08/01/2017 East Midlands Today

Now the news now for the East Midlands.

A Leicestershire mum says she fears the man who killed her daughter has

Colin Pitchfork was given a life sentence in 1988,

for the rape and murder of 15-year olds Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.

But he's been moved now to an open prison.

It was the first time DNA profiling had ever been used

After thousands of men were screened by police,

Colin Pitchfork was caught and given 30 years in prison but now his

conditions have been relaxed and families of the victims

I'm very fearful because in my eyes it is his first

I believe he should never have had freedom.

How can a man who has done what he did, change?

It does not change the fact that he is a child killer.

In 2009, his life tariff was reduced by two years

because of his exceptional progress while in custody.

But Cath and her family have continued to campaign

She says the prospect gives her sleepless nights.

People will not recognise him now and so he thinks he's safe.

I think he'll come back eventually and I shan't know him.

If he walked alongside me, I would not know him and he'd know me.

In a letter to the Leicestershire South MP, Alberto Costa,

the Justice Minister Sam Gyimah has said Pitchfork's release

I think there are some crimes that are so heinous that you have to ask

whether it is ever right to release an individual.

What I am doing in my job as a member of Parliament is to make

sure the Ministry of Justice and the Prison service

are doing their job to safeguard the people of South Leicestershire

and indeed the people of our country.

The parole board is due to review the case again in early 2018.

Five men have been arrested by police investigating more

than 60 reports of damage to cars in Leicestershire.

Tyres were slashed and windows smashed last weekend in areas

including Thrussington, Glenfield, Frisby on the

The men have been bailed pending further enquiries.

The global response to Brexit has been partly blamed for delaying

a memorial to airmen killed above Nottinghamshire.

The tribute is for forty airmen who died in crashes around Bleasby

Right, boys and girls, come on, this way please.

The village has taken the memorial to its heart,

it is already a primary school project and the schoolchildren

recently dressed up to experience life as an evacuee.

Parts of the wreckage of a Wellington bomber which crashed

near the school were recovered by a farmer.

The memorial was meant to be in place in September

We originally had 19 young airmen who were killed

here in three incidents, but we've had more information from

We now know we had seven crashes and 40 young airmen who were killed.

The cost has gone up from six to ?8,000.

The granite is imported from India and priced in US dollars.

Since the Brexit vote, the exchange rate has gone down

by 15% so that has probably added ?1000 to the cost of the memorial.

Additional costs are due to the additional names we've

discovered being put on the memorial.

The memorial should be unveiled in two years on the 75th anniversary

Let's check on the weather now - Lucy has our forecast

It was another agree on murky start to the day today.

Plenty visible on the satellite picture.

The luckier of us just managed to catch the odd right interlude.

Through this evening and overnight, we continue on a similar theme.

That cloud thickening up to produce one or two spots

Temperatures falling to an overnight low of between five and 7 degrees.

A relatively mild start to the day tomorrow.

Plenty of cloud around before we see this band of rain coming

I think that could bring more in the wake of a breeze.

Temperatures reaching a maximum of nine Celsius.

As we move into Tuesday, it will be another cool night.

Moving through the week, the temperatures drop off

We are back tomorrow at 6:25am. Goodnight.

Good evening. Rain around for all of us over the next 24-hour. Then it

will turn colder later on this week. There will be frost and some snow

around. I must stress this cold spell will be nothing out of the

ordinary and nothing in comparison to the severe cold that other parts

of Europe have experienced over the last few days. A wet start today for

Northern Ireland and Scotland. Wet and windy. The rain will head its

way southwards and eastwards across the UK during the course of the day.

Turning up across the southern and eastern areas. Not a nice end to the

day. Heavy bursts of rain in the south-east and east Anglia in the

afternoon