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Good evening and welcome to BBC London news. The victims of an | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
alleged attempted kidnap and robbery by the police have spoken | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
exclusively to BBC London News of their horror at finding out they | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
were targeted. Confidential documents seen by this programme | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
show how some officers from the Met's elite flying squad were | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
suspected of a conspiracy to kidnap in the mid`1990s. The couple | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
allegedly targeted had already been victims of a separate plot that the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
officers were investigating. Glen Campbell has the story. They are the | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
secret corruption files leave to win shredded in 2003. Their contents, a | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
suspected plot by flying squad officers in the mid`1990s to abduct | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
the wife of a security van driver. One of the gang would leave and | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
return with his wife's ring and tell the driver she would be hurt if he | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
did not do as instruct did. So who was the security van driver said to | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
have been targeted by corrupt detect this. We traced him to this quiet | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
South London address. This was the first time he has read the secret | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
police corruption reports about him being the target of an alleged | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
kidnap a detect this. You're meant to trust these people. They are your | :01:35. | :01:50. | |
rejection against things like this. To get this right, it was flying | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
squad officers who came to see you after the first robbery. Yes. And | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
you recognised some names in those files. Yes. The same names. The same | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
names, yes. Definitely. Days after John was held up by an armed gang he | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
was visited by two officers from the flying squad, there to supposedly | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
tried to solve that security van robbery. But according to | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
anti`corruption files are real intention was to kidnap John's wife | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
and hand over ?50,000. How does it make you feel knowing the very | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
people you thought would protect you and your partner were plotting to do | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the crime themselves again. I was shocked and disgusted. I am | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
disgusted. I literally and. There are meant to be people you can | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
trust. Was I put under threat, am I still in danger. They should have | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
explained it more. You feel you have been failed by the Metropolitan | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
police. Definitely. Reading this, I have been failed, drastically. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Because as I said, it is the people you trust. To find out they were | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
going to do it again. The kidnap was only thwarted when senior officers | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
learned of the plot weeks before it was due to take place. What is | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
extraordinary is that this is not police officers perhaps stealing the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
proceeds of someone else's criminal act. If this is true this is police | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
officers conspiring to commit a really serious criminal offence | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
themselves. The kind of offence that the rest of their colleagues were | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
fighting hard against. That is what is so awful. Held at gunpoint and | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
robbed once then shown secret corruption files that police | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
officers have landed to do it to you again. For people like this, they | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
wear a uniform, they have got a badge. There are met to protect us | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
and they treated us like that. Well a statement from the Met to the | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
victims says, "It must be deeply disturbing to hear from the media | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
that you were the intended target of a kidnap plot that was disrupted by | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
police." It goes on to say, "If this were to happen today, we would | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
consider working within current legislation to inform people when | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
they are at threat from criminals." An inquest has heard that the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
24`year`old cyclist who was killed after she was hit by a lorry at Bow | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
roundabout may have jumped a red light. Something disputed by the | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
family. Our transport correspondent has more. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Venera Minakhmetova was the third cyclist to die at the infamous Bow | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
roundabout. The met told the inquest it was most likely she had jumped a | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
red light and collided with an HDV. There was disbelief outside court. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
She was always suspicious about red lights at this roundabout. Venera | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
Minakhmetova died on the Mayor's super cycle highway. The Met | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
analysed tachograph detail from the lorry and on balance of probability | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
experts thought she went into the lorry lines blocked after jumping a | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
red light. The coroner agreed. But there was no CCTV. The system is | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
safer than it was before unquestionably but it does rely on | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
all road users complying with the red lights. That system is known as | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
early start lights that give cyclists a head start. They have | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
been in place just a week when Venera Minakhmetova died. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
Campaigners say that they are confusing and the roundabout is | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
still dangerous. The coroner said it was important to be open and honest | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
about the cause of this coalition so other cyclists are aware of what | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
dangerous behaviour contravening a red light is and the potentially | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
devastating consequences. DFL has modified the roundabout again since | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the death with lower traffic light and the Met says with more cyclists | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
being encouraged to use it, constant review is needed. | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
The Government has announced a new compensation scheme for people | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
living along the route of the proposed high speed rail link from | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
London to Birmingham. Those who live within 60 metres will be paid more | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
than the market price for their home. And those a little further | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
away, who don't want to move, could also receive a one off payment. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
That's it from me. I'll hand you over to Nick Miller for the weather. | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
Tomorrow we have a light wind and it will feel pleasantly warm. Some | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
sunshine around especially during the first part of the day. And it | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
stays dry through the night. Cloud and clear spells around. It will | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
turn a little chilly in rural sports. But no concerns about frost. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Plenty of sunshine to start the day tomorrow. But some cloud increasing | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and the outside chance of a light shower. And it stays fine for the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
weekend. If you are travelling weekend. If you are travelling | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
further afield here is a look at the National pig genome. -- National | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
picture. Most of us will be dry and bright | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
with some sunshine coming through. That goes for the weekend as well. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Look out for some chilly night. Certainly tonight in the South | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
temperatures falling away under those clear skies. As low as two or | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
three degrees in rural areas. Still some patchy rain through parts of | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
southern Scotland and Northern Ireland early on in the day. But | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
most of England and Wales have a dry start. Some spells of sunshine | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
especially across the | :08:20. | :08:21. |