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Exactly a year ago Crown Office announced it was seeking | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
the extradition from Australia of a former Catholic monk | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
at the centre of child sex allegations at a Highland school. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
It followed a BBC investigation into multiple allegations of abuse | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Now, one of his alleged victims says the case is no further forward | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
and has accused prosecutors here of dragging their heels. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Here's our investigations correspondent Mark Daly. | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
After the BBC uncovered allegations of decades of child sex abuse | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
at Fort Augustus Abbey in 2013, I confronted one of the alleged | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
It was around the same time, three and a half years ago, | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
that Hugh Kennedy first told police about the abuse he says | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
he suffered at the hands of Fr Alexander in the 1970s. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
He has become frustrated at the delays in prosecuting his case. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
The reality of this situation is we were placated. | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
You were written to in derogatory terms with non-answers | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
And after a period of time, you were expected to just disappear. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
The Crown Office received the police report on Fr Alexander more | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
And a year ago announced plans to extradite him. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
My expectations really around whether we will ever see | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
Denis Alexander in court have been managed down to virtually zero. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
I really don't know if there is much more I can do. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Neither the Crown Office in Scotland nor the attorney general office | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
in Australia will give details about what stage the process is at. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
But this Australian MP has taken up the case. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
I want to know why after a year, this man has not been | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
He has written to the government asking what's taken so long. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
At the same time we have a commission going on in Australia | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
into institutional cover-ups and institutional responses to child | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
sex abuse, that we wouldn't be acting with great haste in Australia | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
to bring our citizens to justice in a foreign jurisdiction | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
if the charge has been made against them. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
But concerns over the extradition intensified yesterday | :02:54. | :02:54. | |
after Fr Alexander, visited by a BBC colleague, denied | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
Can you tell me what you know about the extradition? | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
I don't know anything about any extradition. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Would you ever go back to Scotland to put your side of the story? | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
I'm not prepared to do any such thing. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
It has already been gone into by the church. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Fr Alexander, stripped of his priestly duties in 2013, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Today, the Crown Office issued a statement. | :03:23. | :03:43. | |
Meanwhile, as another year passes, Fr Alexander is another year older. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Hugh Kennedy knows he might never see his alleged abuser in court. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
The First Minister has published plans showing how she believes | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Scotland could stay in the single market after the UK | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Theresa May said she would carefully consider proposals put forward | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
by the Scottish Government but warned that some plans | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Our political editor Brian Taylor told us why she'd | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Nicola Sturgeon promised that before Christmas she would set out details | :04:11. | :04:23. | |
that it would be a substantial policy package aimed at focusing UK | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
mines upon the Scottish dimension of Brexit. If you like, a Christmas | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
parcel to Downing Street. This West Lothian firm sells pizza ovens | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
worldwide, including two big European market. The Finnish born | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
boss is optimistic book anxious. We are needing to know where we can | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
find employees. I need to know if I can stay in the UK myself. Nicola | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Sturgeon reckons Brexit undiluted... The plan is to ease the pain. We | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
want the UK comments to make it clear when it trickles article 50 | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
that it intends to stay in the single market and the customs union. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
If it will not do so, we want the UK Government to seek a differentiated | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
solution for Scotland as set out here. Two areas of focus. The | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
customs union, the single market. Under a customs union, members | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
apply, agreed tariffs to countries outside the EU. If the UK quips that | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
arrangement, Scotland were brief, too, but might arguably impede some | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
trade, but the First Minister insisted it would also remove any | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
need for a Customs border between Scotland and England. On power is | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
shared with the EU, Nicola Sturgeon want full control of devolved issues | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
like fisheries and agriculture, plus employment law and powers needed to | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
strike international bargains, including immigration. Here is the | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
main idea. The European economic area consists of EU member states | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
plus Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein. Scotland would join | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
that is, retaining single market freedoms, trade, services capital | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
and the movement of people. But if people could travel freely from | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Europe to, say, Gretna in Scotland, what is to stop them hopping over | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the border to Carlisle? Nicola Sturgeon says England could tackle | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
that with checks on employment housing. Others retain doubts. It is | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
a proposal that is trying to keep Scotland in both markets as far as | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
possible. It creates all pairs of difficulties as to whether you can | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
really do that. For the plan, the chair of the expert panel advising | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the First Minister. There are issues that have to be addressed in terms | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
of additional powers to be devolved to Scotland to manage the markets, | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
to adhere to single market rules, but I think it is possible and these | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
are important proposals to address these issues in practical terms. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
This is about political strategy, too. Nicola Sturgeon is challenging | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
the Prime Minister. To the Westminster government I say this. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Your response to these proposals will tell us much, perhaps | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
everything, about whether the UK is in reality a partnership of equals | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
that you claim it to be. We are negotiating a UK approach and a UK | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
relationship with the EU. I think you have assumed an accepted | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
differential relationships which I don't think is right to accept. I | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
said when I first met the First Minister after becoming Prime | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
Minister that we would look very seriously at any proposals that come | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
forward from the devolved administrations, and there may be | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
proposals that are impractical. Critics say the First Minister is in | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
denial about the problems her plan would bring. Nicola Sturgeon admits | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
it is challenging but insists it is workable if the will is there. There | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
will be serious consideration of this by the UK Government. There may | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
be some concessions. I would be astonished if the UK Government | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
conceded all of this, consider the transfer of powers, conceded that | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
point about membership or access to European single market for Scotland. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
I would be astonished given the Commons from conservatives in the | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
run-up to this. There is a strategic question here. Nicola Sturgeon | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
insists she is genuinely advancing this as a policy solution within the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
UK. Within the ambit of the UK. If she puts forward a referendum again | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
on Scottish independence, at least you will be able to argue that she | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
seriously and thoroughly considered all options, alternatives, before | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
going to that prospect being put before the Scottish people. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
An investigation is under way after a man was found dead in a van, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
days after police were reportedly contacted over concerns | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
David Penman's body was found in the van by police | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
in Dunipace in Stirlingshire, on December the 15th. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
It is understood calls had been made to police two days earlier. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
The vehicle is not thought to have been involved in an accident. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
The number of indoor tennis courts in Scotland is to double under plans | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
to build a legacy on our successes in the sport. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
?15 million has been pledged over the next decade. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
The Wimbledon and Paralympic champion Gordon Reid says | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
all of the country should benefit - including less privileged areas. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
And to football - there's only one Premiership game tonight. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Celtic beat Patrick Thistle 1-0 at Parkhead. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Scott Sinclair scored the winner to give Celtic a 14-point lead | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
And predictably enough - with five days to go till Christmas, | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the weather is turning and travel plans for the next few days | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
But as Steven Godden reports, there is some good news | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Stornoway this morning. Ferries cancelled, roads closed, buildings | :09:40. | :09:56. | |
damaged. A sign of things to come as the weather deteriorates in the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
run-up to the holidays. High winds over the rest of the week, peaking | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
on Friday and Saturday, will lead to a lot of very destruction to the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Northern Isles and the Western Isles, so that will be one area of | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
concern. Also a lot of delivery vehicles on the road, high sided | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
vehicles might be drawn to these high gusts of wind. Generally for | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
motorists, heavy rain, high winds combined isn't pleasant. Arriving on | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Friday, storm Barbara will coincide with the busiest days for Christmas | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
Friday, storm Barbara will coincide travel and when it comes to bad | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
weather, history teaches transport ministers to be wary. I want people | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
to see their family, spend time with their friends on Christmas and | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Christmas eve, but in order to do so they will have to plan ahead. We | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
will get that information out across our network as early as we can so | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
that people can plan. Fare air passengers, the threat of man-made | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
destruction has been left tonight after a planned strike by baggage | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
handlers that would have affected several Scottish airports was called | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
off. Those Christmas continues this can now be shelved. Elsewhere, | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
challenging few lie ahead. Well, It's over to Kawser now | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
with the weather outlook A spell of wet and windy weather | :11:08. | :11:19. | |
still as we head through the rest of the night, but then some clearer | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
spells developing especially across the East later and some blustery | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
showers by the end of the night across the North West. Tonight, as | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
the rain clears, those clearer skies allowed to bridge as default, | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
especially for inland areas, down to freezing. By the end of the night | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
and morning, some blustery showers coming in across the far north and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the north-west with snow down to maybe 100-200 metres. Sleet and | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
lower levels. Some damp weather for a time across central and lower | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
belt. There will be showers, but improving through the afternoon. The | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
rest of the UK tomorrow, and we expect some strong winds across very | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
far north. Some frequently true showers, and we expect some frequent | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
lightning by the afternoon and a Met Office yellow be aware warning is in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
lightning by the afternoon and a Met force throughout the day. The rest | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
of the UK, some drier weather for the central swathe, but across the | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
south of England, some rain and milder conditions for a time. Highs | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
of ten or 11 degrees. Across the North, eyes of four or 5 degrees. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
With the wind chill, bitterly cold. Thursday is similar. Blustery | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
showers, sleazy conditions down to lower levels, strong winds were very | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
far north. Thursday, in comparison to what's to come, is the better day | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
for any travel plans if you're heading out for the weekend. As we | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
look ahead to Friday, storm Barbara is heading towards us. A deep area | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
of low pressure. With its heavy rain but very strong winds and that is | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
the main concern as we look ahead to Friday. Those gusts reaching 50 to | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
70 mph widely across Scotland, a Met Office yellow be aware weather | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
warning is in force. An amber be prepared warning is in fourth for | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
the -- in force for the Northwest and the Northern Isles. Some storm | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
force gusts reaching up to 90 mph across the Western Isles during the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
middle part of the day on Friday and this is transposed to Orkney and | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Shetland by the end of the evening. Some very destructive weather to | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
come. That is your forecast. Our next update is during Breakfast | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
at 6.25 tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late team | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
here in Glasgow and around | :13:21. | :13:24. |