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The mother of a man who was killed when he was attacked on a night out | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
in south east London says "no parent should have to make | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
the decision to switch off their child's life support". | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
30-year-old Oliver Dearlove was killed when Trevor Timon | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
punched him in Blackheath Village in August last year. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Oliver Dearlove was 30 years old. He worked in banking. The judge | :00:31. | :00:44. | |
described him as a young man of fine character with long and promising | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
career in front of him. He had been out in Blackheath and was waiting | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
for a taxi home. He started chatting to a group of women. Trevor Timon | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
from Plumstead didn't like what he saw. He went over to Oliver | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Dearlove, punched in the side of head and knocked him to the ground. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Mr Dearlove was airlifted to hospital, but soon passed away. A | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
postmortem examination found he died of bleeding to the brain. We spoke | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
to his mother about what happened that night. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
We had a WhatsApp message come through about 4am, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
because there's no signal where we were, and the children | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
We were told that Oliver had been assaulted and it was quite | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
serious, so we jumped in the car straightaway. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
We slung our clothes in the boot and started to drive | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
as fast as we could, really, to get to the motorway. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
The police tried to help us by blue lighting us, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
but we never actually caught up with them, so we just drove | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Then Clare came back to us and told us there was nothing | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
So that was the worst car journey ever. | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
Tell us what happened in court today. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Trevor Timon was jailed for six years for manslaughter at the Old | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Bailey today. The judge said it was an unprovoked and gratuitous act. He | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
was given five years an extended licence because he was considered as | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
a significant risks to the public. The court learned he had previous | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
convictions for other violent incidents. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
The fact they gave him six years, he must do six years, | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
and he's got five years on licence, is quite a long time | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
I feel the law needs to be changed and maybe take | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
What she has been referring to there is what is described as the one | :02:36. | :02:51. | |
punch law. A few states in Australia introduced it because they had | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
similar incidents. It meant tougher sentencing for assaults involving a | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
single strike while influenced by drugs and alcohol, but its | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
effectiveness is still being debated by some. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
A very sad case, thank you for that. 15 people, believed to be from Iraq, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
have been found hiding inside "pallets of fruit" | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
in the back of a lorry at Police say the people | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
include a family of five - Kenneth Noye, who is serving a | :03:15. | :03:33. | |
sentence for a road rage attack, has won a decision to refuse to move him | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
to an open prison. He stabbed Stephen Cameron to death over 20 | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
years ago in Kent. He had argued it was unfair and irrational not to | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
allow him to go to jail with lower security. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Eight years after a fire claimed the lives of six people in a tower | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
block in south London, the local council has today admitted | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Southwark Council were taken to court by the London Fire Brigade | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
after what happened at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
It started as a fire in a ninth floor flat. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
It could and possibly should have stayed that way. | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
But poor fire safety at Lakanal House meant the blaze | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Flats above and below caught fire and six people lost their lives. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
It later emerged that the block had not had a proper | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
An assessment that could have saved lives. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
I had a doctor's appointment in the morning but I would | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
I saw the fire developing and it was terrifying, to be honest. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
It started in one dwelling and within about three quarters | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of an hour it had spread upwards and downwards. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Falling debris in the case of the downwards spread, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Today, Southwark Council pleaded guilty to four fire safety charges | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
Despite the block being renovated three years before the fire | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
the court was told there were no seals on any of the fire doors, | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
there were problems with poorly boxed in wooden stairs | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
and there were no partitions in suspended ceilings. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Put together, it meant the smoke and fire spread more quickly. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
What happened was - it was laid out in court today - | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
is investment in order to improve these flats for the people | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
who were living in them, turned them instead into a death trap. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
The council failed to supervise the work being done to make sure | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
that it complied with fire safety standards, and they failed to do | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
risk assessments after the work was completed to ensure | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
that the buildings were not only improved for the tenants, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Lakanal has been closed since the fire but will reopen next month. | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
It will once again how is Southwark tenants. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
Today, the council's barrister expressed sincere regret. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
I would go further than that, it should never have happened. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
People lost their lives and it is awful, it really is. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
I would go further than sincere regret, I would say | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Southwark says it has learned the lessons of the tragedy. It says it | :06:09. | :06:24. | |
spent ?60 million on fire safety improvements across the homes it | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
runs in the borough. Southwark will be sentenced early next week. They | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
are likely to face a fine. That's it for now from me, | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
but let's find out what the weather's up to with Stav | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Danaos. It was a lovely day today, compared | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
to Thursday Storm Doris. Overnight we're the man next weather system | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
moving in. More cloud, outbreaks of rain. Temperatures on the mild side. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
It's milder this weekend, it will be blustery, and there will be rain at | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
times. Not particularly heavy but more of an annoyance. It will be | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
rather cloudy through the day, glimmers of brightness, spits and | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
spots of light rain moving up from the south-west and a strong | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
south-westerly wind. Those are the temperatures in the capital, into | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
double figures. Through Saturday night it turns a bit drier as the | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
weather system moves away. Tightly packed isobars for Sunday. Most of | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
the range of the north and west of our region. We could see brightness | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
here and there. 12-13 . For the next few days it is that the stay miles. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Outbreaks of rain few days it is that the stay miles. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
Outbreaks of rain at times particularly as we head into Monday. | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
A much calmer day today after the nasty storm yesterday. Let's look at | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
your pictures, tranquil from Hampshire, on the edge of the new | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Forest. Nice cumulus clouds from Hartlepool. Still a bit stormy, that | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
sea. We are starting to get more pictures of bass coming through. The | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
1st of March, the first day of meteorological spring. We like it in | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
three months blocks. This weekend, things are going downhill again. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
After this day, where we had the sunshine, | :08:17. | :08:17. |