12/02/2014 Look East - West

heavy rain is causing more misery as flood waters are on the rise.

To Good evening. First tonight, the mother from

Peterborough, who became a serial killer,and the two men who helped

her cover her tracks. Tonight Gary Stretch and Leslie Layton are behind

bars awaiting sentence. Joanna Dennehy has already admitted killing

three men and trying to murder two more. Stretch and Layton both

claimed they were under her control but neither took to the stand to

defend themselves. This report from Neil Bradford.

They were caught on camera covering the tracks of a serial killer.

Standing is Gary Stretch. At the pump is Leslie Layton. He's filling

petrol can used to burn out the Mondeo car behind him. It belonged

to one of the victims. Inside and out of sight was Joanna Dennehy

described a woman with a search for blood. Kevin Lee was her landlord

and lover. He was the second victim. Today his family gave their verdict.

Kevin was so full of life. Life is very dull without him. Joanna

Dennehy has taken over our lives and callously created a whole that

cannot be filled. The killing spree began in March last year. Dennehy

knew each of her victims, stabbing them through the heart. The first, a

friend, a Polish worker Lukasz Slaboszewski. She enticed him by

text. Ten days later, Kevin Lee. On the same day she murdered her

housemate John Chapman. Helped by Stretch and Layton, the bodies were

dumped in ditches around Peterborough. They then went on the

run. The court was told it was an unholy union. They headed for

Hereford. This is Dennehy buying cigarettes just before what she

called having her fun. On this occasion, two random knife attacks.

The man with her is Mark Lloyd, a friend of Gary Stretch. He was in

the car at the time. Gary motioned through the window like this. I saw

a bloke walking across the road with a dog. He slammed the brakes on. Joe

was out the door. The first was Robin Barraza. Dennehy said I will

kill you. Ten minutes later she attacked John Rogers. It was a

vicious and sustain the lack passion sustained attack. I would love to

hear their story in the future. When you look at the extent and the

disruption she has brought people's lives, she owes somebody an

explanation about why she decided to do that over a 14 day period. Gary

Stretch told the witness I am a professional burglar, not a

murderer. Leslie Layton was described as a petty thief. But they

were willing partners in DennehyDennehy's ten day killing

spree began in Peterborough on the 19th March.

's desire for violence. Three men stabbed to death. Two

others seriously wounded. Her sister says she still cannot believe what

happened, but hopes her sibling never sees daylight again. So what

turned this sweet`faced schoolgirl into a cold blooded killer? Our home

affairs correspondent Sally Chidzoy has this report.

Killing men was Joanna Dennehy's idea of fun. She plunged this knife

into the hearts of three men and tried to kill two more. There was a

girl we loved and then turned into a monster. I do not think you can

describe it any other way. Joanna Dennehy the killer with a

psychopathic disorder and the little girl she once was, growing up in a

comfortable home in this street in Hertfordshire. Her family says she

was a well`behaved and bright child but as a teenager she turned her

back on them and moved out. She had two children but separated from

their father. She turned to drugs and alcohol and was a familiar sight

on the streets of Peterborough. She has a history of self harming and

cut herself across her stomach and arms. She spent time in prison for

petty crime. In March last year, she petty crime. In March last year, she

started her killing spree. Her mission, to murder men. It was here

that two of Joanna Dennehy's victims met their violent deaths. She leered

Lukasz Slaboszewski here by text message, stabbed in and hit his body

in a wheelie bin. She told Kevin Lee she wanted to dress him up and

sexually abused him. His body was found in a black dress. Dennehy

lived in this house where she killed the third victim and fellow tenant

John Chapman. Police believe he died because he saw her in the bath. The

men's bodies were dumped in debt choose `` ditches in Peterborough.

She phoned seven foot Gary Stretch and he and Leslie Layton helped her

dispose of the bodies. The three of them went on the run, ending up on

this estate in Kings Lynn. She wanted to see an old prison friend.

Also in the house was plumber Sean Keeble. He said she was ecstatic

when she saw a TV report saying she was wanted for murder. She had the

remain in our hands and was jumping up and down, really happy, that she

had killed three people. I said, don't you feel bad? She laughed and

said No. They headed for the West Midlands and Dennehy and Stretch

were pictured holding hands at a service station. Then she stabbed

two more men who miraculously survived. John Rogers was out

walking his dog when Dennehy stabbed him 40 times. The macro she said,

you are bleeding, I had better do some more. I was just waiting for it

to stop really. When it did finally stop I just thought, this is it,

to stop really. When it did finally stop I just thought, this is it I'm

stop I just thought, this is it, I'm going to die. Short time later,

Dennehy and Stretch were arrested. Her so`called fun was over.

There's comprehensive coverage of this story online at

bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire and on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast

show tomorrow morning with Paul Stainton.

There are fears of further flooding after high winds and heavy rain

struck this afternoon and this evening. It's caused disruption to

the East Coast Mainline and to services from Milton Keynes on the

West Coast Main Line. The Environment Agency, meanwhile, is

warning us to be on our guard. I think worst`case for us, between

now and Friday, we could see the same rainfall as last Thursday where

we could go back to the situation where the rivers are very high but

we are coping with getting the water away. The key is how the water gets

to the fields and rivers which could lead to flooding locally and some

properties flooding where they are and tips and hollows.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of

19`year`old Isaac Stone. The men, one aged 19 and the other two in

their 20s, are all from Bedford Isaac Stone, who was 19, and known

locally as rap artist Dynamikk, was stabbed to death on Costin Street on

Saturday, January 25th. Bedfordshire Police are still keen to hear from

anyone with information to contact them.

That's all from Look East, Newsnight is starting over on BBC Two, but

let's finish here with the weather and Julie Reinger.

Hello, some showers heading in over night. Some of them could turn

wintry. Towards the end of the night, they should ease down

attached. With temperatures close to freezing we cannot rule out Frost

and icy patches. The more frost feeding through. There will be dry

and bright weather with spells of sunshine. A blustery day. The wind

is not as strong as today. We finished the day largely dry give or

take one or two showers. We have a yellow warning in place for Friday.

We could see some further heavy rain, five to ten millimetres. Half

an inch in places. I will leave you with the Outlook. The winds will

pick up strong to gale force after Friday. Still windy

Good evening. What an incredible day of weather it has been. We saw gusts

of wind up to 108 mph in the West of Wales. The wind is easing down a

notch or two but we still have a high-level amber warning from the

Met Office for the strength of the wind over the next few hours over

quite a large swathe of the UK. Northern Ireland, northern England

and down across Wales, there is still potential for damaging and

disruptive gusts of wind. This huge curl of cloud is bringing wet and

windy weather across much of the West of Europe. It curls back across

the north of the UK and that's the centre of the area of low pressure

with the strongest winds just to the south of that. Let's focus on the

winds over the next few hours. The ease down by a notch or two but

still blustery conditions over most of Wales. High seas around the coast

and gusting up to 70 mph. Easily around the 80 mph mark across much

of northern England. Across the Pennines this evening and overnight,

travelling will be treacherous. Wind and rain at lower levels will

produce a lot of spray. You don't produce a lot of spray. You don t

have to go to high up the Pennines to see that turned to snow. One way

or another, further disruption to travel is more than likely. BBC

local radio will keep you up-to date local radio will keep you up-to-date

on where you are and where you are trying to get to. The centre of the

low system moves northwards. Pretty heavy snow developing across the

hills of Scotland with several centimetres by dawn. A bit of snow

for Northern Ireland and wintry showers drifting across the southern

counties. A risk of ice with most races are seeing the temperatures a

degree or so either side of freezing. A cold, windy start

Thursday but I think it be a better day. No persistent rain to be seen.

There should be some spells of sunshine for many of us, as well.

Does it last until the end of the week? I'm afraid not. It goes

downhill on Friday. This low pressure will head our way. Lots of

isobars on the chart later in the day. Gusts of 60, 70 or 80 mph, with

rain spreading northwards. Significant snow for parts of

Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. Windy into the start of

the weekend. Saturday has outbreaks of rain. On Sunday, something of a

respite. The winds will ease down and it should