09/06/2014 BBC London News

looks back at his life and career. Rik Mayall, who died this

A man who had ammonia sprayed in his face in what is thought to have been

a homophobic attack says he fears he may never see again.

He was one of three men attacked outside a nightclub in Vauxhall in

the early hours of yesterday morning.

Police are looking for a man who was caught on CCTV.

Guy Smith reports. This is the suspect police are

looking for. The assaults took place in an area south of the river in

Lambeth. Well`known for its gay night life. It was 4am, just outside

this nightclub, two men were verbally abused before being

attacked with what police believe was ammonia. A third man was sprayed

in the face, not far from here. Using such a highly toxic substance,

the victims were lucky to escape serious injury. I think it is

shocking. It is disbelief. It is a horrible thing to happen to anyone.

It's a hate crime at its worst. In London homophobic crime has gone up

by almost 7%. Apart from Westminster, Lambeth, where the

latest attack happened, has the worst record. The two incidents we

are treating as a linked incident. They are being treated as a

homophobic offence. Lambeth is a wonderful place to be. London is

said to be one of the most diverse cities in the world with a vibrant

gay clubbing scene, but there is concern that many hate crimes go

unreported whether that's verbal abuse and harassment or physical

assault. We know gay people experience hate crimes. Following

the events of the weekend, gay people around South London and

Vauxhall in particular are likely to feel concerned.

Detectives were originally looking for this man along with two female

suspects. This afternoon two women came forward and are now helping

with inquiries. The Metropolitan Police and the

Crown Prosecution Service have announced an independent review into

how the justice system handles allegations of rape. The Met

Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan`Howe, said some officers may

be "unconsciously biased" when dealing with rape cases.

Tarah Welsh is outside Scotland Yard.

This review is supposed to be an independent examination of the way

the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police deal with

sexual offences. Now, this is not the first review we have seen like

this. There was one back in 2010 after mistakes were made in the

investigation of rapist taxi driver, John Worboys. Now, in 2010 that

court called for better care of rape victims. So why this and why now?

Well, 80% of victims of sexual offences are believed not to come

forward and the commissioner says that shows a distrust in the justice

system. He says that some rape investigators weren't always as

sympathetic as they should be and the police didn't deal very well

with some vulnerable victims. He says things are better now than they

were 20 years ago though. We expect the findings to be announced next

year and hopefully they will shed light on how the justice system can

deal with the offences in a better way.

Inspectors have criticised an Islamic primary school in Luton

after books with fundamentalist views were found in the library. The

Olive Tree School was also judged by Ofsted as not doing enough to

promote other cultures and beliefs. It comes on the day that six

Birmingham schools were put in to special measures for failing to

protect pupils from extremism. Neil Bradford reports.

This review is supposed to be an independent examination of the

When Ofsted inspectors visited they raised a number of concerns. Today

inspectors rated this school as inadequate. Top of their concerns,

the lack of teaching about different cultures and faiths.

Claims the school reject. We have had people from the church, from

other faith communities come in to our school that teach about their

religion. Do you accept the findings? In terms of the religious

ethos of the school, we reject it. We believe it is an Islamic phobic

report. Ofsted inspectors cilt sized the `` criticised the school library

for having too few books about other religions. They say some of the

books describe fundamentalist views. This is a staff library, not a

children's library. Secondly, the books are not available to children.

Thirdly, we are they are not being ought to children. Today's report

come on the day Ofsted published its findings into allegations of

extremism at a number of schools in Birmingham. The local MP says the

timing is not helpful. I do have some concerns around Ofsted's moves

today to release the report on the same day that a major report into

the actions in Birmingham is going on. It is clear there isn't a link

between the two situations and yet in many people's minds there will be

considered to be so. Ofsted told leaders that its

curriculum must better prepare students for living in modern day

Britain. Staff should ensure library books have non`biassed views. The

school's governors say they reject the report. They are seeking legal

advice to decide their next move. That's it for now.

Time for the weather. Hello. Well, it may not feel like it right now,

but the outlook is looking dry with sunny spells, but right now, we have

got a few showery outbreaks around. They are gradually working their way

northwards. They will fade away through the night. We have a muggy

night. Temperatures down to about 13 Celsius or 14 Celsius. Now, for

tomorrow morning, to start off with, a few spots of murkiness around, but

it brightens up quickly. The showers will probably pass for the

north`west of us. It should be dry for most of us. Temperatures

reaching about 22 Celsius. They are a touch down on today's highs, but a

warm day. As high pressure starts to build on Wednesday and Thursday, we

are seeing the temperatures rise so we have got highs of 23 Celsius on

Wednesday and perhaps getting up to 25 Celsius on Thursday. So

altogether, the outlook for London this week is looking sunny for all

of us, but I'll pass you overto Jay. -- over to jay now.

Good evening, it was the warmest day of the year. Warm for some, but

thundery for others. This line of really intense thunderstorms moved

through. Large hail and gusty winds and rain as well. That moved away

and now we look towards the south and you can see the rain moving

northwards. So let's look at the cloud which is heading our way and

some of it does look really quite threatening particularly in the

south-eastern corner there. That's going to bring heavy rain. With it

the risk of thunder and lightening. The rain will move away from the

South East, and out into the North Sea, but it may linger further

north. Just moving away from the south-west and into Wales and into

Northern Ireland by dawn. Another mild night. 12 Celsius in the north

and maybe 13 Celsius or 14 Celsius in the south. To start the day

across Northern England, it's looking good. It is dry and bright,

but there will be wetter weather around