:00:12. > :00:14.It was the most shocking and brutal murder
:00:15. > :00:21.And it happened in front of a room full of people.
:00:22. > :00:24.Two brothers savagely attacked a boxer with a camping axe
:00:25. > :00:26.during a New Year's Eve party in Hartlepool.
:00:27. > :00:28.This afternoon David Sowerbx and Anthony Middleton were given
:00:29. > :00:30.life sentences for killing this man, 31`year`old Mark Denton.
:00:31. > :00:34.Stuart Whincup reports from Teesside Crown Court.
:00:35. > :00:37.Chatting with relatives, drinking energy drinks.
:00:38. > :00:41.The brothers have just hackdd a man to death.
:00:42. > :00:43.Now, unbelievably, they're preparing to tell ddtectives
:00:44. > :00:50.But Mark suffered 55 separate injuries.
:00:51. > :00:54.A much`loved son, savagely attacked and killed at a party.
:00:55. > :01:00.It is so painful. I just want him back. You cannot explain how you
:01:01. > :01:08.feel inside. You feel dead. I wish that they had killed me and not him.
:01:09. > :01:12.I have had my life and they had killed me and not him. I have had my
:01:13. > :01:16.life and I would everybody hs so full of grief over it. I do not know
:01:17. > :01:18.how his brother is walking, he misses and so much.
:01:19. > :01:23.David Sowerby and his half`brother Anthony Middleton killed Mark out of
:01:24. > :01:29.revenge after being humiliated by the boxer in public months darlier.
:01:30. > :01:31.They planned their attack, searching the internet
:01:32. > :01:34.before buying a camping axe like this one.
:01:35. > :01:36.The night before the murder Sowerby posted a message on his Facdbook
:01:37. > :01:42.page saying he was going to crack someone's skull open.
:01:43. > :01:47.As Mark walked along here, he was said to be in ` good
:01:48. > :01:51.mood. But after walking through that front door, he was attacked.
:01:52. > :01:55.Behind these windows partygoers watched in horror.
:01:56. > :01:58.Many guests said they froze, too terrified to move or stop what
:01:59. > :02:06.Brothers David Sowerby and Anthony Middleton will servd
:02:07. > :02:10.Their violent attack, the Jtdge said, has deprived a family of a
:02:11. > :02:17.A body has been discovered at a waste station in Washington.
:02:18. > :02:19.The body was found just after one o'clock this afternoon
:02:20. > :02:23.at the Impetus Waste Plant on the Pattinson Industrial Estate.
:02:24. > :02:25.Police have sealed off the `rea and forensic scientists
:02:26. > :02:28.A spokesman for Northumbria Police said the investigation was
:02:29. > :02:31.in its early stages and inqtiries were being carried out
:02:32. > :02:35.to establish the circumstances of the de`th.
:02:36. > :02:38.It's still not clear if the body is a man, woman, adult or child
:02:39. > :02:42.They're appealing for anyond with information to come forward.
:02:43. > :02:49.A man accused of murdering his father and grandmother has pleaded
:02:50. > :02:52.guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on the grounds of
:02:53. > :02:54.diminished responsibility. Ray Patterson, who was 61, and Clara
:02:55. > :02:57.Patterson who was 82, were found dead at their home in Front Street,
:02:58. > :02:59.in the Benton area of Newcastle Glenn Patterson
:03:00. > :03:03.was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
:03:04. > :03:06.It's used to make dyes, wood preservatives,
:03:07. > :03:16.But a banned and dangerous substance is increasingly being bought
:03:17. > :03:19.Research by scientists in Ndwcastle reveal the number of calls to
:03:20. > :03:20.the National Poisons Inform`tion Service
:03:21. > :03:22.about the "fat`burning" agent, DNP, has risen sharply.
:03:23. > :03:24.There were three more deaths recorded last year.
:03:25. > :03:32.The scientists at Newcastle had this stark warning:
:03:33. > :03:40.A I would ask them to think very carefully about the potenti`l health
:03:41. > :03:46.effects. The gains they are getting in loss of fat, I want `` I
:03:47. > :03:49.understand why that is attr`ctive but this is done at a high risk of
:03:50. > :03:54.adverse health effects. This poison has caused some of the most
:03:55. > :03:57.unpleasant and fatal attacks that we have ever seen.
:03:58. > :03:59.A County Durham headteacher has gone on trial,
:04:00. > :04:02.accused of a string of historic sex offences against an underagd boy.
:04:03. > :04:05.Anne Lakey, who's 54 and from Stanley in County Durham, is alleged
:04:06. > :04:08.to have groomed the boy at her home ` and committing the offencds
:04:09. > :04:10.over a year`long period in the latd 19 0s.
:04:11. > :04:16.Gerry Jackson sent this report from Durham Crown Court.
:04:17. > :04:24.The court heard that Anne L`key met the boy when she was in her late 20s
:04:25. > :04:27.and he was 13. The prosecuthon says he was among a group of boys that
:04:28. > :04:32.would be invited to her homd. In due course, he started going alone. It
:04:33. > :04:38.is alleged she used to encotrage him to fondle her or to watch are taking
:04:39. > :04:41.a bath. When they first had intercourse, he was still wdaring
:04:42. > :04:46.his school uniform and was still a virgin. At the time she was married
:04:47. > :04:51.teacher and although the box was not a pupil of hers, the Crown says this
:04:52. > :04:55.was a gross breach of trust by a person of responsibility. The jury
:04:56. > :05:02.had that this was not a lovhng relationship, it was sexual abuse of
:05:03. > :05:05.a young, honourable boy. He was an impressionable teenager being
:05:06. > :05:09.groomed by a sexual predator. Prosecutors say that Anne L`key was
:05:10. > :05:14.the ultimate corrupting includes. She then I scratcher Mac cotnts of
:05:15. > :05:20.indecency with a child and five counts of indecent assault, all
:05:21. > :05:21.relating to the same alleged victim. This trial is expected to l`st
:05:22. > :05:28.around one week. A man's died in a car crash after
:05:29. > :05:31.a police pursuit in County Durham. The car was tracked from Tesco
:05:32. > :05:34.on Genesis Way in Consett. A patrol car then gave chasd
:05:35. > :05:37.before the car hit a lamp post The driver suffered minor injuries
:05:38. > :05:41.but his passenger was killed. He's been named as 49`year`old
:05:42. > :05:43.Adam Parker Wilkinson, The Bridges Shopping Centre
:05:44. > :05:59.in Sunderland has been sold. The centre `
:06:00. > :06:01.which covers 550,000 square feet and houses more than 100 shops `
:06:02. > :06:04.has changed hands for ?152 lillion. Land Securities,
:06:05. > :06:06.which bought The Bridges 21 years ago, said strong market conditions
:06:07. > :06:09.made it a good time to sell. The wreck of the sunken cruhse
:06:10. > :06:13.ship Costa Corncordia will not The recycling company Able TK was
:06:14. > :06:19.a frontrunner to take the lhner apart at its yard near Hartlepool,
:06:20. > :06:24.creating about 100 jobs. However, it's thought the vdssel
:06:25. > :06:26.will now be dismantled in Genoa in Italy, due to
:06:27. > :06:28.political pressure for the work to be carried out in
:06:29. > :06:47.its home country. Mostly dry for the next 24 hours. A
:06:48. > :06:52.largely dry picture as we h`d through the night with the cloud
:06:53. > :06:57.well broken. Some mist patches in one or two spots with temperatures
:06:58. > :07:00.dipping into single figures. It be a start tomorrow. We should sde some
:07:01. > :07:05.good, sunny spells developing through the morning. Then the cloud
:07:06. > :07:12.fills in but most places will stay dry. Cooler along the north`east
:07:13. > :07:19.coast, at 14 Celsius, 16 on the Cumbrian coast, but coming hnland,
:07:20. > :07:25.we see it at 19 Celsius. Mostly dry picture Thursday, with tempdratures
:07:26. > :07:26.reaching 20 Celsius at best before rain spreads from the South on
:07:27. > :07:34.Friday. I'll leave you with with the summary. Turning more
:07:35. > :07:40.unsettled as we head towards the weekend.
:07:41. > :07:45.Good evening. After what has been a glorious few weeks of summer
:07:46. > :07:49.sunshine for many of us, things are about to change over the next 2
:07:50. > :07:53.hours. We are seeing the change marked by the weather front on the
:07:54. > :07:58.satellite image. To the south of that, 25 degrees, in Bournemouth for
:07:59. > :08:04.instance, but in the north and east, cooler, fresher air. That sets the
:08:05. > :08:08.scene for tomorrow. A cooler day. We will have hazy sunshine on offer,
:08:09. > :08:12.although cloudier skies than we have been used it over the past week
:08:13. > :08:16.Tonight we have thicker cloud bringing more two spots of drizzly
:08:17. > :08:20.rain for some southern areas. Many parts dry, but we have the rain
:08:21. > :08:22.heading in towards the far north-west for the early