Natalie works in Liverpool, one of the cheapest places to buy sex in the UK: sex sells for four pounds.
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00:00If people put that camera down while I'm walking,
00:02people will know what I'm doing if you do that.
00:06I'm one of the lucky ones, cos now and again I might get, like,
00:09a tenner for a blowjob to spend, but I'm one of the lucky ones, babe.
00:12A lot of these girls have had a bad time, a really bad time.
00:26Shield rolled, it's mad.
00:30It's like there's no laws round here.
00:33All the kids are taking drugs.
00:3513.
00:37It's sexy, like some of the girls giving away for four quid.
00:41It's just, like, they're battling for their business,
00:43cos they're desperate to get that.
00:48When you're a heroin addict, you'll give unprotected sex
00:50for the sake of £10 for a bag of bra.
00:54I got raped and battered in a baseball bat.
00:56Knocked all my teeth out with a baseball bat.
01:00There was a girl murdered and pulled, like,
01:02straight away down the back alleyways in a wheelie bin.
01:05It's not good. Don't do it. Stay away from Shield Rolled.
01:20Gangs are out on the stag or whatever.
01:22If you come down here and there's, like, five lined up for 25 quid,
01:25well, that's a five an itch, isn't it?
01:27You know?
01:31I'm not a pimp.
01:32I have nothing to do with any of their money.
01:34They just buy me drinks, food.
01:37They don't pay me.
01:39I just watch the back, to be honest with you.
01:42Make sure they don't get...
01:46..done in by the punters.
01:52I'm not a pimp.
01:53I have nothing to do with any of their money.
01:55They just buy me drinks, food.
01:57They don't pay me.
02:00He's a good lad, he's a good lad.
02:02He's loyal, he's, you know what I mean, he's staunch.
02:04He doesn't just look after one girl,
02:06he looks after every girl on this road.
02:08Do you know what I mean?
02:11Fuck off now, cos I'm not here.
02:13Give me my money back.
02:14No.
02:17She taking money? Yeah, yeah.
02:19And? She left, she left.
02:21No service? No service.
02:24Can you go away, please?
02:30Why's he standing there still?
02:34Must want a bit more, mustn't he?
02:36Go on, kid.
02:37What's, er, Liam going to do?
02:40Just tell him she's done her business,
02:42basically, come on, now, game over, leave her alone.
02:46Right, I'm going to him, I'm going to school.
02:50All the punters try to get their business for as cheaply as they can.
02:54You know, to offer somebody £5 for sex,
02:56damn, like, well, insulting, isn't it?
02:59I feel sorry for every girl on that road.
03:08That was me last year.
03:13I'll show you another photo, it's better.
03:19That was about...
03:21Yeah, a year ago.
03:23To now.
03:27I was 14 there, I'm a size 6 now, I'm like a skeletor.
03:32What happened in that year to make you...?
03:35Crack.
03:37I got cocaine.
03:51I could be out there, and it would take me hours to get 50 quid.
03:54Mm.
03:57It would take me hours.
03:58Some of the immigrants that come over from Serbia, Croatia,
04:04because they're a third world country,
04:06you get peanuts in it, so a fiver to them, £5,
04:12that's like two weeks' wages for them, isn't it?
04:14Some countries, it's a month's wage.
04:17So, they brought the price down.
04:21So, how can you support a rabbit on £5 and £10?
04:26You'd have to go out about 50 times.
04:29Them girls are lower than the price of you girls, aren't they?
04:32Underestimating us.
04:34You know, when I first seen the foreigners,
04:36they're absolutely stunners, but the local girls,
04:39sometimes I've got to lend them my teeth.
04:44I lend you my teeth and you give me a suck.
04:46Because you've got them.
04:48You know, you've got about two teeth in your head.
04:51Well, luckily I've got a mate.
04:53How long have you known each other?
04:54A week.
04:56Is it quite a new relationship?
04:58Yeah.
04:59Not sexual.
05:01Do you know how you like your sister?
05:03Yeah. Do you know?
05:05It's OK for men.
05:06They can go and graft and rob shops and whatever.
05:10Us women, we've got to go and sell our bodies for our habit.
05:15It's horrible.
05:19I've got to go and meet someone. Can I come back in a bit?
05:21Can I come back in a bit? I've got to go and meet someone now.
05:23OK.
05:24I'll be back in about 20 minutes.
05:32Nah, I'm not waiting for him.
05:40We loved each other and then...
05:43I was wanting to work all the time
05:44and I was wanting to smoke all the time.
05:47He was just wanting...
05:49He didn't want me going out, he wanted me staying in.
05:51But I'm too selfish, I'd be him thinking about him.
05:54I was thinking about my habit.
06:02It makes me repulsively sick.
06:04The thought that I'm in bed with another man,
06:07knowing that he was at home waiting...
06:10Knocks me...
06:13Majority of the times, I wouldn't go home.
06:15I'd go missing, just because I couldn't look at him in the face.
06:18Knowing I was slept with another man.
06:21I'm all right.
06:22She was a good girl when I met her.
06:24She wasn't a mad druggie like she is now.
06:27But the people she's hanging around with,
06:29it's only going to go one way with her and she's going to end up dead.
06:32I'm not injecting at all.
06:34Check my arms.
06:37I've done it once and that was it.
06:39I didn't like it, I don't like needles.
06:41I'll never do it again.
06:44I'm not with anybody else.
06:48That Jack, I don't have sex with him.
06:50I'm not going to tell him about it.
06:51I'd rather be your friend.
06:52I'd rather have you in my life as a friend than not at all.
06:59You might as well just go.
07:00I don't want to be arguing with you, that's all right.
07:07I feel sorry for her.
07:09Do you?
07:10She's got no one, she's got no friends either.
07:12Everyone seems to dislike her.
07:15I'm the only person who's ever helped her,
07:17who's ever given a fuck about her kid.
07:19I've had a kid.
07:30She'll road us, really, it's a lovely road.
07:33Normal human beings and children walk down every day
07:36and children take the bus stop to get to school,
07:39but unfortunately, every minute of the day,
07:42you'll always find one lady on there, and we are ladies.
07:46Unfortunately, we're at a bad, bad degrading point.
07:49We're at a degrading stage of our lives.
07:54I love every individually girl on that road deep down in my heart
07:58because I know that they're out there
08:01and they're paying themselves to do what they're doing,
08:04but they're not paying themselves no fucking more than me.
08:06Do you know what I mean?
08:08I've given a unprotected blowjob without a condom on
08:10for the sake of £10 to get me my first stone of a night.
08:20I was, like, shaking. I was fucking trembling.
08:23I just got my clothes and just ran out the door
08:26and I literally slammed the bottom door on me.
08:28I thought I was going, but I wasn't.
08:30So he just got every hand he had going,
08:32trying to push me back down to see if I said,
08:34what, I'm going to keep it here now.
08:35Do you know what I mean?
08:36I said, can I come out? I'm a fucking man.
08:38I think his name's Jason.
08:40I'm not going to say his shirt, but I'm going to make sure.
08:42Half eleven.
08:43Half nine.
08:44Half nine.
08:45Half nine.
08:46Half nine.
08:47Jason, I'm not going to say his shirt, but I'm going to make sure.
08:50But he's done it to another girl as well.
08:52I've got you.
08:53All right, then. Thank you very much.
08:54See you later, girly. Thank you.
08:56Bye.
08:57Did their shooting. That was their last.
08:59Was it two weeks ago?
09:01How much impact on business?
09:02Are they around here?
09:03Yeah, right opposite the van.
09:04Oh, my God.
09:05Did you hear that, I didn't know.
09:07Plot of sirens tonight.
09:08It was just the ambulance.
09:10HE SIREN BLARES
09:11It was the fucking cars.
09:13SIREN BLARES
09:14HE SIREN BLARES
09:15HE SIREN BLARES
09:27They put me in the park and kept grabbing me
09:31and trying to choke me.
09:33And they wouldn't let me go.
09:35Right through my face, they held me.
09:37And then I tried to run away and he came up beside me
09:41and full-on punched me in the face and cracked my eye socket.
09:44It could have been worse, I could have been killed or anything.
09:54Have you been to the police? No.
09:56It's happened to me in the past and I don't think they'll believe me,
10:00so I don't want to get called a grass.
10:10I haven't seen Natalie now for about a week.
10:13She...
10:15She's mixing with bad wrong-runs, people who are injecting.
10:20You know, and...
10:22I've got to distance myself from her.
10:25That's not my cup of tea, people like that.
10:30Natalie, you know...
10:32It's heartbreaking, mate. Heartbreaking.
10:37And now the people she's hanging around with, they're just...
10:41..what's known as rinsing her.
10:43She's paying for their abbots.
10:48How are you managing to get money at the minute?
10:50It's all welcome.
11:01She's on the game.
11:04She's got to make money.
11:06Where would you rather get an account?
11:09Where would you rather get in a car?
11:13Are you going to get back out of the car?
11:16Will you be killed?
11:18You know.
11:20That's the place now I'm working from.
11:23How I can take punters back to there, I don't know how.
11:27Sleeping on a dirty floor with mice.
11:30Obviously, I had to lower prices to get them, to drag them there.
11:34Am I right to give you this?
11:40I have to go out with every single night and pay for...
11:43..not just my happy, someone else's happy.
11:48I don't know if or when I'll change.
11:53I wish Liam loved me, but...
11:56..that's a special thinking.
12:01She's gone deep.
12:03She's gone deep.
12:06She's gone deep.
12:08If it was down to me, I'd kidnap her and lock her in
12:11until she stopped taking drugs, you know?
12:13I need to do something.
12:15But I can't just let this go on.
12:18Nat? Come here.
12:24Come and speak to me for a minute. I can't think to say thank you.
12:27Come and speak to me for a minute. No. You will? No.
12:30You will, Nat?
12:33She doesn't care about you.
12:37People just want you for your money.
12:46I'd start taking drugs now if I could have you back.
12:49You wouldn't. You wouldn't. I would.
12:51You need help with drugs. You need help with the people.
12:57Come back to Jack. Don't give him his money.
12:59Come back to Jack. Don't give him his money.
13:01I'm not going back there.
13:04I've heard all this before.
13:07If you do nothing, she'll go for the rest of your life.
13:16It's crazy...
13:18..what this area does to you.
13:24I'm sorry I ever come here, to be honest.
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13:39I no longer want to be here.
13:41I'm not having someone controlling me anymore.
13:45I can't remember...
13:48..how to be respected, how to be treated normal.
13:53I can't remember the last time...
13:56..someone opened their arms and gave me a hug
13:58and told me everything was going to be OK.
14:00I can't remember anything like that.
14:05The only thing I get is a man...
14:07The only time someone opens their arms to me
14:09is when a man's dragging me on a bed...
14:13..and wanting sex.
14:16Pinning me down.
14:20It's not mental torture, it's also physical.
14:24I can't remember the last time someone was going to tell me
14:26everything's going to be OK.
14:28I know it's not.
14:30I haven't had it.
14:32And it's not OK.
14:36I haven't had a normal life for the past year.
14:39Normal to me is getting up, getting dressed
14:42and going to have sex with different men day in, day out.
14:45That's my normal life.
14:48Rehabilitation, that's what I'd love to do.
14:52Never touch a drug.
14:55I'd love to wake up tomorrow...
14:57..and there's my mum knocking on the door to give me a big hug.
15:01Asking me to come home.
15:03Tell me everything's OK, I don't need to do this any more.
15:07I don't need to do this anymore.
15:10I don't need to do this anymore.
15:13I don't need to do this anymore.
15:18I hate men. I wouldn't have a relationship with that one.
15:21I haven't enjoyed sex for years.
15:27Boyfriend? No.
15:29I'd rather have a woman than a man.
15:31Ah, OK. Aw.
15:33So you're a lesbian? No, I'm greasy.
15:35SHE LAUGHS
15:37How young are you, what?
15:39I don't know.
15:41I don't know.
15:43I don't know.
15:45How young are you, what, five years?
15:47When I need to.
15:49But I'd rob them if I can, I'll be honest with you.
15:52Would you? Yeah.
15:54I'm honest.
15:58Why? I suppose it's a bad thing, really,
16:00because I'm looking over my shoulder all the time,
16:02but if I don't have to look at my mouth or look at my legs,
16:05I'm going to do it.
16:08Obviously, the men are coming and asking for cheaper money,
16:11and we're saying no, then other girls are going and doing it.
16:14Do you know what I mean?
16:16Some girls want it for £8, anal and everything.
16:19I've had to give a blowjob off for a tenner
16:21because I've been rattling for the heroin.
16:25Some days it's hard to even make 60 quid, do you know what I mean?
16:30I robbed a punter last night for £40,
16:33and then I've just been robbed by a working girl,
16:36so it's karma, innit?
16:38Karma come and bite you in the arse, babe.
16:40I give the girl the money to go and scoff me if she ever come back.
16:45See, like, on this road, yeah, there's all the girls,
16:48they're all stabbing each other in the back.
16:50You're prioritising your drugs. Yeah, it comes first.
16:53It comes before everyone. You're ruining everyone's life,
16:55not just your own, it's your family as well.
16:57And all crack coke pain does is deteriorate your body,
16:59something ruthlessly. Yeah, 80 for coming out.
17:01It's deteriorated. She snapped last night, and I was like...
17:07Hello, how are you? Are you all right?
17:09Yeah. Do you want a drink?
17:17I've been treating myself to unpainted shoes.
17:20Yeah, they're lovely.
17:21I wouldn't have spent the money on crack or heroin.
17:24You'd have done something for yourself instead.
17:26Yeah, I thought I'd put myself into a hostel,
17:29and I can't get any drug counselling.
17:31I'm going to be in rehab.
17:33That's really good.
17:35I'm actually getting bored of crack now.
17:37I don't see any shit day in, day out. Yeah.
17:42Is that what's made you want to go to rehab?
17:45Yeah, because I want to prove to a certain person that I can do it.
17:49Yeah. Well, we know you can do it.
17:51You're a strong woman. Yeah.
17:54I prayed for the first time today.
17:56Did you? That's really amazing. What did you pray about?
17:59I prayed this morning that I'd get my life back on track.
18:02Do me a favour, please, if you could.
18:04I'll pray a prayer for you, yeah?
18:06Yeah, please.
18:07God, I pray you'd bless this woman this week.
18:10Pray you'd help her get into rehab
18:13and help her do everything she wants to do in life
18:17and be free from all the things that are holding her back.
18:22Amen. Amen.
18:24Love you. Love you too.
18:27Take care. I'll be thinking of you this week.
18:29See you later. See you later. Bye. Bye.
18:37PHONE RINGS
18:44Are you all right? I'm good, yeah.
18:47I'm going to ask you some questions. Yeah.
18:49Where do you see yourself in five years?
18:52Hopefully settled down.
18:55For a job. What do you fancy doing as a job?
18:58I've got my chef licence, so it'll be a shed.
19:01Oh, yeah!
19:03What's the first...?
19:08So, what do you want in life?
19:12Do you have a good relationship with your mum?
19:21Yeah. OK.
19:22So, if we can get you into this place,
19:26are you going to commit to it?
19:28Yeah. My mum might come and see me then.
19:30And I can help you get in touch with your mum as well?
19:32Well, yeah. Yeah, of course I will.
19:34Can I phone my mum now? Yeah.
19:42When was the last time you spoke to your mum?
19:44About a year ago.
19:46Why do you want to phone her now? Because I'm missing her.
19:53Hello? Hiya, Mum. Are you all right?
19:56Yeah. How are you?
19:58Fine.
20:00Are you going to come and see me, Mum? I might be going to rehab.
20:12It's the longest I've been off a crack. 28 months.
20:15Yeah. And then my mum died, so I was a part of it.
20:19To block all the memories.
20:22I should be taking advantage of any single kind of help I can get.
20:27But I can't even keep a doctor's appointment
20:30because my head is just focused on crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.
20:43It's getting worse and worse.
20:45And, to be honest with you, I think she'll never get over it.
20:48It's getting worse and worse.
20:50And, to be honest with you, I think she'll never get over it.
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