14/05/2014

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:00:17. > :00:21.Good evening. I convicted paedophiles from south London who

:00:22. > :00:26.walked free from court after being convicted of grooming hundreds of

:00:27. > :00:30.young girls could have the sentence reviewed. 34`year`old Timothy Storey

:00:31. > :00:35.from pack been described by police as every parent 's nightmare. After

:00:36. > :00:38.being found guilty of posing as a teenager to contact children as

:00:39. > :00:46.young as 12. The case has been referred to the Attorney General for

:00:47. > :00:49.review as Nick Baker reports. He created a fake profile using a

:00:50. > :00:53.profile of themselves, and claimed he was a teenager, single and

:00:54. > :00:59.interested in girls. In fact, every one of his 700 friends was female.

:01:00. > :01:02.He sent hundreds of messages and persuaded some as young as 12 to

:01:03. > :01:08.send sexually explicit photos of themselves. His real name is Timothy

:01:09. > :01:14.Storey. Not 18, but 34 years old. Now a convicted paedophile but

:01:15. > :01:19.spared prison. The prospect of a predator inciting children to

:01:20. > :01:28.obscene sexual activity. Abusing children. To see that person walk

:01:29. > :01:31.free, and receive a rehabilitation order, it's just unacceptable.

:01:32. > :01:36.Storey also pleaded guilty to making indecent images on his laptop and

:01:37. > :01:38.his mobile phone. But rather than a custodial sentence, he was placed on

:01:39. > :01:42.a three`year sex offenders programme. The Metropolitan Police

:01:43. > :01:48.detective who led the investigation into Storey described him as every

:01:49. > :01:52.parent's worst nightmare. Abusing and exploiting girls over the

:01:53. > :01:55.Internet. He said he also thought that Storey had targeted more

:01:56. > :02:00.victims and urged them to come forward. Charities say this case

:02:01. > :02:06.once again shows how important it is for parents talk to their children

:02:07. > :02:09.about what they are doing online. Being really clear that if they're

:02:10. > :02:13.ever concerned that they can speak up and something will be done and

:02:14. > :02:18.not making threats about if you do this, we'll stop your usage. Because

:02:19. > :02:22.one other thing which really gets in the way of young people speaking is

:02:23. > :02:26.that they think they'll lose their mobile phone or they'll lose their

:02:27. > :02:28.ability to be on Facebook. So it's about being open and having a

:02:29. > :02:32.discussion. It's not only about problems but day`to`day use. Former

:02:33. > :02:35.BBC presenter Stuart Hall's sentence for indecent assault against young

:02:36. > :02:40.girls was doubled last year by Court of Appeal judges. Now the

:02:41. > :02:42.government's top lawyer, the Attorney General, will decide if

:02:43. > :02:54.judges should consider whether Timothy Storey's sentence is unduly

:02:55. > :03:00.lenient and should be increased. Louisa Preston is on the Strand for

:03:01. > :03:06.us this evening. What is the chance of having his story overturned? The

:03:07. > :03:10.Attorney General office has actually told us today that they will be

:03:11. > :03:14.looking at it and we also got figures from them that show that

:03:15. > :03:22.they received 435 complaints about sentencing in 2012. Out of those, 73

:03:23. > :03:29.of those sentences were increased at the Court of Appeal behind me, about

:03:30. > :03:32.one in six cases. When you look the guidelines on sentencing for

:03:33. > :03:36.inciting sexual activity on a child, the maximum sentence is 14 years,

:03:37. > :03:43.normally when there has been physical activity on a child, but in

:03:44. > :03:49.this case, all of his victims were online. He never met any of his

:03:50. > :03:52.victims. However, there will now be careful consideration about whether

:03:53. > :03:59.the punishment fits the crime. Louisa, thank you. The family of a

:04:00. > :04:04.man who was murdered in a car park in south`east London over 25 years

:04:05. > :04:09.ago is to receive ?50,000 for what City Hall says bring to light

:04:10. > :04:14.failings of the Metropolitan Police. Private investigator Donal Morgan

:04:15. > :04:17.was discovered with an axe in his head in 1987 and it's thought he was

:04:18. > :04:20.on the verge of exposing police corruption. It's one of the

:04:21. > :04:25.country's most notorious unsolved murders. Daniel Morgan was killed in

:04:26. > :04:31.this pub car park in Sydenham in 1987 just before he was about to

:04:32. > :04:34.expose police corruption. An axe was found embedded in his head. It's

:04:35. > :04:40.officially accepted the subsequent murder investigation was also

:04:41. > :04:44.thwarted by corruption. Daniel's family has fought for justice for

:04:45. > :04:48.nearly three decades. Provided financial recognition. I think it's

:04:49. > :04:51.ridiculous. Today London's Mayor revealed in a document that ?50,000

:04:52. > :04:54.would now be paid to the family in recognition of the general social

:04:55. > :04:56.benefit brought about by their efforts in bringing to light the

:04:57. > :05:03.failings of the Metropolitan Police Service. Daniel's brother was

:05:04. > :05:13.unimpressed with the financial gesture. Insulting. Derisory.

:05:14. > :05:17.Pitiful. Abusive almost. I would describe it as. Why? Well, we've had

:05:18. > :05:23.to be doing the job of the authorities for 27 years. Five

:05:24. > :05:28.separate police enquiries have failed to identify Daniel's killers.

:05:29. > :05:33.In 2011, an Old Bailey trial collapsed. Three supergrass

:05:34. > :05:36.witnesses were deemed unreliable. Daniel's brother told me the former

:05:37. > :05:43.police authority in charge of scrutinising the Met had already

:05:44. > :05:47.paid the family ?125,000. Still just a fraction of the cost incurred over

:05:48. > :05:50.decades of seeking justice. Meanwhile, he wasn't happy with the

:05:51. > :05:54.Mayor's deputy for policing Stephen Greenhaugh. And in an e`mail to

:05:55. > :05:57.Boris Johnson's office, wrote that when he met Mr Greehaugh, he

:05:58. > :06:04.disappointed me greatly with his complete ignorance of what we had

:06:05. > :06:07.been and still are dealing with. When we brought up the word

:06:08. > :06:13.corruption and cover`ups and all that, he seemed utterly completely

:06:14. > :06:17.unaware. In fact, he said, "Corruption? I don't anything about

:06:18. > :06:19.corruption" when we met him. Today, a City Hall spokesman said Boris

:06:20. > :06:23.Johnson was impressed with the Morgan family, was keen to help and

:06:24. > :06:29.would welcome the reopening of a criminal investigation into Daniel's

:06:30. > :06:39.murder if new evidence was found. Something his deputy was also

:06:40. > :06:41.pushing for. That's it from me. Time now for a look at the weather. It's

:06:42. > :06:54.been lovely today. A sparkling day across the region. I

:06:55. > :06:59.hope you enjoyed it. Tomorrow, cloudier later, perhaps, but it

:07:00. > :07:05.won't put a dent in the temperatures. Overnight, the skies

:07:06. > :07:09.will be clear. In the countryside, you may well find your temperatures

:07:10. > :07:15.dribbling away as low as 3`4, but it will be a glorious start to the day.

:07:16. > :07:21.The temperatures will lift quickly but as the day goes on, the cloud

:07:22. > :07:27.beginning to filter in. It really won't stop those temperatures piling

:07:28. > :07:33.away, 17, 18 at the lowest. We could see 21 or so. We keep that going

:07:34. > :07:42.right until the weekend. Here's the outlook. Good evening. Mother nature

:07:43. > :07:46.was kind to us today, sunny skies, the birds and bees were out but not

:07:47. > :07:48.everywhere because one or two places where a little on the