0:00:00 > 0:00:00the point of my work.OK. Congratulations on winning the
0:00:00 > 0:00:12prize.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15Welcome to BBC London News with me, Chris Rogers.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18After a 90-year-old woman was stabbed
0:00:18 > 0:00:21by a carer, who had a previous conviction for assault,
0:00:21 > 0:00:23there are calls for an urgent review of how criminal record checks
0:00:23 > 0:00:25are carried out.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Pamela Batten was attacked at her home in Hillingdon
0:00:28 > 0:00:30and nearly bled to death.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33The company who employed her assailant says it did carry out
0:00:33 > 0:00:36checks but they didn't flag up all her convictions.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39It's prompted serious questions as to how this could have happened.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Home Office, which is in charge of criminal records checks,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44is refusing to comment.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48Yvonne Hall has this exclusive report.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53Guilty of assault, burglary, stealing from an employer and fraud,
0:00:53 > 0:00:57but Abosede Adeyinka was given a job as a carer, sent into the homes
0:00:57 > 0:01:00of vulnerable elderly people to look after them.
0:01:00 > 0:01:06This was the result - 90-year-old Pamela Batten nearly died
0:01:06 > 0:01:08when Adeyinka tried to kill her for cash
0:01:09 > 0:01:11at Pamela's home near West Drayton.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15This is where the attack happened.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Amazingly, the frail grandmother managed to pull
0:01:20 > 0:01:23the knife out of her neck and scare her attacker off.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Adeyinka has been jailed for 21 years for attempted murder.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29My mum had two injuries on the head from the hammer -
0:01:29 > 0:01:33one to the front and one to the back.
0:01:33 > 0:01:39And she had a knife wound on the right-hand side,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and the knife went in five centimetres,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43just missing her spinal cord.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46I cannot believe...
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I really can't believe that someone with that amount of
0:01:49 > 0:01:53convictions can be still working with vulnerable people.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Without a doubt, the law, it's not just what I
0:01:56 > 0:01:58want, the law should be changed.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00It's got to be changed.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03This is Pamela now, left disabled and very frightened of strangers.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Her son has filmed her for us.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10Adeyinka, also a Sunday-school teacher, had been employed
0:02:10 > 0:02:15by Avant Healthcare to help look after Pamela's sick husband.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Avant Healthcare Services are based in this office block in Hounslow.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Nobody wants to be interviewed, but in a statement, the company said
0:02:20 > 0:02:24it had thoroughly vetted Adeyinka, including criminal records checks
0:02:24 > 0:02:27through the Government's Disclosure and Barring Service,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29and it said her convictions for assault and burglary
0:02:29 > 0:02:33were not revealed.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36It added, if Avant Healthcare had been aware of the assault
0:02:36 > 0:02:38conviction, Abosede Adeyinka would not have been employed.
0:02:38 > 0:02:45So how did the safety checks fail Pamela?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47The Home Office is in charge of the system
0:02:47 > 0:02:52to check criminal records.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54It's called the Disclosure and Barring Service, or DBS.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57We've repeatedly asked officials here how Adeyinka's convictions
0:02:57 > 0:03:02appear not to have been included in a DBS check.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05But nobody here will tell us how it happened, or what is being done
0:03:05 > 0:03:08to stop it happening again.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12A charity campaigning for new laws to protect older people is now
0:03:12 > 0:03:14demanding to know how many other carers have convictions
0:03:14 > 0:03:16for violence too.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It's a huge concern, because where else is it happening?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22There is blame somewhere, we need to establish where the blame is.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Thinking about your own parents, would you be happy with the idea
0:03:25 > 0:03:27that somebody with those sorts of serious convictions
0:03:27 > 0:03:29are coming into somebody's home?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Pamela wants answers too.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Well, I'm shocked as well, it surprised me,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39because it makes you wonder now just what is going on.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Yvonne Hall, BBC London News.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Detectives are trying to piece together the last known
0:03:45 > 0:03:49movements of a father and daughter found dead at a home in Deptford.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53The bodies of Noel Brown, who was 69, and his 41-year-old
0:03:53 > 0:03:56daughter Marie, were discovered in the early hours
0:03:56 > 0:03:59of yesterday morning.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Detectives say someone had forced entry into the house.
0:04:01 > 0:04:08Police said they're investigating multiple lines of inquiry
0:04:08 > 0:04:14The Mayor of London has announced City Hall will spearhead a global
0:04:14 > 0:04:18partnership to tackle air pollution. The capital is set to get a new air
0:04:18 > 0:04:25monitoring system.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Sadiq Khan made the announcement in Delhi - on the third day
0:04:28 > 0:04:29of his trade visit to India.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31From where, our political correspondent, Karl Mercer,
0:04:31 > 0:04:32sent this report.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Take a look at Delhi if you thought London traffic was banned.
0:04:35 > 0:04:35-- bad.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38And take a look at Delhi if you thought London had
0:04:38 > 0:04:40a bad pollution problem.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Here the state of the atmosphere is front-page news and in the next
0:04:43 > 0:04:47ten days all 6000 traffic police here will be tested for lung disease
0:04:47 > 0:04:50and a couple of months ago the Test match between India and Sri Lanka
0:04:50 > 0:04:53-- a couple of days ago, the Test Match between India and Sri Lanka
0:04:53 > 0:04:56saw these scenes. Play held up. Players wearing masks, some being
0:04:56 > 0:05:01sick. As he's done in London, the mayor
0:05:01 > 0:05:05has made air pollution one of the key issues on his tour of India. The
0:05:05 > 0:05:08scale of the problem here in Delhi is like nothing London has ever
0:05:08 > 0:05:13seen. Experts say not only is this one of the most polluted global
0:05:13 > 0:05:20sittied, but also -- cities, but also spending a day here is like
0:05:20 > 0:05:23smoking 50 cigarettes. The mayor thinks the two cities can learn from
0:05:23 > 0:05:30each other. You can make new friends if you like. Today, he announced
0:05:30 > 0:05:36£750,000 would be spent on new air monitoring stations in London.We
0:05:36 > 0:05:40have monitors outside schools, care centres and other places then take
0:05:40 > 0:05:46local action. It's not a one size fits all approach. We can monitor
0:05:46 > 0:05:50particulate matter. We will use this as a way of cleaning up the air in
0:05:50 > 0:05:55London sooner rather than later. The school that welcomed the mayor
0:05:55 > 0:05:59to Delhi is doing a lot of work on air pollution.Is this a high level
0:05:59 > 0:06:03or low level?High.It's a growing problem according to the head
0:06:03 > 0:06:07teacher here.Initially it was not that bad a condition, which has
0:06:07 > 0:06:11started in three years or so. Since three years, it has really gone bad
0:06:11 > 0:06:16and we are worried about it. Before that, it was not that bad. Now we
0:06:16 > 0:06:22are taking it up at a very high level so it stops and within a year
0:06:22 > 0:06:27or two, we're able to manage it.The business of the trip is done in
0:06:27 > 0:06:32grand rooms not classrooms. The mayor meeting India's Finance
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Minister and then, its commerce minister. Once, of course, he'd
0:06:36 > 0:06:42finished his last minute paperwork. The Chancellor, the second most
0:06:42 > 0:06:45powerful politician in India, according to the experts I speak to,
0:06:45 > 0:06:49was keen to reassure me he recognises that London is open. He's
0:06:49 > 0:06:53heard the phrase. He believes it's meaningful. He's pleased to hear
0:06:53 > 0:06:55that notwithstanding Brexit, London is open and will continue to be
0:06:55 > 0:07:02open.Business aside, this is also a trip about sybolism, London's Muslim
0:07:02 > 0:07:15mayor at the giant Hindu temple today. Among the greeting party, a
0:07:15 > 0:07:20swami who started life in London. Yes, I studied at Woolwich college.
0:07:20 > 0:07:27I lived in Elton. You don't lose it, that quickly.Whatever the mayor
0:07:27 > 0:07:31says about shared city problems, this, at least, is one London
0:07:31 > 0:07:37doesn't have.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40More now on the findings of a major terror review
0:07:40 > 0:07:41ordered by the Government.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44The report highlights how the leader of the London Bridge attack,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47and the man who targeted Westminster bridge, had both been
0:07:47 > 0:07:49on MI5's radar previously.
0:07:49 > 0:07:55Marc Ashdown has more details on the findings -
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Unlike Manchester, as we've heard tonight, there aren't questions
0:07:58 > 0:08:01about whether these attacks could have actually been prevented, but
0:08:01 > 0:08:05more details are emerging.Yes, much anticipated really. What we learned
0:08:05 > 0:08:09from the review was firstly that the Security Service was actively
0:08:09 > 0:08:13investigating the ring leader of the London Bridge attack, when it
0:08:13 > 0:08:19happened in June this year. Now from mid-2015 Khuram Butt was under
0:08:19 > 0:08:23scrutiny by MI5. It was called operation hawthorne. It was set up
0:08:23 > 0:08:26because they had information he wanted to carry out an attack on the
0:08:26 > 0:08:32UK. Let's look at the time line of what happened: In 2015, an
0:08:32 > 0:08:36assessment concluded he represented a medium risk. It says he had strong
0:08:36 > 0:08:40intent but weak capability. Early the following year, the operation
0:08:40 > 0:08:43was suspended, mainly because of resourcing problems after the Paris
0:08:43 > 0:08:48attacks. Then it was downgraded all together. But two weeks before the
0:08:48 > 0:08:51London Bridge attack, hawthorne was re-opened. New material had come to
0:08:51 > 0:08:55light, been received, but it didn't indicate atrocities that Khuram Butt
0:08:55 > 0:08:59would go on to commit when he and two others killed eight people on
0:08:59 > 0:09:03London Bridge.What else did we learn about the man responsible on
0:09:03 > 0:09:07the attack -- for the attack on Westminster bridge.Khalid Masood
0:09:07 > 0:09:11was also known to MI5. He was under surveillance for associating with
0:09:11 > 0:09:14extremists. He wasn't being investigated at the time of the
0:09:14 > 0:09:17attack in March. Indeed the report does say it could not have been
0:09:17 > 0:09:23anticipated. But it does reveal in the days prior to the attack, he
0:09:23 > 0:09:27carried out reconnaissance missions to Westminster. He'd been browsing
0:09:27 > 0:09:31YouTube videos on terrorism. Now important to point out really today
0:09:31 > 0:09:34that this report says there's no suggestion either of these attacks
0:09:34 > 0:09:40could have actually been prevented by the Security Services. The the
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Met Police Commissioner said today she feels she needs new technology,
0:09:44 > 0:09:48more resources to tackle, to fight this growing problem. She says there
0:09:48 > 0:09:52are significant challenges and the environment is more intense than
0:09:52 > 0:09:55ever for those fighting terror from within the Security Service.Mark,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59thanks for talking us through that.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather's
0:10:03 > 0:10:09Thank you. It was cloudy and mild today. We saw highs of around 10
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Celsius. It will feel a touch milder tomorrow. But a mixed bag for the
0:10:13 > 0:10:17rest of the week. Milder tomorrow, then feeling much colder for the end
0:10:17 > 0:10:20of the working week. It's going to be very windy indeed on Thursday
0:10:20 > 0:10:24morning with the risk of some wintry showers a bit later on through the
0:10:24 > 0:10:27week as well as some sunshine. Overnight tonight, it's really quite
0:10:27 > 0:10:30cloudy out there. The south-westerly breeze will start to pick up. We
0:10:30 > 0:10:34start off the day tomorrow on a reasonably mild note at this time of
0:10:34 > 0:10:37year, six or seven Celsius. Then this is tomorrow morning, perhaps a
0:10:37 > 0:10:41few spots of drizzle, otherwise dry. We'll see brightness through the
0:10:41 > 0:10:44afternoon, but the wind will start to really pick up, becoming quite
0:10:44 > 0:10:48brisk I think. Some brightness around and temperatures even higher,
0:10:48 > 0:10:5312 degrees Celsius. But then it's going to turn very windy indeed on
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Wednesday night into Thursday, a mild, wet, windy start to the day on
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Thursday. This is the outlook then: