:00:10. > :00:13.Welcome to Midlands today. The headlines: three men and two women
:00:13. > :00:18.are jailed for torturing and killing their disabled friend and
:00:18. > :00:24.leaving her on a disused railway line. Criticism of an ITV show
:00:24. > :00:33.depicting Fred West by the detective who led the enquiry.
:00:33. > :00:36.is not just unfair, but to the deficit of the investigation.
:00:36. > :00:41.�100,000 for the former councillor who says Labour dropped him because
:00:41. > :00:51.he is Asian. Nine arrests after home fans clash with police --
:00:51. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:59.clash with police at Coventry City. The evening and welcome to Monday's
:01:00. > :01:05.Midlands today. Tonight, five people had been jailed for
:01:05. > :01:09.torturing them killing a disabled woman. Three men and two women were
:01:09. > :01:14.sentenced at the Old Bailey in London to a minimum of 85 years in
:01:14. > :01:18.prison. 27-year-old Gemma Hayter was left to choke on Harome bladder
:01:18. > :01:23.on a disused railway line in Rugby in Warwickshire last year after
:01:23. > :01:27.being kicked and stabbed. In sentencing, the judge said the
:01:27. > :01:31.killers had subjected her to a chronicle of heartlessness as they
:01:31. > :01:36.tormented her before her death. The judge said it was difficult to find
:01:36. > :01:40.the words to express how vile their behaviour was. Gemma Hayter should
:01:40. > :01:44.have been celebrating her birthday tomorrow, instead she choked to
:01:44. > :01:49.death on her own blood on this disused railway line in rugby. She
:01:49. > :01:53.was humiliated, beaten and forced to drink urine, before being walked
:01:53. > :01:57.to her death by a gang she believed were her friends. Gemma Hayter was
:01:57. > :02:01.a vulnerable young woman who was brutally killed at a hands of five
:02:01. > :02:05.people she considered friends. Nothing can bring her back, and her
:02:05. > :02:10.family can now try to come to terms with everything that has happened.
:02:10. > :02:13.I hope they can start to rebuild their lives. Described as a
:02:14. > :02:17.vulnerable adults with learning difficulties, she was captured on
:02:17. > :02:24.CCTV in the hours before her death at their hands of a gang who hunted
:02:24. > :02:29.in a pack. The charity Mencap said although her death was extreme and
:02:29. > :02:34.tragic, abuse against the vulnerable is sadly commonplace.
:02:34. > :02:38.There is a problem in society with people seem as not being human and
:02:38. > :02:43.therefore extremely vulnerable and open to abuse. I think if these
:02:43. > :02:47.crimes were committed against people on a race basis, we would
:02:47. > :02:51.have very different an outcry. Chantelle Booth said she was her
:02:51. > :02:57.best friend, but was described in court as a nasty piece of work with
:02:57. > :03:04.no conscience. She, at Daniel Newstead and Joe Boyer were all
:03:04. > :03:10.subjected -- all sentenced to life. Duncan Edwards received 15 years
:03:10. > :03:15.for Gemma's killing. Outside court, her mother said the family was
:03:15. > :03:20.still try to come to terms with her death. We are satisfied with the
:03:20. > :03:26.sentences, this will give them 20 - - plenty of time to reflect on
:03:26. > :03:32.their dreadful actions. This will never bring her back, but has
:03:32. > :03:35.brought us some closure. When sentencing, the judge said she
:03:35. > :03:40.failed to see how the five could have sunk any low were. She
:03:40. > :03:44.admitted she had been upset watching CCTV footage, and that
:03:44. > :03:50.each of them had never worked, as none of them had ever come to be
:03:50. > :03:55.good to society, and always blame somebody else for their problems.
:03:55. > :04:04.She added that for all by the burn it was by then, it soon will be,
:04:04. > :04:08.but not in the way you have planned. Our reporter joins us now. There is
:04:08. > :04:13.a serious case review under way into Gemma Hayter's death. What
:04:13. > :04:18.does it involve? Any professional organisation which may have had
:04:18. > :04:23.contact with her, police, social services, health bodies, will have
:04:23. > :04:27.to establish how they were working together at the time of her death.
:04:27. > :04:31.Why are they holding this review? It is not usual to hold a serious
:04:31. > :04:34.case review into the death of an adult, but because he was
:04:34. > :04:38.classified as a vulnerable adult, for all the agencies must establish
:04:38. > :04:48.if there are any lessons for a recommendation that can come out of
:04:48. > :04:52.this. When is the report due out? We expected at the end of October.
:04:52. > :04:57.As you can imagine, this is going to be a very full and comprehensive
:04:57. > :05:01.enquiry done by an independent body. Obviously, the family will still at
:05:01. > :05:07.questions they want answered, and professional agencies want to
:05:07. > :05:12.ensure that nobody is left unsafe. Later in the programme, we will
:05:12. > :05:16.have the very latest at the tail- end of Hurricane at the tail-end of
:05:16. > :05:22.Hurricane Katia beaches the Midlands. We have had reports of a
:05:23. > :05:27.high wind and rain pouring in. Minor roads in Warwickshire and
:05:27. > :05:33.Gloucestershire were closed off because of high wind. The strongest
:05:33. > :05:43.wind was recorded in Shropshire. Disruption and damage are possible
:05:43. > :05:46.
:05:46. > :05:51.in the next few hours. Find out more later. The detective who led
:05:51. > :05:56.the Fred West investigation in Gloucester said he felt left Diane
:05:56. > :05:59.-- let down by the producers of an ITV drama. Appropriate Adult
:05:59. > :06:02.featured the relationship between Janet Leach and Fred West. John
:06:02. > :06:11.Bennett said they ignored his advice and put dramatisation before
:06:11. > :06:18.the fact. A drama showing the relationship between at Gloucester
:06:18. > :06:23.housewife and a manipulative mass murderer was never going to be easy.
:06:23. > :06:27.Appropriate adult -- Appropriate Adult took three years to make, and
:06:27. > :06:35.producers had the areas meetings with Detective Superintendent John
:06:35. > :06:42.Bennett. This afternoon, police officers found in two separate
:06:42. > :06:46.areas what is considered to be two significant and separate fines.
:06:46. > :06:50.Having seen the programme, he is angry at the way in which Janet
:06:50. > :06:53.Leach's role is dramatised will stop they have wrongly portrayed
:06:53. > :07:03.how Janet Leach came into the investigation, the way she was
:07:03. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:11.dealt with, from welfare and the way she Interactive's. -- the way
:07:11. > :07:17.she interacted with Fred West. The impact on the investigation has
:07:17. > :07:25.been all parenthesised. It was produced in a way for the purpose
:07:25. > :07:34.of the story they wanted to show. Unfortunately, other than the
:07:34. > :07:41.acting ability that resulted in the portrayal of Fred West, it achieved
:07:41. > :07:51.nothing at all. The writer of Appropriate Adult defended his
:07:51. > :07:55.
:07:55. > :08:00.position, saying it made a better story. We are compressing years of
:08:00. > :08:05.drama into two hours, so you must simplified the story, but we
:08:05. > :08:13.absolutely stand by the essence of the story. The drama does not
:08:13. > :08:19.criticise Gloucester police, John Bennett, others have. What of the
:08:19. > :08:23.women at the centre of this? Janet Leach neck -- nearly brought the
:08:23. > :08:27.trial to a halt when it was revealed she had done a deal with
:08:27. > :08:37.the Daily Mirror for her story. She worked with ITV on the drama but
:08:37. > :08:41.
:08:41. > :08:48.did not want to be interviewed. What should we expect from the
:08:48. > :08:56.dramatisation of a story? It was a pretty grim watch. The you believe
:08:57. > :09:02.these should be the same, the deal for detail? The job of the script
:09:02. > :09:09.writer is to stick to the basics. Cover the fundamentals of the plot,
:09:09. > :09:13.not necessarily pay lip service to every detail, which would have
:09:13. > :09:17.weakened at the force of the drama, and it was an excellent drama. It
:09:17. > :09:22.was told from the perspective of Janet Leach, the social worker. We
:09:22. > :09:28.did not see the rape, incest, murders, we did not see bodies
:09:28. > :09:37.exhumed, it concentrated on the relationship, and it was a morally
:09:37. > :09:42.ambiguous relationship. I think in this situation the detective's
:09:42. > :09:46.criticisms are not legitimate, because he was not privy to aspects
:09:46. > :09:49.of that relationship. Can you understand people were actually
:09:49. > :09:53.they're being frustrated beyond belief that were furious when the
:09:53. > :09:59.see something that never happen? can understand, that everybody
:09:59. > :10:04.takes liberties. Every artist, scriptwriter, take liberties with
:10:04. > :10:09.the fact. Otherwise we would be seeing documentaries, and this was
:10:09. > :10:15.not a documentary, it was a powerful drama, in the sense that
:10:15. > :10:19.it engage the audience. Everybody who watches those shows will be
:10:19. > :10:25.totally engrossed. It is a compelling drama, but what about
:10:25. > :10:29.the victims? Was it unfair to the victims? A lot at the time in this
:10:30. > :10:36.particular case, it was 17 years ago. We have to keep her mind on
:10:36. > :10:46.the fact that time has and an aesthetic quality. It desensitise
:10:46. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:54.his cars. -- desensitises us. We sold it horrific case of Gemma
:10:54. > :10:59.Hayter. There is no doubt that in a decade or two, someone will have
:10:59. > :11:05.the idea of dramatising this and it will offend people. It will not
:11:05. > :11:10.make the facts of the crime Galway, but it will make a compelling drama.
:11:10. > :11:14.-- the crime Galway. A former councillor has won more than
:11:14. > :11:18.�100,000 compensation from the Labour Party in a race
:11:18. > :11:24.discrimination action. In a long- running case, he claimed he was
:11:24. > :11:29.dropped as a candidate because he is Asian. It has been some battle.
:11:29. > :11:35.For 13 years this former Labour councillor has pursued the party
:11:35. > :11:38.from courtroom to tribunal. I am really pleased that this battle has
:11:38. > :11:44.more or less come to an end. At the end of the day, I have been
:11:44. > :11:48.vindicated. This was 10 years ago, at one of the first tribunal
:11:48. > :11:52.hearings. Labour deselected him following claims he gave his Asian
:11:52. > :11:58.families preference for housing repair grant in exchange for votes,
:11:58. > :12:02.claims he has always denied. In the end, the tribunal ruled that Labour
:12:02. > :12:06.had deselected him because they feared Borders would associate at
:12:06. > :12:10.candidate from the Pakistani community with a housing grant
:12:10. > :12:16.community -- scandal, and this amounted to discrimination. He was
:12:16. > :12:22.awarded compensation of nearly �123,000, legal fees being paid by
:12:22. > :12:30.the public. If the money has been given -- taken from the taxpayer,
:12:30. > :12:32.it should be charged to the Labour Party. Labour told us they were
:12:32. > :12:41.clear that unfairly discriminating against someone because of their
:12:41. > :12:49.race is totally unacceptable. He is now qualify as a solicitor and is
:12:49. > :12:53.no longer involved in party politics. Parents of deaf pupils
:12:53. > :12:58.said today that the council decision to halt specialist
:12:58. > :13:08.treatment programmes Cup's are welcome, but the damage has already
:13:08. > :13:17.
:13:17. > :13:21.Getting ready for school. This five-year-old Carl and her sister
:13:21. > :13:27.are both deaf. This family believes plans to halve the number of
:13:27. > :13:33.specialist teachers over two years would have had a big effect. Even
:13:33. > :13:38.though they have given us that extra staff back and they have
:13:38. > :13:43.stopped cutting staff, the damaged that the council have caused is a
:13:43. > :13:46.much more greater than what they have given us back. As the girls
:13:46. > :13:56.said off, they are believed the council has decided to reverse its
:13:56. > :14:00.
:14:01. > :14:06.plans for cuts. We help by signing and by talking slowly. I feel happy
:14:06. > :14:12.because my sisters can have support teachers. Now they can hear
:14:12. > :14:15.properly and when the teacher is speaking fast, they can understand.
:14:15. > :14:20.Stoke-on-Trent City Council has refused our request for an
:14:20. > :14:24.interview. In the past to the council has said it has been forced
:14:24. > :14:30.to face an unprecedented level of savings. But the charity which
:14:30. > :14:36.Launce the action, says the council ignored the concerns of parents.
:14:36. > :14:42.is a shame that parents and ourselves have to take this step.
:14:42. > :14:47.They realised that they were not following proper legal processes.
:14:47. > :14:51.It was evident they were not consulting parents. There will be
:14:51. > :14:54.more consultation with families over the next few months, after
:14:54. > :15:01.their legal victory, these campaigners are determined to avoid
:15:01. > :15:06.further cuts. The UK's first ever facility for
:15:06. > :15:11.recycling nappies has opened in the Black Country. The plant aims to
:15:11. > :15:17.process 36,000 tonnes of waste a year. Although just opened, the
:15:17. > :15:26.plug is working flat out and there are plans to build others in the UK.
:15:26. > :15:31.David, how much nappy waste to reproduce? A lot. Look at these
:15:31. > :15:36.facts. By the time you potty train your child, they could use up to
:15:36. > :15:41.6,000 nappies before it becomes potty trained. News 8 million
:15:41. > :15:47.nappies in the UK every day and these can hang in the landfill for
:15:47. > :15:52.500 years but not if they come here. Here they are recycled. They are
:15:52. > :15:58.put under pressure, heat-treated and separated into two different
:15:58. > :16:05.strains. The plastic can be used in things like roof tile and the pulp
:16:05. > :16:11.canned make things like this, cardboard tubes. Martin, how much
:16:11. > :16:17.is the demand for this? Over a million tons of hygiene products in
:16:17. > :16:22.the UK. This plant will handle about 36,000 tonnes but the board
:16:22. > :16:28.out that we would like to have would be another 45 plants as
:16:28. > :16:34.minimum. That is amazing. This is commercial nappy waste from
:16:34. > :16:44.hospitals. What about domestic nappies? This is the absorbent
:16:44. > :16:49.hygiene products recover. We hope that the local authorities will
:16:49. > :16:55.expand to allow us to have the collection methodology for bringing
:16:55. > :17:00.in the household waste, but at the moment the plan -- plant is for
:17:00. > :17:04.commercial sources. There might be more plants opening soon? We are
:17:04. > :17:14.looking for roll-out of four or five plants in the next five years
:17:14. > :17:18.and that will be covered by all of the absorbent products, commercial
:17:19. > :17:28.or domestic sources. I know what everyone has been asking me, how
:17:29. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:36.does it smell? I have smelt much worse! But it does linger!
:17:36. > :17:46.Still to come: the rare Land Rover cars saved from the scrap heap in
:17:46. > :17:54.Norway that could be yours at auction.
:17:54. > :17:58.Danny is here with the sport. Coventry City's first win of the
:17:58. > :18:02.season was marred by crowd trouble. It started after fans tried to
:18:02. > :18:07.protest against the club's owners. Nine arrests were made during the
:18:07. > :18:10.home win over Derby. Birmingham City's win over Millwall also saw a
:18:10. > :18:15.rest. It was the moment that tension
:18:15. > :18:19.spilled out. Fans frustrated with how Coventry City is one, chose the
:18:19. > :18:23.home game to demonstrate against the owners. But when banners are
:18:23. > :18:28.confiscated, the frustration turned to anger and all while the match
:18:28. > :18:33.was going on. The club said the scenes sad and staff and they have
:18:33. > :18:38.launched an investigation. The Sky Blues won their first game of the
:18:38. > :18:48.season. Richard Keogh and a penalty which Lukas Jutkewicz converted and
:18:48. > :18:48.
:18:48. > :18:53.Carl Baker's that -- body led to victory. It is time for us to move
:18:53. > :18:58.on and we have set our standards. We played some of the big boys and
:18:58. > :19:05.we want to kick on. There will also 12 arrests after Birmingham City's
:19:05. > :19:09.win over Millwall. Her hat-trick from Chris Wood gave them a 3-0 win.
:19:09. > :19:16.His second was a volley and his third in the dying minutes was also
:19:16. > :19:20.a goal. The win lifted the Blues 10 places up the table to 12. West
:19:20. > :19:24.Bromwich Albion also won yesterday. The victory at Norwich was the
:19:24. > :19:27.first Premier League points. Peter Odemwingie scored the only goal
:19:27. > :19:30.Odemwingie scored the only goal after three minutes. The big
:19:30. > :19:34.talking point was this collision between Albin's Gabriel Tamas and
:19:34. > :19:37.Norwich striker James Vaughan. Tamas has been charged by the
:19:37. > :19:45.Football Association with violent conduct and could face a three-
:19:45. > :19:50.match ban. That is not how everyone saw it. Norwich were unhappy.
:19:50. > :19:53.was an accident. And Stoke City where the other winners. A Jon
:19:53. > :19:57.where the other winners. A Jon Walters penalty was enough to beat
:19:57. > :20:03.Liverpool 1-0. Shrewsbury Town have also started
:20:03. > :20:11.the season well. They are in the League Two promotion places. They
:20:11. > :20:16.beat Midland rivals Hereford United. Have the's defeat leaves them in
:20:16. > :20:20.the bottom two. You can see the highlights from all the matches on
:20:20. > :20:23.the BBC sport website. Warwickshire are wrong course to
:20:23. > :20:30.win the County Championship after a great day's batting. If they win
:20:30. > :20:36.they should take the title and they had to centurions. Varun Chopra was
:20:36. > :20:45.the first to that mark. He was out for 109. And Shivnarine Chanderpaul
:20:45. > :20:49.also made 100. He closed the day 107 not out. The bears ended Day
:20:49. > :20:56.one 296 for three. Worcestershire at dismissed Durham at the
:20:56. > :21:01.Riverside as they strive to stay in Division One. They were 24 for one.
:21:01. > :21:11.Four commentary on both of those matches you can log on to the BBC
:21:11. > :21:15.sport website. It has been a wild weekend in
:21:15. > :21:20.Aberdeen but Andy Sullivan will never forget it. The golfer played
:21:20. > :21:26.a key role in helping Great Britain and Ireland win the Walker Cup. The
:21:26. > :21:29.perfect way to end his amateur career before turning professional.
:21:29. > :21:34.We met Andy Sullivan last week and he was living the dream of every
:21:34. > :21:38.amateur golfer. He was heading to Scotland to first the cream of the
:21:38. > :21:43.USA and he was confident that Great Britain and Ireland could topple
:21:43. > :21:51.the holders and when the Walker Cup. By Sunday, G B I needed three
:21:51. > :21:56.points to win the silver well. This birdie putt left him two down with
:21:56. > :22:00.eight to play and as the north wind blew, so did Andy. He won the 11th
:22:00. > :22:05.hole to trail by just one and when he levelled his match, his American
:22:05. > :22:08.opponent must have feared the worst. Earlier, Andy had won both his
:22:08. > :22:12.foursomes to win points for the team but although he lost his
:22:12. > :22:22.singles, nothing could stop Great Britain and Ireland from securing a
:22:22. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:33.victory. Fantastic. The loudest cheers. You could hear it all over
:22:33. > :22:37.the course. Nuneaten had arrived. What a high note to go on.
:22:37. > :22:41.Fantastic. His family were so proud. Andy Sullivan will take the plunge
:22:41. > :22:46.and turn professional but winning the Walker Cup will be the
:22:46. > :22:52.highlight of his amateur golf career.
:22:52. > :23:02.Congratulations, Andy. His trip back was delayed because of the
:23:02. > :23:12.
:23:12. > :23:16.high winds. Thank you. Would for once believed
:23:16. > :23:20.to be the largest collection of rare Land Rovers in the world has
:23:20. > :23:24.been rescued from a scrap heap and brought back to the Midlands.
:23:24. > :23:29.Models were about to be seized and destroyed by the Norwegian
:23:29. > :23:33.government but they will now be auctioned off at the weekend.
:23:33. > :23:37.63 year since the first Land Rover came off the production line in
:23:37. > :23:45.Solihull, this most iconic of British bands has come in many
:23:45. > :23:48.guises. Take this, the Cuthbertson, one of only 13 built in 1958 to
:23:48. > :23:56.track through boggy terrain. This fire engine converted by a
:23:56. > :24:01.Worcester firm backing 1964. have ex-British Army, designed to
:24:01. > :24:04.float on water. These rare models have been rescued by one man, John
:24:04. > :24:07.Craddock from Cannock. He bought them after they were seized by
:24:07. > :24:13.government officials in the wake and now plans to auction them off
:24:13. > :24:19.on Sunday. We will have more foreign visitors than UK visitors.
:24:19. > :24:24.The response has been overwhelming from around the world. We know that
:24:24. > :24:30.our people coming from China, Japan and America. Not all the exhibits
:24:31. > :24:36.are in perfect condition. This is a 1954 series one model. It is one of
:24:36. > :24:41.the most sought-after vehicles by Land Rover enthusiasts. And
:24:41. > :24:45.deserveds like Stephen Peters from Florida. He has already arrived in
:24:45. > :24:50.anticipation of securing a piece of Midlands and motoring heritage.
:24:50. > :24:53.This is a piece of history that will never happen again. This
:24:53. > :24:59.collection is massive. It is great to be here and have the take a
:24:59. > :25:05.vehicle ham. So passionate art collectors, they will pay tens of
:25:05. > :25:10.thousands of pounds for a rarity. You buy a car, keeping it three
:25:10. > :25:17.years, it has had it. By a Land Rover, you keep it for ever. And to
:25:17. > :25:21.think all these could have ended up on the scrap heap.
:25:21. > :25:26.Some weird-looking ones! There will be more in our late bulletin. We
:25:26. > :25:30.will be reporting live from the Frankfurt Motor Show.
:25:30. > :25:37.As we have heard, it has been a windy day right across the region.
:25:37. > :25:39.Has Hurricane Katia finally blown Has Hurricane Katia finally blown
:25:40. > :25:45.itself out? How is it looking? It is looking a little bit better.
:25:45. > :25:52.The effects of the winds have stretched far and wide. Shops yeah
:25:52. > :25:56.probably got the worst of the gusts. -- Shropshire. From the rest of the
:25:56. > :26:00.figures, it is the north and west that bore the brunt of the
:26:00. > :26:05.battering. Now that the remains of Cyclone Katia or are drifting off
:26:05. > :26:12.to the North Sea, the was see that they raise some slack developing in
:26:12. > :26:15.the isobars the further south we go. Still quite a blurry out there.
:26:15. > :26:22.That will last through the evening and through the first part of
:26:22. > :26:27.tonight with gusts within the region of 50 miles per hour. The
:26:27. > :26:35.possibility of some transport, damage to trees and structures.
:26:35. > :26:40.Towards the tail end of tonight, the wind speeds easing.
:26:40. > :26:46.Temperatures are down to 11 or 12 Celsius and that is because of the
:26:46. > :26:52.winds. It is also a dry night with clear spells. That yields some
:26:52. > :26:56.sunshine tomorrow morning. A nice start to the day. But quickly the
:26:56. > :27:02.cloud thickens from the West and that will introduce a rash of
:27:02. > :27:09.showers. Some could be heavy. They become more sparse through the
:27:09. > :27:16.afternoon. Temperatures riding to 16 or 17 Celsius. Slightly cooler
:27:16. > :27:19.but not quite as windy. Gusts of but not quite as windy. Gusts of
:27:19. > :27:24.around 30 miles per hour. Wednesday December.
:27:24. > :27:29.A look at tonight's main headlines: the government has promised to push
:27:29. > :27:33.through the biggest overhaul of Britain's banks in a generation.