31/05/2016 BBC News at Six

A mother and her partner are convicted of the murder

of a toddler and horrific abuse of two other young children.

Liam Fee was killed when he was just two -

among dozens of injuries, a ruptured heart.

His mother and her partner showed no remorse, even joking

They were sort of laughing, joking that they were going to get

Despite social services being alerted several times

by people worried about Liam, they failed to stop his abuse.

Tempers fray about the EU referendum - meanwhile campaigners to leave

call for VAT on energy bills to be scrapped.

Iraqi forces struggle to fight their way into the city of Falluja -

Commemorations in Orkney to mark a hundred years since the biggest

And teen wonder Marcus Rashford - just three months after his premier

league debut, picked to represent England.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

We'll have details of the Wales squad for Euro 2016,

which includes Joe Ledley even though he broke his leg

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A mother, along with her partner, has been found guilty

of murdering her two-year-old son and of a catalogue of cruelty

Rachel Fee and her partner Nyomi from Fife were found to have

subjected the toddler, Liam, to such brutality

that he had 30 injuries on his body when he died.

Much of the abuse suffered by the other two children is too

harrowing to go into in detail - but they were sometimes kept

in a cage or tied up and left in the dark.

A number of people told social workers of their concern

about the toddler Liam before he died - but the abuse

You may find this report by our Scotland correspondent

Liam Fee, an affectionate two-year-old, witnesses said,

who became increasingly withdrawn as he suffered unyielding,

His attackers, the two women who should have been

His mother, Rachel Fee, here on the left, and her

One neighbour said the couple went to great lengths to keep

You didn't see him, you would not have even have known he existed,

Did you see him ever out in the street, in the buggy?

Never saw him sit up and look or that.

In police interviews, the two were asked about text

messages they sent which showed they were more concerned for each

They were also questioned about the little boy's appalling

injuries, the blow which ruptured Liam's heart and killed him,

a fractured arm, and broken thigh bone which would have left him

in agony in the days before his death.

At their house, police discovered evidence pointing to the prolonged,

depraved abuse, much of it too distressing to report,

that they had inflicted on two other young children.

One of them was the boy they tried to falsely

He had been locked, naked, in a makeshift cage made

Sometimes left there all night, his hands bound behind his

On other occasions the couple tied the other young boy they abused

to a chair and left him alone in a darkened room

It is a horrific case, the abuse and neglect they had

suffered, and then when Liam dies, one of the boys is blamed

It is only through our detailed investigation with our partner

services that we could tease out the truth and discredit Rachel

Concerns were raised repeatedly by people who feared Liam

A childminder who looked after him said she was having sleepless

She contacted the authorities, as did a woman who saw him covered

And the staff at his nursery catalogued numerous

Health visitors, social workers and the police all had

There were a range of agencies involved in supporting

And the details of that will be looked at through the

You cannot call it anything other than a failure, can you?

I think it is important that we allow the significant case

review to consider the circumstances of what has happened with Liam.

Rachel and Nyomi Fee's callous indifference to Liam

appalling suffering was, said one former friend,

They were sort of laughing and joking that they were going

Liam's father Joseph Johnson sobbed in court as the two women who killed

his son were finally found guilty of the toddler's murder.

If Liam had lived he would have been turning five and starting

But instead he will be remembered for these rare smiles which hid

Time and time again concerns were raised about Liam and his welfare.

The authorities looked into those concerns but the explanations given

by the couple that Liam was self harming was accepted. Whether Moore

could've been done to protect Liam will now be looked into but for

their crimes, and Nyomi Fee will be sentenced in July. -- Rachel and

Nyomi Fee. Leading figures in the campaign

for Britain to leave the European Union say

they want to be able to scrap VAT on energy bills to help

the poorest households - arguing that EU rules currently

prevent such a move. But those wishing to Remain

in the EU have accused the Leave Here's our Deputy Political Editor

John Pienaar. Take them all in. You wear a refugee

once. The referendum is getting heated. Today they were waiting for

Nigel Farage to show up. But reaching vital working-class voters

is now the name of the Leave side. And for those not too excited yet,

what about a promise to axe VAT on fuel bills at home. The Leave

campaign said we can afford it. At the moment inside the EU you cannot

very VAT and so there is an unfair tax burden on the poorest. I believe

if we leave the European Union we should remove VAT on domestic fuel

and that would save households ?60 a year. The in campaign is treating it

as a bit of a joke, like a gate-crasher in a gorilla suit at

the rally earlier. They have come up with an eye watering ?111 billion.

But which looks more dodgy to you the costings of the promises. The

stronger in Europe campaign said the Leave campaign promise ?150 million

extra on the railways. They say tax cuts promised by the Leave campaign

would cost nearly ?8 billion. But there has been no specific pledge to

do this. What we've heard over the past few weeks, people who want to

leave suggest they would spend money on this than that. It adds up to

billions of pounds of commitments. But as we've seen with economists

almost all and consensus, that the economy would be hit and we would

have less revenue, I think the Leave campaign need to explain where this

magic money is to come from. Take all the yard dash the ideas and

promises from the Leave campaign and they are spending this money over

and over again. The messages are getting more aggressive. The

economic claims from the Remain campaign made the early running and

now we will see if the tough warnings on migration and promises

of lower household bills put the Leave campaign back in front. Not

that they have been holding back so far. Remember the warnings of

millions of new migrants overwhelming hospital departments?

Around 8% on the population, almost 60% more people turning up for

treatment. Or the Remain campaign claiming that households would lose

money. That figure was based on a loss to the whole economy, not the

same thing. The debate is not as spiky as this everywhere but it is

one reason it is so bitter. Nigel Farage needs to fire up and get out

the vote, Remain campaign is come fallback. It will get tougher, with

dill 23 days to go. And our Political Editor Laura

Kuenssberg will have more on this issue and others to do with the EU

Referendum in "Britain and Europe, For Richer for Poorer"

tonight at 9 on BBC Two. Iraqi forces fighting their way

into the city of Falluja say they've fought-off a heavy counter-attack

by Islamic State militants. Up to 50,000 civilians

are trapped in the city. Falluja is just 30 miles west

of Baghdad and has been held Jim Muir was with Iraqi forces

outside Falluja today but is now The Iraqis have told you that they

are close to retaking Falluja? They still have a lot of fighting to

do before that is the case. The generals we spoke to down at the

rear base, which was as far as we could safely go, said they were not

yet in Falluja itself. That the confines of the city, the built-up

area on the south side, special combat forces whose commander with

spoke to had been pressing forward, right up against the southern flank

of the city. But they suffered the counterattack we spoke the night, at

three o'clock in the morning, with ire spiders storming of them and

throwing suicide bombers into the fray. And for our battle ensued. I

had the impression that the army was a bit on the back foot because there

is not an impression of a lot of momentum in their offensive at the

moment. On other brands they are even less close, up to the

north-west side of Falluja for example, still some big obstacles to

overcome afore they can close around the city and begin the final phase,

to push into the heavily built-up area where I spiders have had more

than two years to dig in. That is when the real battle for Falluja

will commence. These are just the luminaries and of course huge fears

for up to 60,000 civilians believed to be trapped with DIS fighters

there. Thank you. The collapsed menswear business

Austin Reed will close 120 stores after administrators failed to find

a buyer. The brand name and five concessions

were sold to Edinburgh Woollen Mill, but administrators said

there weren't any viable offers for the rest

of the 116-year-old business. The inquiry into child abuse

in Northern Ireland has begun to examine what happened

in Kincora Boys' Home At least 29 boys were abused

at the home between the late 1950s The inquiry will look

at whether state agencies - including the intelligence services

- knew that children Here's our Ireland

Correspondent Chris Buckler. The sexual abuse that took place

at the Kincora Boys' But decades later there

are persistent claims that all the secrets of this house have

not been revealed and that people, in positions of power,

were involved in a cover-up. Today, Northern Ireland's Historical

Institutional Abuse Inquiry began examining whether the police,

MI5 and MI6 among others knew that boys were being groomed

at Kincora and abused. You will also hear me refer

to and you will read claims of state-sponsored child

prostitution, paedophile rings, Many of the allegations relate

to the 1970s, a time of violence and turmoil in Northern Ireland

when knowledge was valuable, particularly in

gathering intelligence. And, it's been claimed

that the late William McGrath, who was one of the paedophiles

who ran Kincora, was at one Clint Massey was one of those

abused by McGrath. I firmly believe somebody up

there knew and said - When you say the authorities,

who do you mean? There have already been

investigations and enquiries, however many of those

who were abused insist they have Lives were scarred at Kincora,

but this latest inquiry faces a significant challenge,

in separating the facts Chris Buckler, BBC News,

Belfast. A mother and her partner have been

convicted of the murder of a toddler and horrific abuse of two

other young children. Will leaving the EU make our mobile

phone bills higher or lower? Hibernian have issued life bans

to supporters identified as being involved in the pitch

invasion and crowd trouble which marred the end

of the Scottish Cup Final against A special service has been held

in Orkney to mark the centenary of the Battle of Jutland -

the largest naval More than 8,500 British and German

servicemen died during the two David Cameron and Scotland's First

Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, joined the families of those who had

fought at the event. Our corrrespondent,

Nick Higham, It was from Scapa Flow, behind me,

the great natural anchorage in Orkney that the Royal Navy's grand

fleet set sail to meet the Germans. It was here today that

representatives of both sides came from a Service of Remembrance and

reconciliation to commemorate a brutal battle in World War I, but

one that's often overlooked. In the cold waters of the North Sea, a

British and a German warship scatters imballs of remembrance,

British poppies, German forget-me-nots over the century old

wrecks of ships lying on the Jutland bank. 300 miles away, a service of

commemoration at St Magns Cathedral. The British and German flags were

laid on the altar. Across the North Sea... Jutland was the only time in

history two fleets of massive battle ships met. The most powerful weapons

of their age. Both sides contrived

to claim a victory. The Germans sank more ships,

but never again ventured The British maintained command

of the sea and an economic Jolyon Robinson's father

was a junior midshipman on HMS Temeraire and wrote

an account of the battle. We past on our portside

all that was left of the battlecruiser Invincible,

her bows and stern sticking out John Nichol died onboard

Invincible, along with all but six of his shipmates,

leaving behind a widow Three of his grandchildren

were in Orkney today. He was a member of the Royal Navy

Reserve for 21 years. His primary trade was a fisherman

and he, unfortunatley, was lost in the battle

at the age of 39. Do you think somehow

the Navy's contribution in the First World War

has been forgotten? They were, sort of,

lost and forgotten. I'm so glad that this has come up

because it's a privilege to be here. This afternoon the Princess Royal

and the German President laid wreaths in the cemetery on the south

side of Scapa Flow. Descendants and sailedors from both sides took part,

reading accounts of the battle and a poem by a sailor who later died at

Jutland. Just off shore a German and a

British warship anchored side by side. Once enemies, now allies. Nick

Higham, BBC News, Orkney. Football, and both Wales and England

have announced their squads for next Wales have included Joe Ledley,

despite breaking his England have picked

18-year-old Marcus Rashford. It's a meteoric rise for a teenager

who played his first Premier League match only three months ago,

as Andy Swiss reports. Barely three months ago,

he was - Marcus who? Now, he's the teenager that

everyone's talking about. Marcus Rashford's journey began

a long way from the limelight as a youngster here,

at Fletcher Moss Rangers in Manchester, his photos

still adorn the dressing room walls and the man who coached him,

as a five-year-old, remembers one He started scoring 12 goals in this

particular game and started to set his team-mates up

because he'd got bored. He was just kind of

phenomenal on that pitch. I described him as like the mini

Messi of football. Here at this small, grass-roots

club, Marcus Rashford's talent But when when he was eight he came

to the attention of another team just a few miles down the road -

Manchester United. For all his promise though,

no-one was prepared for this. In February, on his Premier League

debut, he scored twice. COMMENTATOR: Oh, would you believe

it, Rashford again! That started a remarkable rise,

an England call-up, a goal on his international debut last week

and now a place at the Euros. He offers something

a little bit different. Rashford has already lifted one

trophy this year, the FA Cup. The question now is whether a player

still studying at sixth-form college can teach Europe a

footballing masterclass. You can check out England

and Wales' squads in full All this week we'll be looking

at what voting in or out in the EU With mobile roaming charges falling

substantially recently - and being scrapped within the EU

all together next year - would leaving the EU have any impact

on how much we'd spend making calls Our technology correspondent,

Rory Cellan-Jones, has Ladies and gentlemen, welcome

on board this Eurostar to Paris. Take a trip abroad and there's one

thing besides your passport you're almost bound to pack -

yes, your mobile phone, but across the Channel it'll soon be

warning you about the cost It's called roaming and there's

always the worry that it could result in some shocking bills

when you get home. Hang on, I'm going to turn

this off, actually. He just reminded me

to turn off my data. But for years now,

the European Union has been acting Capping the amount mobile phone

firms can charge you to call, The cost of roaming may

have come down but if, like me, use a lot of data, you can

still see the bills mount up, Anyone travelling from Britain

to another EU country and anyone coming here from across the EU

will find that roaming charges have been abolished completely,

but what happens if Britain decides It could be a little

bit more expensive. But I don't think people would stop

coming to the UK because of that. There are lots of other good reasons

for the Britons to stay in the EU, The mobile phone companies seemed

reluctant to discuss the implications of a Brexit,

even their statements said little. EE said EU membership meant they'd

been able to offer O2 said it was too early to predict

what would happen to roaming Vodafone said it would always do

what's right for our customers. Kester Mann watches the mobile

industry closely, what does Obviously, UK operators would no

longer be accountable to roaming regulations

from the European Union and so, in the long-term, we may start

to see roaming prices I think that the reality

is that, in a market as competitive as the UK,

this is extremely unlikely. Lower roaming charges is one

area where the EU's been Even if Britain left,

it seems unlikely any government As part of our series talking

to people about how they'll vote in the EU referendum and what's

important to them, tonight it's the turn of Samuel Gittings,

a cricket groundsman in Sheffield. My name is Samuel

Gittings, I'm aged 76. I've been working here,

at Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club, I'm undecided one way or the other

because if you listen to the debates, some saying it'll

be good if we leave, others saying it'll

be better if we stay. At present, I'm not sure which way

or who to really believe. Immigration has

always been an issue. Yes, we got a lot of skills here,

but we don't have all Even if we leave, I don't think

that we will close the borders to prevent other Europeans

from coming in. The positive is that we can trade

easier with the other For defence, we join with America

more often than we join So I can't see staying in Europe

or leaving Europe is going to make It's an important decision,

so you weigh up all the facts, all the benefits, the advantages,

disadvantages and then you make your decision and you go

to the ballot box. That's cricket groundsman,

Samuel Gittings, there with his views on voting in the EU

Referendum. . Hi. We may be an island, but we

have seen huge contrasts in the weather today. Look at Glasgow,

beautiful. You got the lion's share of the sunshine and warmth. West was

best in terms of sunshine. 24 degrees in Glasgow. Further east,

under the cloud and nagging northerly and persistent rain it was

a dismal day. We saw temperatures generally at 11 Celsius. Tonight the

rain will ease ease and become light and patchy. Cloud spilling in off

the North Sea, low cloud and hill and coastal fog. Towards dawn more

persistent rain will riff to the far north-east. Take a look at the

potential for heavy rain coming in off North Sea coasts across

north-eastern parts of England, stretching down into Lincolnshire,

down towards Hertfordshire and perhaps in Sussex towards the latter

stages of the morning. It will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain slowly

spreading south and west, perhaps pushing into east Wales and more

cloud around the south-west than we've seen today. Northern Ireland

and Scotland you again will see the best of the weather. The best of the

sunshine and therefore the best of the wafrmth. 19, 20 degrees not out

of the question. Underneath the cloud and along the North Sea coasts

and the strength of the wind more disappointing. Towards the end of

the week we will keep the cloud and rain to the south. Brighter and

sunnier and warmer the further north and west you are. Thank you very

much. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me,