04/04/2017 London News

Tonight on BBC London News: The shop worker locked up and told he'll be

deported despite living in the capital for 26 years.

I have allowed two weeks to either sort it out. I could get kicked out.

Well, the Mayor has plans to charge you -

The officer who lost his life protecting Parliament

Tonight his football club, Charlton pays a special tribute

And after the success of the movie - how a fringe production

of Sweeney Todd has transferred to Manhattan - complete

A popular shop worker in North London has told the BBC

Stojan Jankovic, known as Stoly, has lived in the capital for 26

years, but last week, he found himself locked up

The move has shocked residents, and his local MP, who rallied

The Home Office says the 52-year-old has no right to be in the UK.

Celebrities are tweeting about him including

A petition has been signed by thousands and handed

They are talking about this man, Stojan Jankovic.

No one here in Kentish Town as Stoly.

He came here 26 years ago to escape war in the former Yugoslavia.

He hasn't been back since because he feared he wouldn't be

I haven't actually had any family life for 26 or so years.

I haven't sat at the table with my mother, for instance.

I haven't been to my dad's funeral or my grandmother's funeral

Stoly is living in London illegally but he has been working

for the owners of this shop for 14 years.

He has a National Insurance number and pays his taxes,

so why didn't he sought out proper documents to stay legally?

I can speak to you in Serbian or English and we can speak

about the weather or geology, however, I can't fill out the forms.

Last Thursday, after 26 years Stoly was arrested

and taken to this immigration centre in Dorset.

He does admit he spent a short time in prison in the 90s for drugs

offences which is why he didn't sort out his situation sooner.

I'm concerned that the way in which he was detained

and the fact that the proposal was to remove him before he had time

to take legal advice or make representations.

The bare minimum, it must be right for people to make representations

and have the opportunity to consult a solicitor.

Stoly's Road is the main topic of discussion here and people ask how

he is. Customers have offered him legal advice. One even drove him

back from Dorset yesterday. Stoly is a part of the heart of the

community. He is very encouraging to people. Charming, lovely, funny. I

watched him sometimes with elderly people and blind people and he is so

kind. Local support may have got him released from detention that he now

has two weeks to fight deportation or face leaving the place he calls

home. Alpa joins me now, what should

people do if they find themselves The Home Office say they do not

comment on individual cases but it is interesting because Stoly is one

of 400,000 people roughly speaking living illegally in London. That is

around half of the number living illegally across the whole country.

We have spoken to one immigration lawyer who says there are some

things you can do. He advises you should seek legal advice as soon as

possible with specifically and -- and immigration adviser. He says be

as frank about your case as you can to be immigration adviser who can

give you the best advice. He says next to try and work out the most

relevant points to build up your case and which category you fit

into. He does recognise the Home Office website is confusing, so he

understands why people are intimidated by the forms and the

things out there that people don't understand. You will be following

the case, thank you. Coming up later in the programme:

Powering his way to the Commonwealth Games -

we hear from the London athlete determined to show the world that

anything is possible. Eight further people,

including a 15-year-old boy have appeared in court in connection

with an alleged attack on a Kurdish-Iranian teenager

at a bus stop in Croydon. The 17-year-old is still

in intensive care. The local community

has been left shocked Let's get more from Ayshea Buksh

who's in south London. The attack happened just outside

Croydon city centre. Earlier today at the Magistrates' Courts, more

people have come through charged in relation to the alleged attack. The

Kurdish community is present here in Croydon. The history of the Kurdish

people is troubled and is geography is contentious but many people from

the Middle East come together and are united in their shock and

surprise at what happened to one of their own. He came to the UK in

search of a better life but is now in hospital recovering from an

alleged violent and racist attack. 17-year-old Mr Ahmed fled the

Kurdish region of Iran and travelled across Europe and arrived in Croydon

a few months ago. He made friends with this man, fellow Kurd from

Iraq. He was with him at the time of the alleged attack on Friday.

TRANSLATION: We were rushing to come here for freedom, get visas and

working. But now this has happened to us and we are not happy at all in

this country. Many asylum seekers have passed through Croydon. This is

the Centre that processing asylum claims. Earlier this year, the local

citizens UK group organised a welcome for unaccompanied children

arriving from Europe after the so-called Calle jungle was

disbanded. We had refugee children from Europe coming here and every

day there were 200 people out here from local schools, churches and

mosques out here to save refugees are welcome. That is the true spirit

of Croydon that people welcome to our town. On the night of the

attack, they were on their way to hang out with fellow Kurds in West

Croydon. Other young Kurdish man I spoke to off-camera told me they

have had some problems with locals before but never anything this

extreme. He says he is still shaken up by what has happened and wants to

go back to Iraq to feel safe. TRANSLATION:, when we were kids we

were hoping to come here. Now, we want to go back. Mr Ahmed is still

in hospital with a fractured spine, eye socket and bleeding on his

brain. Fundraising websites have been setup to help fund his

recovery. Those websites have been set up by people who have met him.

At the last check, one of them has so far raised ?30,000. So far 13

people have been charged in connection with the alleged attack.

A group of varying from 15 to 23 years old, some young men and woman

charged with violent disorder, racially aggravated grievous bodily

harm -- bodily harm and wounding with intent. Eight of them appearing

here were granted bail and ordered to appear for trial in May. The

police investigation is still ongoing.

He was the officer who lost his life in the line of

Tonight PC Keith Palmer's football club will honour him in their first

home game since the atrocity almost two weeks ago.

Chris Slegg is at Charlton's ground for us now.

A sombre atmosphere here. The match against MK Dons of secondary

importance against the tributes to PC Keith Palmer. A long time

supporter of Charlton and after the terrorist attacks, Charlton left a

score of high up in the East stand. They wanted to have a more fitting

permanent tribute. That's golf remained there and this seat was

replaced by a white seat in a sea of red and bustard by PCP Palmer's

police warrant number. Many people have been coming here to lay floral

tributes. May of his colleagues will come to the pitch and will be led by

PC Keith Palmer brother. The chaplain here is mat Baker. Thoughts

are with PC Keith Palmer's family. When we discovered he was a

season-ticket holder, in terms a club, nonplaying staff, players and

fans, he was one of our own that died there in Westminster. We wanted

to pay tribute to Keith. How can an -- a club acts like an extended

family in a moment like this? He is in our thoughts and prayers. The

gate receipts, half of that will go to the family. The players giving

their appearance money. That sends out of -- that sends out of the

message that we won't care. We come together with police and fans and

players together. That sends the message that this transcends

football at times like this. The players will also work PC Keith

Palmer warrant number on their shirts tonight. It will be a very

emotional occasion here at the Valley. A poignant tribute. Thanks

very much. Drivers across the capital could be

hit by a new daily charge under the Mayor's plan to clean up

London's toxic air. Sadiq Khan wants to

create the world's first Today we learned how much people

have to pay. There is a smog. You can see it but

the air in London is a killer. A morning -- a warning to the man on

the dangers of pollution. Peak pain -- he compared it to the great snow

-- smog of 1952 which made the government look at the Clean Air

Act. This lasted four days and the whole city came to a halt. The

critical element was so many people lost their lives. The mayor has put

cleaning up London's air at the top of his list and has set out a plan.

On top of the congestion charge of ?11 50, a further charge of ?10 will

hit those with the most polluting vehicles. But that would become a

bigger amount at ?12 50. That is to be extended as far as the North and

South circulars for the most polluting cars. It would be charged

across the whole of Greater London from lorries and bustard -- buses

costing as much as ?100. Nowhere in the world has done this. We are

doing the ultralow emissions zone by 2019. We are going to go London wide

from lorries, coaches and buses by 2020. The earliest we can do up to

the South circular and North circular is 2021. We have to give

people the chance to move away from diesel. It is an adjustment that

will be difficult for people like Jeremy who runs this coach service.

It will make a huge impact of the business because it means changing

the entire fleet. The five we have change have cost ?750,000. To do the

rest of the fleet, it will be ?2 million. Fang campaigners, it falls

short of what the mayor promised. -- for green campaigners. We hoped

buses and coaches would have to be compliant by 2019. That has been

pushed back to 2020 and that means more people being exposed to more

dirty ever longer. The Met hopes introducing it will lead to a cut in

harmful might try -- harmful chemicals in the air.

We go Stateside to find out why New Yorkers are tucking into good

March was the warmest on record but what does April hold? I will tell

you later. A former police officer

who was critically injured when he tried to stop the driver

of a stolen car has died. PC Gareth Browning had needed

constant care since he was struck by the vehicle in Reading

four years ago. A 28-year-old was jailed for nine

years over the incident. Joe, talk us through

what happened four years ago. He had the intention of stopping a

stolen master. Herath Browning was an experienced Vista -- officer and

was using a stop stick, one of the devices that has spikes on it to

deflate a car's tyres. He was struck by the stolen master, thrown into

the air and suffered catastrophic injuries and brain damage. He was in

a medically induced coma and what happened that life, changed his

life. He had to retire and the question now is did what happened

that night to bring his life to an end on April the 1st this year?

Thames Valley Police say they will be talking to the prank was accused

in service. What does that mean? Luke Hayward was a criminal and

dumped the vehicle and was on day release from prison at the time. He

appeared before Reading Crown Court and was jailed for nine years the

previous bodily harm. Thames Valley Police are waiting to hear on the

postmortem examination. They will approach the cross -- Crown

Prosecution Service on their findings. Luke Hayward has been

dealt with by the courts and any actual attempt to bring fresh

charges has to win the approval of the Attorney General.

Thank you very much. He's a World Champion

and a Paralympic silver medallist. Now Tottenham's Ali Jawad is hoping

to add to his medal tally at the Commonwealth Games

which start exactly a year today Emma Jones has been finding out how

the power lifter is preparing. It's been a while since

Ali Jawad has been in a gym and in fact he hasn't

trained in six weeks. Paralympic silver medallist had been

thinking about retiring, so what has I was asking myself

the question as to whether or not I've achieved

everything I set out to achieve. I think if I had, I will

probably regret it. Having been cruelly denied a medal

at his home Paralympics in London, he made up for it with

silver in Rio last year. It's brought about years

of hard work for a In my sport, it's one

event and that's it. You've literally got an hour

and a half to perform. Four years of work

for an hour and a half. Now he's hoping to add

to his Commonwealth Games medal This is my Commonwealth Games

bronze from Glasgow. Even the bronze,

it's probably my best career performance, so for me,

it means quite a lot to me. It's the last time I

have the world record as But it was his celebrations

in Glasgow that really got people It was actually the cartwheel that

got people's attention and not my performance and I

thought, performance is really good. Ali's positivity and

fighting spirit might When he was born with

no legs, they were Instead they moved from

Lebanon to Tottenham when he was a baby and it was here

that he started lifting weights. He says like so many

athletes, is the challenge that make him

all the more determined. There will always be

disappointments in everybody's career but they are there to achieve

something and they know it's not But if they do achieve it,

it's going to be very, very sweet if they do and that's

probably the best feeling ever. And with the real training starting

tomorrow, might we see more Ken Livingstone's future

in the Labour Party could be The former Mayor of London will find

out whether he faces further disciplinary action

over his controversial claim that Hitler supported

Zionism in the 1930s. Emma North is in Central London

where the party hearing The weight still goes on. Ken

Livingstone has always defended the remarks he has made her stop he

compared Adolf Hitler and said he was a supporter of Zionism. These

comments have led to his suspension and this hearing. He has always

blamed hostile members of the Labour Party and the media for bringing it

to this situation. Inside is a private herring. We are into our

fourth day here and we're looking at whether his comments would grossly

detrimental to the Labour Party. It is something Mr Livingstone said was

justified in saying. I haven't caused offence. I couldn't

walk down the street stop hundreds of people stopping and many of them

Jewish saying that they know their history. The people who are offended

are the people who believed the lies they saw in the media that I said

Hitler was a Zionist. To suggest a man who loathes dues is a Zionist,

if I said that, I would be off to the doctor to check if this wasn't

the first stages of dementia. We have some views as to what it

would do if he was expelled. He is expected to be thrown out of the

Labour Party and compared what is going on to something akin to what

is happening in North Korea. If he is expelled, he has said he will

mount a judicial review to challenge the process that has happened inside

here. This is a man who has left the Labour Party, been suspended and

rejoined again. He knows how to fight. We will bring you that result

when we get it. Thank you. It all started in a pie

and mash shop in Tooting Now, the fringe production

of Sweeney Todd, which has also had a run in the West End,

has travelled stateside to New York. And as Thomas Magill reports,

it isn't just the original London cast that's transferred,

so too has pie and mash. The Hollywood blockbuster capable

of turning our stomachs. # These are probably

the worst times in London. Set in a musical about dodgy pies

in London's oldest pie and mash shop in London was somewhat of a risk

for everyone involved but one When we first did it in Harrington,

you just do the show because you want to do the show

and you concentrate very much And then, of course,

this extraordinary chain of events kicked in and some came to see

it in Tooting. Before we know it, we were given

a space in the West End And after a successful

run in the West End, the show and its traditional London

pie and mash and liquor served to the audience

headed Stateside to here, Barrow Street Theatre in the heart

of Manhattan where it opened last month and for many,

the show was familiar I'm from Philadelphia and this

is the first time I've ever had pie. I'm just not a fan

of mashed potatoes. Just the traditional pie and mash

has gone down a treat with New York theatre-goers but that's not

the only thing to make its way So too has some of the

original London cast. In Tooting, the show played to just

34 people each night. Here in New York,

the capacity is almost 200. The audience are here

because they are just up And for those pies,

time to come clean. Well, I don't know if you know

but we've got the former White House pastry chef doing our pie and mash,

so it's, you know, it's posh pie and mash but pie

and mash, nevertheless. Now for a chat on the weather. Wendy

is here. I wish these were the skies we had

today. They are not what we had today. I am doing a skip back in

time. It was joined mildest on record. It shares that with the

march we had 60 years ago. The highest temperature we had was 22

Celsius. Last Thursday, what a scorcher. I was scouting round to

see colour under the grey skies. Midweek, we will see sense tells. It

will be feeling warm once again. There were a few breaks.

We have quite a chilly night. The cloud could produce rain. Towards

midnight, most of us will be seeing -- clear skies.

Temperatures could be low enough for a touch of frost into the early

hours of tomorrow morning. There will be plenty of sunshine to enjoy.

This is going to be a common theme towards the end of the week. For the

north-east, there will be some thicker cloud. 14 Celsius is average

for the time of year. We will chase round bits of cloud. We should see

some sunny spells. Temperatures could be in the top

teams for later on in the week and into the weekend.

Syrian activists say 58 people including children have been killed

in the gas attack in Syria. They have blamed it on the forces of

President Assad. The Prime Minister is in Saudi Arabia for talks on

trade and security. Theresa May says it is in the national interest to

maintain good relations despite the controversial human rights record.

And the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is waiting to hear

whether he should be expelled from the Labour Party. He is attending a

disciplinary hearing in Westminster over comments he made about Hitler

and Zionism. That hearing is still going on as we speak but you can

keep up-to-date on that result on the BBC News Channel and on our

website. That is it for now. I'll be back during the ten o'clock news.

Have a lovely evening. Goodbye. HORN BEEPS

That car. John, John, you've got mud all over

your pants. Come here. I've got spit on them now,

haven't I? Leave it,

I'll get it off in the bogs. Animal. This programme is what the

BBC calls a special. That means I've splashed out on

a new bra. Celebrate one of Britain's

greatest comedy heroes.