No.

Did someone at school dare you to
do it? No.

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They got talking.
They ended up getting married.

She was a great woman.

We therefore commit her body
to the ground.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust.

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It's hard, isn't it?

It's even harder
when you're full of guilt, mate.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I've had a few other women, Paul.
Not many, but a few.

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But it's doing me in, mate.

No-one's perfect.

You loved your missus.
Your missus loved you.

That's what counts.

HE SIGHS

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Please, come in. Yeah. OK.

Tom has been put into
special educational needs.

He hasn't, has he?

He's been simply separated from
the rest of the school.

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Because he's not leaving.

And when he's better, I want him
back here, functioning normally.

Mrs, McKinney, can we please talk
about... No, we cannot.

PHONE BUZZES

Hi.

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I know,
but it still doesn't seem right.

So what do you want to do?

I don't know.
Do you want us to finish?

I don't know.

There's nothing
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You understand that?

Yeah. So we drew
up an exclusion zone.

Right?

It's basically anywhere within
the 26 bus route.

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It was like, "Dear sir,
thank you for your letter,

"but our policy is not
to employ sex offenders.

"Yours sincerely, etc." Am I getting
a whiff of self-pity there, Joe?

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Because they'll know
I'm a sex offender.

Not necessarily. Oh, they'll know,
and they'll glass me.

Like, I've seen it before, Jack.

Have you heard of St Maura's?

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Only on a Sunday. Well, Joe,
it's either these people or a tent.

They don't need you. You need them.

So are you interested?

Well, now that you put it like that,
yeah.

Well, they'll have to interview you
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Well, you'd have to work with us.

Work on coming to terms with
what you did.

It would be different from
what you've done here in the prison.

Could you do that?

Yeah.

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Anything else? Anything else you'd
hope to get from it?

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You see, we expect, uh,
openness and honesty.

Like, to go to sleep one night
not hating myself,

and to wake up one morning
not hating myself.

Like, just once.

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You told me to phone
when I was on Cranfield Street.

I'm here now. Yeah, it's number 32,
Joe.

All right. Thanks.

Hi, are you all right?
Yeah. Come in, then.

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Can you do that? Yeah.

And you're not to bring anyone back
here...

..ever.

OK.

Right. How do you take your tea?

So, you don't... It's not, um,

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So say it, son.

Please.

DOORBELL RINGS

That's someone to look at the house.

SHE OPENS FRONT DOOR

Hi.

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All right?

Help yourself.

Can I just...get that?

Thanks.

Lenny... Thanks. ..sitting the other
side of me, yeah?

Yeah.

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Hopefully, this will be the first
of a few sessions

that we have together, Joe.

Is it like therapy? A bit like that,
yeah. All right.

Did you get loads of these
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uh, a bit more helpful.

In prison, they might have told you

that you'd always be as you are now,
sexually attracted to boys.

No cure. Just control it.
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me dad and me mum.

And I'd come home from work

and hang around for me tea and
then go out for a pint. Every night?

Most nights, yeah.

Did you have girlfriends?

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Yeah, no-one could.
It was, um.

It was just me mum
that came to see me.

That must have been incredibly hard
when she died.

Yeah.

Did you get to see her?

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Like...when do these, um...

When do these sessions finish?
Like, when do they end?

Do you want them to end? Yeah.
Fine.

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Lots of people want to come here,
Joe.

They'd give their right arm
to be sitting where you are now.

That's why we expect everyone here
to do their very best.

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and do a bit of welding
or something.

But this day I wanted to show him,

show him some good stuff on
the internet, so...

So we stayed in the room and...

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I'd been, I'd been touching him for
weeks

and I'd started off with,
like, a...

..a little pat on the knee at
the end and...

And went a bit, a bit,
a bit further up each time.

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Like, "This is the day
I touch his cock."

And...

..I touched it and he, like,

he went berserk and...

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Like, I do, I do feel ashamed

of what I did to Tom and his
parents.

I do, but...

But I feel...

..I feel even more ashamed
of what I did to me mum.

HE SNIFFS

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Well, ideally... Excuse me, where
are your eggs?

Um, it's down that aisle,
bottom right.

Oh, thanks. Ideally, I'd like
a split shift,

like early mornings
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What's it to be? Well, I'll keep
the hours I've got. Right.

Tom?

Oh, good. Empty? Empty?

Tom!

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What can I do?

The Mental Health Bureau will see
you sooner now.

Did you know that?

Is that why you did it,
to move up the list?

Is it?

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I've been trying to get him

an appointment with
the Mental Health Bureau.

This means they'll definitely
see him now.

OK.

I've come with nothing, so can you
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He hasn't been round, has he? No.
He's excluded.

Does Tom know he's out? Yeah.

Do you think that's why he did it?

The Bureau will find that out.

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Any offers?

No.

No.

Do you think maybe you're asking
a bit too much? No.

Can I come in?

CHUCKLING: No.

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And we justly deserve your present
and eternal punishment.

Through our faults,
through our faults,

through our most grievous faults,
amen.

May Almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us our sins,

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Your, uh, development, your growth,

versus the safety of the people.

So we've drawn up a few rules.
My rules, not the church's.

And I'd like to outline them,
if that's OK.

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And you're not to speak to any other
members of the congregation.

If they speak to you, answer them,
by all means.

But you're not to initiate
a conversation with anyone.

If you bump into any member of the
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I've been better.

Oh. How's Tom? Um, he's, he's OK.

He's still not talking,
but he's reading and writing.

And I'm not the best home-schooler,

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Well, yeah, if he needed it.

They're not what you imagine,
Mrs McKinney.

They do brilliant work with children
with specialist needs.

He's, he's still not going.

You know, I know the head teacher
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but sod it, it's the truth.

So what do you intend to do, then?

I'm going to continue to
home-school,

and the Mental Health Bureau
is going to treat him.

And when he's better, he's...

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Mm-hm.

Am I right in thinking
that if he goes to another school,

then he becomes their problem?

Like, he won't be able
to come back here, for instance,

when he gets better?

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a bit of certainty
back into his life.

Well, I don't think it does.
I think it does the opposite.

Well, we need a decision,
Mrs McKinney.

It's Church Road Comprehensive,
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It's the absenteeism, isn't it?

Yeah, because he's spoiling
your record,

your oh-so-precious
school attendance record.

This has got nothing to do
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I came here,
and if you try to drive him out,

I am going to contact every
parent governor

and ask them how they'd
like their kids treated like this.

They're desperately ill kids,
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Nothing.

You said that you knew that was
the day you'd touch Tom.

Yeah.

What did you think his
reaction would be?

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No.

So, what made you think he'd like
you to touch his penis?

Is it too difficult to answer?

But there is an answer?

Yeah.

SHE COUGHS

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And now I've got breast cancer.

The nuns' disease.

She's going
to find it really difficult.

Is there anything they can do?
Yeah. A mastectomy.

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Right.

And now there's silence.

Are you uncomfortable with silence
with me? I'm...

I'm a child abuser.
I'm just waiting for you to speak.

I was touched-up when I was 12.

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And one day I got sent off and I
was alone in the changing room.

And our manager came in and...

He sat next to me
and started talking to me and...

..touching me and rubbing me,

and I came.

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I'm sorry.

PHONE RINGS

I'm sorry, I just,
I just really needed to see her.

I'm sorry. You bastard!

I'm sorry.

Fuck you!

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And then turn it over,
so it all cooks through.

I saw Joe today.

What?

I saw him.

Where? At the cemetery.

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Right, and now we're going to add
the meat to the veg...

..and mix it all in.

Right? Anna, love,
you've got to tell them.

I know.

Well, you could move in here
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How?

Me mam told me.

Your mum knew?

Yeah.

Oh.

How...

How long had she known? Um...

Since Boxing Day. Oh.

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And he did, no doubt about that.

But I did too.

So you know, then.

The cemetery is right in
the middle of your exclusion area.

Well, it shouldn't be.
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What else can I do?

For God's sake, like...

You haven't just bumped into your
sister.

You bumped into the mother of
the victim.

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Like, me mum was the only one
in me family

who spoke to me after I was
arrested, right?

She was the only one in me family
who visited me when I was put away

and I couldn't go and see her
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JACK SIGHS

I'll have to speak to some people.
I'll phone you tomorrow.

Please don't send me back to prison,
Jack.

Like, I won't go any more, if that's
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Oh, thanks, Jack.

Thanks. Like, I won't, I won't
do anything stupid now.

Like, you can trust me. Honestly.

Yeah.

Right. Bye.

Paul Patterson crossed the ball and

I caught it sweet on the half
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You just need to follow the light,
yeah? Why?

Well, it helps clear the mind.

Right.

Just remember, you've always got one
foot in this room.

Everything's fine here.

00:57:45,800
And me dad said, "We'll never get
a bus now. It's peak hour."

And I'd never heard of peak hour
before

and there was, like, a wind blowing
on the lake,

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OK? Yeah. OK. OK? Yeah.

Tell me again what you did to Tom.

Is that OK?

I remember putting
me hand on his thigh.

That he'd like it
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.."What do you think you're doing?"

And, um...

And then suddenly his dad's
in the room

and, like, it only takes him, like,

a few seconds to work out what's
01:00:06,080
Can we go there? Is that OK?

Yeah. Um...

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Let's go back to the light again.

Then we'll see what happens.

Did you tell your mum
about the cancer?

That was between us, Joe.

Was it as bad as what you thought
it was going to be like?

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That's not good.

No.

You told your secret to a piece
of shit, what did you expect?

What, you think you'll get something
back from God, didn't you? Eh?

You gave him your life and what
01:02:46,120
But it never is done.

It's man's will that gets done.

01:03:51,280
And now?

He's speaking.

One...

He's saying I've...

I've let myself down.
I've let the team down.

I've let him down.
And then he, um...

He puts his hand on, on me thigh.

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He's got, he's got, like, his other
hand on me shoulder, pressing down.

Sorry.

So, like, I can't, I can't move off
the bench.

And, like,
I think about shouting, but I can't

01:06:14,120
Like, twigs and clouds.

Why are you looking there?

Because I don't...

..I don't want to see what he's
doing, cos it's horrible.

And I don't like it, but, like,
there's...

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Well, sometimes the brain
shuts out things it can't cope with.

Some men who abuse,
have themselves been abused.

So all this could go back to that?
To what he did to me?

Possibly.

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Wanted to show me
what they thought of that,

and it's not a lot, obviously.

You want to hurt me now?

No.

Well, I don't mind, honestly.

Hello?

01:10:08,760
Yeah. When?

Is, Tonight,
at six o'clock or something?

OK. See you then.

Bye.

All right, Joe?

All right?

01:11:24,760
Well, no, I'm not, I'm not fine.
I'm...

I'm a bit fucked up,
to tell you the truth, Paul.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Sorry about your mum.

01:12:17,040
Yeah, it was shit. Shall we, um,
shall we take a seat? Yeah.

Paul, I'm thinking about going to
the police

and telling them
01:13:00,520
I couldn't see me dying mother.

Right, and that's down to you, mate.

I have no idea
what you're talking about, Joe.

No, no, you also abused
Sammy McVeigh

01:13:34,720
What did you see, eh?

How did you know that
I'd say nothing and do nothing?

Like I said...

..I have no idea
what you're talking about, Joe.

Oh, you do. You do.

FOOTSTEPS/DOOR OPENS

01:15:22,120
What do you want?

Just to talk. I'm actually
at your front door now.

Jesus.

You're out, then? Yeah.

What do you want to talk about?

Do you remember Paul Patterson?

01:15:59,560
You filth, you scumbag!

Where do you want to go?

Anywhere, mate.

We'll go to the park.

Why are you going to the police?

Because I think he should pay
for what he did.

Why are you telling me?
01:16:30,320
He didn't fuck up mine.

You want to know why your life's a
mess?

Because of what YOU did, not him.

Monstered your 12-year-old nephew.

01:16:57,520
So you won't do it for me?

No. Well, then, do it for someone
else.

He molested you and he molested me.

Like, he could be doing it
01:17:39,240
I don't know. It'll be a few grand,
though.

Who's your favourite, Mo Salah? No.

Virgil? No.

Ah, ok. One...

Trent Alexander-Arnold.
01:18:26,320
I told my friend a secret.

And he told someone else
and got me into trouble.

So I thought, "That's it.
No-one can be trusted.

"I'll say nothing in future."

I kept it up for a while,

01:18:51,480
And now I do, and I love it.

Not talking was the best thing
I ever did, or didn't.

What is it, Tom?

01:20:06,280
..I said nothing.

And...

..then he went for this and...

..now me mum doesn't see him, and
she used to see him all the time.

Peter, me brother, he doesn't see
01:20:49,240
You've done really well today.

Is there anything else on your mind?
Anything you want to talk about?

No.

OK.

VACUUM CLEANER WHIRS

Look at the state of you.
I'm getting a shower now.

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So why didn't Sammy do it
to anyone?

Well, you say I abused
because I've been abused,

but what about Sammy?

Not everybody who's been abused,
goes on to abuse, just some do.

01:22:22,160
All this truthing, it's, like,
it's just too much for me.

TELEPHONE RINGS

Hello?

Yes, please.

They're here.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

01:23:08,400
even though he bumped into
his sister?

Yeah. Why?

That cemetery's
in the exclusion zone, so why?

Didn't the liaison officer explain?

No.

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I won't be going anyway, Dad.

I'm sorry.

BRIAN SWALLOWS

Look, I'm here for me dad, I'm here
because he asked me to be here.

I've got no interest
in anything he's got to say to me,

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because he was just the victim,
you see.

But you were getting help,
weren't you?

You were getting plenty of help,
like therapies galore.

But my son...

My son, the bloody victim,
01:25:04,160
And do you know how you got away
with it?

Because you're my brother
and you're his uncle.

And we loved you, you bastard!

How can someone you love be capable
of something like that?

01:25:51,840
It was just Tom.

So, why are we here?

There's something Joe would
like to say.

I was sexually abused when I was 12.

You weren't! I was.

We'd have known.

01:26:49,120
He abused me, Dad.

When?

When I got sent off
in the Moorgrove game,

he got the fella to open
the changing rooms,

and he did it in there, honestly.

01:27:29,720
Don't believe it. Sorry,
I can't believe a word of this.

And why now?

Why would you tell us that now?

Because men who are abused, go on
to abuse.

He-he made me what I am.
And I hate him for it.

01:28:07,480
so that means you can just do it
to someone else? Well, no!

No, Joe. You did it
because you're filth.

BELL RINGS

You all right, Bri?

01:28:55,800
Go in. I told you this would happen!
Go in!

What is it?

Did Paul Patterson sexually abuse
you?

Yeah.

And did he sexually abuse our Joe?

Yeah.

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And that's enough for me.

It's enough for me, Brian,
so why don't you just go?

Please.

Just go!

They've, um, got your son
down at the police station.

01:31:32,000
Well, there's no chance of
that because he doesn't want you.

And he doesn't want you
because you'll cost him money.

Do you know that he's not giving
me one single penny to keep you two?

Not one single penny.

01:32:10,000
And that's because he's been through
what he's been through.

And I don't like it any
more than you do.

But tough, that's the way it is.

And, yeah, I'm a lousy mother.

And you don't have to remind me of
01:32:37,640
I'm doing the best I can.

Do you want a cup of tea?

What?

I said...I said, do you want a cup
of tea?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Paul Patterson, please stand.

01:33:51,280
The touching was sexual,

and Samuel McVeigh was aged
under 13 years old.

To that charge, how do you plead?
Not guilty. Count two.

Under the same act,
on the 14th of September 2006,

01:34:28,440
Yes. So you'd agree
that this was over 19 years ago?

Yes. Yet you've only recently
disclosed it?

Yes. I wanted to forget about it,
01:34:59,600
Well, he said he shouldn't
get away with it for any longer.

And what was the first thing you did
after Joe Mitchell's visit?

I went to the police.
01:35:25,920
I don't know how following a light
makes you remember things better,

but, um...

But it did.

Like, I remember he used force

and his fingernails
01:36:11,400
He went back outside and I just sat
there for a bit.

And, like, I'd never ejaculated
before,

so I didn't know what it was.

So I went into the showers.

01:36:44,680
And then, um...

And then, like, the team I played
for came in

and none of them said nothing to me
because...

..I'd been sent off

and I had a bollocking from Paul.

01:37:23,440
"Are you all right?"

Thank you. No further questions.

You continued to play for the team
after that day.

Yeah. And Paul Patterson continued
01:38:00,840
I carried on playing
for the team because,

because they were good.

I know that you'll soon be hearing
from some of the boys

that I've coached over the past
30 years or so.

01:38:46,480
..I believe Joe Mitchell
is the stronger personality.

I think Sammy's only here because
Joe Mitchell asked him to be here.

If you think about it, this is
between me and Joe Mitchell.

So I ask you...

01:40:41,680
between the 4th of May 2006
and the 16th of June 2006,

do you find the defendant guilty
or not guilty?

Not guilty.

On count two,

sexual assault of Joe Mitchell
01:41:35,440
Ready? Yeah. Wait, wait, wait.

It's not fair, Grandad.

I'm going over to him.

All right, come on.

Come on. Boys!

JOE SOBS