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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
A man who killed a mother-of-two, while her husband listened | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
helplessly on the phone will spend an indefinite time in | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Nicola Cross was stabbed to death by a complete stranger as she tried | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
to stop him from kidnapping her two children at the family | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Her family said she enjoyed the perfect life. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
37-year-old Nicola Cross from Hemel Hempstead had a | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
loving husband and two adored young children but a random and brutal act | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Warehouse worker Marcin Porczynski was suffering from paranoid | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
schizophrenia when he broke into her home in September last year, | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
It led to an outpouring of grief on Dunlin Road | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
where Mrs Cross was a much loved member of the community. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
In sentencing Marcin Porczynski, the judge said the circumstances | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
in which you killed Nicola Cross were utterly horrific | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and senseless and represented every parent and husband's worst | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
He said, you've left the Cross family utterly devastated and two | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
young children without the wonderful mother who so loved and cared for | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
When she discovered the break-in, Nicola called her husband | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Danny, seen here leaving the court, who was away for work. | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
He told the judge in a statement, that phone | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
call plays over and over in my head along with Nic's screams | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect her. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
And he could see no future happiness, no | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
end to this trauma until my life comes to an end. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
With no history of violence, experts say there was no way of predicting | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
I think here, that it was really a tragic and unforeseen incident. | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
I don't think there should be much blame attached to anyone. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The person was extremely ill and what happened could not really | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Friends and neighbours who live on this tight-knit estate | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
in Hemel Hempstead supported the family through the court | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
proceedings and the judge paid tribute to the dignity | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
Marcin Porczynski admitted killing Nicola Cross, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
telling doctors he had to sacrifice her to | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
He will serve an indefinite term at a psychiatric unit. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
The judge described the young mother as heroic but ultimately defenceless | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Now, you'd expect the London Ambulance Service to be busy | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
at this time of year, but it's just recorded its busiest | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
It says incidents involving alcohol were the most common cause | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
for a call-out to people in their twenties and Londoners are | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
Gareth Furby's report does contain flashing images. | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
We're with a paramedic whose duty is to respond | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
in minutes to emergencies, but in the early hours | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
of Saturday morning, he is dealing with something else. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Honest truth, he's only just sort of started coming around. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
This call is to a kebab shop in Hackney, to a 25-year-old | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
What's going on tonight, what's happened? | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
What's happened is too much to drink, a condition | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
that is entirely self-inflicted, but the emergency services | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
It seems that she does need to be looked after and is vulnerable. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
She needs to be somewhere to be for a few hours just to get | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
to a level where she can get home safely by herself. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
That safe place was at hospital and at the weekend it seems this | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
In London, there were more than 16,000 emergency calls | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
to the ambulance service, making it their busiest | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Another call-out was to the City of London where they were several | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
exclusive Christmas events, but at one, a man was | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
I think he'd been out on a work do and a lot of people were intoxicated | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
and caused a fight and he's taken a few punches to the face. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
An arrest was made, but after being examined by the paramedic, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
the victim decided to decline hospital treatment and | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
But in many other cases at the weekend, it was a different | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
story and pre-Christmas drinking was often to blame. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
If someone is unconscious, we need to get to those | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
patients really quickly because there could be an underlying | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
condition like a serious head injury or a serious illness that is causing | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
So we have to prioritise those patients. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
And clearly when it is just alcohol-related we do have other | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
critical patients that we need to get to so we've managed it, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
But on the street, it was often challenging. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Here, the paramedics' vehicle was flagged down | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
And there were no weapons? No. | :05:12. | :05:23. | |
And the paramedic called the police as well as treating the man. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Londoners will continue to celebrate the build-up to Christmas, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
but the emergency services have to deal with the fallout | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
London schools could be facing bigger class sizes and fewer | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
That's according to the out-going chief inspector of schools. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Sir Michael Wilshaw leaves office next week after five years. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
He also said it's essential that schools do all they can | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
to prevent vulnerable pupils being exposed to radicalisation. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Our Education Reporter Marc Ashdown has been speaking to him. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
"Ofsted rates the school as" - one phrase which can make or break | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
For five years, Sir Michael Wilshaw has been at the helm. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
London schools, he says, are in the best year ever, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
but a new funding formula is likely to hit many. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
I think it's going to be more difficult. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
There's no question any funding cut or any funding | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
It might mean there will be reductions in staffing. | :06:24. | :06:35. | |
It might mean that schools might not be able to appoint support | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
staff in the numbers they were previously doing. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
For most of his tenure, Michael Gove was Education Secretary. | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
To say he was controversial is an understatement. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
I obviously didn't agree with him on everything but I suppose | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the questions that have to be asked are, is giving more power to people | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Was our curriculum too soft? Yes. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Was our examination system not competing | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
Yes, it wasn't competing, so he addressed those issues | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
and somebody had to do that and he did it. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
And occasionally heaps of opprobrium were poured upon him, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
but I supported him in doing those things. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
He cites the Trojan horse affair as his biggest challenge. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Fears surfaced of possible plots to radicalise schools, | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
One of the great dangers of autonomy in some of the schools, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
most of the schools we're talking about in the the Trojan horse | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Those governors with malign intent did what they did partly | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
because they realised that there wasn't sufficient | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
The local authority had washed its hands of these schools | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
They felt that they could bring in their own particular ideologies | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
and I think we've got to learn from that. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
We don't do enough to promote good leadership in the country. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
I'm sad at the demise of the National College | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
of School Leadership, which was Tony Blair's idea, | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
How do we get great leaders into unfashionable places? | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
That's going to be the big challenge over the next | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
few years, particularly with diminishing budgets. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Do you think it has been an outstanding performance? | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
That's for others to make a judgment. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
I've challenged the education system in this country to do better. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
That's caused trouble from time to time, and I have spoken | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
out from time to time, and I have challenged | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
But hopefully people, when they look back at my time | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
in office, will say, he was in it for the right reason, | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
because he wanted to see children getting a good deal. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Sir Michael Wilshaw talking to our Education Reporter Marc Ashdown. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather's up | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
It's feeling a bit colder this week with temperatures actually going up | :09:03. | :09:14. | |
and down for the next few weeks or so. We have some cheery Christmas | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
lights in the market here. And here in Trafalgar Square. We have the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
weather for the week ahead in the run-up to Christmas. It will be | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
really quite changeable this week. No two days will be the same. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Tomorrow will be dry and bright with sunshine. After that it will turn | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
quite unsettled. Some rain around at times and quite blustery as we head | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
to the end of the week heading towards Christmas. Overnight | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
tonight, a rain system clearing westward. Some clear spells here and | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
there with temperatures of five or six as we head into the morning. | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Some rural spots could see frost on the grass and isolated mist and fog | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
patches, but it will not be the widespread mist and fog we've seen | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
over the last few days. Tomorrow will be dry and bright with sunshine | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
around as well. Not a bad looking day, but it will be a touch cooler | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
with temperatures between six and eight Celsius. Wednesday, turning | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
mild again. Temperatures peaking at nine or 10 Celsius, but some | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
outbreaks of rain here and there and it will be great, drab and gloomy. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
That's how we will start the day on Thursday as well. Heading towards | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the end of the week, cooler and turning windy. Will it be a white | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Christmas? Probably not across London. It's quite likely it might | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
be across the rest of the country, so keep an eye on the National | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
forecast. It will stay quite windy. That's what we know about Christmas. | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
around, windy, but with dry and around, windy, but with dry and | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
bright spells. Heavy weather is brewing, it will | :11:02. | :11:14. | |
not reach us just yet. It will take a good few days before the stormy | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
weather reaches us. At the moment, it's just potential, nothing is | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
certain, but it will be different to what we've had over the last few | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
weeks, it's been so calm. We have a jet stream raging out of North | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
America making a beeline for the UK. It has peaked at jet level height, | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
blowing in excess of 200 mph, and it might whip up to max storms we are | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
watching. Friday had coming close to northern Britain, and then another | :11:46. | :11:46. |