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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:01 | |
Welcome to Wales Today - tonight's top stories: Jailed | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
for a total of 14 years for causing the death of a young woman in this | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
high-speed car chase. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
Sophie Taylor's mother says she's disappointed at their sentences. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:17 | |
And one of Wales' biggest mountain rescue teams warns changes to pagers | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
could affect their missions. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:26 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
Like a pack chasing its prey - the words of the judge sentencing | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
a woman and her ex-boyfriend, for killing his former partner, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
after a car chase across Cardiff. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
Sophie Taylor died when her BMW hit a block of flats. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Tonight, Michael Wheeler is starting a seven and a half year jail term, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Melissa Pesticcio will serve six and a half years. | 0:00:54 | 0:01:02 | |
They released pink balloons on the steps of the court today, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
in memory of Sophie Taylor. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
Pink had been the 22-year-old call centre worker's favourite colour. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
She died in a late-night car crash last year but the fatal | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
collision was no accident. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
Today, those responsible for her death were jailed. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
She was loving, giving and trusting and those qualities in her work | 0:01:20 | 0:01:25 | |
completely abused by these two, I can't even call them human beings. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:31 | |
All three had been involved in a love triangle. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
Caught on CCTV last August, Sophie Taylor is seen being chased | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
by Melissa Pesticcio, who was angry and jealous. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
Also giving chase was Michael Wheeler, who had been | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
in a relationship with both women. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
The pursuit of Miss Taylor's BMW by Melissa Pesticcio in another | 0:01:49 | 0:01:49 | |
BMW and Michael Wheeler in his Vauxhall Corsa | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
lasted three miles from the Rumney area to Adamsdown. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
They reached speeds of 56mph along the narrow backstreets | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
in what was described in court as a fast and furious style chase. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
As they entered Adamsdown, Sophie and her passenger Josh | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
were so frightened that they dialled 999, reporting that they were | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
being chased at speed. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
Then, on the emergency call, a loud bang is heard. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
Sophie's car had been violently rammed, sending it into a spin, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:16 | |
crashing into this block of flats. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
Sophie was killed, her passenger suffered life changing injuries. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
He spent 101 days in hospital and was in a medically | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
induced coma for two weeks. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
He told the court the injuries had robbed him of his dignity. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
I had a brain bleed, I had brain swelling, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
I have got a permanent frontal lobe injury. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:37 | |
Four of my ribs broke, which punctured my lung. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
Shattered my pelvis, front and back. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
The court heard Melissa Pesticcio had sent a text message to another | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
friend discussing Sophie Taylor which read, "I will find her | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
and I will kill her." | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
That text and the chase was the culmination of a period | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
of hostility between the two women, which amounted to a campaign | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
of intimidation over a stolen boyfriend and an argument | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
over a motorbike. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:08 | |
When the pair were jailed, there was applause and loud cheers | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
from the public gallery. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
Outside, Sophie's parents spoke of their loss. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
Sentences now are far too lenient. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
A few people can go out into their vehicle and use it | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
as a weapon, which was exactly what happened to our | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
beautiful daughter. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
Sentencing, the judge said "you were both consumed | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
by a self-righteous, jealous rage, chasing Sophie, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
frightening her, to teach a lesson." | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
He said it was like a pack chasing its prey. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:44 | |
They must have been terrified, he said. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
He jailed Melissa Pesticcio for six and a half years and Wheeler | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
for seven and a half. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
A woman in her twenties has died at a holiday park | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
on the Llyn Peninsula following an incident | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
involving a tractor. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
Emergency Services were called to The Warren | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
holiday park in Abersoch shortly after 7:00 this evening. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Armed police have arrested four men following reports of a robbery | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
in Cardiff at around 8:00 this evening. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
The suspects drove-off from a shop on Atlas Road | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
in the Canton area of the city - and were stopped by officers near | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
the University Hospital of Wales. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
In an age of smart phones - pagers may seem like | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
a thing of the past. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
But one of Wales' biggest search and rescue teams has | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
told this programme, it relies on them for | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
good signal coverage. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:32 | |
But they're concerned that warnings over the rising usage costs | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
could affect rescue missions. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:42 | |
A rescue in the Brecon Beacons back in March. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
In an emergency situation like this, communication is | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
critical. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
It is really simple. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
It is just a little box and it has a display on it. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
Mark Jones from the rescue team says they use pagers and | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
mobile phones to mobilise volunteers because phone reception could be | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
unreliable. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
We respond to different types of calls, searches and medical | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
emergencies. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
If somebody is having chest pains, you want to be | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
responding to those calls immediately. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
We don't want to be half an hour behind the game. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
But that service is under threat since | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
Vodafone decided to close down its pager business. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
There is one other company that provides the service. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
The companies were considering a merger | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
but there were concerns that | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
a monopoly could mean higher prices and worse signal coverage so | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
Vodafone decided to stop its service anyway. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:52 | |
We have quite a dispersed membership throughout South and mid Wales | 0:05:52 | 0:05:58 | |
and we want as many of those, ideally | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
all of those, to get the message immediately. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
Without a reliable service that we can afford, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
we cannot guarantee that. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:08 | |
The Competition and Markets Authority | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
says there is nothing they can do to stop | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
companies choosing to exit the | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
market which could leave emergency services across Wales out of reach. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
Wales could follow England and abolish university tuition fees | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
if Labour wins the general election. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
University funding is devolved to the Welsh Government | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
but the First Minister, Carwyn Jones has told BBC Wales "it | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
would be difficult to conceive" a scenario where tuition fees | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
are abolished in England but not here. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
The Welsh Liberal Democrats say the biggest barrier | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
for students is living costs. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
The Welsh Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
of flip-flopping over fees. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
Plaid Cymru say it's an empty promise and UKIP have | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
described it as meaningless. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
The NHS in Wales says there have been no reported cyber incidents | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
here after a major incident was declared in | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
England and Scotland. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
Health services there have been hit by a large-scale attack meaning | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
staff cannot access patient data. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
NHS Wales says it's already put pro-active protection | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
measures in place. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
Thousands of giant jellyfish have washed up on Welsh beaches | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
in the past few days. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:18 | |
The barrel jellyfish have been spotted all the way | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
from Pembrokeshire up to Anglesey. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
New Quay has been a hot spot, with over three hundred seen | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
in what's been called a Mega Swarm. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:35 | |
Last year was an unusual year in that we didn't see them | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
until quite late on in the season. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
This year we have seen them sort of April-May time | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
but in massive numbers. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
And they seem to be a lot bigger than we usually see. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
I don't think I've ever seen them quite as big as they are this year | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
or they appear to be this year. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
Cricket - Glamorgan came back from the brink to pull off | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
an incredible win in the last over against Hampshire in their | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
Royal London One-Day Cup. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:58 | |
Set 333 to win, Chris Cooke smashed the penultimate ball for six | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
as Glamorgan won by 3 wickets with a ball to spare. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
The | 0:08:06 | 0:08:07 | |
The weather | 0:08:07 | 0:08:07 | |
The weather | 0:08:07 | 0:08:07 | |
The weather is | 0:08:07 | 0:08:07 | |
The weather is next. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
Some welcome rain in the forecast this weekend but it's not a total | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
wash-out. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:13 | |
Certainly unsettled, we will see some sunshine at times but | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
also the risk of a few showers. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
Through tonight we will see some patchy rain around but also | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
some drier interludes | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
A fairly mild night with temperatures in double figures for | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
most of us. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:29 | |
It will be rather blustery especially along the | 0:08:29 | 0:08:35 | |
coastal areas. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
Tomorrow we get a brief break from any weather fronts in | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
the morning. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
Late afternoon, we will start to see this weather front | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
pushing in from the West and with that, we will see some rain | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
into Saturday night but first thing tomorrow morning, a little bit of | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
rain. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
That will clear through and most of us will look forward to | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
bright or sunny spells developing. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
The breeze picks up coming from a south-westerly direction so a | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
fresher feel compared with today. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
For the rest of the British Isles, we do have some showers across | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
northern parts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland but the further | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
south and east you are, it's drier and brighter and feeling | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
warm with highs of 20 Celsius. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
Here in Wales tomorrow afternoon, a few showers | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
but also a lot of dry weather in between. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Late afternoon we'll start to see the weather front approaching | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
from the West but ahead of it, plenty of dry weather with highs of | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
17 Celsius. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
Tomorrow night that rain will push through pretty quickly. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Overnight just a few showers but also a lot of dry weather and | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
feeling fresher with temperatures getting down to about seven Celsius. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
Sunday is a day of sunshine and showers. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
If you catch a shower, it could be heavy and highs of around | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
16 Celsius. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
It will be breezy for exposed areas. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
Looking very unsettled for the start of next | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
week, where we do have more rain in forecast. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
We'll be back with our next update at a 6.15 tomorrow evening. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
For now though, from all of us on the programme, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
have a good evening. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 |