:00:12. > :00:17.Good evening and welcome. Two victims of serial rapist John
:00:18. > :00:20.Worboys have won their bid to get compensation from the Met Police for
:00:21. > :00:26.failing to investigate their attacks properly. It is believed the taxi
:00:27. > :00:31.driver attacked more than 100 women over six years. Today's decision at
:00:32. > :00:34.the High Court could have implications for all police forces
:00:35. > :00:38.in the UK, as our political correspondent Karl Mercer reports.
:00:39. > :00:42.For years, John Worboys would pick up women in his black cab. He would
:00:43. > :00:46.then make up a story about a gambling win and ask them to share a
:00:47. > :00:49.drink with him. The drinks though were drugged and it is believed he
:00:50. > :00:52.went on to rape or assault more than a hundred women. Worboys is now
:00:53. > :00:56.behind bars, jailed indefinitely for his crimes. But the case remains a
:00:57. > :01:03.difficult one for the Metropolitan Police. It failed time and again to
:01:04. > :01:07.stop Worboys. I remember him polling over and
:01:08. > :01:13.getting into the back of the taxi with me `` Pauling. That is all I
:01:14. > :01:17.remember until I woke up in hospital the next morning.
:01:18. > :01:20.The words of one of Worboys' victims who, today, with another woman, won
:01:21. > :01:23.a judgement against the Met under the Human Rights Act.
:01:24. > :01:25.The judge, Mr Justice Green, said he had identified: "A series of
:01:26. > :01:29.systemic failings which went to the heart of the failure of the police
:01:30. > :01:30.to apprehend Worboys and cut short his five`to`six`year spree of
:01:31. > :01:50.violent attacks. The fact that he dropped me at the
:01:51. > :01:54.police station on conscious and nobody had bothered to take his
:01:55. > :01:59.details was quite shocking to me `` unconscious. And I was quite upset
:02:00. > :02:07.and asked, did you get his name, his registration number, any details?
:02:08. > :02:09.They admitted they had not the `` taking any details from him.
:02:10. > :02:12.Today's judgement will mean compensation for the two women, but
:02:13. > :02:16.could also have big implications for the police in the future. One of
:02:17. > :02:20.these shoes is about police responsibility and liability and
:02:21. > :02:26.where is the boundary in relation to that `` one of the issues. We have
:02:27. > :02:29.to think about the judgement and understand the implications which
:02:30. > :02:33.may be wider than London and wider than rape and decide a course of
:02:34. > :02:35.action. Given that, it is possible the Met
:02:36. > :02:38.will appeal today's decision. Scotland Yard did though apologise
:02:39. > :02:41.again to the victims of John Worboys it let down.
:02:42. > :02:46.Our reporter, Gareth Furby, joins us now from Scotland Yard with more on
:02:47. > :02:51.this. And, Gareth, the implications of this ruling could be quite far
:02:52. > :02:56.reaching? Yes, this is a difficult one for
:02:57. > :03:01.Scotland Yard because in the past, the law is very clear on this, the
:03:02. > :03:06.police did not owe victims of crime a duty of care, to use that legal
:03:07. > :03:11.phrase. But because of this new interpretation, they do. And that
:03:12. > :03:16.could mean if in the future it can be shown there have been systemic
:03:17. > :03:20.failings in an investigation into serious or sexual crime, the victims
:03:21. > :03:26.of that crime may be able to take the police to court to sue for
:03:27. > :03:29.damages and perhaps that is why you can see the police are now
:03:30. > :03:35.considering their response to this case, and may yet bring an appeal.
:03:36. > :03:38.Thank you very much. A Christian couple from South East
:03:39. > :03:40.London, whose baby died of acute rickets, have been jailed for
:03:41. > :03:44.manslaughter because they refused to seek medical help for him. Nkosi
:03:45. > :03:49.Kunene was sentenced to three years, and his wife Virginia was given two
:03:50. > :03:54.years and three months. Both believed God would protect their
:03:55. > :03:57.son. Rail unions are threatening to "go
:03:58. > :04:02.to war" over plans to introduce driverless Tube trains, which they
:04:03. > :04:05.claim would be less safe. Transport bosses have begun the process of
:04:06. > :04:09.searching for a supplier to build the automated trains, which they say
:04:10. > :04:18.will be more reliable. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards reports.
:04:19. > :04:24.Trouble is brewing again on the Tube. Bosses took the first step
:04:25. > :04:29.today in buying fully automated trains and it could eventually mean
:04:30. > :04:35.a member of staff `` could mean no member of staff in the carriage.
:04:36. > :04:40.Great idea, the less people to strike, the better. Technology could
:04:41. > :04:45.go down and everybody would be at a standstill, like with the strike.
:04:46. > :04:49.Trains on the Victoria and the Jubilee semiautomated. The driver
:04:50. > :04:54.operates the doors but can switch to manual if there is a problem. Fully
:04:55. > :05:00.automated trains could deliver much more capacity. Automated driving is
:05:01. > :05:04.essential, it is more efficient and you get a more efficient performance
:05:05. > :05:11.and improve capacity. You reduce maintenance costs. In Paris, they
:05:12. > :05:16.have some automated lines and it took years of negotiations with
:05:17. > :05:20.workers. Here, both drivers unions say the cap has to stable stop there
:05:21. > :05:26.would be war, there should be a driver. `` has to stay. There should
:05:27. > :05:32.be a God as well as a driver, there is an argument for that. This person
:05:33. > :05:37.on the train, imagine as an individual with a uniform, what are
:05:38. > :05:41.you going to do? It is standing room only on the tube so if an incident
:05:42. > :05:46.takes place, do they have to go round the carriages or debate rave
:05:47. > :05:51.the train if it breaks down? It is an absolute `` it is an absolute
:05:52. > :05:57.nonsense. London Underground says this is the beginning of a long
:05:58. > :06:04.process. So long term, we could have stuff in the carriage on the bigger
:06:05. > :06:07.dilly line? `` staff. We have ten years to look at the process and to
:06:08. > :06:12.talk to staff and trade unions and customers? They will absolutely be
:06:13. > :06:19.safe, we would never do anything that is not safe. Plans are ideas
:06:20. > :06:24.away at the new train is bound to be a flash point in already fractious
:06:25. > :06:29.industrial relations. Well, it's goodnight from me. Now
:06:30. > :06:30.I'll hand you over to Elizabeth Rizzini, who's got the weekend
:06:31. > :06:40.weather. Plenty of rain around but it will be
:06:41. > :06:46.turning drive through the night is that rain pushes away to the South.
:06:47. > :06:50.`` drive. It will leave Cloud and drizzle towards eastern areas.
:06:51. > :06:57.Towards the North West, it will turn colder. Clearing skies and a bit of
:06:58. > :07:03.frost and even fog into tomorrow morning. It will eat a cold start to
:07:04. > :07:10.the weekend, there will still be cloud around towards eastern areas
:07:11. > :07:14.`` it will be. But otherwise, a pretty nice day and it will brighten
:07:15. > :07:18.up everywhere, there will be sunshine. It will be quite chilly at
:07:19. > :07:23.at times, top temperatures around eight, nine degrees. Frost forming
:07:24. > :07:28.on Saturday night, Sunday is much cloudier with rain arriving later
:07:29. > :07:33.into the evening. This is the weekend summary for London. Now time
:07:34. > :07:42.for the National forecast. Good evening, if you are a
:07:43. > :07:49.meteorologist, tomorrow is the first day of spring. But mother nature has
:07:50. > :07:51.little regard for such labels. That is one explanation for why spring
:07:52. > :07:52.starts with a touch