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Adebowale show nod remorse. That is all from us. Now we join our news | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: A cruel and | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
evil death ` a court hears how Jamie Reynolds lured Georgia Williams to | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
his flat before strangling her. He'll spend the rest of his life in | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
prison. There is no sentence we can ever be satisfied with because it | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
will never bring Georgia back. Also tonight, a review into breast | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
care services at Solihull Hospital finds patients were seriously harmed | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
and victims of weak and indecisive leadership. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
In memory of Christina, family and friends open a memorial garden for | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
the 16`year`old stabbed to death on a Birmingham bus. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
All hail at the Britannia ` the storm at Stoke which stopped play. | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
These are the conditions that you want to play Man United in. What is | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
the likelihood of disruption to the rest of this week's fixtures? More | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
on the forecast later. Good evening. The man who murdered | :01:06. | :01:21. | |
Shropshire teenager Georgia Williams was this afternoon told he would | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
spend the rest of his life in prison. Jamie Reynolds had already | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
admitted murder and was appearing at Stafford Crown Court for sentence. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
The judge in the case was told Reynolds was a sexual deviant who | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
had attacked another girl five years earlier. Georgia's father Steve, a | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
serving police officer, read a tearful statement in court, saying, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
evil took Georgia away from her family. Giles Latcham was in court. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
Jamie Reynolds arrives at a cinema in North Wales seemingly untroubled, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
enjoying a night out. In his van in a car parked outside lies the body | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
of 17`year`old Georgia Williams. Hours earlier, he had murdered her. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
The motive was his sexual gratification, inspired by a morbid | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
fascination with violent pornography. For Georgia's family, | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
the hearing was another cruel ordeal, the details of her horrific | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
murder set out in court for the first time. There is no sentence | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
that we can never say we are satisfied with because it will never | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
bring Georgia back. She is dead. She has gone. Physically. She lives in | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
our hearts. Georgia was a popular student from a family described as | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
happy and caring colds Jamie Reynolds she was not interested in | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
him romantically `` told Jamie Reynolds. He looted her to his home | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
on the pretence he wanted her to pose for him for a photography | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
project. He strangled her. Jamie Reynolds was described as a sexual | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
deviant with thousands of violent pornographic images and videos | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
stored on his computer. In 2008 aged 17 he was given a police caution for | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
attempting to strangle another teenager. Georgia's mother was said | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
to be wholly deliberate chakra Georgia's murder. `` Georgia. Jamie | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
Reynolds sat in the docs slumped forward, his head in his hands. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Cameras picked him up in a petrol station. Georgia's body in the van. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
He disposed of it in woodland near Wrexham. He fled to a Glasgow hotel | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
where he was arrested three days later. A psychiatric report said he | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
showed psychotic tendencies and could have gone on to become a | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
serial killer. There is no doubt in my mind that Jamie Reynolds's | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
addiction to sadistic, extreme pornography played a significant | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
part in this investigation and as you heard today even in the minutes | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
leading up to Georgia's arrival, he was still viewing such material. He | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
was a keen fan of Telford United `` she was a keen fan. It has emerged | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
tonight a Serious Case Review is under way into how the police dealt | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
with Jamie Reynolds into earlier separate investigations. The world | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
has lost a wonderful person, her father told the court he fully. `` | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
tearfully. He said he cried for her from warning until night. | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
Still come before 7pm: Further embarrassment for Birmingham's | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Children's Services ` two children's homes close after being rated | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
inadequate. Breast cancer patients were | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
seriously harmed and were victims of weak and indecisive leadership from | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
senior managers. That's one of the conclusions in a review of breast | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
care services at Solihull Hospital. Surgeon Ian Paterson was allowed to | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
carry on operating on women for several years, despite a series of | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
concerns raised about him by other medical staff. In a moment, I'll be | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
talking to the hospital trust chairman. But first here's our | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
health correspondent Michele Paduano. | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
Fitness instructor Gail Lawrence feels she can't move on in her life. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
She had breast cancer and was operated on by Ian Paterson in 2003. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
This year, she had two further breast surgeries and her ovaries | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
removed. She is terrified the cancer will come back. I feel like I have | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
been cheated. Cheated out of a normal life. It is hard enough after | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
having cancer. But having been told that you have got to have more | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
surgery because it has been performed wrongly, it is just hard. | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
Mr Paterson was operating at whirlwind speed and doing an | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
unrecognised operation leaving breast tissue behind. Today's report | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
showed after 12 years, his patients were seven times more likely to have | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
cancer back in the same breast, although it's difficult to compare | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
cases. I was shocked by how long it took for effective action to be | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
taken. My review is about patients'. It is about women who | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
were harmed. They feel they have been betrayed For years, doctors | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
were raising concerns but weren't being listened to. In 2003, a cancer | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
specialist worried about Ian Paterson's surgery reviewed 100 | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
patients, but the trust was more worried about friction between | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
staff. It wasn't until 2007 that an inquiry decided that he should stop. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Six clinicians went to the chief executive but Mr Paterson carried | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
on. It's not until 2011 that the General Medical Council restricted | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
Mr Paterson's practice. They still do not suspend him. Had the trust | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
listened to people who had raised concerns, I would not be standing | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
here now. I would know my treatment was over and I could move forward | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
from that. The chief executive, Mark Goldman, who saw the six clinicians | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
stopped them talking about it. This solicitor excuse `` exposed Mr | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
Paterson. She now represents nearly 400 patients treated by him. We have | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
been asking for the investigation reports for some time. They have not | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
been provided. The Heart of England Trust has lost the confidence of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
staff. Nothing happened as a result of them raising concerns, doctors | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
and nurses. It will take us time to rebuild the trust. That is what we | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
have to do now. Other patients' might have to face what this lady | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
has. Thousands of patients are now being checked. | :08:02. | :08:16. | |
A new report from Birmingham Prison's own monitoring board says | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
the atmosphere at the jail is improving, but that drugs are still | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
a problem. In October, 2011, the prison became the first in the UK to | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
be privately`run by the security firm G4S. Today's annual report also | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
highlights foreign inmates staying in the prison after their sentences | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
have officially ended. 26 men have been jailed and five | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
others received suspended sentences after disorder broke out at an | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
English Defence League march in Walsall in September last year. More | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
than 600 supporters held a demonstration in the town centre and | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
several West Midlands Police officers were injured when missiles | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
were thrown at them. The last of the defendants were sentenced at | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Wolverhampton Crown Court today. Sandwell Council is to get an extra | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
?22 million over the next three years to create thousands of new | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
school places. 20 schools have already increased their intake since | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
2011. There are plans to expand many more by the end of 2016. | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Two council`run children's homes have been closed in Birmingham after | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
being described as inadequate by Government inspectors. At one home, | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
youngsters were said to be frequently playing truant or going | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
missing. The decision to shut them comes in the wake of a series of | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
damning reports into the city's Children's Services department. Our | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
reporter Bob Hockenhull is in Selly Oak for us outside one of the homes. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Bob, another embarrassment for the council? That is right. The two | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
homes concerned are Fairfield in Erdington and Bournbrook in Selly | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Oak. At Fairfield, Ofsted inspectors found children were not attending | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
school, going missing and missing opportunities to get to their | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
education potential. Staff were not sufficiently trained to deal with | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
emotional and behavioural difficulties. In fairness, this | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
home, Bournbrook, although it was also found to be inadequate in | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
April, a subsequent inspection found improvements in the way children | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
were looked after. The council still took the decision to close both | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
homes. What have the council said? The council says the decisions may | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
not last forever and in the future of the two homes may reopen again. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
But it felt that when another inspection came along it still would | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
not be able to bring me home is up to standard so the decision was | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
taken to close them for the time being. We agreed with Ofsted that we | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
had not brought up to standard as quickly as we would like. The amount | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
of time taken would have been a detriment to the young people. We | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
decided to move the heat small number of young people in the homes | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
to better placements where they could be more safely cared for. This | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
means the council has only ten council run children homes in the | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
city because last year five other homes were shut bringing the number | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
down from 17 to ten. What the council wants to do is move away | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
from homes and try to get young people into foster care instead. It | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
feels this gives them a better chance in life in the future. | :11:14. | :11:27. | |
Babies will still be born at Stafford Hospital but the trust | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
administrators are recommending the maternity unit should be run by | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
midwives instead of doctors. Around 2000 babies are born there every | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
year. The council leader says the change could mean smaller hospitals | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
are targeted for downgrading. The many consultancy led maternity | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
services where perhaps there are only 1500 or even 1000 babies the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
year. They are run perfectly well. This report has ramifications | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
outside Stafford for other hospitals because I am sure that if you apply | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
the logic of this report to them, I am sure they must be worried today. | :12:10. | :12:21. | |
Unions are warning it will have a huge impact on vulnerable | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
pensioners. The council says difficult decisions have to be made. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
My messages we are very sorry we have to do it, but we have to | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
balance the budget. We have substantially less money from | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
central government so we have to make these savings. We are making | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
them enough careful a way possibly can. We are determined to protect | :12:42. | :12:54. | |
the most honourable and still are. Family and friends of a teenage girl | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
who was stabbed to death on a bus gathered at her school today for the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
opening of a memorial garden. Christina Edkins who was 16 and from | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Birmingham was killed in the city in March. Sarah Falkland was at the | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
ceremony in Halesowen. May this stone stand strong and firm as a | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
symbol of our remembrance and love for Christina and may this area be a | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
place for solid you don't reflection. `` a place for solid you | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
and reflection. A blessing at Leasowes High School | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
in Halesowen. The whole school assembled around a new stone in | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
memory of Christina Edkins. She will be smiling because so many people | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
have gathered to remember her. She was just 16 when she was killed in a | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
random attack on a bus in Birmingham, She'd been travelling to | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
school along the Hagley Road when 23`year`old Philip Simelane stabbed | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
her once in the chest. Christina's parents Jason and Kathleen had | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
wanted a permanent reminder of their daughter here. Christina's | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
classmates decided on the words that would be engraved on the stone. It | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
is a nice memorial. People can see that it is a nice thing to remember | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
her by. I think she would be amazed by how much people love her. | :14:14. | :14:20. |