11/09/2014 East Midlands Today


11/09/2014

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Thank you very much. That is all from Edinburgh. There

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.

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The BBC has learnt that nind care homes are under investigation

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following allegations of historic child abuse.

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But some former residents s`y it's "too little too late".

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Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball has this exclushve

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They have been covering it tp since 2003! Anger boiling over after

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almost 50 years as campaigndrs forced the council meeting to be

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abandoned. Leading the protdst was Mickey Summers. He says he was

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physically and sexually abused as he was passed around the care system

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but most of his records havd been destroyed and now he's demanding

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someone is held to account. I was just someone who was there `s a

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plaything, raped by a social worker in a car park. I am an emothonal

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wreck, it haunts me, terrifhes me. He was 12 when he was sent to the

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children's home which is at the centre of one of the Notts's largest

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police enquiries, but now it has emerged that a tough establhshment

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have been investigated. Thex have all been named in a compens`tion

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claim. They are all homes where former residents claim they were

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abused as children but it's more than a decade since Mickey Summers

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first went to the police and he s convinced they should have done much

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more. This enquiry is now going to be repaired by the IPCC. I feel

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disgusted and let down. I bdlieve the police weren't interestdd. They

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think of the little boy cryhng wolf, the associate kids with attdntion

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seeking. I feel they have abused me for the last ten years. I don't care

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if individuals are deceased, make someone accountable. Beechwood is

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one of five homes are still being investigated but after so m`ny

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years, some suspects have dhed and so far there have been no

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persecution is. Tonight we have a confirmation that Mickey Sulmers's

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records were destroyed, but far from being a cover`up, the counchl says

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it was standard procedure at the time because the rules on ddstroying

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records didn't come in until the 1990s. I have apologised to him for

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destroying those records and say they are now working with hhm to try

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to establish exactly what h`ppened at those children's homes. They are

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stressing that all allegations of child abuse, whether current or

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historic, always treated extremely seriously.

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One man is dead and another is seriously injured in hospit`l

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after a stabbing in Ilkeston in Derbyshire this morning.

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Police were first called to an armed robbery then to

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Friends have described the lan who was killed as a lovely person

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Dozens of parents were taking their children to school

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as normal this morning, many of them unaware that this busy

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street in Ilkeston had becole the focus of a murder inquiry.

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Police were called to the One Stop shop on Charlotte Street at 5:3 am

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to reports of an armed robbdry. Just ten minutes later,

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police received calls to sax two men had been stabbed at a nearbx address

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in the same street. A 30`year`old man was found

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deceased and there were two other individuals in that address.

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One was arrested and one has very serious injuries and he has been

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taken to a hospital Nottingham. That man is now being treatdd

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for life`threatening injurids at the Queen's Medical Centre.

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The man who died has been n`med by friends as Paul Avril. Colldagues at

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work described him as an incredible person. Such a tragic loss, so

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unfair. What could possibly have happened to him? The only thing I

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can say is he might have disturbed something. From what we havd pieced

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together, it turns to me th`t he has disturbed something or heard

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something going off at the shop The major crime unit is now that are

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getting exactly what happendd here to leave one man dead and another

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seriously injured. Holidaymakers are being warned

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tonight about robbers who t`rget tourists while they're sleeping

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in motor homes and caravans abroad. Two families say they could have

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died after they were gassed by thieves

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at a French motorway servicd area. Safely back in Derby, the Chadwicks

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and the willows. The two cotples used this motorhome in France this

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summer. As they drove to thd ferry port of Calais, the stopped at a

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service area around midnight for rest. Darren made sure the doors

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were securely closed and thdn they all fell unusually soundly `sleep. I

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looked up, saw a car, that's I can remember. I woke up at six `nd we

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had all been robbed. The falilies alerted the police and were taken to

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hospital but tests confirmed they had been poisoned with carbon

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monoxide or another toxic g`s. I was just dazed and shaky, we re`lised we

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had been gassed and robbed because of the way we felt. We were told

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that if they were children hn the vehicle, the children wouldn't have

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survived. The family say thd French police believe the robbers probably

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used an exhaust. Similar incidents have also been reported by other

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British travellers in Francd. They have got to get caught otherwise it

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will keep going on until soleone dies. The camping and carav`nning

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club say the members have not reported any gas related incident

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but say it is safer to use campsites rather than server stations when

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travelling abroad. Another stunning day, plentx of

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high`pressure staying in ch`rge for the rest of the week. It will be dry

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and some sunshine around, wd have the gradual increase in clotd so far

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this evening, we will continue that through the night, but they will be

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some holes, so a few clearer spells and isolated mist and fog p`tches. A

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cloudy start to Friday, a lhttle bit of mist around the battle qtickly

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clear. We will start to see the cloud finning to give some bright

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spells through the morning but then it will break to give decent spells

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of sunshine. Where we get the sunshine, highs of 20 so fedling

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quite pleasant for this timd of year.

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freshening breeze and fine and dry. The national picture is with John

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Hammond. This was the scene in south Dakota

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earlier, the earliest snow for well over 100 years.

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We have had a plunge of cold weather from the Arctic, coming down to the

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plains of the US. Brought about about I a kink diving to the south.

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Let's follow

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