:00:00. > :00:00.shaking your head. That is horrible. That is all from the
:00:00. > :00:12.Welcome to BBC Points West. Our main story tonight: A detective
:00:13. > :00:20.superintendent who broke the rules keeps his job. His actions meant a
:00:21. > :00:25.killer couldn't be charged with the murder of a second young woman. Her
:00:26. > :00:30.parents have different reactions. It is a joke. The police are a law unto
:00:31. > :00:36.themselves. Gross misconduct, anybody else would have been
:00:37. > :00:40.sacked. They have done themselves a big favour because he is a
:00:41. > :00:50.superhero. We'll be asking an MP whether justice has been done.
:00:51. > :00:54.The other stories in the news tonight: A young man dies after
:00:55. > :01:03.falling into a river in Bath. The police see him drown but it's too
:01:04. > :01:09.dangerous to jump in. It is very cold, fast flowing, and I am certain
:01:10. > :01:11.that if our officers had gone in they would have found themselves in
:01:12. > :01:14.difficulty very quickly. The boy who died after heart surgery
:01:15. > :01:17.at Bristol Children's Hospital. The coroner speaks of missed
:01:18. > :01:20.opportunities to help him. And that's one way of getting out of
:01:21. > :01:28.your homework. The schoolboy who walked to the South Pole flies home.
:01:29. > :01:31.Good evening. A detective from Wiltshire who led a double murder
:01:32. > :01:37.investigation has been told he can keep his job despite breaking police
:01:38. > :01:39.rules. Steve Fulcher's been found guilty of gross misconduct for not
:01:40. > :01:43.cautioning Christopher Halliwell three years ago when the suspect
:01:44. > :01:49.took him to the bodies of two women he admitted killing. It meant one of
:01:50. > :01:59.the murder charges, relating to Becky Godden, had to be dropped
:02:00. > :02:02.I cannot believe it. That is fantastic. The mother of murder
:02:03. > :02:10.victim Becky Godden. Elated Detective Superintendent Steve
:02:11. > :02:15.Fulcher gets to keep his job. They have done themselves a big favour
:02:16. > :02:19.because he is one superhero and when he gets his medal I am going to pin
:02:20. > :02:22.it on his chest because if it had not been for him I would never have
:02:23. > :02:25.known about Beckie. Steve Fulcher made mistakes during a murder hunt
:02:26. > :02:30.in Swindon in 2011. He arrested taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, who
:02:31. > :02:34.started to confess. Taking Steve Fulcher first to the body of Sian
:02:35. > :02:38.O'Callaghan. Then to the place he'd buried Becky Godden years earlier.
:02:39. > :02:44.But Halliwell wasn't cautioned, so his confessions didn't stand up in
:02:45. > :02:48.court. He did eventually plead guilty to murdering Sian O'Callaghan
:02:49. > :02:56.and was sentenced to 25 years. But without evidence, the case against
:02:57. > :03:01.Becky Godden was dropped. He broke the rules but he broke them for good
:03:02. > :03:06.reason and I stand by him and I will continue to stand by him. I have
:03:07. > :03:11.always said he did what he did to bring two girls back to their
:03:12. > :03:18.family. View is not shared by her former husband. They are a law unto
:03:19. > :03:28.themselves. This is the biggest pitch up I have come across. He is
:03:29. > :03:35.furious that his daughter's murderer was never brought to court. He
:03:36. > :03:38.cannot believe that the Detective Superintendent has kept his job
:03:39. > :03:44.Gross misconduct, anybody else would have been sacked. There is a new
:03:45. > :03:49.team on this case, my trust is gone. The Chief Constable said it has been
:03:50. > :03:55.an emotive issue and points out murder investigations are often
:03:56. > :03:59.fast`paced and admits there is national concern about the integrity
:04:00. > :04:03.of the police and he expects the highest possible standards from his
:04:04. > :04:12.officers. He went on to pay respects to the families. The rules of arrest
:04:13. > :04:15.are being looked at. It might be that one day officers will be able
:04:16. > :04:18.to interview suspects on the road rather than in a police cell. Steve
:04:19. > :04:22.Fulcher was also guilty of gross misconduct in dealings with the
:04:23. > :04:26.media, including the BBC. He said in a statement today that he wanted to
:04:27. > :04:29.do the best for victims, their families and Wiltshire Police. And
:04:30. > :04:34.he hoped to move on from this upsetting and stressful episode
:04:35. > :04:36.We're joined now by the Swindon MP Robert Buckland, who's also a
:04:37. > :04:42.barrister and is in Westminster tonight. He was asked to look into
:04:43. > :04:52.the rules that police have to follow when they are dealing with suspects.
:04:53. > :04:57.What have you concluded? I think that the law needs to keep pace with
:04:58. > :05:01.technology. In serious investigations such as this one
:05:02. > :05:05.there should be a variation to the code of practice to allow interviews
:05:06. > :05:10.to take place other than in the police station. Then for flexibility
:05:11. > :05:15.to be built into the system with the use of technology so that we can
:05:16. > :05:20.rely upon that evidence, that it can be safe evidence and admissible in
:05:21. > :05:24.court. It would have covered the particular circumstances of this
:05:25. > :05:30.case and I think we need to keep pace with technology. Were the
:05:31. > :05:37.judges more concerned in this case with legal process than about the
:05:38. > :05:40.rights of a murdered woman? The judge had to follow the law as it
:05:41. > :05:50.applied and I think she did know quite properly. `` she did so. The
:05:51. > :05:53.disciplinary proceedings which concluded had to be followed. The
:05:54. > :05:59.overall result and the reinstatement of that officer is a just result. Is
:06:00. > :06:05.there any possibility charges might be brought against the suspect? The
:06:06. > :06:09.investigation is still a live one but there is one person who has the
:06:10. > :06:14.answers and he is in prison for one murderer. Although the changes I
:06:15. > :06:18.propose would apply to the future, the fact that this case is still
:06:19. > :06:24.live should make that person think very carefully about the
:06:25. > :06:30.consequences of his actions on the family who are left. In your opinion
:06:31. > :06:36.it is too late for these changes to be backdated as it were in this
:06:37. > :06:45.case? Yes, I think so. You have to look to the future. I know that the
:06:46. > :06:49.mother is thinking positively and I am supporting her in her campaign to
:06:50. > :06:57.get the law changed so that this situation does not have to arise
:06:58. > :07:00.again. A care worker has pleaded guilty to
:07:01. > :07:03.raping three vulnerable women in a care home in Gloucestershire. Colin
:07:04. > :07:07.Stokes, who's from Dursley, admitted the attacks on the women over a 16
:07:08. > :07:13.month period. Our Gloucestershire reporter joins us now from
:07:14. > :07:20.Gloucester Crown Court. Many people will be shocked by this case. Yes,
:07:21. > :07:21.this is the had a wing and difficult and emotional case for everybody
:07:22. > :07:37.involved. `` a Halloween. He admitted that he reaped three
:07:38. > :07:41.vulnerable women in his care. Some of the relatives of the victims were
:07:42. > :07:45.in court to see Colin Stokes admits his crimes. We have spoken to the
:07:46. > :07:49.mother of one of them who said she was pleased he had admitted his
:07:50. > :07:53.crimes because they do not have to go through a trial but she said
:07:54. > :07:57.seeing him in the dock was awful. Her daughter was the youngest
:07:58. > :08:01.victim, she has in her early 30s but has the mental age of six. She
:08:02. > :08:12.cannot talk, dress or wash herself properly and needs rain that ``
:08:13. > :08:15.round`the`clock care. A person from social services came out and told us
:08:16. > :08:21.my daughter had been sexually abused. It was one hell of a
:08:22. > :08:27.surprise. It came out of the blue. One hell of a bombshell. You cannot
:08:28. > :08:34.get your head around that. She is so vulnerable. I had to trust every
:08:35. > :08:39.member of staff that nothing would happen to her. It is horrendous I
:08:40. > :08:43.would have gone straight down and killed him, no hesitation. You
:08:44. > :08:49.cannot physically think what he has done to her. You think you have it
:08:50. > :08:53.all wrong. Something like that cannot happen to heart and the
:08:54. > :09:01.others. What have other people been saying? The big question is how was
:09:02. > :09:04.Colin Stokes able to get away with these crimes over these honourable
:09:05. > :09:14.people who should have trusted him? The council including the care home
:09:15. > :09:37.have `` the council have issued this statement.
:09:38. > :09:43.A strong statement from the County Council about the future of the care
:09:44. > :09:48.provider. I tried to speak to the manager but they were not available.
:09:49. > :09:51.We are chasing them. Colin Stokes will be back in March to be
:09:52. > :09:54.sentenced and between now and then the judge will be watching video
:09:55. > :09:59.interviews with the victims before he makes up his mind about how long
:10:00. > :10:03.the inevitable jail term will be. Police searching a stretch of river
:10:04. > :10:06.in Bath where a man was seen struggling and calling for help say
:10:07. > :10:10.they've now found a body. The man was seen in the water early this
:10:11. > :10:15.morning, but officers say it was too dangerous to get to him.
:10:16. > :10:20.Rescue teams had been searching the River Avon since the early hours of
:10:21. > :10:24.this morning. A young man had been seen struggling in the freezing
:10:25. > :10:33.water. The police say they could see and hear him. But they couldn't
:10:34. > :10:37.reach him. It is very difficult They had to make a very difficult
:10:38. > :10:41.decision. The officers did not go into the water and that was the
:10:42. > :10:47.right decision. It is very cold very fast flowing, and I am certain
:10:48. > :10:50.that if the officers had gone in they would have found themselves in
:10:51. > :10:53.difficulty very quickly. An RAF helicopter was also brought in to
:10:54. > :10:56.help search the fast flowing water. But it wasn't until midday, eight
:10:57. > :11:05.hours after the man disappeared that a body was found. About 5am
:11:06. > :11:11.this morning I was aware of the helicopter hovering and Ireland did
:11:12. > :11:17.was some distance away. I realised it was probably larger than a normal
:11:18. > :11:23.police helicopter. A helicopter was flying around at my partner heard it
:11:24. > :11:28.when he got up at 630 AM. We thought something was going on. We found out
:11:29. > :11:34.that yet another person seems to have apparently vanished into the
:11:35. > :11:37.water. New rails have been put in place along this stretch of water
:11:38. > :11:42.because there have been a number of recent deaths. The police set
:11:43. > :11:47.remains an open and dangerous stretch of river. They are trying to
:11:48. > :11:51.work out how this young man ended up in the water in the early hours of
:11:52. > :11:57.this morning. The police say they now know who the man is and are
:11:58. > :12:01.contacting his family. An inquest into the death of a
:12:02. > :12:03.four`year`old boy who had heart surgery in Bristol ruled today there
:12:04. > :12:07.were missed opportunities in his care, but there was no gross
:12:08. > :12:10.negligence. Sean Turner died at the Children's Hospital two years ago.
:12:11. > :12:14.Sean had suffered complications after surgery. His family maintain
:12:15. > :12:30.he should have been in a high dependency bed, rather than on Ward
:12:31. > :12:33.32. He was very dehydrated and he was
:12:34. > :12:39.demanding drinks and he was only allowed ten millimetres of fluid. He
:12:40. > :12:46.was grabbing the tissues and sucking the water from them. He kept saying,
:12:47. > :12:51.clean my teeth, mummy, because he wanted to suck the water out of the
:12:52. > :12:57.toothbrush. Eventually they put a fluid back up but it was too little,
:12:58. > :12:59.too late. For Sean Turner's parents, hearing evidence over the past nine
:13:00. > :13:02.days have brought back haunting memories. He developed a
:13:03. > :13:05.life`threatening blood clot after surgery, a complication which could
:13:06. > :13:07.have been avoided according to one expert haematologist at this week's
:13:08. > :13:13.inquest. Sean died after spending weeks on Ward 32. His family said
:13:14. > :13:18.they were misled, believing it had a high dependency unit. The Coroner
:13:19. > :13:21.said there were missed opportunities in the treatment of Sean after his
:13:22. > :13:24.operation. One was about the management of his blood. She
:13:25. > :13:28.referred to the expert haematologist who said for many days they didn't
:13:29. > :13:35.check levels of anti coagulation and that may have prevented him from
:13:36. > :13:39.developing this clot. The other was in failing to offer him another type
:13:40. > :13:43.of operation to reduce the blood flow in his heart, to lower his
:13:44. > :13:50.blood pressure. But she said there was no gross negligence in his care.
:13:51. > :13:55.We believe we could still have shone and we have to live with that, those
:13:56. > :13:59.missed opportunities to have him. Since Sean's death, changes have
:14:00. > :14:04.been made at Ward 32, but today the chief doctor at the Trust
:14:05. > :14:10.apologised. We feel deeply sorry about shone's best and want to take
:14:11. > :14:13.every opportunity to take every opportunity to learn from this to
:14:14. > :14:16.prevent a similar happening full is It was three weeks after Sean died
:14:17. > :14:22.that another child, seven`year`old Luke Jenkins, also died after being
:14:23. > :14:25.treated on Ward 32. The Coroner said there was no gross negligence in his
:14:26. > :14:29.care. But this will not be the end of the story for the Children's
:14:30. > :14:35.Hospital. His family are also taking legal action along with several new
:14:36. > :14:39.cases that have just come to light. We have not seen enough evidence to
:14:40. > :14:46.persuade us the lessons have been learned. There is a suspicion that
:14:47. > :14:50.the trust was prepared to take unacceptable risk with children s
:14:51. > :14:54.care until they were caught out One of them involves the death of baby
:14:55. > :14:57.Lacey Poton in July. The family of the four`month`old claim she was
:14:58. > :15:04.discharged from Ward 32 a day after an operation when Lacey was
:15:05. > :15:09.vomiting. This is a normal picture of my daughter. This is a picture
:15:10. > :15:17.when she was discharged from the hospital. She looks really pale Her
:15:18. > :15:22.chest is tightening. The hospital said doctors did not expect a heart
:15:23. > :15:24.attack to happen after she was discharged. An inquest will be heard
:15:25. > :15:28.later in the year. Tonight the CQC said they will continue to monitor
:15:29. > :15:32.the hospital. If there was anything that gave them cause for concern
:15:33. > :15:35.they would take swift action. Homeowners on the Somerset Levels
:15:36. > :15:40.are being told to prepare for further flooding tomorrow. The Met
:15:41. > :15:44.Office has issued an amber warning for heavy rain overnight with plenty
:15:45. > :15:47.more expected over the weekend. The Environment Agency has also upped
:15:48. > :15:55.its warning, meaning the flooding is expected to worsen. So how much rain
:15:56. > :15:59.is anticipated? Ian has been looking closely at the forecast. It sounds
:16:00. > :16:08.as if there could be more problems in Somerset. It is looking highly
:16:09. > :16:15.likely. A yellow warning has been raised to Amber specifically for the
:16:16. > :16:22.Somerset Levels. Rain would normally not warrant a warning, a 30% chance
:16:23. > :16:27.of 20 millimetres, but because of the existing sensitivities that is
:16:28. > :16:34.why the warning has been raised to amber. We have another repeat
:16:35. > :16:38.performance on Sunday. More later. And of course Ian will have a full
:16:39. > :16:41.forecast later in the programme and we'll be reporting from the Levels
:16:42. > :16:45.tomorrow night. New figures have revealed more
:16:46. > :16:48.complications with the badger cull. The two pilot culls in
:16:49. > :16:51.Gloucestershire and Somerset were set up to see if killing badgers by
:16:52. > :16:56.controlled shooting could be done "safely, humanely and effectively".
:16:57. > :17:00.But the government's own figures reveal only a quarter of the badgers
:17:01. > :17:02.were shot in the open by a marksman. More were shot after being trapped
:17:03. > :21:33.in cages. Are incredibly proud. To share a
:21:34. > :21:48.room and a ceremony with the other great names of the game, very proud.
:21:49. > :21:54.The Bristol teenager who last week became the youngest person ever to
:21:55. > :22:05.reach the South Pole has flown home. Lewis Clark is only 16. Andrew plant
:22:06. > :22:15.went to meet him at Heathrow airport. 48 days on the coldest
:22:16. > :22:19.continent in the world. A warm welcome for them is Clark, now back.
:22:20. > :22:26.It is more than seven weeks since he seen his family. This schoolboy took
:22:27. > :22:32.a break from his GCSEs to what his way into the history books. Before
:22:33. > :22:36.leaving he was in double meals and put on three stone. Since he has
:22:37. > :22:49.been away, he has lost the whole lot. 27 kilos. You have lost that?
:22:50. > :22:53.Oh, my God! I am so proud. I just want to hear the stories about how
:22:54. > :22:58.difficult it was. I'm sure there were times when he was desperate to
:22:59. > :23:06.stop. And how he kept going, to hear about that, it was amazing.
:23:07. > :23:12.Incredibly proud. He arrived at the South Pole on Saturday. Six weeks
:23:13. > :23:17.and six days of solid walking, fighting temperatures of minus 0.
:23:18. > :23:21.It is the most difficult thing I have ever done and it may be the
:23:22. > :23:26.most difficult thing I will ever do. The hardest time was right at the
:23:27. > :23:31.end, I was completely knackered It was almost sad to get back because
:23:32. > :23:36.it has taken up so much of my life for the past two or three years It
:23:37. > :23:42.is the goal that has always been there and everything has been going
:23:43. > :23:47.towards it. My GCSEs are the first priority. Along the way he has kept
:23:48. > :23:53.in touch via satellite. Speaking to school friends. His challenge has
:23:54. > :23:59.meant more than one sleepless night for his family. No word on what is
:24:00. > :24:11.next for this intrepid teenager looking forward to his first night
:24:12. > :24:18.at home in almost two months. The latest addition to the Royal
:24:19. > :24:24.Family has got a name. Zara Phillips and make Tindall had a little girl
:24:25. > :24:27.on Friday. The early betting was for the couple to decide on a
:24:28. > :24:33.traditional men likely Tory award and, however the Queen's fourth
:24:34. > :24:44.great`grandchild will be called Mia Grace. A photograph is expected to
:24:45. > :24:50.be released in the next few days. You cannot shorten that.
:24:51. > :25:02.An amber warning on the Somerset Levels and rain expected.
:25:03. > :25:08.You have just done the forecast Tomorrow is not looking particularly
:25:09. > :25:15.good. It is going to be changes in the amounts of rain. The rainfall
:25:16. > :25:21.amounts will not be torrential. If it had been any other day you would
:25:22. > :25:24.wonder what the fuss was about. Day after day there is quite a lot to
:25:25. > :25:30.make a fuss about on the Somerset Levels. That is why the Met Office
:25:31. > :25:37.have raised the alert to amber for Friday and Sunday specifically for
:25:38. > :25:42.the Somerset Levels. 30% chance it could get close to 20 millimetres.
:25:43. > :25:49.Sunday we are looking at greater amounts of rain. The rest of you
:25:50. > :25:52.with the exception of northern parts of Gloucestershire are under a
:25:53. > :25:56.yellow warning for Friday but for Sunday that is for the whole of the
:25:57. > :26:01.region and is pretty much the whole of the British Isles. That will be
:26:02. > :26:05.toned down as we get more detail. At the moment it is a largely dry
:26:06. > :26:09.picture and it will stay that way for the first part of the night
:26:10. > :26:13.before this band of rain brings in subtropical air which is bringing
:26:14. > :26:21.moisture. A complex structure of warm fronts embedded. There will be
:26:22. > :26:28.a movement of the heavy rain to the south`east. By the end of Friday,
:26:29. > :26:33.the last of the rain has not cleared away, so the whole day will be wet.
:26:34. > :26:36.Already we are seeing showery outbreaks of rain through parts of
:26:37. > :26:43.Devon. It will take a while for those to start to die out. As it
:26:44. > :26:48.marches across, it will turn heavier, and around daybreak and the
:26:49. > :26:56.start of the rush hour, Western and southwestern areas will be seeing
:26:57. > :27:01.moderately heavy rain by then and the temperatures will be dropping to
:27:02. > :27:10.two or three degrees Celsius. Tomorrow, a wet start. Some of these
:27:11. > :27:16.will be slightly drier patches. Do not take that too literally. It will
:27:17. > :27:22.be tricky to pin down the exact amounts of rain. It looks
:27:23. > :27:31.bothersome. Temperatures will be mild. Sunday is the next focus of
:27:32. > :27:37.attention. You are already putting that on
:27:38. > :27:54.Twitter. We will see you at 10pm. Goodbye.
:27:55. > :28:17.A star will be born on The Voice 2014!