25/07/2014 BBC Oxford News

Jayden Parkinson's ex`boyfrhend has been jailed for life for her murder.

Ben Blakeley has been told he'll serve at least 20 years

for strangling the 17`year`old and burying her body

Jayden had ended their relationship a few daxs

Jayden's family gave their reaction to the sentence.

The judge described Ben Blakeley as a controlling man

and manipulative man ` with a history of domestic violence.

He'd assaulted Jayden during their relationship and threatened to post

intimate images of her on F`cebook after their break`up, hoping she

Now Blakeley has been sentenced a series of reviews will now be

carried out, looking at whether Jayden's death could have

been prevented ` and what ldssons can be learnt from the case.

The murder of Jayden Parkinson was shocking ` not least

because the 17`year`old was pregnant with Ben Blakeley's baby.

But such a violent act wasn't unexpected by everyone.

They always used to say, he?s a bully, he?s controllhng.

In the back of my mind, I always thought he could bd capable

Sometimes I thought he could be a violent boyfriend.

And being hit, no man should ever hit a wolan.

This case has raised awarendss of domestic abuse,

Police have called on victims to come forward,

but campaigners say it?s difficult for women to escape once thdy

Most women, if they do leave a violent

and controlling relationship, will experience ongoing har`ssment.

And if women don?t have accdss to the specialist support that can help

them through that, that can be incredibly dangdrous,

so it?s not as simple as saxing she should just go.

By going, she could put herself at risk.

This case leaves questions unanswered.

Now a series of reviews will look at what went wrong.

Thames Valley Police's role is being independently assessed.

There's also what's called a serious case review.

This will look at the part social services played, and the support

Jayden Parkinson was given in the final months of her life

The hostel where Jayden had been staying before her death

It's hoped the findings will help protect vulnerable young people

We will never be able to find forgiveness. We will never get to

see her grow up, get married and have children. This is our life

sentence, it is now time for him to start his.

Today, a jury failed to reach a verdict on Blakeley's younger

brother Jake, who faced a charge of unlawfully burying a bodx.

The Crown Prosecution Service has been granted seven days to consider

Another court case we've bedn following ended also ended today.

Mother of four Fiaz Munshi has been sentenced to 13 years in prhson for

her part in an arson attack, which killed two children in Oxford.

She had denied being involvdd in the fire in 1997, but earlier this week

It's been 17 years since thhs grieving mother's been able to visit

8`year `old Anum and Majid, who was 15.

Until today, a journey she says she's emotionally

Her family say Mehfooz Akht`r's life ended in the embers of her

She attempted suicide and had to be sectioned as she

These scenes just minutes after seeing the woman who helped plot

Fiaz Munshi, a mother of fotr, the final person convicted

Fiaz Munshi is evil and a sick woman, who was the driving

We knew all along she was the motive for this attack. Fiaz Munshh went on

to have for children of her horn and I hope her family now have `

semblance of the pain she perpetrated on us.

Five others and Fiaz's sistdr Riaz were all previously jailed

Fiaz was outcast by her famhly after a secret romance with Amjad

This led to her and the others firebombing

The police have apologised for delays in bringing Fiaz to justice,

I hope the severity of this sentence shows how seriously the court took

this case, as seriously thex felt and how fundamental they saw Fiaz

Munshi's role in this. The Khan family invited us

here today to witness this lost They say to show they're survivors,

united and defiant against those who The judge said her day of rdckoning

had arrived. People who've booked holidaxs with

Wiltshire based Hatts Travel could lose both their holiday `

and their money. The coach company has gone bust

and has cancelled around a thousand Hatts isn't a member

of the Association of British Travel Agents,

which could make it more difficult The firm had been trading

for almost 100 years. A man from Aylesbury who's battled

bereavement, cancer and an alcohol addiction has praised

the team who helped his recovery. The Prevention Matters schele has

been helping people in It's been so successful that it

could now be rolled out To describe the last two ye`rs is

challenging... Three years ago, his wife dhed,

then he was diagnosed with cancer and just three months ago,

David's family were told to turn off his life support machind

after his alcohol addiction pushed I have got such lovely people around

me, I find a new life, which I should have found when I was 15 but

I didn't. That new life was largely thanks to

support from Prevention Matters ` an organisation that's helped lore than

a thousand vulnerable adults across Once you get them out and

socialising with other people, they can see it is not just them and they

end up doing right towards the community as well.

Prevention Matters is funded by Buckinghamshire County Council,

it's a ?4 million project ftnded for three years, but

its hoped it'll lead to savhngs by delaying, or preventing, thd use of

Dust from the demolition of Didcot A Power station could travel tp to

half a mile from the site ` according to the company in charge

of the explosions. Three cooling towers are due to de demolished

between 3 and 5 am on Sundax. This is what a similar demolition looked

like in Sheffield. Many people are planning to stay up to watch the

towers come down. Npower is suggesting watching at home ` it'll

be streamed live on the intdrnet. Radio Oxford will be broadc`sting

live from 3am on Sunday morning You'll also be able to see the

highlights on Sunday's South Today. Sarah Farmer is coming up whth the

weather forecast for tomorrow and Sunday. That's it from us.

It will be feeling pretty hot and sticky through the course of the

night. Maybe a bit of low cloud to get the day started. Another hot day

with good spells of sunshind on offer, once again staying l`rgely

drive. Temperatures up to around 26 or 27 degrees. On Sunday, things

start to become a little What about the outlook? A cooling

trepd - showers -- trend. Showers breaking out on Monday.

We have seen temperatures approaching 30 Celsius. The heat

will ebb away this weekend. Cooler and fresher conditions from the

north-west. There'll be sunshine, there'll be more showers as well.

Today was the turn of south-east England to get the ferocious storms.

Lots of thunder and lightning. A lot of rain in a short space of time has

led to some