29/07/2013 South East Today

Welcome to South East Today, I'm John Young.

And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonight's top stories:

I was treated like a caged animal - a Sussex woman jailed in Bali

speaks about her sentence for drug smuggling. I got beaten up. Got a

very sick in their with pneumonia. It took me three months at the

clinic to realise I was sick. digging in, protesters burned a 5th

day trying to stop an oil company digging.

Desperate for news - the wife of a pilot missing in the English

Channel. It is very difficult. It is also

difficult to understand these kinds of things can happen.

Even if the Duchess did not look completely in control this morning.

Why did 70 people from toddlers to pensioners are leap on to a space

hopper at the weekend? Good evening. A woman from Sussex who was jailed

in Bali for involvement with an international drug smuggling plot

has described how she was caged up like an animal and placed in

intensive care for two days after she collapsed with pneumonia.

Rachel Dougall, who's from Brighton, was arrested last year on the

Indonesian island. She returned to the UK eight weeks ago and has

always protested her innocence. Chrissie Reidy reports.

It is a fit up, get us a decent lawyer. Protesting her innocence

over year ago. Rachel Dougall had been living there dream life on a

tropical island, but everything changed when cocaine worth �1.6

million was discovered at her villa. She spent 12 months in prison. In

her first TV interview, she maintains she done nothing wrong,

and says her treatment as a prisoner was unbearable. It is very

scary, to be truthful. I got beaten up, got very sick in their with

pneumonia. It took them three months at the clinic to realise I

was sick. She was arrested in May last year during a police search of

the home she shared with her boyfriend and their daughter. Two

batches of cocaine were found, one in her daughter's bedroom and one

in her handbag. She was sentenced to 12 months for failing to report

a crime. She was released a year to the day after her arrest.

Two batches of cocaine were found in the house you occupied? Yes.

What did you expect? It did not expect anything because I was on

the were of the cocaine in my house. There was some in your child's

bedroom, you are not aware it was in there? No, who in their right

mind would have cocaine in a child's bedroom. He put it there?

My partner, it was his and I did not know anything about it. She was

arrested along signed a grandmother who was sentenced to death by

firing squad for bringing cocaine on to the island. Her partner was

given a six-year sentence for drug smuggling. You must consider

yourself a lucky person to be here? Here by the grace of God. Have you

got any shame? Not at all, I had done nothing wrong. The Indonesian

embassy says her experience is an isolated case, but acknowledges

problems at the prison. The prisons are very crowded in Indonesia. It

is very well known. The public wants but it facilities to be

accommodated. You have to see also, the personal claims of Rachel

Dougall are true or not. Rachel Dougall, he returns to Britain in

May says she was the victim of a set up. She says the treatment she

endured in prison was insufferable. Well we're joined now by our

reporter in Jakarta. You've spoken to the head of the prison this

morning, what's he had to say? After hearing what Rachel Dougall

had told the British media, he said he called all the female, foreign

prisoners and they all said no such violence or abuse happened. We have

to remember the warden has an interest in protecting the image of

this prison, but it is difficult to know exactly what happens inside

the prison when Rachel Dougall was there. How credibly will account,

the embassy said she would -- they would rather she made it formal

complaints, but she has gone through the media. It will depend

whether people believe what she says. In one of the reports she

says she collapsed at a hearing the sentence. I was in the courtroom

when it happened and I remember she was quite calm and she should the

judge's hands almost immediately afterwards. When she was walking

out of the courtroom, she was quite relieved. She received a lighter

sentence among the former Great Britons who were involved in this

case. -- four. She will be expected to prove that all her stories are

accurate. So it difference in the facts being recounted. The embassy

have admitted there have been problems at the prison. Could it be

Rachel Dougall could have a point here? Indonesian prisons do have a

lot of problems. Overcrowded, there is always a shortage of Guards. If

she does submit a formal complaint, there will be an investigation. If

she has the proof, she may be proven to have a point.

Thanks for joining us. They have been more arrests today

after protests to stop an oil company drilling in Sussex. Up to

80 protesters have been demonstrating at the site. They

have been met by more than 100 police officers. 12 people have

been charged with offences following the protests.

Our Correspondent is burn-out. Things are winding down, a large

police presence has been here through the day. Five lorries got

through the blockade, some carrying drilling equipment and some

carrying office equipment. The last one arrived just before 5pm. But

every time, there were angry scenes. Shame on you! It is becoming

increasingly common. Several times a day, this quiet Sussex village is

becoming a battleground. Protesters blocking the road and police

clearing the way through as more equipment arrives ready for the

drilling to start. This has been a largely peaceful protest, but each

time a vehicle tries to get through, tension is cranked up. Moved to the

side, please. Any resistance is quickly dealt with. More than 100

police officers, outnumbering the protesters at a ratio of 2-1. Today

saw a handful of arrests. Throughout the day, protesters have

come and gone. A mixture of hardened campaigners, mixing with

local people who are protesting for the first time. This is the first

time. Why does it mean so much do you? My family lives here. It is a

personal thing. More than just the water pollution, it is the other

things as well. It is the flair that will go up which will create

pollution and the number of lorries going back and forward. That will

be a major problem. Also earthquake tremor risks, so major problems. It

is too many for unconventional fuel sources. Supporters say the process

is safe, Cuadrilla say they are here looking for oil although they

have not ruled out permission of racking at a later date. This has

but the village on the map, some in the locals are not happy about.

Others are quite happy to have them here and a pleased it has been

brought to the forefront. But the older generation, feel intimidated.

They're worried about the village is being depicted in the media.

Protests have had an impact with Cuadrilla saying they are now

behind schedule with plans to start drilling for oil today delayed for

at least 24 hours. The energy company already knows there is oil

here because of tests carried out in 1986. The company says they will

use traditional methods to get the all out, but the villagers believe

that if that does not work, they will resort to freckling. And you

can find out more about the dispute at Balcombe on our website website.

The goal being filmed lying on a parcel shelf in a car, the police

are hunting the driver. The wife of a missing pilot whose

plane crashed in the English Channel last week says she needs to

know what happened to her husband. Sascha Schornstein was the only

person on board the aircraft which came down 15 miles off the coast of

Dungeness. With no body discovered, the police have launched a missing-

person investigation, although as Simon Jones reports, they say

nothing suggests he would have faked a crash to disappear.

Some of the wreckage has been recovered, but still no sign of

Sascha Schornstein, a banker from Germany, living in London.

course it is difficult. It is difficult to understand these kinds

of things can happen with your family. I want to know where my

husband is. He took off from Black Bush airport in Hampshire at

10:48am on Sunday 21st July. He was heading for France, but never

arrived. At 3:30pm, the wreckage was discovered 50 miles of

Dungeness. We manage to get about 20% of the wreckage. Part of the

fuselage and bits and pieces of the aeroplane. We searched for

approximately five hours, all we got was wreckage. The police say

they are keeping an open mind about what happened out on the water, but

because a body has not been found, officially this is now a missing

person inquiry with officers liaising with their international

counterparts in the hunt for information. An appeal has gone out

through Interpol, and police forces across Europe to establish exactly

what has gone on and to establish if his whereabouts on loans. There

wasn't a distress call put out, so no units were on scene for quite

some time. As to whether they went with the plane, or swam away, we

are not sure. His wife says she is now trying to raise �30,000 to fund

her own search to find his body. must have been something very

unexpected. I do not know what it was, that is why I have to

investigate. I have to know the answer. The police said there is

nothing in Sascha Schornstein's background or personal like to

suggest he would have faked a crash to disappear.

The MP for Rochester and Strood, Mark Reckless, has defended the

Government's use of vans and posters to encourage illegal

immigrants to go home. The Home Office claims the vans, which tell

immigrants to "go home or face arrest" are working. The scheme's

been widely criticised, but Mr Reckless says it's reasonable to

tell people to go home to their country of residence.

A teaching union has criticised schools like Hove Park which allow

pupils to use iPads in the classroom, claiming it creates a

class divide. The National Union of Teachers says not all families can

afford the tablet computers and claim that poorer children will be

left behind. A spokesperson for Brighton and Hove City Council says

the iPads have improved the pupils' performance and that the tablet

computers are not compulsory. Kent Police tonight want to speak

to the driver of a car caught on camera weaving through traffic with

a young girl lying flat on the parcel shelf over the boot. The

child, who's thought to be about six years old, was seen in a red VW

Polo in Canterbury last week. Road safety campaigners have branded the

driver dangerous and irresponsible after a photo emerged on social

networking sites. Alex Beard reports.

In moving car on a busy road, with a young girl lying across the back.

This was taken by a passenger in the car behind, just metres from

Canterbury police station. Irresponsible and a naive way of

transporting someone. So much could go wrong. They cannot believe what

I had just seen. Really can't, it is crazy. It is stupid because you

could be seriously hurt. They obviously don't care about her

health and safety. This is the only act of dangerous driving caught on

camera. In 2010, drivers the film themselves speeding through the

Dartford Tunnel were branded irresponsible. Last November at pop

landlord was run over by an angry driver in the car park and captured

the whole thing on CCTV. In the same month, a motorcyclist was

banned for three months after Kent Police filmed in speeding. That

photograph has been handed over to the neighbourhood policing team in

the sense of Canterbury. Kent Police have released a statement

saying any car driving with a child travelling on the parcel shelf is

illegal and dangerous. If anything happen, the child would be

catapulted forward and be easily killed. It is ridiculous we have

laws to make sure children are safe in the cars. They should be in an

appropriate restraint and it is unbelievable someone should drive

around like that not realising the risks. It is not known who the

driver is, but their actions have been described as reckless and

idiotic on social networking sites. A man's has been given a life

sentence and told he must serve at least 25 years in prison for

stabbing his estranged wife using knives given to them as a wedding

present. A judge at Lewes Crown Court this morning, told Ty Medland,

who's 26, he was responsible for the frenzied and savage attack on

Samantha Medland in central Brighton. Rebecca Williams was in

court. On his way to prison for at least

25 years. Ty Medland brutally murdered his estranged wife,

Samantha in Brighton in February and today the police have welcomed

the sentence. This is a tale of rejection and Ty Medland, at the no

time showed any remorse whatsoever about his actions until he was

found guilty of murder. Our thoughts go out to the family of

Samantha, and hope they can find some sort of solace in the decision

that was made today. They can be seen in happier times on their

wedding day. But problems soon develop. But Ty Medland became

overwhelmed with jealousy when his wife walked out on him. He agreed

to meet her in February to hand back some possessions, but he

carried out a savage attack, stabbing her to death. In May he

pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On Friday, the jury convicted him of

murder. The judge told Ty Medland, he committed a ghastly and gruesome

attack. Until then sentencing he had showed no remorse and will now

spend at least 25 years in prison. Some of some on the's colleagues

had paid tribute as a loving friend. The difficulties and thing she was

going through in her life, she was very open and shared the

circumstances with us. She was open to any advise anybody could give

her. She was just starting to rebuild her life after a miserable

time. Described as a petulant, self-centred man, Ty Medland faces

life behind bars. So let's talk to Rebecca now, who joins us from

Brighton. Difficult times for the family?

Samantha Medland was brutally murdered in February. She had been

working in the building behind me. Ty Medland agreed to meet her

outside her workplace to hand back some of her belongings. It was

described as a frenzy d'etat. The judge heard that people had heard

her screams by passers-by. He believed there were two reasons she

had been murdered, her husband wanted revenge and he felt she had

run off with another man. The judge said it was a pre-planned attack

and Ty Medland would have to live with what he had done for the rest

of his light. This is our top story tonight: A woman jailed in Bali for

drug smuggling has claimed how she was treated badly in jail.

She has returned to the UK eight weeks ago and still protests her

innocence. Celebrating the seafood of Kent, as

well as a step grandson. The Duchess of Cornwall in Whitstable.

He brightened up nicely after a showery start, but make the most of

it because the rain is back tomorrow.

A week ago, his grandson was being born, today the Prince of Wales and

the Duchess of Cornwall were in Kent, visiting first Whitstable's

Oyster Festival, and then moving to Chatham. And of course, Prince

George was the one thing everyone wanted to talk about. Prince

Charles told well wishers that he thought George was a very good name.

The couple also met youngsters helped by The Prince's Trust in

Chatham, from where Sara Smith joins us now. Sara, a charity very

close to the Prince's heart? It is, it carries his name and he

founded it nearly 40 years ago to help young people with a variety of

difficulties. He frequently goes a long to visit the schemes and

projects. But this visit started down the coast in Whitstable, where

huge crowds turned out to welcome the couple and of course ask about

the new arrival. There was definitely a baby theme

in Whitstable. One week on from the Royal birth, and well-wishers

wanted to congratulate the new grandparents. Congratulations.

Happy to chat, Prince Charles said he was convinced George would

become a George Reid in no time. But this was the Oyster Festival

and there was the business of eating oysters. Perhaps an early in

the day for the Royal palate. The couple met volunteers at the RNLI,

the Whitstable like boats service is celebrating its 50th anniversary

this year. In Chatham it was a visit to the charity with his name

on, and a chance to meet the young people who have benefited from its

work, such as Aaron who has autism. He is not only trained as a

hairdresser, but moved into a role to help other young people who came

to the trust. He was very passionate on the support this

charity offers to young people and to help them get a start, engaging

in to anything. They were also treated to a bit of music.

brings it to light. We'll call the Prince's Trust, but for young

people to have met the Prince himself, for him to show he is

personally committed to what we do, it is a fantastic experience for

the young people themselves. Hello, how are you? There were more crowds

in the historic Dockyard. And they look around be exploring Antarctica

Exhibition, which examines the final exhibitions of Scott and

Shackleton. Prince Charles is patron of the historic Dockyard

Trust and the couple were presented with a swing, made here, of the

wood was salvaged from HMS Gannet. They are used to receiving gifts

from where ever they go, but now it seems everyone has the Royal baby

in mind. One woman in Whitstable presented Prince Charles with a

tiny voice double Festival T-shirt. He said he thought the Prince would

enjoy wearing it. There was a hand- made garden swing, and they say

everything built in the dockyard is built to last. I don't think people

are worried the young prince will go short when it comes to GIFs.

-- gifts. In football, the Spanish midfielder, David Lopez, has signed

a new one-year deal with Brighton and Hove Albion. The 30-year-old

became a favourite with Seagulls fans after scoring nine goals in 31

Championship appearances. Under It started as a joke among

residents of a village in Kent and now it's turned into a short,

online film with an unusual aim - putting the bounce back into

Britain. What that amounted to in practice is 70 people, from

toddlers to pensioners, taking to red, white and blue space hoppers

in Boughton under Blean near Faversham. We sent Peter Whittlesea

to find out why. It started off as an idea over a

few beers, blended up being a community event to commemorate the

bouncing bomb, thanks to the humble space hopper. I just hope this will

capture the imagination of people, enjoy it, see it is fun, everybody

who took part was having fun, and we enjoyed making it. This guy was

the limit when it came to synchronise space hopping. A plane

was drafted in to film the formation from the earth. I ended

up being cheap communications officer with the aeroplane. I was

taking messages from the pilot. When you are making a film, you can

include a bit of make believe, thanks to the magic of computer

editing, the Red Arrows appeared. But everything else did happen.

is fun, it is out there, bizarre. I still don't know how it is working,

or why we have done it. But it has been great fun. The youngest was

about three, 76 was the oldest, bouncing over the weekend. She has

the bruises to prove it as well. making its own, and villagers say

they have grown closer, proving that those that bounce together,

bond together. Great news coming up we hope from

It you like lots of rain. We did have some heavy showers but it

brightened up in the afternoons. We will be seen rain tomorrow, heavy

at times. It clears out of the way and brighter by the end of the

afternoon. We are seeing cloud cover and a hefty showers around.

It has clear to the east, and we brightened up by the afternoons.

Temperatures not feeling too bad. 21, 22 degrees. Still breezy. Up to

15 to 20 mph. This evening, plenty of late evening Sunshine but the

cloud cover will be building ahead of the rain tomorrow. Temperatures

pretty mild. 15 or 16 degrees. If you are up early, dry start, but we

will see the rain arriving. Wind still picking up. Rain is heavy at

times but is Clearing through quickly. By the end of the

afternoon, we should be dry again. Plenty of cloud around, quickly we

will be seen this rain. By the afternoon, temperatures a little

bit cooler. 18 or 19 degrees. We stayed dry overnight tomorrow, and

Wednesday, top temperatures of around 22, 23 degrees. A similar

story as we go into Thursday. Rain will be back for Friday. But on

Thursday we will be seen temperatures of around 28, 29

degrees. Rain around over the next couple of days. Rain is back as we

go into Friday book clears out of the weight just in time for the

weekend. Decent temperatures as Well let's recap tonight's top

national and local news stories: By The NHS non-emergency helpline

in England is facing further problems, after one of the main

providers of the service said it was pulling out of its contracts.

NHS Direct, which runs the 111 system in 11 areas, said the

current set up was financially unsustainable.

Rachel Dougall, a Sussex woman jailed in Bali has said she was

beaten up in prison and placed in intensive care for two days after

she collapsed with pneumonia. And the driver of a car caught on

camera weaving through traffic with a young girl lying flat on the