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forget a first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel. But | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Good evening. I'm Jenny Kirk. 1 members of a family from Norfolk who | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
kidnapped and tortured a prdgnant woman and her partner have been | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
jailed. They were trying to extract confessions, convinced that the pair | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
had killed their relative Gdrtrude Frankham. She'd actually didd from | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
natural causes. Here's our home affairs correspondent Sally Chidzoy. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Behind bars tonight, members of a family fixated on revenge. They re | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
the daughters, grandchildren, great`grandchildren and a | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
daughter`in`law of Gertrude Frankham, the widowed matri`rch of | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
the family. She had been married to Eli Frankham, often describdd as | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
"king of the gypsies". Norwhch Crown Court heard how Gertrude was found | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
dead in her bed in December 201 . The family were convinced she'd been | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
murdered. They kidnapped thd man they believed responsible and his | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
heavily pregnant partner. They severely beat them in an attempt to | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
extract confessions. They fhlmed it all. The lady in question bding | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
filmed was very distressed. She was in a lot of pain and discomfort as a | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
result of being physically assaulted. She was assaulted while | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
the camera was running and she was being intimidated. With a mob of | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
people around her, effectivdly. Police were alerted after | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Gertrude's daughter Sheila Conboy dialled 999 to tell police they had | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
a confession. Police investigated the famhly's | :01:28. | :01:51. | |
murder allegations. Gertrudd's body was excused from Wisbech Celetery. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Two pathologists examined hdr remains. Police concluded she'd died | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
from natural causes. Sentencing the 11 defendants to a total of 60 years | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
in jail, the judge, Stephen Holt, said they were a family who saw | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
themselves as being above the law, that they impose their own law. He | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
said they punched, kicked and dragged the male victim into a | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
warehouse and forced him into a chair. It was, he said, a scene | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
reminiscent of some vile Hollywood film. The two victims live `t a | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
secret location under policd protection. The Frankham falily | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
still insist Gertrude was mtrdered. She will get her justice. The | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Norfolk Police know who the murderer is. On being jailed, none of the | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
family showed remorse. A man who stabbed a young mother to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
death in Colchester has been given a life sentence. Mark Czapla believed | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
his girlfriend Kirsty Humphrey had been cheating on him. He has never | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
expressed any remorse and whll now serve at least 23 years in prison. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
He is a coward. This was a despicable attack on his felale | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
partner, Kirsty. And he didn't have even the guts to come to thd court. | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Either to face the family, to hear the evidence or to hear sentence | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
pronounced upon him by the judge. The ongoing investigation into a | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
helicopter crash in which the Conservative peer Lord Ballxedmond | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
and three other people were killed has not yet found any technhcal | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
malfunction. The helicopter came down in thick fog at Gillingham | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
near Beccles, three weeks ago, just after it had taken off. The Air | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Accident Investigation Branch say they'll now be focusing on the lack | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
of visibility. There are so many potholes on the | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
roads in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex that it could take years to clear | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
the backlog of repairs. Our councils are now getting just over ?8.5 | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
million from the Government for repairs. But the money won't cover | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
all the work needed. Matt Precey has more. | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
Last year severe or whether caused severe damage to the roads. The | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
problem was prolonged and torrential rain this year. In the last six | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
months, Suffolk county council alone has repaired 9500 potholes. The | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
roads have been saturated and any minor cracks or small holes in the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
road, the water finds its w`y in there. The pressure from thd tyres | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
on the road expands those holes and the inevitable consequence hs more | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
potholes breaking out. And the Government has provided extra | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
funding for repairs. Norfolk gets the most, with more than ?3.5 | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
million. Essex and Suffolk nearly ?3 million. But according to today s | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
report, it will take approxhmately eight years to clear the backlog. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
They predict that at this r`te, some of the roads won't be resurfaced for | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
decades. Councils tell us that despite the extra money, it's simply | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
not good enough and they won't be able to deal with all the potholes. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
We currently spend around ?6 million a year on repairing potholes and | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
patching roads. That is the more reactive maintenance. We've spent | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
approximately, last financi`l year, about ?18 million on more | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
preventative work. So that really puts the figure into context. And | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
you've been telling us your potholes stories. Emma called to say that her | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
road had 20 to 30 potholes despite repairs. On Facebook, Simon said | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
that a particular road in Chelmsford was the worst he had ever sden. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Peter said this photo that he took yesterday. If you know of any | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
examples of potholes near you, get in touch with us. More on this on | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the programme tomorrow. The club captain at Norwich City | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
says giving the fans their loney back following their defeat against | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Swansea on Saturday is not ` PR stunt. The Canaries lost 3`0, their | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
ninth away defeat in a row. Almost 900 fans will be getting ?20 each | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
and the players are paying for it themselves. This club is a bit | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
different to a few in this league. I feel the relationship betwedn the | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
fans and the players is different and is closer than many clubs. Round | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
the city, it's not the biggdst city, so you're bumping into fans | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
constantly. You don't get that in a lot of places. We just want to | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
emphasise that and how good they've been for us and we're going to need | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
them to be exactly the same come the next. They've backed us homd and | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
away. And with talk of smog and pollution | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
levels being higher in our region than anywhere else in the country | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
for two days now, who better to tell us if this is going to conthnue than | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Alex with the weather? We are going to change the wind | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
direction to a south`westerly. It comes about because of this weather | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
front pushing in from the Atlantic, bringing clean and fresh air. It | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
should stay dry and not particularly cold tonight. Lows of around nine. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
We kick off tomorrow with qtite a bit of cloud and some mist patches | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
through the morning so it m`y be overcast. Into the afternoon, the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
chance of seeing something bright and even some sunshine. A lhght west | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
or south`westerly winds tomorrow. We might just get up to 16 Celsius | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
somewhere, which is 61 Fahrdnheit. A better chance of sunshine into the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
afternoon. Peter Gibbs has the national forecast next. For the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
weekend, some dry weather around but also some wet weather. | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
had today. That is the way the weather looks. Now the latest on the | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
pesky pollution. Good evening. They say a change of | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
air is good for you and that is what we have on the way. The brush | :07:47. | :07:47. |