:00:00. > 3:59:59Wednesday evening. We're looking forward to it. Now we join our news
:00:00. > :00:22.teams where you are. Hello. A man who was repeatedly
:00:23. > :00:27.sexual abused four decades ago while in the care of Lambeth Council has
:00:28. > :00:31.spoken for the first time about his ordeal. He is urge ohhing thers to
:00:32. > :00:36.come forward. `` urging others to come forward.
:00:37. > :00:39.Our home affairs correspondent has David's story.
:00:40. > :00:46.Because of the nature of the place it was isolated. You have all these
:00:47. > :00:50.vulnerable children. It was like a paedophile's paradise. David was six
:00:51. > :00:55.when the abuse began. He had been placed during the 1970s at this
:00:56. > :01:02.children's home, run by Lambeth Council. Now closed, is the only
:01:03. > :01:10.reminder of what it was. William Hook was a swimming instructor
:01:11. > :01:14.there. Later jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing young boys. One of
:01:15. > :01:19.his victims was David. It is something I have tried to block out
:01:20. > :01:23.all my life. I just want to say he just interfered with me as a child.
:01:24. > :01:28.David's story dates back to the 1970s. His abuser was one of three
:01:29. > :01:33.men jailed many years later during a police investigation into the sexual
:01:34. > :01:42.abuse of more than 100 children in the care of Lambeth social services.
:01:43. > :01:46.Children got raped, sexually abused, physically abused. According to
:01:47. > :01:51.David there was no`one who'd help. Staff knew what was going on. They
:01:52. > :01:59.turned a blind eye. Who do you turn to? Last week, BBC London reported
:02:00. > :02:03.that John Carol worked in Lambeth children's homes. He had a
:02:04. > :02:09.conviction for child abuse and the council failed to remove him. What
:02:10. > :02:14.is more shocking is 1998 a senior police officer was removed by
:02:15. > :02:19.Scotland Yard from investigating child abuse investigations after
:02:20. > :02:23.revealing some of the suspects were politicians. Scotland Yard is not
:02:24. > :02:28.prepared to discuss further. We were put into care to be cared for, not
:02:29. > :02:34.to be abused. It's not, they cannot say it was one
:02:35. > :02:39.bad apple. It was systematic over years ` it's not someone touching
:02:40. > :02:44.you once. It's not someone doing the abuse to you once. This is years and
:02:45. > :02:48.years of abuse. David hopes that speaking out will encourage others
:02:49. > :02:53.to come forward. He wants to form a group of survivors to challenge
:02:54. > :02:58.Lambeth Council in the courts as to why they allegedly let so many
:02:59. > :03:09.vulnerable children down during the 1970s and 1980s. Two weeks ago the
:03:10. > :03:15.Home Secretary announced an inquiry into different bodies. Lambeth says
:03:16. > :03:20.it will co`operate fully. A spokesman adds, it has apologised to
:03:21. > :03:25.victims and children's services have been overhauled.
:03:26. > :03:28.Two young boys from London have been reunited with their mother after
:03:29. > :03:34.they were kept in Russia by their father in breach of a court order.
:03:35. > :03:39.Daniel and Jonathan were taken to Russia in 2012. Their mother was the
:03:40. > :03:41.first to successfully use an international convention on child
:03:42. > :03:47.abduction, which allowed authorities in Moscow to return the children.
:03:48. > :03:50.With rocketing house prices and a shortage of affordable homes, there
:03:51. > :03:55.are growing calls for drastic action to be taken to help solve the
:03:56. > :04:02.capital's housing crisis. In the first of our series this week, Home
:04:03. > :04:07.Truths, Sam Bowman from the think`tank, the Adam Smith Institute
:04:08. > :04:11.puts forward the case of building new homes on London's greenbelt.
:04:12. > :04:16.Building within London is fine. It gives you something like
:04:17. > :04:19.high`density homes without gardens and not near green space. People
:04:20. > :04:24.don't want to live in places like that. We should roll back the
:04:25. > :04:28.greenbelt around London, make it easier to build on this land so we
:04:29. > :04:34.can build outwards and have lower density housing. That means gardens
:04:35. > :04:38.and cheaper homes for everybody. It does not mean throwing away the
:04:39. > :04:44.greenbelt or getting rid of all this land, it means building on a little
:04:45. > :04:48.bit of it. I have come here which is 80% greenbelt. It is 12 miles from
:04:49. > :04:55.central London and still within the M 25. Here I have met Ann who has
:04:56. > :05:03.spent many years of her life of protecting the greenbelt. Greenbelt
:05:04. > :05:08.is very important. We need green spaces for recreational purposes and
:05:09. > :05:14.to make a Dation between the settlements. If you wanted to come
:05:15. > :05:18.up with a compromise that made maybe nobody happy but was in the middle
:05:19. > :05:21.of people like me who want to build on greenbelt and people like you,
:05:22. > :05:30.what compromise would you suggest? Well, as a compromise that I have
:05:31. > :05:33.suggested, gradual enlargement of existing settlements in some
:05:34. > :05:37.greenbelt, saving as much as possible. Meeting Ann helped me
:05:38. > :05:41.understand why people are so attached to the greenbelt and fight
:05:42. > :05:45.so hard to protect it. It made me think maybe if we stop thinking of
:05:46. > :05:50.it as one single unit and differentiate between the areas of
:05:51. > :05:54.beauty like this and the intense sieve farmland that constitutes a
:05:55. > :05:58.lot of greenbelt, then it would be easier to come to a compromise.
:05:59. > :06:04.Well, we are really keen to hear from you. Please get in touch with
:06:05. > :06:09.your thoughts on the housing stories we are featuring this week. You can
:06:10. > :06:14.send us an e`mail to: Or join the conversation on Twitter.
:06:15. > :06:21.Tomorrow Patricia Brown, the chair of the London fes London Institute
:06:22. > :06:24.of Architecture argues for a revolution in the rental market to
:06:25. > :06:33.help the housing crisis. Good night. How is this week looking?
:06:34. > :06:39.Similar to last week. It is very warm. The one key difference is it
:06:40. > :06:43.is drier than we ended last week. We had in places over the weekend with
:06:44. > :06:51.heavy showers. A warm evening out there at the moment. It will stay
:06:52. > :06:55.so. We have some cloud which will drift into Essex and will go further
:06:56. > :07:01.west during the night. Some clear skies. Again it will be warm. 15`16
:07:02. > :07:05.Celsius. No lower for many of us. We wake up to a fair amount of
:07:06. > :07:10.greyness. Particularly the further north`east you go. That will burn
:07:11. > :07:15.back towards the north`east. There'll be sunshine. A breeze `
:07:16. > :07:22.Southend will be fresher. London and the west, likely to get to 27 of
:07:23. > :07:27.Celsius. More sunshine for Thursday and Friday. Feeling hot. More of a
:07:28. > :07:35.risk by the time we get to the weekend of showers.
:07:36. > :07:41.Good evening. If you were unfortunate enough to be at the
:07:42. > :07:48.sharp end of the weekend storms you'll be pleased to know that the
:07:49. > :07:52.atmosphere is less volatile now. Temperatures of 28 Celsius on the
:07:53. > :07:54.Sussex coast today. Most places were fine and