05/09/2017

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:00:00. > :00:00.Families are left devastated by false claims.

:00:00. > :00:21.The brother of a man who was shot dead with his wife and mother-in-law

:00:22. > :00:23.while on holiday in the Alps, exactly five years ago,

:00:24. > :00:26.has told this programme the French investigation has failed them.

:00:27. > :00:28.No one's ever been charged for the triple murder.

:00:29. > :00:31.Now the woman leading the inquiry admits mistakes have been made.

:00:32. > :00:42.Here's our home affairs correspondent, Nick Beake.

:00:43. > :00:52.The family holiday ended in murder. Five years on it remains a mystery.

:00:53. > :00:59.The bodies were found in a forest -- near Lake Annecy in the French Alps.

:01:00. > :01:06.The brother of one was treated as a suspect. He is highly critical of

:01:07. > :01:10.the French police investigation. From the beginning they handled the

:01:11. > :01:16.whole case very badly, very poorly. The investigation was based on

:01:17. > :01:23.conjecture rather than proper evidence. That is why the whole

:01:24. > :01:30.thing has failed. When a passer-by found the bullet ridden family car,

:01:31. > :01:35.a four-year-old was hiding under her mother's body. Her elder sister had

:01:36. > :01:39.been shot and beaten that she too survived. The French cyclist was

:01:40. > :01:44.also killed in attack. Detectives explore the theory he had been the

:01:45. > :01:49.real target. Like all avenues pursued over the past five years it

:01:50. > :01:52.came to nothing. The murder of the family in September 2012 near Lake

:01:53. > :01:59.Annecy prompted a huge investigation. A year later the

:02:00. > :02:07.brother is arrested, amid rumours of a family feud, but later released

:02:08. > :02:09.because of insufficient evidence. Late 2013 the police issue this

:02:10. > :02:15.sketch of a motorcyclist seen nearby. He too is later ruled out.

:02:16. > :02:20.In 2014 and inquest in Surrey officially finds the three family

:02:21. > :02:27.members were unlawfully killed. Three years on in 2017 still no one

:02:28. > :02:30.has been charged over the murders. The French lead prosecutor now

:02:31. > :02:35.thinks the family could have been simply on the wrong place at the

:02:36. > :02:42.wrong time, victims of a random attack. She admits the police have

:02:43. > :02:48.so far failed the surviving family. TRANSLATION: Unfortunately there are

:02:49. > :02:52.no new leads. There has been no progress since last year. We are

:02:53. > :02:58.still looking for the murder weapon. We have got no further with the

:02:59. > :03:02.motive or the suspects. Case which has baffled investigators that home

:03:03. > :03:04.and abroad. Whoever the killer may be, for now they have got away with

:03:05. > :03:07.it. Nearly three months

:03:08. > :03:09.on from the Grenfell fire there are calls for more mental

:03:10. > :03:11.health for those It comes as Princes William

:03:12. > :03:14.and Harry met survivors at a new centre in North Kensington

:03:15. > :03:17.providing advice and counselling The Princes have always

:03:18. > :03:29.championed mental-health work. Today they saw first-hand the impact

:03:30. > :03:31.the Grenfell disaster has had Do you mind me asking,

:03:32. > :03:35.were you in Grenfell at the time, They spoke at length

:03:36. > :03:40.with residents - young and old - Some have lost friends

:03:41. > :03:43.or loved ones. There will be some people,

:03:44. > :03:51.I am sure you know a few, some people who either don't

:03:52. > :03:53.want to talk about their experiences or maybe think

:03:54. > :03:56.they're absolutely fine. This new mental health hub

:03:57. > :03:58.in Kensington will provide counselling, supervised sessions

:03:59. > :04:02.and general support for survivors. You can sit down and talk

:04:03. > :04:08.about almost anything. I know a lot of people don't think

:04:09. > :04:15.talking is always the best thing but, when you actually talk

:04:16. > :04:18.about it, you express it a lot more and it does become a lot

:04:19. > :04:21.easier to deal with. The physical scars of Grenfell

:04:22. > :04:24.will take a long time to heal but the mental scars

:04:25. > :04:27.perhaps even longer. One charity says,

:04:28. > :04:28.through conversations with survivors and witnesses,

:04:29. > :04:32.they believe as many as 20 people might have attempted suicide

:04:33. > :04:36.in the past few months. The right models are in place

:04:37. > :04:41.to help these people and hopefully encourage them moving away from that

:04:42. > :04:43.train of thought. If we just stand still and do

:04:44. > :04:46.nothing, it is like a ticking time This mosque and community centres

:04:47. > :04:59.where part of the initial relief The princes heard stories

:05:00. > :05:04.of the generosity of locals and strangers in the

:05:05. > :05:06.hours after the fire. Then, as they were leaving,

:05:07. > :05:10.they broke away to speak A moment for residents to cherish

:05:11. > :05:19.after three months of turmoil. And Marc joins me because there's

:05:20. > :05:32.an update this evening on what's Yes. The Communities Secretary made

:05:33. > :05:36.a statement to the House of Commons. He confirmed some details which we

:05:37. > :05:40.have known already do not officially. He praised the

:05:41. > :05:44.exceptionally difficult job in most trying circumstances of those still

:05:45. > :05:50.working at the side. He explained this to seven people have been

:05:51. > :05:54.formally identified. 151 homes were lost to the fire. In terms of free

:05:55. > :05:58.housing those people he said everyone who had engaged with your

:05:59. > :06:05.30s had been made an offer of the new home within a few weeks. He did

:06:06. > :06:10.acknowledge lotsa people were still in emergency accommodation. He said

:06:11. > :06:13.there was a need for accuracy, dignity as well as speed. We're

:06:14. > :06:18.talking about people's homes and lives.

:06:19. > :06:21.What matters to us isn't ticking boxes, but working at the pace

:06:22. > :06:23.that suits the needs and the circumstances

:06:24. > :06:28.That's why, at the request of residents, the council extended

:06:29. > :06:32.the expressions of interest period for permanent homes.

:06:33. > :06:42.What is the latest on testing for tower block safety? Across England

:06:43. > :06:48.173 social housing buildings are over 80 metres tall and have the

:06:49. > :06:52.same kind of cladding that had. Large-scale testing has been carried

:06:53. > :06:57.out. We have had some results today. He said four out of the seven types

:06:58. > :07:06.of cladding fell short of safety standards. Only eight of the towel

:07:07. > :07:10.blocks pass this test. He said advice has been given to local

:07:11. > :07:14.authorities to make them safe and some are removing the cladding.

:07:15. > :07:18.He'll so said there are many more buildings in the private sector. So

:07:19. > :07:24.far 89 have done testing on the cladding. They are encouraging all

:07:25. > :07:26.the land to come forward with samples and get them tested. Thank

:07:27. > :07:29.you. They may have survived Nazi Germany

:07:30. > :07:31.and the D-Day landings, but now London's Duck Tours

:07:32. > :07:33.and their unmistakable amphibious It's all because of

:07:34. > :07:36.a new super-sewer. These bright yellow Duck Tours

:07:37. > :07:45.have been turning heads in London for 15 years,

:07:46. > :07:49.but not for much longer. We do regard ourselves as being

:07:50. > :08:00.an iconic product to London, and one of the great benefits

:08:01. > :08:03.we bring to London is that other So they don't have it in Paris

:08:04. > :08:08.or in other European countries. The tours will stop

:08:09. > :08:10.because they won't be able to use this ramp,

:08:11. > :08:13.Thames Water is taking it over It says it's vital to he remove tens

:08:14. > :08:19.of millions of tonnes I'm afraid we've looked

:08:20. > :08:23.at lots of alternatives with Duck Tours, we've worked

:08:24. > :08:26.collaboratively with them. We've also tried to push back

:08:27. > :08:29.the time as long as possible until such time that they had

:08:30. > :08:32.to stop their operations. But, no, there is really no

:08:33. > :08:34.practical safe alternative Now these amphibious trucks

:08:35. > :08:41.were first made in the US in the 1940s and many of them

:08:42. > :08:45.actually served on D-Day Can you tell a bit of its American

:08:46. > :08:52.history because, look, the driver is actually sitting

:08:53. > :08:55.on the wrong side. More than 1.8 million passengers

:08:56. > :08:57.have travelled on London Duck Tours Though services were suspended

:08:58. > :09:02.for a time in 2013 when one There's a Duck Tour

:09:03. > :09:07.bus on fire, look. For many of today's passengers,

:09:08. > :09:09.this was as special trip, especially for Emma and her son

:09:10. > :09:14.Oliver, who has cancer. There's been a big fundraising

:09:15. > :09:17.effort to raise money So this is the first thing we've

:09:18. > :09:21.been able to do from his bucket list and when we found out

:09:22. > :09:24.it was closing, it was stopping running, we jigged his treatment

:09:25. > :09:26.around and the doctors have sort of made it possible

:09:27. > :09:29.for us to come to London John hopes the Duck Tours may return

:09:30. > :09:33.one day, but in the meantime We are considering

:09:34. > :09:38.working in Portugal. We've also been asked

:09:39. > :09:45.to look at Loch Ness. But they set sail on the Thames

:09:46. > :09:48.for the final time later this month. Time for me to wish you goodnight,

:09:49. > :10:08.and I'll leave you with Wendy Hello. We had sunflowers in this

:10:09. > :10:13.particular garden in Hornchurch even if we didn't have the sun. Tomorrow

:10:14. > :10:20.will be brighter. Fresh as well. You might have felt the crispness in the

:10:21. > :10:23.air. We have one or to macro showers trailing through in parts of Essex.

:10:24. > :10:29.The night will be clear that there is a bit of a breeze blowing. It

:10:30. > :10:32.will be between nine and 12 degrees. Yesterday we were at 17th of the

:10:33. > :10:38.quite a drop. The chilly start to the day. A bit of a breeze blowing

:10:39. > :10:43.through the day. Dappled cloud into the afternoon of the pleasant enough

:10:44. > :10:47.in the sunny spells. Still dry into Thursday as well. It will be fairly

:10:48. > :10:52.cloudy. Similar temperatures and more of a breeze blowing. On the

:10:53. > :10:56.outlook you can see you will need your brolly towards the end of the

:10:57. > :11:05.week. Heavy showers around on Saturday 12 in among the a wet and

:11:06. > :11:15.windy end as well. Now the National forecast. Good evening. The

:11:16. > :11:19.strongest hurricane ever is expected to make landfall in the next few

:11:20. > :11:25.hours.