01/11/2016 Points West

Three Somali men are sent to prison for assaulting and sexually abusing

And honouring a soldier who was shot for desertion,

And Frost is likely for somd areas tonight. Tomorrow looks dry and

mostly sunny. All the details at the end of the programme.

Three Somali men have been sent to prison for abusing and sdxually

assaulting four teenage girls - one of whom was only 13.

It brings to an end a massive police investigation

At the heart of this was ond vulnerable teenager,

raped and abused over many lonths by three Somali men.

I did say no a lot of the time but they tend

The three men - Mohammed Dahir, Abdirashid Abdulahi

and Zaceriya Sheik - known as Zac - had done unspeakable

things to their victim, according to the judge,

Zac abused her here, at a hhgh-rise flat in Lansdowne Court,

Easton, which she described as dirty, dark and scary.

He was also convicted of tr`fficking the girl - just 14 at the thme

I gave in a lot of time, it was expected to do it

by whoever's flat we were in cos we were getting weed

All three have previous convictions for sexual offences and tod`y

Abdirashid Abdulahi and Moh`mmed Dahir were jailed for eight years.

Zaceriya Sheik was sent to prison for 16.

The judge said they had brought shame on themselves

and their families and said that Sheik's treatment

The judge and police paid tribute to the victims for coming forward -

three other girls were sexu`lly assaulted by Zac Sheik.

All now feel worthless, dirty and unloved.

It's impossible to comprehend the torment and anguish the victims

have suffered at the hands of these offenders, who over a number

of years befriended them, eroding their confidence

and accepting systematic abtse as normal behaviour.

Nuridin Mohamed was cleared of the two charges he faced,

and three other men - Abdirahman Galal, Mohammed Osman

and Nasir Mahamoud - were also found not guilty or no

The charity Barnardo's Against Sexual Exploitation

supported the victims throughout the police investigation.

Becky Lewis from the charitx told me how they help young people who had

So what we know is that thex need to be believed and they need

practical support to allow them to be safe in the community,

For people to respond effectively and quickly to stop

people who have offended against them and perpetrated

We know that their parents or carers often need support to understand

what is happening to their child and we know that young people may,

in time, but not all young people, want to access some form of therapy

or counselling from specialhst sexual violence services.

But the picture will be different for every child, depending

These sort of cases seem to keep on coming round and the numbers seem

From our opinion, in Barnardo's what we would say is that wd think

that these cases were always there, we think that there has alw`ys been

large numbers of children who have experienced extensive

Certainly that is what we h`ve seen in our work over the last 20 years,

but the prominence of the c`ses that have come forward, the high,profile

cases that have been in the media, we believe have allowed victims

to see that they will be believed, we also know that agencies

are working better together and so are working harder

So how do you go about spotting children who are in

So, the warning signs of sexual exploitation can include yotng

people who go missing from home or from school,

young people whose behaviour becomes very erratic or secret.

Young people who talk about having older boyfriends, girlfriends

or friends or present with unexplained injuries,

or where their online use is concerned, where there are lessages

And it really varies becausd we see sexual exploitation present

in so many different ways but they are just some of the main

signs or warning signs we would expect to see.

A train carrying more than 200 people split in two

shortly after leaving Bristol Temple Meads

The CrossCountry train, which was heading to Glasgow,

stopped after the carriages became detached from the leading c`r.

All passengers were safely taken off.

The governor of a women's prison in the West is calling on jtdges

to give longer sentences to women who have been abused

so they have more time to bd helped and rehabilitated.

The governor of Eastwood Park in South Gloucestershire saxs

an estimated 50% of all inm`tes are the victims of abuse and longer

In football, Bristol Rovers climbed into the League One play-off zone

tonight after beating Fleetwood Town 2-1.

Goals came from Matty Taylor and Cristian Montano.

A wreath has been laid todax for two brothers killed

Alfred and Arthur Jefferies were honoured at the Dings

Arthur was killed in battle, but Alfred was shot for desdrtion.

The leaves fall like tears at the Dings Park,

where Alfred Jeffries played as an innocent boy.

We've uncovered his path to the Somme and the terrible events

that saw him shot at dawn 100 years ago this very morning.

This is the last image of private Alfred Jeffries,

the only Bristolian to be executed for his desertion.

He worked here at a metal factory in St Philips,

a few yards from his home, but volunteered for the barbed wire

Today, his great-nephew, David, who worked to clear his namd,

returns to the streets where he lived with his widowed mum.

She and her family were nevdr told that Alfred was executed.

Very upset, I guess, that we did not know

I don't know whether it was the family did not talk abott it

or they simply just did not know, but as far as I am aware,

my grandparents were not aw`re of it, my father definitely was not

aware of it, so it was all news to us from that point of vidw.

But, no, a horrifying thing to have happened.

Alfred was among the frenzy of recruits on the outbreak of war.

He joined his brother Arthur in the trenches.

Arthur died a hero, two months before Alfred was shot as a coward.

They accused him of deliber`tely fleeing the scene knowing

that there was going to be some fighting the next day.

The documents of his court-martial were kept

Officer after officer recommends death.

He was shot at 6:10am on November 1st.

In the library, in Bristol, I found his name among the sons

His name appears in the Bristol role of honour, one of 5000 names

and we are told that this record should be get

by future generations of patriotic Bristolians with pride.

But, you know, the injusticd of that court-martial echoes down

Here he was, Alfred, an educated Bristol man

against an officer elite who did not seem to like him very much

and they held his life in their hands.

By this time, at home, support for the war was heading

The volunteers dried up and conscription was introdtced

On the front line, men were dying in vast numbers

Even soldiers like Alfred who had been repeatedly injured

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, ex-Clifton College in Bristol

where his statue stands tod`y, approved the death warrant.

Alfred Jeffries was a victil, not only of the battle,

but the system which saw men like him who were considered

We got the posthumous pardon, which is nice, to be honest,

for the government to look back and say it was wrong,

for the people that it really affected at the time.

It was 90 years before Alfrdd received that official pardon,

stating that he did not deserve to die.

Today, at the national arboretum in Staffordshire,

there is a memorial to the 345 other British soldiers who

And here, outside his home, 100 years on from that

called Don execution, both Jeffries Brothers,

Alfred and after, I remembered with respect.

We're back with you tomorrow, but for now, I'll say goodnhght

and leave you with Ian who has the forecast.

We enter into each other ph`se of the weather now. Tomorrow as well as

some early frost we will have a fair amount of sunshine. There whll be

exceptions some cloud out to the rest, for example, but this will

lead us into a dry and sunnx day. Through the rest of tonight, we are

expecting some patches of F`lcao form. Nowhere near as widespread as

last night. We will see somd of that and errors of cloud out tow`rds the

West but temperatures could get as low as 1 degrees or two Celsius in

the countryside, 5 degrees for urban areas. Many of you might wake up to

see frost on the car windscreen tomorrow, but not everywherd. As the

day continues, there will bd cloud out to the West, effectivelx a good

deal of sunshine elsewhere, many of us should see that on and off

through the course of the d`y. Light winds throughout, remaining dry and

temperatures are below aver`ge for the time of year, some nine or 1

Celsius is typical. Similar story as we head overnight

before turning unsettled. Good You know what, in

evening. the last few days, much more following the calendar. A warm

end to October, 1st November, abrupt change to the weather. In fact over

the next few days, we will be getting colder air all the way from

the north, almost from Arctic regions, a real nip in the air

particularly for folks getting up early in the morning A good frost

around and there is a frost on the way tonight. This is what is

happening on the satellite. This ribbon of cloud is a cold front

Watch the clouds in the north. See, they are coming in from the north,

where the air is coming from. This cold front is moving southwards and

away from us and the colder air in the north is oozing down across the

UK and by the early hours of Wednesday, we are all in the colder,

colder air from the north and you see how the frost develops by the

early hours of the morning even down south.