:00:00. > :00:24.Following the death of Dean Saunders in Chelmsford jail, warning that
:00:25. > :00:27.lesson still need to be learned. The government unveiled its new
:00:28. > :00:32.industrial strategy with a focus on Norwich science Park.
:00:33. > :00:37.Tonight we have frost and freezing fog in the forecast. All the details
:00:38. > :00:41.for your weather for the week ahead. All the details for your weather
:00:42. > :00:43.for the week ahead. A campaign group which is supporting
:00:44. > :00:47.the family of a man who died at Chelmsford Prison has told
:00:48. > :00:50.Look East that jails have become "dumping grounds" for people
:00:51. > :00:52.who are mentally ill. Dean Saunders was on remand
:00:53. > :00:55.after attacking family members with a knife and trying
:00:56. > :00:58.to kill himself. He was initially placed on suicide
:00:59. > :01:02.watch, but a decision was made against his family's wishes
:01:03. > :01:05.to reduce his observations. Just days later, in January last
:01:06. > :01:09.year, the 25-year-old On Friday, an inquest jury ruled
:01:10. > :01:14.that Mr Saunders had been let down by Care UK,
:01:15. > :01:17.which provides health Today, the Prison Ombudsman said
:01:18. > :01:24.he was "seriously mentally ill" September 2015, Dean Saunders
:01:25. > :01:32.at home, opening presents Months later, he was
:01:33. > :01:37.in Chelmsford prison. Today, a report into his death
:01:38. > :01:39.criticised almost every The investigation by the Prison
:01:40. > :01:44.and Probation Ombudsman concluded that the criminal justice system
:01:45. > :01:47."did too little to protect this Dean was at "high risk of suicide"
:01:48. > :01:52.when he arrived at Chelmsford and the people who took him off
:01:53. > :01:55.constant watch "weren't I said to Mark, "Why didn't
:01:56. > :02:01.we save him at home?" Why didn't we save him
:02:02. > :02:05.because if we had let him go then, he would've been with people
:02:06. > :02:07.that loved him. He would've been
:02:08. > :02:09.surrounded by his family. He wouldn't have been shut away
:02:10. > :02:12.thinking nobody cared about him. He suffered for another 14 days,
:02:13. > :02:17.to die in a cell on his own. He was getting no comfort,
:02:18. > :02:30.no love, no phone calls. I feel that they just took away
:02:31. > :02:35.all of his human rights, stuck in a cell and just
:02:36. > :02:37.left him to die. The health care in the prison
:02:38. > :02:40.was run by Care UK. Just last week, a report
:02:41. > :02:43.by the prison's Independent Monitoring Board raised concerns
:02:44. > :02:46.about the company's running Care UK have since announced it is
:02:47. > :02:51.quitting its contract at the prison. A former prisoner told me
:02:52. > :02:55.about his experience Fights in the queue
:02:56. > :02:58.to get into medical. People going, "Oh, my needs
:02:59. > :03:00.are greater than yours". Just because in case
:03:01. > :03:03.someone doesn't get seen. Then, at this point,
:03:04. > :03:06.some people were itching There have been 14 suicides
:03:07. > :03:11.at Chelmsford since 2011, each Tonight, the Ministry
:03:12. > :03:16.of Justice says it accepts there were significant failings
:03:17. > :03:19.in the case of Dean Saunders. It says Chelmsford Prison has
:03:20. > :03:21.already put into place a number of measures to better support those
:03:22. > :03:24.with mental health problems. The Saunders family say
:03:25. > :03:27.they are keeping a close eye to make Deborah Coles is the Director
:03:28. > :03:37.of Inquest, the charity that supports families of those
:03:38. > :03:39.who die in custody. Earlier, I asked her
:03:40. > :03:42.for her reaction to The scandal, I think,
:03:43. > :03:47.of this case is that Dean was ever It does say something
:03:48. > :03:55.about how our sentencing policies and magistrates operate,
:03:56. > :04:00.that a man who is seriously mentally ill ends up in a prison system
:04:01. > :04:05.that is so obviously incapable In the case of Dean Saunders,
:04:06. > :04:13.cost was clearly an issue. How worrying is that,
:04:14. > :04:19.that in the prison system people are trying to save money,
:04:20. > :04:23.so not proper care and attention So, of course that's an issue,
:04:24. > :04:28.but I think this is an issue across the prison system
:04:29. > :04:31.in the sense of, you know, there are just far too many people
:04:32. > :04:34.in prison who don't need There are far few staff,
:04:35. > :04:40.there are far few staff able to cope with the vulnerabilities
:04:41. > :04:43.of the prison population. What we desperately need to do
:04:44. > :04:48.is to dramatically reduce the prison population and then you can invest
:04:49. > :04:52.in the proper mental health provision and the proper regimes
:04:53. > :04:56.that can address the reasons behind people's offending and actually
:04:57. > :04:59.rehabilitate people, because at the moment
:05:00. > :05:03.what we are doing with prison is pretty much not more
:05:04. > :05:07.than warehousing people in extremely The Ministry of Justice have told us
:05:08. > :05:16.that improvements have been made. Does that go any way
:05:17. > :05:20.to reassure you at all? I have to say that following every
:05:21. > :05:27.inquest where failings have been identified by coroners
:05:28. > :05:30.and by juries, we hear the very empty words
:05:31. > :05:34."lessons will be learned". Well, I'm sorry, if lessons
:05:35. > :05:37.had been learned then Dean Saunders would not have died
:05:38. > :05:41.in such appalling circumstances. Too many people are going to prison
:05:42. > :05:44.who simply shouldn't be there. We also need a Government that
:05:45. > :05:48.properly invests in mental health facilities so that prisons don't
:05:49. > :05:52.become dumping grounds for people Plans to widen 19 miles of the A12
:05:53. > :06:05.in Essex have been unveiled One plan is for three lanes each
:06:06. > :06:09.way between Chelmsford The preferred option will be
:06:10. > :06:14.decided in the summer. Highways England hopes
:06:15. > :06:17.work will start by 2020. There are 90,000 vehicles
:06:18. > :06:22.per day in peak time. The road is in excess of capacity
:06:23. > :06:29.most of the day these days and, clearly, there is a need
:06:30. > :06:35.to desperately improve that. A man who shot and seriously injured
:06:36. > :06:38.a millionaire businessman during a raid on an Essex mansion
:06:39. > :06:43.has been jailed for 24 years. Charlie Sims, from Great Yeldham,
:06:44. > :06:46.was convicted last month of attempted murder after shooting
:06:47. > :06:49.the man in his home The Science Minister says
:06:50. > :06:56.the Government's new industrial strategy will particularly benefit
:06:57. > :07:00.this region with its emphasis on supporting science,
:07:01. > :07:04.research and innovation. He came to Norwich to unveil
:07:05. > :07:07.the new policy, which could see millions of pounds of investment
:07:08. > :07:11.coming to our science parks. In the new Leaf Laboratory
:07:12. > :07:17.at the Norwich Research Park, the Science Minister learns how
:07:18. > :07:20.plants are producing proteins, This is where the next cure
:07:21. > :07:27.for Ebola or Zika could be found and it's because of research
:07:28. > :07:30.like this that the Government is upgrading the role of science
:07:31. > :07:34.in post-Brexit Britain. We are world class at science,
:07:35. > :07:37.but you've got to continue to invest in your science base
:07:38. > :07:40.to stay world class. We always said we would put science
:07:41. > :07:43.and innovation at the heart of the industrial strategy and,
:07:44. > :07:45.today, we can see The growth of the Norwich Research
:07:46. > :07:49.Park is proof that science has been getting a higher profile
:07:50. > :07:52.in recent years. Putting it at the top
:07:53. > :07:55.of this new industrial Ministers see a sector
:07:56. > :08:00.were Britain can excel, so there will be extra funding,
:08:01. > :08:03.less regulation and ministers will fight for new deals
:08:04. > :08:07.to drive up exports. There will also be a big attempt
:08:08. > :08:10.to ensure that scientific discoveries get the help they need
:08:11. > :08:14.to become commercial successes. There is something that is generally
:08:15. > :08:19.known as the 'Valley of Death' between pure research
:08:20. > :08:22.and its translation, where investment has probably been
:08:23. > :08:26.less than it might have been Also part of this new strategy
:08:27. > :08:30.is a promise to upgrade infrastructure, to support low
:08:31. > :08:34.carbon energy schemes and a push to set up more schools,
:08:35. > :08:38.like this one in Norwich, which specialises in
:08:39. > :08:41.maths and science - an attempt to produce more
:08:42. > :08:43.British scientists. Labour gave today's plans a cautious
:08:44. > :08:47.welcome, saying science needs the extra investment,
:08:48. > :08:49.but some scientist groups sais that to succeed there would have to be
:08:50. > :08:55.a good Brexit deal which allows staff to move freely and take
:08:56. > :08:58.part in EU research. Today was a very positive Government
:08:59. > :09:03.vision for the East, Coming up now is the weather
:09:04. > :09:24.from Julie, but from the rest Apart from a little bit of light
:09:25. > :09:29.rain and drizzle, I think tonight will be dry. Cloud will come and go
:09:30. > :09:34.so temperatures will fluctuate, but in rural spots the cute get down to
:09:35. > :09:39.about minus five. We have a yellow warning in place from the Met office
:09:40. > :09:42.for widespread fog, some of that freezing fog so tricky travelling
:09:43. > :09:47.conditions not just for tonight but tomorrow as well as some of the fog
:09:48. > :09:52.could linger throughout the day. Some spots will brighten up with
:09:53. > :09:56.hazy sunshine developing. In that highs of six Celsius, but where the
:09:57. > :10:00.fog lingers temperatures will struggle to get above freezing. We
:10:01. > :10:06.finished the day dry under the clear skies with the fast and frog --
:10:07. > :10:10.frost and fog reforming. The winds will pick up a little bit. We may
:10:11. > :10:15.have frost and fog on Wednesday morning but the wind should help it
:10:16. > :10:19.clear for red leave on Tuesday. Hopefully the cloud will break to
:10:20. > :10:23.allow some sunshine and brightness. On Thursday, the winds will go more
:10:24. > :10:27.south-easterly, dragging in much colder air from the near continent
:10:28. > :10:31.so cold frosty start. A lot of sunshine but that the pictures for
:10:32. > :10:36.many' linked together about two or three Celsius. The wind chill from
:10:37. > :10:40.the south-easterly is will make you feel even colder, so a better day on
:10:41. > :10:44.Thursday. Hopefully not quite as cold on Friday. It should be largely
:10:45. > :10:50.dry but more cloud around on Friday, but hopefully some brightness and
:10:51. > :10:54.sunshine, too. John will have the National forecast in a moment, but I
:10:55. > :10:57.will leave you for the outlook for next weekend. It looks to give will
:10:58. > :10:59.be largely dry with some sunny spells, but always quite a lot of
:11:00. > :11:04.cloud around. Cold For the weekend we will have dry
:11:05. > :11:10.weather with sunny spells and it will be a little bit milder.
:11:11. > :11:17.Good evening. We are continuing to see huge righty in the weather.
:11:18. > :11:25.Getting the detail right is proving to be a challenge. This was in
:11:26. > :11:27.Pembrokeshire and other parts of the UK were gloomy throughout the