30/07/2014 BBC Wales Today


30/07/2014

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First look at the morning papers on the BBC News Channel in just is

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The family of Alfie Sullock, the six-week-old baby killed

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by his mother's boyfriend, say they don't believe they've had justice.

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Today 33-year-old Michael Pearce was jailed for nine years

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Alfie's grandfather says he's devastated.

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From Newport Crown Court, despite Nick Palit reports.

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The relief was etched on the faces of the whole family as they left

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court for the last time. The man responsible for killing Alfie was

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finally convicted, sentenced and behind bars, but there is

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frustration and anger that Michael Pearce was only found guilty of

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manslaughter and not murder. There is a lot of disappointment, we

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really do not feel justice has been done but it is not an acquittal, it

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is a result basically on behalf of the family. We were devastated at

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the spirits are high at the moment so we look forward to letting the

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baby rest in peace. Matthew -- Michael Pearce had suggested he

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looked after Alfie while his new girlfriend Donna Sullock went out

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for a first night since his birth but within a narrow and a half Alfie

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had suffered catastrophic injuries. Pearce had drunk five pints of peer

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in the pub earlier and suggested to Donna that they have a baby

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together. She had rejected the suggestion.

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Alfie died as a result of ten blows from an object, possibly a baseball

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shoe. The judge said, you inflicted multiple injuries on him and due to

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your denials we will never know whether you were motivated by

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jealousy. More than 300 fires have been

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started deliberately across Wales since the school holidays began 10

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days ago. That's despite warnings

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from the emergency services that the dry, hot weather can lead to

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them burning out of control. Grasslands blackened, the fire

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started deliberately. Young teenagers hanging around,

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light fires and disappear, not thinking about the consequences. A

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lot of these areas are areas of scientific interest. They take so

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long to regenerate, to grow back, it kills the wildlife. They are

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protected species in this area and it kills them as well. ISA -- I have

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seen maliciously started grass fires close up already this year. The

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smoke and smell hanging over the landscape for days but fires started

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deliberately take other forms, this primary school left scarred last

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night. Two teenagers have been arrested. Since the start of the

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holidays south Wales Fire and Rescue had to tackle 208 suspect fires. The

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total for Mid and West Wales was 103 and 22 for North Wales, 333

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deliberate fires in just ten days. 128 were grass fires and there were

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39 hoax calls across Wales. Laura Thomas tries to prevent youngsters

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from starting fires deliberately. Graphic videos are one of her tools.

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She works one-to-one with young people referred to her by the police

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and social services. It is about helping people to think about the

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consequences of what could happen. People who do not have a lot of

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sympathy for these young people, I can understand, but if we want to

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prevent it happening we need to engage positively with these young

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people and work with them rather than against them. Overall the

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number of deliberate fires is falling but emergency services say

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they still happen too often and still have the ability to put lives

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at risk. The wife and child

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of a man who killed them at their family home in Gwynedd were

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let down by mental health services, David Wyn Jones stabbed

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Suzanne Jones, who was 34, and their two-year-old son William, at their

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home in Tremadog two years ago. He later admitted manslaughter

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on the grounds The review said

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agencies should have shared information more quickly, but

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the outcome might not have changed. We need better care services

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for adults with autism in Wales. That's the view

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of an autism charity. It comes as the family

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of 20-year-old Claire Dyer, from Swansea,

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fight to stop her being moved to A court hearing will take place

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at the end of the week. As she updates a scrapbook of time

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spent with her daughter, Claire Dyer's mother knows it's soon will

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become more difficult to see her eldest child. We were not able to

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speak to Claire because she was not able to leave the Swansea unit where

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she is being cared for but her family have given us photographs to

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help tell the story. Claire has severe autism and for the last few

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years she has been looked after a few short -- a short distance from

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her home but now it has been recommended that she is moved to a

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specialist centre several hours away. She has told everybody she

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does not want to go that far. If she is five hours a way that is never

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going to work. Her parents acknowledge that her behaviour can

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be challenging and she has acute needs but moving her so far from

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home can only make the situation worse. Autism charities say they

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would like to see a better provision of care for autistic people in

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Wales. There are some units available but because the spectrum

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is so wide and the needs of individuals are some effort

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different it is difficult to pinpoint what services you can put

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in one place. -- are so different. Claire was due to move today but her

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family managed to get an injunction. A court hearing will take place on

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Friday to decide what happens next. At the Commonwealth Games,

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the boxers have guaranteed at least another four medals to

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Team Wales' tally of 27. Among those who won today was

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defending bantamweight champion He's through to the semi-finals

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after a split-decision win over But a disappointing day for

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Dai Greene. The defending 400 metre hurdles

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champion didn't make it through His pre-Games preparations had

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been badly affected by injury. Way off his best, and he is not the

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athlete he was a couple of seasons ago. That was Dai Greene's honest

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assessment after failing to reach the final. It was only his second

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race of the season. The former world and European champion has struggled

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with injuries, three hernia operations last year. A few months

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ago I did not think I would be here. I would love to be running better

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but I made some mistakes, it does show, and I think I was too

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aggressive. He fears his season has finished early and does not think he

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will compete at the European Championships next month. After a

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difficult year for Dai Greene, disappointment in Glasgow. He will

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not get the chance to defend his title. He has worked so hard but I

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would just knock the season on the head and Professor next season. Four

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years ago, different story, Wales' hurdle is 12 medals. Dai Greene's

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stature in world at the is a shadow of what it once was. -- world

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athletics. And another of Wales' defending

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champions has seen Lawn bowls singles champion Robert

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Weale was beaten by Australia's Aron Sheriff, failing to make the

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last eight of men's singles. Rugby, and the BBC

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and S4C have reached a new agreement to show Pro12 matches next season,

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as part of a four-year rights deal. The broadcasters will share

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fixtures across the season. Scrum Five Live will show games

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on the BBC on Fridays, and S4C will Cricket, and Glamorgan have lost to

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Nottinghamshire in the Royal London One Day Cup

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at the Swalec Stadium. Glamorgan finished

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their 50 overs on 227-8. But Nottinghamshire won by three

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wickets, with nine balls remaining. This month, like June, has been

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drier, warm and sunnier than average, but as we look ahead it

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will turn more unsettled over the next few days,

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will turn more unsettled over the next low pressure ringing rain and

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showers and a slight drop in temperature. Tonight, a few showers

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in the North, becoming more widespread later in the night.

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Southern counties should stay dry and fairly warm. Tomorrow morning

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some places will strike -- start of dry and bright. There will be

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showers about, however, some on the heavy showers. If you are caught in

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a shower tomorrow it could be heavy, the risk of thunder,

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especially in Scotland, but south-east England should stay

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largely dry. For the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow showers are

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expected, a little sunshine, the wind lighter than today. Some

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showers in Brecon share and Monmouthshire could be heavy but

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some places will miss them, especially in North Wales. This area

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of low pressure will move up across the UK over the weekend. More rain

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and heavy showers on Saturday but Sunday should be better, more in the

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way of dry weather and some sunshine.

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We're back in Breakfast from six tomorrow morning.

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Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme, goodnight.

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