:00:00. > :00:07.now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. That's Evan
:00:08. > :00:10.The child killer Robert Black revealed his crimes during police
:00:11. > :00:13.interviews which are being broadcast by the BBC tonight.
:00:14. > :00:16.The detective team have told the Spotlight programme
:00:17. > :00:19.they were surprised about the details he gave them.
:00:20. > :00:22.Black died in prison last month while serving life sentences
:00:23. > :00:24.for the murders of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy in County Antrim
:00:25. > :00:29.in 1981, and three children in Britain.
:00:30. > :00:43.For decades, Robert Black sexually abused young girls across the United
:00:44. > :00:49.Kingdom in his delivery van. He then dumped the bodies of those he killed
:00:50. > :00:52.hundreds of miles away. Even though he was given life sentences for
:00:53. > :01:00.killing three girls, ten-year-old Sarah Harper, five-year-old Caroline
:01:01. > :01:05.Hogg, and 11-year-old Susan Maxwell, Black gave nothing away to police.
:01:06. > :01:07.But that's changed when he was questioned by PSNI officers about
:01:08. > :01:13.the murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy. He began to open up about his
:01:14. > :01:19.fantasies. I think everyone was surprised at that because nobody
:01:20. > :01:25.knew before we went into the interviews whether he was even going
:01:26. > :01:28.to talk at all. And for unknown reason, he felt comfortable talking
:01:29. > :01:32.to myself. Pamela Simpson's plan was to encourage Black to talk about his
:01:33. > :01:41.sexual fantasies, involving young girls. I'm not exactly proud of the
:01:42. > :01:49.way I feel towards young girls. There's a part of me that knows I'm
:01:50. > :01:52.wrong, that knows it's wrong. That I shouldn't be doing things like that,
:01:53. > :02:01.I shouldn't even be thinking things like that. But this other part that
:02:02. > :02:07.says... You like it, go on. But became apparent was that Black's
:02:08. > :02:12.fantasies were in fact reality. Psychiatrist Doctor Richard Badcock
:02:13. > :02:15.studied him in prison and advise the PSNI about how to question Black. He
:02:16. > :02:24.also listened in on the interviews. It was clear that the questions
:02:25. > :02:27.being about his fantasies, which was happy to talk about, what he was
:02:28. > :02:33.actually talking about were his exact decision-making processes. It
:02:34. > :02:38.was evident as we were going through those last interviews that Black
:02:39. > :02:44.realised himself that he had ties to much. The head went down, the lost
:02:45. > :02:49.eye contact with us. Black was finally bought to court in 2011 for
:02:50. > :02:55.the murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy in 1981. With no forensic
:02:56. > :03:01.evidence or eyewitnesses, the police recordings were vital in securing a
:03:02. > :03:05.conviction that provide justice for Jennifer Cardy's family. I don't
:03:06. > :03:12.think he was mad. He was definitely evil will stop and they had gone
:03:13. > :03:17.down the road of evil. He gathered evil as he went along. Black died in
:03:18. > :03:22.prison as he had lived, alone. There were no mourners for his creation at
:03:23. > :03:23.the cemetery outside normal hours. And BBC Spotlight
:03:24. > :03:25.follows this news. The inquest into the death
:03:26. > :03:29.of the Castlederg teenager Arlene Arkinson has been hearing
:03:30. > :03:32.evidence from two of the friends who were with her on the night
:03:33. > :03:36.she disappeared in 1994. One said the child killer
:03:37. > :03:40.Robert Howard had told her to lie to the police, to say
:03:41. > :03:43.that the 15-year-old Another said he had no idea
:03:44. > :03:48.where she was buried. Arlene Arkinson disappeared
:03:49. > :03:50.after going to a disco in Bundoran Lisa McAlister was in
:03:51. > :04:05.the Coroner's Court. Donna Quinn, seen here in Black
:04:06. > :04:08.leaving the inquest, had been friends with Arlene Arkinson since
:04:09. > :04:13.they were young children. Her mother was in a long-term relationship with
:04:14. > :04:16.Robert Howard when the 15-year-old disappeared in August 19 94. She was
:04:17. > :04:21.last seen being driven away by Howard in the early hours of the
:04:22. > :04:27.morning, after they had a night out in Bundoran whizzing Miss Quinn, and
:04:28. > :04:30.had then boyfriend. At the time, Robert ours was on bail, accused of
:04:31. > :04:36.raping a 16-year-old friend of Donna Quinn's. Delay in evidence she said
:04:37. > :04:40.this was on her mind when just days later Robert Howard asked her to lie
:04:41. > :04:47.to police and tell them that Arlene wasn't with them in Bundoran.
:04:48. > :04:50.Arlene's body has never been found but Howard has always been the prime
:04:51. > :04:55.suspect even though he was acquitted in 2005. Her sister Kathleen was at
:04:56. > :05:00.the coroner's caught and heard how in one of Donna Quinn's statements
:05:01. > :05:03.to police, she said that income is Asian about Arlene's disappearance,
:05:04. > :05:07.Robert Howard said I hope she is cold and hungry, where ever she is,
:05:08. > :05:13.for all the trouble she has caused us. Sean Hagerty finished giving his
:05:14. > :05:18.evidence this morning. When asked if he knew when Arlene Arkinson was
:05:19. > :05:20.buried, he replied absolutely not. He added that he wonders about her
:05:21. > :05:22.every day. A cannabis factory has been
:05:23. > :05:24.uncovered in Bangor. Detectives found 35-thousand-pounds
:05:25. > :05:28.worth of the drug at a property in the Bexley Road area of the town
:05:29. > :05:31.earlier this afternoon. A 50-year-old man and 52-year-old
:05:32. > :05:36.woman have been arrested. A new study shows a "high incidence
:05:37. > :05:39.of severe injuries" to rugby players The research is from the Ulster
:05:40. > :05:45.University. And, as our Education Correspondent
:05:46. > :05:47.Robbie Meredith reports, there are particular concerns
:05:48. > :06:04.about the number of concussions You all right? No. What happened?
:06:05. > :06:12.It's an unforgiving sport. Contact and collisions are a part of rugby
:06:13. > :06:15.and not just for the professionals. School players at Camberwell College
:06:16. > :06:21.in Belfast have suffered their fair share of injuries. Two years ago, I
:06:22. > :06:26.broke my jaw just playing around in a match, just attacking someone. And
:06:27. > :06:32.I was out for about two months will stop I had to eat soup for a while
:06:33. > :06:36.and couldn't eat an apple for about a year, but except for that, it
:06:37. > :06:41.wasn't too bad. More than 800 schools players took part in the
:06:42. > :06:44.study, over one third of them suffered an injury. Most were two
:06:45. > :06:50.ligament, but one in five was a concussion. Previously, this was
:06:51. > :06:53.underreported, now I think we're getting to the stage where we are
:06:54. > :07:01.looking at these injuries with the dew vigilance that deserve. People,
:07:02. > :07:03.players, coaches, referees and medical staff are treating
:07:04. > :07:08.concussions with a high index of suspicion. And that is the
:07:09. > :07:12.experience of former Ireland international Brian Robinson. He
:07:13. > :07:20.teaches rugby at Camberwell. There have been a few campaigns. Boys have
:07:21. > :07:25.been raising awareness and stop boys now reports to me, I am sent
:07:26. > :07:32.information from staff about what boys are concussed. Our son rugby
:07:33. > :07:37.players at school getting too big or too fast? We want to keep a balance,
:07:38. > :07:41.and every year I would say I look back on my year, I talk to my
:07:42. > :07:46.players after every season, and asked it we get the balance right.
:07:47. > :07:50.Rugby will always be a contact sport. The hope is that by knowing
:07:51. > :07:53.more about the nature and the causes of injuries to young players like
:07:54. > :07:55.these, some of the risks can be tackled.
:07:56. > :07:58.Early indicators show no party will be close to an overall majority
:07:59. > :08:02.in the Republic's general election on Friday.
:08:03. > :08:10.With the prospect of a hung Dail, our Dublin correspondent
:08:11. > :08:12.Shane Harrison has been following Sinn Fein
:08:13. > :08:25.Dublin Bay south. A four seat constituency that is not wholly
:08:26. > :08:36.middle-class. It is where you would expect him grandson of a founding
:08:37. > :08:44.member of Fianna Fail,... And he years. How are you? But this one
:08:45. > :08:49.Fianna Fail TDE fell out with his body and is now in what they are a
:08:50. > :08:53.sign of the changing times standing for Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein for me take
:08:54. > :08:58.sides and in politics today I think we have to take sides. Sinn Fein is
:08:59. > :09:01.taking the side of low and middle-income families, and that is
:09:02. > :09:08.properly for me the strongest attraction for Sinn Fein, for
:09:09. > :09:14.joining Sinn Fein. Bhello sir. How are you. Jim O'Callaghan, the
:09:15. > :09:18.current Fianna Fail campaign, says that Sinn Fein may have pulled a
:09:19. > :09:26.stroke in their election but is not one that will work. Both are in a
:09:27. > :09:33.fight with Labour for the last seat. A lot of people believe that that
:09:34. > :09:37.Sinn Fein have engaged is quite opportunistic. Next to Dublin Bay
:09:38. > :09:41.south is the four seat Dublin South-Central. A much more
:09:42. > :09:48.working-class and left-wing constituency, where Sinn Fein hopes
:09:49. > :09:52.that the council, and this ex-psychiatric nurse will join in
:09:53. > :09:55.the struggle. We have governed in the north, and look what's happened
:09:56. > :10:00.there. We have done that very successful. It is accepted that
:10:01. > :10:04.people for profit, who also organise north of the border, will be
:10:05. > :10:07.fighting Sinn Fein for the last seat. We are trying to encourage
:10:08. > :10:12.people to vote left. People think that they have to go with the
:10:13. > :10:20.establishment, you know. From a Democratic and republican family,
:10:21. > :10:25.which... In the north, where they are in government, they are imposing
:10:26. > :10:29.austerity measures, letting go public sector workers, closing
:10:30. > :10:32.schools, cutting back on hospitals, etc, and this is a real conflict
:10:33. > :10:37.between what they say down here and what they do up there. Sinn Fein had
:10:38. > :10:40.14 seats in the last Dail. It is widely believed they will come close
:10:41. > :10:43.to doubling that in the next election.
:10:44. > :10:45.And for tomorrow's BBC Newsline I'll be presenting from Dublin
:10:46. > :10:47.with the latest on the polls ahead of the election.
:10:48. > :10:50.Depending on how the votes go could the traditional rivals
:10:51. > :10:52.Fine Gael and Fianna Fail overcome decades of hostility
:10:53. > :10:56.Our Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison looks at that scenario.
:10:57. > :11:01.That's BBC Newsline tomorrow evening at 6.30 here on BBC One.
:11:02. > :11:05.A new movie complex in Belfast has been given the green light
:11:06. > :11:07.by the planning committee of Belfast City Council.
:11:08. > :11:11.North Foreshore studios will be located on a former landfill
:11:12. > :11:16.The Belfast Harbour project is thought to be worth up
:11:17. > :11:19.Councillors were told it will create and support hundreds of jobs.
:11:20. > :11:22.There'll be more on that story on Good Morning Ulster
:11:23. > :11:24.and an interview with the TV and movie producer Mark Huffam,
:11:25. > :11:26.whose credits include Game of Thrones The Martian.
:11:27. > :11:31.Ice Hockey and the Cardiff Devils secured a place
:11:32. > :11:34.in the Challenge Cup final by beating the Belfast Giants
:11:35. > :11:37.in the second leg of their semi final tonight.
:11:38. > :11:46.Let's get a look at the weather now with Angie Phillips.
:11:47. > :11:52.Hello, good evening. After today's Lavery wintry sunshine, we are left
:11:53. > :11:56.with clear spells the night and falling temperatures. It will become
:11:57. > :12:01.very frosty as temperatures drop below freezing in many areas, with
:12:02. > :12:04.figures of -3 or -4 in some rural spots. All such was the north some
:12:05. > :12:14.wintry showers, rain, sleet and slow likely will stop a ... And ice
:12:15. > :12:19.warning is in place for Northern counties. It could turn quite
:12:20. > :12:23.slippery stop tomorrow, sunny spells again, and not so much as we had
:12:24. > :12:26.today, cloud gathering at times to feed in wintry showers. They will
:12:27. > :12:31.start to gather a little more in the morning rush hour towards the
:12:32. > :12:36.north-west, again that wintry mix of sleet rain and hail snow stop a
:12:37. > :12:42.frosty start, with perhaps some freezing fog patches being slow to
:12:43. > :12:47.clear. After a frosty perhaps icy start in places, a lot of dry
:12:48. > :12:51.weather and sunshine. Still some sleet and snow showers feeding in a
:12:52. > :12:58.brisk winds across the northern half of Scotland, and we could get a few
:12:59. > :13:02.showers trickling down. They will be well scattered. For Northern Ireland
:13:03. > :13:07.as well we will start to see those showers by this stage, mostly rain
:13:08. > :13:10.and hail, edging their way southwards, but breaking up as they
:13:11. > :13:17.do, so with bright gaps in between. Chilly with highs of 6 degrees.
:13:18. > :13:19.Wednesday, a risk of some wintry showers, more cloud in the sky, and
:13:20. > :13:20.still cold. Our next BBC Newsline
:13:21. > :13:23.is at 6:25 in the morning You can also keep updated
:13:24. > :13:27.with News Online.