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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It's the largest 'cash for crash' insurance fraud ever seen in the UK. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
This is the family who orchestrated the scam. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
In total 81 people, mainly from the Caerphilly area, | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Here a four by four is driven into a forklift truck to make it | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
look like it had been in an accident, to make a claim. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
They say it is a victimless client that might crime but it is not. It | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
affects all of us. Tonight we'll be looking | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
at the unprecedented police operation that brought | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
fraudsters to justice. Also tonight: As the debate over | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
merging local councils goes on, the public spending watchdog says | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
it's distracted from how services In Swansea parents and grandparents | :00:59. | :01:12. | |
have a peaceful protest as the council pushes on with cuts to | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
We are in Brussels to look at what it could mean for Wales. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
It's the largest insurance fraud scam ever investigated in the UK. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
81 people, from the Caerphilly area and Cardiff convicted | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
for a so-called "crash for cash" scam, claiming ?750,000 million | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
Gwent Police say they've never seen anything like it. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Insurers say scams like this costs motorists more than | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
It was an insurance scam empire, based around this garage. This CCTV | :01:54. | :02:11. | |
shows the garage owners driving inland Rover into a forklift truck | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
to make it look like the car had been in an accident. It involved | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
generations of the same family. You could see by their body language and | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
the way they were laughing and joking whilst this act has taken | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
place. It has cost the insurance industry thousands and thousands of | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
pounds every year. They say it is a victimless crime but it is not | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
because it affects every motorist who pays insurance. The total | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
sentences to date, 60 years in prison. These were not random | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
claims. The treated this as free money and time and they claims to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
pay for special occasions. They scanned insurance companies out of | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
more than three quarters of ?1 million. This is the family at the | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
centre of the conspiracy. The orchestrated the largest crash for | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
cash network ever seen in the UK. They went to hospital, sometimes in | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
the early hours of the morning to maintain this life. One went to the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Prince Charles Hospital complaining about back pain. He was later | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
diagnosed with whiplash. It was all part of a fake car crash. The | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
numbers involved in this scheme are staggering. It involved 60s Morley | :03:51. | :04:02. | |
Street 57 vehicles. The oldest defendant was 73 and the youngest | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
claimant was a one-year-old. It costs motorist over ?3 million per | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
year. It is a significant problem for the industry. You will be paying | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
around ?50 extra for a premium. There is an economic impact and | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
there is a safety impact on the public as well. This is one of the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
largest insurance fraud scams ever investigated by British police. Now | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
81 people have been convicted for their part in a crime that affects | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
every motorist in Britain. Jordan, you've been following this | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
case for more than two years, why has it taken so long | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
for it to come to an end? This is unprecedented. This is the | :04:50. | :05:03. | |
largest crash for cash network. The numbers are surprisingly 87 people | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
were charged. So many that the court had to deal with them in batches. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
There were several trials. It has taken two years to pass through the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
courts. People who were convicted earlier on have now served their | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
sentence. This fraud costs every motorist on the road. It costs us | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
all. It costs insurance companies around ?750,000. Extras are added to | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
our insurance premiums. This costs motorists ?350 million annually, | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
which means fraud adds an extra ?50 to everyone's union. Premium. | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
A 56-year-old man who died after being hit on the M4 | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
near Newport on Monday, is believed to have been fixing | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
a flat tyre on a horse trailer at the time. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
An inquest into the death of 56-year-old Andre Murphy, | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
who was from Ireland, was opened earlier. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
The owner of a care home has been reprimanded for professional | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
misconduct after a 96-year-old resident died and a member of staff | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
suffered life-threatening injuries in 2012 after falling down | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
Dr Nasik Al Mufti was the joint owner of Pontcanna House in Cardiff | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
An inquest into the death of a man, whose body was found in the garden | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
of his former Valleys home, has heard how he died of "blunt | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
John Sabine's death is being treated as a murder investigation - | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
but the main suspect, his former wife. | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
The grim discovery was made three weeks ago in this garden. DNA | :06:43. | :07:00. | |
testing confirmed it was John Sabines who was last seen here in | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
1997. He had been the victim of assault it was initially thaw. The | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
police told the koruna at an inquest that the postmortem investigation | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
that he had died from a blunt force trauma to the head. He would have | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
been 85 now but the koruna was told the police did not know when in the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
last 18 years you was killed. The officer confirmed he was carrying | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
out a murder investigation and the wife was the main suspect. Mr | :07:41. | :07:52. | |
Sabines was also deceased -- she was also deceased. Where the body is | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
concealed as part of the ongoing investigation. They are also | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
investigating the financial circumstances of the couple. Their | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
estranged children have been informed. The inquest will resume on | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
The inquest will resume on the 10th of March. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Waiting times at emergency departments in hospitals | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
81% of patients were seen within a four hour target | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
in November, that's down from 83% the previous month. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
The Welsh Government's target is for 95% of patients to be | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
admitted, transferred or discharged within that time. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
A man who repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
following a row over footage he had of a woman in a bath, | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
has been found guilty of attempted murder and voyeurism. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Arnel Martinez Raymundo, was convicted after the attack | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
in the Grangetown area of Cardiff in June. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
The court heard he stabbed Anna Caladiao 18 times, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
leaving her with life-threatening injuries after she found | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
Debates about merging councils have been a distraction from deciding how | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
That's according to the public spending watchdog, who says councils | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
need to be more ambitious and take more risks to cope with cuts. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Our political correspondent, Daniel Davies, is at the Senedd. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
The public sector in Wales has gone through the longest period | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
of spending cuts since the welfare state was created | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Given that, you might think some radical change was in order. | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
But the changes haven't been radical enough to satisfy | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
the Auditor General, the man who keeps on eye on how | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
He says unlike England, where coucils have been forced | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
to make huge cuts and have redesigned themselves, | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
local councils in Wales appear to want to make as little | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
He thinks they have been distracted by the debate over their structure. | :09:51. | :10:05. | |
He wants to cut the councils but 20 two to eight or nine. How to deliver | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
social cure for the elderly and schools and young people and the | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
growing demand for those services and less money to pay for them. It | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
has been a distraction. It has affected the ability for some | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
councils to think beyond the four or five year horizon. The need to think | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
longer term. The councils in England have been doing that and the | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
Government has produced a report showing that councils in England are | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
redesigning themselves. We need to be doing the same in Wales. What has | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
been the reaction? I have been speaking to local council leaders | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
today and one of them said this is going to end in tears. One says he | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
agrees with the Auditor General. If they are worried whether their | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
employer is going to exist in a few years' time, are they really going | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
to be focusing on reforming services? Not everyone agrees with | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
the Government's policy here. The Government says they do not just | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
want to merge councils, they want to improve democracy and services. None | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
of that will happen before the election next May. Some say it is a | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
distraction but it is going to get more intense. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Parents in Swansea say they're concerned about a decision | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
to withdraw a special education service for children with emotional, | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
behavioural and mental health difficulties. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
At the moment, expert teachers work alongside health specialists | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
at the Trehafod Child and Family Clinic. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
But, as of next month, this provision will be stopped. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Swansea Council says children will continue | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
They might sound full of festive cheer but this group of parents and | :12:04. | :12:22. | |
grandparents are protesting against a decision to withdraw education and | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
support for children with mental health difficulties. Many said they | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
were concerned and were worried about what would happen next. She | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
has benefited from the educational support that has been provided by | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
the council. She says she is unhappy about the decision to withdraw it. I | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
am outraged and many parents would be as well. It is a provision that | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
offers a huge amount of support for families and their children. It is | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
going to impact a lot of people that it has been removed. This is where a | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
lot of honourable children come first support from health | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
specialists. The council had provided an educational service for | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
them. In a letter to the council 's education department, a child | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
psychiatrist says the decision to withdraw the service is extremely | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
short-sighted. In a statement Swansea council said it would like | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
to reassure every child and parent that they will still receive | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
education support from the Council that is appropriate to their needs. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
They will continue to be supported by a specialist placements and | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
psychologist. It has been part of detailed discussions for more than a | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
year. These young people need to have an integrated health service. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
The need to be able to fill their own potential. I think if you take | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
the educational element out of that. They rely on mainstream schools to | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
do that, schools which do not have the expertise, many of them will | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
drop out of school, be excluded from school or they will not be able to | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
fulfil their potential in the school. I think that is a tragedy | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
for young people. As parents marched in protest, they hope thes there | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
will be a brighter future for their children. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Still to come in the programme: Private investigator Daniel Morgan | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
Now hopes a series of podcasts could lead to his killer | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
And we speak to the farmer who swam for four hours in freezing flood | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Events in Brussels tonight are being followed closely in Wales, | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
as the Prime Minister attends a summit of EU leaders. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Top of his agenda is renegotiating the UK's deal with Europe, | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
which brings in hundreds of millions of pounds to Wales every year. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
It's all ahead of an in-out referendum which will be held before | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
Live to Brussels now and our political reporter James | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
This is crunch time, isn't it? Yes, absolutely. Tonight is the first | :15:13. | :15:30. | |
formal opportunity for all leaders to discuss David Cameron's | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
renegotiation plans. Some of the changes the Government wants to see | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
our making good progress. His plan to prevent EU migrant workers to get | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
benefits of their first four years' time it in the UK. Why does he want | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
to change the rules? Immigration. Recently we have seen thousands of | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
migrants moving to towns and cities right across Wales. David Cameron | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
believes if we change the benefit rules, we stem the flow of migrants. | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
Some people are opposed to the LAN, it not only hinges on the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
fundamental right of the EU citizen. It also says they are playing by the | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
rules, paying taxes and wanting to get on in life. There is a real | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
disagreement about that and the discussions are likely to go on for | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
a long time. Any chance of an agreement tonight? Not tonight. It | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
deal should be reached at the next EU summit in February. A referendum | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
could be held in June next year. It would make it a big issue in the | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
elections for the Assembly in May. These discussions could be pivotal | :16:56. | :17:09. | |
in picking up people's minds. We don't yet know when we will be going | :17:10. | :17:10. | |
polls to the polls | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
to both stay and leave Europe are already mobilised and trying | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
What we know is the vast amount of trade between companies | :17:21. | :17:34. | |
Exports into the area were worth around five and three quarter | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
One debate is whether we'd lose any of that. | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
We would be able to negotiate our free trade agreements directly, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
rather than through the European Union. Switzerland, which is a | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
country with a population of only about 8 million, New Zealand with a | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
population of 4.5 million, already have a trade agreement with China. | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
But its not just about jobs, its also about cash. | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
In the seven years to 2020 Wales is getting more than ?4.5 billion | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
pounds in aid to make the country more prosperous | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
Those wanting to stay in claim the EU supports 200,000 jobs | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
We can to be clear what relationship we would have with the European | :18:26. | :18:40. | |
Union. Some people say we could maintain that relationship that we | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
would have to accept there are rules and regulations. Why not stay at the | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
table to get the best deal for Wales and Britain? | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
like Sony, that have set up in Wales did so to be part of the European | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
single market and not face trade barriers. | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
The Welsh Government says 6,000 people in Wales work | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
What's open to argument is whether firms like that | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
would stay here, outside Europe, or move production to countries | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
His brother is helping to make a new podcast which aims to explain what | :19:10. | :19:39. | |
has happened with the hope that new information will come to light. It | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
is a format that is having an impact. This is the world's most | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
effective podcast. It raises questions about whether a man | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
convicted of murdering his girlfriend, really did it. I never | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
want to see... Now the story of Daniel Morgan is about to be told in | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
weekly episodes. His brother is working with an investigative | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
journalist to tell the complicated history of Daniel's death. It has | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
involved a painful return to the car park outside a pub where his body | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
was found. The story has not been told in a coherent logical way. It | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
is a completely outrageous case and I want the public to have the chance | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
to hear what happened there. The police will be up breaking the story | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
down will help more information. We are hoping to job people's memories. | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
People will put together story themselves and make connections. The | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
five field police investigations followed the discovery of his body. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
Nearly 30 years since his murder, his family are determined to find | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
out who is responsible for his death. Despite Field police | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
investigations, they hope this new podcast can reignite interest in | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
this case and solve this crime. A farmer from the Conwy Valley has | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
been talking about how he swam for hours in freezing flood water | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
to try to rescue his flock. Paul Williams says he couldn't just | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
stand by and watch as a 170 sheep were swept away when the river | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Conwy burst its banks. The majority of the animals were | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
although more than sixty were lost. And his report contains images some | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
may find upsetting. By a quirk of fate, this farm is | :21:47. | :22:10. | |
high up on a hill. No chance of a flood here. He also has grazing down | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
on the ballet. This photograph shows what it was like there last week. | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
His barge is towards the centre of the picture. It was taken at the | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
time the sheep were swept away. He tried to find a boat but she | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
couldn't and soul returned to where he last saw his flock. I went back | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
to where they wear and an hour had passed. They were still swimming | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
around and some had already drowned. I decided to jump in and try and | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
salvage what I could. He did it still wearing his overalls and | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Wellington boots. The majority of the flock were saved. As the flood | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
levels drop, this terrible scene are merged. It shows the animals that | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
did not survive. We managed to save 104. This all happened because of | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
the flood prevention scheme worked. We made changes following repeated | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
flooding, so that water floods away from people's homes. It is easy to | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
reflect now, isn't it? I think once I was in the water I just thaw, | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
there is a job to do. All in a days work. Down in the valley the river | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
is now back in its banks. Let's hope it stays there. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
The Olympic boxing silver medallist, Fred Evans, has turned professional, | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
ruling himself out of competing of the Rio Games next year. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
The athlete from Cardiff became the first Welsh boxer to win | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
an Olympic silver medal by reaching the welterweight final | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
The 24-year-old said he's reached the top as an amateur and he's | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
looking forward to doing the same as a pro. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
The captain of Wales' Women side, Sophie Ingle, has signed | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
for Liverpool Ladies for the upcoming Super League season. | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
The 24-year-old midfielder has spent the last two seasons | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
with Bristol Academy, having previously played for Chelsea | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Time for the weather now. It has been a very mild day with some rain. | :24:25. | :24:48. | |
The rain today cleared the way east words. A spell of drier weather to | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
follow. Tonight it will be mostly dry. Possibly the isolated shower. | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
Not as mild as recent nights. Tomorrow morning, some drizzle and | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
brighter spells developing. Turning cloudy with lots of patchy rain in | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
the north and west later. Mostly cloudy and overcast. The winds will | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
strengthen and continue to be mild. 14 degrees in Newport. The warm air | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
from the isobars and they are feeding in weather systems from the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Atlantic. Misty and marquee tomorrow night. Cloudy with outbreaks of | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
rain. 11-13dC. Typical temperatures for July. This weather front is | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
hovering back and forth. Heavy rain at times. Clearing away by Sunday. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Dry in the east but heavy rain moving in from the west and staying | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
mild at 13-16dC. A warning in place for 40 millimetres of rain. It is | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
likely on Saturday. After that a case of drier, brighter spells. On | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Sunday slightly cooler. It will be unusually mild through the weekend. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Rain will spread east words on Monday. Coastal gales at times. Mild | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
but unsettled weather towards Christmas. With no sign of | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
temperatures dropping off next week. This picture of daffodils out. If | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
you have any photos to help tell the weather story, send them to us by | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
e-mail or Twitter. You can also be one of our weather watchers. Thank | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
you very much. More than 80 people have been convicted of their part in | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
the largest so-called cash for crash fraud in the UK. Police say they | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
have never seen anything like it. You could see from their body | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
language they were laughing and joking. It has been costing the | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
insurance industry thousands and thousands, if not millions of pounds | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
every year. They say it is a victimless crime but it is not. It | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
affects every motorist. We will have an update later. Thank you for | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
watching. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:47. |