21/02/2018 London News

Please be aware that it is going to

turn bitterly cold.

Welcome to BBC London News.

I'm Katharine Carpenter.

The family of a 20-year-old

stabbed to death in Camden last

night, say they feel

let down by the police.

Sadiq Adan Mohamed was one of two

young men who died in knife

attacks in Kentish Town

within an hour and half.

His brother was killed in September.

Detectives are trying

to establish if there's a link

between yesterday's killings

which took place a mile apart.

Alpa Patel can update us now.

What we know is that four people

were stabbed in Camden last night

within the space of just seven

hours. Two of the stabbings were

fatal.

One of the men has

been identified to us

as Sadiq Adan Mohamed, who is 20.

He was killed on Malden Road,

and we have been told his brother

was killed in September.

Now his family, who originate

from Somalia, have released a very

strongly worded statement,

in which they say:

We have been in Camden this morning.

We spoke to one youngster.

If I went

out and I wasn't back before dark I

would be grounded. Now it is God to

the stage when I am not -- now it

has got to the stage if I'm not back

before dark there a possibility of

being stabbed.

It just crazy.

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan

Police has also spoken today

at the anger she feels

at the senseless waste of life.

Interestingly, the mayor of London

has also spoken. He says immediate

action needs to be taken. He is

urging the Prime Minister and the

Home Secretary to meet with him and

his deputy of policing urgently.

Thank you.

Well, these latest stabbings

come ahead of a meeting

of the London Assembly Police

and Crime Committee this afternoon.

It'll be discussing the issue

of knife crime and how to tackle it,

and we'll bring you the latest

from that meeting on our programme

at 6.30 tonight.

A Norwegian prison governor

has told BBC London

that the pioneering rehabilitation

programmes he uses could help cut

re-offending rates here.

His model sees prisoners offered

drug treatment programmes,

and the chance to work or study

for qualifications

during their sentences.

It's also led to a drop

in crime rates.

As part of our series looking

at prisons, Marc Ashdown has been

to Norway to see how it works.

This man is a truck driver, just

finishing his shift delivering goods

around Trondheim. He is also serving

five years in prison. Towards the

end of their sentence, some

prisoners can stay at this unit and

get a job to reintegrate.

It is

easier when you come out. If you

come from inside and start work the

day after.

Inmates have to earn this. All start

their sentences at 143 high security

prisons across Norway. But even here

the rotary obliteration starts

early. Drug offenders like this

young man are often programmed

immediately.

A few times a week we are outside

the prison playing football and land

hockey. Instead of just sitting

inside and doing nothing.

We work to get back to the

community.

There are courses run by

the local school or training in

mechanics and woodwork.

They get a piece of paper telling

what they have been working at and

what kind of training they have.

Hopefully it will help them get the

proper job.

Everything about life in

this prison is geared towards

working with the inmates. Giving

them all the support tools they need

to rehabilitate, so when they do get

out of here there is less chance of

them coming back. It has a smaller

population but comparatively Norway

locks up half as many people as

Britain. Crime and offending rates

are lower as well. The government

says it could learn from their

ethos.

Everybody likes to be in a

community with other inmates.

They

have a saying in prisons - the only

thing we take away someone's

freedom. But everything possible is

done to help them get it back and

keep it.

Could teenagers do better

in their exams if they could start

school later in the day?

Well a team of university sleep

experts is carrying out research

to find out and students

from a school in South West London

are among those taking

part in the trial.

Graham Satchell has been speaking

to their head teacher.

Here at Hampton Court High School,

A-level classes start at one

o'clock in the afternoon.

Let's have a quick chat

with a couple of students.

Peter, what difference has it made

to you being able to come

to school much later?

I used to wake up at seven

and I used to have to to cycle

to school to get my heart rate up,

and to make sure that I'm awake

and ready for lessons at 8:30am.

Now that I wake up at,

say, nine, number one,

I'm no longer tired.

Number two, I'm less likely to die

on the road and number three,

I'm way more attentive in lessons.

What difference has it made to you?

A bit less grumpy?

Definitely less grumpy.

I'm less irritable and really just

more focused and awake.

It's amazing.

Thank you very much.

The science on this is very settled.

The teenage brain does act

differently to ours.

The body clock shifts

by about two hours.

Guy Holloway is the

head teacher here.

Guy, what difference

would you say it's made

to your students in your school?

It's made an enormous difference,

and to families as well.

We have to...

The difficulty, Graham,

is we are accustomed

to what we are used to and up

and down the country we know that

primary school children,

they come happily into school,

they virtually skip into school,

and yet we have teenagers

and we've all seen it,

we've all seen our teens

make their way to school,

frankly stagger like zombies

towards the bus stop

or the train station.

They are pallid and they look

frankly as though they've come out

of Shaun of the Dead,

and we haven't asked ourselves why.

We now know there's a strong

biological rationale behind this

and I argue that it's incumbent

on all school leaders,

all governing bodies,

to be informed at the very least

about the research and then make

a decision on whether a later

start may be beneficial

for their students, even

a ten o'clock start,

a slightly later start would help

the well-being of the students.

Guy, thank you very much.

New research out today also

suggest GCSE students also

benefit from a later start.

Graham Satchell with that report.

Now let's check on the weather

with Kate Kinsella.

Now let's check on the weather

with Kate Kinsella.

Good afternoon. It is starting to

feel just a little bit colder. This

morning temperatures hovered just

above zero. We did have some cloud.

Some missed as well first thing.

Some decent spells of sunshine. This

afternoon it looks like it will stay

mostly dry. Cloudy with some bright

spells. I say mostly dry.

Potentially we could see some light

showers. Most places of avoiding

them. Temperatures reaching eight

Celsius. That risk continues into

the evening. Maybe some showers.

Codebreaking up more successfully.

Clear skies. Under clear skies

temperatures will drop. A minimum of

between two and zero. Frost tomorrow

morning. A misty start potentially.

Not very widespread. We will see

some sunny spells in the afternoon.

Starting to feel colder still. The

maximum tomorrow between four and

seven Celsius. This cold air is

moving in from the east. With it, a

breeze. An easterly breeze. The cold

air will filter through on Thursday,

Friday and the weekend. As we head

into next week, we're looking at

temperatures really struggling,

especially through Tuesday and

Wednesday, when temperatures may not

get above for Celsius in central

London. The trend is the

temperatures are dropping. Plenty of

dry weather and sunshine.

That's about it from me.

Riz Lateef will be here

with our 6:30 evening programme.

But for now, from us all,

a very good afternoon.