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. over on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening. First tonight it's been described by | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
police as the worst case of vigilantism they've ever sedn ` like | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
a scene from a Hollywood film. Eleven members of the same family | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
kidnapped and tortured a cotple they wrongly believed murdered their | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
elderly relative. Today those family members were jailed for a total of | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
60 years. The pregnant woman and her partner were held against their will | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
and beaten in an attempt to extract confessions. Our home affairs | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
correspondent Sally Chidzoy was in court to hear today's verdicts. | :00:41. | :00:52. | |
Behind bars tonight, members of a family fixated on revenge. They are | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
the daughters, grandchildren, great`grandchildren and a | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
daughter`in`law of Gertrude Frankham, the widow and matriarch of | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
the family. She had been married to Eli Frankham, often describdd as | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
king of the gypsies. Gertrude was found dead in her bed in 2002. The | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
family were convinced she h`d been murdered. They kidnapped thd man | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
they thought was responsibld and his heavily pregnant partner. They beat | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
the couple and filmed at all. There was blood on her face. She was very | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
distressed. She was heavily pregnant at the time. The people within the | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
film were forcing her to sax what they wanted her to say. She would | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
have been in fear for her own life, as well as the safety of her unborn | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
child. Police were alerted `fter Gertrude's daughter Sheila Conboy | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
dialled 999 to tell police they had a confession after beating the | :01:57. | :01:57. | |
woman. Police investigated the famhly's | :01:58. | :02:19. | |
murder allegations. Gertrudd's body was it seemed from Wisbech | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Cemetery. Two pathologists dxamined her remains. Police concluddd she | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
died from natural causes. Whth the phone call and the footage of the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
torch and kidnap, it was thd family who ended up in the dock. Sdntencing | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the 11 defendants to a total of 60 years in jail, the judge sahd they | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
were a family who saw themsdlves as being above the law. They ilposed | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
their own law. They punched, kicked and dragged the male victim into a | :02:48. | :03:03. | |
warehouse and forced him into a chair. It was a scene reminhscent, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
he said, of some vile Hollywood film. The family still insist | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Gertrude was murdered. She will get her justice. The Norfolk police know | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
who her murder is. None of the family showed any remorse on being | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
jailed. The Deputy Prime Minister Nhck Clegg | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
was in Cambridge today talkhng up the benefits of City Deal status. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
That's the funding for the region which could be worth up to ` billion | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
pounds. He took a tour around the science park, something he says the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
money will build on to ensure that the city continues to be a lagnet | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
for high tech companies. It is a formula the governmdnt hopes | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
will create jobs. The Deputx Prime Minister was given a tour of a | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
laboratory which tests new medicines. It is businesses like | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
this which the government hopes will flourish through the city Ddal | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
status. Cambridge said this is what we want, we want this money to | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
improve housing and develop more apprenticeships and have money to | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
deal with the bottlenecks locally. It comes on top of the monex which | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
has already been announced for significant improvements on the A1 | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
for. So what is the City De`l? It could be worth ?1 billion to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Cambridgeshire. A government grant of 500 million with local | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
authorities expected to match it. Only the first ?100 million of | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
government money is guarantded. The last two chunks are due in 2019 and | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
2024 and are subject to agrdement. The money will be spent on roads, | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
public transport and cycling links. When local business leaders looked | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
closely at the detail, not `ll were impressed. Some said it would barely | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
touch the region's infrastrtcture needs. We really feel the chty Deal | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
is inadequate to deal with the problems we have. We have s`id, is | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
it a real Deal or a raw deal. We feel it is the latter. I don't | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
agree. Whenever you make an announcement like this, people say | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
it does not go far enough btt it is going a lot further than it is at | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
the moment. ?1 billion is mtch better than ?0. Mr Clegg's visit | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Cambridge came a day after the TV debate on Europe with the UKIP | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
leader Nigel Farage. But today a different debate right here in our | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
region. Is the City Deal good enough to keep Cambridge as a world`class | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
hub for science and technology? Police in Milton Keynes havd been | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
distributing CCTV images tonight of a teenager who's gone missing from | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Milton Keynes. Cailey`Ann P`yne who is 16, left Milton Keynes r`ilway | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
station last wednesday evenhng. Police believe she was last seen | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
with friends in London on S`turday. They're growing increasinglx | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
concerned for her welfare. There are several reasons why we are | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
concerned. It is seven days. We know she does not have much access to | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
money. And the other concern we have is she's on her own now. We know | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
that she was with a friend. She was with a friend until Saturdax | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
morning. But since that timd, she has been on her own. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
In Rugby Union Northampton Saints are through to the semi`fin`ls of | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the Challenge Cup after a whn against Sale. This try by Bdn Foden | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
at 33 minutes, was the pick of the bunch for Saints. The win mdans Jim | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Mallinder's side, who are also chasing glory in the Premiership, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
are still on course for the double. And there's full reaction to the win | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
on the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Northampton tomorrow morning. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
That is all from the late tdam. Time now for the weather. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Good evening. There will be cleaner, fresher at Atlantic air. At | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
the moment, quite a lot of cloud around and some mist patches. There | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
may be the isolated shower. It will not be cold tonight. We start | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
tomorrow with a lot of cloud around and some mist patches first thing. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
It looks brighter into the afternoon. It will feel fresher | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
tomorrow. For the afternoon, a better chance of seeing somd | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
sunshine. Peter Gibbs will have the National forecast. Here is our | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
outlook. The chance of some outbreaks of rain late on S`turday | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
and four Sunday the chance of rain. had today. That is the way the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
weather looks. Now the latest on the pesky pollution. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Good evening. They say a change of air is good for you and that is what | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
we have on the way. The brush that | :07:48. | :07:48. |