:00:00. > :00:00.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.
:00:00. > :00:10.A father tells us he believes knife crime has become an epidemic.
:00:11. > :00:12.His son was left paralysed after being stabbed
:00:13. > :00:28.It's a life sentence. I've got a life sentence, he's got a life
:00:29. > :00:35.sentence. He doesn't deserve it. Stop, get against the fence!
:00:36. > :00:37.We're on the front line to see how a specialist Met team
:00:38. > :00:41.is trying to combat knife crime after a spate of attacks.
:00:42. > :00:44.So in the run up to the general election, we ask politicians how
:00:45. > :00:48.500-year-old pages by William Caxton -
:00:49. > :00:55.the man who brought printing to England - are rediscovered.
:00:56. > :01:08.Join me as I tried to turn 20 tonnes of newspaper into a work of art.
:01:09. > :01:19.Welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef.
:01:20. > :01:22.We start tonight with the issue of knife crime, which has already
:01:23. > :01:26.claimed the lives of six teenagers this year.
:01:27. > :01:28.It is very much an election issue for Londoners -
:01:29. > :01:30.and the politicians tasked with tackling the problem.
:01:31. > :01:33.We'll look at that in more detail in just a moment,
:01:34. > :01:36.but first our Home Affairs Correspondent Nick Beake has been
:01:37. > :01:38.speaking to one father devastated by an attack on his son.
:01:39. > :01:41.And a warning, you may find some of the images
:01:42. > :01:58.17-year-old Jamal Boyce was stabbed in the heart outside
:01:59. > :02:01.Paramedics brought him back from the dead.
:02:02. > :02:04.But seven months on, this is his life.
:02:05. > :02:08.There is no form of communication with him.
:02:09. > :02:13.He can't move, he's blind, there is no speech.
:02:14. > :02:15.He cannot feed himself, he gets fed by a tube.
:02:16. > :02:21.So it's a very low level of life he's got.
:02:22. > :02:24.Jamal had never been in a gang, never carried a knife,
:02:25. > :02:28.never been in trouble with the police.
:02:29. > :02:40.What I thought was important is not important no more.
:02:41. > :02:55.Well, spending time with people you love and who love you.
:02:56. > :02:57.That's what I've realised throughout this whole experience.
:02:58. > :03:05.It's like demons have just taken over the youth of today.
:03:06. > :03:08.There is no morals, no love, it's insane.
:03:09. > :03:16.One with a grey hoody, backpack, jeans, blue jacket.
:03:17. > :03:25.This week we went out to see how police are tackling knife crime on
:03:26. > :03:30.the front line. Here in Lewisham, this boy has been
:03:31. > :03:38.stopped because teenagers have He's one of 400 people
:03:39. > :03:42.arrested in the past week Obviously in the moment
:03:43. > :03:48.you are more aware that these people might have knives,
:03:49. > :03:51.and where he was wrestling with me, obviously he was bigger than me,
:03:52. > :03:57.I have to be mindful where his hands In this case, despite an extended
:03:58. > :04:05.search, no weapon is found. Michael Gallagher nearly died 35
:04:06. > :04:12.years ago when he was stabbed. Now he's the officer leading
:04:13. > :04:15.the Metropolitan Police's crusade A crime which has jumped
:04:16. > :04:19.by a quarter in the past year. Yes, it is worrying,
:04:20. > :04:22.yes it is tragic, but we will work through this as a society and I am
:04:23. > :04:25.confident we can fix it. I'm not going to sit here and say
:04:26. > :04:32.we're going to allow it to go up, we're going to everything
:04:33. > :04:35.within our power legally in order to make sure we bring this under
:04:36. > :04:37.control and reduce victims. Please, I am begging you,
:04:38. > :04:40.I cannot take no more. The anguish of a mother
:04:41. > :04:43.who will never see her son again. One of so many young Londoners
:04:44. > :04:45.stabbed to to death. This weekend the families left
:04:46. > :04:47.behind came together The people on this
:04:48. > :04:56.march are of one voice. But when it comes to the best way
:04:57. > :05:01.of tackling knife crime in our city, But how would this dad even begin
:05:02. > :05:07.to tackle this problem? To get these children
:05:08. > :05:09.into employment, into That would be such a fantastic
:05:10. > :05:15.thing, if these guys want to go out killing
:05:16. > :05:17.people, bring back... A lot of these children
:05:18. > :05:25.have single parents, they've got no father,
:05:26. > :05:28.they are the father in the house. They have never been disciplined,
:05:29. > :05:31.so there is no boundaries It's not just my son I've lost,
:05:32. > :05:46.I've lost my friend, Well, another 17-year-old has become
:05:47. > :05:58.the latest victim to lose his life The teenager is the 11th
:05:59. > :06:02.person to die from knife crime in just two weeks,
:06:03. > :06:04.and today police released CCTV images of two people on bikes
:06:05. > :06:19.they want to speak to. The 17-year-old was a good
:06:20. > :06:25.footballer. A popular teenager. His friends, who came to lay flowers and
:06:26. > :06:32.remember him, told us about the young man they knew. He was like no
:06:33. > :06:36.one else in this world. No one. I saw him three days ago, and I
:06:37. > :06:44.haven't seen him for about a week. He told me he was so happy, he
:06:45. > :06:47.hadn't seen me for so long, but it had only been a week! He was
:06:48. > :06:52.smiling. He was stabbed here in Walthamstow on Sunday night, in what
:06:53. > :06:56.police are calling a targeted attack. They want to speak to these
:06:57. > :07:03.two people seen on their bikes earlier that night, and are
:07:04. > :07:09.appealing to anyone who might recognise them to come forward.
:07:10. > :07:11.Elijah is the sixth teenager today this year after being stabbed. His
:07:12. > :07:18.friends are struggling to understand. The cycle goes on and on
:07:19. > :07:24.and on. Page has been set up to raise money for the funeral. Part of
:07:25. > :07:26.the post reads, we all sit here shattered and regret, sorrow and
:07:27. > :07:32.pain, questioning why? So in the run-up to the election -
:07:33. > :07:35.what are politicians saying about how to tackle knife crime
:07:36. > :07:38.here in the capital? Our political editor Tim Donovan
:07:39. > :07:42.is at New Scotland Yard. Tim, give us a sense
:07:43. > :07:56.of what they're planning to do? Well, none of the parties are saying
:07:57. > :08:01.there are easy solutions, and none are saying it is about policing
:08:02. > :08:05.alone, but obviously it is a key issue, and it is the Labour mayor,
:08:06. > :08:10.Sadiq Khan, who has the closest political direct involvement, having
:08:11. > :08:15.direct political authority over the Metropolitan Police, and he has made
:08:16. > :08:20.this predominantly about resources, a question of resources. We know
:08:21. > :08:26.from Labour that they would put 10,000 more police officers on the
:08:27. > :08:31.street across the UK, a big chunk of those would be in London. We also
:08:32. > :08:35.know that Sadiq Khan has made a big deal of the ?400 million of cuts
:08:36. > :08:41.coming down the line for the Metropolitan Police, but if Labour
:08:42. > :08:47.were elected, would they be in a position to reverse those cuts?
:08:48. > :08:53.Under the Tories, we would face those cuts and others as well. Under
:08:54. > :08:58.Labour, we would have additional uniformed officers, and a safer
:08:59. > :09:04.London. The Labour Party would reverse those cuts? I am sainted
:09:05. > :09:09.Labour Party we should not have the cuts announced by the Conservative
:09:10. > :09:16.Party, and we should not have cuts after the election. I welcome the
:09:17. > :09:18.uniformed officers. What about the Conservatives? We asked everyone to
:09:19. > :09:21.do interviews. The Conservatives said they could not put anyone up to
:09:22. > :09:27.do an interview, we know that they believe they have been responsible
:09:28. > :09:30.for tougher sentences, including an automatic custodial sentence if you
:09:31. > :09:33.are found guilty of second time of possessing knives, they also want to
:09:34. > :09:39.commit to working with retailers to try to act on underage sales bid
:09:40. > :09:43.sales of knives, and they were not prepared to do an interview, but
:09:44. > :09:50.they say that knife crime is still lower than it was in 2010. They said
:09:51. > :09:54.they'd take any increase extremely seriously and will continue to work
:09:55. > :09:58.closely with the police. The Liberal Democrats say that there will be
:09:59. > :10:04.more funding, more police community support officer is to provide that
:10:05. > :10:07.local intelligence. Visible policing increases trust and confidence. If
:10:08. > :10:12.you know your local police officer you can give them intelligence. If
:10:13. > :10:18.the police officers now who are carrying knives, they can stop and
:10:19. > :10:22.search more effectively, and overall crime will reduce because the police
:10:23. > :10:26.and the community are working together. Not just about policing,
:10:27. > :10:33.as we already said. The Green party make this their emphasis, but they
:10:34. > :10:36.are concerned about the cuts to use services, young people services, the
:10:37. > :10:42.absence of education in schools, so it is not just about diversionary
:10:43. > :10:47.projects, it is about the two daily engagement with young people. Ukip
:10:48. > :10:50.have not provided the details of what will be in their manifesto, but
:10:51. > :10:57.they have been criticised by the mayor of concentrating on line crime
:10:58. > :11:02.than knife crime. This has risen up the agenda, and the whole issue of
:11:03. > :11:05.youth violence, of knife crime will continue to be there if young people
:11:06. > :11:09.continue to lose their lives. Thanks very much indeed.
:11:10. > :11:12.And a reminder you can find plenty more information and analysis
:11:13. > :11:20.on the upcoming election on the BBC news website.
:11:21. > :11:27.Stay with us, though, still to come before seven.
:11:28. > :11:30.I'm in Lambeth, where police have taken a new approach to deter
:11:31. > :11:37.And have you wondered what happens to your old newspapers?
:11:38. > :11:40.We speak to the artist using 20 tonnes of them
:11:41. > :11:44.A jury has ruled that "excessive force" by 11 police officers
:11:45. > :11:46.contributed to the death of a mental-health patient.
:11:47. > :11:48.The 23-year-old died in 2010 while being restrained
:11:49. > :11:50.at a psychiatric hospital in south London.
:11:51. > :11:52.An inquest heard how he was held down for half an hour
:11:53. > :11:56.He never regained consciousness and died days later in hospital.
:11:57. > :12:19.His mum described him as her gentle giant. Sheni was 23, and IT graduate
:12:20. > :12:29.with no history of mental illness. He was very popular, lots of
:12:30. > :12:34.friends. He hated injustice, he tried everything. In 2010, he went
:12:35. > :12:37.out with friends over the August bank holiday, and returned home
:12:38. > :12:42.complaining he had been spiked with drugs. The following days his
:12:43. > :12:46.behaviour became erratic soul is him to hospital in Croydon. He was
:12:47. > :12:52.transferred to Camberwell and detained under the Mental Health
:12:53. > :13:00.Act, but after a short time with no beds he was discharged and referred
:13:01. > :13:05.for further treatment. 24 hours later he collapsed and never woke
:13:06. > :13:13.up. He had been restrained by staff twice, and then by 11 police
:13:14. > :13:16.officers. Postmortem examination found his brain had been starved of
:13:17. > :13:21.oxygen. Today an inquest jury unanimously found the level of
:13:22. > :13:26.restraint was unnecessary and unreasonable, saying the officers
:13:27. > :13:32.had used excessive force. It has taken nearly seven years for this
:13:33. > :13:33.inquest to be heard. Eventually the Independent Police Complaints
:13:34. > :13:41.Commission investigated his death, then in 2013 there was an external
:13:42. > :13:43.review of the evidence by a QA. In 2015 Crown Prosecution Service said
:13:44. > :13:49.there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges against any
:13:50. > :13:52.of the officers involved. They have not faced misconduct charges either.
:13:53. > :13:55.This is not the first time that restraint has caused the death of
:13:56. > :13:58.someone, and it is not the lasting. What we're calling upon today is for
:13:59. > :14:02.the Home Office, the Department of Health and the Metropolitan Police
:14:03. > :14:09.to urgently respond to the shocking in this case, and for the incoming
:14:10. > :14:14.government to publish as a matter of urgency the review into deaths in
:14:15. > :14:19.police custody. I do not want to see another parent going through this.
:14:20. > :14:25.After so many years of bringing up your children, caring for them,
:14:26. > :14:37.providing them love, educating them, for this to happen when you take
:14:38. > :14:41.them to a place of safety... He was not neglected, he was taken to a
:14:42. > :14:53.place of safety, where they killed him. Seni's it is a of closure,
:14:54. > :14:57.seven years after they lost him. -- for the family of Seni's.
:14:58. > :15:00.In the last half hour, the Metropolitan Police has
:15:01. > :15:02.given its response to the findings of the inquest.
:15:03. > :15:07.The tragic circumstances that happened happened in 2010
:15:08. > :15:10.and an enormous amount of work has been done around mental health
:15:11. > :15:14.To put that into perspective, there's over 35,000 calls a year
:15:15. > :15:17.into the Metropolitan Police that has some mental health element.
:15:18. > :15:19.So we have worked tirelessly to improve our training
:15:20. > :15:23.I hope I can give the public some confidence around that,
:15:24. > :15:26.but it's absolutely right we go back and reflect on what happened
:15:27. > :15:29.in 2010 to make sure, if there is more learning to be
:15:30. > :15:33.The Metropolitan Police giving their reaction to the inquest.
:15:34. > :15:35.A doctor from Hammersmith and his fiancee have been murdered
:15:36. > :15:38.in an apparent burglary at their flat in Boston
:15:39. > :15:41.Dr Richard Field and Lina Bolanos were found on Friday night
:15:42. > :15:45.Yesterday their alleged murderer, who was shot by police at the scene,
:15:46. > :15:49.was charged by a judge while he lay recovering in hospital.
:15:50. > :15:51.Residents in Hillingdon and Uxbridge are demanding action over
:15:52. > :15:54.what they claim is a growing problem of fly-tipped waste
:15:55. > :15:57.The waste has been dumped beneath an elevated section
:15:58. > :16:01.In a statement, Buckinghamshire County Council says it is currently
:16:02. > :16:09.Next, to something that's divided Londoners.
:16:10. > :16:11.Police have placed a sign outside Waterloo station warning people not
:16:12. > :16:16.Some say it is disgraceful and have accused of demonising homeless
:16:17. > :16:21.people, while others support the message.
:16:22. > :16:24.Let's get more from Ayshea Buksh, who's
:16:25. > :16:40.I am on Waterloo Road. This is a very busy street so you may get a
:16:41. > :16:45.bus or member of public coming into shot, but if we go to the other side
:16:46. > :16:49.of the street, you can see the new message that has been added by the
:16:50. > :16:56.local force, saying, please do not give money to beggars. The police
:16:57. > :16:59.force in Lambeth say they have done it in response to growing local
:17:00. > :17:04.concern about aggressive begging, saying that well-meaning people give
:17:05. > :17:13.money to all this people sleeping on the streets which exacerbates the
:17:14. > :17:16.problem. We spoke to a couple of commuters outside the station
:17:17. > :17:22.tonight about their thoughts. It probably does not have a good place
:17:23. > :17:27.because it belittles the beggars, and it should be our choice whether
:17:28. > :17:35.we want to get. The sign should be the opposite, please give whatever
:17:36. > :17:42.you can. Honestly, there is money better spent elsewhere. They get the
:17:43. > :17:47.money, it goes to gang leaders, so I think there is justification in it.
:17:48. > :17:56.What about charities? What are they saying? Some charities are divided
:17:57. > :18:01.on this issue, how to best deal with it. Centrepoint have told us they do
:18:02. > :18:08.not approve. They believe people should be able to give what they
:18:09. > :18:12.want, if they want. And that such administrative demonises those who
:18:13. > :18:15.are vulnerable. Another charity, Thames Reach, have supported other
:18:16. > :18:22.initiatives in the past, and they say that even though it is
:18:23. > :18:27.well-meaning, giving money increases the use of drugs and alcohol, which
:18:28. > :18:31.some homeless people have, and if people want to help, they should
:18:32. > :18:38.donate to charities directly working with the homeless. OK, many thanks.
:18:39. > :18:41.An extraordinary discovery has been made at the University of Reading.
:18:42. > :18:43.Two pages of medieval text, which for centuries lay hidden
:18:44. > :18:45.inside another book, have been identified
:18:46. > :18:49.He was the man who introduced printing to England in the 1470s.
:18:50. > :18:52.There are no copies of the pages anywhere else in the world -
:18:53. > :19:00.It was in the rolling book shelves at the University's library that
:19:01. > :19:02.Erika Delbecque was carrying out some research.
:19:03. > :19:09.She picked up this box and made her extraordinary discovery.
:19:10. > :19:19.It's a page of medieval Latin, printed by
:19:20. > :19:27.That's only a year or so after the first ever British book came
:19:28. > :19:31.What was your reaction when you realised exactly
:19:32. > :19:39.I mean, this is the sort of thing you hope you will find one day
:19:40. > :19:43.in your career as a librarian, so it was an extraordinary moment
:19:44. > :19:48.to realise we had this early Caxton leaf in our collection.
:19:49. > :19:50.William Caxton was a merchant who was the first to bring
:19:51. > :19:58.This newly discovered page is from a book of his that helped
:19:59. > :20:05.It spent 300 years pasted to another book to strengthen its spine.
:20:06. > :20:09.A real page-turner of history whose value has now come to light.
:20:10. > :20:16.If this ever came on the market, if I were an auctioneer,
:20:17. > :20:24.I would put an estimate of 30,000-50,000 on it,
:20:25. > :20:34.And this is the kind of press that Caxton would have used
:20:35. > :20:41.He first came across them whilst working in northern France.
:20:42. > :20:43.And just to create that one page would've taken
:20:44. > :20:48.The document goes on display at Reading's MERL Museum
:20:49. > :20:51.from tomorrow - one of Britain's first printed pages that helped
:20:52. > :21:08.A London casting for a new film, directed by Idris Elba,
:21:09. > :21:12.had to be cancelled last night because too many people turned up.
:21:13. > :21:14.These were the scenes, as would-be extras tried to get
:21:15. > :21:18.in to a community centre in Hackney to find out more about the project.
:21:19. > :21:20.The response was so overwhelming, the police had to step in.
:21:21. > :21:23.The actor took to social media to apologise to those
:21:24. > :21:29.So, listen, the response to the open-casting
:21:30. > :21:35.Thank you so much for sharing the info and coming down,
:21:36. > :21:39.I don't want to shut it down, but it's looking very likely.
:21:40. > :21:40.I'm just being honest with you guys, OK?
:21:41. > :21:44.And for those guys that are standing in the cold, big up, big up,
:21:45. > :21:47.we will try and get to you, but don't be surprised if we don't.
:21:48. > :21:50.The artist David Mach is mostly known for working with match sticks,
:21:51. > :21:53.Now, the Turner Prize-nominee will be putting some
:21:54. > :22:02.He's currently installing his latest works at a gallery in Notting Hill -
:22:03. > :22:07.in which he's used more than 20 tonnes of recycled
:22:08. > :22:15.Alice Bhandhukravi has been to meet him.
:22:16. > :22:28.David Mach's sculptures are anything but conventional.
:22:29. > :22:30.From gorillas made of coat hangers to this work in
:22:31. > :22:33.progress, a giant wave of newspaper crashing through the wall, engulfing
:22:34. > :22:35."Incoming", as the installation is called, goes
:22:36. > :22:38.on public view tomorrow, so it's all hands on deck
:22:39. > :22:44.All this paper came from a recycling centre and will end up back in one.
:22:45. > :22:48.I'll make these installations in different places,
:22:49. > :22:50.but I'm bringing objects into that place.
:22:51. > :22:52.I like to get some infeasibly large things.
:22:53. > :22:56.It has taken a fortnight for David and his team to get this far.
:22:57. > :23:00.Each edition has to be cut down to size and laid out to support
:23:01. > :23:06.It's engineering, but without glue, welding or fixings of any kind.
:23:07. > :23:09.You have to go quite a few times, do you?
:23:10. > :23:13.Right, I'm going to be here all day, I think.
:23:14. > :23:16.What do you want people to take away from this,
:23:17. > :23:21.If it's a piece of sculpture, you're making something that
:23:22. > :23:24.you hope stimulates, mentally stimulates...
:23:25. > :23:28.You know, I want their heart to be racing, I want the hair on the back
:23:29. > :23:35.Sometimes you're looking for a bit of writing on a front page that just
:23:36. > :23:38.fits the bill inside your head, that's poignant somehow, that tells
:23:39. > :23:43.But a lot of the time, you're reading these things,
:23:44. > :23:49.You say, oh my God, they're still looking for that kid.
:23:50. > :23:53.As solid and imposing as this sculpture is,
:23:54. > :23:55.David Mach says its physical presence is fleeting.
:23:56. > :24:02.He'll be happy if it remains in the minds of his audience.
:24:03. > :24:10.Time to get a check on the weather - Wendy's joined us.
:24:11. > :24:18.The sun was time to come out today. I saw it! Yes, and there was a blue
:24:19. > :24:22.sky! The lovely clear skies we had today, they are going to lead to
:24:23. > :24:26.another problem as we go through the next couple of nights. The clear
:24:27. > :24:31.skies, meaning for some of us they are going to be frosty nights coming
:24:32. > :24:36.up. That should then be the end of it, the gardeners will be pleased to
:24:37. > :24:39.hear, as it warms up. There is no frost after that. This has been the
:24:40. > :24:46.picture today, with plenty of cloud first thing, and there was plenty of
:24:47. > :24:51.sunshine this afternoon. As we go through the night, the remaining
:24:52. > :25:00.cloud tends to break up and dressed a bit. There will be long, clear
:25:01. > :25:04.spells and light winds well, meaning in country areas it will be to three
:25:05. > :25:10.degrees. There will be frost on the grass, but some areas prone to frost
:25:11. > :25:14.will get an error frost as well, which is not good news for growing
:25:15. > :25:17.plants at the moment. It will be a chilly start tomorrow outside of
:25:18. > :25:26.urban areas, but there will be loads of sunshine, and the temperatures
:25:27. > :25:32.will shoot up, and in the afternoon London will see temperatures of 18
:25:33. > :25:38.degrees. After that, Wednesday into Thursday morning, there could be
:25:39. > :25:42.some frost in places. Then we draw in the warm and humid here, leading
:25:43. > :25:47.to some heavy showers on Friday. We do need that rain, and it stays and
:25:48. > :25:51.settled into the start of the weekend as well. So Thursday, there
:25:52. > :26:00.is a risk of shoppers popping up as the day goes on, but mostly it is
:26:01. > :26:03.dry with a fair amount of cloud around. It is warmer and more humid,
:26:04. > :26:09.and the best chance of seeing much-needed rain comes on Friday,
:26:10. > :26:12.with some showers, and a few knocking about on Saturday as well.
:26:13. > :26:19.But the weekend looks warm and sunny. Line thanks very much. The
:26:20. > :26:21.main use. The Prime Minister has promised a Conservative government
:26:22. > :26:26.would cap energy prices. Theresa May said 17-million
:26:27. > :26:28.households would benefit - Labour accused her of copying
:26:29. > :26:30.their own proposal Jeremy Corbyn has said there will be
:26:31. > :26:34.a 'day of reckoning' for the rich and powerful if Labour
:26:35. > :26:36.wins the election. But in a BBC interview,
:26:37. > :26:39.he refused to say whether Labour would definitely take Britain out
:26:40. > :26:44.of the EU. More on the day's
:26:45. > :26:48.stories on our website - and on our Facebook page check out
:26:49. > :26:51.the so-called tree house in London That's it for now,
:26:52. > :26:59.so thanks for watching