24/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

On the programme tonight: alone.

The police inspector who became a drug dealer.

Jail for the officer who stole large quantities of cocaine and heroin

from police evidence stores to sell on the streets.

He is a criminal who was masquerading as a police officer and

brought disgrace to his uniform that he once wore.

I'm at a vigil in the Leeds as Yorkshire remembers those who lost

their lives in Westminster. Clocking on - the Yorkshire stately

home that's spent lots of time Find out who's in a very sticky

situation for Comic Relief. And we've all enjoyed plenty

of spring sunshine today. This picture was taken

at Rothwell Church this afternoon. More sunshine to come

across the weekend and I'll have all the details

on that later in the programme. A long-serving West Yorkshire Police

inspector has been jailed for 26 years after stealing drugs

from an evidence store When officers raided

the home of 55-year-old heroin and cannabis

worth ?700,000 pounds. Today the judge at Leeds

Crown Court said he was Disgraced former police Inspector

Keith Boots. A senior officer with more than 20 years' service. He was

stationed here at Trafalgar House in Bradford, responsible for the safe

disposal of seized drugs. But instead, the 55-year-old was

stealing and selling them back onto the streets. Colleagues raised

concerns after noticing drugs missing from an evident store at the

police station. When police raided Keith Boots's home in December 2014,

they discover drugs with a street value of almost ?700,000 and 11

kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a washing machine. Prosecutors

described catlike boots' home as a warehouse of controlled drugs were

they found crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis. During a

three-month trial at Leeds Crown Court, Paul Greaney QC for the Crown

told the jury... In passing sentence, his honour the QC told

Keith Boots, used all the drugs in order to put them back on the

streets. Your arrogance was your downfall because nobody would doubt

the word of a trusted police officer. You are a disgrace to the

uniform you once war. He is a criminal that was masquerading as a

police officer in utter betrayal whilst his colleagues were working

tirelessly to protect the public by taking drugs out of our communities,

he was putting those drugs back on the street for his son to sell.

Keith Boots's 's son, Ashley, was jailed for 24 years for his part in

the operation and an associate was jailed for five years. Today, former

colleagues expressed revulsion. This is a bad apple who has acted

criminally, dishonourably, disgracefully and is now reaping the

justice of the court system. Keith Boots showed no emotion. His career

and reputation are in ruins. A vigil has just begun in Leeds

in memory of those who died after Wednesday's terror

attack in London. Four people including a police

officer lost their lives The event outside Leeds Art Gallery

in the city centre has been organised by

the organisation Muslim Engagement Our reporter Ali Fortescue

is there for us now. What can you tell us?

Yes, this really is a moment of quiet strength after a tragic week

and people are just starting to arrive at this vigil now. They carry

candles, a sign of respect for those who lost their lives in Westminster

and everyone is here for the same reason and the same message of peace

and love to get across. Joining me now are two men who helped organise

this. Stephen, let's start with you, why did you organise this? What

message do want to get across? There is a tradition in Leeds that when a

terror attack occurs, we hold a vigil in solidarity to the victims

of the attacks so we held a vigil last year after the murder of Jo Cox

by a far right Christian and around seven Flash seven, there was another

vigil and for Charlie Hadow, so I think it is useful for people to

come together and try to pass on the message that we should not let these

events divide us and allow racism to be used by politicians and right

wing activists to attack people. Show had, what impact does this

have, an attack like this, have on the Muslim community? It has a

negative impact and that is why it was really important for us to

organise this vigil with an organisation like Stand Up To

Racism. We have organised over a dozen vigil is nationally, London,

Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester and is about giving a message of

compassion, empathy and solidarity that the Muslim community feel as

shocked, as in horror as everybody else so we want to give that message

that we are all in it together and we are all human beings. Thank you

very much. That word solidarity am sure will be used over and over in

the coming weeks as we get to grips with what happened on London in

Wednesday. A former player with

the Sheffield Steelers Ice Hockey team is behind bars tonight

after admitting sexual activity with a young girl

and trying to incite others Tom Squires groomed

the girls after meeting them at hockey training camps

he was helping to run. The judge called him

a predator and a clear danger. Tom, what was the evidence?

Well, Phil, as you say, Tom Squires played not only for the Sheffield

Steelers but also for the Hull stingrays. He's a 26 your old man

that had once been seen as having been very promising career in the

sport. He was also a part-time coach and would often train at summer

camps. Inevitably, the court heard, he would meet young girls whom he

would go on to abuse. Because he was a star, they were flattered by his

attention but ultimately, he would end up pestering them, asking them

to send him intimate pictures and often sending an explicit picture

which they had not asked for in return. Some of the girls complied

with his requests and some did not and in another example, there was a

time he went to the family home of one of his young victims and put his

hand on her leg at the dining room table as the family sat down for a

meal. What did the judge had to say today?

Passing sentence, the judge said that Squires was a predator, a

danger. This was a torrid, disgraceful and appalling series of

offences against young women. He sentenced Squires to five years and

four months in prison with an additional three years on licence.

He will appear on the sex offenders register and ultimately be subject

to a sexual harm prevention order which, when he is released, will

seriously restrict his life. As there been any reaction from the

victims? There were five young girls in this

case. Two of them were in court. The young adults now listening to the

evidence. Several victim impact statements were read to be caught.

One of them said, describing the damage that Squires' actions had

had, I thought we were friends that he abused his friendship. It ruined

my young teenage years. He is a sexual predator. I can't forget what

he did. Thank you. Tom Ingle live in

Sheffield. Top of the league

with eight games left, Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder

tells us about his team's chances Next tonight, a new scheme has been

launched in York to tackle anti-social behaviour

in the city centre. A team of Street Rangers are being

paid for by local businesses to make trips a more pleasant

experience for visitors As Michelle Lyons has been finding

out, the new blue uniforms deal with everything from shop

lifters to missing people. Two young girls,

known for shoplifting. So, we're just going to go

and make our presence known. Hopefully we can deter them

from going into any businesses. Two known shoplifters

are doing the rounds in York. The street rangers have been called

in to warn them off. They work in partnership

with the police to keep the streets clean,

safe and trouble-free. The likelihood is that they'll be

issued a banning order from the town for maybe 24 hours

or two days just to keep them out We work with street rangers

on a daily basis really. Town centre, they're

a good resource for us. They don't have any powers,

unfortunately, but they certainly help us out with finding

missing people, shoplifters, they get involved and we work

really well together. The rangers are paid

for by the businesses themselves by York Business

Improvement District. The main areas of the role

are actually to help to draw people into the city by creating

a safe and secure environment, so maybe that means in terms

of reporting and dealing with cleanliness issues, but also

speaking to an engaging with people who come to the city

to have a good time, but it might impact negatively

on other people. No, everything's been

all right today. Well, you've got our number,

so give us a call any time. They check up on us,

make sure everything's all right. If we have any trouble,

they'll come in, And basically relieve us from any

problems that we have. We've got to chill out

somewhere, haven't we? A lot of us have got

addictions, haven't we? And there's nowhere

for us to go where And it's this type of

friendly approach Their presence in York city

centre helps to reduce crime as well as give support

to those who may need it. A suspected burglar has died

after getting trapped in the roof-space of a shop

in West Yorkshire. Police believe the man

removed roof tiles to break into Rowlands Chemists

in Queensbury near Bradford. They're treating his death

as an accident His body is thought to have been

in the roof-space for several weeks. A man has died following an incident

at a textile mill near Huddersfield. West Yorkshire Police say

they were called to IFG Drake at Victoria Mills in Golcar,

in the early hours of this morning. A 51-year-old man was

pronounced dead at the scene. The Police and Health

and Safety Executive are now working 14 people are due to appear in court

charged with offences relating to an incident which involved

multiple bikers causing chaos 13 men and a woman were charged

with causing a public nuisance They're due to appear

at Leeds Magistrates' Court A new law which could help families

sort out their missing loved one's finances has got

through it's final stage Claudia's Law is named after missing

York chef Claudia Lawrence The bill will now move

to the House of Lords, where they'll decide if it

should become law. Sports now. Six weeks to go plus the

play-offs for a few, one would imagine.

We'll start with some football news that Huddersfield Town fans

WON'T want to hear, ahead of what was otherwise

The man who recruited head coach David Wagner,

as well as finding most of the players who've done

so well this season, is on the brink of leaving.

Head of Football Operations Stuart Webber has been offered

There are unconfirmed reports tonight that Webber has already been

put on garden leave by Huddersfield, to avoid a conflict of interests.

Meanwhile, Sheffield United sit top of League One

This weekend, more than 4,000 fans will make the trip

to Oldham to cheer them on, hoping that this season their team

Just don't mention promotion to manager,

Chris, have you banned at the P-word from the training ground?

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Well, with our history at this football club...

It's a new group, new manager, new set of staff,

We want to get out of the division but we understand we've

still got work to do and rolling onto Saturday and a tough game.

As you start to close in on it though,

as the games take off, is it hard to keep

everybody from looking at the table

Well, I can't police them, so I can't sit next to them 24/7,

but it's a working environment in and around the training ground and,

They've been consistently playing very, very well.

Do you sneak a look at the table or have you banned it for yourself?

You live with it right the way through.

You've got to live with this job as a football manager especially.

My connections with this football club,

So, are you allowing yourself to think about it,

A bit split personality at the moment?

I went to have my haircut yesterday and walked to the town centre

thinking, it might be quite busy here at the end of the season.

So it's a bit daft, really, but no, you can dream.

That's what we're in the game for, you know, to achieve

and we've got a fantastic opportunity.

We've put ourselves in a great position.

These situations don't come year in, year out.

Only if you're Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard and

you win things year in, year out and you're playing for your country.

You know, everybody else has to scrap

and battle and fight for everything and, you know,

and it's not a promotion every, every year.

So there is an opportunity for these players and they're focused

And then obviously, if they do, and I'm sure they will do,

then we'll have a good time at the back of that.

and what a comeback it was by Wakefield Trinity last night,

to secure their third win of the season.

Trailing by 24 points to 12 at home to Leigh,

Wakefield turned it all around with three second-half tries.

Jacob Miller's converted score helped them back to 24-24.

And it was Ben Jones-Bishop who managed to reach over

And finally, congratulations to Bradford's Jenny really featured a

few weeks ago who finished fourth in the figure skating at the Winter

Special Olympics. That's all from me.

If you're wondering where Phil is, he's gone to see

This is the gallery which people don't often see

and this lady here rules the roost.

which is kind of appropriate given the clocks are going forward

OK, in that case, let's go to the next item.

They'll be hard pressed to manage all the clocks to change

at Nostell Priory near Wakefield this weekend, those two,

because they've got 2000 of them at the moment!

They're celebrating one of England's greatest inventors - John Harrison.

He was the man behind the first ever marine timepiece

and the longcase clock which was invented 300 years ago.

Shirley Henry's been along to make sure it's ticking along nicely.

From bigger too small, quirky to traditional, and artistic display of

2000 clocks at the Priory. We have clocks from all different eras of

time. Some are fun, some are quirky, summer quite poetic, some all remind

you of your childhood. And they are all taking away. It almost sounds

like water, it feels like we are surrounded by rain. It is called

Harrison's Garden after the inventor John Harrison. He was born on the

estate in 1693, the son of a carpenter, he became a clockmaker.

But one of his greatest inventions was the marine barometer. He is one

of the most important clockmakers in the history of timekeeping. Period,

as they say. Because it was John Harrison who eventually sold the

great longitude problem -- solves the great longitude problem and

created not only the first Marine barometer but also the first

precision watches. This was one of his earliest creations, a wooden

clock. It is 300 years old. There are only three surviving. This is

the only one that still works. But one clock won't make an exhibition,

so the public appeal was made for the donation of clocks. It has been

quite a painstaking process to categorise them, to clean them, to

make sure if they work, if they work to check the battery they need to

get them ticking. Donations include this 1930s granddaughter clock. It

was re-and sport in the garage. I've always wondered what to do with it.

Should I take it to the tip, should I give it away, no, I could never do

that. It is now part of Harrison's Garden. The timing of this

exhibition is perfect. Today is John Harrison's birthday. But Time waits

for no one. The display ends on the 9th of July. I don't know about you,

Lara, there's something going on today but I don't know what it is.

That spot has grown a bit! It's Red Nose Day today

with thousands of you doing It all culminates in a Comic Relief

TV extravaganza starting right here You've been baking,

shaking, quizzing, running, jumping and even gunging

BBC presenters Ian White has spent the day

capturing as much of it and he joins us now

from a climbing centre in Ilkley. Is that they spot, Phil? I'm not

sure. Welcome to Ilkley... Yes, producer Jane? You are admitting

subbing essential. I've told you all day. I have tried to avoid it but

this woman is all bosses she is insisting. We have been all over

Yorkshire see what you have been doing to raise money for the comic

relief and we will come back to this climbing Centre in just a minute at

first, have look at this. Welcome to Comic Relief 2017. Welcome to read

for primary school and we are having fun for Comic Relief, and three?

Yes! Down the M1 in Sheffield, children

from the primary school were springing around at jump Inc to

clock up the pounds. I'd like you to meet some friends of mine. They have

we got here? Justine. Mohammed. Same. Take your glasses off. I

can't, they are face paint. Can we have a joke? What you call a jumper

that is on fire? A blazer. I have to say, West Yorks sounds a bit boring.

Is it a boring place to work? A day in the life. Got to keep it real.

What a talented bunch of workers they are at the West Yorkshire

combined authority including this Scotsman who is not a real Scot.

# Get ready # Get ready #.

. Everyone dressed in red to perform a special wrap and have a chuckle

too. Have you got a funny joke? How many tickles do you have to give an

octopus to make it last? Ten tickles. What do you call a dinosaur

that is bad at hide and seek? Do you think he saw us? It is always good

to catch up with an old friend so I invited Kate Crimson to take the

best seat in the house at York's Barbican all for comic relief and

she got a surprise when she saw what was in the door for her. You're

going to get guns, it yay! Three, two, one! Get the guns out! --

it is all down the! It's freezing! It's all down her back and

everywhere. I'm fuming. I know a lot of money has been raised, but I'm

furious! My goodness! I am hanging around a lot today. I'm only joking,

I am not really climbing. Let's find Charlotte and Sally. Charlotte, this

is a 24-hour climb on board Comic Relief. How was it going? Fantastic.

We have had amazing support. All the local companies and the staff here

today. Really well. No traumas, everything is fine? Know, everything

is fine. I don't know what to say, it has been amazing. Sally,

something like this is a really good way of having fun but making money

at the same time. Yes, we have donated a billet of fees for

climbing today to Comic Relief but it has been great and all of the

staff have given their time up to climb so yes, thank you so much to

everyone involved. We need some jokes. Organised a joke. Do we have

a joke over here please? What is your name? Janey. I don't get why

dogs run to the door when the doorbell goes because it is hardly

ever for them. I get it because when the doorbell goes it is hardly ever

for them. I get it. Thank you. Whatever you have been doing to

raise money for Comic Relief, thank you so much. We have had a wonderful

time. I have some news about Kate Crimson, there is still stuffed in

her hair! It is still not out yet. I am sorry. Will she ever speaks

again? Maybe not. For a moment I thought I was

watching Noel's house party. He should stick to the day job!

Kate will not have enjoyed having gunge poured on her. But she will

speak again, I'm sure. It is lovely, really nice outside. A lovely week.

Particularly Saturday will be nice. Let's look at some pictures that are

coming. Lots of pictures of the city walls in York, lovely daffodils in

the foreground. Before blue sky. The second photograph, a lovely day from

a walkabout Ilkley. Blossom out on the high Street and a third picture,

Crumble enjoying the sunshine there. Beautiful pictures. Keep sending

them in. It is going to be nice, particularly tomorrow. Mark ladder

round on Sunday but after a chilly start of the day, missed in places,

plenty of sunshine. High pressure dominates so we have a lot of

settled weather to come but really quite cool by night. Long nights

still and we will lose a lot of heat saw a frost is expected. Settled

into the early part of next week but lots more clout. Abbey any cloud to

speak out there at the moment. Over the last few hours, plenty of

sunshine. It's a fine evening with what clear spells. With a light

breeze, there might be patchy mist and fog developing in the night.

Particularly in prone spots, especially down the Vale of York and

we are looking at a cold night with temperatures away from the coast

dropping to at least below freezing, a few degrees below freezing out in

the countryside. The sum of rise in the morning just before 6am setting

just before haka six tomorrow evening. Europe high wattage lines.

We start the day on a chilly zero. The sunshine will burn await mist or

more clout. Or 10am it should mostly be gone and then nice and dry.

Plenty of sunshine. It will feel warm in the sunshine for inland

spots in the afternoon but always that bit cooler along the coast. The

sea still very cold after cooling down after winter. Might get a

double figures but mainly around eight or 9 degrees. Inland, we

should reach 13 or 14 degrees. We reach their the sadness I would not

be surprised if we get to 14 or 15. A chilly start to Sunday with some

sunshine but then more clout through the afternoon.

Spring is definitely on its way. I don't think he looks well dressed.

She carted it, well done! Thank you very much for watching. We'll be

back at 10pm with the rest of the news. Good night.