28/11/2013 BBC News at Six

The disabled man murdered because he was wrongly branded a paedophile -

his neighbour is jailed for life. The judge calls Bijan Ebrahimi's

death an act of murderous injustice. Just days before he was killed,

Ebrahimi filmed this confrontation with the murderer - the police

didn't respond to his calls. A wonderful son, brother and uncle has

been lost. Next to be answered is whether Bijan's death could have

been avoided if he had received a protection he deserved from the

authorities. Also on tonight's programme: fears

of a housing price bubble - the Bank of England scales back a scheme

designed to make mortgages cheaper. Guilty - three care home workers who

left elderly residents traumatised - the 70- and 80-year-olds were

slapped, stamped on and humiliated. A court hears that Charles Saatchi -

Nigella Lawson's former husband - funded household credit card bills

of hundred thousand pounds a month. And Lewis Collins - best known for

his role in The Professionals - has died of cancer.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News - the latest on the six arrests

made over alleged match fixing in English football. The arrests were

made as part of a crackdown by the National Crime Agency.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A man has been jailed for life after admitting he murdered his disabled

neighbour because he wrongly thought that he was a paedophile.

24-year-old Lee James killed Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol in July and set

fire to his body. The judge described the killing as an act of

murderous injustice. Jon Kay is in Bristol for us this evening.

The judge said what happened here was a deeply shocking vigilante

attack. Bijan Ebrahimi was kicked and punched in front of his flat

here. His head, repeatedly stamped on and then his body was dragged

around the corner and set on fire. I should warn you that some of the

images in this piece are upsetting. Bijan Ebrahimi was described in

court as a vulnerable man who felt under siege. Registered disabled

with a back problem, the shy Iranian refugee was being harassed on the

estate where he lived. So he gathered evidence to show the

authorities. Here, filming the James as he drank beer in the communal

garden. Don't you dare take pictures of me... James thought Ebrahimi was

filming children, wrongly assumed he was a paedophile and burst into his

flat to confront him. Get out of my house. Two days later, Lee James

murdered Bijan Ebrahimi. He admitted to police that he kicks his victim

like a foot all. Today, James was jailed for life. Another neighbour,

Stephen Norley, was jailed for four years for helping him dispose of the

body. They were caught on CCTV that night in footage which is shocking.

After the murder, you see them dragging his body to a roadside,

where they doused it with white spirit and set it alight. The

Ebrahimi family left court wanting the brutality of his murder to be

understood. We now know who was responsible for murdering and

learning Bijan. -- and burning. A wonderful son, brother and uncle has

been lost. The next question to be answered is whether Bijan's death

could have been avoided if he received the protection he deserved

from the authorities. In court, Bijan's sister wept as she heard he

had made several calls to police in the days before he was murdered but

they did not get a response. The conduct of five officers and six

call handlers is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints

Commission. The local council is also carrying out a review. The

police and other agencies and the community, we must collectively have

failed. Because here is a guy, yet he was a bit different, you looked

different, whose interests were different to people in the area and

clearly people in the area took against him, and he was brutally

murdered. The official reviews will look into the way Bijan Ebrahimi was

dealt with during the decade he spent in the UK. The judge made it

clear in his final remarks that the 44-year-old was not a paedophile.

The Bank of England and the Treasury have decided to scale back a scheme

designed to encourage cheaper home loans. The bank's governor, Mark

Carney, cited the risk of an overheated housing market as he

announced that the Government-backed Funding for Lending scheme will no

longer apply to mortgages. Here's our chief economics correspondent,

Hugh Pym. The housing market is not

overheating yet, but it could go that way. That was the latest

message from the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney. In a

significant change of tone, he and his colleagues at the bank are

warning there is a danger a bubble could develop. The risk of financial

instability may grow if there are further substantial and rapid

increases of house prices and further build-up of household

indebtedness. These risks would be amplified if mortgage lending was to

weaken, as has been the case in previous cycles. He announced plans

to try to reduce those risks and insure banks don't go on a lending

spree. The Bank of England and the Treasury are raining in a scheme

they launch together in the middle of last year, called Funding for

Lending. It involves cheap loans being offered to banks as long as

they pass them onto lending to and households. The mortgage side of it

will now be could sail -- lending to businesses and households. On -- the

mortgage side will now be curtailed. It is possible a tougher test for

borrowers will be introduced. Mortgage deals improved as a result

of the Funding for Lending scheme. Home-buyers will want to know what

happens after the scheme is cut back. In the medium term, the impact

has to be that mortgage rates will go up. Banks and building societies

have access to a really cheap source of funds, a quarter of a percent

over bank rate. If that source is withdrawn, the other opportunities

they have to borrow will almost certainly be more expensive. A

recent recovery in house-building has seen brick makers at full

stretch. Production has been ramped up at this site in Hertfordshire.

During the recession there were extended shutdowns but now they are

working at full capacity. They are concerned about today's news. We

have got through the recession, we have survived. And we have seen an

improvement, particularly of late, and we think that has been aided

considerably by government initiatives, and we are very

grateful for that. Anything that removes that now can only be bad

news for this industry. Some may not like it but the Bank of England

believes house price rises are spreading beyond London, and Mark

Carney feels it is best to move early, to fend off the threat of the

market getting out of control. Three care assistants have been

found guilty of the ill treatment and neglect of eight elderly

residents at a care home near Lancaster. The victims, who are in

their 70s and 80s, suffered from advanced dementia. They were

residents at the Hillcroft Slyne-with-Hest care home. Ed Thomas

reports. It should have been a place of

care, but instead, eight residents in their 70s and 80s, suffering from

advanced Alzheimer's, were bullied, humiliated by their so-called

carers. One was Carol Ann Moore, a team leader, who slapped an elderly

patient as a punishment for his family asking questions. Another was

27-year-old Katie Cairns. She stamped on a resident and made fun

of others. Her collie, Gemma Pearson, tipped a man out of a chair

because he didn't have any energy to stand up. -- her colleague. The son

of one of their victims spoke for all the families. These

professionals have a duty to treat the people they looked after with

dignity and respect. Smith, Moore, Cairns and Pearson have failed in

this duty and we hope that sentencing will reflect that these

crimes were committed against vulnerable people who could not

stand up for themselves. The court was told the elderly patients would

scream and shout as beanbags were thrown at their heads and when the

carers were asked why they were doing it, they said they were bored

and it was entertainment. One former worker turned whistle-blower told us

what they witnessed here. We have protected their identity. I noticed

bruises on arms, legs and faces. When I approached the carers, I was

told they must have fallen or they didn't know. Seven out of ten nights

I would find patients sitting in their own dirt with wet trousers.

They must have sat there for hours, not being changed. The noise was

unreal, loud TV, carers chatting and playing on their phones. I could not

continue working there any more. A fourth carer, Darren Smith, has

already pleaded guilty to neglecting eight patients. One witnessed, a

cleaner, saw him in bed with a resident. Smith, more, Cairns and

Pearson showed total disregard for their well-being. Displaying

contemptible behaviour that should never be tolerated. Today, Hill

Croft care homes said all of those involved have now left. New managers

are now in charge of the Slyne-with-Hest home. As for its

former employees two there was no apology outside court. Do you have

anything to say to the family? They will return next January to be

sentenced. Get out of my face! The fraud trial of two women

employed by the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and her former

husband, Charles Saatchi, has heard that they charged luxury holidays

and designer clothes to a household credit card. Mr Saatchi was funding

credit card bills of a hundred thousand pounds a month. Luisa

Baldini has been following the trial at Isleworth Crown Court.

The court has been hearing from the first witness in this trial, Charles

Saatchi's company accountant. The prosecution say he discovered the

alleged fraud. Rahul Gajjar said that bills for credit cards used by

personal assistance, press -- assistants, to buy things on behalf

of the family, were paid off in full by Charles Saatchi. That he usually

gave the statements the quick once over but he became suspicious when

he noticed that the monthly expenditure of the co-accused

sisters had risen to ?48,000 and ?28,000, compare to Nigella

Lawson's ?7,000 a month expenditure. My report contains some flash

photography. Mr Saatchi arrived at court, ready

to give evidence in a fraud case, but a trial in which details have

also emerged about his marriage to Nigella Lawson. Both millionaires,

they seemed to have a charmed existence. One taste and it is cut

power! She was the woman dubbed the

domestic goddess. He was the co-founder of advertising agency

Saatchi and such it, who had become a successful art collector and

collector -- Saatchi and Saatchi. In the summer of this year they

divorced acrimoniously after these paparazzi photos taken at a

restaurant were published showing Mr Saatchi's hands around Nigella

Lawson's neck and him tweaking her nose. Their personal assistants,

Francesca Grillo and her sister, Elisabetta, claimed they had a tacit

agreement, an understanding with Nigella Lawson that they could spend

on the credit card provided by Mr Saatchi's company if they did not

reveal her alleged use of class a and class B drugs to her husband.

The prosecution alleges they went on a four-year personal spending spree,

shopping in Chanel and Louis Vuitton. They have admitted spending

some of the money but deny fraud. Mr Saatchi's accounted Rahul Gajjar

told the court he did not immediately tell his boss and

ex-wife his suspicions about the expenditure because:

Cross-examination of the accountant took so long on the Mr Saatchi left

court without having made it onto the stand. He is due to return

tomorrow. Every tasting we do is blind. Nigella Lawson, who starts a

new series in America in the New Year, is expected to give evidence

at a later date. He told the court he sent two sisters a letter asking

them to acknowledge they had been spending money fraudulently. They

refuse to sign it. The defence said it was because they were under the

impression they could use the cards on themselves. The trial continues

here tomorrow. Many thanks, Louisa. Our top story this evening. A man is

jailed for life for murdering his disabled neighbour. Lee James

wrongly thought Bijan Ebrahimi was a paedophile. And still to come. The

rubbish tip hiding a ?4 million fortune thrown away by its owner.

In the sports day, we will see how the Spurs manager and his young team

are getting on in Norway with the pressure on after the drubbing at

Manchester city. The government has confirmed it is

looking again at introducing plain packaging for all cigarettes sold in

England. In July, ministers announced they were not pressing

ahead with the changes, but now it's asked an expert to look at whether

the move would reduce the number of young people who start smoking.

Here's our health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Over the past 30

years, life has been getting harder for those who want to smoke. First

came the price hikes, then hard-hitting anti-smoking adverts

and bans on smoking in public places. Now the packaging is the new

target. Standardised packaging, drab colours, shocking images of disease

and no corporate branding has already been introduced in

Australia. So what do these young students think would happen if

similar packets were introduced here? I think it would be very

effective because these are very shiny, glamorous, pretty, whereas if

they had to carry this box, I think it would, for those who might want

to start smoking, I think it would go against it. If you want to try a

cigarette, you're still going to try it. Not everybody cares about the

packaging. Introducing standardised packaging doesn't aim to persuade a

60 road lifelong smoker to quit. Instead, it's targeting young people

to dissuade them from starting the first place. The key question is,

how effective is it? The hardest will come from Australia. The ban

has been in place for less than a year. Countless studies have shown

that unbranded cigarette packaging which we're talking about makes

smoking and cigarettes much less appealing to children. I don't think

we need any more evidence than we already have. But the pro-smoking

groups save packaging is not the main issue. Education information is

the way to stop the uptake of smoking, not packaging which makes a

difference. There was some surprise that today's announcement after

ministers seem to withdraw support in July for that today, though,

different story. This government has been consistent in its desire to

have an evidence -based approach to public health. We will introduce

some -- standardised packaging following the review and

consideration of the wider issues raised and we are satisfied there

are sufficient grounds to proceed. We have seen plenty of U-turns in

the last three years but only a government as shambolic as this one

could be you turning on a U-turn. Pro-smoking groups been lobbying

hard, even resorting to newspaper ads later ruled to be misleading for

them they seem to have lost the fight for them and we could see new

cigarette packaging I2015. In the last half hour, two men have been

charged in connection with football match-fixing. It follows six arrests

by officers from the National Crime Agency investigating allegations in

connection with English non-league football games. Four other men have

tonight being bailed. Three are reported to be footballers although

BBC understands that none of them are currently at professional league

clubs. Our Chief Sports Correspondent Dan Roan reports.

A meeting with a match fixer. Evidence of what has been described

as British football's guest corruption scandal in decades. That

the guest. In Manchester hotel,, man from Singapore tells an undercover

reporter from the Daily Telegraph he can bribe the players in English

football to fix results so how much he is asked, will it cost to fix a

game? Perhaps even more shocking, the man's claims even match

officials can be bought. Former Premier League footballer Delroy

face it was one of seven people arrested on suspicion of fixing

matches. It included some current players although none are links to

professional clubs and tonight, two men, neither of them footballers,

were charged with conspiracy to the fraud. The manager of Lincoln city

admitted his suspicions had been raised before at a different club. I

have been involved in games where you think, something 's not right. I

certainly flagged one of them up. But... I don't know how they're

going to stop it. How can match B mini belated? A fixer infiltrates a

club in the lower tiers where players are susceptible to bribes,

most often goalkeepers and offenders paid to ensure, for instance,

certain amount of goals scored. With the fixer watching on, the

co-conspirator gets booked as a signal the scam is on for the best

southern coast thousands of miles away in Asia and the fix is

complete. The government needs to do more, believed to be more funding,

and there needs to be a consistent and competence of approach to this

issue. The National Crime Agency was recently set up to tackle organised

criminal activity. That now includes match fixing. The focus of operation

is a suspected international illegal betting syndicate, the latest

reminder of the global threat that gambling rated corruption now poses

to sport. Earlier this, grow for English players were charged with

fixing matches in Australia but now it seems the threat is not just

overseas. There's absolutely no place in British sport for this sort

of criminal activity but I think that the actions that have been

taken today by the National Crime Agency show that we do have robust

measures in place to tackle the sort of problem as it happens and when it

happens. The battle against match fixing is intensifying from

cricket, which saw three Pakistan players jailed in 2011 to snooker,

former top lawyer Stephen Lee being banned for ruining frames but now at

English football under the spotlight. For the first time in two

years, there's been an increase in net migration. That's the difference

between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving

the country. Net migration rose to a 182,000 by the end of June this

year. That's compared to 167,000 in the previous 12 months. Let's speak

to our political correspondent Carole Walker who's at Westminster.

Cutting immigration numbers was a key pledge for the government and it

looks like they are struggling to achieve it? Yes, that's right,

George. There were long way off. Today we were told it absolutely

still the Prime Minister's objective to get net migration down to the

tens of thousands by the time of the next election but it's hard to see

how they can cut that figure by more than 82,000 over the next year and a

half and when you look at the figures, most of the increases are

due to be becoming from other parts of the EU and of course we know the

big concerns about a further increase in those numbers when

restrictions on people from Romania and Bulgaria are lifted at the

beginning of January, so all of this helps to explain why the Prime

Minister has announced this week those plans to limit the benefits

that people newly arrived in this country can claim. At an EU summit

at the moment and will be talking about of that but I think it also

helps to explain why he is also raising but more controversial idea

of restricting the free movement of people from the European Union.

That's the fundamental sensible of the EU and it has to be said, any

changes to that has so far provoked a pretty hostile reaction across the

rest of the EU. Thank you very much. Now, a cautionary tale about

throwing out the rubbish. James Howells from Newport says he's lost

a ?4 million fortune after throwing out a computer hard drive. Only

afterwards did he remember that it stored a digital wallet holding

7,500 Bitcoins, the virtual currency. The value of Bitcoins has

now reached an all time high. Hwyel Griffith picks up the story.

Retracing the steps of the multi-million pound mistake. When

James Howells brought his old computer hard drive to the dump in

the summer, he had no idea he was earning a fortune. He had forgotten

it contained 7500 Bitcoins, virtual currency now with serious hard cash.

It was a penny dropping moment and, yet, sinking feeling. What have you

done? Why? You have never thrown hard drives away in the past. Why

this time? From these the bread bins, it would have been taken to a

compact. Crushing any realistic hope of recovery. For James to make his

millions, he would have to find that hard drive but it could be buried

anywhere on this site. Under 25,000 cubic metres of earth and rubbish

and he would have to search the equivalent of two whole football

fields and then hope it survived months under wet ground. Bitcoins

can be entered by mining, using your computer's power to carry out

complex calculation is. Their monetary value has rocketed in

recent months. As they have become more widely recognised. A couple of

years ago they were worth nothing, only of interest to geeks, I suppose

you might say. They have sort of escaped into the wild and become

part of a huge speculative bubble. The reason why people are paying

$1000 for a Bitcoin is because they think someone else will pay more

than $1000 for a Bitcoin. For James, his chances of cashing in our public

at an end. The local council has warned it won't allow virtual

treasure hunters on its landfill site. Any hopes of recovering the

hard drive of the bleed dead and buried. The actor Lewis Collins has

died aged 67. He was best known for playing Bodie in the 1970's action

drama The Professionals alongside co-star Martin Shaw. Our arts

correspondent David Sillito looks back at his career. In the late 70s,

Lewis Collins of the all action tough guy, from The Professionals.

His character Bodie was fond of the ladies and weapons. And in private,

Acra farm shed some of his enthusiasms. His co-star Martin Shaw

said it was a tough four years but he traded Nikon of British

television. The show's writer also paid tribute. He also predicted

great masculinity with that lovely edge of sort of humour. The kind of

humour that Connery bought to James Bond. And I think Lewis would have

been a wonderful James Bond. And he would've loved to have been 007.

However, Lewis Collins did not set out wanting to be an actor. Born in

Birkenhead commie started out as a drama chasing success in the heyday

of the Mersey beat. He was also a trained hairdresser, his big break

into acting with the comedy The Cuckoo Waltz. His biggest film role

was the SAS film, Who Dares Wins? After that, the path is dried up for

the pantomime, his acting heyday had passed. It was hard to escape the

long shadow of Bodie, the archetypal 70s hero. The actor Lewis Collins

who's died aged 67. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Louise Lear.

Good evening. The month of November is best known for its fireworks but

been rather done that stole in recent days by suspect because he

won last sparkle tomorrow with sunny spells and scattered showers and the

wind very much a feature. That is due to the frontal system which

arrives tonight across the far north-west. It brings a fairly

narrow but intense band of rain across the North West of Scotland.

The isobars squeezing together which means gale force wind by dawn. Ahead

of it, it stays cloudy with drizzle perhaps time to time with patchy fog

but a frost free night across the country overnight. 3-7. We start off

with the weather front a decaying as it pushes further south. A spot or

two of rain. Some decent sunshine coming through. Something we've not

seen of late but a windy day and, yes, plenty of showers particularly

for further north and west. Across the south coast, a little more cloud

into the afternoon. Further inland, lovely sunshine. Breezy and cool

about the sunshine should compensate and, because the wind are coming

north-westerly, we may see some showers running through the Cheshire

gap affecting the Pennines and down to the Midlands. For Northern

Ireland, a cool day on exposed coasts. A rash of showers and here

are some of them turning wintry on the high ground. To the start of the

weekend, the weather front pushes into the near constant and it stays

windy over the North Sea coasts. -- near continent. High-pressure bills

yet again. The start of the weekend looks promising -- high-pressure

bills yet again. We see a return to the cloud apps of Sunday, the start

of December. More details throughout the evening.

Louise, thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's