04/12/2015 BBC Wales Today

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Keith Hughes is sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder.

He strangled his fiance and left her for dead on Gower.

Stacey Gwylim said, "the mental scars will always be

"there and I think a part of me died out on that coastal path."

As services for patients with obsessive compulsive disorder are

criticised as woefully inadequate, a father's battle for treatment

She is a prisoner to the illness, in terms of her whole day, other than a

couple of hours, is spent preparing, cleaning, in readiness for eating.

attracting more foreign companies to invest here.

Can Garry Monk turn around Swansea's season

against Leicester tomorrow after just one win in 10 league games?

And the skate park under threat given a lifeline from one of

"A part of me died that day" - the words of a woman attacked and left

Keith Hughes strangled Stacey Gwilym after getting into an argument

while they were walking on the Gower peninsula.

He tried to hide her body in undergrowth near the cliff edge.

Today he was jailed for life. Ben Price was in court.

On the surface, they were the happy couple. But this was a deeply

troubled relationship. Keith Hughes and Stacey Gwylim had been together

before but in 2013, he was jailed for three days after attacking her.

When he was released, they got engaged. Barbara Roche and ship

broke down again. Hughes begged for her to go for a walk to persuade her

to get back with him. Keep Hughes and Stacey Gwylim were walking along

this path. They started arguing and when things became heated, Hughes

strangled her. When she became unconscious, he tried to hide her

body off the path, Lviv -- using leas to cover it. He took the car

and left her for dead. When she came to, she crawled out of the

undergrowth, she was taken to hospital and put in a medically

induced coma for 14 days. She still walks with a stick and doesn't know

if she will ever recover. Today, in court, and impact statement was read

on her behalf. I will never fully trust a man again. Stacey Gwylim

wasn't in court but her family left after hearing the judge described

the person who beat their loved one as a man with a volcanic temper. In

sentencing, the judge said he considered it such a serious offence

that life imprisonment was appropriate. Keith Hughes will serve

eight and a half years in jail before he is even considered for

release. The judge said that will only happen if he proves himself to

be no longer a danger to the public or any future partners.

Rhian Bowen Davies is the National Advisor for Violence Against Women,

Keith Hughes had been jailed for previous attacks on Stacey Gwylim.

Could improvements be made to protect victims

I think certainly here in Wales, with the injured duo chunk of the

new act, we do need to improve arrangements for the protection and

support of individuals. One of the key is should any individual be

experiencing any form of fires, they can go to a professional who is

confident and has the skills to respond to a disclosure and is able

to access support for that individual. The introduction of the

National training framework for the extra few years will provide us with

more opportunity to respond to individuals. We need to ensure we

have specialist support revision available across Wales survey can

access high-quality support when they have made that disclosure and

that call for support. This case does show how complex abusive

relationships can be? All forms of domestic abuse have underlying

control. This individual had a lot of control over another and that's

make things difficult. It affects self, self-respect, and where and

how you are going to live without the abuser, that is one of the

greatest things we have to do is improve that. How much the problem

is in Wales? It can affect anybody. It affects families and individuals

across Wales. The police received 47,000 reports of domestic abuse

last year so it can occur in any community and any street in Wales.

There is a national helpline number for anyone who may be

It's a condition which affects around one in 50 people.

But a mental health expert in obsessive compulsive disorder

says patients in Wales are suffering unnecessarily

Professor Paul Salkovskis, who leads a specialist unit

in Bristol, has described provision here as woefully inadequate.

The Welsh Government says it expects all Welsh health boards to be able

to offer appropriate care, as Caroline Evans reports.

It is an anxiety related condition sometimes associated with compulsive

cleaning. A mental health problem regarded as relatively common but it

can be extreme. This daughter is 26. She is a prisoner in terms of a

whole day, more or less, other than a couple of hours, is spent either

preparing, cleaning, in readiness for eating. Or cleaning herself.

Speaking on her behalf, her father told us that at 13, she was told her

symptoms were part of growing up. Then she was diagnosed with

anorexia. But it was another six years before she was diagnosed with

OCD and is still receiving no treatment for the condition. It is

the paranoia that rules her life. It prevents any access to social

activities, work, she would ideally like to have a job. But at the

moment, she can't. The BBC recently won an award for its coverage of the

condition in this programme. One expert from England warned that

patients in Wales are being let down. It concerns me that we are

seeing patients with the much more rudimentary type of treatment than

we are offering would have solved their problems before they got to us

of being missed. I am seeing that more with Welsh patients than I am

with patients from Scotland, Ireland and England. The Welsh government

says ?600 million a year is spent on mental health and expects all health

boards and mental health service providers to be able to offer

appropriate interventions. Four of the seven health balls who commented

to the BBC told us they do employ experts to deal with a number of

conditions, including OCD. In the TV programme, the character does get

better and learns to live with his OCD.

The relative of a woman who was imprisoned by her own father,

Aravindan Balakrishnan, has said she feels hatred towards him.

Eleri Morgan, a cousin of the victim and her mother

Sian Davies, from Tregaron, has told BBC Wales that the Maoist cult

leader forbid any contact between Sian and her family in Ceredigion.

Sian Davies was a follower of his cult for two decades.

She died after falling out of a window in 1997.

Balakrishnan was convicted today of a string of sexual assaults.

Out of the blue in July 1996, she rang me. I was so shocked, I wasn't

quite sure to begin with. She said this is sharp here. I happen to know

several girls called Sian. She said it is your cousin. We spoke for a

while and I thought, keep her talking. She wanted to find out

about the family. I did ask where are you? She wouldn't say. I said,

can we meet, somewhere mutual? Go for a cup of tea. She said she would

ring me back and she never did. I think it was the beginning of her

wanting to come back to the family, really.

You can hear the full interview with Eleri Morgan on Newyddion Naw,

Cardiff Council is planning to increase the cost of school meals

by 10p, cut arts funding, and put up council tax by 4.5%

The local authority - which is the largest in Wales -

said it needed innovative new ways of working, in order to plug

The plans will now go out to consultation, with a final decision

Arriva Trains Wales are warning passengers there may be some

disruption to services over the weekend, due to the weather.

Meanwhile, emergency services have been taking part in an operation

on the River Dee after it burst its banks at Holt near Wrexham

Around 70 properties on both sides of the border have

been at risk of flooding with some cut off by the water.

At the moment, the river levels have levelled off, they haven't risen for

a day, overnight now. The -- that there is another weather front

coming in, plenty of rain coming down over the Welsh hills and for up

to 12 hours after that, we will see the water levels rise again.

The Vice Chancellor of Aberystwyth at University will step down. She

refused to delegations that the university was being run like a

dictatorship following alleged staff suspensions. She says she is

immensely proud of the work she has done there.

Wales appears to be bucking the trend in attracting jobs

That's according to analysis for BBC Wales.

The latest official figures show a sharp fall in investment

in the UK by foreign owned companies between 2012 and 2014 .

But economists at Cardiff University say

their research shows steady growth in projects here over the past year

Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins

and our business correspondent Brian Meechan now on the advantages

To begin ploys here in Wales. One is home grown, the other is from

Germany. Which one should Wales prioritise? It may seem like an

unlikely location for one of the world's biggest companies. Siemens

health care employs 40,000 people world wide, including many jobs in

Snowdonia. It is one of the biggest suppliers of technology to the

health sector and its tests are used to analyse blood and diagnose

medical conditions. This facility began operating in 1992. Around

seven years ago, there was a major investment which saw the creation of

150 jobs. It plays a major role in the local area here and in the wider

Welsh economy. In most of these multinational companies, there is

competition between different parts of them in different companies, in

order to secure investment from the parent group. They work closely with

local businesses. We spend ?10 million per year, 36% of that

spenders with companies in North Wales and 24% of that is with

companies within a 60 mile radius. So, it is a very strong

relationship. We are important to the local economy but the local

economy is very important to our success going forward. Siemens

health care has come and stayed but for those who think we should focus

less on getting multinational companies to invest in Wales, the

concern is that the profits leave and decisions are made elsewhere. If

they are not grounded here, they could easily move business to

another country. The bread may be whizzing along the production lines

but this company isn't moving anywhere. They have been making

loads in the Gwent valleys for 113 years. They are part of our economy.

This is still a family owned business. It spread is sold across

the UK and is even exported to France by a French chain of sandwich

shops. Its biggest proportion of customers is still here in Wales and

the many millions spend stays in the Welsh economy. Two thirds of its

workers live within ten miles. You look at my pay roll, it is ?9

million a year that I put back into the local community. All the outside

services, not just in the bakery, whether it be lawyers within Wales,

whether it be other services on a professional services, we use those

locally as well. Even the way bread is made has changed in the last 20

years. Some would argue Wales needs foreign investors to bring in new

skills and techniques. What does this economist think? Investment

from overseas companies and investment in Welsh companies, which

side would you come down on? That is a difficult question that I see the

advantages we get from foreign-owned investment in Wales. Again, we would

like to maximise the benefits. It helps fill the capital gap and also

the new technology, the new ways of working, there are a lot of positive

that we can see. Attracting more companies into Wales can kick-start

new companies. While Biber and Welsh owned companies keep more cash

within Wales, most economists agree you need a bit of both.

The campaign to save this skate park in Swansea.

And be prepared to be blown around this weekend as we do have some

Well, let's head straight to the sport now.

Skateboarding, football and rugby. Tomos has all the latest for us.

The Swansea City manager Garry Monk says he's held open

He's trying to turn around their poor recent run of results which has

seen the Swans win only one of their last 10 league matches.

Swansea take on Leicester tomorrow who are second

in the league, helped largely by the goals of Jamie Vardy who scored in

a record-breaking 11th consecutive Premier League game last weekend.

But Monk says he plans to end that amazing goal-scoring

Our club will appreciate a story like that as well so full credit to

him but it is our job to put an end of that story. I am sure our

defenders will be thinking about that going into the game. We have

prepared to try to counteract their strengths and concentrate our -- one

hours. It will be a difficult game. They are at the top of the league,

doing exceptionally well. They are very much not to be underestimated.

It's FA Cup weekend and Newport County play Barnet tomorrow

a win would see them in the third round draw when the

Striker Oliver McBurnie, who scored a hat-trick

on his debut last weekend after joining on loan from Swansea,

In the Championship, Cardiff face bottom side Bolton.

Elsewhere, Wes York, whose Wrexham side travels to Torquay tomorrow,

has apologised to manager Gary Mills after pleading guilty at

Chester Magistrates Court to being drunk and disorderly last month.

Rugby, and the Wales and Ospreys fly-half Dan Biggar has signed

He agreed his first dual contract in March.

This new deal has an option which could see him stay

This is the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park where both Rhys Patchell and

Alex Cuthbert will return tonight for the Blues after injuries.

They're up against Pro 12 leaders Connacht.

The game's live on Scrum V Live tonight at 7pm, over on BBC 2 Wales.

The Scarlets, second in the table, having won seven

of their opening eight games, take on Treviso tomorrow.

Next season, they'll be able to call on the talents of Jonathan Davies.

The Wales centre will be rejoining the region from Clermont Auvergne.

He says he could not have joined any Welsh region other than

There is no other club. I couldn't play for any other region. That is

who I grew up supporting. Playing for them for eight years, you get a

sense that who ever played fullback loved it. For me, growing up, I

remember Mike dad taking us to watch them when growing up. My mum said I

didn't look good in a black Ospreys jersey so I think she was making

that decision, really. More from Jonathan Davies on Sport

Wales at 9pm on BBC Two Wales. Now,

a skate park in Swansea in desperate need of cash is being helped

by one of the leading skateboarding Skin Phillips manages

a skate-boarding team in San Diego but has come home to see

his work auctioned to raise money. I'm joined by the

Adidas World Skateboarding team. Here we have some

of the best boarders in the World. They are managed by

Welshman Skin Phillips. Now 60 of his pictures are going

on sale here at the Volcano Theatre The profits will go towards

keeping The Swansea Exist A front side, and knows grind, and

inward he'll flip, just a taste of the terminology. This skate park is

a safe place for skate boarders of all ages to perfect these skills.

There is a certain amount of negativity attached to skateboarding

and skateboarders and I think it is not justified. Skateboarders will

scape in places where they are not supposed to get there is not a place

like this. It costs as as well as ?3 per session to skate but it needs at

least 30 people a day on the balls to keep the doors open. It is pretty

much every day. There is not a day that I don't go by that I don't

think about skating. We don't have anywhere else to skate around the

area. Closure would be a major blow, according to the skaters.

Getting support from the manager of the deed is professional

skateboarding team is a huge beast. Skin Phillips is a Swansea boy

currently living in San Diego and is one of the most prominent

skateboarding photographers in the world. His work will be auctioned

tonight with the proceeds going to this facility. Some are covers, some

are portraits of skateboarders. It is stuff that skateboarder would

want put on their wall. What is special about them? To me, you have

to be in it and know it to earn a bit of trust and respect. And that

respect is that you portrayed those people in the right way. And when it

comes to the grass roots of his sport, Skin Phillips is keen to get

behind young talent. The cities have to understand that skateboarding is

not going to go away. It needs funding and it needs help. Places

like this keep kids off the street. Naturally, you can't leave a skate

park without having a go yourself. I think I need a bit more practice.

But the least said about that, the better. So, it's a big night for the

skaters who are hoping this park will exist for years to come.

Forget about my skating. I am told some of the most iconic photographs,

like this one, could go this evening 400 and hundreds of pounds. To

emphasise how big he is, from January, a special Skin Phillips

shoe will be on sale in the shops and I am told they are hoping for a

similar night like this at in the United States in the future, again

to boost the scene here in Swansea. The BBC Cymru Wales Sports

Personality of the Year will be announced on Monday at the Wales

Sport Awards, and all this week, Tonight, it's the turn of

Geraint Thomas and Ashley Williams. 2015 has been another year of

achievement and triumph for cyclist Goering to Thomas. He was the first

Welshman to win a classic for 119 years. That success and second place

and a career-best in the France, you can see why he is regarded as

one of the best cyclists in the world. 2015 was the year that Ashley

Williams captained Wales that borders to their first ever

appearance in the European championship finals. Ashley, week

after week, was consistent, and is acknowledged as one of the best but

most underrated footballers in the league. Ashley Williams can reflect

on a job well done in 20 feet steam for Wales and Swansea City. To vote

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She's competing tonight in the individual sprint at the Track

Behnaz is here now with the forecast.

Before I tell you what the weather has in store this

weekend, I wanted to show you these beautiful pictures of the night sky

above Snowdonia National Park, because it's been made

It's the second place in Wales and only the tenth in

A shame we cannot cede the sky tonight as we have quite a bit of

cloud around and there are wet and windy conditions for Snowdonia.

Further south, something drier but blustery. It is dry currently, a few

showers ahead at the front but a few showers, need to North Wales is be

into the early hours of tomorrow morning. There is a yellow warning

for the rain in North Wales with potential for flooding and there are

strong winds. Further south and east, cloudy but dry and blustery

with nowhere near as windy as it is across North Wales. Strong to gale

force winds tomorrow, may be severe, across parts of the North.

Further south, just blustery. The rain across the North turning patchy

tomorrow. Some hints of Brighton is coming through to the east of higher

ground. -- some hints of brightness. As we going to tomorrow night, the

rain. To pep up a little bit and push its way south and eastwards. A

wet Saturday night, remaining blustery, but the winds should start

to ease as we going to the early hours of Sunday morning.

Temperatures, ten to 12 Celsius. When the rain starts to clear,

temperatures getting down to six Celsius. The front clearing as we

going to Sunday. Behind it, we should see something drier and

brighter but it will push back up again as we go into Sunday night.

First thing on Sunday morning, a wet start, the front pushing southwards,

then brightening up, drier and brighter as we going to Sunday

afternoon. Highs of seven to 13 Celsius and then the rain band will

come, pushing back up again as we go into Sunday night and that will give

us a wet start to Monday morning. Good night.

Officials in the US say the woman involved

in the fatal shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino in California is

believed to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The woman and her husband were later shot dead by police.

We will have a quick update at 8pm. And more after the BBC News at 10pm.

From all of us, thank you for your company and have a good evening.

Goodbye.