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:00:00. > :00:15.Hello, I'm Matthew Wright and you're watching Inside Out London. On

:00:16. > :00:19.tonight's Energy Special... At the back of the stairs, under the

:00:20. > :00:24.cover, done in the cellar, you will be amazed at what is going on. We

:00:25. > :00:28.reveal how more and more people are stealing gas and electricity. The

:00:29. > :00:33.meter has been interfered with, it has a fake seal. We join the energy

:00:34. > :00:41.detectives as we hunt down the power thieves. All the power is not being

:00:42. > :00:49.billed. They are getting it for free. For now. Also tonight, we find

:00:50. > :00:55.out how some Londoners are beating the bills. We are interested in both

:00:56. > :00:59.the power it produces, and the heat, that is normally wasted in our

:01:00. > :01:05.power stations, but we capture it here, but it into a new network of

:01:06. > :01:06.bikes, like a large central heating system for a community. -- network

:01:07. > :01:20.of pipes. As the political row over energy

:01:21. > :01:23.prices grows ever more heated, a growing number of people are now

:01:24. > :01:28.choosing to steal their gas and electricity. For some, it boils down

:01:29. > :01:31.to being cash-strapped and desperate, but there are others who

:01:32. > :01:36.are happy to cheat the system while living the high life. In this

:01:37. > :01:38.exclusive report for Inside Out, Mark Jordan joins the enforcement

:01:39. > :01:46.teams as they hunt down the power thieves.

:01:47. > :01:54.Energy prices are making headlines as our bills hit an all-time high.

:01:55. > :02:01.Honest households pay up. But ?30 a year of our bill is paying for the

:02:02. > :02:04.power thieves. The meter has definitely been interfered with. It

:02:05. > :02:06.has a fake seal in the top. Tonight, fiddling the meter, the growing

:02:07. > :02:12.numbers helping themselves to the nation's power. They have spurred

:02:13. > :02:15.the power from next door. At the back of the stairs, under the

:02:16. > :02:20.cupboard, down in the cellar. You'll be amazed what's going on! Every

:02:21. > :02:24.year people die through tampering with a meter. A normal bicycle inner

:02:25. > :02:29.tube. This tube would literally be across here like that. We're going

:02:30. > :02:33.to disconnect the meter and shut the supply off. This is the story of

:02:34. > :02:38.those out to cut off the power thieves.

:02:39. > :02:43.The British Gas training academy in Leicester. Here, engineers learn how

:02:44. > :02:52.to spot tampering of gas and electric supply. It's never been

:02:53. > :02:58.more needed. A difficult economic climate, equals more people feeling

:02:59. > :03:04.this is the only way they can get their energy. This is a huge

:03:05. > :03:07.problem, we believe that perhaps ?500 million worth of gas and

:03:08. > :03:10.electricity are stolen across the industry per year and in terms of

:03:11. > :03:14.what that means for customers, potentially ?30 a year on their

:03:15. > :03:17.bills. That is a lot of money, they should not have to pay it. For the

:03:18. > :03:24.next few days, I'm riding along with Piers and Malcolm, power theft

:03:25. > :03:30.investigators. The most bizarre case I have ever witnessed was in a

:03:31. > :03:36.nursing home. When we caught him, it cost the manager ?25,000. The

:03:37. > :03:41.biggest hill I have had was ?290,000. But this morning's call is

:03:42. > :03:44.for much smaller fry. The first three we have got our domestic. A

:03:45. > :03:46.routine meter reading on an East London estate has discovered a

:03:47. > :03:52.single mother-of-three tampering with her gas meter. There was what

:03:53. > :03:58.appears to be a cooker hose at the time that actually replaced the gas

:03:59. > :04:05.meter. Even with gas central heating, they only paid ?15 last

:04:06. > :04:10.year. How many live here? My mum, two sisters and myself. The meter's

:04:11. > :04:12.back, but hasn't been installed correctly. Because the mother has

:04:13. > :04:22.children, she's considered vulnerable and can't be cut off.

:04:23. > :04:28.Sun-mac this is the bypass. -- this is the bypass. We try to trace back

:04:29. > :04:35.who is doing this. We find trends where people are going and estates,

:04:36. > :04:40.and these people will charge from ?10 up to ?500 a time, they can do

:04:41. > :04:44.ten to 15 in a day. They are not putting themselves at risk. If

:04:45. > :04:51.something happens there, it is the adjoining properties that will be

:04:52. > :04:54.affected. This was the scene that people on Dundas Road will cut two.

:04:55. > :04:59.Whatever the cause, gas explosions can be deadly. A suspected gas

:05:00. > :05:02.exposure and inside a terraced house. In Sheffield last year, this

:05:03. > :05:06.entire house was blown apart. Miraculously, no-one died. It's a

:05:07. > :05:11.chilling reminder of the dangers of gas. The damage of that explosion

:05:12. > :05:15.was so great that authorities were never able to pinpoint the exact

:05:16. > :05:30.cause. Emergency services were worried about other dangers, so they

:05:31. > :05:33.decided to conduct a test. The police were on site and the networks

:05:34. > :05:37.were on site, they asked us whether or not we felt it was right to have

:05:38. > :05:42.a look at some of the other supplies in the street. And from looking at

:05:43. > :05:47.about 20 houses in a single street, sure enough, we found five gas

:05:48. > :05:52.thefts and two electricity theft is. It is a great example of what the

:05:53. > :06:01.scale of the issue is. Little now shocks Mark. He's had 80-year-old

:06:02. > :06:04.pensioners removing gas meters. She showed me by getting some grips out

:06:05. > :06:11.from under the sink, started to undo the meter. What is this one? This

:06:12. > :06:18.Billy impacts on safety. A bicycle in a. They have used it to bridge

:06:19. > :06:24.the meter. This tube would literally just be across here, like that. We

:06:25. > :06:29.have come here to inspect the electricity meter. This flat's total

:06:30. > :06:38.bill of just ?5 last year led them to find this dangerous bypass. Labor

:06:39. > :06:39.Party Malcolm prepares evidence for prosecution, and the bill for years

:06:40. > :06:51.of stolen electricity. It was back billed since 2008, from

:06:52. > :06:55.when the account started. It will be a big bill. If you can get away with

:06:56. > :06:57.it, imagine what you could save on dozens of properties. Lewisham

:06:58. > :07:06.Council has discovered landlords stealing supplies from the street.

:07:07. > :07:11.It's called hotwiring. We have had some cases where houses have caught

:07:12. > :07:14.fire. One landlord has over 50 properties, all of them have been

:07:15. > :07:19.hot-wired, another company we were coming across that mainly run stolen

:07:20. > :07:23.metres have around 60 or 70 different property companies around

:07:24. > :07:26.London. Piers regularly finds tenants afraid to speak out about

:07:27. > :07:40.landlords charging them for stolen power. I don't know nothing.

:07:41. > :07:44.Landlords of that kind will fill up the properties will peak -- with

:07:45. > :07:52.people who cannot complain, a lot of them illegal immigrants. They do not

:07:53. > :07:58.complain for fear of being deported. This will be disconnected. I

:07:59. > :08:02.regularly visit homes where people have had to electricity for a couple

:08:03. > :08:05.of months. Maybe they are running a generator or maybe they are just in

:08:06. > :08:08.the dark. So what of the underground criminal network connecting

:08:09. > :08:11.supplies? I'm meeting a man who pleaded guilty to digging up the

:08:12. > :08:24.street and illegally connecting electricity to more than 1,500 North

:08:25. > :08:28.London properties. I was basically opening up the main cable and doing

:08:29. > :08:31.the relevant tapping. So You supplied that electricity but then

:08:32. > :08:37.it was upto the landlord to contact the electric company to pay for it?

:08:38. > :08:42.Yes. Somebody else would sort it out, the meter man would come out.

:08:43. > :08:50.Most people could steal the electric. If the meter man don't

:08:51. > :08:53.come, yes. There are thousands of properties which have no supplier.

:08:54. > :08:56.And they are getting electric for free. This man was given a suspended

:08:57. > :09:00.prison sentence and ordered to pay ?50,000 for criminal damage to power

:09:01. > :09:04.supplies. Back on the road, we're in a very

:09:05. > :09:08.rich part of Essex. Homes here often sell for over ?1 million. But the

:09:09. > :09:10.team have a tip-off about an eight-bed mansion with ?300,000

:09:11. > :09:16.pounds worth of cars on the forecourt. -- ?300,000. But the

:09:17. > :09:27.house is suspiciously "energy efficient"! We had an anonymous

:09:28. > :09:36.tip-off that they were putting in new services for gas and how it is

:09:37. > :09:40.dropped by about 80%. Where's the light switch for this room you Mac

:09:41. > :09:47.Within minutes of the team's arrival, the power to most of the

:09:48. > :09:54.house mysteriously goes off! Something is not right. My suspicion

:09:55. > :09:59.is that the back of that house and that the average is often on metered

:10:00. > :10:06.supply. It is now switched off. But where to look for the illegal

:10:07. > :10:09.supply? Just looking to see if any of it has been taken up. This

:10:10. > :10:16.massive gas heating system isn't connected to the official meter. Nor

:10:17. > :10:23.are those electric gates. Cannot see anything in here except the alarm.

:10:24. > :10:27.Where is it likely to be? It could be disguised. It is a real hustle.

:10:28. > :10:30.The owners insist the only meters are the ones outside. An

:10:31. > :10:39.hour-and-a-half into the search, Piers finds another supply. No, I

:10:40. > :10:45.can see the point. Another electricity meter. I think we have

:10:46. > :10:57.found what we are looking for. Let's see if I can trace the gas supplier.

:10:58. > :11:01.OK. There we have another gas meter. All the power used through these two

:11:02. > :11:08.metres is not being billed. So they are getting it for free. For now.

:11:09. > :11:15.Soon, it is a mansion without power. The supply is cut off. It will not

:11:16. > :11:20.be restored until an estimated ?6,000 of stolen energy is paid for.

:11:21. > :11:24.I always talk about need and greed, these people can obviously afford to

:11:25. > :11:32.pay for their energy. Yet, they are not. They have done something to get

:11:33. > :11:37.energy for nothing. Theft is being made all the easier by the internet.

:11:38. > :11:43.Video guides on stealing energy. And even how to reverse meters with a

:11:44. > :11:46.smartphone. For just ?30 you can illegally install a spare meter to

:11:47. > :11:51.run in between the energy company's readings. A new local scam can go

:11:52. > :12:04.global in days. It's a cat-and-mouse game, close one

:12:05. > :12:09.scam and something new emerges. The latest comes from China. Criminals

:12:10. > :12:26.openly advertising to rig meters in Chinese community newspapers. They

:12:27. > :12:31.will help you save on bills. Conquer expensive British bills. Take

:12:32. > :12:36.control of your metres with the super-money saving device.

:12:37. > :12:42.Especially suitable for take-aways, restaurants and homes. That Chinese

:12:43. > :12:51.scam has spread across Britain. British Gas, we have come to

:12:52. > :13:00.inspect. Piers and Malcolm think they've found it in this fish and

:13:01. > :13:06.chip shop. It doesn't seem to be moving. The index does not appear to

:13:07. > :13:10.be working or registering anything of the consumption and it appears to

:13:11. > :13:17.have a fake seal in the top of the index. It's certainly in keeping

:13:18. > :13:20.with the others. There will be no frying tonight in this shop as he

:13:21. > :13:25.immediately orders the disconnection of the metre. The consequences

:13:26. > :13:34.though are that we'll take that metre immediately off supply and cut

:13:35. > :13:39.off the gas. He soon unravels the crude Sam from China is being

:13:40. > :13:44.uncovered in restaurants across Britain. We remove that. First he

:13:45. > :13:50.pops out the fake, blue seal. These are available on the internet. I'm

:13:51. > :13:53.now removing the index mechanism. He exposes the cogs that drive the

:13:54. > :13:59.metre mechanism. It's the moment of truth. I don't know if you can see

:14:00. > :14:04.that. It's got teeth that have been taken off. Cut off half the teeth

:14:05. > :14:09.and you half the bill. This one has just a single tooth left. Only a

:14:10. > :14:14.traction of the gas is being recorded on that. You still don't

:14:15. > :14:23.know anything about that, when that happened or who could have done it?

:14:24. > :14:30.Mean child, Malcolm produce s an estimated bill, it's ?1,782 - 10 for

:14:31. > :14:33.the last four months. We'll give you a hard copy. Cue pay that now,

:14:34. > :14:37.otherwise I have to tell the engineers to make sure the supply is

:14:38. > :14:42.kept off and we'll walk away with the metre. It sounds tough, but they

:14:43. > :14:51.can only charge for the few months he's been with British Gas. How

:14:52. > :14:55.theft experts -- theft experts warn that thieves can change suppliers.

:14:56. > :14:59.If you can change supply easily as it is now, if you get caught

:15:00. > :15:03.extracting electricity from one company, you could leave and go to

:15:04. > :15:07.another one such as Scottish Power or British Gas and then if you get

:15:08. > :15:12.caught by then cue move on, on to another company and this is the

:15:13. > :15:16.problem. Several power suppliers actually refuse to take part in the

:15:17. > :15:22.programme, apart from British Gas, does that surprise you? Not really,

:15:23. > :15:27.because they know what happens. If you say there's ?1 million of

:15:28. > :15:31.electricity being extracted from your company their profits will be

:15:32. > :15:36.the same, because that ?1 million loss will be spread over all the

:15:37. > :15:39.honest bill paying customers, so they've lost nothing and I don't

:15:40. > :15:45.think they would be really happy to say that. Back at the chip shop, the

:15:46. > :15:51.owner's credit card means this is one bill we won't be picking up.

:15:52. > :15:58.Immunity from prosecution not collude included. -- not included.

:15:59. > :16:05.There is just one area of power theft where police, not power

:16:06. > :16:10.companies, take the lead. Nationwide, police uncover over 20

:16:11. > :16:16.cannabis farms a day. Most stealing their electricity. Essex police raid

:16:17. > :16:22.up to six a week. One room like this can cost ?800 a month in

:16:23. > :16:25.electricity. One, if you get build for that the police will be

:16:26. > :16:31.suspicious and two, the criminals just don't want to pay it. It's

:16:32. > :16:36.thought one third of the electricity stolen in Britain goes on cannabis

:16:37. > :16:41.farms. The profits are huge. Each plant can yield ?500 worth of

:16:42. > :16:45.cannabis. They follow the wires all around the house and they think that

:16:46. > :16:50.this electricity is being stolen from the neighbours. You can see

:16:51. > :16:55.there's a power cable. It's coming from next door. They've spread the

:16:56. > :17:02.power from next door. London Fire Brigade report a doubling of

:17:03. > :17:06.electric fires of dangerously stolen electric. Organised crime gangs come

:17:07. > :17:10.across this operation and they are not happy when you are ruining

:17:11. > :17:26.thousands of pounds worth of commitment. This is a booby trap.

:17:27. > :17:31.Bill Stupples trains investigators. As soon as you put your feet on

:17:32. > :17:36.there, the spikes would push through and you would be impaled on the

:17:37. > :17:40.spikes. Once farms are raided, Essex police are now under orders to

:17:41. > :17:45.destroy everything that makes growing cannabis responsible. Power

:17:46. > :17:51.theft, whether on cannabis farms or the chip shop, it's booming and

:17:52. > :17:58.unless detected we get the bill. Total invoice amount for ?7,702.88.

:17:59. > :18:05.Catching the thieves is costly. Few will ever see prison. Here, cheeky

:18:06. > :18:12.enough to ask for a discount of the We don't offer a discount. The light

:18:13. > :18:14.may go out, but the bills still are on us. We'll cut the electricity

:18:15. > :18:25.off. OK. With energy prices rocketing, plenty

:18:26. > :18:29.of Londoners are struggling to pay their bills this winter. Now, most

:18:30. > :18:32.of us rely on big companies for our power needs, but what if local

:18:33. > :18:38.communities could generate their own? Well, that's exactly what some

:18:39. > :18:41.forward-think London neighbours are trying, generating cheaper energy

:18:42. > :18:50.for residents that's kinder to the planet too.

:18:51. > :18:56.This issiesling tonne. It's generally thought of as upmarket,

:18:57. > :19:00.but those that know the area well know that it houses many at the

:19:01. > :19:03.bottom end of the social ladder. There are lots of large housing

:19:04. > :19:09.estates with people living on them, who struggle to stay warm. My

:19:10. > :19:13.parents, they're pensioners, their bills are massive and they can't

:19:14. > :19:19.afford it. They put it on for 90 minutes to take the chill off. In

:19:20. > :19:23.the severe weather, but no heating at all, and it goes on for three or

:19:24. > :19:27.four days. That's when you want the heat. Energy regulator Ofgem's

:19:28. > :19:32.recent report certainly highlight the problem. It shows that utility

:19:33. > :19:38.bills have risen on average ?300 over the past three years. This is

:19:39. > :19:43.an increase of nearly 30%. The average annual wage of full-time

:19:44. > :19:50.employees rose by just 1.4% over the same peer kwoed. -- period. Help is

:19:51. > :19:54.at hand for residents of three large council estates here. They keep warm

:19:55. > :19:59.through a system called district heating. In Denmark, 60% of all

:20:00. > :20:06.homes are already heated in this way. You don't pay for your

:20:07. > :20:10.individual needs. Many homes are all heated from the same boiler. There

:20:11. > :20:13.is a big room that heats the whole estate our heating is in with the

:20:14. > :20:23.rent, which is a good thing, because I don't get the big bills, which

:20:24. > :20:26.makes a difference. Marvellous. It's heated adequately nine months of the

:20:27. > :20:35.year. It goes off at the end of May and comes on again end of September.

:20:36. > :20:39.Hot water all the year around. Their heat and hot water couldn't be

:20:40. > :20:45.produced more locally. Just across the road sits the Bunhill Energy

:20:46. > :20:49.Centre and it's a power station with a difference. It's tiny. It's smack,

:20:50. > :20:54.bang in the centre of London. In fact, you would hardly notice it was

:20:55. > :20:58.there. It was designed and the building work overseen by two London

:20:59. > :21:05.engineers working forriesling tonne council. What we have is a large

:21:06. > :21:09.generator, but unlike conventional electricity, we are interested in

:21:10. > :21:14.both the power that it produces and the heat that it produces. So we

:21:15. > :21:21.generate electricity, which is sold to the National Grid and is used in

:21:22. > :21:24.the local area. But importantly, we capture the heat and that's what we

:21:25. > :21:29.are after, the heat that's normally wasted in the power stations, wasted

:21:30. > :21:34.up into cooling towers and into the sea and rivers. We capture is here,

:21:35. > :21:37.put it into a new network of heat pipes and take it to the council

:21:38. > :21:42.estates. It's just in the form of hot water. There's no magic. There's

:21:43. > :21:45.no hocus pocus about this. It's quite simple. It's like a very large

:21:46. > :21:51.central heating system for a community. Our aim is to supply

:21:52. > :21:55.cheaper, greener heat, so to help poverty and they get cheaper bills,

:21:56. > :22:00.because you have the efficiency of scale and so by having - you're not

:22:01. > :22:03.having individual gas boilers, so it's easier to maintain. All of the

:22:04. > :22:06.income that we'll get from the selling of the electricity and

:22:07. > :22:12.running of the scheme will be passed on to residents and also it will

:22:13. > :22:17.help set up a revolving fund to do other projects. The most vulnerable

:22:18. > :22:23.in our society will face a harsh challenge this winter. That's why I

:22:24. > :22:27.think the scheme that we have developed, it will make a big

:22:28. > :22:32.difference, I think, to people's lives. In reality, what we are

:22:33. > :22:37.seeking to achieve for residents is at least the 10% saving on their

:22:38. > :22:44.fuel bills. The Mayor of London's office realise that changes have to

:22:45. > :22:47.be made and they believe that decentralisation is one of the

:22:48. > :22:53.answers, meaning we need to look at lots of different schemes. The Mayor

:22:54. > :22:59.wants to see 25% generated locally, because that will deliver cheaper,

:23:00. > :23:04.lower-carbion and more secure energy and that is that is the way to do

:23:05. > :23:08.it. The Scandinavians started over a generation ago. The UK has been

:23:09. > :23:13.lucky with relatively cheap gas until very recently as the North Sea

:23:14. > :23:16.has dwindled and there has been more pressure on. We are a long way

:23:17. > :23:24.behind Scandinavia, but we hope to do more and more. These targets may

:23:25. > :23:36.seem like pie-in-the-sky at the moment, but not according to prove

:23:37. > :23:43.sore -- professor Henry Wynn. Sweden has been at it since the early 1950s

:23:44. > :23:46.and they're now 80% of the residents on district heating. I doubled

:23:47. > :23:53.checked with London today and they've got 3%. The sky's the limit.

:23:54. > :23:56.The savings you can get you can absolutely get lots of. Moving

:23:57. > :24:02.London from the 3% to the Mayor's dream of 25% will not be easy

:24:03. > :24:07.though. It could mean widespread disruption for Londoners, pipes

:24:08. > :24:11.laid, roads dug up and households replumbed. Professor Wynn is looking

:24:12. > :24:16.in to how the make the squed acceptable on a large -- idea

:24:17. > :24:19.acceptable on a large scale. The difficulty is more to do with the

:24:20. > :24:26.social acceptability of district heating in an environment where

:24:27. > :24:30.there are many more forms. It has to be made attractive to the residents.

:24:31. > :24:35.It has to be cheaper, or a bit cheaper than what they're getting

:24:36. > :24:39.already. They have not to worry about hot water pipes into the

:24:40. > :24:45.bidding. People are funding it, then to be happy to invest in a form of

:24:46. > :24:51.investment which might take ten or 15 years to get a pay-back. There is

:24:52. > :24:57.capital cost to this. The Mayor is doing everything he can in his power

:24:58. > :25:01.to stimulate investment, to redisc that so the -- rerisk it so the

:25:02. > :25:08.public and private sector will invest in this kind of energy

:25:09. > :25:13.future. -- redisc it so the public and private sector will invest in

:25:14. > :25:19.this kind of energy in the future. One company is already investing in

:25:20. > :25:22.district heating. In south walk, Veolia Environment Services work

:25:23. > :25:27.with the local council and dust carts. You put your rubbish out and

:25:28. > :25:37.it comes back at hot water. We are taking the non-repsych rubbish. It's

:25:38. > :25:42.like a power station, instead of using coal, we use waste. It goes no

:25:43. > :25:46.the boiler, heat the water and turbine it and produce electricity.

:25:47. > :25:49.The cherry on the cake is to use the waste heat to heat houses. We

:25:50. > :25:57.started doing that around the country. It's the first time in

:25:58. > :26:02.London. It might be food and polythene bags and other packaging,

:26:03. > :26:06.that's taken away. It's collected on a Friday. Then under the new

:26:07. > :26:10.arrangements they'll come back as heat through the communal heating

:26:11. > :26:15.system. I think it's a good thing. You know the waste isn't going to

:26:16. > :26:21.landfill as that is running out. You know it's been used to generate heat

:26:22. > :26:25.and as I understand, at a lower cost to buying it through the fashle grid

:26:26. > :26:31.or from abroad. It's -- National Grid or from abroad. It's locally

:26:32. > :26:33.sourced. The idea has been so successful in Norway they have to

:26:34. > :26:38.import other people's rubbish to keep their power stations going. In

:26:39. > :26:44.Southwark, the council sees huge potential in it. The cost of burning

:26:45. > :26:49.waste is much cheaper than extracting oil and gas from the

:26:50. > :26:53.Earth. So, what we can do is deliver to the residents a much cheaper

:26:54. > :26:57.energy. It's much better for the environment. It means we are not

:26:58. > :27:03.delivering waste to landfill and we're not burning unnecessary

:27:04. > :27:12.amounts of oil and gas. 2500 households will benefit from this.

:27:13. > :27:18.The estimated costs of energy as we currently have it are just over ?53

:27:19. > :27:23.per megawatt hour and what they're predicting is that under the new

:27:24. > :27:35.scheme the cost of energy will drop to about ?41, so it looks like quite

:27:36. > :27:39.a considerable cost saving. People have lived on this estate for

:27:40. > :27:44.decades. The costs that we do go through do effect whether people can

:27:45. > :27:47.afford to live here. If we are reducing the costs through schemes

:27:48. > :27:52.like this, I think that's a good thing also. It contributes to people

:27:53. > :27:59.being able to afford to live in the place they've perhaps grown up in.

:28:00. > :28:03.It might be early days for these progressive schemes, but they're

:28:04. > :28:07.already starting to give hope to some. With energy prices still at a

:28:08. > :28:11.premium, it's reassuring to think there is now hope that we can at

:28:12. > :28:14.least start to keep warm in a cleaner and more oh Fordable way --

:28:15. > :28:27.affordable way in the future. That's all from this week. If you've

:28:28. > :28:33.missed any of the show catch up on the iPlayer. Thank you very much for

:28:34. > :28:38.watching. I'll see you again soon. We're back with more surprising

:28:39. > :29:07.stories next Monday. Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your

:29:08. > :29:10.90-second update. The mother of Mikaeel Kular has

:29:11. > :29:20.appeared in court charged with his murder. The three-year-old's body

:29:21. > :29:22.was found in Fife on Friday. Rosdeep Kular was remanded in custody.

:29:23. > :29:23.Suspended for refusing to