:00:12. > :00:17.Good evening and welcome to BBC London news. The victims of an
:00:18. > :00:20.alleged attempted kidnap and robbery by the police have spoken
:00:21. > :00:24.exclusively to BBC London News of their horror at finding out they
:00:25. > :00:26.were targeted. Confidential documents seen by this programme
:00:27. > :00:29.show how some officers from the Met's elite flying squad were
:00:30. > :00:35.suspected of a conspiracy to kidnap in the mid`1990s. The couple
:00:36. > :00:38.allegedly targeted had already been victims of a separate plot that the
:00:39. > :00:49.officers were investigating. Glen Campbell has the story. They are the
:00:50. > :00:55.secret corruption files leave to win shredded in 2003. Their contents, a
:00:56. > :01:01.suspected plot by flying squad officers in the mid`1990s to abduct
:01:02. > :01:06.the wife of a security van driver. One of the gang would leave and
:01:07. > :01:15.return with his wife's ring and tell the driver she would be hurt if he
:01:16. > :01:18.did not do as instruct did. So who was the security van driver said to
:01:19. > :01:25.have been targeted by corrupt detect this. We traced him to this quiet
:01:26. > :01:30.South London address. This was the first time he has read the secret
:01:31. > :01:34.police corruption reports about him being the target of an alleged
:01:35. > :01:50.kidnap a detect this. You're meant to trust these people. They are your
:01:51. > :01:54.rejection against things like this. To get this right, it was flying
:01:55. > :01:59.squad officers who came to see you after the first robbery. Yes. And
:02:00. > :02:07.you recognised some names in those files. Yes. The same names. The same
:02:08. > :02:12.names, yes. Definitely. Days after John was held up by an armed gang he
:02:13. > :02:16.was visited by two officers from the flying squad, there to supposedly
:02:17. > :02:21.tried to solve that security van robbery. But according to
:02:22. > :02:27.anti`corruption files are real intention was to kidnap John's wife
:02:28. > :02:33.and hand over ?50,000. How does it make you feel knowing the very
:02:34. > :02:38.people you thought would protect you and your partner were plotting to do
:02:39. > :02:41.the crime themselves again. I was shocked and disgusted. I am
:02:42. > :02:49.disgusted. I literally and. There are meant to be people you can
:02:50. > :02:55.trust. Was I put under threat, am I still in danger. They should have
:02:56. > :03:00.explained it more. You feel you have been failed by the Metropolitan
:03:01. > :03:06.police. Definitely. Reading this, I have been failed, drastically.
:03:07. > :03:12.Because as I said, it is the people you trust. To find out they were
:03:13. > :03:15.going to do it again. The kidnap was only thwarted when senior officers
:03:16. > :03:22.learned of the plot weeks before it was due to take place. What is
:03:23. > :03:25.extraordinary is that this is not police officers perhaps stealing the
:03:26. > :03:31.proceeds of someone else's criminal act. If this is true this is police
:03:32. > :03:34.officers conspiring to commit a really serious criminal offence
:03:35. > :03:37.themselves. The kind of offence that the rest of their colleagues were
:03:38. > :03:43.fighting hard against. That is what is so awful. Held at gunpoint and
:03:44. > :03:47.robbed once then shown secret corruption files that police
:03:48. > :03:51.officers have landed to do it to you again. For people like this, they
:03:52. > :03:58.wear a uniform, they have got a badge. There are met to protect us
:03:59. > :04:01.and they treated us like that. Well a statement from the Met to the
:04:02. > :04:05.victims says, "It must be deeply disturbing to hear from the media
:04:06. > :04:08.that you were the intended target of a kidnap plot that was disrupted by
:04:09. > :04:11.police." It goes on to say, "If this were to happen today, we would
:04:12. > :04:20.consider working within current legislation to inform people when
:04:21. > :04:25.they are at threat from criminals." An inquest has heard that the
:04:26. > :04:31.24`year`old cyclist who was killed after she was hit by a lorry at Bow
:04:32. > :04:38.roundabout may have jumped a red light. Something disputed by the
:04:39. > :04:44.family. Our transport correspondent has more.
:04:45. > :04:52.Venera Minakhmetova was the third cyclist to die at the infamous Bow
:04:53. > :05:00.roundabout. The met told the inquest it was most likely she had jumped a
:05:01. > :05:04.red light and collided with an HDV. There was disbelief outside court.
:05:05. > :05:14.She was always suspicious about red lights at this roundabout. Venera
:05:15. > :05:22.Minakhmetova died on the Mayor's super cycle highway. The Met
:05:23. > :05:26.analysed tachograph detail from the lorry and on balance of probability
:05:27. > :05:30.experts thought she went into the lorry lines blocked after jumping a
:05:31. > :05:36.red light. The coroner agreed. But there was no CCTV. The system is
:05:37. > :05:40.safer than it was before unquestionably but it does rely on
:05:41. > :05:46.all road users complying with the red lights. That system is known as
:05:47. > :05:49.early start lights that give cyclists a head start. They have
:05:50. > :05:56.been in place just a week when Venera Minakhmetova died.
:05:57. > :05:59.Campaigners say that they are confusing and the roundabout is
:06:00. > :06:04.still dangerous. The coroner said it was important to be open and honest
:06:05. > :06:09.about the cause of this coalition so other cyclists are aware of what
:06:10. > :06:14.dangerous behaviour contravening a red light is and the potentially
:06:15. > :06:18.devastating consequences. DFL has modified the roundabout again since
:06:19. > :06:22.the death with lower traffic light and the Met says with more cyclists
:06:23. > :06:31.being encouraged to use it, constant review is needed.
:06:32. > :06:34.The Government has announced a new compensation scheme for people
:06:35. > :06:37.living along the route of the proposed high speed rail link from
:06:38. > :06:40.London to Birmingham. Those who live within 60 metres will be paid more
:06:41. > :06:43.than the market price for their home. And those a little further
:06:44. > :06:47.away, who don't want to move, could also receive a one off payment.
:06:48. > :06:56.That's it from me. I'll hand you over to Nick Miller for the weather.
:06:57. > :07:02.Tomorrow we have a light wind and it will feel pleasantly warm. Some
:07:03. > :07:08.sunshine around especially during the first part of the day. And it
:07:09. > :07:13.stays dry through the night. Cloud and clear spells around. It will
:07:14. > :07:19.turn a little chilly in rural sports. But no concerns about frost.
:07:20. > :07:24.Plenty of sunshine to start the day tomorrow. But some cloud increasing
:07:25. > :07:28.and the outside chance of a light shower. And it stays fine for the
:07:29. > :07:34.weekend. If you are travelling weekend. If you are travelling
:07:35. > :07:43.further afield here is a look at the National pig genome. -- National
:07:44. > :07:48.picture. Most of us will be dry and bright
:07:49. > :07:54.with some sunshine coming through. That goes for the weekend as well.
:07:55. > :07:58.Look out for some chilly night. Certainly tonight in the South
:07:59. > :08:07.temperatures falling away under those clear skies. As low as two or
:08:08. > :08:09.three degrees in rural areas. Still some patchy rain through parts of
:08:10. > :08:17.southern Scotland and Northern Ireland early on in the day. But
:08:18. > :08:19.most of England and Wales have a dry start. Some spells of sunshine
:08:20. > :08:21.especially across the