17/06/2014 BBC Oxford News

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A jury's heard how a woman was ?like a psychopath?

as she travelled to a house in Oxford, which was later burnt in an

Fiaz Munshi is accused of their murder in 1997.

Five men were convicted of killing the children in 1998.

A year later, Fiaz's sister, Riaz Munshi,

Today, the jury heard from one of the men who travelled as part

of the group of men and women to the house in Oxford

Sunder Khutan told the court how he believed he was

He explained that the other men were like his brothers

and that they often went on missions like this together.

The jury heard how the group stopped at a petrol station on the way.

Once the three cars arrived in Oxford, Mr Khutan said that

One of the other men said, "The lights are still on,

Prosecutor Neil Moore asked what Fiaz Munshi's mood was like.

"She was erratic and acted like a psychopath", he replied.

"She said, 'I'm going to make sure that house gets burned down."

Mr Khutan told the court that he was parked some way from the house

The jury then heard how Sunder Khutan and some

of the group then travelled back in two separate cars to Hertfordshire.

They stopped on the way and discussed what had happened.

He told the court that two of the men had singed eyebrows

Mr Khutan broke down in tears as he told the court that he'd spent

his life trying to get over what had happened.

"I've tried to forget about it ` smoking and drinking.

I was told to move on with my life but, 16 years later,

the police knock on your door and ask you to remember everything."

Fiaz Munshi denies two counts of murder.

A parenting course that's helping vulnerable families in Oxfordshire

is to be offered to parents in Buckinghamshire.

The ReConnect service was set up to support mothers and fathers

struggling with mental health problems and substance abuse.

It is not easy bringing up one child, but how about bringing up

nine? Logan is the latest addition to this household in Leeds, as mum

Tina faced a custody battle for her children, she needed support and

signed up to the ReConnect programme. If you have got a child

having a tantrum, it is easy to think the child hates you, I am not

doing a very good job, it is easy to get into that mindframe. I think the

course teaches you to see it differently and ask why the child is

having a tantrum, and is there anything I can do to solve it.

Parents are invited to group sessions. ReConnect was launched on

a small scale in Oxfordshire, but has made a big difference for

parents. They are better able to respond sensitively when the child

is in distress, or crucially when the child looks like he or she is

doing OK, but underneath they are suffering. The ReConnect project is

now being extended by the NHS Trust to families in Buckinghamshire.

The cost of improving Didcot's railway station's been increased

by more than a ?1 million after asbestos was discovered under

Work on the project started in April 2012.

The improvements are aiming to make the site safer for cyclists,

The station revamp will now cost more than ?8 million.

If the river Thames had been better maintained, then last winter's

A report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

published today says that, rather than investing in clear`ups,

the priority should be protecting communities from being flooded.

The Environment Agency is spending ?2 million this year on maintaining

?Smart? glasses made in Oxford could transform life

Researchers from Oxford University have connected the glasses to

a camera which projects enhanced images.

Here's our Health Correspondent Adam Brimelow.

Directly in front of you we have a chart with letters... Lynn Oliver

has a progressive eye disease, so she has limited vision. I can tell

there is something on it, but I can't see anything. It is thought in

the UK there are nearly 2 million people with a sight problem which

seriously affect their daily lives. Most, though, have at least some

residual side. Researchers at Oxford University have developed a way to

enhance this, using Smart glasses. They are fitted with a specially

adapted 3`D camera will stop the images are processed and projected

onto the lenses so people and objects nearby become bright and

clearly defined. If you are walking around, you can navigate always,

Seahouses on the floor that might trip you up, so you can be more

independent. People have commented how they have seen a guide dog for

the first time. This new prototype provides the clearest images yet.

There they are. Lovely. Even since we have been down this corridor, it

has improved. I can see you. I am just standing head talking, I am not

thinking, I am looking. The researchers are confident in time

they could be made this size of normal glasses. Eventually, they say

they could be the cost of a mobile phone, saving the NHS millions by

preventing falls. Finally, is anyone in your house

collecting World Cup Stickers? Well, one couple from Oxford are

filling their album cheaply ` Alex and Sian Pratchett began

sketching players on Here is England's Stephen Gerrard

and Frank Lampard. Have a look at the Ronaldo picture `

I think it would be fair That's it from us. We're back

in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning. Good evening. We have had some

lovely fine weather today. Plenty more fine conditions through the

rest of this week. Tonight there is some dampness in the forecast.

Generally staying quite mild through the course of the night, with

tempters holding at 12`14 degrees. Dash`macro temperatures. Outbreaks

of rain and drizzle first thing tomorrow, but it looks like that

will generally ease away, drying up, and some brighter breaks

developing into the afternoon. Top temperatures peaking at 20 degrees.

Thursday, some bright intervals. It looks to be the warmest day

days, a dip in temperature Friday with warmer temperatures over the

weekend. The main theme through this week is

one of mainly dry weather but with important variations from place to

play sand from day-to-day. That was the case again today. A sizzling day

across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. Plenty of sunshine. Not 1

million miles away, down across the border into northern England, a lot

more cloud and some places struggled to get higher than the mid-teens.

This is where the thickest of the cloud is into the night. Across

central and eastern parts of England, patchy rain turning up. A

damp end to the night here. Clearer skies further north and west that

some patches of fog forming. I humid night. The larger towns and cities,

particularly across the North, temperatures will hold in the

mid-teens for much of the night. A rather great start to the day for

England and Wales, some dampness in the air. It could be a bit of a

struggle to improve in some places, but for