:00:09. > :00:13.is told he will die in jail. 30-year-old Dale Cregan had already
:00:13. > :00:17.killed a father and son in a gangland feud. He lured PCs Fiona
:00:17. > :00:27.Bone and Nicola Hughes to the house in Greater Manchester with a fake
:00:27. > :00:38.
:00:38. > :00:42.them. Today, the families gave their reaction. Our lives were ripped
:00:42. > :00:45.apart beyond belief that day. Nothing could have prepared us for
:00:45. > :00:50.the devastation. We will be looking at what drove Cregan to such brutal
:00:50. > :00:53.violence. Also in the programme... "It's not good enough," says the
:00:53. > :01:03.83-year-old left for hours in bed - warnings of a crisis in England's
:01:03. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:11.have died in Syria - 93,000 killed in two years, many of them young
:01:11. > :01:12.children. A sharp drop for RBS shares after
:01:12. > :01:15.Stephen Hester's surprise announcement that he is leaving the
:01:15. > :01:25.bailed-out bank. Australia's David Warner tries to
:01:25. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:50.put his attack on an England player a century from Sangakkara has helped
:01:50. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:01.Sri Lanka beat England in the Good evening. Dale Cregan will spend
:02:01. > :02:03.the rest of his life in prison for the ruthless, cold-blooded murders
:02:03. > :02:07.of two unarmed policewomen and a father and son. The 30-year-old was
:02:07. > :02:10.on the run from police last year after killing David and Mark Short.
:02:10. > :02:14.He hid in a house in Greater Manchester, called the police to
:02:14. > :02:19.report a fake burglary and lured PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes to the
:02:19. > :02:29.house. When they arrived, he killed them with a hail of bullets. Judith
:02:29. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:37.Moritz was in court. PC Nicola Hughes, on the left, always wanted a
:02:37. > :02:41.career in policing. PC Fiona Bone adored the variety of life in the
:02:41. > :02:45.force. They were murdered doing the jobs they loved. Today, their
:02:45. > :02:50.families watched as the man who shot them was told he would die in
:02:50. > :02:54.prison. Our lives have been shattered and will never be the same
:02:54. > :02:58.again. To have a child taken away from you in such a meaningless way
:02:58. > :03:02.is without doubt the worst thing any parent could imagine. Dale Cregan
:03:02. > :03:09.was one of Britain's most wanted men. He escaped capture for five
:03:09. > :03:12.weeks until he set a trap to bring the police to him. He called 999,
:03:12. > :03:22.pretending to be a man called Adam Gartree, whose house had just been
:03:22. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:45.Bone and Hughes were called over to investigate the reported burglary.
:03:45. > :03:50.The women hardly have the chance to walk up the garden path before
:03:50. > :03:55.Cregan came out shooting. Within just a few seconds, here on the
:03:55. > :04:00.doorstep, he fired 32 bullets at them. The officers were wearing body
:04:00. > :04:05.armour, but they were shot so many times, it could not save them. Fiona
:04:05. > :04:15.Bone was hit in the heart, and Cregan executed Nicola Hughes at
:04:15. > :04:20.close range and then threw a grenade at her before fleeing. This man,
:04:20. > :04:30.speaking exclusively to the BBC, is too frightened to be identified. He
:04:30. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:03.was the first to rush to the aid of station in Hyde to hand himself in.
:05:03. > :05:08.He approached the counter and said, I am wanted by the police and I have
:05:08. > :05:12.just done two coppers. The officer on duty leapt over the desk to
:05:13. > :05:17.arrest him. The impact of the shooting was enormous and immediate.
:05:17. > :05:20.Officers who had worked alongside the two now found themselves
:05:20. > :05:30.investigating their murders. There was a sense that the police and
:05:30. > :05:34.local community shared the grief of the officers' families. Can you
:05:34. > :05:40.blame community, society? You cannot blame the police. The call handler
:05:40. > :05:45.who sent them was in pieces. It was not his fault. That is why all
:05:45. > :05:51.police are heroes, they do not know what they are going to. Police
:05:51. > :05:56.officers from across the UK came to Manchester for the women's funerals.
:05:56. > :06:01.They spoke of the police family. For the parents, it was and continues to
:06:01. > :06:05.be a very public bereavement. get the initial shock of your
:06:05. > :06:11.daughter dying, and on top of that, you have got everything else to deal
:06:11. > :06:19.with. It is like a nightmare. But you realise you are never going to
:06:19. > :06:23.wake up from it. The agony was prolonged as Cregan's high security
:06:23. > :06:28.trial lasted for months, costing more than �5 million. Tonight, as he
:06:28. > :06:31.was driven away, the relatives of the two policewomen said they hoped
:06:31. > :06:34.they could begin to grieve properly. The deaths of the two policewomen
:06:34. > :06:36.were described as the worst event in the history of Greater Manchester
:06:36. > :06:40.Police. The chief constable said Cregan had committed the murders
:06:40. > :06:48.because he wanted to be seen as some sort of hero by the criminal
:06:48. > :06:54.underworld. Chris Buckler looks at what drove Cregan to such violence.
:06:54. > :07:01.Dale Cregan wanted to be associated with crime and violence. He boasted
:07:02. > :07:08.that he had lost one of his eyes in a fight with a Thai policeman. Last
:07:08. > :07:13.May, CCTV recorded him getting out of a car at the front of the Cotton
:07:13. > :07:18.Tree Inn in Droylsden. He went inside and murdered Mark Short, the
:07:18. > :07:22.first of his victims. The pub is now boarded up, but until last year, it
:07:22. > :07:26.was at the centre of trouble involving rivals in Manchester's
:07:26. > :07:30.criminal underworld sure this is two drugs families fighting over
:07:31. > :07:36.territory, drugs and money. There was some disrespect between these
:07:36. > :07:41.families and Dale Cregan was asked to sort it out. The incident which
:07:41. > :07:44.led to that first murder was a row inside this pub in which a woman was
:07:44. > :07:49.slapped. Dale Cregan shot Mark Short in revenge, and the feud did not end
:07:49. > :07:57.there. Mark Short's father was killed by Cregan a few months
:07:57. > :08:01.later. He was shot repeatedly and a grenade was left to explode beside
:08:01. > :08:04.his body. More explosives were found even as Cregan was on trial. On the
:08:04. > :08:09.same day David Short died, he was filmed pulling out the pin and
:08:09. > :08:14.leaving another grenade in a separate attack on another house.
:08:14. > :08:21.Gang violence was not a total surprise in the residential suburb
:08:21. > :08:26.of Manchester where David shortly. heard he was into drugs and stuff
:08:26. > :08:31.like that, so you expect that kind of thing, when you hear that people
:08:31. > :08:36.are into drugs and organised crime. With Cregan on the run, the police
:08:36. > :08:41.offered a �50,000 reward for information, which was put on show,
:08:41. > :08:45.in cash. We were very, very concerned that he would kill other
:08:45. > :08:49.people, and absolutely, we were constantly visiting his family, his
:08:49. > :08:56.girlfriend and his relatives, absolutely, to try to discover where
:08:56. > :08:59.he was. It is believed he was taken to Bradford and but Cregan returned
:08:59. > :09:05.to Manchester, with the specific intention of killing police
:09:05. > :09:10.officers. Cregan clearly follows the typical model of somebody with a
:09:10. > :09:15.psychopathic personality disorder, and who is part of this sort of
:09:15. > :09:19.criminal underworld, where this sort of violence is commonplace. It just
:09:19. > :09:22.seems like he wanted to go out in some sort of distorted blaze of
:09:23. > :09:27.glory. In the streets where he murdered, the last thing people want
:09:27. > :09:30.is for Cregan to be known for notoriety. It is two police officers
:09:30. > :09:38.who are being remembered here tonight, killed as they gave
:09:38. > :09:42.service, by a man with no apparent There is a crisis in the home care
:09:42. > :09:43.system for the elderly and disabled in England - that's the warning from
:09:43. > :09:47.the Social Care Minister, Norman Lamb. He says the present system
:09:47. > :09:50.encourages low wages, poor care and neglect. The BBC has been given CCTV
:09:50. > :09:53.footage filmed by the family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the
:09:53. > :10:03.treatment she received at the hands of her carers. Michael Buchanan
:10:03. > :10:14.
:10:14. > :10:24.been here 45 minutes ago. Unable to get out of bed are needed, she tries
:10:24. > :10:34.to ring for help. Muriel is incontinent. She has now been in bed
:10:34. > :10:57.
:10:57. > :11:02.your grandad and I, at one time. Muriel, now in happier times, with
:11:02. > :11:08.her grandson. Darryl installed the CCTV cameras to monitor his
:11:08. > :11:13.grandmother, in case she fell. Over the months, from the footage we have
:11:13. > :11:18.seen, carers turned up by the late or not at all on at least a dozen
:11:18. > :11:23.occasions. You ring them up and they keep saying, oh, yes, we will be
:11:23. > :11:27.sending somebody along, but they never did. It was terrible. The way
:11:27. > :11:33.they treat old people, I am lucky I have got a family to look after me.
:11:33. > :11:36.Those that have not got a family, God help them, poor devils. While
:11:36. > :11:43.some carers were professional, the footage shows others who clearly
:11:43. > :11:50.were not. One carer uses her fingers to test the temperature of the food.
:11:50. > :12:00.Another simply watches television. This one played up to the cameras,
:12:00. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:10.and was disciplined by her employer. Muriel is an insulin-dependent
:12:10. > :12:16.
:12:16. > :12:23.diabetic, with a special diet, but this carer could not even cock. --
:12:23. > :12:27.cook. Mosaic Community Care, the company involved, is based in
:12:27. > :12:33.Preston. The family say they complained repeatedly about the
:12:33. > :12:43.service. However, in a statement, Mosaic said, at no time were any
:12:43. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :12:58.provided by one company, to one woman. But hundreds of thousands of
:12:58. > :13:02.people have care at home, and some recent reports have questioned the
:13:02. > :13:05.quality of it. Now, the Government is warning of a looming crisis
:13:05. > :13:12.within the industry, with poor care, and even neglect, far too
:13:12. > :13:14.commonplace. I showed the footage to the Care Minister, who had a meeting
:13:14. > :13:20.today with home companies to discuss the problems in the
:13:20. > :13:26.industry. It is just shocking and depressing, really, because this is
:13:26. > :13:30.neglect in your own home. We know that this is not an isolated case.
:13:30. > :13:40.There is also some very good care, we should celebrate that, but where
:13:40. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:51.poor care exists, we should not tolerate it. The memory of what
:13:52. > :13:56.happened here will long linger. Our home editor joins me now. Our
:13:56. > :14:00.population is getting older. That's a tight squeeze on finances, what is
:14:00. > :14:04.the solution? I think people looking at what we just saw, a lot of people
:14:04. > :14:08.find that familiar. They will know it from their own experience and
:14:08. > :14:11.perhaps a lot worse. When you think of the pressure that the career is
:14:11. > :14:13.working under. These people are often given 15 minute slots to see
:14:13. > :14:17.somebody. Perhaps an elderly person just wants to chat. No time for
:14:17. > :14:23.that. Something goes wrong, no time for that. If you take time, then
:14:23. > :14:31.you're late for the next one. There is this appreciate ire all the time.
:14:31. > :14:35.People working on very low wages, minimum wage, perhaps not paid for
:14:35. > :14:37.the time between jobs that. Puts enormous pressure on the system. For
:14:37. > :14:40.the elderly people, delays and cancellations and that means people
:14:40. > :14:43.left unfed, unwashed, left perhaps sitting in a chair overnight, never
:14:43. > :14:47.put to bed, no-one coming around till the next morning. All those
:14:47. > :14:53.kind of problems the Government says, well, perhaps we ought to look
:14:53. > :14:56.at greater scrutiny of councils, maybe in terms what have they
:14:56. > :14:59.commission, maybe a greater role for the Chief Inspector on that. Also,
:14:59. > :15:05.ministers trying to encourage people to come forward with ideas for this.
:15:05. > :15:10.I wonder whether this is a social problem for all of us. We need to be
:15:10. > :15:13.thinking about are we prepared to spend more on our elderly? Or is
:15:13. > :15:17.there a role also for families and communities to take more
:15:17. > :15:21.responsibility? If we don't, we are putting greater risk onto our
:15:21. > :15:23.vulnerable, elderly people. . At least 93,000 people have been killed
:15:23. > :15:27.in Syria since the start of conflict, that's according to the
:15:27. > :15:28.latest figures. Almost 2,000 of them are children under the age of ten.
:15:28. > :15:33.This report contains some graphic This report contains some graphic
:15:33. > :15:43.images. Syria has fallen into an abyss of
:15:43. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:53.violence. The fighting has long since passed the point where it can
:15:53. > :15:55.be described as Civil War. To count the dead, the UN took names from
:15:55. > :15:59.seven human rights groups and the Syrian government. Only those deaths
:15:59. > :16:03.with a full name, date and place were recorded. As the UN says, the
:16:03. > :16:11.figures are shocking. 93,000 people are confirmed dead. The real figure
:16:11. > :16:16.could be as high as 130,000. Out of those that have been killed, 6.
:16:16. > :16:22.5,000 were -- 6,500 were children. 1700 of those are under ten. On
:16:22. > :16:30.every single day of the past year, more than 160 people were killed in
:16:30. > :16:36.Syria. Many killings are deliberate, personal - throats cut, heads bashed
:16:36. > :16:40.in, deaths that speak of sectarian hatred on both sides. There are well
:16:40. > :16:47.documented cases of individual children being tortured and executed
:16:47. > :16:51.and entire families, including babies, being massacred, which along
:16:51. > :16:57.with this devastatingly high death toll is a terrible reminder of just
:16:57. > :17:01.how vicious this conflict has become. The UN says civilians are
:17:01. > :17:06.suffering most, but one of the groups contributing to this report
:17:07. > :17:10.has a surprising conclusion - it is that more of the regime's troops
:17:10. > :17:17.have been killed than civilians or even rebels. The uprising started as
:17:17. > :17:22.a popular, peaceful movement. But it has escalated quickly. The use of
:17:22. > :17:25.guerrilla warfare, car bombs, suicide bombs, the ambushing of
:17:25. > :17:31.military check points and the indiscriminate United States of
:17:31. > :17:36.mortars and home-made rockets. fighting is picking up. After the
:17:36. > :17:42.fall of Qusair, the UN believes government forces will move onto
:17:42. > :17:47.Aleppo. If so, there'll be many more dead to add to the total counted so
:17:47. > :17:53.far by the UN. In the last few minutes, while we've
:17:53. > :17:56.been on air, US officials have said that the Obama administration has
:17:56. > :18:00.concluded that President Assad's forces have used chemical weapons in
:18:00. > :18:05.the conflict. Our correspondent is in Washington and he's been
:18:05. > :18:11.following developments. What more have they said? A statement from the
:18:11. > :18:17.White House saying that intelligence suggests that the Syrian regime has
:18:17. > :18:24.used chemical weapons against the rebels there, in particular soarin
:18:24. > :18:29.gas and on a small scale, they say -- sarin. And that 150,000 have died
:18:29. > :18:34.as a result. This constitutes a crossing of the red line, the line
:18:34. > :18:37.that President Obama set for some sort of action as far as Syria is
:18:37. > :18:39.concerned, apart from the humanitarian aid, which is being
:18:39. > :18:45.provided at the moment. The statement goes on to say that the
:18:45. > :18:55.United States will be calling on the United Nations and its allies and
:18:55. > :19:02.
:19:02. > :19:07.conifering as to what to do yet. But this is a high confidence
:19:07. > :19:09.assessment, as it calls it, that chemical weapons have been used in
:19:09. > :19:14.Syria. It says a red line has been crossed. The Assad regime should
:19:14. > :19:16.know and I quote, "that its actions have led us to increase the scope
:19:16. > :19:17.and scale of assistance we provide the opposition. Those efforts will
:19:17. > :19:19.increase now going forward." Thank you.
:19:19. > :19:22.The Government has denied claims that the Chancellor r Chancellor
:19:22. > :19:26.ousted Stephen Hester as chief executive of the Royal Bank of
:19:26. > :19:32.Scotland, more than 80% owned bit taxpayer. The surprise announcement
:19:32. > :19:37.of his departure led to sharp falls in the share price today.
:19:37. > :19:43.It matters to all of us. The Government owns 81% of RBS after a
:19:43. > :19:48.bail out which saw �45 billion of taxpayers' money ploughed into the
:19:48. > :19:52.bank. That's why the question of why the boss Stephen Hester is quitting
:19:52. > :19:57.is so important. There's intense speculation over whether he was
:19:57. > :19:59.forced out after disagreements over strategy with George Osborne. The
:19:59. > :20:03.Government has denied that. A Treasury Minister told the Commons a
:20:03. > :20:09.new boss was needed to take the bank through privatisation and beyond.
:20:09. > :20:13.Having brought RBS back from the brink, now is the time to move on
:20:13. > :20:18.from the rescue phase to the focus on RBS being a UK bank that provides
:20:18. > :20:22.greater support to the British economy. But Labour demanded to know
:20:22. > :20:27.more about the Chancellor's role in the change at the top of RBS. The
:20:27. > :20:31.bank's share price fell sharply today. Some in the City claimed the
:20:31. > :20:34.Government had interfeared and its handling of the issue had been poor.
:20:34. > :20:40.I think it's been very messy. First it's a surprise to see someone who
:20:40. > :20:44.has led a successful repair job be removed at the behest of the
:20:44. > :20:49.Treasury. Secondly, to do so without having a clear plan for succession
:20:49. > :20:52.is, in my view, negligence. The BBC has learned that the body which
:20:52. > :21:01.manages the Government's share holdings in banks told RBS it should
:21:01. > :21:03.be ready for a share sale at the end of 2014 and it was a good idea to
:21:03. > :21:05.have a new boss in place before then. The chairman, meanwhile, was
:21:05. > :21:11.side stepping questions about how long he would stay at RBS. Can you
:21:11. > :21:18.give us any sense of how long you're sticking around for? Well, the main
:21:18. > :21:23.thing will be to make sure that we get a new CEO in place to re replace
:21:23. > :21:26.Stephen and then we'll take it from there. The debate on Stephen
:21:26. > :21:30.Hester's departure continues, on a day when RBS has announced further
:21:30. > :21:35.cut backs in its investment banking operations, including here in the
:21:35. > :21:39.City of London. It's seeking to focus more on its UK-based corporate
:21:39. > :21:43.and household lending. RBS said about 2,000 investment banking jobs
:21:43. > :21:47.would be cut, a fifth of the total, though not all in the UK.
:21:47. > :21:50.It's hard to say when taxpayers will start getting some money back from
:21:51. > :21:57.the RBS investment. George Osborne can only hope the leadership issue
:21:57. > :22:01.doesn't make it more difficult. Iranians go to the polls tomorrow to
:22:01. > :22:04.elect a successor to the country's controversial president, Mahmoud
:22:04. > :22:10.Ahmadinejad. There are six candidates standing in the election.
:22:10. > :22:14.Only one of them is regarded as ary formist. In the last election in
:22:14. > :22:21.2009 was disputed and sparked mass protests, which were crushed.
:22:21. > :22:28.Whoever wins this time will preside over a struggling economy. John
:22:28. > :22:35.Simpson reports. Of the six carefully selected
:22:35. > :22:40.candidates, five are pretty tame. Even the liveliest the
:22:40. > :22:46.ultraconservative mayor of tie rain, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. When a
:22:46. > :22:51.solitary reformist holds a rally, it's very different. Hassan Rowhani
:22:51. > :22:55.may be the only cleric who's standing but he really rocks the
:22:55. > :22:59.crowd. Purple is his colour, a reminder of the green campaign in
:22:59. > :23:05.2009 when the moderates claimed the election then had been stolen from
:23:05. > :23:08.them. For days on end, there was fury in the streets. These people
:23:08. > :23:11.feel that their election has been stolen from them and they're showing
:23:11. > :23:16.it in a way that Iranians are not used to doing.
:23:16. > :23:23.Ever since, the government has clamped down hard on dissent. The
:23:23. > :23:28.BBC hasn't been allowed to send in a team to cover this election, but
:23:28. > :23:32.it's being watched carefully here in the newsroom of the BBC Persian TV
:23:33. > :23:36.news service. It has huge audiences in Iran and that alarms the
:23:36. > :23:43.government there. It's been threatening the families of several
:23:43. > :23:52.people who work here. It is shocking. It is unprecedented. It
:23:52. > :23:57.shows that the Iranian regime is so concerned about its security. It is
:23:57. > :24:01.so concerned to control news in Iran. Inside the country, many
:24:01. > :24:06.people seem less intimidated now. One young woman I phoned in Iran had
:24:06. > :24:15.thought it was a waste of time to vote. Not any more. I just decided
:24:15. > :24:21.to vote because I think if I do nothing, nothing going to be
:24:21. > :24:28.changed. It dangerous to be saying that? I taking this risk to tell
:24:28. > :24:37.you, to tell the world that we are, most of us, against our government.
:24:38. > :24:42.Most of us want democracy in Iran. That's really interesting, because
:24:42. > :24:47.it's obvious that more and more people in Iran are starting to
:24:47. > :24:50.realise that unless they speak out openly, nothing in their country is
:24:50. > :24:54.going to change. But, of course, it's got its dangers. Excitement in
:24:54. > :24:57.Iran is growing. Everyone knows the religious establishment really runs
:24:57. > :25:05.the country, not the elected politicians. But this vote could
:25:05. > :25:09.turn into a referendum on Iran's entire system.
:25:09. > :25:19.The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce for his third
:25:19. > :25:25.wife, Wendi Dung. The 82-year-old's marriage to Miss Dung, who's 44, had
:25:25. > :25:29.broken down for the last six months. The Australian cricketer who punched
:25:29. > :25:33.an England player in a bar last weekend has apologised for his
:25:33. > :25:39.actions. David Warner has been suspended until the start of the
:25:39. > :25:42.Ashes next movement -- month.
:25:42. > :25:46.He was known as one of Australia's brightest talents, now he's known as
:25:46. > :25:49.the man who tried to clobber an opponent. Today, it was David
:25:49. > :25:54.Warner's turn to take it on the chin, fined, suspended until the
:25:54. > :26:02.start of the Ashes and very contrite. I struck him in the face
:26:02. > :26:06.and I'm here today to put my hand up and apologise publicly to Joe. And
:26:06. > :26:11.to basically say that I'm putting my hand up. I'm responsible for my
:26:11. > :26:15.actions, extremely remorseful. Daviesy knows how disappointed the
:26:15. > :26:19.team is and I am with his behaviour. He knows it's not acceptable as an
:26:19. > :26:23.Australian cricketer. He knows he'll have to do everything in his power
:26:23. > :26:29.now to give himself a chance of being right for the first Test
:26:29. > :26:32.Match. As for Joe Root, today he seemed none the worse for the
:26:32. > :26:37.eventful weekend. Scoring a 50 for England and proving he can also pack
:26:37. > :26:41.some punch. Australia now want to draw a line under this controversy
:26:41. > :26:45.and focus on their next match, here at the Oval on Monday. With less
:26:45. > :26:50.than a month until the Ashes, this sort of distraction is the last
:26:50. > :26:55.thing they need. It's great. I'm an Englishman through and through. I
:26:55. > :27:01.enjoy seeing England beat Australia. Anything that can hamper Australia's
:27:01. > :27:04.chances I'm all for. It the brought it upon themselves. Things are by no
:27:04. > :27:08.means perfect for England either. They ended up losing to Sri Lanka