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here on BBC One, it's time
for the news where you are. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
I'm Asad Ahmad. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
The parents of a severely disabled
boy who fought doctors | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
at King's College Hospital
to keep their son on life support | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
say they feel "pure anger"
that it was removed, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
and Isaiah Haastrup
was allowed to die. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
The one-year-old was born
with "catastrophic" brain damage, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
after mistakes by doctors. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
His parents have been speaking
to Marc Ashdown about their loss. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:39 | |
Isaiah Haastrup's short life came
to a tragic end yesterday evening. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
While he's been fighting to live,
his parents have been | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
fighting his hospital,
determined he should be given | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
every chance to survive. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
He had a little
cheekiness about him. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:56 | |
Especially when you come
beside him and call his name, | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
when he open his eyes and stuff
and turn his head towards you. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
That I'm going to miss, but,
right now, all I can feel | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
is just pure anger and... | 0:01:06 | 0:01:16 | |
All I know is justice
was not served - at all. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:21 | |
Isaiah was born at King's College
Hospital last February. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
He suffered catastrophic
brain damage. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
After an investigation,
King's eventually apologised | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
for mistakes doctors made that day. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
His parents originally
accepted his prognosis, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
but in April they saw signs of life
and disagreed he should | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
simply be allowed to die. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
The hospital went to the High Court
to seek legal backing. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
In November, a judge
agreed to a second opinion | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
from an independent expert. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
In January, the court ruled life
support could be removed. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
After the parents' appeals to UK
and European courts failed, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
yesterday, medical support
was removed and Isaiah passed away. | 0:01:55 | 0:02:01 | |
King's told us they have always
actively sought to involve Isaiah's | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
parents in his care,
and have always acted | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
in his best interests. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
They say the decision to apply
to the courts to remove | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
treatment was only taken
after careful consideration. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
The parents still feel let down. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
They say in court, doctors claimed
Isaiah could only breathe | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
for a few minutes unaided -
he actually survived | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
yesterday for seven hours. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
They'd always argued he'd
have a chance of living | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
if he was weaned slowly
off life support. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
These are Isaiah's
last precious moments. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
Parents must be listened to more
and not just saying, well, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
the doctors have spoken and looking
at the parents from a prism of | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
they are in grief or in pain,
they don't know what they're | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
doing, they're delusional. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
But they allowed you to
get a second opinion? | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
All the judges agreed
with the hospital. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
The attitude of the court is,
well, we don't care. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
They are doctors,
you're not a doctor. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
But we are the parents,
and we see our child. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
I mean, we see him every single day. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
The beauty of it is Isaiah
showed us what he can do | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
and that he wanted to live. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
As a system, we let him down again,
even at that stage. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
I think we need to review our system
we need to save more kids. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
King's maintain it was always
impossible to predict how long | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
Isaiah could breathe
on his own and their priority | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
was to ensure he was
comfortable with his family. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
We kept talking to him,
we kept singing to him, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
to encourage him, to let him know
that we're here for him. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
And he fought,
he fought all the way. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:36 | |
Takesha Thomas, Isaiah's mother,
speaking to Marc Ashdown. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
And Louisa Preston,
this is a tragic case. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:45 | |
Yes, extremely upsetting for the
family, but also extremely | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
distressing for the hospital staff
involved in this case and obviously | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
there are lessons to be learned from
this. I think at the centre of this | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
the lesson has to be learned about
trust. Any hospital manager watching | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
this evening will be extremely
concerned about the fundamental | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
breakdown in that level of trust
between the parents and their | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
doctors. But we've seen many cases
like this before, melody Driscoll | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
another young girl being treated in
Kings, we've covered her story and | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
of course Charlie Gard, the case of
Charlie Gard. What they all have in | 0:04:15 | 0:04:21 | |
common is that parents are
questioning the notion that the | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
doctor knows best. As we go forward
what we have to think about is | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
hospital staff have to think very
much about parents being involved in | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
all those difficult decision-making
and making sure the parents feel | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
they are being listened to,
otherwise we will see many more | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
cases like this. Louisa Gurski,
thank you. -- Louisa Preston, thank | 0:04:38 | 0:04:44 | |
you. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Police are warning that a social
media craze for cyclists to get | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
as close as they can to moving cars
before swerving out the way | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
will lead to deaths,
after footage emerged | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
of a teenager being hit. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
The boy's mother is now supporting
a campaign to stop other | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
cyclists who do the same,
who also put drivers | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
at serious risk. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:01 | |
Here's Yvonne Hall. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
This is the so-called game teenagers
are calling "swerve the car". | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
But 15-year-old Paul Belcher
pushes his luck too far | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
and doesn't swerve in time. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
Incredibly, Paul only suffers
bruising in the collision | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
near St Albans in Hertfordshire. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
I just didn't know if he was OK,
if he was dead, if he had broken any | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
bones, if anyone else had been hurt. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
The impact of such a stupid game
could have been a loss of life | 0:05:22 | 0:05:28 | |
in so many situations. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
For drivers, it's terrifying
and dangerous too. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
A pregnant woman in this car had
to be treated for shock. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
This is the roundabout
in Borehamwood and it's a popular | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
location for teenagers playing
the so-called swerving game. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
You can see how busy it is and how
dangerous it would be to ride a bike | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
straight towards these vehicles. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
But what a lot of these youngsters
probably don't realise | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
is their actions are being picked up
on the CCTV camera and it | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
could lead to prosecutions. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
This is really dangerous, to get
as close to the car as possible, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
usually to intimidate the driver
and it's often being recorded, | 0:06:03 | 0:06:09 | |
because it's something
to put on social media | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
to show their friends as a fun game. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
Well, our message is it isn't a fun
game, it's a dangerous game | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
and people will end up getting
killed and seriously injured. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
Here, a cyclist even swerves
towards a police car. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
Officers say the number
of complaints they're getting | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
They're now planning
a campaign in schools | 0:06:28 | 0:06:29 | |
to stop more teenagers
risking theirs and | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
other people's lives. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:32 | |
Yvonne Hall, BBC London News. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
Today is International Women's Day,
and as part of our series hearing | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
from women who help run London,
tonight we meet Metropolitan Police | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
Commissioner, Cressida Dick. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
In an open and honest
conversation with Riz Lateef, | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
she tells us about her personal
feelings every time there's | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
a fatal stabbing in London. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
But she began by explaining
what it was like | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
when she learned she was to be given
the country's top job in policing. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
I was thrilled, I was humbled,
I was astonished and I thought | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
about my mum, no longer
with us, sadly. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
What would your mum have said? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
I think she'd have laughed. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
I think she'd be amazed
that her little girl | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
had gone on to do this. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
How did you cope in those early
days, with the canteen culture | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
and sexism in the Force? | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
It was a different age,
and I was prepared to challenge. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
I stood up for what I believed in,
but I remember one of my bosses | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
taking me into an office very early
on and saying, "You know, | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
Cressida, if you fight every
battle at the parapets, | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
you'll get shot down and that
will be the end of you". | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
So I think I learned that
you can't take on absolutely | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
every battle head on,
but you should stand | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
up for yourself. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
Do you ever show vulnerability? | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
I heard myself saying to my senior
officers the other day that we'd had | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
a terrible year and I knew that some
of them would be feeling | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
like crying and, actually,
sometimes it's good for a team | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
to see a boss making themselves kind
of vulnerable in that way. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:16 | |
In terms of the shooting
of Jean Charles de Menezes, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
you were cleared of any wrongdoing. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
You were in charge
of that operation. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
Did you ever question your
judgment after that? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
I don't think you can be
an effective operational | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
leader if you don't ask
yourself hard questions. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:35 | |
So, absolutely. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
Did I think that I had made,
you know, a fundamental error | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
of judgment in the decisions that
I made based on the | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
information I had? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
No, I didn't - but a terrible,
terrible thing happened, | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
an innocent man was killed. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Does it ever feel like a personal
failure, when you hear | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
of another stabbing? | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
Umm... | 0:08:56 | 0:09:02 | |
I suppose in a way... | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
It does. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
I feel sad, of course,
for what has happened. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
I feel sorry for everybody involved,
and I know that the public and media | 0:09:12 | 0:09:19 | |
are kind of counting each one,
and quite right too, because they're | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
all cherished children. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:27 | |
Every death is a tragedy and we
should all feel outraged by that. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:34 | |
What do you want your legacy to be? | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
I want London to be seen as a safe
city, in which people can see | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
that we have really taken violence
seriously and reduced the most | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
pernicious sorts of violence,
and that we have done everything | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
we can to prevent attacks. | 0:09:50 | 0:10:00 | |
Cressida Dick, speaking to Riz
Lateef. Now for a very different | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
weather forecast to the one we had | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
Lateef. Now for a very different
weather forecast to the one we had | 0:10:07 | 0:10:07 | |
exactly a week ago?
And greatly different, a lovely end | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
to the day and the March sunshine is
starting to get strength to it. It's | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
still cold enough for a touch of
frost which we will see tonight. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
Partly cloudy skies, good clear
spells and even if temperatures | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
don't drop below freezing there will
be close enough for a touch of grass | 0:10:23 | 0:10:31 | |
on the -- touch of frost on the
grass. The best part of the day | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
early on, some sunshine in many
areas. Quickly turning hazy as cloud | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
drifts up through the south and late
morning. There will be some splashes | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
of rain towards the south of London.
It will turn heavier as we go into | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
the night, temperatures peaking at 9
degrees. Saturday morning, while the | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
start. The best of the sunshine in a
morning. More cloud into the | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
afternoon with one or two showers.
It's going to be incredibly mild, | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
the warmest day of the year so far.
Temperatures up to around 15. It | 0:10:56 | 0:11:01 | |
stays mild into | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 |