:00:10. > :00:13.Tonight on BBC London News: A woman admits hurling racist abuse at tube
:00:13. > :00:21.passengers as video of her verbal assault is watched by thousands on
:00:21. > :00:26.the internet. Within the public domain you cannot
:00:26. > :00:30.carry on with verbal and racial abuse. At the end of the day, we
:00:30. > :00:33.are all one and we are all equal. Also tonight, the inquest into the
:00:33. > :00:35.death of an MI6 officer hears the secret services failed to pass on
:00:35. > :00:38.evidence to police. With two days left before Londoners
:00:38. > :00:45.go to the polls, we talk live to Conservative candidate Boris
:00:45. > :00:50.Johnson. And we meet the London photographer
:00:50. > :00:55.who's captured some of the capital's most famous faces. A pop
:00:55. > :01:05.group had never been photographed before, so that is why we have
:01:05. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:09.Ringo Starr holding up the symbol Good evening and welcome to the
:01:09. > :01:11.programme. The video of her racist rant at
:01:11. > :01:14.tube passengers was viewed by thousands of people online around
:01:14. > :01:16.the world. Today, Jacqueline Woodhouse from Essex admitted
:01:16. > :01:19.causing harassment, alarm and distress to passengers on the
:01:20. > :01:29.Central Line in January. She could now be sent to prison. Nick Beake
:01:30. > :01:30.
:01:31. > :01:37.Thousands have watched her racist views on at YouTube. Today
:01:37. > :01:40.Jacqueline would house was not so forthcoming. Stop hounding me!
:01:40. > :01:50.on the Central might earlier this years she was hounding her fellow
:01:50. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:57.passengers. Where do you come from? Where do you come from? From all
:01:57. > :02:04.over the world. The 42-year-old had drunk so much champagne at a
:02:04. > :02:09.leaving do she said she could not remember any part of her journey.
:02:09. > :02:11.It's arrogant. That's what we don't like about you people. Much of the
:02:11. > :02:15.abuse was directed at this businessman from Essex he was
:02:15. > :02:19.returning from a family funeral. could not believe what I was
:02:19. > :02:25.hearing. I was actually gutted that what I was hearing. That is what
:02:25. > :02:28.made the take the media in the first place. I needed to show the
:02:28. > :02:35.public what kind of people who were out there and not to put up with
:02:35. > :02:40.this behaviour. Oh, look, he's even filming. As she pleaded guilty
:02:40. > :02:45.today, it emerged she was fined four years ago for racially abusing
:02:45. > :02:51.another passenger on the Docklands Light Railway. I just think she
:02:51. > :02:56.needs to be dealt with. A lot of people, a happens, and nothing is
:02:56. > :03:00.done, but I don't accept it. was told because of the level of
:03:00. > :03:03.abuse she gave that so many people, the persistence, and the fact she
:03:03. > :03:08.has a previous conviction for a similar offence, means she could
:03:08. > :03:14.still go to prison. She will be back here in four weeks to be
:03:14. > :03:24.Plenty more to come including: Occupy protestors who were camped
:03:24. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:31.outside St Paul's move their The inquest into the death of the
:03:31. > :03:34.MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, has heard that the secret services
:03:34. > :03:37.failed to pass on evidence to police investigating his death. The
:03:37. > :03:40.31-year-old was discovered in a padlocked bag in the bath of his
:03:40. > :03:42.Central London flat almost two years ago. Alex Bushill is outside
:03:42. > :03:50.Westminster Coroner's Court this evening. What happened at the
:03:50. > :03:54.inquest today? And we learnt today that MI6
:03:54. > :03:59.effectively withheld information into the crucial evidence on Gareth
:03:59. > :04:04.William's death on three counts. Nine computer memory six -- sticks
:04:05. > :04:11.were not declared -- disclosed to the police, nor was a bag similar
:04:11. > :04:15.to the one he was found him, and we also found that MI6 searched his
:04:15. > :04:19.electronic media without informing the police. When the barrister for
:04:19. > :04:24.the family pushed them on this and why the search was not carried out
:04:24. > :04:27.in a more detailed fashion, two of the officers were giving evidence
:04:27. > :04:31.and one of the counter-terrorism branch said they stopped the search
:04:31. > :04:35.because of the orders of senior officers. He said simply, I will do
:04:35. > :04:40.what I am told. He went on to say why they did not seize the memory
:04:40. > :04:47.sticks, but they were told it contained material of a sensitive
:04:47. > :04:51.nature. He said some of the evidence had been as helpful as a
:04:51. > :04:55.London PC but fog. In an angry outburst, the coroner herself said
:04:55. > :05:00.the evidence and the witnesses from the counter-terrorism branch were
:05:00. > :05:04.not impartial in their dealings with the security services.
:05:04. > :05:10.Apologies, you broke up a little, but remind us of the background to
:05:10. > :05:15.the case. Gareth Williams's naked body was found in a red leather
:05:15. > :05:20.holdall in the bath of his Pimlico flat back in 20th August 10. He was
:05:20. > :05:25.a brilliant mathematician on secondment from GCHQ to MI6 when
:05:25. > :05:29.his body was found. The Coroners Court found that different expert
:05:29. > :05:32.witnesses said that third-party involvement cannot be ruled out
:05:32. > :05:36.whilst three different pathologists have not been able to come to
:05:36. > :05:40.consensus on the cause of his death. We do expect that the inquest will
:05:40. > :05:45.reach the verdict in the next few days, maybe even tomorrow. Alex,
:05:45. > :05:48.thank you. To the mayoral election now, last night we heard from Ken
:05:48. > :05:51.Livingstone tonight it's the turn of Boris Johnson. With just over 36
:05:51. > :05:59.hours until Londoners go to the polls, he was in Bexleyheath
:05:59. > :06:03.earlier today, pressing the flesh. And he's here now. Good evening to
:06:03. > :06:07.you. Nationally, the Conservative Party's polling well behind Labour
:06:07. > :06:11.in London. You must be worried when you believe in the same things as
:06:11. > :06:16.David Cameron and George Osborne, austerity measures, cutting tax and
:06:16. > :06:20.clamping down on welfare. I think the election in London is being
:06:20. > :06:24.decided on the issues that really matter to worse in the city.
:06:24. > :06:29.Insofar as it is a tight race, which I think it is, that is
:06:29. > :06:34.because people are listening to what I've got to say about creating
:06:34. > :06:38.200,000 jobs over the next four years, getting the investment that
:06:38. > :06:44.London needs and taking the City forward. I think that is why the
:06:44. > :06:51.race is very competitive. I am hopeful we will be able in the next
:06:51. > :06:54.couple of days to get that message across. But in principle you are
:06:54. > :06:58.the sort of conservative who agrees with them. You love -- lobby about
:06:58. > :07:02.cutting the top rate of tax, and something of London would benefit
:07:02. > :07:09.from, but David Cameron and George Osborne listen to you and cut the
:07:09. > :07:12.rate. Been in no doubt that when it comes to it, I will go in and
:07:12. > :07:19.militated campaign for staff I think London needs. Just a couple
:07:19. > :07:23.of weeks ago we got �300 million for primary schools in London, half
:07:23. > :07:28.the allocation for the entire country. We have the extra �90
:07:28. > :07:31.million enabling us to put more police on the streets. It is vital,
:07:31. > :07:35.in tough times, to have a mayor of London he was willing to fight to
:07:36. > :07:40.get the plaster to come off the ceiling in Whitehall and get the
:07:40. > :07:43.investment that London needs. talk of what London needs, but
:07:43. > :07:48.London needs to know what she will do about transport fares. You
:07:48. > :07:56.recently said he would look at what she could do next year to bear down
:07:56. > :08:03.on fares, so is there room to cut? There is room to make sure that we
:08:03. > :08:08.modernise, or to make the system, take out costs and hold the fares
:08:08. > :08:14.down in an honest, sustainable way. Mr Johnson, you mentioned
:08:14. > :08:18.automation. What I will not do is cut investment. Please pause for
:08:18. > :08:21.one second because it is an important issue. You mention the
:08:21. > :08:25.automation, but the first driverless trains will not come
:08:25. > :08:30.into -- for a decade according to arraign manifesto, so no savings
:08:30. > :08:35.will be made in your next term, so there is no room for manoeuvre in
:08:35. > :08:40.fair's fair. Are you saying you could cut them in the next term?
:08:40. > :08:44.Don't forget that the so-called driverless trains, like the
:08:44. > :08:50.Docklands Light Railway, they have trained captains. You have 48% of
:08:50. > :08:56.the line being able to be run in an automated way by 2040. The cutback
:08:56. > :08:59.- the technology is coming on stream -- 2014. I think it would be
:08:59. > :09:02.fatal for the City to miss the opportunity to do that. I know Ken
:09:02. > :09:06.Livingstone has rejected that approach, and I think that is wrong
:09:06. > :09:11.for London. They are doing it in Paris, they are doing it in
:09:11. > :09:15.Singapore. This is an option to take out cost, as we did with the
:09:15. > :09:20.reforms of the ticket offices. That did provoke strikes and was
:09:20. > :09:23.difficult. I want to bring you back to the actual fares. More people
:09:23. > :09:26.trust Ken Livingstone when dealing with the issue of Transport and
:09:26. > :09:32.understanding commuters, but people will make up your own -- their own
:09:32. > :09:36.mind about their opponents. If you cannot afford to cut the fares
:09:36. > :09:40.because you say the money is needed for upgrades, but why can't you be
:09:40. > :09:47.honest and say that we cannot afford to cut them? Let me be
:09:47. > :09:53.totally clear. What you cannot do is now offer to take out �1 billion
:09:53. > :10:02.in investment for a 7% cut in fares. That is not deliverable without
:10:02. > :10:07.having to cut bus routes or a big upgrade programme. Alternatively,
:10:07. > :10:12.the only other way of doing it is to freeze for a while and then
:10:12. > :10:17.whack them up sharply. Do you think you are being fair to Londoners?
:10:17. > :10:21.They have two days before they go to the polls and one to be able to
:10:21. > :10:26.make an informed choice. When you came into power, the single bus
:10:26. > :10:29.there was 90p and now it is �1.35. Is it unreasonable for Londoners to
:10:29. > :10:34.want guidance from you to expect what they can pay when they get on
:10:34. > :10:38.the bustle that due next year? Will it be inflation plus 2%? No mayor
:10:38. > :10:47.of London ever commits himself to way fares policy more than a year
:10:47. > :10:54.in advance. Your opponent is. but they said that last time and
:10:54. > :10:57.then he shamelessly broke his promise. What I can say is that our
:10:57. > :11:05.policy of prudent financial management, getting investment from
:11:05. > :11:09.government, has the best prospect of us holding fares down. So you
:11:09. > :11:14.will not tell Londoners whether it is on the current rate of RPI plus
:11:14. > :11:18.2%? There is no reason to think it will be. But what I can say is that
:11:18. > :11:22.we will be able to hold the fares down in an honest and sustainable
:11:23. > :11:28.way, get the funds from government to get us through the tough times
:11:28. > :11:32.and keep the investment going. Let's move on to policing. We know
:11:32. > :11:38.that under your a term, overall crime, murder, filing crime, crime
:11:38. > :11:42.on public transport have gone down -- violent crime. But some of the
:11:42. > :11:44.areas he campaigned heavily on, knife crime, youth violence and
:11:44. > :11:49.crime is that affect people every daylight robberies and burglaries,
:11:50. > :11:54.you have not done well. They have gone up. Don't forget that knife
:11:54. > :11:57.crime was not measured under the previous mayor of London. That is
:11:57. > :12:02.because of the changing categorisation. I think there was a
:12:02. > :12:08.lot of complacency about knife crime in the period leading up to
:12:08. > :12:13.2008, and we did take steps. It has gone up 14% though. We try to take
:12:13. > :12:16.the knives of the street. One thing you cannot argue with is that the
:12:16. > :12:22.number of young people dying as a result of knife crime has been
:12:22. > :12:29.greatly reduced, by about 50%. That is an important thing to do. I am
:12:29. > :12:35.not denying that there are problems. In a general context of a reduction
:12:35. > :12:40.in crime, amazing reductions in public transport crime, but yes,
:12:40. > :12:45.you're right to point out the difficult areas. What we are doing
:12:45. > :12:49.now is getting more police and you have seen the increase in numbers,
:12:49. > :12:54.and we are putting 2000 more into the safer neighbourhood teams.
:12:54. > :12:58.Bernard Hogan how has just launched a big campaign. I am sorry to
:12:58. > :13:02.interrupt. Talking about police numbers, or was it wise when you
:13:02. > :13:05.first came into office in your first Budget to cut the amount of
:13:05. > :13:12.council tax going into policing and then subsequently, this year and
:13:12. > :13:19.last year, raided the reserves of the fire service? I think that was
:13:19. > :13:22.perfectly the right thing to do, to move some of funds that were
:13:22. > :13:27.allocated to the fire and emergency planning reserves that were sitting
:13:27. > :13:31.there and move them into frontline policing. It is by smart use of
:13:31. > :13:35.money at a time of restricted resources, don't forget on the
:13:35. > :13:42.point of TEFL, we have taken huge reductions in the overall budget
:13:42. > :13:47.and we are having to make further savings, yet we have been able to
:13:47. > :13:50.deliver transport fares which, in real terms, are lower than they
:13:50. > :13:55.were in 2000 and we are protecting benefits in London that people do
:13:55. > :14:00.not get anywhere else in the country, like a 24 hour Freedom
:14:00. > :14:06.Pass which is guaranteed for men and women over 60. Time is short,
:14:06. > :14:10.but on your involvement with the phone hacking scandal people will
:14:10. > :14:14.want to understand that she wanted pursue commercial sponsorship deals
:14:14. > :14:20.for London. They will understand you wanted to have a relationship
:14:20. > :14:25.with a powerful media group. Do you mean the BBC? No, News
:14:25. > :14:27.International. But was it wise or appropriate to have meetings with
:14:27. > :14:34.that company when it was being investigated by the Metropolitan
:14:34. > :14:38.Police, your own police force? important thing there was that we
:14:38. > :14:43.had had a briefing from John Yates, the assistant commissioner, but
:14:43. > :14:46.there was nothing new in the evidence coming out, and I think
:14:46. > :14:51.the New York Times had produced it, and there was nothing I needed to
:14:51. > :14:57.concern myself with. I do think it was right, in tough times, when
:14:57. > :15:01.there is a huge squeeze on public finances, to go out and get the
:15:01. > :15:06.funds that London needs to invest in great schemes. But there were
:15:06. > :15:10.lots of companies companies -- companies who were not under
:15:10. > :15:15.investigation by the Metropolitan Police. I talked to lots of
:15:15. > :15:19.companies. I got 50 million for Barclays Bank for that bicycles.
:15:19. > :15:29.And actually News International didn't cough of a sausage. But they
:15:29. > :15:33.
:15:33. > :15:39.you go. He didn't mean it was wrong In all there are seven candidates
:15:39. > :15:43.standing for mayor. That information is on our website.
:15:43. > :15:47.The chairman of an influential committee MPs has told BBC London
:15:47. > :15:53.he is going to hold an investigation into the future of
:15:53. > :15:58.the police watchdog. It comes as protesters gathered outside the
:15:58. > :16:07.headquarters of the IPCC this afternoon calling it -- calling for
:16:07. > :16:11.it to be abolished. Most of them have grievances
:16:11. > :16:16.against the Met and have formally complained to the police watchdog
:16:16. > :16:24.but they have lost confidence in the system. They claim the IPCC has
:16:24. > :16:27.failed to deal with their cases impartially. This is police
:16:27. > :16:32.investigating the police. There's no independence and so we are
:16:32. > :16:36.calling for it to be abolished. latest figures showed the watchdog
:16:36. > :16:41.has received more than 800 complaints against the Met since
:16:41. > :16:46.2010. The majority were dealt with by the police themselves. The IPCC
:16:46. > :16:51.has only independently investigated the most serious like corruption,
:16:51. > :16:55.racism or indeed someone dying in custody. The rest, the police wodge
:16:55. > :16:58.of managed or supervised. An ongoing concern for many protesters
:16:58. > :17:04.is that a third of their investigators are former police
:17:04. > :17:10.officers. You need completely independent investigators to go in
:17:10. > :17:15.and investigate the police themselves. My family 25 years on
:17:15. > :17:19.are still dealing with the failure of their predecessors. That
:17:19. > :17:23.predecessor was the Police Complaints Authority, replaced by
:17:23. > :17:28.the IPCC due to lack of public confidence. Now it faces similar
:17:28. > :17:33.pressure to reform or be closed down. I'm pleased to say that the
:17:33. > :17:38.committee will be conducting an investigation, enquiry, into the
:17:38. > :17:43.operation, the powers and the future of the IPCC. This is
:17:43. > :17:46.something that has been on our agenda for a long time. The IPCC
:17:46. > :17:52.has sent me a statement admitting that the system is not perfect. Vic
:17:52. > :17:55.Reeves, the system does not always meet the needs of the public, the
:17:55. > :17:59.police staff and officers. That was designed to identify who was to
:17:59. > :18:03.blame rather than looking at what went wrong and how it could be put
:18:03. > :18:11.right. It says a number of changes will be implemented later this year
:18:11. > :18:14.to improve things. Occupy London were camped outside
:18:14. > :18:17.St Paul's Cathedral for four months before being evicted. But now BBC
:18:17. > :18:21.London has learned that some of the protestors have set up camps in
:18:21. > :18:28.public parks in East London, angering some locals. Ayshea Buksh
:18:28. > :18:32.has the story. City commuters were greeted with
:18:33. > :18:38.flowers and music this morning but protesters did not hang around.
:18:38. > :18:40.They took their good will and floating tent with them. Back in
:18:40. > :18:48.October hundreds of protesters camped in front of St Paul's
:18:48. > :18:52.Cathedral. This is the latest out post of the global list anti-
:18:52. > :18:56.capitalist movement. Mile End. Around 20 are so people have
:18:56. > :19:03.pitched their tents. But has just told me they had come to meet local
:19:03. > :19:10.people. Protesters had been taking wood from their fires from a nearby
:19:10. > :19:16.area. This was used by a volunteer project. I cannot see what message
:19:16. > :19:21.they are trying to get across. Why a public open space in a Borat
:19:21. > :19:29.already deprived of public open space? Fines pre Square is now the
:19:29. > :19:33.makeshift headquarters following the eviction from St Paul's. I
:19:33. > :19:39.asked a spokeswoman why there are now in public parks away from the
:19:39. > :19:45.Square Mile. Areas to get trashed by the tense but the bigger cause
:19:45. > :19:47.is so much bigger that I think grass can be reseeded and we just
:19:47. > :19:56.have to face a little bit of inconvenience for the bigger
:19:56. > :20:00.message. What is that? World peace, economic justice. Back in Mile End
:20:00. > :20:09.that message does not appear to be getting through. I'm not actually
:20:09. > :20:14.sure what it is about. It makes no difference. They are burning the
:20:14. > :20:16.trees and all that. I do not like to go there. Tower Hamlets council
:20:16. > :20:20.say they have asked protesters to leave and they will take legal
:20:20. > :20:26.action if need be. Ayshea is in Trafalgar Square. Has
:20:26. > :20:31.the traditional May Day march passed through peacefully?
:20:31. > :20:36.Yes, thousands of people marched on Trafalgar Square mostly in protest
:20:36. > :20:43.against cuts to the public sector. It was organised by the union,
:20:43. > :20:50.Unite. Their general secretary praised the actions of direct
:20:50. > :20:55.action groups such as Occupy London. As you heard in that report, they
:20:55. > :21:00.seemed to be pushing outside central London. I have been told of
:21:00. > :21:03.next month they are planning a walk which they will march between every
:21:03. > :21:13.London borough. So expect to see a few more tense popping up across
:21:13. > :21:25.
:21:25. > :21:28.the capital. The Jubilee Crystal Diamond, which
:21:28. > :21:31.will be used as part of celebrations to mark the Queen's 60
:21:31. > :21:33.year reign, has been delivered to the Tower of London. The Queen will
:21:33. > :21:39.use the diamond to light the National Beacon on 4th June, before
:21:39. > :21:42.4,000 beacons are lit up across the UK and Commonwealth.
:21:42. > :21:45.Since he first picked up a camera 60 years ago, Terry O'Neill has
:21:45. > :21:47.captured celebrities on camera. From Raquel Welch to Audrey Hepburn
:21:47. > :21:51.he's responsible for some of the most famous images of the biggest
:21:51. > :21:54.names in show business. Now a new exhibition is celebrating the
:21:54. > :22:04.London photographer. Our Entertainment Correspondent Brenda
:22:04. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:09.Emmanus has been to meet him. Senior Shujing the stars of the
:22:09. > :22:16.Avengers, photographer Terry O'Neill's portraits epitomised the
:22:16. > :22:20.Swinging 60s. The East Ender who came to photography by accident was
:22:20. > :22:26.thrown into the depend. The very first job that I had was the
:22:26. > :22:30.Beatles. No one had ever photographed a pop group before.
:22:30. > :22:35.Then I did the Rolling Stones, I did Laurence Olivier dressed as a
:22:35. > :22:42.woman. Everything just happened to me. His latest exhibition unveils
:22:42. > :22:48.previously unseen images and rare Prince of many A-list stars. This
:22:48. > :22:58.was Abbey Road studios. A pop group had never been photographed before
:22:58. > :22:59.
:22:59. > :23:05.so that is why I have got wrangles start holding up the guitar. And
:23:05. > :23:09.this is Kate Moss, at the studio where she was working. She had a
:23:09. > :23:18.stunning look even then for DUP Kate Moss is one contemporary star
:23:18. > :23:22.who has made it in front of Terry O'Neill's lens. All the guys seem
:23:22. > :23:28.to wear black suits, all the girls seem to be fashion plates today but
:23:28. > :23:33.they all look the same. In my day, they were all totally different
:23:33. > :23:38.types of women. Last year he won the centenary medal from the Royal
:23:38. > :23:46.photographic Society, the highest honour in British photography. The
:23:46. > :23:51.shots are on show throughout May. Let's get a check on the weather
:23:51. > :23:57.with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop
:23:57. > :24:02.raining? It is absolutely lovely in
:24:02. > :24:07.Trafalgar Square. Tourists chilling out, enjoying the evening sunshine.
:24:07. > :24:11.But there are some sharp showers to the north of London and more rain
:24:11. > :24:17.in the forecast for the rest of the week. Possibly not as heavy as it
:24:17. > :24:25.has been in the past few days. But the Environment Agency has around
:24:25. > :24:29.30 flood alerts for the London area. And with more rain in the forecast
:24:29. > :24:33.it would be an idea to keep an eye on exactly what is going on. You
:24:33. > :24:40.can do that by taking a look of their website or contact them by
:24:40. > :24:46.telephone. This evening those sharp showers to the north of London will
:24:46. > :24:54.gradually fizzled out. Then some low cloud will drift down from the
:24:54. > :25:00.Midlands. That could turn its mystique might over the tops of the
:25:00. > :25:10.children hills. Richard's day trying for most places and a
:25:10. > :25:13.minimum temperature of seven or eight degrees. Tomorrow, the skies
:25:13. > :25:20.brightening mid-morning but through the afternoon the trend will be for
:25:20. > :25:25.the cloud to taking up. Even so we could have temperatures of 16 or 17
:25:25. > :25:30.degrees. But eventually that cloud will begin to produce some rain. It
:25:30. > :25:36.is likely to be wet on Thursday, some that will be heavy and it
:25:36. > :25:39.could linger to the north east of London into Friday. The further
:25:39. > :25:44.south and west you are, the brighter the end of the week is
:25:44. > :25:49.going to be. So the outlook is for more rain. If you're concerned
:25:49. > :25:54.about the flood situation, make sure you keep up with the latest