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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
A saleswoman who pressured an elderly couple into parting | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
with their life savings was today told by a judge she'd made | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
The judge was speaking as he gave Barbara Stone a 22-month | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
suspended prison sentence after she admitted fraud. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The case was part of the biggest investigation ever led by | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
the East Midlands Trading Standards team into cold calling, | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
which has seen another ten people prosecuted for fraudulent trading. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Franny Moyle has spent years fighting for | :00:38. | :00:49. | |
John and Olga Moyle were in their 80s when they became | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Working for Leicester-based Aspire magazine, she cold-called Mr Moyle | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
in 2010, persuading him to place a rental ad for their | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
It was the start of a 10-month campaign of harassment | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
which ultimately saw the couple lose the home they shared for 50 years. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
It's quite clear to me that Barbara Stone targeted him. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
She put him under a huge duress, calling him daily, harassing him. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Between January and October, she was managing to secure ?8,000 | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
At this stage, John Moyle was nursing his dying wife | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
Despite repeatedly pleading for the ads to stop, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Stone took ?73,000 from his account, promising that nonexistent sponsors | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
What did they ever get out of all this money | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
We didn't get a single booking for the house. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Franny then discovered her father had also been conned out of another | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
?30,000 by a separate publishing group, Derby-based Wyvern Media, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
When they realised they'd lost everything, and the house | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
they lived in all their life, it was a moment of great trauma. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
My father, of course, was a broken man. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
My mother was ever so brave, and she put the house on the market. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
But within about a month of the house going on the market, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
In 2011, the East Midlands scambusters team | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
It was to become the biggest case they'd ever handled. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
In 2012, they raided nine Wyvern Media offices. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
They discovered thousands of customers were pressured into buying | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
And in October last year, ten people were sentenced to a total | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
62-year-old Barbara Stone has previously pleaded guilty | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Her other victim was a dogs' charity in Shropshire, which lost ?14,000. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Nottingham Crown Court was told Mr Moyle was at his wit's end, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
pleading for the ads to stop, drowning in a sea of paper, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
The judge, Stuart Rafferty QC, said John and his wife, Olga, | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
He sentenced Stone to a 22-month suspended prison | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
sentence and he told her, "You directly made | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
The court was told Stone had apologised, but today | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
Do you want to say anything to your victims, Barbara Stone? | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Do you think you should apologise to your victims? | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
Earlier I spoke to James Delaney from the team that | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
I asked him if the elderly were typical targets | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
In this case, as in so many others, elderly people are being targeted. | :03:45. | :04:12. | |
In terms of the entire investigation, we have successfully | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
had 15 and a half years of custodial sentences handed down which we are | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
happy with. The result today may be a slight disappointment that we did | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
not see custodial sentences. This was a horrendous case, as we have | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
heard. What good could come of this trial? Hopefully, it will encourage | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
people to come forward if they feel that they've been victimised in this | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
type of scam. It sends a strong committees to any businesses who | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
pursue a line of fraudulent behaviour and activity, targeting | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
consumers and businesses. Will be victims of get rated? There is | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
ongoing investigation. Since the sentencing back in October, we have | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
successfully recovered over ?100,000 which will be given back to the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
victims of the case. There continues to be an ongoing investigation, so | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
we hope that further money will come forward to pay back some of those | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
victims. Thank you. The NHS has announced it's to start | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
a 16-week-long public consultation into controversial plans to end | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
children's heart surgery The news came on the day a petition | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
AGAINST the closure, was handed into Downing Street | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
by local MPs and campaigners. Our Political Editor | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Tony Roe reports. The strength of feeling | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
of a community, delivered In the days of e-petitions, | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
where it's easy to add your name from your front room, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
these red boxes contained over The couriers were East Midlands MPs, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Labour and Tory, and campaigners fighting against closure - | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
including mothers who have seen for themselves | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
what the heart unit can do. He had heart-saving surgery | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
at five months old. While we were in there, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
they didn't just operate on him, The care while you're | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
there is amazing. I just think it would be | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
a travesty if they shut it. There is absolutely no reason | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
on God's earth to close this unit, It has the best outcomes | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
for children, probably Two hours before the petition | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
was handed in, NHS England, which wants to close the congenital | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
heart unit, open the public Campaigners now know | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
the real fight starts here. I would say to anybody watching | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
this programme who wants to save children's heart surgery | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
at Glenfield - get involved, come along to Leicester Tigers | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
on March the eighth between 6-8pm Make sure your views | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
and voices are heard. Campaigners will be on the march | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
again this weekend in Leicester, The key now is to get | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
the decision-makers to take There will be a public | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
consultation exercise, which runs until June, | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
and key politically is the fact that this has the backing of both | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
conservative and Labour MPs It's believed that a large fire | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
at a derelict building near Leicester city centre | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
was started deliberately. The blaze at the former Corah | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
textiles factory broke out It spread to a car dealership | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
across the road damaging A number of roads were closed | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
as dozens of firefighters Fire officers say the buildings | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
will have to be demolished. Tributes have been paid | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
to the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
who has died aged 83. He invented the MRI scanner | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
at the University of Nottingham and continued to develop | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
the technology Quentin Rayner looks | :07:53. | :07:53. | |
back on his life. For someone who failed his 11-plus | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
and was told as a teenager that science wasn't for him, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Sir Peter Mansfield's Nobel Prize He received it for his work 40 | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
years ago, developing MRI scanner technology | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
at the University of Nottingham. Back then he couldn't be | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
completely sure it was safe The worst thing that could have | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
happened would be a cardiac arrest. Working alongside Sir Peter | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
then was his Ph.D. Student, Peter Morris, who is carrying | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
on the pioneering research He expected things | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
to happen quickly. We've lost the rock on which MRI | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
was founded, and the whole world MRI scanners are now commonplace | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
in major hospitals across the world. They've helped save thousands | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
of lives by diagnosing cancers far One is looking at poor quality | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
images and trying to understand If there is a problem, then it | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
stands up very, very clearly. It's nice to hear that there | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
is still some interest. Not just locally, but that there | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
are some interests in MRI Few people's lives leave | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
such a legacy on others. Football now and Nottingham Forest | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
announced earlier tonight that interim manager Gary Brazil | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
will take charge of the club Brazil and his assistant Jack Lester | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
have been given the job on a permanent basis | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
until the summer. Brazil replaces Phillippe Montanier, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
who was sacked last month. That's your news, so | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
it's goodbye from me. But with your weather | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
now, here's Sara. We have the cold easterly winds with | :09:34. | :09:49. | |
us at the moment and an ice warning as well. The gritters have been | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
working hard this evening and we have issued an eye watering -- | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
warning and the showers will continue and into tomorrow. The grey | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
day-to-day. -- a grey day today. It will be a cold and frosty start to | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
the day and the night-time temperature in rural areas will be | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
-2 macro. Other just around freezing within towns and cities. Snow | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
flurries continue through the morning gun into the afternoon | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
tomorrow, so it will be a very cold day. The winds, from a North East | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
direction. The daytime temperature is no higher than three Celsius. It | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
could be interesting on Friday night into the early part Saturday. We | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
will see a fewer showers coming in from the North Sea and as they come | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
in, they will meet with cold air and have the potential to produce a | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
little more snow at times for the other part of Saturday morning. By | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
the afternoon, reverting back to rain. I will now leave you with the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
outlook and in a moment, the national weather. | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday will turn a bit less cold again. All | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
the way up seven Celsius. | :11:03. | :11:10. |