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Welcome to Wales Today. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Our top stories tonight: Three soldiers died as a result of neglect | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
on an SAS training exercise in the Brecon Beacons. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
Now the Ministry of Defence is to face the highest possible | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
reprimand over its failings. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:20 | |
And the cost of tackling serious crime - the debate if policing | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
was devolved to Wales. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:32 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
The Ministry of Defence is to be given the strongest reprimand | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
possible, over the deaths of three soldiers in the Brecon Beacons. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
Reservists Edward Maher, James Dunsby and Craig Roberts | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
collapsed on one of the hottest days of 2013, on an SAS | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
selection exercise. | 0:00:51 | 0:01:00 | |
The Health and Safety Executive says it will pass its strongest sanction | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
- a crown censure. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
The law does not allow the MOD to be prosecuted. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:10 | |
It is the toughest of testing grounds, the Brecon Beacons in any | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
weather can be unforgiving but on the hottest day of summer | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
in 2013, three young men on selection for the SAS | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
lost their lives. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
The inquest into the deaths of reservists | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
Craig Roberts, James Dunsby and Edward Maher found neglect | 0:01:24 | 0:01:31 | |
played a part in their deaths. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:32 | |
Today the Health and Safety Executive has | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
published its findings, saying the MoD would have faced | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
prosecution for the failings if it did not have | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
Crown immunity. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
At the end of the inquest, the families were clear | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
they believe the Ministry of Defence last sight of its own values. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
they believe the Ministry of Defence lost sight of its own values. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
They displayed no responsibility, no accountability and no humility | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
for their role in creating the culture | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
which led to the events of 13th July 2013. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
Even an ounce of this would have gone such a long way | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
in acknowledging the vast catalogue of errors | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
which were so clearly made. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
So, what went wrong? | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
The men set off on the 16-mile march just before | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
seven, all carrying GPS trackers so the commanders | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
could track their movements. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
By the time Craig Roberts reached checkpoint five, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
two soldiers had already been withdrawn | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
with heat illness. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
He collapsed just a few hundred metres from the finish line. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
Edward Maher took a different route. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
His GPS tracker stop moving for almost two hours | 0:02:39 | 0:02:48 | |
before anyone else noticed. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
James Dunsby was also on the final leg of his March. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
He had been down for more than an hour | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
before the medics arrived. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
The investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
that a failure to plan to assess and to manage the risks | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
during the training which took place up here resulted in their deaths. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
These failures, they also found, caused ten more soldiers | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
on the march that day to suffer heat illness. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
In a statement they say: | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
The Ministry of Defence has acknowledged the censure | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
and apologised for the failings. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
In a statement they say that they have | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
made improvements to reduce risks and an enquiry is underway | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
to identify further lessons to be learned. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
They say their thoughts remain with the families. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:53 | |
A former lifeguard from Gwynedd - jailed for 50 years | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
in the United States for raping a ten-year-old girl - | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
must decide within a month whether to appeal against the length | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
of his sentence. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
22-year-old Gareth Vincent Hall from Talysarn met the girl online, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
and flew to America, where he committed a number | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
of offences against her. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
The bullet which killed a young Welsh soldier could have been fired | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
by her - or someone else - an inquest into her death has heard. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
Cheryl James from Llangollen died from a bullet to the head | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
at Deepcut Barracks in 1995. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:22 | |
A German ballistics expert told the inquest that the bullet | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
was fired at close range. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:35 | |
The former footballer Ched Evans will have his rape conviction appeal | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
heard in three weeks' time. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
The former Wales International was jailed for five years in 2012, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
at a hotel near Rhyl. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:49 | |
The ability to tackle serious crime would require huge investment | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
if power over policing was devolved. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
That is according to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
Ian Johnston believes Welsh officers would have to go cap in hand | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
to England to access expertise like the National Crime Agency. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
But not every PCC here agrees. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:10 | |
Wales versus France in Cardiff on a Friday night. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Policed by around 100 officers and a few horses. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
And while events like this aren't unique to Wales, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
the Welsh Government believes policing here could be improved | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
if Cardiff Bay controlled it. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:28 | |
But could serious crime like this be tackled as effectively? | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
These drugs came from an Albanian crime group smuggled to Welsh | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
criminals with connections in Spain. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
The gang was brought down by Gwent Police | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
and the National Crime Agency. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
But the man responsible for the Gwent force believes | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
the ability to fight serious crime and other specialist skills would be | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
impeded, if policing was devolved. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
There is a real danger that we will have local policing | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
in Wales, which is good, but if we need anything at a higher | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
level, whether it be the National Crime Agency, | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
some parts of the criminal justice system, we will have to look | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
to England and we will be isolated and we could actually | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
become the poor relatives. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
And the Welsh Police and Crime Commissioners, | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
who are up for re-election in May, are split on the matter. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
Ian Johnston in Gwent doesn't want policing devolved. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
Nor does Christopher-Salmon in Dyfed Powys. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
But Alun Michael in South Wales does want policing devolved. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
Winston Roddick in North Wales is also broadly in favour. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:32 | |
Unless it can be demonstrated that devolving responsibility | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
for the police would result in a deterioration | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
in the effectiveness and efficiency of the police service then | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
there is no good case against it. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:48 | |
In Westminster yesterday, Plaid Cymru said devolving policing | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
was the only way to address community needs in Wales. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
Keith Vaz, the Chair of the influential | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Home Affairs Committee, said he believes Wales does | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
require special attention. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:03 | |
This is what the fight against crime and terrorism looks | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
like in Scotland, which has full power over policing and justice. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
The ?75 million Scottish Crime Campus. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:09 | |
A big ticket item. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
One expert here believes the Welsh Government wouldn't have | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
to spend money like that, but would have to appoint policing | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
ministers and civil servants, which could lead to wider mergers. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:21 | |
The natural step forward if we had policing policy in Cardiff would be | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
perhaps the formation of a national police force for | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
Wales in the future. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
It is said there is a growing desire among senior officers here to see | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
policing controlled in Wales. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
But the UK Government says PCCs already have that power and | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
it won't be handing control of the police to Cardiff Bay. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
Football, and Match of the Day is on later, so if you don't | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
want to know what happened in Swansea's game against Arsenal, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
you know what to do. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
And it was a huge result for the Swans at the Emirates. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
They beat the home side 2-1, with goals from Wayne Routledge | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
and Ashley Williams. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
It means they are now six points clear of the relegation zone. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
After today's wintry showers and strong winds, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:15 | |
a quieter day in store tomorrow, largely dry and some bright spells. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
Tonight, winds not quite as strong but remaining blustery. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
Wintry showers will eventually ease, turning dry overnight. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
An ice and frost risk again first thing. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
A respite tomorrow. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
A spell of dry weather before this next front | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
pushes in from the Atlantic later in the day. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
An early frost and ice risk tomorrow, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
but a quieter and drier day. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Temperatures easing with brighter spells. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
Similar across the UK. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
Sunny spells, variable cloud but the East | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
holding onto the sunshine for longest. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
It starts to cloud over from the West, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
ahead of the next front. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
Some showers pushing in and chilly again. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
Highs of 5 degrees in the North of Scotland, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
9 in the south of England. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
Cloudier end to the day over Wales with rain | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
arriving from the West, still on the chilly side | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
at 7 or 8 degrees. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
Lighter winds and not feeling quite as cold as today. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
This weather front proves problematic later on Thursday | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
and into Friday. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:15 | |
It pushes through overnight and then swings back | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
around, bringing spells of rain, some snow and stronger winds. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:23 | |
Tomorrow night, a mix of rain, sleet and hill snow over North Wales | 0:09:23 | 0:09:29 | |
as that front moves through, cold with ice risk. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
On Friday, a cold day. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
More likely to see those blustery wintry showers in the north, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
maybe drier further south, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
but the position of this front could change. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
So, a wintry feel for the end of the first week of spring. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
Looking colder but a bit more settled into the weekend. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
We will be back with updates in Breakfast | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
from 6:25am tomorrow morning. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:54 | |
But from everyone on the late team, thanks for watching. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
Goodnight. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 |