05/06/2014 BBC Points West

Good evening. There is a first look at the

A trainee barrister who falsely accused her boyfriend of rape

so she'd have an excuse for failing her exams is facing jail.

Rhiannon Brooker from Frampton Cotterell near Bristol was

found guilty on 12 counts of perverting the course of justice.

Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt Steve Brodie reports.

Railway worker Paul Fensome was arrested and held in custodx for 30

days while the police investigated the lawyer's allegations.

But officers discovered that at the time

of the alleged he'd been working on the railways in Birmingh`m.

He was eventually released with an apology.

My heart goes out to any wolan who has been raped or assaulted, but my

father told me never to hit all rape a woman, and that is what I have

lived by. I mentioned that hn court. But it was hard work, and my

personal feeling is that anx woman who has been genuinely raped should

report it. The jury heard how law gradtate

Rhiannon Brooker had gone to the police, claiming she'd been

raped and assaulted 20 times. I have no feelings for her. After

today, her name will never be mentioned to me again. My n`me has

been cleared and my jury fotnd me not guilty of 20 counts unhtrt

guilty of all of them. My n`me is clear `` and her guilty of `ll of

them. I hope she gets a decdnt sentence.

When being interviewed by detectives, Brooker, 30,

gave a detailed statement admitting she'd been lying.

She said, "I expected someone in the Crown Prosecution Service to read my

confession to the police and realise it was a lie and drop the c`se?

The message to genuine victhm of rape and sexual assault is simple,

go to the police and tell them what happened. Do not be in fear of being

prosecuted for lying, because unless you are lying, and we will find out

if you are, you have nothing to fear. We will prosecute if ht is in

the public interest and there is sufficient evidence to do so.

The police say women must report any rape or assault.

I would like to give the message to all victims of rape, abuse `nd

domestic abuse that this case is an example of how we do take all

allegations at face value. Absolutely we will investig`te and

search for the truth. Brooker was found guilty

of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and whll be

sentenced later in the month. Well, earlier, I spoke to

Professor Phil Rumney, an expert in criminal justice from the University

of the West of England, who's researching whether anonymity should

be given to those accused of rape. I started by asking whether he

thinks it will ever happen? We don't know whether or not people

accused of rape actually suffer a unique social stigma compardd to

people accused of other typds of crimes such as terrorism or murder.

If, of course, people are accused of rape and have the unique sthgma

that is an argument in favotr of anonymity, but we do not know if

that is true. A lot of people would argue that stigma is attachdd, but

victims of rape get anonymity, so why not those accused? That is

because rape defendants are treated like any other defendant. Ddfendants

in robbery cases, murder cases or terrorism cases, they don't receive

anonymity either. You have spoken to many who have been accused of rape

as part of your research. What did they say? One of them said that the

accusation, he described hilself as being covered in a cloak. Hd was

worried about going out. He was fearful of people finding ott about

the accusation. If he was w`lking down the street, he didn't know who

knew or didn't know. And it was also the case that he had fear, his

family also had fear becausd we know that the stigma attached to a person

accused also spreads to fridnds and family. Like you very much. `` thank

you very much. A former mayor of Weston Super Mare

is to be added to Philip Judd pleaded guilty to 1

charges, including making indecent photographs of a child

and possessing films and im`ges He'll be sentenced

in six weeks? time. If you live in Gloucester, xou'll

know the centre of the city's been the site of a big archaeological

dig over the past few weeks. They've been searching

for evidence of the Roman hhstory of the place, before King's Square

undergoes a big redevelopment. An old saying says scratch

the surface of Gloucestershhre and you'll find a piece

of Rome not far underneath. In 2005, a mass Roman grave was

unearthed, possibly all victims The famous Woodchester mosahc

still lies just outside Stroud. But to go back in time

in the centre of this city, To find traces of the Romans in

Gloucester you have to find a level that the streets were at here, and

to do that, you have to go down about three metres. We stood at the

level of Roman Gloucester. For archaeologist Andrew, opening up a

world long buried beneath otr feet. To an untrained eye all just mud

perhaps, but there's evidence it was a wealthy prosperous city

with excellent remains. The excavations have windows

for the passing public to pder through, bringing home

the history of this ancient city. We have been an important strategic

part because of the place on the settlement the 2000 years, but we do

not want to live as people did 000 years ago myself have to make it

modern, but protect the history and heritage we have.

At the bottom of these pits, the walls of a possible townhouse

Evidence of life being led here almost 2000 years ago.

There's of course more news on the BBC Website.

But for now here's Ian with the forecast.

Thanks. Another warm day tolorrow, and warmer than we've seen through

the course of today. There should be a good deal of sunshine arotnd and

dry conditions. Not so as wd head into Saturday. A reminder wd still

have a yellow warning out and we have looked ahead toward Saturday

for their `` the threat of heavy, disruptive rain and it could be

large hailstones and gusty winds. We will update you through the course

of tomorrow. Through the cotrse at night, bar some patchy rain in the

West, will be a dry night, with temperatures between six and 10

Celsius. Tomorrow, a cold start quickly the sunshine gets to work

and it will become increasingly warm and quite muddy through the course

of the afternoon. `` quite luddy. Really no chance of any showers

during the daylight hours as we get late into the night. Temper`tures

tomorrow somewhere in the low 2 s, 2122 is likely. Beyond that, a

reminder of the situation the Saturday, the morning could turn

very wet. A better day on Stnday. high as 24 degrees. Looking forward

to the weekend, thundery showers. As you will have seen, I cannot promise

you sunshine and blue skies, but I can promise warm. Warmer