25/06/2011 BBC Weekend News


25/06/2011

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Good afternoon. The Chief Constable of Surrey Police which investigated

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the murder of Milly Dowler has called on judges to do more to

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protect victims and witnesses in court cases.

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Mark Rowley said he was upset and embarrassed by the way Milly

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Dowler's family was cross-examined during the trial of her killer,

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Levi Bellfield. Collette McBeth reports. Their

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daughter, her sister, was murdered in 2002. Yet when the man who

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killed Milly Dowler was finally brought to trial, the family found

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themselves in the spotlight under scrutiny, a harrowing brutal

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experience, they said. I can honestly say that the day my

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mother and father were questioned by the defence QC, Mr Samuels, was

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the worst day of my life. It is hard to believe but it was worse

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than when I heard the news that the remains were that of my sister

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Milly. The way my parents were questioned can only be described as

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mental torture. That admission came on the day Milly's murderer, Levi

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Bellfield, was told he would spend the rest of his life in prison.

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The Chief Constable of Surrey Police, which investigated her

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murder, pleefs her family's treatment in court proves the

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criminal justice system must change -- believes. For me, it went too

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far. I think all the legal commentators I've heard talking

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over the last 24 hours say, from an expert perspective, looks a z

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though the rules were applied properly. My response so that is,

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we can't have a system where the rules are like that. The director

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of brick prosecutions, Keir starmer, has already said the Dowler's

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experience raises fundamental questions about the treatment of

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victims in the court system -- the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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The hobble says the criticism of the cores is not an attempt to

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deflect, simply a case which left the doulers in despair is one in

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need of reform. Ed Miliband says it will be a mistake of hundreds of

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thousands of public sector workers go on strike next Thursday. In a

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speech to party activists in Wrexham today, Mr Miliband will say

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the party's lost touch with its own members and the wider public.

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Tens of thousands of people are lining the streets of Edinburgh

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today as veterans and serving troops march through the city to

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mark Armed Forces Day. The event is being attended by David Cameron and

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Alex Salmond and there are parties and parades being held across the

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UK. Our correspondent Glenn Campbell is in Edinburgh for us.

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Well, in the past hour, we've had more than 2,000 members of the

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Armed Forces, all three services, the Royal Navy, the Army and the

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Air Force, plus veterans on parade down Edinburgh's historic Royal

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Mile, from the Castle at the top end working their way down towards

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the palace of Holyrood House where, across the road outside the

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Scottish Parliament, the parade is making its way past the dignitaries

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are Prince Charles taking the salute. He and his wife are there

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alongside David Cameron, Scotland's First Minister and senior officers

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from the three armed services. The parade making its way into Holyrood

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park in Edinburgh as part of this day of celebrations centred here on

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Edinburgh, but taking place in towns and cities across the UK.

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And Glenn, it is in its third year and seems to be growing in

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popularity with the public? There were certainly large crowds lining

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both sides of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and it is a chance, of course,

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for the public to show their support for the armed services who

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are, of course, in active service in Afghanistan and other theatres

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around the world. It's the third year, but it looks like this is an

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event that is now firmly fixed in the military calendar.

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Thank you. As part of those Armed Forces Day

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