:00:09. > :00:11.Hello, good evening. Stadium. Natalie
:00:12. > :00:14.The family of a Newcastle woman who died after a heart valve
:00:15. > :00:25.was put in upside-down, are taking legal action
:00:26. > :00:32.In 2015, she went into Newcastle's Freeman Hospital
:00:33. > :00:34.for a routine operation, but suffered massive
:00:35. > :00:36.Our News Correspondent Mark Denten reports.
:00:37. > :00:38.Laughing and joking with her friends.
:00:39. > :00:41.This is Sheila Hynes, the very picture of health.
:00:42. > :00:44.She was a lovely woman, wonderful mother, wonderful grandmother.
:00:45. > :00:49.But Sheila, who was 71, began to feel breathless, she was admitted
:00:50. > :00:51.to the Freeman Hospital for an operation
:00:52. > :00:55.A routine procedure, regarded as having just a 6% risk.
:00:56. > :00:59.The response I got from the nurse when I phoned,
:01:00. > :01:06.She started to say, "Where'd you live?"
:01:07. > :01:15.And she said, there's been complications in the surgery.
:01:16. > :01:17.Sheila Hynes had her operation on March 26 2015
:01:18. > :01:22.It emerged that during her surgery, a valve in her heart had been
:01:23. > :01:35.When they removed the valve, it forced a piece of equipment
:01:36. > :01:37.into the wall of her heart, puncturing it.
:01:38. > :01:40.The next time her heart ballooned up,
:01:41. > :01:48.The family say, while Sheila was fighting for her life,
:01:49. > :01:51.they were treated with gross insensitivity.
:01:52. > :01:53.We were told, it wasn't our choice to turn
:01:54. > :01:59.We said... We were told we had no say in that.
:02:00. > :02:02.In the same meeting, the secretary who was taking notes
:02:03. > :02:06.announced that she already had the coroner booked.
:02:07. > :02:08.This is while your mother is still alive?
:02:09. > :02:24.We applied to the coroner to have it look that as an Article II inquest
:02:25. > :02:27.and what that means is it a human rights consideration that Mrs Hynes
:02:28. > :02:29.lost her right to life as a result of this.
:02:30. > :02:33.This tragic event should never have occurred.
:02:34. > :02:36.Newcastle Hospital Trust has admitted the error
:02:37. > :02:39.and says its thoughts are with the family.
:02:40. > :02:43.They say a full independent investigation has taken place.
:02:44. > :02:46.An inquest into Sheila Hynes' death will take place in June.
:02:47. > :02:54.Mark Denten, BBC look North, outside the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
:02:55. > :03:00.A murder of "unusual savagery and brutality."
:03:01. > :03:03.That's how the judge sentencing a man to life described the attack
:03:04. > :03:09.which led to the death of a mother of two in Carlisle last year.
:03:10. > :03:17.Miklos Verebes will serve a minimum of 28 years after using used a sharp
:03:18. > :03:19.stone to stab his former partner Melinda Koroshi almost 30 times.
:03:20. > :03:23.In September last year Miklos Verebes
:03:24. > :03:25.broke into the home of Melinda Korosi,
:03:26. > :03:30.Neighbours called the police when they heard her screaming,
:03:31. > :03:34.but when officers arrived just four minutes later she was already dead
:03:35. > :03:40.Miklos Verebes standing beside her covered in blood.
:03:41. > :03:43.Initially, he admitted killing her, but later in court tried to claim
:03:44. > :03:47.In sentencing today the judge said that excuse was "absurd".
:03:48. > :03:50.The police today welcomed the sentence given and also read
:03:51. > :03:53.a statement from Melinda Korosi's father.
:03:54. > :03:55.When detectives came to tell me the news,
:03:56. > :03:57.I felt like the earth had been removed
:03:58. > :04:00.from under my feet and suddenly everything became
:04:01. > :04:07.I simply couldn't believe and comprehend something this terrible.
:04:08. > :04:10.If I see a mother walking with their child down a street,
:04:11. > :04:20.The couple originally from Hungary moved to Carlisle
:04:21. > :04:23.in 2012 between then and 2016 Miklos Verebes raped
:04:24. > :04:33.Just days before he murdered her he was released
:04:34. > :04:36.from prison on licence after assaulting her in July.
:04:37. > :04:38.While Verebes was in prison Melinda Korosi came forward
:04:39. > :04:41.to police and told them she'd been raped,
:04:42. > :04:44.he was arrested in relation to those allegations but he wasn't charged
:04:45. > :04:50.he could not to understand why that action was taken.
:04:51. > :04:53.That matter is now being investigated by the Independent
:04:54. > :04:56.Police Complaints Commission and we're told
:04:57. > :04:59.Cumbria Constabulary is fully cooperating with that matter.
:05:00. > :05:02.Detectives are still hunting two men who abducted a woman
:05:03. > :05:05.and her toddler from a busy street, before subjecting the mother
:05:06. > :05:10.The abduction happened on Redcar seafront on Friday lunchtime.
:05:11. > :05:12.Earlier today, officers made an arrest - but that man's been
:05:13. > :05:21.Well, the police had been hoping that this
:05:22. > :05:25.breakthrough that they had been working towards ever since the
:05:26. > :05:30.They released a short statement at lunchtime today to say that a
:05:31. > :05:33.31-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of rape and was being
:05:34. > :05:38.But around tea-time tonight, another statement
:05:39. > :05:42.came out to say that man had been released without charge.
:05:43. > :05:45.So, it could be that they are back to
:05:46. > :05:51.To remind you, the attack itself happened in broad
:05:52. > :05:54.daylight, here on the Redcar seafront, sometimes between 1130 and
:05:55. > :06:00.Police say, the woman, who was with a toddler, was
:06:01. > :06:12.dragged, screaming, into a dark coloured saloon car which was then
:06:13. > :06:14.driven to the secluded area in the near by village of Yearby.
:06:15. > :06:16.There, she was raped and subjected to a
:06:17. > :06:26.Then, the men dumped her and the toddler on
:06:27. > :06:29.Kirkleatham Lane which is just on the outskirts of Redcar.
:06:30. > :06:35.Now, some of you may have seen this incident
:06:36. > :06:39.It's not clear whether that appeal on that actually led to the
:06:40. > :06:40.development in today's investigation.
:06:41. > :06:43.But, tonight, the police are still anxious for more
:06:44. > :06:47.witnesses to come forward and, of course, because this abduction
:06:48. > :06:50.happened here in broad daylight, right in the middle of the day,
:06:51. > :06:52.they are hopeful that more witnesses will come forward.
:06:53. > :07:01.Two people who were jailed for their part in the murder
:07:02. > :07:02.of a Newcastle man with learning difficulties,
:07:03. > :07:04.have had their sentences increased.
:07:05. > :07:06.James Wheatley was jailed for life in December last year
:07:07. > :07:10.But prosecutors argued that the sentences handed
:07:11. > :07:15.his mother - and another man - Barry Imray were unduly lenient.
:07:16. > :07:17.This afternoon the Court of Appeal ruled that Julie Mills,
:07:18. > :07:19.James Wheatley's mother, will have her sentence for causing
:07:20. > :07:23.increased from eight years to 10 years.
:07:24. > :07:26.And Nicole Lawrence, his girlfriend, had her sentence increased
:07:27. > :07:32.Barry Imray's sentence of three years was unchanged.
:07:33. > :07:35.A 19-year-old man's been charged with a murder in York.
:07:36. > :07:37.The dead man's been named as Shaun Skelton who was 53
:07:38. > :07:42.and lived in Holgate Road in the city.
:07:43. > :07:44.Daniel Thomas Reed, who's 19 and of no fixed abode,
:07:45. > :07:49.appeared before city magistrates and was remanded in custody.
:07:50. > :07:51.A nine-year-old boy who was seriously injured
:07:52. > :07:55.after being struck by a car in Hartlepool, has died.
:07:56. > :07:58.Ethan Owens had been in hospital since the incident on Marina way
:07:59. > :08:03.Police are asking anyone who saw what happened to contact them.
:08:04. > :08:06.Plans to build a school, a retail park and hundreds of homes
:08:07. > :08:08.on the site of the current Northumberland County Council
:08:09. > :08:13.Protestors outside County Hall in Morpeth say the proposals
:08:14. > :08:17.will destroy the town's historic character.
:08:18. > :08:20.But Labour councillors insist redeveloping the site,
:08:21. > :08:22.and moving the headquarters to Ashington, will save money
:08:23. > :08:27.The prisons watchdog has raised concerns
:08:28. > :08:33.Inspectors say it's "unacceptable" that most inmates at the city centre
:08:34. > :08:36.prison had to eat their meals in their cells by an
:08:37. > :08:42.They also found that 60% of prisoners felt unsafe.
:08:43. > :08:45.Does the Secretary of State agree with be that it's hard for prison
:08:46. > :08:50.staff to keep themselves and prisoners safe with numbers being so
:08:51. > :08:54.reduced and what she going to do to improve prisoner safety now?
:08:55. > :08:57.The honourable lady is absolutely right
:08:58. > :09:00.about the concerning report about HMP Durham and we are addressing
:09:01. > :09:02.issues about recruitment in that prison, along with prisons
:09:03. > :09:06.What we have done is created 2000 new positions at a more
:09:07. > :09:09.senior grade for experienced officers with mental health
:09:10. > :09:11.training, with other types of training and those positions will be
:09:12. > :09:14.available in Durham which will help us retain some of our experienced
:09:15. > :09:20.In tonight's football - Newcastle edged closer to promotion
:09:21. > :09:23.after a nil-nil draw at promotion contenders Reading.
:09:24. > :09:25.But both their other closest rivals won tonight.
:09:26. > :09:30.In Scotland, meanwhile, a cracking game at Shielfield Park
:09:31. > :09:47.And Paul's here with the weather. A bit sunnier for many of us today.
:09:48. > :09:59.A spell of wet and windy weather spreading in from the west.
:10:00. > :10:09.Temperatures will drop down to 4-5dC at the lowest. A dry bright start to
:10:10. > :10:15.most others. Good sunny spells for many others. Temperatures milder
:10:16. > :10:29.than they have been. To about 12 Celsius. A couple of degrees higher
:10:30. > :10:34.than it has been recently. So there is a weather front coming in
:10:35. > :10:44.tomorrow night. Bringing showery rain but clears to leave a dry and
:10:45. > :10:52.fine day on Thursday. Much more cloud by the end of the week. Not
:10:53. > :10:57.much to choose, breezy on Wednesday than it will be on Tuesday. More
:10:58. > :11:00.cloud and rain by the end of the week. I'll leave you with
:11:01. > :11:07.rain on Saturday. The national picture now from Nick Miller.
:11:08. > :11:11.It looks like next week high pressure will become a player again
:11:12. > :11:16.in our weather, settling things down for some of us for a time but until
:11:17. > :11:20.then it is low-pressure, rain moving across the UK overnight but not wet
:11:21. > :11:23.all the time. Many of us at a fine day today, this was at you from West
:11:24. > :11:25.Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern