04/10/2013 BBC News at Six

The mother who starved her four-year-old to death is jailed for

15 years for manslaughter and child cruelty. Amanda Hutton is told by

the judge she put her selfish addiction to alcohol before the

welfare of her children. The father of Hamzah Khan, who is also

criticised by the judge for doing little to protect his child, tells

the BBC he warned the police. They never believed me for once. If once

they would have believed me and gone to check the children,

they would have believed me and gone the alive.

Also on the programme: The boat in which 300 African migrants are now

feared to have drowned, on the sea bed off the Italian coast.

Missing Madelaine McCann - now Scotland Yard trawl through

thousands of phone records in a new attempt to find out what happened to

the toddler six years ago. And the mother and her children who

played dead in the Kenyan shopping mall attack talk for the first time

of the moment they were rescued by a police officer. He said, no, baby, I

of the moment they were rescued by a am one of the police and I am not

with the bad guys and I'm here to rescue you.

In Sportsday, we look ahead to the weekend fixtures, as David Moyes

says he is the right man for Manchester United.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The alcoholic mother who starved her four-year-old son, Hamzah Khan, to

death and left his body in a cot for nearly two years has been jailed for

15 years. Amanda Hutton also admitted neglecting five of her

other children aged between five and 13, who were living in squalor. The

judge told her that she had put her selfish addiction to drink well

before her responsibilities to her children. He also had harsh words

for the father, Aftab Khan, saying he seemed to have done little to

improve the welfare of his children. Mr Khan has been speaking

exclusively to Ed Thomas, who's outside Bradford Crown Court. Yes,

Aftab Khan told us he warned police to go and check on Hamzah, check how

malnourished he is. West Yorkshire Police said it did check, but at the

time there was no cause for concern. A year later, Hamzah Khan

was lying dead in a cot, as his mother hid his body away.

Amanda Hutton, the mother who neglected her eight children, the

Amanda Hutton, the mother who alcoholic who drank a bottle of

vodka each day, as her four-year-old son starved to death. Hamzah Khan

was fed scrap is, until he finally died. And then his body was left in

a cot for 21 months. Today, Amanda Hutton arrived at court to be

sentenced for her neglect of the Hutton arrived at court to be

most a sick of parenthood duties. Standing in the dock, there was no

reaction, as she was jailed for 15 years. The judge told her she was

wicked and devious. He said, the most telling an awful fact about how

you starved Hamzah is that when his mummified remains were found, he was

clothed in a baby grow for a six to nine month child, at the age of four

and a half years. I told them, go and check my children. But they

thought, she is right, I am wrong. In his first BBC interview,

Hamzah's father told us that police and social services failed. Aftab

Khan has a conviction for assaulting Amanda Hutton. After he was

arrested, he asked two police officers to check on his son. Do you

accept any responsibility? I feel guilty and I should have done more,

but I was pushed to one side. If once they had believed me and gone

to check the children, Hamzah would be alive. Why could you not knock on

the door and take Hamzah out? I knocked on the door but she would

not let me see the kids. She would not open the door to me. West

Yorkshire Police uncovered this squalor. The force told us that it

did check on Hamzah, his siblings and Amanda Hutton. How could she

care for the children? She was a severely depressed, abused

alcoholic. This woman did not want to be identified. She is a friend of

Amanda Hutton and supported her throughout the trial. She was in the

middle of a breakdown, drinking 24-7. She was not equipped to cope

with running the house and looking after the children. Those around her

sore but did nothing to help. So what role did social services play

in this chaotic life? Despite repeated visits, Amanda Hutton

managed to hide her neglect. This was a very difficult family to be

visiting, and the mother, apparently, was very resistant to

any kind of interference in her life. She did not want anyone to

come. She was pushing people away. That is an extremely difficult

context to work in, particularly in cases of neglect. As Amanda Hutton

begins her prison sentence, Bradford City council welcomed a Serious Case

Review into what it did your ring her son's short life. Whatever it

finds will be to late for Hamzah Khan, the child who needed saving

from his own mother. Rescuers in Italy now fear up to 300

people drowned when a boat carrying African migrants sank yesterday.

Divers have been hampered by poor weather conditions at sea today. So

far just over 100 bodies have been recovered. The fishing vessel was

carrying around 500 migrants, including children, mainly from

Eritrea and Somalia. It's thought they had set off from the Libyan

port of Misrata, but the boat capsized half a mile off the island

of Lampedusa after it caught fire. The sunken vessel lies off the

southern coast of the island, from where Gavin Hewitt reports.

This is the first glimpse of the migrants' boat, 150 feet beneath the

surface. Divers believe many bodies are still inside the boat. They are

not looking for more survivors. This was the moment yesterday when the

rescue boats arrived at the site where the boat with the migrants had

capsized. At one point, coastguard crews were in the water, trying to

save people. It is feared that up to 300 people lost their lives in the

Mediterranean's worst disaster involving migrants. Today, they were

scouring the waters. There are still 200 people unaccounted for.

Survivors say they were so close to land that they could see the lights.

The boat sank about 800 metres out from these rocks. The stronger

migrants, some of them, over 100 of them, were able to swim and reach

the rock 's, where they were rescued. But the majority of the

people on the boat could not make this crossing. Some of the early

rescuers have been describing the moment they arrived at the scene.

This man is a fission man, who told us many of those he saved were

covered in kerosene. -- fishermen. TRANSLATION: You could only see

their heads, with arms in the air, and they were screaming. There were

so many people. We only managed to save 20. Two of them have now died,

so many people. We only managed to two women. Some survivors have been

taken to this detention centre, joining other migrants with stories

and pictures of harrowing journeys. European officials openly accept

there will have to be changes to avoid these tragedies. We have two

open at ways for legal migration, if we really want to empty those

channels that bring people to take such perilous travels and so many

risks. We also have to make sure we fight against traffickers and

smugglers. But there are no easy solutions. In recent days, many have

arrived here, fleeing the crisis in Syria.

What are the Italian authorities saying about what can be done to

prevent tragedies like this? Well, saying about what can be done to

it is very difficult. It is worth noting that on the day when this

boat arrived, two other boats came, bringing hundreds of migrants to

Lampedusa. Here is the dilemma. There are some who are saying, make

Lampedusa. Here is the dilemma. legal migration easier. On the other

hand, there is a political reality. 26 million people are out of work in

the European Union. There are others who say that these smuggling boats

have to be stopped, have to be sent back. But what is absolutely clear -

there are tens of thousands of people from Africa and also from the

Middle East who are prepared to make these hazardous journeys here, and

they will not need it occurred. -- deterred. That is the dilemma. As I

have said, there are no easy options.

The stand-off between Ed Miliband and the Mail newspaper group

continues, with the Labour leader urging the owner of the Mail

newspapers to examine what he called their "culture and practices". But a

senior editor at the Daily Mail now says some in the Labour Party need

to apologise to the paper. David Sillito reports.

It began as a row with the Mail about Ed Miliband's father, but the

Labour leader is taking it further. His aim now is the editor, Paul

Dacre, the owner, Lord Rothermere, and the way the Mail works. I have

had my say, and the ball is in the Court of the Mail and the mail on

Sunday. They need to take a look at the culture and practices of their

newspapers to ask why are these kind of things happening, because I think

it says something about the way they operate these newspapers. I hope

they are going to do that. That phrase, culture and practices, has

not been plucked out of the air. Member the member delivers an

enquiry into the culture and practices of the press, a process

that is about to enter a crucial phrase. -- phase. Christopher

Jefferies gave evidence to the Levenson enquiry about a frenzied

campaign in the press to blacken his character. Eight newspapers

apologised, one of them the Mail. It was not the worst offender, but he

sees a wider issue behind this current row. It is a rather cowardly

revenge for the highly principled stance that Ed Miliband and much of

the Labour Party has taken on the whole subject of this reform. --

press reform. The comments from Ed Miliband today were taken as further

proof of what they feel is a chilling attempt to control the

press. The Labour Party has stepped chilling attempt to control the

over the line by turning its guns on us over a whole week. We addressed

the problem, gave Ed Miliband space to rebut the charges against him. He

has now chosen to turn it into a political argument. He is using his

own family to turn it into a political argument against our

paper. I think we should be robust and resist that. So, is there a

reason beyond this week's story why the Mail has been picked out? I

asked one journalist who has written for the paper for decades if their

culture and practices stood out. They are slightly less hypocritical.

The Daily Mail does actually punch very hard. Not physically, but using

its skills as a newspaper, which appeals to a huge number of people

in this country. And this scares the left. They then say, I am being

bullied. For heavens sake. Grow up. I don't have much sympathy. And all

this when a new system of this regulation is imminent, and the

faces in this row are supporting rival proposals. One drawn up by the

three main parties, the other by the press. The question now, which one

will the politicians choose? The former Deputy Speaker of the

House of Commons, Nigel Evans, has appeared at Preston Crown Court

charged with a series of sexual offences against men. The MP for

Ribble Valley in Lancashire is charged with eight offences,

including sexual assault, indecent assault, and rape. Mr Evans was

given bail and will appear in court again in January next year.

The publicist Max Clifford has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of

indecent assault on teenage girls aged between 14 and 19. The offences

are alleged to have taken place between 1966 and 1984. Speaking

outside Southwark Crown Court Mr Clifford said he was "totally

innocent" of all the charges. The Metropolitan Police says that

thousands of mobile phone records may hold the key to solving the

disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Scotland Yard is trawling through a

vast log of mobile phone calls made in Praia da Luz in Portugal, where

the McCanns were staying around the time of their daughter's

disappearance in 2007. Kate and Gerry McCann are to make an appeal

on the BBC Crimewatch programme later this month. Tom Symonds,

reports. It is the case, perhaps more than

any other, that Britain once solved, more so each time these heart

breaking family videos are shown. But in the first crucial hours after

Madeline McCann's disappearance, a huge haul of potential evidence was

gathered and not fully analysed. In 2007, Portuguese Police downloaded

what is called a cell dump, all of the mobile phone records from the

time she went missing. Now The Met is finally going through them. How

could they help? The data includes thousands of phones active in the

area, although police will not see how accurately recorded their

location, but it does include their numbers and details of calls to and

from the phone, including the time of the call. They are trying to

track selected owners, a massive task, involving enquiries in up to

31 countries. It is a tourist area, so you have a lot of temporary

visitors, people working in hotels and cafes. Tracing all of those

people, linking real people to the phone numbers you have, is going to

be a significant challenge. The former head of Britain's child

protection agency reviewed the files in 2009 and said act them that the

phone records were crucial. If this data had not been retained in the

way that it was and not preserved, we would not be able to get it now.

It would simply be too late, and the lines of investigation, and I don't

know what they are, but they would not exist. Searching thousands of

mobile phone records might seem like looking for a needle in a haystack,

but there is a noticeable air of optimism in the enquiry, and

possibly new leads. The Met is preparing to appear on the BBC's

Crimewatch to discuss new evidence and possibly new theories about

Madeline's disappearance. On Crimewatch last year, The Met

publicised this new picture of Madeline as she might look now. This

month there will be a new reconstruction and an appeal for the

owners of phones in the area at the time to come forward. The enquiry

team is examining 39,000 documents, and it is nearly halfway through a

list of nearly 5000 investigative actions. Kate and Gerry McCann are

currently fighting a libel action against the Portuguese police

officer who wrote a book about the case. They, too, will appear on

Crimewatch, six years after Madeline's disappearance, to keep

the case in the public eye. Our top story: Amanda Hutton, who

starved her your feeRld son, is jailed for 15 years for manslaughter

and child cruelty. Still to come: Rowing back the years

- reclaiming the lost art of boat building.

Coming up in Sportsday: We go inside F1 at the Korean Grand Prix as Lewis

Hamilton tops the time sheets in second practice, just ahead of

Championship leader, Sebastian Vettel.

It's been a month since the beginning of the school year in

England. From today, any children who have not returned from the

summer holidays can have their names removed from the class register. And

effectively disappear. Many of those will be girls who have been forced

into marriage. Last year, nearly 1,500 cases were dealt with by the

Government's Forced Marriage Unit. They ranged across 60 countries and

nearly two-thirds involved countries in South Asia, mainly Pakistan.

Today, a leading charity called on the Government to collect figures of

how many young people go missing in order to help rescue them.

The faces of survivors of a startling betrayal by their parents.

These women were forced into marriages they didn't want, most

were just girls at the time. It meant an abrupt end to their

education and the end of freedom and normality. This summer, this

teenager's education ended when her parents told her to marry, not an

arranged marriage, but a forced one. He was from India, twice her age and

she had never met him. Her words are spoken by an actor as she is now in

hiding. It was about what I would get when I married and you can have

a big wedding and it was kind of bribery a little. It was kind of,

like, you are an item to sell, to see what they can get in exchange,

like land and gold and stuff like that. She managed to escape the life

they had intended for her. Other young women have found themselves

trapped for years. This woman thought she was going on holiday

back to Turkey. But they abandoned her there, forcing her into a

back to Turkey. But they abandoned marriage of physical and sexual

abuse and mental cruelty. I remember his mum, my ex-mother-in-law saying

to me the only reason I was in the house, the only reason why I married

her son was to be a wife to him at night-time and a slave and a servant

for them during the day. There was no compassion, there was no love. It

was just I was there for a reason to do two things. Although many of the

victims are originally from South Asia, their families have been in

victims are originally from South the UK for several generations now.

Forced marriage is part of no-one's culture, so why is it still going

on? This campaigner says the reasons are complex. It is about

immigration, bringing people into the UK. It is about money. It is

about control. It is about taking away people's freedoms and that is

one of the key reasons why forced marriage is still here. People are

one of the key reasons why forced harping back to a past that they are

not - that is not part of their past. It is... She talks to

teenagers about the issue and has written to Ministers calling for a

national register of children missing after the summer holidays.

The Government says figures for absence are recorded but only every

time, but the charity said that wasn't enough. For the teenager we

talked to, life is very lonely. I feel quite upset because it's having

no family, well having no parents. Whereas other kids have their

parents and other kids have a normal life doing things at my age. She and

these women were abruptly removed from their education and their

lives. Next year, forced marriage becomes a crime but campaigners will

continue to push Government to help stop more girls suddenly

disappearing. If you, or someone you know is

affected by forced marriage and would like details of organisations

which offer advice and support, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline, or

call the BBC Action Line to hear recorded information on 0800 888

809. Lines are open 24 hours and are recorded information on 0800 888

free from most landlines. Some networks and mobile operators will

charge for these calls. Officials from FIFA have been

meeting in Zurich where they were expected to announce plans to move

the 2022 World Cup Finals in Qatar from the summer to winter. After

hours of talks, there's been no agreement. David Bond is there. A

decision was expected today. It's all going on a bit because there is

no decision. What is happening? Well, that's right. In fact, the

FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, raised Well, that's right. In fact, the

expectations that we would get a decision, at least in principle

today. In the run-up to this meeting, several members of the FIFA

Executive Committee have warned him that he can't rush in and that this

is much more complicated than switching the dates. We have ended

up with a consultation process that will take 18 months or two years. We

won't get a decision until after the World Cup in Brazil next summer,

perhaps not until 2015. I still think we are heading towards the

first winter World Cup and while that issue might be edging towards a

conclusion, what this whole process has really raised is again fresh

questions about whether FIFA is fit to run football. David Bond, thank

you. It was one of the defining images of

the Kenyan shopping mall siege. A mother cowering behind a counter

protecting her children as gunfire echoed around the shops and the

police and army tried to rescue those still alive inside. Now, Faith

Wambua and her nine-year-old daughter have spoken for the first

time about their ordeal to Gabriel Gatehouse.

I was scared. Very scared. I was trying to sleep but I could not

sleep. And my mum hoped that we would be quiet, but then I stayed

quiet. This girl was cowering on the floor next to her brother and mother

as the Westgate Mall came under siege. It was supposed to be a

normal Saturday afternoon trip to the shops. I could hear them walking

and I knew this was not a regular person. They had a conversation. At

that point, they called out, "Mama" - I didn't know whether they were

talking to me. "Mama, mama?" This lady answered and less than five

seconds later, two shots and she was quiet. After a while - I felt

someone touching my hand. This person again was calling, "Mama, you

OK?" This was the point where I played dead. Then he came in front

to me and he touched me and said, "Baby, baby?" I raised my head up

and I asked, I asked him a few questions. I asked him if he's one

of the bad guys. He said, "No, baby, I'm one of the police and I'm not

with the bad guys and I'm here to rescue you." After four-and-a-half

hours, all three escaped. They were physically unhurt.

# He will call # The dead will answer... #

While they waited to be rescued, they had sung songs to keep their

spirits up, but two weeks on, the psychological scars are there. We

are scared. Admittedly, we are now looking over our shoulders. We are

are scared. Admittedly, we are now more cautious than before. We try to

regain normality in our lives. For the Wambuas, a middle-class Kenyan

idyll has been shattered. the Wambuas, a middle-class Kenyan

There was a time when it was a skill that could be passed down through

the generations, but the art of boat building has been languishing as

modern designs and production techniques have taken over. Now,

lottery money is being used to revive apprenticeships in

woodworking with the hope that a new generation can learn to love and

restore Britain's boats. The sound of tradition, boat

building tradition. Here in Portsmouth repairing the cannons of

ancient maritime battles. These are a dying set of skills, ebbing away

on a tide of changing times. When it comes to maintaining our boating

heritage, victory is turning to defeat. The oak ships of Britain...

It wasn't always like that. In the 1930s, 100,000 people built boats in

Britain. Many shaping wood into sailing masterpieces. Now, the

Heritage Lottery Fund is trying to bring those lost arts back. It's

putting £4 million into training more than 500 now apprentices, just

like Ricky. I have been a binman to a bingo caller. I have a real

passion for working with boats and it is a privilege to work with the

historic collection that we have here. The new project is so

ambitious it leaves the rest of European heritage apprenticeship

schemes in its wake. This is what it is all about, the preservation of

beautiful vessels like this 1937 high-speed launch. Maintained and

restored as part of Britain's rich maritime heritage. This one took

volunteers two years to restore. In future, it is hoped the

newly-trained apprentices will apply their skills to similar vessels. It

is not just about the preservation of heritage skills, it is about

providing young people with an opportunity for employment. As

weathered as the vessels he's crafted for 50 years, this man is

among those who will nurture the young apprentices? We You cannot let

this die. It has to go on. This project will preserve boats, skills

and history. Young people applying their crafts to these precious

craft. If you fancy getting out in a boat

this weekend, what is the weather going to be like?

No need to build the Ark this weekend! The next 48 hours, well, it

looks largely dry and bright. It will get a bit breezy. When the sun

is shining, it will feel warm, like it did today in the sunny skies at

Heathrow. We got to 22 Celsius there. This area of cloud is still

bringing one or two heavy showers across North East England. In the

next hour, they will head out into the North Sea. Then one or two light

showers drifting about overnight. Most places will have a dry night. A

fairly cloudy night which will keep temperatures above average. These

values are a bit lower than recent nights. It will feel a bit fresher

than of late. So, a fairly cloudy start to the

weekend. The cloud will tend to break up in many places and we will

see some sunny intervals here and there. Still, a small chance of one

or two light showers, but most places will be dry and it will feel

reasonably warm with temperatures a touch above average.

With a bit of sunshine, we could reach 19 or 20 Celsius, perhaps a

bit more cloud across East Anglia in the afternoon. The small chance of

one or two light showers. Generally dry and fine over Northern England,

one or two light showers. Generally Northern Ireland. The north-west

corner will cloud over again. There is some rain not far away. That is a

weather front which will change things a little bit this weekend.

That will bring patchy rain across Scotland, Northern Ireland and

dribbling south into parts of Northern England and West Wales into

Sunday. So a bit of light rain and drizzle here and there. Some showers

may return to the North West. It will be breezy across northern

Britain. For most, it is another dry and a bright day. There could be

Britain. For most, it is another dry some slow-to-move fog patches across

the south. Where we see the sun, those temperatures well above

average. Thank you. That is all from the BBC

News at Six. So it is goodbye from me