:00:15. > :00:20.The mother of a man who was killed when he was attacked on a night out
:00:21. > :00:23.in south east London says "no parent should have to make
:00:24. > :00:25.the decision to switch off their child's life support".
:00:26. > :00:27.30-year-old Oliver Dearlove was killed when Trevor Timon
:00:28. > :00:30.punched him in Blackheath Village in August last year.
:00:31. > :00:44.Oliver Dearlove was 30 years old. He worked in banking. The judge
:00:45. > :00:51.described him as a young man of fine character with long and promising
:00:52. > :00:55.career in front of him. He had been out in Blackheath and was waiting
:00:56. > :00:59.for a taxi home. He started chatting to a group of women. Trevor Timon
:01:00. > :01:02.from Plumstead didn't like what he saw. He went over to Oliver
:01:03. > :01:07.Dearlove, punched in the side of head and knocked him to the ground.
:01:08. > :01:11.Mr Dearlove was airlifted to hospital, but soon passed away. A
:01:12. > :01:15.postmortem examination found he died of bleeding to the brain. We spoke
:01:16. > :01:19.to his mother about what happened that night.
:01:20. > :01:21.We had a WhatsApp message come through about 4am,
:01:22. > :01:23.because there's no signal where we were, and the children
:01:24. > :01:28.We were told that Oliver had been assaulted and it was quite
:01:29. > :01:31.serious, so we jumped in the car straightaway.
:01:32. > :01:37.We slung our clothes in the boot and started to drive
:01:38. > :01:39.as fast as we could, really, to get to the motorway.
:01:40. > :01:42.The police tried to help us by blue lighting us,
:01:43. > :01:45.but we never actually caught up with them, so we just drove
:01:46. > :01:50.Then Clare came back to us and told us there was nothing
:01:51. > :02:01.So that was the worst car journey ever.
:02:02. > :02:05.Tell us what happened in court today.
:02:06. > :02:10.Trevor Timon was jailed for six years for manslaughter at the Old
:02:11. > :02:14.Bailey today. The judge said it was an unprovoked and gratuitous act. He
:02:15. > :02:17.was given five years an extended licence because he was considered as
:02:18. > :02:21.a significant risks to the public. The court learned he had previous
:02:22. > :02:25.convictions for other violent incidents.
:02:26. > :02:28.The fact they gave him six years, he must do six years,
:02:29. > :02:31.and he's got five years on licence, is quite a long time
:02:32. > :02:35.I feel the law needs to be changed and maybe take
:02:36. > :02:51.What she has been referring to there is what is described as the one
:02:52. > :02:54.punch law. A few states in Australia introduced it because they had
:02:55. > :02:57.similar incidents. It meant tougher sentencing for assaults involving a
:02:58. > :03:01.single strike while influenced by drugs and alcohol, but its
:03:02. > :03:04.effectiveness is still being debated by some.
:03:05. > :03:09.A very sad case, thank you for that. 15 people, believed to be from Iraq,
:03:10. > :03:12.have been found hiding inside "pallets of fruit"
:03:13. > :03:14.in the back of a lorry at Police say the people
:03:15. > :03:33.include a family of five - Kenneth Noye, who is serving a
:03:34. > :03:37.sentence for a road rage attack, has won a decision to refuse to move him
:03:38. > :03:42.to an open prison. He stabbed Stephen Cameron to death over 20
:03:43. > :03:47.years ago in Kent. He had argued it was unfair and irrational not to
:03:48. > :03:52.allow him to go to jail with lower security.
:03:53. > :03:55.Eight years after a fire claimed the lives of six people in a tower
:03:56. > :03:58.block in south London, the local council has today admitted
:03:59. > :04:01.Southwark Council were taken to court by the London Fire Brigade
:04:02. > :04:05.after what happened at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009.
:04:06. > :04:10.It started as a fire in a ninth floor flat.
:04:11. > :04:12.It could and possibly should have stayed that way.
:04:13. > :04:15.But poor fire safety at Lakanal House meant the blaze
:04:16. > :04:21.Flats above and below caught fire and six people lost their lives.
:04:22. > :04:24.It later emerged that the block had not had a proper
:04:25. > :04:28.An assessment that could have saved lives.
:04:29. > :04:32.I had a doctor's appointment in the morning but I would
:04:33. > :04:38.I saw the fire developing and it was terrifying, to be honest.
:04:39. > :04:42.It started in one dwelling and within about three quarters
:04:43. > :04:44.of an hour it had spread upwards and downwards.
:04:45. > :04:46.Falling debris in the case of the downwards spread,
:04:47. > :04:58.Today, Southwark Council pleaded guilty to four fire safety charges
:04:59. > :05:04.Despite the block being renovated three years before the fire
:05:05. > :05:06.the court was told there were no seals on any of the fire doors,
:05:07. > :05:08.there were problems with poorly boxed in wooden stairs
:05:09. > :05:11.and there were no partitions in suspended ceilings.
:05:12. > :05:13.Put together, it meant the smoke and fire spread more quickly.
:05:14. > :05:15.What happened was - it was laid out in court today -
:05:16. > :05:19.is investment in order to improve these flats for the people
:05:20. > :05:25.who were living in them, turned them instead into a death trap.
:05:26. > :05:29.The council failed to supervise the work being done to make sure
:05:30. > :05:32.that it complied with fire safety standards, and they failed to do
:05:33. > :05:35.risk assessments after the work was completed to ensure
:05:36. > :05:39.that the buildings were not only improved for the tenants,
:05:40. > :05:49.Lakanal has been closed since the fire but will reopen next month.
:05:50. > :05:57.It will once again how is Southwark tenants.
:05:58. > :05:59.Today, the council's barrister expressed sincere regret.
:06:00. > :06:01.I would go further than that, it should never have happened.
:06:02. > :06:05.People lost their lives and it is awful, it really is.
:06:06. > :06:08.I would go further than sincere regret, I would say
:06:09. > :06:24.Southwark says it has learned the lessons of the tragedy. It says it
:06:25. > :06:27.spent ?60 million on fire safety improvements across the homes it
:06:28. > :06:28.runs in the borough. Southwark will be sentenced early next week. They
:06:29. > :06:33.are likely to face a fine. That's it for now from me,
:06:34. > :06:36.but let's find out what the weather's up to with Stav
:06:37. > :06:46.Danaos. It was a lovely day today, compared
:06:47. > :06:52.to Thursday Storm Doris. Overnight we're the man next weather system
:06:53. > :06:56.moving in. More cloud, outbreaks of rain. Temperatures on the mild side.
:06:57. > :07:00.It's milder this weekend, it will be blustery, and there will be rain at
:07:01. > :07:04.times. Not particularly heavy but more of an annoyance. It will be
:07:05. > :07:07.rather cloudy through the day, glimmers of brightness, spits and
:07:08. > :07:10.spots of light rain moving up from the south-west and a strong
:07:11. > :07:13.south-westerly wind. Those are the temperatures in the capital, into
:07:14. > :07:19.double figures. Through Saturday night it turns a bit drier as the
:07:20. > :07:22.weather system moves away. Tightly packed isobars for Sunday. Most of
:07:23. > :07:26.the range of the north and west of our region. We could see brightness
:07:27. > :07:30.here and there. 12-13 . For the next few days it is that the stay miles.
:07:31. > :07:32.Outbreaks of rain few days it is that the stay miles.
:07:33. > :07:41.Outbreaks of rain at times particularly as we head into Monday.
:07:42. > :07:47.A much calmer day today after the nasty storm yesterday. Let's look at
:07:48. > :07:50.your pictures, tranquil from Hampshire, on the edge of the new
:07:51. > :07:59.Forest. Nice cumulus clouds from Hartlepool. Still a bit stormy, that
:08:00. > :08:07.sea. We are starting to get more pictures of bass coming through. The
:08:08. > :08:12.1st of March, the first day of meteorological spring. We like it in
:08:13. > :08:16.three months blocks. This weekend, things are going downhill again.
:08:17. > :08:17.After this day, where we had the sunshine,