13/05/2013 BBC News at One

The man who denied murdering the schoolgirl Tia Sharp changes his

plea to guilty. Stuart Hazell sexually assaulted, then killed the

12-year-old and hid her body in the loft of the house he shared with

her grandmother. We will have the latest from the Old Bailey. Also:

David Cameron rounds on members of his own party who say they would

vote to leave the EU if there was a referendum now.

Calls for a change to the law on the so-called right to die. Two

severely disabled men take their cases to the Court of Appeal.

A court appearance for one of the UK's most wanted fugitives after

his dramatic arrest by police at his luxury home on the Costa Blanca.

Are you a reformed man now? Released early, Chris Huhne and his

ex-wife Vicky Pryce are freed. again, as you know from the night I

was sentenced, I said that I was very sorry for what I had done. It

has been a humbling and sobering experience.

# I've flown 100,000 miles... And, the starman who became a

sensation on Twitter and and YouTube prepares to come home.

Police issue 30,000 cautions in a year. Are criminals going

unpunished? The rise in temporary marriages. Critics ask is it a mat

Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. Stuart Hazell, who had

denied murdering 12-year-old Tia Sharp in south London last summer,

this morning changed his plea to guilty on the 5th day of his trial.

Tia Sharp's body was found in the loft of her grandmother's house

more than a week after she disappeared. Stuart Hazell was at

the time her grandmother's boyfriend. The prosecution had told

the jury that he killed Tia service sexually assault -- after sexually

assaulting her. Her correspondent is at the Old Bailey. Stuart Hazell

has denied murdering Tia Sharp for nine months but today the jury

heard that his lawyer said that because of wanting to spare the

family future anguish -- further anguish he was going to change his

plea to guilty and he pleaded guilty to murder. There was also a

mountain of evidence as become clear over the past week kpwepbs

Stuart Hazell and no jury was ever likely to acquit him.

Stuart Hazell, the killer who lied to his family, the police and the

wider world. His victim was his 12- year-old step-granddaughter, Tia

Sharp. CCTV showed her spending her last day with him, a man she

trusted and idolised. Hours later, he sexually assaulted and murdered

her in her grandmother's house. For a week her relatives sat through

distressing evidence, a violent and graphic photo of Tia's body, videos

he secretly recorded in the weeks before he killed her. Tia's mother

Natalie frequently left the court in tears. For a week last summer

the sprawling housing estate of New Addington was gripped by fear, a

12-year-old schoolgirl had apparently vanished into thin air.

Tia had gone to visit her grandmother. Stuart Hazell said she

left the following morning to go shopping. But it was a lie. He had

murdered her and hidden her body while her grandmother was at work.

The increasingly frantic search for Tia Sharp drew in hundreds of

police officers and members of the local community. They searched

through lock-up garages, waste bins and local woodland. But when she

was finally found it was here, in her grandmother's house. It was in

the loft, one similar to this in a neighbouring house. Astonishingly,

police had searched the loft within two days of her disappearance but

failed to spot it until the 4th search of the house. A mistake for

which they apologised to Tia's family. Throughout the week that

Tia disappeared her family had used the house as a base from which they

mounted a high profile appeal for information. In their midst was

Hassle, he denied involvement. In a TV interview recorded a day before

his arrest, as he spoke only he knew her body lay metres away.

not about me, it's about Tia, this is all about Tia and we have to get

her home. Don't know what more to do? After his arrest, police found

images of child abuse on his phone and a photo of a girl's body. He

already had a reputation for for violence on the estate. Three years

earlier he had been convicted of threatening the landlord of a local

pub with a machete. He started walking up the road opposite with a

machete in his hand W that, I locked the pub doors, called the

police, correct thing to do, told everyone to stay inside. He was a

horrible man. Horrible man. He was a bully. He was a big lad, he is a

bully. Not popular on the estate, Wye say. In a letter to his father

he had said Tia had died in an accident, fallen down stairs while

they were playing. Finally, today, he admitted it was a lie. In the

last few minutes Tia's mother has released a statement in which she

said said, she was mine and no one else's, I had someone to love. She

went on to say, since Tia was taken I have lost my trust in everyone.

It's too hard for me to believe that she's really gone. I tried to

believe she's on a sleepover at a friend's house, my son asked me

recently whether Tia was coming back. It made me khraoeu. -- cry. I

had to tell him that she was a star in the sky.

Thank you. David Cameron has arrived in

Washington for talks with President Obama, leaving behind a debate

raging among Conservatives about the UK's future in the European

Union. MPs will have a chance to debate a referendum planned for

2017 on Wednesday. Two Cabinet Ministers, Michael Gove and Philip

Hammond, have become the most senior figures to declare they

would vote to leave the EU if a referendum was held now. We will

get the latest from Westminster and Washington in a moment, first

here's our political correspondent Iain Watson.

For a generation those who argued that Britain should leave the EU

were on the fringes of British politics. Now they're moving

centre-stage. With some members of David Cameron's Cabinet saying they

would consider pulling out unless he negotiates better terms. David

Cameron wants a new deal with more powers over social and economic

policy and on a visit to Washington today he repeated that voters would

get a referendum after negotiations in 2017 if he is still Prime

Minister. What I am focused on is doing the right thing for the

country. And the right thing for Britain is to reform the European

Union, make it more competitive, to renegotiate Britain's place within

it and then to put that to the British people in an in-out

referendum. There's a simple reason why David Cameron won't offer a

referendum before the next general election, that's because he is a

leader of a coalition Government, not a Conservative Government, and

the Liberal Democrats won't wear it. But for some Conservative MPs this

isn't so much about Europe, it's about trust and they think David

Cameron has to do more to tell voters he is serious about holding

that referendum. Some of them have been pressing the prime nor pass a

law in this parliament clearing the way for a future referendum and

this week they'll push for a vote in the House of Commons regretting

the lack of that legislation in this year's Queen's Speech.

party leaders in the past have had problems honouring commit ams --

commit ams they've given under Europe. Under this procedure

parliament will have spoken, there will be a law and whoever is in

power the next general election will have to carry it out. Some

senior Conservatives disagree. it will achieve is splitting the

party, raising questions about the Prime Minister's authority, and

giving comfort to the Labour Party. Over a question of tactics.

would some Conservative MPs vote for this? Nigel Farage believes

some want to avoid a challenge from UKIP. There may be one or two MPs,

Conservative, perhaps the odd Labour MP who may have associations

behind them that say why don't we stand stand in this election on a

joint ticket. I think the next stage is going to be, you will see

backbenchers saying I want to stand as a joint Tory-UKIP candidate.

Today a group of Labour MPs launched a call for a referendum.

Nigel Farage doesn't have MPs tpwu appears he does have influence.

Let's head to Washington and James Landale is travelling with the

Prime Minister and how angry would you say David Cameron is about

everything that's going on back here, not least among some senior

colleagues? I think the Prime Minister's irritated. He is

irritated because he's come to Washington to talk, not just about

Syria and Afghanistan and his plans for the G8 summit in Northern

Ireland next month, but also about Europe. He is here to bang the drum

for the European Union and the prospects of a new EU-US trade deal

that he feels if it was negotiated could benefit Britain to the tune

of about �10 billion every year. The contrast with what's going on

at home could not be starker. He's also irritated simply because he

feels that this year he made a big move. He gave a big speech in which

he promised a future Conservative Government would give the British

people an in-out referendum by 2017. He feels now that all these people,

from the Conservative past saying let's leave now, in his view, hold

a very, very strange opinion. In his words, they're throwing in the

towel before you have even started trying to negotiate a reformed

European Union. As for his current Cabinet who are going around

answering lots of questions about what they would do if there were a

referendum tomorrow, he is very clear, those are hypothetical

questions and he doesn't want Ministers answering them. All right,

thank you. Let's head to Norman Smith at Westminster. At the moment

we are all focusing on Wednesday, not long to go, but I suppose the

problem for David Cameron is that doesn't necessarily draw a line

under it. Absolutely. We have on Wednesday the prospect of Tory MPs

voting three different ways with some Tory MPs, Eurosceptics, maybe

around 100 of them joined by some of the most June ormembers --

junior members of the Government backing this amendment. Most

Government phbs abstaining and pro- minded Toryure MPs voting against.

This might be a sign of things to come. Because what is clear talking

to Tory Eurosceptics they view Wednesday as a start of a process,

another notch in ratcheting up the pressure on David Cameron because

the very next day on Thursday we will get a ballot of MPs to decide

which ones can introduce private members' bills. That is a mechanism

that enables backbenchers to try and introduce their own legislation.

And the hope of Tory Eurosceptics is their number will be successful

and that they will be able to introduce their own referendum bill.

It's why some of the older heads amongst Tory MPs of Westminster are

now going around muttering the dread word - Maastricht. A fear

that the Tory Party risks making exactly the same mistake as it did

during the Major years when it allowed itself to become obsessed

by Europe. Thank you.

Much more over the week and to remind you, you can read more about

that issue of the UK's membership of the European Union on our

website and it includes arguments for leaving or staying.

A severely disabled man is taking his case to the Court of Appeal

today in what's being seen as the most ambitious attempt yet to try

to change the law governing the so- called right to die. Paul Lamb, who

is physically incapable of taking his own life, after being paralysed

in a car accident, is seeking a ruling that would give a doctor a

defence to a murder charge. Here is our legal affairs correspondent

Clive Coleman. After two decades of paralysis and

pain, Paul Lamb has made the difficult journey to London and to

the Court of Appeal to ask it to give him the right to have a doctor

end his life. I do actually love life. And I am hanging on as long

as I can. But I don't ever want to be in a bed where I think, wow, I

am not going to get out of this bed and actually no point I am going to

get out, I don't ever want to be in that situation. Just constantly

going through pain and being doped up and waking up in pain.

It's a legal challenge started by the late Tony Nicklinson, who died

shortly after the High Court rejected his bid to change the law

on the right to die. Now Paul Lamb's taking it on. His paralysis

is so severe he has minimal movement in one hand, like Tony, he

couldn't take the final steps to end his life. He would need a

doctor to kill him and that would amount to murder. Paul himself is

too physically disabled to take the final steps so what he would be

asking the court to do is to sanction these steps in advance

after the court has heard all of the evidence in his case. One judge

said that this legal challenge was inviting the court to cross a

rubicon. Another said it raised some of the most profound, ethical,

moral, religious and social issues, but that only parliament and not

the courts could change the law. But many people oppose any change

that would allow a doctor to actively end a person's life.

is seeking a change in the law on murder and much as our hearts go

out to him we have to remember the effect this would have on many

people with physical disabilities or difficulties with memory who

would feel vulnerable and be subject to pressures, whether they

were real ones or or imagined to seek that option themselves. Today

the Court of Appeal will begin to consider the complex issues that

could give Paul Lamb and others in stop searching in the rubble in the

clothing factory? Dhaka today. It was the worst tragedy in the history

of the global garment Manchestering industry.

One of Britain's most wanted fruj tifs has been demanded in custody on

Madrid. Andrew Moran from Salford was

arrested by the police in the resort of Costa Blanca. He was wanted in

connection with an armed robbery in 2005. Andrew Moran was convicted in

his absence after fleeing the trial in 2009. We have this report. On 9

edge of a villa on the Costa Blanca, armed officers move in. They crawl,

out of sight from one of Britain's most wanted criminals. Andrew Moran

is by the pool, unaware of what is about to happen. Then Spanish police

make their move, Andrew Moran tries to run but he is arrested as he

tries to jump a wall. One moment he was sunbathing after evading justice

for years, now he is handcuffed on the floor. 31-year-old, Andrew

Moran, has been on the run for four years. Wanted for armed robbery.

This CCTV footage from 2005, shows him robbing a Royal Mail van. He and

his accomplice threatened the security guards with a baseball bat

and machete, but in court four years later at the end of his trial, he

jumped from the dock. A jury then found him guilty in his absence.

When he fled to Spain, Andrew Moran changed his appearance and his name.

Spanish police tracked him down last year. He escaped then, ramming two

police cars and driving down a motorway the wrong way, but relaxing

on Friday, the Spanish police made sure this time he would not get

away. Andrew Moran evaded justice for four years. This morning he was

brought here to one of Spain's highest courts in Madrid. The

process to extradite him back home is well underway, so he can be

Our top story: Stuart Hazell, who denied murdering

the schoolgirl, Tia Sharp, has changed his plea to guilty. Still to

come: Prince Harry lends his support to America's armed forces.

On BBC London: Bringing cycling to the masses. The new London Marathon

on two wheels going through the heart of the capital and the Surrey

hills. Hidden gems, we look at how the world's largest collection of

Now, after six months in space, Commander Chris Hadfield has become

one of the world's most famous astronauts. The remarkable series of

pictures he has been tweeting of his view of the world have been followed

by more than three-quarters of a million people. Now Commander Chris

Hadfield is coming back to Earth but not before recording a tribute to

another famous spaceman. # Ground control to Major Tom

# Ground control to Major Tom... Commander Chris Hadfield, astronaut,

scientist, and maybe the star of the first pop video made in space. His

cover of David Bowie's hit is his tribute to the International Space

Station, after six months on dashboard, he is due to leave for

the journey back to Earth today, but what Commander Chris Hadfield is

really famous for are his tweets from space.

Pictures of our planet and the space station, which have captivated

hundreds of thousands of people. This is the International Space

Station in the skies over the UK. Regular passers overhead have often

been followed by stunning images. At night most towns and cities in the

UK and near continents can be seen. Close up, this is how London looks.

How about this for an alternative EastEnders opening? Day time passes

yielded fantastic views. This is the Straits of Dover. When the pictures

were treated -- tweeted from space, there has been a huge response from

the people living down here in the We managed to get a question to

Commander Chris Hadfield in one of his recent link-ups with Earth.

It is delightful to see something interesting. To be able to take a

picture of it, and have so many other people delight in it. They see

their town, the region, the Isle of Wight or some of the northern

regions, in to the south of Scotland and they have a perspective on it

that may be did not exist for them in the regular two-dimensional way

that we see things. But from now on Commander Chris

Hadfield's Twitter field will be less dramatic. The singing spaceman

is coming home, but his legacy is that a lot more people are aware of

life on the International Space Station.

# And before too long I know it's time to go... The former Cabinet

Minister, Chris Huhne and his ex-wife, Pryce prays released from

prison this morning. They were convicted of perverting the course

of justice after Vicky Pryce took speeding points from her husband in

2003. We have this report. It contains

flash photography. Chris Huhne emerged from Leyhill

Open Prison this morning, two months into an eight-month sentence, with

little chance of resuming his once stella political career.

REPORTER: How was prison, sir? There was no comment at the prison but

when he reached his London home, he made it clear he wants to put this

chapter of his life behind him. As you know from the night I was

sentenced, I said I was very sorry for what I had done. It has been a

humbling and a sobering experience. I would-like to thank all of those

who have written to me, hundreds of letters that I have had, and all of

my family and friends who have stood by me.

Chris Huhne had come close to winning the leadership of the

Liberal Democrats and went on to be the Energy Secretary in the new

coalition government, but he was undone by this stretch of the M 11

in Essex, where he got a speeding ticket but persuaded his wife,

Vicky, to say she was driving and take the points. After an

acrimonious divorce, Vicky Pryce told the newspapers what she had

done. Both were prosecuted for perverting the course of justices.

She too was released today. Ready to pick up the pieces of her own

high-profile career. She is very grateful for all of the

support she has received from everyone whilst in prison. Including

her fellow residents and prison staff.

She now intends to spend time with her family and she looks forward to

returning to her career as an economist.

Both she and Chris Huhne will have to wear electronic tags for the time

being. REPORTER: Has prn been good pore

you? As her ex-husband arrived back at his house, he knew that the legal

battle is still not over. Hanging over him and Vicky Pryce is the

�150,000 bill for their prosecution. Centrica which owns British Gas says

it will use the revenue from higher fuel consumption to keep its charges

down for as long as possible. The company says that domestic gas use

was up 18% sins in -- up 18 peshz in the first four months of the year,

compared to last year. Electricity use was up 3%. BMW says sales of its

luxury cars rose by 7. 5%. Boosted by demand in Asia and the United

Statesment sales of its other vehicles, including the UK-made, #k7

mini and the Rolls-Royce were also up by nearly 7%.

Tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow are to start at �15

for adults with most priced at �25 or less. The organisers say that

they have learned lessons from previous Games and London 2012. They

pledged at least 70% of all tickets from the sporting events will be

made available to the public and include the cost of public transport

around Glasgow. We have the details. This is to be

the largest sporting event ever held in Scotland. For the aringers here

there were two issues. The first is balancing the books, they have to

make �100 million in sponsorship and ticket sales and to make the tickets

affordable. The second thing is to learn the lessons from what they

called the warm-up act, that was the London Olympics.

It is a tough act to follow. The glorious Games of London 2012. With

Team GB picking up more Gold Medals than ever before, but there were a

few flaws. Tem ti seats left for sponsors of the games angered the

sports fans desperate for tickets. That is something that the

organisers are eager to avoid. We have a ticket for erone of the

sports that starts at �15. Overall, two thirds are �25 or less. We think

that gives people a huge amount of choice to see a great sport next

summer. Scotland has hosted the Games

before, in 1986 in Edinburgh. There was success in the track but

the event was left over �4 million in debt it took three years to pay

it off. This time, the venues for Glasgow's

Commonwealth Games are so far on time and crucially, on budget, they

are ready for spectators around the world.

You look back to London, people wanted to be there, whatever sports

they were in. 17 sports, 1 million tickets, there is great news here in

that there is the chance for anyone who wants to come along to be there

and to make this a massive success. Everyone will have to pay for spo

tickets, including sponsors and the media. The applications to standard

online and by post in August. To get hold of the tickets, that process is

to open on the 19th of August and last until the 16 16th September.

For the popular events like the 100m, if it is oversubscribed it

will go to a public ballot. Now, Prince Harry is continuing to

win hartsz and fans in America as his week-long tour of the country

continues. Today he is travelling from Colorado to New York but he

spent the weekend supporting the Warrior Games, a version of the

Paralympics for injured service men and women. He says he wants to bring

the event to the UK. He has never been one to turn down a

challenge. Which is why Harry was to be found

forming the base of a human pyramid. Why were they doing it? And why was

there a man dressed as a bird on the top? Those are questions to which

there is no clear answer, but the challenge that matters to Harry is

bringing a sporting event such as this to Britain. The Warrior Games

have been an annual event in the United States for four years.

Racers ready... There we go! As the name implies, these are games for

wounded servicemen and women. They help rehabilitation, they are good

for moral, Harry's plan is to create a British version.

I'm hoping to bring this fantastic idea here to the UK and why not?

This is far more than a whim on Harry's part. The ambition is to

have games such as this taking place in Britain within the next couple of

years. That is the aspiration, and behind

the scenes, Harry and his officials are working to turn it into a

reality it mean as lot to the athletes it matters to Harry and he

is determined to see it happen. Now we want some of that American

sunshine, I think. Let's ask Tomasz sunshine, I think. Let's ask Tomasz

I think there are a lot of clouds out there. We are calling this today

sunshine and showers. Not everyone will get the heavy showers but there

are a few of them around. We have had some today of the on the

satellite picture is a swirl of cloud. That is an area of low

pressure. To the south, the cloud here does not look a lot but the

individual clouds are gusty and squally. You will notice by the

arrows, that they is indicating the strength of the wind. In the

north-west and parts of Scotland gales blowing. Temperatures

disappointing at 11 to 13 Celsius. This is nod good at all. Lots of

showers around. No so heavy in the south. This evening, the showers are

to clearment not all of them, but in the Midlands, there are clearer

skies but all eyes to the south-west. There is a pool of blue

here it is like a wall of water to the south and south-western parts of

England. There is uncertainty how bad this rain will be, how gusty the

winds will be with it as well. We are expecting strong winds but

notice the lime green, that is indicating the area of the heaviest

rain but it could be further to the north or to the east or south. So a

headache to predict, but the message is that the south-west, the south of

Wales, the Midlands, you will get a good dose of rain. Up to 50

millimetres. For the north of the UK, it is pretty much what we have

today, a mixture of sunshine, showers, gusty winds. The weather

cannot make up its mind. There here in the south, there could

absurprise, yes, we have the winds but wait for it, wet snow, possibly.

Not just over the hills but over some parts of the country. Still a

big question mark if it will happen but do not be surprised if you see

it happen with some snow falling from the sky tomorrow. This is the

For the rest of the week it is going to be cool, with a mix stur of

sunshine and showers. Winds easing. Thoughts on the

summer, there are some on the summer, there are some on the

website, so head on there. We are wondering after that. Now the

main story this lunch time: Stuart Hazell, who denied murdering Tia