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Good evening. look at the papers on | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
A Gloucestershire couple have been jailed for leaving their chhldren | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
to live in squalor, infested with lice and in filthy clothes. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
A judge said the children stffered terribly, and although they had not | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
been deliberately cruel, their parents had been "stupid, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Here's our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Inside the house where five children lived a life of squalor and suffered | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Dirt`ridden carpets, soiled mattresses, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
rubbish and clothes everywhdre ` the bedrooms smelt of urine | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
and animal faeces ` one of them even had ivy growing through the window. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The children suffered from a poor diet and terrible hygiene. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Those at school were ostrachsed ` one smelt so bad, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
The children were often infdsted with head lice, which their mother | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
The law prevents us from iddntifying them to protect the children. | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
But I spoke to their father before he was sent to prison. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
We did not stop loving than but we did let them down. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
In a way of development and growing up. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
How did you let your children get into this state? | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
It is a range of failings on my behalf, my wife's behalf and social | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
Social care and health teams tried, unsuccessfully it turns out, to help | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
The investigation started after the couple's two year old | :01:46. | :02:13. | |
daughter was admitted to hospital with severe nappy rash ` thd pain | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The detective in charge of the case told me it's been the most | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Neglect is around failing to meet the basic needs of the child so that | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
they can develop and meet those milestones that normal children do. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
And these children were not reaching those normal milestones | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
that most children do meet, such as being | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
able to walk or use the toilets. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
The judge said that the parents were inadequate, stupid, | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
stubborn and incompetent but that they were not wickdd. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
They did not deliberately inflict pain on their children | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
and they tried their limited best to bring up their children correctly. | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
A Somerset MP is under investigation by the parlialentary | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
The Standards Commissioner will consider whether the Wells LP Tessa | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Munt should have declared a poll carried out in her constitudncy on | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
The survey was paid for by Lord Oakeshott and asked people | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
if they'd change their vote if the Lib Dems changed their leader. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Tessa Munt said she welcomed the inquiry | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
Police are appealing for couples to come forward if they | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
feel they've been scammed bx a woman claiming to be a surrogate Lum. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
A judge today sent Louise Pollard ` from Bristol ` | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
to jail for pretending to bd pregnant and cheating two ddsperate | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Detectives say they believe other victims may be out thdre. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
28 year old Louise Pollard had said she wanted to become | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
the most prolific surrogate mums in the country. | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Today she certainly became one of the most notorious. | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
The court heard that Pollard who has two children | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
of her own says she had previously been a genuine surrogate mother | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
At the beginning of 2012, she had been contacted by a couple online ` | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
She had agreed to carry a b`by for them and they had agreed to pay | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
The court heard she went on to artificially inseminated | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
herself and on two occasions pretended to have fallen prdgnant ` | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
even faking a video of her carrying out a pregnancy test. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
But on both occasions she l`ter said she had miscarried after taking more | :04:33. | :04:47. | |
In 2013, another couple, Debra and Winston Kaba, | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
They too agreed to pay her to carry a child for them and again, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the court heard, she pretended to fall pregn`nt, this | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
But again, soon after, she said she'd miscarried ` having t`ken more | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
The court heard the whole episode was extremely traumatic for both | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
One woman said she had been left feeling she would | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Another victim said he and his wife's world came crashing down when | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Pollard who had previously hit the headlines in 2010 when she | :05:15. | :05:29. | |
agreed to be a surrogate for the Bin Laden family pldaded | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
Today, police appealed for any other couples involved with | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Pollard told us about other couples she has been | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
involved with and we don't have the details so if anyone has been | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
directly affected by her activities, please contact your local force | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Sentencing her to three years, the judge told her this wasn't just | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
a case of financial loss but a case of two desperate couples behng taken | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Yes, they have lost money but they have lost a lot more than | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
There's of course more news on the BBC Website. | :06:06. | :06:20. | |
We're back with you tomorrow in Breakfast from 6.30. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
But for now I'll leave you with Jemma who have | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
But for now I'll leave you with Jemma who has | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
Hello, we are in for a nice week of weather | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
in the West Country with a nice big ridge of high pressure dominating. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
For the bulk of the week, a dry story ` the odd shower or two | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
generated by the heat but good sunny spells and fdeling | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
High pressure is anchored fhrmly over us keeping things stathc. | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
The chance of a few showers drifting down tonight into the early hours | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
of Wednesday but they won't amount to a great deal. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Tomorrow, a cloudy night and a cloudy start but mild. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
As an go through Tuesday sole decent holes in the cloud and | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
by the afternoon temperaturds rising significantly with nhce | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
A north easterly breeze but 22 Celsius is achievabld | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Thereafter, a settled story with good spells of sunshine and I leave | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
one or two showers around and with more across the UK, here is John | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
Hammond. A lot of dry weather this week. Some | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
important variations from day-to-day and place to place. The cloud will | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
come and go and the warmth will Take today, we were shivering under | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the cloud in eastern England. . In stark contrast here, 25 Celsius | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
here. The warmest day of the year so far. On Tuesday, the map turns | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
orange. That shows higher temperatures for many of us | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
tomorrow. Not exactly cold overnight. Under the clearest of the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
skies, in rural spots, will get down to six or seven Celsius. For larger | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
towns and cities, will get to double figures. Dampness in Scotland. It is | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
a cloudy start where you are across the south | :08:24. | :08:24. |