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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
And here in Look North tonight - A 17-year jail sentence | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
A West Cumbrian mother, who told her youngest son | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
to kill his brother, is starting a long | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Alison Murphy, who's 52 and from Whitehaven, | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
encouraged her son, Gary, to kill his 26-year-old brother, | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Today, a judge at Carlisle Crown Court jailed Alison | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
He ordered Gary Murphy to be detained indefinitely | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
in a secure hospital while he receives treatment. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Mark MacAlindon has been following this extraordinary case. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
This is the story of a dysfunctional family, | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
namely Alison Murphy and her two sons, Tony, who's 26, | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Gary had a real resentment of his brother, exacerbated | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
by the Asperger's syndrome he has, where conflict festered in his mind. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
One night last April, Tony had rowed with his mother Alison, | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
and it's then that she'd exchanged these texts with her younger son, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Gary, that were key to the case, effectively instructing him | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
One said, I think he should be killed, although I'm not sure | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Gary replied, I'm fine with whatever, as long as he dies. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Now Gary arrived at his mother's house in Whitehaven, | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Tony lost a litre and a half of blood from a gaping | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
wound but he did survive after hospital treatment. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Tony left court today, unwilling to talk to us. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
He did give an impact statement inside the court. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
He said he felt sorry for his mother, that her life was ruined, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
and he hoped she would win an appeal so she could come home. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
He was prepared to look after her house and her dog | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
The judge in this case, Peter Davies, said the plot | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
was crude and unsophisticated, but it was premeditated. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
He therefore jailed Alison Murphy for 17 years and sent Gary Murphy | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
I've been speaking to the police officer who led the investigation. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
It is so unusual that a mum and son plan together to kill the other son. | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
I think it's affected Anthony immensely. | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
Anybody who is family-oriented will understand what closeness | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
of family means, and to find out how you've been betrayed by your brother | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
A desperately sad case, but one thankfully that we | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
A man's been arrested by police investigating a rape | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
in the Northumberland town of Morpeth last month. | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday, February the 4th. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
An 18-year-old woman was walking near Morpeth Golf Club | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
when a man in a car stopped and offered her a lift. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
She got in, and after driving a short distance, he raped her. | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Police say they've arrested a 55-year-old man, who's | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
been released on bail pending further inquiries. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
It may sound unthinkable, but a council boss has warned a lack | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
of maintenance could force the closure of local parks - | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
unless there are changes in the way they're run. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
Newcastle Council is consulting on a plan to transfer parks | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
to a charitable trust, after a sharp fall in funding. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
It says the new body will be better able to raise money. | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
But critics question whether the approach will work. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Luke Walton. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Many date back to Victorian times and they've been at the heart | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
But parks like Leazes in Newcastle are feeling the financial pinch. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
Austerity has pushed funding down by more than 90% and the man | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
My personal opinion is that over the next few years maintenance | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
will slip so much that we'll have to close some parks, | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
That's what we're not going to do, but that will be the inevitable | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
Newcastle Council is consulting on plans to transfer parks | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
and allotments to a charitable trust it says would be better | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Sunderland Council is also looking at a similar approach | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
for some of its parks, over a longer time scale. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
They'd be following the example of a parks charity in Milton Keynes, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
which looks after around 5000 acres of greenery. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
There are so many advantages of having a trust that is dedicated | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
We're not up against other demands for other services. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
By having good, well maintained parks, where all the income | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is ring-fenced to use back in those parks, means we can | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
Back in Newcastle the woman who represents park volunteers says | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
the impact of cutbacks is already evident. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
She worries the new organisation won't fill the gap. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
We don't know how much it's going to cost to maintain | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
parks and green spaces, and on the other hand, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
the councillors aren't telling us how much the social enterprise | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
The council says it's still examining how much income | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
a parks charity would need, but it insists parks would remain | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
in the ownership of the local authority and free to use. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
That's unlikely to silence further questions about the future of these | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
And there's more on that story this Sunday morning | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
Police are investigating after a 14-year-old boy was spotted | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
Northumbria Police found the car parked in a lay-by | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
in South Shields, and seized it for not having insurance. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
The force's roads unit tweeted that the boy "denied all knowledge, | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
but forgot his books were in the boot". | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
A new survey suggests people in parts of the North are drinking | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
The survey of 2000 people says while nearly a third of people | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
nationwide have cut back in the last year. | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
That figure rises to more than 40% in the North East. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Many said the main reason was to save money. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Others that it was about improving their health. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
I don't know whether it's just as you get older, | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
I'm a teacher, so I'm definitely drinking more. | :06:15. | :06:32. | |
However you're relaxing this weekend, I'll wish you a good one. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Let's find out what the weather will have in store for | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
We hang on to the cloud through the night tonight and that | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
means Saturday is going to start off on a very mild note. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
There will be a few patches of mist across the Cumbrian fells | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
and as we go through the morning we're going to see things turn | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
We have this band of rain sinking down from the north. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Generally, Saturday, lots of cloud, quite a grey and misty feeling day. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Temperatures getting up to a high of around 11 Celsius. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Fast forward to Sunday, we start off with some rain. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Again, it's a fairly cloudy, misty start. | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Some dry weather through the morning for a time. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
But then another band of rain pushes in from the West as we head | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Once again it will be fairly light and patchy. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Temperatures up to a high of 11 Celsius. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Sarah Keith-Lucas has the national forecast. | :07:27. | :07:45. | |
Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Mild over night with the blanket of cloud | :08:03. | :08:04. |