24/10/2016 Look North (Yorkshire)


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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

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Tonight: A Sheffield man who attacked a police officdr

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with an axe has been found guilty of grievous bodily harm.

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And will a legal precedent tsed to clear Chesterfield strikdr

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Ched Evans of rape mean wom`n are afraid to come

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A jury has decided that a m`n who fractured a police officer's

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skull with an axe had not mdant to kill her, but they have ruled

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Nathan Sumner did mean to c`use PC Lisa Bates serious harm

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Here's our crime correspondent John Cundy.

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Nathan Sumner, who launched his savage attack one evening in April,

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when police were called to deal with a domestic incident

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Lisa Bates is still off-dutx, recovering six months

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One of her fingers was almost severed in the attack.

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She ran down steps to escapd, bleeding from her serious wounds,

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Sumner run across the road `nd went amok in a supermarket nearbx,

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Four officers were injured in the incident.

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A short trial at Sheffield Crown Court heard that Nathan Sumner had

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been acting strangely in thd days before the incident,

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swinging an axe around, which he kept in the flat.

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Nathan Sumner always admittdd the attack on PC Lisa Bates,

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but the jury had to decide whether his psychotic state

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In the end, they cleared Sulner of attempted murder,

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but found him guilty of meaning to cause Lisa Bates

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It's a stark reminder of injuries that officers risk every dax

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going about their daily bushness and I'd like to take

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the opportunity to remind pdople that these are people,

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sons and daughters and mums and dads, and they have pardnts

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evenings and sports days like everybody else, but thdy go

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to work as ordinary people, doing an extraordinary job.

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Officers risk these types of injuries on a daily basis.

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One West Yorkshire MP is a parliamentary MP

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for tougher penalties for those who attack the police.

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This is one of the most serhous examples of assaults

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We've had an incident in Gl`sgow today where there has been ` hit

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I'm calling on the Government to do much more about this.

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We've seen a reduction in the number of police officers

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on the streets, meaning they are increasingly vulnerable.

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Lisa Bates has thanked colldagues for their support and the strgeons

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A group of female Labour MPs has written to the Attorney Gendral

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warning that women will be less likely to report rape

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because of the legal preceddnt set in the retrial of the Chestdrfield

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Evidence about the sexual hhstory of the complainant was used

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in the retrial of the footb`ller, who was acquitted this month.

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This was 2012 - Ched Evans jailed after being found guilty of rape.

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And this was earlier this month - Evans found not guilty in a retrial,

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his conviction having been quashed in April.

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The difference between the two trials, evidence

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of the complainant's sexual history from two men who had

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It led to her being questioned in court, not just about thd night

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in this hotel with Evans, but on intimate details of her sex

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In a letter to the Attorney General, six Yorkshire MPs have now

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voiced their concern that this sets a dangerous precedent.

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There are nearly 40 female LPs calling for a change in the law

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The type of evidence used in the Ched Evans case has only been

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used once in the past 16 ye`rs and while MPs are worried it

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will become more common, many legal experts disagree.

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The law, as it stands, is extremely restrictive.

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It's very, very difficult to introduce evidence

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of a complainant's previous sexual history, as it's called,

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unless the judge is satisfidd that there would be an injustice

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if it did not happen, if it would make

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Ched Evans has been back on the football pitch this season

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trying to put the last few years behind him,

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but his case is likely to continue making headlines

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Katrina Palin works for a charity which helps rape victims in Leeds.

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She says she's troubled by recent events.

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We know from supporting womdn and girls that a major barrher

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for them coming forward is concern that things like their sexu`l

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history will be raised in court and made public and used to make it

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look as if they're lying about the allegations that they ve

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made, and I just feel that, with a case like this,

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which has had so much publicity and been in the media so much,

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it's really going to compound the fears that women may already

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have and increase that barrher to them reporting.

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This is quite an unusual case, though, isn't it?

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And the complainant's sexual history was used because it was so close

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to the alleged incident itsdlf, so there's no suggestion th`t this

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will become common practice, so what are your worries thdre?

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Firstly, there is the perception of women.

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As I say, we already know, despite the fact this kind

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of evidence hasn't been used 16 years, it is a major concern that

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women cited as a reason that they don't want to comd

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forward, so having something like this out so publicly whll only

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increase those concerns and compound those fears.

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I think also there's the perception that the general public may have.

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It compounds a of common around rape and around behaviours that women may

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have that try to put the responsibility for the rape

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on two women rather than onto the perpetrator.

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I think what we'd really like to see is that there is more movemdnt

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from Government and at all levels, really, it was looking at consent

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education to prevent rape h`ppening and also things like it is lade

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obvious that this kind of evidence isn't often used in court

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and we would support the motion that the Labour MPs have put forward

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to the Attorney General arotnd making sure that this type

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of evidence can't be used routinely and that there have to be vdry

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exceptional circumstances for a woman's sexual historx ever

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Two men have been arrested in connection with a fire at a house

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in Wakefield in which a father and daughter were killed.

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Andrew and Kiera Broadhead died following the blaze in Stanley

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The men, aged 24 and 28, were arrested on suspicion

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The new Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin has taken

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Mrs Brabin swore the oath of allegiance in the House of Commons.

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The former Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Eastenders actress won

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a by-election following the death of Jo Cox.

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The Hepworth Gallery in Wakdfield has launched a prestigious sculpture

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prize to celebrate its fifth birthday with ?30,000 up

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It's hoped it will become as well known as the Turner Prize.

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Cathy Killick's been to see those shortlisted.

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It's the work of just four `rtists, but they show an incredibly diverse

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They're in competition for the brand-new Hepworth Prize

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for Sculpture, worth ?30,000, so high stakes.

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We were surprised to find there was no major prize

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for an artform that we excel in in this country,

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so we thought we ought to do something about that,

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First up, but in no particular order, Helen Marten.

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She's the youngest competitor, and her work plays with

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So is this sculpture of a shirt blowing in the wind one,

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And is this a painting or a sculpture?

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It's reminiscent of an archaeological dig

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Whatever - it's mind-boggling and impossible to imagine how

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Our third shortlisted artist is Steven Claydon.

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His work includes sound and smell, but it's very subtle.

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His miced-up busts emit a low throb like a heartbeat,

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but it's actually the sound of the lamp beneath

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Born in 1942, David Medalla is the oldest artist,

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yet his sculptures have a childlike exuberance.

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His bubble fountain evolves over time and so will these blank

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canvases, as anyone is invited to leave their mark in stitches

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The winner will be announced next month and there is a public vote,

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It will be another predomin`ntly dry week across Yorkshire and the north

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Midlands. Meteorologically, things are changing. After a fine `nd

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lovely day tomorrow, the jet stream is on the move at last and will

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position itself to the north of us, meaning high pressure to thd south

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ensures quite a lot of dry weather, as I can show you on the ch`rt for

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Tuesday. We're going to get rid of these. It has dominated the quarter.

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Any weather fronts are going to be weak indeed. A bit of drizzle for

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the Pennines and elsewhere on Wednesday, elsewhere the best of the

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sunshine towards the East Coast and it will be quite windy. By now, it

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is quite there was light showers but most of us dry with clear pdriods. A

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touch of frost possible and western areas, lows of three Celsius and fog

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in the Vale of York which could take a couple of hours to clear hn the

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morning. Then it is a dry and bright day. There will be some patchy cloud

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around but there will be pldnty of sunshine in many places, top

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temperatures around 12 Celshus. As we head through Tuesday evening and

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Tuesday night, that's when we get the wind to change and we gdt the

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wind coming in from the west, southwest. It will bring quhte a bit

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of cloud so on Wednesday morning, it is frost-free. The best of the

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brightness across central and eastern areas and quite mild weather

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when the sun comes out. That's it from us. I'll

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weekend, more of the same, mainly dry and feeling very mild. Now your

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national weather. Good evening, major changes in the

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weather over the next couple of days, the result being it will turn

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milder by day and also by night A breeze picking up, a westerly,

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something we have not seen much of this month. But there will not be a

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great deal of rain around. We did have rain today across the

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south-west, leaden skies in Bristol, not much of a sunset here, but the

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different North of the border. Fiery skies here and it is turning chilly,

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a frost in the Highlands. Underneath the clear skies. Across Southern

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parts of England into the Midlands and parts of Wales, more cloud.

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Patchy rain towards the South East. Heavy at at times along the South

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coast but temperatures do not fall much. Northern Wales and Northern

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England, a different story. Frost not just in Scotland, also in

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Northern Ireland. And we will find fog forming as

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