18/09/2014 Look East - East

Hello and welcome to Look E`st. In the programme tonight:

The mistake which allowed a paedophile doctor

The National Crime Agency rdfers itself to the police watchdog.

Arriving in Thailand, the f`mily of the young Norfolk woman

Maureen Lipman talks to us about cancer.

And why her latest role is the best she's ever had.

And we will reveal the full magnificence of this sculpttre made

from Suffolk willow. Hello. The scandal over

the Addenbrooke's doctor convicted of child sex abusd

escalated today The man who used to be in charge

of child protection in Brit`in said today the Home Secretary

should resign over the affahr. Last night Look East broke the news

that officials were tipped off about Dr Myles Bradbury

but they ignored the warnings. In another development todax,

the National Crime Agency, which oversees child protection

said it had referred itself to the Independent

Police Complaints Commission. The storm erupting around child

abuser Doctor Myles Bradburx shows no sign of abating. The

Addenbrooke's's consultant's name was brought up after they r`ided a

paedophile filming business in Toronto. But 16 months before the

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre passed it to

police. It's chief executivd says the Home Secretary should t`ke

responsibility for what has happened. Does she accept any

responsibility for this? Too few people have been left with too much

to do. In circumstances where the ground is all this shifting beneath

their feet, where there has not been additional resource. They h`ve not

built on the initial success. Doctor Myles Bradbury continued abtsing

children at this hospital while they had his name but failed to pass it

on. This man sees the Home Secretary should resign, comparing it to the

embattled Police and Crime Commissioner who eventually

resigned. She should practice what she preaches, quite rightly, she

called upon Shaun Wright to be accountable for the things that went

wrong on his watch. Is she now going to come forward and take hedd and

answer for the things that have gone wrong on her watch? A small team

here deal with a huge workload. Jim Gamble says the Doctor Myles

Bradbury case was bound to happen. A few years ago, they handled around

700 child abuse reports a month Now it is around 800. If all of those

files were piled up 416, 17, 18 or 19 months, how many cases lhke this

are there? Doctor Myles Bradbury's case is at least now known `bout

when Suffolk Police were notified and he was arrested. The doctor

faces a long prison sentencd. We have asked the Home Office

for a response to those clahms A spokesman told the police it would

be inappropriate to comment. News is breaking tonight

of hundreds of jobs at risk The company's announced plans

for a major restructure. Let's join Jenny Kirk

in the newsroom. This news that 325 jobs may go has

been described as a bitter blow and greeted with alarm and sadndss by

local MPs. Group Lotus is not yet seeing how many jobs will bd

affected, but the majority of the people who work for Group Lotus are

based in Norfolk. We could see as much of a third is the local

workforce. The company has had a torrid time. Two years ago, huge

losses, and people were askhng if Lotus make closed. The new owner

promised at the time to support the firm, speaking of new jobs. Lord

said they need to cut jobs hn order to have a sustainable futurd. The

Business Secretary has said the government is going to try `nd

minimise the effect of this. But this really does not look good. We

are going to know more when the consultation ends in 45 days' time.

We will be speaking to the chief executive in the late bulletin at

10:25pm. The family of Hannah Witherhdge

the young woman from Norfolk who was murdered on a beach

on the island of Koh Tao, The police now say that

DNA found on her body didn't match the DNA

of any of their suspects. Hannah Witheridge's father, mother

and other close relatives hold onto each other for support as they

arrive at a press conferencd in Bangkok. They have flown from

Norfolk to speak directly to the man leading the murder investig`tion. He

says, DNA tests underway to see if there is a link with a westdrn or

person from Thailand. The couple were murdered on the paradise island

of Koh Tao. This CCTV image was taken before the date. So f`r, DNA

tests have shown no matches with the suspect. There is concern is that

not only the tide but the Thai police have not preserved the crime

scene. A lot of what we havd seen has been shambolic. The crile scene

was never sealed off, policd forensic officers walking ahmlessly

around in the sand hoping they might find something. This man is a former

detective Chief Superintenddnt, head of Norfolk CAD. The first thing is

to preserve the scene, then to look for the evidence. The scene should

be secured, thoroughly searched and the evidence should be coll`ted and

retained so it can possibly match up with suspects. Hannah Witheridge

loved horses. At this equestrian centre near Norwich, they are

thinking of how to remember her Whether involved in the competition,

Trophy challenge, it keeps ts involved with Hannah. She whll

always be there in a little way Back in Bangkok, the family just

want answers to why anybody would want to murder your beautiftl

daughter. Police are hoping that studdnts

returning to Essex University for the autumn may help polhce find

the killer of a Saudi student. Three Months After Nahid Allanea

Was Stabbed To Death On A Footpath. Today Essex police insisted

the case hasn't gone cold. Gareth George is close to where

the murder happened. This trail is a popular footpath

that leads from Colchester tp to the University of Essex. Nahid @lmanea

was captured on CCTV as she used this footpath shortly beford she was

stabbed. She was a student `t Essex University, and police hope her

fellow students returning to Colchester for the start of term

might just have some vital information. I am very keen to speak

to any students who might h`ve returned to the University will stop

perhaps you knew her, studidd with, perhaps they have heard somd

information about her murder. I would encourage those students to

come forward and speak to us. Either directly or through the University.

Police have also been painstakingly trawling through CCTV images, one

young man they would very mtch like to speak to has not come forward. He

was seen on the path wearing a distinctive Italian designer style

beige jacket. Police would like him to come forward. Three months on,

they are still working around the clock to find Nahid Almanea was

macular or killers. ``'s killer or killers. Crimewatch still h`s a

reward that leads to a convhction. Thank you very much.

The controversial decision to switch off street lights in Essex

is starting to dominate the Clacton by`election campaign.

The county council says it'll save more than a million potnds

by turning off 70% of its lhghts after midnight.

But today opposition parties called on the authority to think again

This is an issue which has dominated debate in Essex for the last couple

of years. It was only a matter of time before it started to fdature in

this election. Today, the Shadow Home Office Minister came to Clacton

where residents complained the County Council was not listdning.

Find one person for me that once the street lights turned off at night

and to be in complete and utter darkness! Put the lights back on! It

will take them years to recover the cost. They are not saving money The

issue came up the other day during a visit by the former Foreign

Secretary. The Tories say the council needs to find ways of saving

money, their candidate is promising to lobby councillors to switch the

lights on again in areas whdre residents feel unsafe. The County

Council has also said it will listen to residents' concerns. But the

opposition parties say they are not. Total blackout is the issue. I feel

Essex County Council should be looking at alternatives. UKHP said

that Essex was a Tory fiefdom which was not accountable to local people.

A lot of this by`election is about accountability, all editions

listening to the people who elected them. The County Council insists it

is listening on this import`nt sussed `` important sussed ``

important subject. And there is a full list of the

candidates standing in the by`election on the BBC Essex

website. A proposed development

of more than 3,000 homes has been The Garden Suburb, as it's

being called, will sited be on the northern edge of the town,

south of the village of Westerfield. Local people say it'll lead to

chaos on surrounding roads. This man's home looks over open

fields, but perhaps not for much longer. It could take in Ipswich's

largest development in 50 ydars Good agricultural land over here.

When they have got so much rubbish in the town they can build on.

Hundreds of acres, much of ht green field, will be filled in with three

and have thousand homes. Thd so`called Garden Suburb would

include farmland, community centres and schools. This masterplan is not

set in stone, but the developers who want to build on this greenfield

land at far more likely to get a sympathetic hearing from thd council

if they stick within these rules. It gives us control and influence over

what happens on that site. That is very important. It means th`t every

application will be judged `gainst our own policies, so it is really

important. All of this will be home to... The wisdom of placing them

North of Ipswich was questioned It is in the wrong place because jobs

are not being created here, they are created south of Ipswich and on the

outskirts. Essentially, we will end up with a commuter suburb that is

not very well connected to Hpswich. This woman says it is essential this

guidebook but council backing and now. Not least because one developer

is already waiting in the whngs to build 900 homes near these open

fields. A drink`driver who crashed ` car

in Suffolk, killing his passenger, Steven Samuel from Soham was twice

the legal drink drive limit when he drove into a tree

at Lakenheath last October. He admitted causing death

by careless driving. His passenger, John Joe Scott,

died at the scene. Maureen Lipman joins us

in the studio. And four metres tall,

made of willow, Earlier this year the East of

England Ambulance Trust prolised It was one of six promises

designed around the Trust. New figures show

the Trust has now offered contracts And how is morale among

the rest of the staff? Mike Liggins has been out whth

one crew in Cambridgeshire. The Peterboro ambulance station at

6:45am. Paramedic Mark Chaplan is starting a 12 hour shift. In with

him is this student paramedhc, David Starkey. The first job of the day is

an emergency phone calls to an elderly lady who has collapsed at

home. It is a high`pressure job the trust has recruited around 400 new

student paramedics, 140 havd left in the last 18 months. 79`year`old and

is breathless and weak. A p`ramedic gets to her house first, thd two

paramedics close behind. We travelled to so many elderlx people

who have fallen down. My own mother died in July when she fell, and died

before the ambulance attenddd. I am mindful of the needs of elddrly

people. I will have to take you back a little bit. Don't be alarled.

David is a former policeman and lorry driver, but at 52 has decided

to try and change his career. He has done his basic eight week training

and 750 hours on the road. The large number of new recruits has put more

pressure on the old hands lhke Mark, that he is optimistic. I think

morale is on the upturn. We have been going through difficult stages.

Good times are around the corner, we are in a transitional time. With the

lady safely transfer to hospital, there is a brief stop at a cup of

tea stand`off point. You can tell he is still a student. The crew do not

get time to drink it. Anothdr phone call, another pregnant women has

collapsed at home. Is everything in East Anglian ambulance trust garden

Rosie? The answer is no. He is always `` pay is always an hssue.

The difficulty comes when you are getting to the end of your shift,

your shift can go on 13, 14 errors. `` 40 hours. Despite all of the

pressure, this is a job people still want to do. Very nice patients,

aren't they? Realistically, there are worse ways of earning a living

as well. Having started shift at 6:45am, Mark and David are due to

finish around now, along but rewarding day. That Iraq a long but

rewarding day. The actress Maureen Lipman hs here

today. She has been doing something very close to her heart.

Her husband died of a type of cancer called myeloma. This afternoon,

Maureen went to a centre in Norfolk to meet other people with the

disease. When she came to the Look East studio I asked her abott the

visit. Cancers in all of our lives, isn't it? My husband died of

myeloma, it is the one that we do not know about. At this wonderful

cancer centre, they have a lonthly meeting of myeloma group, and I went

and spoke to them. It was rdally nice, we had a fun and easy time.

The lady runs that centre is the mother Teresa of Norwich. I learned

more going there than they dver got from me. You have been speaking

before we started doing the interview, making people latgh while

they are there as well, as hearing stories? I simply cannot tell that!

Laughter and drama are ther`peutic. People have always needed it, they

always will, and particularly in times of strain, when all you talk

about is your illness, it is just great to be able to kick yotr shoes

off, have a cup of tea, spe`k to people and have a laugh. Dods it

bring it back to your loss when you go to places like that? You had such

an amazing marriage, didn't you It is ten years, and I am very happy in

my life, but it is like yesterday. And the glory of widowhood hs the

fact that I can go out and talk about Jack to any number of people,

and there is a reference. Most people who are widowed or would a

word, people start rolling their eyes after six months.

Louise Hubball has been to leet a young cancer survivor seldcted

Like many teenagers, David hs to lead the Cambridge event.

Like many teenagers, David hs pondering his future after he

finished school this summer. It is a future he cherishes after strviving

cancer. Cancer is such a devastating illness, and the sooner we can get

rid of it, the sooner thous`nds of lives will be improved. Davhd knows

the devastating effect of the disease only too well. He lost his

leg jeering treatment for a rare bone cancer at the age of 12. ``

jeering treatment. That must have been incredibly hard. I did not know

anything about the chemotherapy treatment, I did not know it was

going to be huge, several wdeks of hell, to be honest. For that reason,

it was particularly unpleas`nt. Because I was young and didn't

really understand the implications. What are you looking forward to now?

I'm still deciding upon my career, you only have one life and xou need

to think very carefully abott what you're going to do with it. In my

case, I am willing to take `ll the risks and do the things that perhaps

a lot of people, it could not be as bad as having cancer, so, yds, I am

quite motivated to get things done. For now, David is focused on

fundraising, and will be le`ding the March on Cancer in Cambridgd on

October 11, part of a national event, a 45 minute evening walk with

live music to raise money and awareness of the disease. More

people are surviving cancer than ever before, but of current trends

continue, one in two people will be diagnosed with cancer. We w`nt to do

everything in our power to lake sure we can save as many lives as

possible. And with his life saved by research and treatment, Davhd says

this is a fight he wants to be part of. It is not very often we get a

giant gorilla on this progr`mme It is very unusual to get one lade from

willow and bronze. One of them has gone on display for one day only

before it is shipped to a ndw, permanent home.

King Kong, as he's known, w`s created by a sculptor living near

Beccles in Suffolk, and was commissioned by an anonymous client

She used a bit of willow to get the detail, to get that effect.

King Kong is the creative work of Robert Yates. Normally he m`kes

Bissell book `` bespoke fences. The gorilla was commissioned a client

living in the Seychelles. Robert got the order when a London architects

are some of his creations at an exhibition. I was sent a drxing and

asked, do you think you can do this? I said, I will give it a go, but if

I am going to do it, I must make a model first of all. I wasn't sure if

I could do it. The gorilla hs eight feet tall and ten feet long. He is

also 7.5 feet wide and weighs 4 stone. The face was made by

Robert's wife, and the whold sculpture took three months to

complete. It is a labour of love, it really is. We had to create a

stainless steel armature for it That alone was around 150 khlos

Then I was put into my studho and I started working on him. I started

first of all on his hands. Fingers and toes. They were the really

fiddly bits. Really tricky. Robert does not know very much abott the

client to commission this magnificent beast. The gorilla will

be created and shipped out to the Seychelles, where he will spend his

days in an air`conditioned room in a very large house.

Would you cull that handsomd? Exactly that word, yes! The weather

forecast. This was the scene if you wdre up

very early, a lot of mist and fog across the region. But for ` few

hours, we were bathed in sunshine. The temperatures are not bad for a

mid`September day, Cambridgd was warmest, 25 degrees in a nulber of

places. But that's north Norfolk coast line, Cromer, a lot of mist

still unsure. It is redeveloping through this evening. `` a lot of

mist still on shore. Another thing to contend with is heavy and

thundery showers moving up from the channel. A lot of us will mhss them,

if they affect anywhere, it will be the western half. They do gdt

further east so you may hear a rumble of thunder through the night.

Quite a muggy night, temper`tures will be around 14, 16 degreds. Mist

and dense font `` fog patchds, that could bring its own feeling of

dampness and drizzle in places. It is all tied into this weathdr

front, coming up from Francd at the moment. This will still be `round

through tomorrow. They are looking quite isolated, and should be a lot

of dry weather. First thing it will be really quite cloudy, a lot of

mist and fog to clear. Low`level cloud, likely to remain quite cloudy

all day. Perhaps a little glimmer of Brighton is here and there, but

these showers looking as though they could affect parts of counthes in

the region `` a little glimler of brightness. A lot of dry we`ther, if

rather cloudy. It will not be quite so warm, but it will feel htmid

perhaps at Upton Butcher of 23 degrees. `` perhaps the top

temperature of 23 degrees. There could be a few showers lingdring on

Saturday morning, but quite a shifting weather pattern. Tonight

will bring finer weather, btt cooler and fresh air will be introduced.

Showers to clear first thing on Saturday, then it is looking largely

fine. We will still say quite warm and humid, but it will be brighter

for Monday but much cooler `nd fresher. That is the forecast.

Thank you very much. That is all from us, have a good evening. We

will see you tomorrow night. MENACING VOICE: You will rob

the Bank of Karabraxos.