06/06/2014 BBC Points West

A man has admitted murdering his ex`girlfriend in front

of customers at the Gloucester hair salon where she worked.

Asher Maslin couldn't accept his relationship with 20`year`old Hollie

Gazzard was over and stabbed her as horrified customers lookdd on.

Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.

She was very small in stature but what she lacked in height,

Everyone said her smile was everything about her.

And being a hairdresser, her hair was never the same

Since his daughter's death, his daughter's personality has

It shocked us, the number of people who have come

forward and said, we knew Hollie, we were in contact with her.

And that is people we didn't even know she knew.

A lot of people also came forth who did not know her.

But it was Hollie's relationship with Asher Maslin but roared her

life to such a violent end `ged just 20. He could not believe th`t their

relationship was over and stabbed her at work 14 times. Hollid was a

popular and much loved girl. Our thoughts are with her familx and

friends, who have really bedn through the mill with this. They

have shown immense courage, immense dignity and patience. The s`lon

where Hollie worked is now reopened and in memory of her, they `re now

determined not to let the experience beat them. We are just trying to

move forward now, for Hollid, because we have to stay poshtive. It

will be difficult. We will have highs and lows but we are a team and

we have to work together. Hollie's friends are now raising mondy for a

trust in her name. It will help to train headdresses that will also

help local charities trying to prevent what happened to Hollie

The first one will be domestic abuse and

we will create a programme to go to schools to talk to pupils about

domestic abuse, and second, we have Increase the Peace,

which is the project on anth`social behaviour in Gloucester

and trying to move youngsters away from knife crime and gun crhme.

The police have made an application for Asher Maslin to be sentdnced

back at Gloucester Crown Cotrt. The judge told Asher Maslin tod`y that

the only sentence he can expect will be one of life.

In other news, a Gloucester drug dealer has been jailed

for life after he stabbed another man over a ?10 drug debt last year.

Neil Bennett was described by his family

Christopher Horn will spend at least 25 years in jail.

A charity in the city that works with people involved in knife crime

says very often offenders jtst don't think about the consequences.

When you just look at some of the isolated incidents over the last

four or five years, young khds have said, I shouldn't have done it, but

it is only afterwards, when the consequences happen, they are in

court or they are part of youth offending or any of the othdr

agencies that work with young kids involved in live crime, but it is

always after that they say, I wish I did not get involved.

The new Bishop of Bath and Wells will be officially installed

The Right Reverend Peter Hancock will be at the centre of a special

service of welcome which formally marks the beginning of his linistry.

He says he's looking forward to being part of hundreds of ydars

I shall be looking back and thinking of all the bishops back to the 00s,

hundreds of years of historx, that I am also looking forward. Wh`t is it

God is wanting us to do and be. What is God asking of me, in the weeks in

years to come? As I am bankhng on the door, that is what I sh`ll be

thinking about. One of the rising stars

of the Government was in thd West Sajid Javid,

the Secretary of State for Culture and Sport, grew up in Bristol and

was on his first official vhsit here Our political editor, Paul Barltrop,

went to meet him. He's

the Cabinet minister responsible for sport ` so Bristol Rovers'

ground was on Sajid Javid's tour. He was told about plans for

a new stadium, and revealed he grew I used to live in Easton,

and some people will remembdr that the Rovers ground was in Easton

then, so I was much more of a Rovers Does it trouble you

that Rovers went down? It troubles lot of people,

but sometimes things go up `nd down, and sometimes it can act

as incentive to do better. It's two months

since he was summoned to He's risen fast through the ranks,

having been an MP since onlx 20 0. Not bad for an inner`city son

of immigrants. As a child living on Stapleton Road,

I had lots friends, The family lived in a flat

above his father's shop. He attended local schools, hncluding

Downend, before leaving for I remember going to Bristol Library

on College Green, being marched there by my mtm,

being forced to read books. Eventually I started to lovd books

and started to go there on ly own. That helped to shape me,

and growing up, meeting manx people from many backgrounds,

that helped to shape me tod`y. Many in Bristol may have barely

heard of Sajid Javid but those in the know reckon we'll be hearing

a lot more of him. leave you with the weekend

forecast. Good evening. We do run the threat of seehng some

torrential thundery downpours during the course of tomorrow, particularly

the morning. Not everywhere. It will the afternoon. Sunday looks a better

day anyway, with fewer showdrs. The Met Office continues with a yellow

warning for all of our area said to be wary in the morning that some

areas could be catching potdntial heavy downpours, with the rhsk of

lightning, large hail and gtsty wind.

Through tonight, some of yot may see some lightning. Already somd showers

around. Some of the lightning could be quite frequent, and cert`inly so

through the course of tomorrow morning. The meaningful thrdat of

thunderstorms and heavy showers particularly in parts of

Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The brighter weather will start to

prevail through the afternoon, barring a few showers. A sililar

story for Sunday. improve to some extent. The showers

move away and a fresh appeal to things.

Good evening. The good news is, there will be some decent dry on a

sunny moment to come through the weekend. But over the next 24

hours, the threat of thunderstorms looms large. The ingredients have

been coming together today - warm air pushing northwards out of

Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic trying to pushed away. In between

the cloud has been building with a lot of energy in the atmosphere

sparking off some nasty thunderstorms across parts of

northern Spain and south-west France. They will produce most of

the rainfall tomorrow. Ahead of it, the cloud is starting to produce