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First carrie has the news. Thanks, joanna. Representatives of a Government Owned Bank are suspected of forging signatures on Court Documents in repossession cases, this programme has been told. In the united states, such practices on a very large scale led to billion dollar fines and millions in compensation. The allegations relate to uk Asset Resolution which owns mortgages from northern rock, Bradford Bingley and Mortgage Express and Lloyds Banking group. The companies strongly deny the claims. And well have full details with our economics correspondent andy verity just after this news summary. Jaguar land rover has confirmed its to build a range of electric cars at its Castle Bromwich plant in the West Midlands. A six week shutdown will be needed before three electric cars can be developed, including a version of the xj model. The firm said around 2,500 jobs have been secured by the investment. In january, it announced 4,500 jobs were being cut with the majority coming from the uk. 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The quake caused fires and damage to some buildings. Back to joanna. Heres a question for you. Do these three signatures look like theyve been signed by the same person . Now have a look at this signature. Does it look likely to have been signed by the same person as this . And heres another example. What if we told you that a very similar looking signature appeared over a different name . Here are two examples of that. Handwriting experts have told us its highly likely that the same person has been signing in different names and also that different people have been signing over the same name. Thats serious because these signatures are on documents used to repossess peoples homes including statements of truth and witness statements submitted to the courts. Some of them are by representatives of a Government Bank uk Asset Resolution and others by representative of lloyds bank. The bbcs economics correspondent andy verity has been investigating this and can tell us more. Andy, how did this all come out . Not through official channels, this is through ordinary borrowers doing something truly unusual reading the documents chasing their debts really closely. Most of us wouldnt think of it as their favourite pastime. But some of the people facing repossession became concerned that routine forgery of signatures in repossession actions, which happened in millions of cases in the united states, has also been happening here. The banks strongly deny that. However, in growing numbers Bank Customers have been checking back on their documents and campaigners have now gathered a growing body of evidence of dodgy signatures. The banks in question include uk Asset Resolution, the Government Owned Bank. Theres also evidence about Lloyds Banking group. I went to lancashire earlier this week to find out more. I was just determined that this wasnt going to kill us, so to speak, to finish us off. So i was just thinking about keeping going and keeping going and keeping going. For brenda and john wright, it may have been years ago, but the memories are still raw and painful. In 2013, when brenda was 71 and john was 7a, they were coping with a lower income than theyd been used to, but enjoying retirement, living in a rented flat, here, in southport, lancashire. Yeah, there were two vans parked there, wasnt there . And one here. All the bailiffs. But then, lawyers for the governments own bank Mortgage Express started sending letters. Thered been a dispute between the bank and the flats owner over some mortgage arrears. They were served notice of repossession. They offered to pay more rent to help clear the arrears, but Mortgage Express wasnt interested. You could see that there was no way out of this situation, even paying a little bit of higher rent for a short while. Repossession is meant to be a last resort, but was the governments own bank observing that . Never. I dont believe it. It was the first result in. Yeah. In february 2014, the bailiffs came to evict them from their flat in this house. They had no home to go to. I went down with shingles and i firmly believe that was down to all the stress that wed suffered. Did the lawyers for Mortgage Express know that they were kicking two pensioners in their 70s out of a home . On all the applications they could see. Obvious what the dates of birth were. But thats just one of a pile. So it doesnt make any difference. Mortgage express was part of Bradford Bingley in the noughties property boom when it lent heavily in the buy to let market. Along with northern rock, Bradford Bingley was bailed out by taxpayers and nationalised during the 2008 banking crisis. In 2010, its £112 billion of loans were put in a newly formed bad bank called uk Asset Resolution or ukar for short, owned by her majestys treasury. This is the old headquarters of Bradford Bingley in west yorkshire. Today, whats left of it wants to be lending as little money to its borrowers as possible. Whats unusual about ukar as a company is that its job is to put itself out of business. Its instructions from the government are to get rid of as many loans as possible, either by selling on the right to collect the repayment money to another company, or byjust pulling out of loans, just like the one used to buyjohn and brendas flat. The question is, have those orders from the government led this taxpayer owned bank to forget a crucial principle, often repeated by ministers in public, that repossession must only be used as a last resort . John and brenda saw something odd about the signatures on the documents from legal representatives for Mortgage Express. It is not right if there is a discrepancy. It looked like different people were signing over the same name on statements of truth used to evict them. But once that signature is on there, whoevers it is, thats it. Whoevers it is. Yeah . Because youve got no power against that signature. We showed some of the signatures to a top handwriting expert who gives evidence in court cases about alleged forgery. So, adam, these three signatures were all over the same name. How likely are they to be the same person . I think very unlikely, because theyre very different in their structure. Youve got this movement, if you look at the pressure in that direction, and its over to the right. Youve got a covering stroke here, and coming down quite strongly. Though that thickness of stroke could be, and you cant really tell, that it could be similar to that stroke, this is all putting the letters in the middle. Theres no reaching up. I see, whereas this person is a bit more. Well, this person is lifting. Do you see the difference . Well, i mean, this one is definitely lifting and this could be actually coming in the opposite direction. So the whole movement and the fluency of the signatures look different. John and brenda arent alone. Julian watts came across similar dodgy signatures on documents used in repossession actions by Mortgage Express and by lloyds bank. A former partner at the Business Consultants kpmg, he suspected it had become a business process, as it had in the united states, where banks and their professional helpers were taking illegal short cuts, forging signatures in other peoples names to plough through multiple repossession actions. In the states, how it was all discovered was a customer realised that signatures in the name of a particular person may have been forged and connected with some other people, and that eventually led to the investigation by the attorney generals. And when the attorney generals investigated it, they found that hundreds of thousands of bank Court Documents had been forged in the name of the same person. So one persons name had been used on hundreds of thousands of Court Documents and all the signatures in that name had been forged. Julians made it his mission to expose what he alleges is systematic, industrial scale forgery, here, in the uk, launching a campaign to gather more evidence the Bank Signature forgery campaign. Because as a result of the campaign, weve already identified over a dozen names of people in the uk, where it appears that multiple people are forging signatures in the name of that person. In the states, they started off with one name. Weve got 12 names alreadyjust from what the members of the public have been sending in. How did the bank respond when you tried to raise awareness of this . I wrote to the non executive directors of the bank, and seven days afterwards they restarted a case against my wife helen, which had been paused for six years. So, seven days after the letter, they restarted a case and then they offered to walk away from the case completely if helen signed a non disclosure agreement, gagging herfrom talking about the alleged forged signatures. And what do you think about all that . Well, its outrageous, isnt it, when people raise allegations about the conduct of the bank . Particularly, you know, an allegation which has already been shown in the states and resulted in a 25 billion fine, and their response to that was try and silence the customer whos raised the issue. Now, as lloyds pursuesjulians wife helen through the court, the banks putting pressure on by raising its estimate of the legal cost tenfold, and warning julians wife will have to pay. That could ruin them, but they wont give up. People in life sometimes have situations that are bigger than they are, and theyre confronted with these, and they have a choice ofjust walking away from it or walking towards it to try and fix it. And we sat and had a very deep conversation about what to do. Im sorry. And. We realised we just had to do the right thing. So thats why we did it. Mps are now listening. After the all party group on fair Business Banking backed julians campaign, more members of the public sent dodgy signatures in. They included a remarkable find a signature just like the one used to evictjohn and brenda in 2013, but signed as recently as last year in someone elses name. Julian showed it to our handwriting expert. So, adam, these two signatures this one here and in the top right hand corner were both signed in different peoples names one in the name of someone called g, and one in the name of someone called d. And whats your view of the signatures . Well, i think its very interesting that this is g and this is d. And yet, it looks very much as if theyre the same signature. And the reason for that is the beginning and the end, which are critical when youre examining signatures that are very similar, and its interesting that the fluency is very similar. So i would say theres a high chance that these two were written by the same person. Mps now want the allegations of forgery properly investigated by the Treasury Select Committee. Well, im quite shocked by the brazen creation of signatures which are not the correct signatures, which effectively seem to be forged signatures. So its very clear that firm action is needed. We need to know how widespread this problem is, if its like america, or if its just small pockets here and there. We need to know if anyone has lost out from this, and i think this is an important area that the Treasury Select Committee should investigate to make sure that consumers have not been losing out, and to make sure that consumers are properly protected. If banks and their representatives could be compelled to produce a much larger sample of signatures so they could be compared, allegations of forgery could be proved right or wrong scientifically. For years, though, the banks have consistently refused to supply that signature comparison information. Ijust think it is their attitude, the way they deal with people. These are human beings and theres sort of nojustice, theres no. Compassion. John and brenda fear many people have suffered the same fate as them, theyjust dont know it yet. Their hope is that mps will be able to force banks to hand over the signature comparison information to show whether or not they and possibly many others were illegally thrown out of their homes. We asked the economic secretary to the Treasuryjohn Glen to be interviewed about ukar, for which he is officially accountable. He declined. Ukar, which rejects the allegations, said treating customers fairly is a priority. It said it repeatedly asked the bbc to show evidence of the practice, but it had refused to do so. We did not share names of the signatories due to concerns over privacy. A spokesman for lloyds said, we strongly refute the allegations made by mr watts on behalf of his wife. They have been investigated by the bank and found not to be true. The law firm which produced the documents the watts says the person who signed was at work on the relevant date and the signatures were genuine. They say their non disclosure agreements dont stop customers raising concerns with police or regulators and urge customers with evidence of wrongdoing to put it before them and the competent authorities without delay. We wrote asking lloyds for a response to the wider allegations other signatures but they said they didnt have enough detail to respond. The bank added that we are fully committed to doing everything reasonably possible to support mortgage customers in financial difficulty. Thank you very much, andy. Well, we can talk now tojulian watts who you saw in andys film there and conservative mp kevin hollinrake. Hes co chair of a Cross Party Parliamentary group on fair Business Banking. Welcome, both. Julian, we saw you in our report. What alerted you to this in the first place . I know you have a background in process management, did it make you hypervigilant . M did. The investigation by the attorney generals in the us highlighted this issue first and the banks were fined 25 billion, and 4 Million Court cases by banks against customers were reviewed. When i found out about that i went back to Court Documents in cases that we have been involved in and found that some of the signatures appeared forged. You were the first person to start looking into this in this country and you have come across cases since . As far as im aware, i was the first, along with my wife. We started connecting with others and as people went through their own file template to the documents we gathered more and more evidence and it got through the point where we set upa it got through the point where we set up a campaign asking th