17/08/2014 BBC London News

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The victim of a violent burglary, who has been left with serious

facial injuries has told BBC London that the attack was like something

from a gangster movie. The university lecturer from Wimbledon

spoke in his first interview to our reporter. A warning, you might find

some of the images in this report upsetting. The, at the time they

thought my skull was fractured because it swelled up so badly. My

jaw was fractured. In the end, it was just my eye socket was

fractured. I cannot look to the left properly. I have to move my head. If

I look to the left, I get double vision. Paul's face is hardly

recognisable, six days on from a violent burglary. At 10pm on Monday,

he answered the door to four men. He was battered and his wife

threatened. His daughter and her boyfriend hid upstairs and called

the police. Paul was left like this. It is terrifying. It is probably

more now that I look back at it than at the time because you are so

stunned. There is a sense of bewilderment - this isn't really

happening. You almost look as if it sounds like a gangster movie. Two

men have been charged with GBH and burglary. The police are looking for

two suspects - male, believed to be Eastern Europe peen and between

20-30. They want to speak to anyone who saw a two door style silver car,

with I they believe the suspects used that night. These CCTV images

show one of the suspects going through Wimbledon theatre car park

and removing surgical gloves. Paul says anyone who knows anything, must

come forward. This eye was closed. I had a tiny crack of light and that

was it. There'll be repair work done. Hopefully next week. They will

repair the eye socket. I think I will make a full recovery and, you

know, I would say, you probably won't put it in your piece - but

worse things have happened. I am very, very lucky. That is the point,

it could have been worse, I could have lost my sight. This attack

which lasted just minutes will have a long-term impact on Paul and his

family's lives. Britain's first specialist clinic

for child victims of female againal mutilation will open in London next

month. It will be at University College London and provide support

for girls. Doctors will carry out examinations if the police are not

sure if mutilation has occurred. Just days after A level results day,

there are calls for apprenticeships to be given the same importance as

going to university. In London, the number of young people gaining

apprenticeships has doubled in recent years. Some say schools need

to do more. Jack gained eight A levels. You

might think top university beckoned. He choss the apprenticeship -- he

chose the apprenticeship road. For a people-based role, where you work

with lots of groups, working to deliver items and learn on the job,

I think that an apprenticeship can offer you great experience. The

mayor has made apprentices one of his priorities and seems to be

delivering. A target of 100,000 in four years was exceeded.

delivering. A target of 100,000 in four years was Now up wards of

40,000 apprentices start every year. Some are now pushing for the

creation of a clearing system, a bit like with university places. This

budding talent pool is vital for the economy. Wed call out for skilled

trade people. Apra taships are doing that. -- apprenticeships are doing

that. Like Tim Campbell. He was the winner of the first show of the

apprentice. Now a businessman and the mayor's ambassador for

apprentices. At the moment, there is a very small margin of success

does a young person go on to a university place. Fantastic if that

is what you want to do. If you want to work, you are not seen as a

success criteria for a school. That has to change. Apprenticeships are

available in a range of industries. Growing numbers are learning

university is far from the only way to get ahead.

Tomorrow's weather now. We should have a mainly dry morning. Rain in

the afternoon. Top temperature, 21 Celsius. That is it. Goodbye for

now. A northerly wind is never a welcome

visitor across the shores of the UK. And particularly in the middle of

August. Despite weather conditions improving, we gales bombarding

Scotland. A rash of showers merging for longer spells of rain here. That

area of low pressure is drifting further