01/05/2012 BBC London News

Tonight on BBC London News: A woman admits hurling racist abuse at tube

passengers as video of her verbal assault is watched by thousands on

the internet. Within the public domain you cannot

carry on with verbal and racial abuse. At the end of the day, we

are all one and we are all equal. Also tonight, the inquest into the

death of an MI6 officer hears the secret services failed to pass on

evidence to police. With two days left before Londoners

go to the polls, we talk live to Conservative candidate Boris

Johnson. And we meet the London photographer

who's captured some of the capital's most famous faces. A pop

group had never been photographed before, so that is why we have

Ringo Starr holding up the symbol Good evening and welcome to the

programme. The video of her racist rant at

tube passengers was viewed by thousands of people online around

the world. Today, Jacqueline Woodhouse from Essex admitted

causing harassment, alarm and distress to passengers on the

Central Line in January. She could now be sent to prison. Nick Beake

Thousands have watched her racist views on at YouTube. Today

Jacqueline would house was not so forthcoming. Stop hounding me!

on the Central might earlier this years she was hounding her fellow

passengers. Where do you come from? Where do you come from? From all

over the world. The 42-year-old had drunk so much champagne at a

leaving do she said she could not remember any part of her journey.

It's arrogant. That's what we don't like about you people. Much of the

abuse was directed at this businessman from Essex he was

returning from a family funeral. could not believe what I was

hearing. I was actually gutted that what I was hearing. That is what

made the take the media in the first place. I needed to show the

public what kind of people who were out there and not to put up with

this behaviour. Oh, look, he's even filming. As she pleaded guilty

today, it emerged she was fined four years ago for racially abusing

another passenger on the Docklands Light Railway. I just think she

needs to be dealt with. A lot of people, a happens, and nothing is

done, but I don't accept it. was told because of the level of

abuse she gave that so many people, the persistence, and the fact she

has a previous conviction for a similar offence, means she could

still go to prison. She will be back here in four weeks to be

Plenty more to come including: Occupy protestors who were camped

outside St Paul's move their The inquest into the death of the

MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, has heard that the secret services

failed to pass on evidence to police investigating his death. The

31-year-old was discovered in a padlocked bag in the bath of his

Central London flat almost two years ago. Alex Bushill is outside

Westminster Coroner's Court this evening. What happened at the

inquest today? And we learnt today that MI6

effectively withheld information into the crucial evidence on Gareth

William's death on three counts. Nine computer memory six -- sticks

were not declared -- disclosed to the police, nor was a bag similar

to the one he was found him, and we also found that MI6 searched his

electronic media without informing the police. When the barrister for

the family pushed them on this and why the search was not carried out

in a more detailed fashion, two of the officers were giving evidence

and one of the counter-terrorism branch said they stopped the search

because of the orders of senior officers. He said simply, I will do

what I am told. He went on to say why they did not seize the memory

sticks, but they were told it contained material of a sensitive

nature. He said some of the evidence had been as helpful as a

London PC but fog. In an angry outburst, the coroner herself said

the evidence and the witnesses from the counter-terrorism branch were

not impartial in their dealings with the security services.

Apologies, you broke up a little, but remind us of the background to

the case. Gareth Williams's naked body was found in a red leather

holdall in the bath of his Pimlico flat back in 20th August 10. He was

a brilliant mathematician on secondment from GCHQ to MI6 when

his body was found. The Coroners Court found that different expert

witnesses said that third-party involvement cannot be ruled out

whilst three different pathologists have not been able to come to

consensus on the cause of his death. We do expect that the inquest will

reach the verdict in the next few days, maybe even tomorrow. Alex,

thank you. To the mayoral election now, last night we heard from Ken

Livingstone tonight it's the turn of Boris Johnson. With just over 36

hours until Londoners go to the polls, he was in Bexleyheath

earlier today, pressing the flesh. And he's here now. Good evening to

you. Nationally, the Conservative Party's polling well behind Labour

in London. You must be worried when you believe in the same things as

David Cameron and George Osborne, austerity measures, cutting tax and

clamping down on welfare. I think the election in London is being

decided on the issues that really matter to worse in the city.

Insofar as it is a tight race, which I think it is, that is

because people are listening to what I've got to say about creating

200,000 jobs over the next four years, getting the investment that

London needs and taking the City forward. I think that is why the

race is very competitive. I am hopeful we will be able in the next

couple of days to get that message across. But in principle you are

the sort of conservative who agrees with them. You love -- lobby about

cutting the top rate of tax, and something of London would benefit

from, but David Cameron and George Osborne listen to you and cut the

rate. Been in no doubt that when it comes to it, I will go in and

militated campaign for staff I think London needs. Just a couple

of weeks ago we got �300 million for primary schools in London, half

the allocation for the entire country. We have the extra �90

million enabling us to put more police on the streets. It is vital,

in tough times, to have a mayor of London he was willing to fight to

get the plaster to come off the ceiling in Whitehall and get the

investment that London needs. talk of what London needs, but

London needs to know what she will do about transport fares. You

recently said he would look at what she could do next year to bear down

on fares, so is there room to cut? There is room to make sure that we

modernise, or to make the system, take out costs and hold the fares

down in an honest, sustainable way. Mr Johnson, you mentioned

automation. What I will not do is cut investment. Please pause for

one second because it is an important issue. You mention the

automation, but the first driverless trains will not come

into -- for a decade according to arraign manifesto, so no savings

will be made in your next term, so there is no room for manoeuvre in

fair's fair. Are you saying you could cut them in the next term?

Don't forget that the so-called driverless trains, like the

Docklands Light Railway, they have trained captains. You have 48% of

the line being able to be run in an automated way by 2040. The cutback

- the technology is coming on stream -- 2014. I think it would be

fatal for the City to miss the opportunity to do that. I know Ken

Livingstone has rejected that approach, and I think that is wrong

for London. They are doing it in Paris, they are doing it in

Singapore. This is an option to take out cost, as we did with the

reforms of the ticket offices. That did provoke strikes and was

difficult. I want to bring you back to the actual fares. More people

trust Ken Livingstone when dealing with the issue of Transport and

understanding commuters, but people will make up your own -- their own

mind about their opponents. If you cannot afford to cut the fares

because you say the money is needed for upgrades, but why can't you be

honest and say that we cannot afford to cut them? Let me be

totally clear. What you cannot do is now offer to take out �1 billion

in investment for a 7% cut in fares. That is not deliverable without

having to cut bus routes or a big upgrade programme. Alternatively,

the only other way of doing it is to freeze for a while and then

whack them up sharply. Do you think you are being fair to Londoners?

They have two days before they go to the polls and one to be able to

make an informed choice. When you came into power, the single bus

there was 90p and now it is �1.35. Is it unreasonable for Londoners to

want guidance from you to expect what they can pay when they get on

the bustle that due next year? Will it be inflation plus 2%? No mayor

of London ever commits himself to way fares policy more than a year

in advance. Your opponent is. but they said that last time and

then he shamelessly broke his promise. What I can say is that our

policy of prudent financial management, getting investment from

government, has the best prospect of us holding fares down. So you

will not tell Londoners whether it is on the current rate of RPI plus

2%? There is no reason to think it will be. But what I can say is that

we will be able to hold the fares down in an honest and sustainable

way, get the funds from government to get us through the tough times

and keep the investment going. Let's move on to policing. We know

that under your a term, overall crime, murder, filing crime, crime

on public transport have gone down -- violent crime. But some of the

areas he campaigned heavily on, knife crime, youth violence and

crime is that affect people every daylight robberies and burglaries,

you have not done well. They have gone up. Don't forget that knife

crime was not measured under the previous mayor of London. That is

because of the changing categorisation. I think there was a

lot of complacency about knife crime in the period leading up to

2008, and we did take steps. It has gone up 14% though. We try to take

the knives of the street. One thing you cannot argue with is that the

number of young people dying as a result of knife crime has been

greatly reduced, by about 50%. That is an important thing to do. I am

not denying that there are problems. In a general context of a reduction

in crime, amazing reductions in public transport crime, but yes,

you're right to point out the difficult areas. What we are doing

now is getting more police and you have seen the increase in numbers,

and we are putting 2000 more into the safer neighbourhood teams.

Bernard Hogan how has just launched a big campaign. I am sorry to

interrupt. Talking about police numbers, or was it wise when you

first came into office in your first Budget to cut the amount of

council tax going into policing and then subsequently, this year and

last year, raided the reserves of the fire service? I think that was

perfectly the right thing to do, to move some of funds that were

allocated to the fire and emergency planning reserves that were sitting

there and move them into frontline policing. It is by smart use of

money at a time of restricted resources, don't forget on the

point of TEFL, we have taken huge reductions in the overall budget

and we are having to make further savings, yet we have been able to

deliver transport fares which, in real terms, are lower than they

were in 2000 and we are protecting benefits in London that people do

not get anywhere else in the country, like a 24 hour Freedom

Pass which is guaranteed for men and women over 60. Time is short,

but on your involvement with the phone hacking scandal people will

want to understand that she wanted pursue commercial sponsorship deals

for London. They will understand you wanted to have a relationship

with a powerful media group. Do you mean the BBC? No, News

International. But was it wise or appropriate to have meetings with

that company when it was being investigated by the Metropolitan

Police, your own police force? important thing there was that we

had had a briefing from John Yates, the assistant commissioner, but

there was nothing new in the evidence coming out, and I think

the New York Times had produced it, and there was nothing I needed to

concern myself with. I do think it was right, in tough times, when

there is a huge squeeze on public finances, to go out and get the

funds that London needs to invest in great schemes. But there were

lots of companies companies -- companies who were not under

investigation by the Metropolitan Police. I talked to lots of

companies. I got 50 million for Barclays Bank for that bicycles.

And actually News International didn't cough of a sausage. But they

you go. He didn't mean it was wrong In all there are seven candidates

standing for mayor. That information is on our website.

The chairman of an influential committee MPs has told BBC London

he is going to hold an investigation into the future of

the police watchdog. It comes as protesters gathered outside the

headquarters of the IPCC this afternoon calling it -- calling for

it to be abolished. Most of them have grievances

against the Met and have formally complained to the police watchdog

but they have lost confidence in the system. They claim the IPCC has

failed to deal with their cases impartially. This is police

investigating the police. There's no independence and so we are

calling for it to be abolished. latest figures showed the watchdog

has received more than 800 complaints against the Met since

2010. The majority were dealt with by the police themselves. The IPCC

has only independently investigated the most serious like corruption,

racism or indeed someone dying in custody. The rest, the police wodge

of managed or supervised. An ongoing concern for many protesters

is that a third of their investigators are former police

officers. You need completely independent investigators to go in

and investigate the police themselves. My family 25 years on

are still dealing with the failure of their predecessors. That

predecessor was the Police Complaints Authority, replaced by

the IPCC due to lack of public confidence. Now it faces similar

pressure to reform or be closed down. I'm pleased to say that the

committee will be conducting an investigation, enquiry, into the

operation, the powers and the future of the IPCC. This is

something that has been on our agenda for a long time. The IPCC

has sent me a statement admitting that the system is not perfect. Vic

Reeves, the system does not always meet the needs of the public, the

police staff and officers. That was designed to identify who was to

blame rather than looking at what went wrong and how it could be put

right. It says a number of changes will be implemented later this year

to improve things. Occupy London were camped outside

St Paul's Cathedral for four months before being evicted. But now BBC

London has learned that some of the protestors have set up camps in

public parks in East London, angering some locals. Ayshea Buksh

has the story. City commuters were greeted with

flowers and music this morning but protesters did not hang around.

They took their good will and floating tent with them. Back in

October hundreds of protesters camped in front of St Paul's

Cathedral. This is the latest out post of the global list anti-

capitalist movement. Mile End. Around 20 are so people have

pitched their tents. But has just told me they had come to meet local

people. Protesters had been taking wood from their fires from a nearby

area. This was used by a volunteer project. I cannot see what message

they are trying to get across. Why a public open space in a Borat

already deprived of public open space? Fines pre Square is now the

makeshift headquarters following the eviction from St Paul's. I

asked a spokeswoman why there are now in public parks away from the

Square Mile. Areas to get trashed by the tense but the bigger cause

is so much bigger that I think grass can be reseeded and we just

have to face a little bit of inconvenience for the bigger

message. What is that? World peace, economic justice. Back in Mile End

that message does not appear to be getting through. I'm not actually

sure what it is about. It makes no difference. They are burning the

trees and all that. I do not like to go there. Tower Hamlets council

say they have asked protesters to leave and they will take legal

action if need be. Ayshea is in Trafalgar Square. Has

the traditional May Day march passed through peacefully?

Yes, thousands of people marched on Trafalgar Square mostly in protest

against cuts to the public sector. It was organised by the union,

Unite. Their general secretary praised the actions of direct

action groups such as Occupy London. As you heard in that report, they

seemed to be pushing outside central London. I have been told of

next month they are planning a walk which they will march between every

London borough. So expect to see a few more tense popping up across

the capital. The Jubilee Crystal Diamond, which

will be used as part of celebrations to mark the Queen's 60

year reign, has been delivered to the Tower of London. The Queen will

use the diamond to light the National Beacon on 4th June, before

4,000 beacons are lit up across the UK and Commonwealth.

Since he first picked up a camera 60 years ago, Terry O'Neill has

captured celebrities on camera. From Raquel Welch to Audrey Hepburn

he's responsible for some of the most famous images of the biggest

names in show business. Now a new exhibition is celebrating the

London photographer. Our Entertainment Correspondent Brenda

Emmanus has been to meet him. Senior Shujing the stars of the

Avengers, photographer Terry O'Neill's portraits epitomised the

Swinging 60s. The East Ender who came to photography by accident was

thrown into the depend. The very first job that I had was the

Beatles. No one had ever photographed a pop group before.

Then I did the Rolling Stones, I did Laurence Olivier dressed as a

woman. Everything just happened to me. His latest exhibition unveils

previously unseen images and rare Prince of many A-list stars. This

was Abbey Road studios. A pop group had never been photographed before

so that is why I have got wrangles start holding up the guitar. And

this is Kate Moss, at the studio where she was working. She had a

stunning look even then for DUP Kate Moss is one contemporary star

who has made it in front of Terry O'Neill's lens. All the guys seem

to wear black suits, all the girls seem to be fashion plates today but

they all look the same. In my day, they were all totally different

types of women. Last year he won the centenary medal from the Royal

photographic Society, the highest honour in British photography. The

shots are on show throughout May. Let's get a check on the weather

with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop

raining? It is absolutely lovely in

Trafalgar Square. Tourists chilling out, enjoying the evening sunshine.

But there are some sharp showers to the north of London and more rain

in the forecast for the rest of the week. Possibly not as heavy as it

has been in the past few days. But the Environment Agency has around

30 flood alerts for the London area. And with more rain in the forecast

it would be an idea to keep an eye on exactly what is going on. You

can do that by taking a look of their website or contact them by

telephone. This evening those sharp showers to the north of London will

gradually fizzled out. Then some low cloud will drift down from the

Midlands. That could turn its mystique might over the tops of the

children hills. Richard's day trying for most places and a

minimum temperature of seven or eight degrees. Tomorrow, the skies

brightening mid-morning but through the afternoon the trend will be for

the cloud to taking up. Even so we could have temperatures of 16 or 17

degrees. But eventually that cloud will begin to produce some rain. It

is likely to be wet on Thursday, some that will be heavy and it

could linger to the north east of London into Friday. The further

south and west you are, the brighter the end of the week is

going to be. So the outlook is for more rain. If you're concerned

about the flood situation, make sure you keep up with the latest