05/09/2017 London News

Families are left devastated by false claims.

The brother of a man who was shot dead with his wife and mother-in-law

while on holiday in the Alps, exactly five years ago,

has told this programme the French investigation has failed them.

No one's ever been charged for the triple murder.

Now the woman leading the inquiry admits mistakes have been made.

Here's our home affairs correspondent, Nick Beake.

The family holiday ended in murder. Five years on it remains a mystery.

The bodies were found in a forest -- near Lake Annecy in the French Alps.

The brother of one was treated as a suspect. He is highly critical of

the French police investigation. From the beginning they handled the

whole case very badly, very poorly. The investigation was based on

conjecture rather than proper evidence. That is why the whole

thing has failed. When a passer-by found the bullet ridden family car,

a four-year-old was hiding under her mother's body. Her elder sister had

been shot and beaten that she too survived. The French cyclist was

also killed in attack. Detectives explore the theory he had been the

real target. Like all avenues pursued over the past five years it

came to nothing. The murder of the family in September 2012 near Lake

Annecy prompted a huge investigation. A year later the

brother is arrested, amid rumours of a family feud, but later released

because of insufficient evidence. Late 2013 the police issue this

sketch of a motorcyclist seen nearby. He too is later ruled out.

In 2014 and inquest in Surrey officially finds the three family

members were unlawfully killed. Three years on in 2017 still no one

has been charged over the murders. The French lead prosecutor now

thinks the family could have been simply on the wrong place at the

wrong time, victims of a random attack. She admits the police have

so far failed the surviving family. TRANSLATION: Unfortunately there are

no new leads. There has been no progress since last year. We are

still looking for the murder weapon. We have got no further with the

motive or the suspects. Case which has baffled investigators that home

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

it. Nearly three months

on from the Grenfell fire there are calls for more mental

health for those It comes as Princes William

and Harry met survivors at a new centre in North Kensington

providing advice and counselling The Princes have always

championed mental-health work. Today they saw first-hand the impact

the Grenfell disaster has had Do you mind me asking,

were you in Grenfell at the time, They spoke at length

with residents - young and old - Some have lost friends

or loved ones. There will be some people,

I am sure you know a few, some people who either don't

want to talk about their experiences or maybe think

they're absolutely fine. This new mental health hub

in Kensington will provide counselling, supervised sessions

and general support for survivors. You can sit down and talk

about almost anything. I know a lot of people don't think

talking is always the best thing but, when you actually talk

about it, you express it a lot more and it does become a lot

easier to deal with. The physical scars of Grenfell

will take a long time to heal but the mental scars

perhaps even longer. One charity says,

through conversations with survivors and witnesses,

they believe as many as 20 people might have attempted suicide

in the past few months. The right models are in place

to help these people and hopefully encourage them moving away from that

train of thought. If we just stand still and do

nothing, it is like a ticking time This mosque and community centres

where part of the initial relief The princes heard stories

of the generosity of locals and strangers in the

hours after the fire. Then, as they were leaving,

they broke away to speak A moment for residents to cherish

after three months of turmoil. And Marc joins me because there's

an update this evening on what's Yes. The Communities Secretary made

a statement to the House of Commons. He confirmed some details which we

have known already do not officially. He praised the

exceptionally difficult job in most trying circumstances of those still

working at the side. He explained this to seven people have been

formally identified. 151 homes were lost to the fire. In terms of free

housing those people he said everyone who had engaged with your

30s had been made an offer of the new home within a few weeks. He did

acknowledge lotsa people were still in emergency accommodation. He said

there was a need for accuracy, dignity as well as speed. We're

talking about people's homes and lives.

What matters to us isn't ticking boxes, but working at the pace

that suits the needs and the circumstances

That's why, at the request of residents, the council extended

the expressions of interest period for permanent homes.

What is the latest on testing for tower block safety? Across England

173 social housing buildings are over 80 metres tall and have the

same kind of cladding that had. Large-scale testing has been carried

out. We have had some results today. He said four out of the seven types

of cladding fell short of safety standards. Only eight of the towel

blocks pass this test. He said advice has been given to local

authorities to make them safe and some are removing the cladding.

He'll so said there are many more buildings in the private sector. So

far 89 have done testing on the cladding. They are encouraging all

the land to come forward with samples and get them tested. Thank

you. They may have survived Nazi Germany

and the D-Day landings, but now London's Duck Tours

and their unmistakable amphibious It's all because of

a new super-sewer. These bright yellow Duck Tours

have been turning heads in London for 15 years,

but not for much longer. We do regard ourselves as being

an iconic product to London, and one of the great benefits

we bring to London is that other So they don't have it in Paris

or in other European countries. The tours will stop

because they won't be able to use this ramp,

Thames Water is taking it over It says it's vital to he remove tens

of millions of tonnes I'm afraid we've looked

at lots of alternatives with Duck Tours, we've worked

collaboratively with them. We've also tried to push back

the time as long as possible until such time that they had

to stop their operations. But, no, there is really no

practical safe alternative Now these amphibious trucks

were first made in the US in the 1940s and many of them

actually served on D-Day Can you tell a bit of its American

history because, look, the driver is actually sitting

on the wrong side. More than 1.8 million passengers

have travelled on London Duck Tours Though services were suspended

for a time in 2013 when one There's a Duck Tour

bus on fire, look. For many of today's passengers,

this was as special trip, especially for Emma and her son

Oliver, who has cancer. There's been a big fundraising

effort to raise money So this is the first thing we've

been able to do from his bucket list and when we found out

it was closing, it was stopping running, we jigged his treatment

around and the doctors have sort of made it possible

for us to come to London John hopes the Duck Tours may return

one day, but in the meantime We are considering

working in Portugal. We've also been asked

to look at Loch Ness. But they set sail on the Thames

for the final time later this month. Time for me to wish you goodnight,

and I'll leave you with Wendy Hello. We had sunflowers in this

particular garden in Hornchurch even if we didn't have the sun. Tomorrow

will be brighter. Fresh as well. You might have felt the crispness in the

air. We have one or to macro showers trailing through in parts of Essex.

The night will be clear that there is a bit of a breeze blowing. It

will be between nine and 12 degrees. Yesterday we were at 17th of the

quite a drop. The chilly start to the day. A bit of a breeze blowing

through the day. Dappled cloud into the afternoon of the pleasant enough

in the sunny spells. Still dry into Thursday as well. It will be fairly

cloudy. Similar temperatures and more of a breeze blowing. On the

outlook you can see you will need your brolly towards the end of the

week. Heavy showers around on Saturday 12 in among the a wet and

windy end as well. Now the National forecast. Good evening. The

strongest hurricane ever is expected to make landfall in the next few

hours.