22/03/2017 South East Today


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Today's main headlines in the South East:

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Terror at Parliament - school children from Kent and Sussex

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are caught up in a day of chaos and fear in London.

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We're in Westminster and Herstmonceux with the latest.

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Sussex Police apologise to the family of a teenager murdered

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This verdict will not bring her back but I hope it brings some comfort to

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her family and friends who have had to endure a long and distressing

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trial. And, thieves use a master key tool

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bought for just ?20 to steal thousands of pounds worth of goods -

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we have an exclusive report. Police are dealing with a major

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terrorist incident in the heart Five people have died

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and 40 have been injured. The dead include a police officer,

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attacked by a knifeman, who was then shot dead

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by armed officers. Pedestrians hit by a car

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on Westminster Bridge are also among Our Political Editor Helen Catt

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joins us from Westminster. Helen, South East MPs

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witnessed what happened. Yes, well if you think this was

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quite a normal Parliamentary day up until 3pm this afternoon, then a

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number of our Kent and Sussex MPs were among those who ended up in

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lockdown in the House of Commons chamber. Several spoke about being

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on their way to do the usual Parliamentary things like voting for

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example. One was meeting a school party. They were bundled back into

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the houses of Parliament and locked down for the rest of the afternoon.

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Others were in the offices and they had to remain there for the

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afternoon. It was not just MPs ought up in all of this this afternoon.

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The attacks started on the Westminster Bridge just before 3pm.

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A van driver was on the bridge at the time and his van remains there

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this evening. As we pulled onto Westminster

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Bridge, we saw people laying on the bridge,

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and then the SWAT team turned up with paramedics, and they asked us

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to abandon our vehicle How many people did you see

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lying on the ground? There was a lady on the pavement

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at the entrance of the bridge, but there must have been

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about five more people Tonight, Kent Police say they are

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mounting additional patrols in the light of what has happened in

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Westminster today. Yes, they are. The Chief Constable of Kent has said

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there will be additional patrols, both armed and Armand across the

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county to make sure Kent remains a safe place to live, work and visit,

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although they say there was nothing to suggest there is a specific

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threat to Kent. School children from Kent

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and Sussex were visiting Westminster at the time,

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including a group of primary school pupils from Herstmonceux,

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who were kept under Our reporter Amanda Akass joins

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us from Hestmonceux. Amanda, have the children

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got home safely now? Yes, they are back here safe and

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sound tonight in the village. 15 pupils aged between seven and 11 who

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were on a school trip to the House of Commons to try to understand a

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bit more about how democracy is meant to work. Mercifully they were

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at the other end of the Parliamentary estate when the

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attacks happened, but they were held in lockdown for more than three

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hours before they were escorted by police to catch their train home. I

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spoke to one of those pupils when she arrived back home and was

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reunited with her mother. She told me it was a frightening experience

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in the lockdown. Scary because we didn't know

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what was going to happen And then we had to have ambulance

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people come in to check us all, and then policemen came

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in to take us out. Where you relieved when

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they came to get you? You must be very glad to be back

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home with your mum now. What are you going

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to do this evening? So, huge relief for parents waiting

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at the station to finally get their children back home safe and sound.

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Indeed, thank you. The former boyfriend of Sussex

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teenager Shana Grice has been found It took jurors just two hours

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to decide that Michael Lane cut her throat in her bedroom

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last August. He'd stalked her in the months

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before her death, and tonight, Sussex Police have apologised

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for the way they handled The force now faces

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an investigation, as One day after Shana Grice's murder,

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and Michael Lane is being A couple of weeks

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later, another lie. Her bedroom door was open

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and she was on the floor. Trying to suggest he had

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found her dead, but the real story was that when he had gone

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to her flat that morning, Shana Grice was brutally murdered

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in her own home by Michael Lane. Lane had become obsessed

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with her and could not accept that she did not

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want to be with him. In July, the month before

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Shana Grice was murdered, Michael Lane was reported

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to the police on three He stole a key to her house and let

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himself into her bedroom The following day, Shana Grice

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reported receiving a series Then, three days later,

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she reported that she was being Jurors heard police treated

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the incident as low risk. The day after Michael Lane

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crept into her bedroom, Shana Grice challenged him

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in a phone conversation On one occasion, Michael Lane

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was reported to police for assaulting Shana,

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and she was fined for It is very concerning,

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but it is not surprising. We hear from people every day

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on the National Stalking Helpline saying they have reported

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the stalking to the police, but it does not seem to have been

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recognised or taken seriously. After Shana Grice's death,

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Lane went to get his lottery ticket checked and came up

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with a string of lies You ain't going to believe me,

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but that's up to you. Nobody did believe him

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and Shana Grice's family said police should have

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taken her fears seriously. The Independent Police Complaints

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Commission has now launched an investigation into how

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Sussex Police handled this case, and Michael Lane will be

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sentenced tomorrow. Leanne Rinne's with me

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here in the studio. Leanne, Sussex Police have

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apologised to Shana Grice's family. Yes, they have, which is very

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unusual because the Independent and eight commission has not finished

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their investigation. But today, the Deputy Chief Constable of Sussex

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Police said, "When we looked at the circumstances leading to Shana

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Grice's murder, we felt we may not have done the best we could". Sussex

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Police have carried out a review into how they handle stalking cases

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to make changes, but tonight, Shana to make changes, but tonight, Shana

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Grice's family are clear. They say that if police had done more, she

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would still be alive today. Police are hunting a criminal gang

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targeting Ford Transit vans to steal thousands of pounds worth of tools

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in the South East, using a "master-key" tool that can be

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bought online for just ?20. Online retailers, including Amazon,

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are facing criticism for selling the device,

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which is made in China. Our Special Correspondent Colin

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Campbell has this exclusive story. Van thieves in action

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in Kent just a week ago. The gang suspected to be

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using a master key lock pick device. On Friday night in Tunbridge Wells,

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it was landscape gardener Nick I've lost my tools,

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so there are no jobs that I can do without hiring equipment,

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which will be an expense This Ford Transit was

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broken into that evening. We are investigating a number

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of offences in the west of Kent, where we suspect a master key

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may have been used. Made in China, there

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are tutorials on YouTube on how We've chosen to blur out

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the name the product, but it can be bought legally

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on Amazon and other online We asked a security expert to show

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van drivers how the device works. If I press it a second time, let's see

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if the back doors are now unlocked. I'm quite amazed that you can buy

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something like that. Thousands of pounds worth

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of stuff in the van, yes. The amount of calls we get per week

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from Ford owners who have been broken into with no visible damage,

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it would seem they are using Police are urging van drivers

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to remove tools and equipment from vehicles, and consider

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investing in better locks, CCTV and to park in well lit

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and secure areas and report We'll bring you the national weather

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forecast in a moment, but first here's the picture

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in the South East Today was wet and windy, further

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outbreaks of rain through tonight, so overnight tempered is not as cold

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as last night, dropping to three or 4 degrees. Thursday starts with some

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rain it will be breezy for stop and have got easterly winds. By the

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afternoon there will be some sunshine around. Driest in the

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middle of the day. As we head to the afternoon, further outbreaks of rain

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along the coast. Top temperatures, highs of ten or 11 Celsius. Here is

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the outlook: decent day. Saturday could be a much

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better day, with some sunshine. It certainly was a pretty wet day

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across parts of the country, lots of downpours around. This is a picture

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from Kent, not particularly nice. We still have some rain on the way for

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tonight. Tomorrow morning, some of that when we'll be lingering, but

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there is sunshine on the way later tomorrow. This is the rain bearing

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cloud for today. You can see the front sweeping northwards across the

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country. Still some heavy rain around the northern areas. To the

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south of the rain band, it is relatively mild compared to

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Scotland, where it could be

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