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Good evening. A man from channel. Now it's time to | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. A man from Oxfordshire, who was one of the | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
senior bosses at Oxfam, has been jailed for nearly two and half years | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
after pleading guilty to defrauding the charity. Edward McKenzie`Green, | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
from Chipping Norton, took nearly ?65,000 in 2011. He used a fake | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
name, false invoices and invented companies. Charlotte Stacey reports. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
It's a global charity with a reputation for fighting poverty and | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
campaigning for justice. But here at the headquarters in the Cowley area | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
of Oxford, Oxfam's own anti`fraud chief was scamming them out of tens | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
of thousands of pounds from the inside. All money donated for | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
charitable work. Edward McKenzie`Green, from Chipping | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Norton, took almost ?65,000 between February and December 2011. Earlier | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
this month, the Old Bailey heard the 34`year`old had used the name Keith | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Prowse, he made up companies and handed in fictitious invoices. He'd | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
also paid money into the accounts of his father and friend before | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
transferring the cash into his own account and spending it. A charge | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
against his father, accusing him of helping to launder more than | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
?35,000, was dropped. Oxfam says it's now introduced strict measures | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
to try to stop this happening again. We've taken a very hard look at our | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
controls. In particular, we've focussed on segregation of duties. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
As you can imagine, it's an important element of our control | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
that the person requesting a payment of an invoice shouldn't be the same | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
person approving it. In this case, Eddie was abusing that. We issued | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
fresh guidance and are really taking a very close interest in that part | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
of our controls. Today, Edward McKenzie`Green was sentenced to two | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
years and five months for defrauding the charity. Oxfam say they have now | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
reinforced strict background checks for future employees and will look | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
to recover the money. Charlotte Stacey, BBC South Today. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
A man's been released on bail after a body was found at a flat in | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Oxford. Michael Broadway, who was 33, was discovered at his home in | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
South Bridge Row on Sunday. Post`mortem results have come back | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
inconclusive. A 55`year`old man, arrested on suspicion of murder, has | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
been bailed until July. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, says he'll be | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
targeting Aylesbury in the run up to next year's general election. It's | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
one of several areas in England where there's strong support for the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
party. UKIP, which wants the UK to leave the EU, topped the European | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
polls after a campaign calling for lower levels of immigration from | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Europe. Police are still looking for a prisoner who walked out of an open | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
jail in Buckinghamshire over the weekend. Wayne McLeod, who's 36, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
escaped from Springhill Prison in Grendon Underwood on Sunday evening. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Officers believe he may be in Reading, but haven't said why he's | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
serving a jail sentence. A child is arrested every four minutes in | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
England and Wales, yet the number arrested in the Thames Valley is | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
falling. In 2008, more than 12,000 children, under the age of 17, were | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
arrested in our region. But last year, fewer than 4,000 were | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
questioned by officers. National trends suggest the majority of these | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
young people held in custody are boys. The most common offence is | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
theft. Earlier, I spoke to Frances Crook from the Howard League for | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Penal Reform, the group behind these figures. I asked her how authorities | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
tackle this issue of crimes committed by children. This is a | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
great success story by Thames Valley, who have reduced the child | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
arrests. It's not a question of arresting children who have | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
committed crimes. Actually, what they were doing was hitting targets. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
It's much easier to arrest a child who is kicking a football about, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
than a professional burglar. What the police are doing now is much | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
more intelligent policing. They are using professional discretion. They | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
are resolving issues locally. That is better for children, better for | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
victims. Bet are fot taxpayer and better for community relations. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Children in England and Wales can be arrested from the age of 15. That is | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
the lowest age of criminal responsibility in Europe. Do you | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
think that age is about right? It's absolutely be screen who police have | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
to deal with children who are in primary school. More than 1,000 | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
primary school`aged children were arrested in England and Wales last | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
year. We should raise the age of criminal responsibility so it is not | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the police who deal with 10, 11 or 12`year`olds. It should be social | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
services or children services who deal with them, not the police, or | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
parents. Police are taking responsibility away from parents. I | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
think that is wrong too. Thank you very much. Police are looking for a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
man from Oxfordshire who's gone missing with his three`year`old | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
daughter. Ewan Powell, who's 42 and from Benson, hasn't been seen since | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Saturday. His daughter, Tanith Powell from Worcestershire, is | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
thought to be with him. A new anti`smoking campaign has started in | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
Buckinghamshire asking people to avoid smoking in parks or children's | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
play areas. Signs will be put up and the county council will be working | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
with schools to increase awareness of the ban. Peter Cooke reports. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Will these signs stop this common problem? Bucking hamshire County | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Council and Aylesbury District Council certainly hope so. Children | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
see people smoking they think it's socially acceptable. We don't agree | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
with that. We think we must do everything we can to prevent them | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
from starting up habits early on which could develop into more | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
serious smoking later in their lives. A six`month pilot across five | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
parks in the town will be assessed before being expanded. If it's not | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
enforceable, will it make any difference? A good idea, even though | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
my son smokes. You will never stop people smoking in public areas like | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
this, unfortunately. It would help if there are ashtrays provided and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
stuff like that. A UK`wide ban has been law since 2007. Lighting up in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
cars with children is likely to be made illegal next year. Research | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
shows more than 300,000 children visit the GP every year suffering | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the affects of second hand smoke. Councils here hope this small poster | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
will have some impact on this very big health issue. Peter Cooke, BBC | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
South Today. That's it from us for now. We're back in BBC Breakfast | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
tomorrow morning, but for now I'll hand you over to Alexis Green for | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the weather. Have a very good evening. | :06:55. | :06:54. | |
tomorrow morning, but for now Unsettled start to the week. High | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
pressure will build just in time for the weekend. Over night tonight we | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
will see outbreaks of rain. There could be heavy bursts in a few | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
places lasting through much of the day. There will be a respite for | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
some by dawn tomorrow. Temperatures down to nine or ten Celsius. Rain or | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
showers to start the day tomorrow. It will become dryer as we head | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
through the day. A risk of one or two showers and rain to northern | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
parts of the region. Elsewhere brightness to be had, but a lot of | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
cloud. Unsettled right up to the start of Friday when we will see | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
high pressure building. More settled less in the way in | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Thursday and then it becomes drier with sunshine by the weekend. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
If you've been sat at home with miserable Mayweather today wondering | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
why on earth we didn't go abroad for half term week, we are just going to | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
add insult to injury because people have been basking in some sunshine | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
across southern Spain. Fairly overcast skies in Paris but | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
nevertheless, still 17 degrees. Across eastern England it was cold, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
13 degrees with persistent rain. Better across the north-west | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Highlands. The reason for the cloud and rain was this frontal system, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
rather breezy as well. The rain continues through the night, some a | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
bit heavy to the east of the Pennines. Another miserable day in | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
prospect particularly for eastern England. Cloudy, grey and breezy. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Pretty wet to | :08:25. | :08:25. |