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Welcome to BBC London News with me Victoria Hollins. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
New figures suggest London has the worst domestic abuse conviction | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
rate in the country with a figure that's 10% lower than | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The charity, Women's Aid, says that means victims | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
are being let down by the police who should be better at tackling | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
the issue of coercive control, as well as physical abuse. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Alex Bushill has been speaking to a victim in Surrey. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
I met Laura at this refuge in Surrey. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
If the figures today underline how the Metropolitan Police could be | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
doing far more to convict abusive partners, her story drives home | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
I feared that night I would have ended up dead had I not left. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
He had smashed candles over my head, glass candles. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
I was in the corner curled up with my hands over my face | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
She is a survivor of coercive control. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
In her case, her partner used the threat of suicide | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
to force her to stay in a deeply abusive relationship where | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Complete blackmail, for me it was the reason | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
I could not leave permanently, because I did not want | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
the conscience of his death, I didn't want it | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Coercive control is an area which charities say explains why | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
64% of Met prosecutions result in conviction, | :01:26. | :01:41. | |
significantly ower than the national average. | :01:42. | :01:42. | |
If they don't understand coercive controlled and all they are looking | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
for is a black eye and broken bones, they can underestimate the impact | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
of coercive control and may not necessarily even think to look | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
no physical assault, therefore the story ends there. | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
Unfortunately for that victim when the police walk away | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
A charity is calling for police training which is | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
what the Met is doing, with more specialist | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
People my not even realise they are themselves a victim | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
of coercive control because it is the way | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
it manifests itself, slowly and over time. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Our officers are getting a better understanding reflected | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
in the amount we are recording on an annual basis | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
The leadership is there but for Laura and so many like her, | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
it is about delivering on those promises, raising awareness | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
and knowledge amongst officers across the force. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
The owners of a retirement complex in Surrey have been fined nearly | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
half a million pounds for safety breaches which contributed | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
87-year-old Irene Cockerton perished in a fire at Gibson Court | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
The flames destroyed an entire block in a matter of minutes. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Today, a judge said "extensive and substantial" safety failings had | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
put residents in danger, as Marc Ashdown reports | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
Every time I close my eyes, I could see those flames. | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
It was six years ago but May Moorhouse is still haunted | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
Within minutes, fire ripped through the Gibson Court retirement flats. | :03:16. | :03:28. | |
87-year-old Irene Cockerton was overcome by smoke, | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
her body was found in a wardrobe in her room. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
The blaze started after another resident's TV caught fire. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Surrey Fire Service brought a health and safety case | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
against the company which owned the apartments | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
They hadn't carried out a suitable risk assessment which the judge said | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Fire dividing walls in the loft space were described as inadequate, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Greasy vapours had built up in kitchen vents which opened up | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Managers had not been trained properly and there was no clear | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
All this had been flagged up by previous safety inspections | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
First Port Retirement is a very different company today | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
We have new owners, a completely new management team, | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
and as the judge has previously noted, a much improved | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
safety environment, including stronger policies, | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
So we are sorry, we have applied the lessons, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
and safety is our number one priority. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Walking around the corner to see the whole building alight | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Annie's mother Mary lived close to Irene and May. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
The family still feel they have not had the proper support | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
after the fire and trying to resettle. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
At that time of their lives when they needed to be somewhere | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
I feel now we should receive some compensation for the trauma | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Fire-fighters were praised in court for their bravery, | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
tackling the huge fire, and for bringing this | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
prosecution which highlighted what were described as substantial | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
First Port faces a fine with costs of ?460,000, | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
But no fine, said the judge, can compensate for the loss | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
The father-in-law of Gordon Ramsay has pleaded guilty to conspiring | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
to hack a computer system relating to the celebrity chef's | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Chris Hutcheson, who's 68, admitted plotting to unlawfully | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
access the computer system of Gordon Ramsay Holdings | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Two of his children, Adam Hutcheson and Chris Hutcheson Junior, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
They could face up to two years in jail | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
The friend of a British man who was killed in the terror attack | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
in Stockholm says he's still making sense of a world that doesn't | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Chris Bevington was one of four people who died when a hijacked | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
lorry was driven into shoppers last Friday. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
He'd been working for the music streaming group Spotify. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
He was the most amazing father, husband, son, brother and friend | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
We are obviously all going to miss him terribly. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
He loved his family, he loved his friends, | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
Piles of rubbish bags in the street, overflowing recycling | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
These are just some of the problems faced by people living in one part | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
of south London after the local council changed their rubbish | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Sutton Council has now apologised for the problems. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Frustration today in a queue for a council recycling depot. | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
Hundreds of cars, many waiting more than half an hour. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Sutton have changed their collection of bins, OK, and I don't think | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
people quite know where to throw all the stuff. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
One resident, Bert, showed us how he now has to use five bins | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Garden waste, paper and card, non-recyclable rubbish. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Bottles, tins and plastics, food waste. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
He says not only is it confusing, his food waste | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
As you can see, it is really festering by now | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
It seems they have been inundated by calls and are not coping. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Some Sutton residents have been posting pictures | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
of piles of rubbish, on social media. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
And this man witnessed another long queue at the weekend | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
People went to B to get a free bin because Sutton Council | :08:04. | :08:15. | |
told thousands of people that free bins were available. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
It caused a vast queue, lots of very angry people, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
and families were there forced to stay there for hours on end, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
This opposition councillor says it is all because a new waste | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
collection contract has been agreed but not introduced properly. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
If you don't get your message clear, chaos ensues. | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
Sutton Council says improved recycling will save | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
But today, along with the new contractor, it admitted | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
We recognise people are unhappy, they have every right to be so. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
We have been working on this hard but in the first week things didn't | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
In every service change, especially of that magnitude, | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
This one is probably a bit more difficult than we expected. | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
The council says 90% of collections have now been made | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Residents will no doubt be watching their bins | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather's up to | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
Thank you. This one was sent in by our Weather Watcher this afternoon. | :09:45. | :10:01. | |
As we get through the middle part of this week it will be cloudier and I | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
do not think we will be seeing such blue sky as we started the week. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
There is a little bit of a breeze blowing tonight. That tends to keep | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
things stirred up. It will not be quite as cold as last night. There | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
will be some brightness first thing tomorrow morning. Maybe even some | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
sunny spells, make the most of those. It will cloud over from the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
north. It will be a breezy day. Temperatures will get to 16 degrees | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
as the day goes on. Not very much rain at all. As we get to Thursday, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
it is a generally dry day again. There will be plenty of cloud | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
around. Temperatures up to 14 degrees. Not much sunshine around. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
On Good Friday, a similar sort of day. We may start Saturday with some | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
rain but it will be brighter later. On Sunday, on the cool side for East | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
itself. Good evening. Grace of all it -- it | :11:04. | :11:23. | |
is greatest of all in Scotland. A weather front is on | :11:24. | :11:24. |