09/04/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening and welcome to BBC London news. The victims of an

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alleged attempted kidnap and robbery by the police have spoken

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exclusively to BBC London News of their horror at finding out they

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were targeted. Confidential documents seen by this programme

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show how some officers from the Met's elite flying squad were

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suspected of a conspiracy to kidnap in the mid`1990s. The couple

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allegedly targeted had already been victims of a separate plot that the

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officers were investigating. Glen Campbell has the story. They are the

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secret corruption files leave to win shredded in 2003. Their contents, a

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suspected plot by flying squad officers in the mid`1990s to abduct

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the wife of a security van driver. One of the gang would leave and

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return with his wife's ring and tell the driver she would be hurt if he

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did not do as instruct did. So who was the security van driver said to

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have been targeted by corrupt detect this. We traced him to this quiet

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South London address. This was the first time he has read the secret

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police corruption reports about him being the target of an alleged

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kidnap a detect this. You're meant to trust these people. They are your

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rejection against things like this. To get this right, it was flying

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squad officers who came to see you after the first robbery. Yes. And

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you recognised some names in those files. Yes. The same names. The same

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names, yes. Definitely. Days after John was held up by an armed gang he

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was visited by two officers from the flying squad, there to supposedly

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tried to solve that security van robbery. But according to

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anti`corruption files are real intention was to kidnap John's wife

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and hand over ?50,000. How does it make you feel knowing the very

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people you thought would protect you and your partner were plotting to do

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the crime themselves again. I was shocked and disgusted. I am

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disgusted. I literally and. There are meant to be people you can

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trust. Was I put under threat, am I still in danger. They should have

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explained it more. You feel you have been failed by the Metropolitan

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police. Definitely. Reading this, I have been failed, drastically.

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Because as I said, it is the people you trust. To find out they were

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going to do it again. The kidnap was only thwarted when senior officers

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learned of the plot weeks before it was due to take place. What is

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extraordinary is that this is not police officers perhaps stealing the

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proceeds of someone else's criminal act. If this is true this is police

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officers conspiring to commit a really serious criminal offence

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themselves. The kind of offence that the rest of their colleagues were

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fighting hard against. That is what is so awful. Held at gunpoint and

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robbed once then shown secret corruption files that police

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officers have landed to do it to you again. For people like this, they

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wear a uniform, they have got a badge. There are met to protect us

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and they treated us like that. Well a statement from the Met to the

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victims says, "It must be deeply disturbing to hear from the media

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that you were the intended target of a kidnap plot that was disrupted by

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police." It goes on to say, "If this were to happen today, we would

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consider working within current legislation to inform people when

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they are at threat from criminals." An inquest has heard that the

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24`year`old cyclist who was killed after she was hit by a lorry at Bow

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roundabout may have jumped a red light. Something disputed by the

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family. Our transport correspondent has more.

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Venera Minakhmetova was the third cyclist to die at the infamous Bow

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roundabout. The met told the inquest it was most likely she had jumped a

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red light and collided with an HDV. There was disbelief outside court.

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She was always suspicious about red lights at this roundabout. Venera

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Minakhmetova died on the Mayor's super cycle highway. The Met

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analysed tachograph detail from the lorry and on balance of probability

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experts thought she went into the lorry lines blocked after jumping a

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red light. The coroner agreed. But there was no CCTV. The system is

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safer than it was before unquestionably but it does rely on

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all road users complying with the red lights. That system is known as

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early start lights that give cyclists a head start. They have

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been in place just a week when Venera Minakhmetova died.

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Campaigners say that they are confusing and the roundabout is

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still dangerous. The coroner said it was important to be open and honest

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about the cause of this coalition so other cyclists are aware of what

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dangerous behaviour contravening a red light is and the potentially

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devastating consequences. DFL has modified the roundabout again since

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the death with lower traffic light and the Met says with more cyclists

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being encouraged to use it, constant review is needed.

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The Government has announced a new compensation scheme for people

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living along the route of the proposed high speed rail link from

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London to Birmingham. Those who live within 60 metres will be paid more

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than the market price for their home. And those a little further

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away, who don't want to move, could also receive a one off payment.

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That's it from me. I'll hand you over to Nick Miller for the weather.

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Tomorrow we have a light wind and it will feel pleasantly warm. Some

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sunshine around especially during the first part of the day. And it

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stays dry through the night. Cloud and clear spells around. It will

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turn a little chilly in rural sports. But no concerns about frost.

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Plenty of sunshine to start the day tomorrow. But some cloud increasing

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and the outside chance of a light shower. And it stays fine for the

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weekend. If you are travelling weekend. If you are travelling

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further afield here is a look at the National pig genome. -- National

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picture. Most of us will be dry and bright

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with some sunshine coming through. That goes for the weekend as well.

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Look out for some chilly night. Certainly tonight in the South

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temperatures falling away under those clear skies. As low as two or

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three degrees in rural areas. Still some patchy rain through parts of

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southern Scotland and Northern Ireland early on in the day. But

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most of England and Wales have a dry start. Some spells of sunshine

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especially across the

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