05/12/2017 London News

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After a 90-year-old

woman was stabbed

by a carer, who had a previous

conviction for assault,

there are calls for an urgent review

of how criminal record checks

are carried out.

Pamela Batten was attacked

at her home in Hillingdon

and nearly bled to death.

The company who employed her

assailant says it did carry out

checks but they didn't flag up

all her convictions.

It's prompted serious questions

as to how this could have happened.

The Home Office, which is in charge

of criminal records checks,

is refusing to comment.

Yvonne Hall has this

exclusive report.

Guilty of assault, burglary,

stealing from an employer and fraud,

but Abosede Adeyinka was given a job

as a carer, sent into the homes

of vulnerable elderly

people to look after them.

This was the result - 90-year-old

Pamela Batten nearly died

when Adeyinka tried

to kill her for cash

at Pamela's home near West Drayton.

This is where the attack happened.

Amazingly, the frail

grandmother managed to pull

the knife out of her neck

and scare her attacker off.

Adeyinka has been jailed for 21

years for attempted murder.

My mum had two injuries

on the head from the hammer -

one to the front

and one to the back.

And she had a knife wound

on the right-hand side,

and the knife went

in five centimetres,

just missing her spinal cord.

I cannot believe...

I really can't believe that

someone with that amount of

convictions can be still working

with vulnerable people.

Without a doubt, the law,

it's not just what I

want, the law should be changed.

It's got to be changed.

This is Pamela now, left disabled

and very frightened of strangers.

Her son has filmed her for us.

Adeyinka, also a Sunday-school

teacher, had been employed

by Avant Healthcare to help look

after Pamela's sick husband.

Avant Healthcare Services are based

in this office block in Hounslow.

Nobody wants to be interviewed,

but in a statement, the company said

it had thoroughly vetted Adeyinka,

including criminal records checks

through the Government's

Disclosure and Barring Service,

and it said her convictions

for assault and burglary

were not revealed.

It added, if Avant Healthcare

had been aware of the assault

conviction, Abosede Adeyinka

would not have been employed.

So how did the safety

checks fail Pamela?

The Home Office is in

charge of the system

to check criminal records.

It's called the Disclosure

and Barring Service, or DBS.

We've repeatedly asked officials

here how Adeyinka's convictions

appear not to have been included

in a DBS check.

But nobody here will tell us how it

happened, or what is being done

to stop it happening again.

A charity campaigning for new laws

to protect older people is now

demanding to know how many other

carers have convictions

for violence too.

It's a huge concern,

because where else is it happening?

There is blame somewhere, we need

to establish where the blame is.

Thinking about your own parents,

would you be happy with the idea

that somebody with those sorts

of serious convictions

are coming into somebody's home?

Pamela wants answers too.

Well, I'm shocked as well,

it surprised me,

because it makes you wonder now

just what is going on.

Yvonne Hall, BBC London News.

Detectives are trying

to piece together the last known

movements of a father and daughter

found dead at a home in Deptford.

The bodies of Noel Brown,

who was 69, and his 41-year-old

daughter Marie, were discovered

in the early hours

of yesterday morning.

Detectives say someone had forced

entry into the house.

Police said they're investigating

multiple lines of inquiry

The Mayor of London has announced

City Hall will spearhead a global

partnership to tackle air pollution.

The capital is set to get a new air

monitoring system.

Sadiq Khan made the announcement

in Delhi - on the third day

of his trade visit to India.

From where, our political

correspondent, Karl Mercer,

sent this report.

Take a look at Delhi if you thought

London traffic was banned.

-- bad.

And take a look at Delhi

if you thought London had

a bad pollution problem.

Here the state of the atmosphere

is front-page news and in the next

ten days all 6000 traffic police

here will be tested for lung disease

and a couple of months ago the Test

match between India and Sri Lanka

-- a couple of days ago, the Test

Match between India and Sri Lanka

saw these scenes. Play held up.

Players wearing masks, some being

sick.

As he's done in London, the mayor

has made air pollution one of the

key issues on his tour of India. The

scale of the problem here in Delhi

is like nothing London has ever

seen. Experts say not only is this

one of the most polluted global

sittied, but also -- cities, but

also spending a day here is like

smoking 50 cigarettes. The mayor

thinks the two cities can learn from

each other. You can make new friends

if you like. Today, he announced

£750,000 would be spent on new air

monitoring stations in London.

We

have monitors outside schools, care

centres and other places then take

local action. It's not a one size

fits all approach. We can monitor

particulate matter. We will use this

as a way of cleaning up the air in

London sooner rather than later.

The school that welcomed the mayor

to Delhi is doing a lot of work on

air pollution.

Is this a high level

or low level?

High.

It's a growing

problem according to the head

teacher here.

Initially it was not

that bad a condition, which has

started in three years or so. Since

three years, it has really gone bad

and we are worried about it. Before

that, it was not that bad. Now we

are taking it up at a very high

level so it stops and within a year

or two, we're able to manage it.

The

business of the trip is done in

grand rooms not classrooms. The

mayor meeting India's Finance

Minister and then, its commerce

minister. Once, of course, he'd

finished his last minute paperwork.

The Chancellor, the second most

powerful politician in India,

according to the experts I speak to,

was keen to reassure me he

recognises that London is open. He's

heard the phrase. He believes it's

meaningful. He's pleased to hear

that notwithstanding Brexit, London

is open and will continue to be

open.

Business aside, this is also a

trip about sybolism, London's Muslim

mayor at the giant Hindu temple

today. Among the greeting party, a

swami who started life in London.

Yes, I studied at Woolwich college.

I lived in Elton. You don't lose it,

that quickly.

Whatever the mayor

says about shared city problems,

this, at least, is one London

doesn't have.

More now on the findings

of a major terror review

ordered by the Government.

The report highlights how the leader

of the London Bridge attack,

and the man who targeted Westminster

bridge, had both been

on MI5's radar previously.

Marc Ashdown has more

details on the findings -

Unlike Manchester, as we've heard

tonight, there aren't questions

about whether these attacks could

have actually been prevented, but

more details are emerging.

Yes, much

anticipated really. What we learned

from the review was firstly that the

Security Service was actively

investigating the ring leader of the

London Bridge attack, when it

happened in June this year. Now from

mid-2015 Khuram Butt was under

scrutiny by MI5. It was called

operation hawthorne. It was set up

because they had information he

wanted to carry out an attack on the

UK. Let's look at the time line of

what happened: In 2015, an

assessment concluded he represented

a medium risk. It says he had strong

intent but weak capability. Early

the following year, the operation

was suspended, mainly because of

resourcing problems after the Paris

attacks. Then it was downgraded all

together. But two weeks before the

London Bridge attack, hawthorne was

re-opened. New material had come to

light, been received, but it didn't

indicate atrocities that Khuram Butt

would go on to commit when he and

two others killed eight people on

London Bridge.

What else did we

learn about the man responsible on

the attack -- for the attack on

Westminster bridge.

Khalid Masood

was also known to MI5. He was under

surveillance for associating with

extremists. He wasn't being

investigated at the time of the

attack in March. Indeed the report

does say it could not have been

anticipated. But it does reveal in

the days prior to the attack, he

carried out reconnaissance missions

to Westminster. He'd been browsing

YouTube videos on terrorism. Now

important to point out really today

that this report says there's no

suggestion either of these attacks

could have actually been prevented

by the Security Services. The the

Met Police Commissioner said today

she feels she needs new technology,

more resources to tackle, to fight

this growing problem. She says there

are significant challenges and the

environment is more intense than

ever for those fighting terror from

within the Security Service.

Mark,

thanks for talking us through that.

That's it for now from me, but let's

find out what the weather's

Thank you. It was cloudy and mild

today. We saw highs of around 10

Celsius. It will feel a touch milder

tomorrow. But a mixed bag for the

rest of the week. Milder tomorrow,

then feeling much colder for the end

of the working week. It's going to

be very windy indeed on Thursday

morning with the risk of some wintry

showers a bit later on through the

week as well as some sunshine.

Overnight tonight, it's really quite

cloudy out there. The south-westerly

breeze will start to pick up. We

start off the day tomorrow on a

reasonably mild note at this time of

year, six or seven Celsius. Then

this is tomorrow morning, perhaps a

few spots of drizzle, otherwise dry.

We'll see brightness through the

afternoon, but the wind will start

to really pick up, becoming quite

brisk I think. Some brightness

around and temperatures even higher,

12 degrees Celsius. But then it's

going to turn very windy indeed on

Wednesday night into Thursday, a

mild, wet, windy start to the day on

Thursday. This is the outlook then: