19/10/2012 BBC News at Six

A man who confessed to two murders is jailed for one but can't be

prosecuted for the other because of a police blunder. Taxi driver,

Christopher Halliwell, is jailed for life today for the murder of

22-year-old, Sian O'Callaghan, last year. But the mother of Becky

Godden, says her battle for justice goes on. Shone Halliwell's family

today had just does for the Madonna of their beautiful daughter.

However, our family's fight for justice for Becky Godden has only

just begun. This evening the Independent Police Watchdog has

announced it will investigate where the case went wrong. Also on

tonight's programme: The Jimmy Savile inquiry becomes a

criminal investigation into other possible abusers still living.

It is not surprising that over the last 30 years there has been

chronic abuse by Jimmy Savile on children. He is one of the most

prolific sex offenders we had come across.

Panic on a flight at Glasgow Airport after the cabin fills with

smoke. New proposals from the energy

regulator to force suppliers to tell customers about their cheapest

prices. British and Greek police begin a

new search for a British toddler who went missing 21 years ago. Ben

Needham vanished without trace on the island of Kos when he was just

21 months old. And how doctors will have to prove

that they are still fit to practise Good evening and welcome to the BBC

News at Six. A taxi driver who confessed to two

murders has been jailed for one but not prosecuted for the other

because of a police blunder. Christopher Halliwell has been

jailed for life after admitting killing 22-year-old, Sian

O'Callaghan. She was last seen leaving a nightclub in Swindon in

March last year. Christopher Halliwell had confessed to

Yorkshire police about the murder of another woman, Becky Godden, but

the case against him had to be dropped after an alleged failure in

police procedure. The Independent Police Watchdog has launched an

investigation. John Kay is outside Bristol Crown Court.

This all comes down to what Wiltshire police did when they

arrested Christopher Halliwell. Instead of taking him straight to a

police station and giving him access to a lawyer, they put him in

a police car and drove him around for nearly four hours. A judge said

that was a substantial breach of the rules and for that reason, one

of the murder charges has been dropped.

Taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell. Last year he confessed to a

policeman he had killed both of these young women. He led officers

to both their bodies. But now, because of the way the police

handled the investigation, one of the murder charges has been dropped

and the family of victim, Becky Godden, theatre they won't see

justice. They charged him with her murder, then they dropped it. Why?

Someone has made a terrible, terrible mistake and they have got

to break. It seems to me, come to Swindon and commit a murder and you

will get away with it. I will never trust the police again. What went

wrong? It's was the disappearance of John O'Callaghan that sparked

this investigation. She went missing in March last year after

leaving a nightclub in Swindon. CCTV saw her walking towards the

lights of a mini cab and she was never seen alive again. The vehicle

belonged to Chris Halliwell, it of of three and local man. After the

disappearance, he was paying close attention to the case and was

arrested outside the supermarket, and his taxi, in which he had

displayed missing posters, was taken away goals stop whenever

officers make an arrest, they are supposed to follow strict

guidelines. Take the suspect to a police station and give him access

to a lawyer. In this case, involving will Je police, that did

not happen. Instead, they drove him into the Wiltshire countryside and

did not take him to a police station for more than three hours.

Even though he repeatedly asked for a lawyer, he was not given one. He

did take the officers to shone Holywell's body, and then to

Becky's body in a field 20 miles weight. But because police did not

follow the guidelines, the evidence could not be used in a court of law.

In the case of John and well, there was enough evidence to go ahead.

But in the case of Becky, so many years earlier, there was nothing

and that charge has been dropped. The detective who led the case has

been suspended, while other allegations are investigated. At

the time he told the BBC why he delayed taking him to the police

station. We were in a particular moment together and any

intervention could have broken that moment and he could have changed

his mind and take in another course of action. I thought we would be in

a different position now. To night, the two families have left court

with different outcomes. Justice has been done to date. It has been

an arduous journey, but we have got there. Sian O'Callaghan's relatives

had got the conviction, but Becky's mother is only left with answers

will stop I would like the support of you all to help me get justice

for my daughter, Becky. Will chip police say their investigation into

Becky's murder remains open. This whole investigation has raised

interesting questions about the way police would like to do things, but

the rules that exist he tried to protect a suspect. It will be up to

the independent Police Complaints Commission to look at the way will

Je police handle this case. The inquiry into the late BBC

presenter, Jimmy Savile, has now widened into a criminal

investigation into allegation of child abuse against other

individuals still living. Scotland Yard says it has so far identified

200 potential victims. Today the children's charity, the NSPCC, said

it was possible that Jimmy Savile was one of the most prolific sex

offenders the charity had ever come across. Nick Higham reports.

Police investigating Jimmy Savile say they are dealing with

allegations of abuse on a President its Gael. Their inquiries have

developed in two criminal investigation. In the past

fortnight, the police have assessed more than 400 lines of inquiry and

over 200 potential victims had been identified, most alleging abuse by

Savile, but some by other people. It is involving 14 police forces.

Scotland Yard says it has empowered a staggering number of victims to

come forward. Many Annie Mac feel comfortable to speak out. The

NSPCC's a Savile may have had a compasses. He is one of the most

prolific sex offenders we had come across. You can either do that on

your own or you may have some assistance. It is not surprising

the police are now investigating other victims. His activities took

him to locations across the country, where he was trusted and in many

cases given his own room and status. It included the BBC, an approved

school in Staines, Leeds General Infirmary, Stoke Mandeville

Hospital and the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. Police looked

into allegations he abused children at a children's home in Jersey. He

abused victims in many places over many years, but no one spotted the

pattern of behaviour. He worked in hospitals, worked with children,

created great programmes where he could get close to children. When I

think of him, I think of a perfect pattern of behaviour that would

stick all the boxes, to highlight the behaviour of a sex offender.

The BBC confirmed a Panorama investigation into his activities

will be transmitted on Monday, possibly as an hour-long special.

It has been given the go-ahead by the police to start an internal

inquiry, headed by a former judge, danger and it's no, into Jimmy

Savile's conduct and the customs and practices of the BBC at the

time. The BBC's director-general will give evidence to MPs the day

after the programme is broadcast, in a scandal that just keeps up the

ring used. Passengers on a plane from Glasgow

Airport bound for Alicante described "sheer panic" after smoke

in the cabin forced an emergency stop. 20 people were injured

escaping from the aircraft, which had been about to take-off. James

Cook has the story. Panic and confusion just before

dawn to. The Boeing 737 was going down the runway when smoke filled

the cabin. At 90 mph, the pilot slammed on the brakes and ordered

everyone ask. It is crazy coming of that wing. It was scary. This man

and his wife were among those who jumped on the wing. It was hideous.

It could have been a lot worse. had 10 stitches in need. You smell

the smoke and then saw it coming from the side of the plane will

stop this tour s and everybody to make eight the plaintiffs up but

then it was hurry, hurry, hurry. What happened is now the focus of

an investigation will stop but here at Glasgow airport they are pleased

with how well the emergency procedures worked. They said it was

textbook, everything they trained for. They said it was easy because

the passengers were very co- operative and helped other

passengers to get off as well. afternoon, almost all of the

passengers eventually left for Spain, hoping to put a terrifying

stop to their holiday behind them. A man has been arrested after a

series of hit and run incidents in Cardiff which has left a number of

people injured. They've been taken to the University Hospital of Wales

and our reporter is there. What more can you tell us? Police say

they were called to a series of incidents at at least four

different locations across Ely areas of Cardiff. Eyewitnesses say

they saw and number of pedestrians involving one young child being hit

by a white van. Police had come there and, 11 people are being

treated a injuries at the University of Wales Hospital. Those

include children as well as adults. Some reports do suggest the total

number of injured people may be higher than that. In response to

the scale of the incident, the A&E department has been closed to

everyone but those involved. A 31- year-old man has been arrested. The

ban has been seized and police continued to take statements in the

west of Cardiff by the many eyewitnesses that saw the incident.

The energy regulator has unveiled plans to force suppliers to tell

customers about their cheapest gas and electricity tariffs. Ofgem

wants to make the market clearer and more competitive by vastly

reducing the number of tariffs available. Earlier this week the

Prime Minister appeared to go further, saying the government

would pass a law to ensure customers get the lowest rates, as

John Moylan reports. With energy bills heading higher, it is more

important to be on the best deal. But with more than 400 and there,

finding the right one is not easy. This man from Warrington went out

of his way to get the best prize, but then found his supplier had not

been straight with him. I signed up to everything, Jule full, -- dual

fuel, online billing. Only when I looked on the comparison website I

found there was a lower tariff. Ofgem plans to make this more

straight forward. A simple unit plies for gas and electricity plus

the standing charge. They will offer four tariffs per fuel,

depending on how you paid. Providers will have to inform

customers if they could be on a cheaper deal. In cases says -- some

cases they might have to recommend a rival's deal. This means they can

have no choice they can understand. These proposals have been welcomed

today. They should be in place by the middle of next year in time to

help households ahead of next winter. But they do fall short of

what the Government has been promising this week. We will be

legislating so energy companies have to give the lowest tariff to

their customers. That announcement on Wednesday took many in

Government by surprise. Two days on, senior ministers seem reluctant to

repeat the pledge. I want to look at these proposals often had got,

to see it I can help by legislating putting in the new Energy Bill I

will be bringing to Parliament next month. So we can get tough on

behalf of people who are struggling with their bills. The industry says

these plans will be challenging, but there could be more people.

Tonight Labour turned up the heat on the Government calling for all

over 75 to be put on the lowest tariff and the market to be opened

up to greater competition. Our top story tonight: A man who

confessed to two murders is jailed for one but can't be prosecuted for

the other because of the police failed to follow correct procedure.

Coming up: the hall universe depends on everything fitting

together just right. The actress tipped to become the

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Coming up in Sportsday: Freddie Flintoff talks about his new

passion in the ring, and also the infighting in England's cricket

Doctors will have to prove every five years that they are fit to

look after patients. It has been described as the biggest change in

medical regulation in 150 years. The new system will be in force

across the UK, and is compulsory, unlike the local checks currently

There was a time when a doctor's judgment was never questioned, but

that age of deference has long gone. Modern medicine is highly complex

and specialised. We want to know our doctors are up to the job. Emma,

who had cerebral palsy, died after what a coroner said was inadequate

care. A series of errors led to a blood infection untreated, and her

father hopes mistakes may be avoided in future by more regular

checks on DRS. I am pleased that these have come in, and that the

family -- another family does not have to go through what we have

been through. It is a pity it was not implemented 20 months previous.

It was the scandal of deaths at a children's heart unit that began

this process. Surgeons were attempting operations that were too

difficult. The questions raised then have led directly to the

Czechs now been introduced. Under the new system, doctors will have

to show they are keeping up-to-date with new developments in medicine,

not going beyond their training to try things that are too difficult

and listening to feedback from patients and colleagues. All of

this is on top of the system that already exists, to investigate

serious complaints against doctors. The kind of decisions they are

making our life and death. The same sort of trust to put in a pilot

when he is flying an aeroplane is the trust to put in your doctor,

and subjecting them to a regular system of checking is good so that

doctors and provide extra assurance for patience. Doctors will not be

able to opt out of the system. Patients' organisations say the

real test will be in how it is implemented. We need guarantees

that not only patient feedback but hard data about complaints and

litigation about DRS is used in their appraisal process. By 2016,

most doctors in the UK we had been through their first check-up. --

will have been. At least eight people have

reportedly been killed and more than 70 others injured, after a car

bomb exploded in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The blast

happened in a predominantly Christian neighbourhood, during

rush hour, when many parents were picking up their children from

school. A top Lebanese security official was one of those killed in

the explosion. A majority of delegates at the

SNP's annual conference have voted to change a long standing defence

policy and support an independent Scotland remaining in NATO. The SNP

has traditionally opposed membership of the nuclear alliance.

Our Scotland correspondent reports from the party's conference in

Perth. They had got the referendum they

had longed for, now the SNP faithful gathering in Perth have to

convince the wider Scottish electorate about their vision. The

man leading them into battle, Alex Salmond. His party membership is up,

the mood among delegates is buoyant. Not everything in this conference

is plain sailing. The problem for Alex Salmond and his party's

leadership is defence. A U-turn on NATO has left some people unhappy.

This is a policy they have always had and they are willing to scrap

it. The most important point... ith the prone NATO guys win, or I

will be leaving it no longer a member. Faced with that level of

feeling, the SNP leadership laid out their case. An overwhelming 75%

of respondents want an independent Scotland to remain in NATO and a

clear majority want Scotland to be a non-nuclear country. This was the

most divisive debate the SNP has had for many years. It is

hypocritical to say we should not have nuclear weapons and we want to

belong to NATO! If you vote to join NATO, you will not get rid of

Trident. The in the end, the vote past. With the referendum getting

nearer, could there be more arguments to come? There are a lot

of details that will have to be worked out. It is a question of how

long we keep the sterling and when we get the euro. It is getting

close and things are hitting home to people, things that have been

discussed over the years not very open lake. One challenge for the

SNP may be bringing back debates and their answers into the open.

A new search has begun on the Greek island of Kos for Ben Needham, the

British toddler who went missing from his family's farmhouse over

two decades ago. Police are focussing on what was an area of

rubble at a building site near where the he was last seen. Danny

Savage is in Kos and has sent this report.

Blue and white British police take cordons off a field on a Greek

hillside. This may mark the spot where the body of the British

toddler lies. Ben Needham vanished here in 1991 but was he abducted or

the victim of a tragic accident? Special sniffer dogs have been

driven here all the way from the UK to follow up long-running concerns

that Ben was buried under rubble and soil being moved during

building work at the time. We have got substantially more technology,

access to better equipment, better facilities, better-trained staff,

and we are in a position where we can do a far more in debt search

today than what we have been able to do back in 1991 -- in depth.

This is the exact spot where Ben was seen alive 21 years ago. Police

have come here for the first time in two decades. Can they solve the

mystery of Ben Needham's disappearance? Ben was with his

grandparents, who were living on Kos. He was playing alone win in

the afternoon, he went quiet and was never seen again. His mum was

waitressing at a local restaurant. She was told by her mother later

that night that name -- that Ben was missing. Ben's grandfather was

renovating the house he disappeared from and this is where the search

today is focused. His mother was just 19 when Ben vanished. Ever

since then, she has been convinced he is still alive somewhere.

will come back and then I will watch him grow up for the rest of

his life, it is the only thing I can do. Just keep waiting. Artists'

impressions of what Ben may look like have also been released. There

have been hundreds of suppose it sightings across Europe but they

have led to nothing, and on the popular tourist island of Kos, his

disappearance has haunted some local people. A lot of people still

wonder what happened to Ben and did you come to the airport, his

picture is still there -- if you come to the airport. If they find

Ben's body, it would shatter the family's hopes of him being alive.

If it doesn't, they will be left baffled about what happened.

We are being told that Andrew Mitchell has resigned, news just

coming in. I have just come off the phone from

Andrew Mitchell. He is that the Prime Minister's country residence.

He asked to see David Cameron. Dot dot when the Prime Minister returns

from Brussels. He says he has reached a conclusion that that

after a week, he simply could not be an effective chief whip. He has

been dogged by the story of shouting at a policeman at Downing

Street for day after day, the allegation he swore at a police

officer, that he told him to know his place and that he called him a

pleb. He has always insisted they were not the exact words he used.

He and the Prime Minister had insisted he apologised and that the

apology was accepted, but he is now, it seems to me, except in the

inevitable, that he does not only lack confidence in the public, but

crucially for the Chief Whip, the job of actually organising and

managing discipline among Conservative MPs, he does not have

the confidence of his colleagues, so after several days talking to

colleagues, he has concluded that he has to go.

A Nick Robinson there. Let's take a look at the weather

Believe it or not, the weather is looking pretty well-behaved. We

have a lot of dry weather to come and many of us will see some

sunshine as well, once we get rid of early-morning mist and fog.

There is this weather front to the east of the UK, and it has made for

a wet afternoon in the South East of England and East Anglia. It will

not quite go away. Overnight, I am confident most of the rain will die

away and there are patches of mist and fog will develop across England

and Wales, perhaps even in Northern Ireland as well. Scotland will keep

more cloud and some pretty heavy rain in the north. It could be a

gloomy start in some areas. Most of us will finally see some sunshine.

It looks like we will see this weather front pushing heavy rain in

the latter part of Saturday and barely Sunday. Hopefully, I am

hopeful we will have a lot of sunshine on Sunday. The

temperatures there should reach their mid-teens. It is a pretty

positive outlet. Even as we go into next week, a fairly settled story.

We could get some lingering mist and fog, but overall, a not too bad.