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is told he will die in jail. 30-year-old Dale Cregan had already

killed a father and son in a gangland feud. He lured PCs Fiona

Bone and Nicola Hughes to the house in Greater Manchester with a fake

them. Today, the families gave their reaction. Our lives were ripped

apart beyond belief that day. Nothing could have prepared us for

the devastation. We will be looking at what drove Cregan to such brutal

violence. Also in the programme... "It's not good enough," says the

83-year-old left for hours in bed - warnings of a crisis in England's

have died in Syria - 93,000 killed in two years, many of them young

children. A sharp drop for RBS shares after

Stephen Hester's surprise announcement that he is leaving the

bailed-out bank. Australia's David Warner tries to

put his attack on an England player a century from Sangakkara has helped

Sri Lanka beat England in the Good evening. Dale Cregan will spend

the rest of his life in prison for the ruthless, cold-blooded murders

of two unarmed policewomen and a father and son. The 30-year-old was

on the run from police last year after killing David and Mark Short.

He hid in a house in Greater Manchester, called the police to

report a fake burglary and lured PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes to the

house. When they arrived, he killed them with a hail of bullets. Judith

Moritz was in court. PC Nicola Hughes, on the left, always wanted a

career in policing. PC Fiona Bone adored the variety of life in the

force. They were murdered doing the jobs they loved. Today, their

families watched as the man who shot them was told he would die in

prison. Our lives have been shattered and will never be the same

again. To have a child taken away from you in such a meaningless way

is without doubt the worst thing any parent could imagine. Dale Cregan

was one of Britain's most wanted men. He escaped capture for five

weeks until he set a trap to bring the police to him. He called 999,

pretending to be a man called Adam Gartree, whose house had just been

Bone and Hughes were called over to investigate the reported burglary.

The women hardly have the chance to walk up the garden path before

Cregan came out shooting. Within just a few seconds, here on the

doorstep, he fired 32 bullets at them. The officers were wearing body

armour, but they were shot so many times, it could not save them. Fiona

Bone was hit in the heart, and Cregan executed Nicola Hughes at

close range and then threw a grenade at her before fleeing. This man,

speaking exclusively to the BBC, is too frightened to be identified. He

was the first to rush to the aid of station in Hyde to hand himself in.

He approached the counter and said, I am wanted by the police and I have

just done two coppers. The officer on duty leapt over the desk to

arrest him. The impact of the shooting was enormous and immediate.

Officers who had worked alongside the two now found themselves

investigating their murders. There was a sense that the police and

local community shared the grief of the officers' families. Can you

blame community, society? You cannot blame the police. The call handler

who sent them was in pieces. It was not his fault. That is why all

police are heroes, they do not know what they are going to. Police

officers from across the UK came to Manchester for the women's funerals.

They spoke of the police family. For the parents, it was and continues to

be a very public bereavement. get the initial shock of your

daughter dying, and on top of that, you have got everything else to deal

with. It is like a nightmare. But you realise you are never going to

wake up from it. The agony was prolonged as Cregan's high security

trial lasted for months, costing more than �5 million. Tonight, as he

was driven away, the relatives of the two policewomen said they hoped

they could begin to grieve properly. The deaths of the two policewomen

were described as the worst event in the history of Greater Manchester

Police. The chief constable said Cregan had committed the murders

because he wanted to be seen as some sort of hero by the criminal

underworld. Chris Buckler looks at what drove Cregan to such violence.

Dale Cregan wanted to be associated with crime and violence. He boasted

that he had lost one of his eyes in a fight with a Thai policeman. Last

May, CCTV recorded him getting out of a car at the front of the Cotton

Tree Inn in Droylsden. He went inside and murdered Mark Short, the

first of his victims. The pub is now boarded up, but until last year, it

was at the centre of trouble involving rivals in Manchester's

criminal underworld sure this is two drugs families fighting over

territory, drugs and money. There was some disrespect between these

families and Dale Cregan was asked to sort it out. The incident which

led to that first murder was a row inside this pub in which a woman was

slapped. Dale Cregan shot Mark Short in revenge, and the feud did not end

there. Mark Short's father was killed by Cregan a few months

later. He was shot repeatedly and a grenade was left to explode beside

his body. More explosives were found even as Cregan was on trial. On the

same day David Short died, he was filmed pulling out the pin and

leaving another grenade in a separate attack on another house.

Gang violence was not a total surprise in the residential suburb

of Manchester where David shortly. heard he was into drugs and stuff

like that, so you expect that kind of thing, when you hear that people

are into drugs and organised crime. With Cregan on the run, the police

offered a �50,000 reward for information, which was put on show,

in cash. We were very, very concerned that he would kill other

people, and absolutely, we were constantly visiting his family, his

girlfriend and his relatives, absolutely, to try to discover where

he was. It is believed he was taken to Bradford and but Cregan returned

to Manchester, with the specific intention of killing police

officers. Cregan clearly follows the typical model of somebody with a

psychopathic personality disorder, and who is part of this sort of

criminal underworld, where this sort of violence is commonplace. It just

seems like he wanted to go out in some sort of distorted blaze of

glory. In the streets where he murdered, the last thing people want

is for Cregan to be known for notoriety. It is two police officers

who are being remembered here tonight, killed as they gave

service, by a man with no apparent There is a crisis in the home care

system for the elderly and disabled in England - that's the warning from

the Social Care Minister, Norman Lamb. He says the present system

encourages low wages, poor care and neglect. The BBC has been given CCTV

footage filmed by the family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the

treatment she received at the hands of her carers. Michael Buchanan

been here 45 minutes ago. Unable to get out of bed are needed, she tries

to ring for help. Muriel is incontinent. She has now been in bed

your grandad and I, at one time. Muriel, now in happier times, with

her grandson. Darryl installed the CCTV cameras to monitor his

grandmother, in case she fell. Over the months, from the footage we have

seen, carers turned up by the late or not at all on at least a dozen

occasions. You ring them up and they keep saying, oh, yes, we will be

sending somebody along, but they never did. It was terrible. The way

they treat old people, I am lucky I have got a family to look after me.

Those that have not got a family, God help them, poor devils. While

some carers were professional, the footage shows others who clearly

were not. One carer uses her fingers to test the temperature of the food.

Another simply watches television. This one played up to the cameras,

and was disciplined by her employer. Muriel is an insulin-dependent

diabetic, with a special diet, but this carer could not even cock. --

cook. Mosaic Community Care, the company involved, is based in

Preston. The family say they complained repeatedly about the

service. However, in a statement, Mosaic said, at no time were any

provided by one company, to one woman. But hundreds of thousands of

people have care at home, and some recent reports have questioned the

quality of it. Now, the Government is warning of a looming crisis

within the industry, with poor care, and even neglect, far too

commonplace. I showed the footage to the Care Minister, who had a meeting

today with home companies to discuss the problems in the

industry. It is just shocking and depressing, really, because this is

neglect in your own home. We know that this is not an isolated case.

There is also some very good care, we should celebrate that, but where

poor care exists, we should not tolerate it. The memory of what

happened here will long linger. Our home editor joins me now. Our

population is getting older. That's a tight squeeze on finances, what is

the solution? I think people looking at what we just saw, a lot of people

find that familiar. They will know it from their own experience and

perhaps a lot worse. When you think of the pressure that the career is

working under. These people are often given 15 minute slots to see

somebody. Perhaps an elderly person just wants to chat. No time for

that. Something goes wrong, no time for that. If you take time, then

you're late for the next one. There is this appreciate ire all the time.

People working on very low wages, minimum wage, perhaps not paid for

the time between jobs that. Puts enormous pressure on the system. For

the elderly people, delays and cancellations and that means people

left unfed, unwashed, left perhaps sitting in a chair overnight, never

put to bed, no-one coming around till the next morning. All those

kind of problems the Government says, well, perhaps we ought to look

at greater scrutiny of councils, maybe in terms what have they

commission, maybe a greater role for the Chief Inspector on that. Also,

ministers trying to encourage people to come forward with ideas for this.

I wonder whether this is a social problem for all of us. We need to be

thinking about are we prepared to spend more on our elderly? Or is

there a role also for families and communities to take more

responsibility? If we don't, we are putting greater risk onto our

vulnerable, elderly people. . At least 93,000 people have been killed

in Syria since the start of conflict, that's according to the

latest figures. Almost 2,000 of them are children under the age of ten.

This report contains some graphic This report contains some graphic

images. Syria has fallen into an abyss of

violence. The fighting has long since passed the point where it can

be described as Civil War. To count the dead, the UN took names from

seven human rights groups and the Syrian government. Only those deaths

with a full name, date and place were recorded. As the UN says, the

figures are shocking. 93,000 people are confirmed dead. The real figure

could be as high as 130,000. Out of those that have been killed, 6.

5,000 were -- 6,500 were children. 1700 of those are under ten. On

every single day of the past year, more than 160 people were killed in

Syria. Many killings are deliberate, personal - throats cut, heads bashed

in, deaths that speak of sectarian hatred on both sides. There are well

documented cases of individual children being tortured and executed

and entire families, including babies, being massacred, which along

with this devastatingly high death toll is a terrible reminder of just

how vicious this conflict has become. The UN says civilians are

suffering most, but one of the groups contributing to this report

has a surprising conclusion - it is that more of the regime's troops

have been killed than civilians or even rebels. The uprising started as

a popular, peaceful movement. But it has escalated quickly. The use of

guerrilla warfare, car bombs, suicide bombs, the ambushing of

military check points and the indiscriminate United States of

mortars and home-made rockets. fighting is picking up. After the

fall of Qusair, the UN believes government forces will move onto

Aleppo. If so, there'll be many more dead to add to the total counted so

far by the UN. In the last few minutes, while we've

been on air, US officials have said that the Obama administration has

concluded that President Assad's forces have used chemical weapons in

the conflict. Our correspondent is in Washington and he's been

following developments. What more have they said? A statement from the

White House saying that intelligence suggests that the Syrian regime has

used chemical weapons against the rebels there, in particular soarin

gas and on a small scale, they say -- sarin. And that 150,000 have died

as a result. This constitutes a crossing of the red line, the line

that President Obama set for some sort of action as far as Syria is

concerned, apart from the humanitarian aid, which is being

provided at the moment. The statement goes on to say that the

United States will be calling on the United Nations and its allies and

conifering as to what to do yet. But this is a high confidence

assessment, as it calls it, that chemical weapons have been used in

Syria. It says a red line has been crossed. The Assad regime should

know and I quote, "that its actions have led us to increase the scope

and scale of assistance we provide the opposition. Those efforts will

increase now going forward." Thank you.

The Government has denied claims that the Chancellor r Chancellor

ousted Stephen Hester as chief executive of the Royal Bank of

Scotland, more than 80% owned bit taxpayer. The surprise announcement

of his departure led to sharp falls in the share price today.

It matters to all of us. The Government owns 81% of RBS after a

bail out which saw �45 billion of taxpayers' money ploughed into the

bank. That's why the question of why the boss Stephen Hester is quitting

is so important. There's intense speculation over whether he was

forced out after disagreements over strategy with George Osborne. The

Government has denied that. A Treasury Minister told the Commons a

new boss was needed to take the bank through privatisation and beyond.

Having brought RBS back from the brink, now is the time to move on

from the rescue phase to the focus on RBS being a UK bank that provides

greater support to the British economy. But Labour demanded to know

more about the Chancellor's role in the change at the top of RBS. The

bank's share price fell sharply today. Some in the City claimed the

Government had interfeared and its handling of the issue had been poor.

I think it's been very messy. First it's a surprise to see someone who

has led a successful repair job be removed at the behest of the

Treasury. Secondly, to do so without having a clear plan for succession

is, in my view, negligence. The BBC has learned that the body which

manages the Government's share holdings in banks told RBS it should

be ready for a share sale at the end of 2014 and it was a good idea to

have a new boss in place before then. The chairman, meanwhile, was

side stepping questions about how long he would stay at RBS. Can you

give us any sense of how long you're sticking around for? Well, the main

thing will be to make sure that we get a new CEO in place to re replace

Stephen and then we'll take it from there. The debate on Stephen

Hester's departure continues, on a day when RBS has announced further

cut backs in its investment banking operations, including here in the

City of London. It's seeking to focus more on its UK-based corporate

and household lending. RBS said about 2,000 investment banking jobs

would be cut, a fifth of the total, though not all in the UK.

It's hard to say when taxpayers will start getting some money back from

the RBS investment. George Osborne can only hope the leadership issue

doesn't make it more difficult. Iranians go to the polls tomorrow to

elect a successor to the country's controversial president, Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad. There are six candidates standing in the election.

Only one of them is regarded as ary formist. In the last election in

2009 was disputed and sparked mass protests, which were crushed.

Whoever wins this time will preside over a struggling economy. John

Simpson reports. Of the six carefully selected

candidates, five are pretty tame. Even the liveliest the

ultraconservative mayor of tie rain, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. When a

solitary reformist holds a rally, it's very different. Hassan Rowhani

may be the only cleric who's standing but he really rocks the

crowd. Purple is his colour, a reminder of the green campaign in

2009 when the moderates claimed the election then had been stolen from

them. For days on end, there was fury in the streets. These people

feel that their election has been stolen from them and they're showing

it in a way that Iranians are not used to doing.

Ever since, the government has clamped down hard on dissent. The

BBC hasn't been allowed to send in a team to cover this election, but

it's being watched carefully here in the newsroom of the BBC Persian TV

news service. It has huge audiences in Iran and that alarms the

government there. It's been threatening the families of several

people who work here. It is shocking. It is unprecedented. It

shows that the Iranian regime is so concerned about its security. It is

so concerned to control news in Iran. Inside the country, many

people seem less intimidated now. One young woman I phoned in Iran had

thought it was a waste of time to vote. Not any more. I just decided

to vote because I think if I do nothing, nothing going to be

changed. It dangerous to be saying that? I taking this risk to tell

you, to tell the world that we are, most of us, against our government.

Most of us want democracy in Iran. That's really interesting, because

it's obvious that more and more people in Iran are starting to

realise that unless they speak out openly, nothing in their country is

going to change. But, of course, it's got its dangers. Excitement in

Iran is growing. Everyone knows the religious establishment really runs

the country, not the elected politicians. But this vote could

turn into a referendum on Iran's entire system.

The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce for his third

wife, Wendi Dung. The 82-year-old's marriage to Miss Dung, who's 44, had

broken down for the last six months. The Australian cricketer who punched

an England player in a bar last weekend has apologised for his

actions. David Warner has been suspended until the start of the

Ashes next movement -- month.

He was known as one of Australia's brightest talents, now he's known as

the man who tried to clobber an opponent. Today, it was David

Warner's turn to take it on the chin, fined, suspended until the

start of the Ashes and very contrite. I struck him in the face

and I'm here today to put my hand up and apologise publicly to Joe. And

to basically say that I'm putting my hand up. I'm responsible for my

actions, extremely remorseful. Daviesy knows how disappointed the

team is and I am with his behaviour. He knows it's not acceptable as an

Australian cricketer. He knows he'll have to do everything in his power

now to give himself a chance of being right for the first Test

Match. As for Joe Root, today he seemed none the worse for the

eventful weekend. Scoring a 50 for England and proving he can also pack

some punch. Australia now want to draw a line under this controversy

and focus on their next match, here at the Oval on Monday. With less

than a month until the Ashes, this sort of distraction is the last

thing they need. It's great. I'm an Englishman through and through. I

enjoy seeing England beat Australia. Anything that can hamper Australia's

chances I'm all for. It the brought it upon themselves. Things are by no

means perfect for England either. They ended up losing to Sri Lanka