12/09/2011 Midlands Today

Welcome to Midlands today. The headlines: three men and two women

are jailed for torturing and killing their disabled friend and

leaving her on a disused railway line. Criticism of an ITV show

depicting Fred West by the detective who led the enquiry.

is not just unfair, but to the deficit of the investigation.

�100,000 for the former councillor who says Labour dropped him because

he is Asian. Nine arrests after home fans clash with police --

clash with police at Coventry City. The evening and welcome to Monday's

Midlands today. Tonight, five people had been jailed for

torturing them killing a disabled woman. Three men and two women were

sentenced at the Old Bailey in London to a minimum of 85 years in

prison. 27-year-old Gemma Hayter was left to choke on Harome bladder

on a disused railway line in Rugby in Warwickshire last year after

being kicked and stabbed. In sentencing, the judge said the

killers had subjected her to a chronicle of heartlessness as they

tormented her before her death. The judge said it was difficult to find

the words to express how vile their behaviour was. Gemma Hayter should

have been celebrating her birthday tomorrow, instead she choked to

death on her own blood on this disused railway line in rugby. She

was humiliated, beaten and forced to drink urine, before being walked

to her death by a gang she believed were her friends. Gemma Hayter was

a vulnerable young woman who was brutally killed at a hands of five

people she considered friends. Nothing can bring her back, and her

family can now try to come to terms with everything that has happened.

I hope they can start to rebuild their lives. Described as a

vulnerable adults with learning difficulties, she was captured on

CCTV in the hours before her death at their hands of a gang who hunted

in a pack. The charity Mencap said although her death was extreme and

tragic, abuse against the vulnerable is sadly commonplace.

There is a problem in society with people seem as not being human and

therefore extremely vulnerable and open to abuse. I think if these

crimes were committed against people on a race basis, we would

have very different an outcry. Chantelle Booth said she was her

best friend, but was described in court as a nasty piece of work with

no conscience. She, at Daniel Newstead and Joe Boyer were all

subjected -- all sentenced to life. Duncan Edwards received 15 years

for Gemma's killing. Outside court, her mother said the family was

still try to come to terms with her death. We are satisfied with the

sentences, this will give them 20 - - plenty of time to reflect on

their dreadful actions. This will never bring her back, but has

brought us some closure. When sentencing, the judge said she

failed to see how the five could have sunk any low were. She

admitted she had been upset watching CCTV footage, and that

each of them had never worked, as none of them had ever come to be

good to society, and always blame somebody else for their problems.

She added that for all by the burn it was by then, it soon will be,

but not in the way you have planned. Our reporter joins us now. There is

a serious case review under way into Gemma Hayter's death. What

does it involve? Any professional organisation which may have had

contact with her, police, social services, health bodies, will have

to establish how they were working together at the time of her death.

Why are they holding this review? It is not usual to hold a serious

case review into the death of an adult, but because he was

classified as a vulnerable adult, for all the agencies must establish

if there are any lessons for a recommendation that can come out of

this. When is the report due out? We expected at the end of October.

As you can imagine, this is going to be a very full and comprehensive

enquiry done by an independent body. Obviously, the family will still at

questions they want answered, and professional agencies want to

ensure that nobody is left unsafe. Later in the programme, we will

have the very latest at the tail- end of Hurricane at the tail-end of

Hurricane Katia beaches the Midlands. We have had reports of a

high wind and rain pouring in. Minor roads in Warwickshire and

Gloucestershire were closed off because of high wind. The strongest

wind was recorded in Shropshire. Disruption and damage are possible

in the next few hours. Find out more later. The detective who led

the Fred West investigation in Gloucester said he felt left Diane

-- let down by the producers of an ITV drama. Appropriate Adult

featured the relationship between Janet Leach and Fred West. John

Bennett said they ignored his advice and put dramatisation before

the fact. A drama showing the relationship between at Gloucester

housewife and a manipulative mass murderer was never going to be easy.

Appropriate adult -- Appropriate Adult took three years to make, and

producers had the areas meetings with Detective Superintendent John

Bennett. This afternoon, police officers found in two separate

areas what is considered to be two significant and separate fines.

Having seen the programme, he is angry at the way in which Janet

Leach's role is dramatised will stop they have wrongly portrayed

how Janet Leach came into the investigation, the way she was

dealt with, from welfare and the way she Interactive's. -- the way

she interacted with Fred West. The impact on the investigation has

been all parenthesised. It was produced in a way for the purpose

of the story they wanted to show. Unfortunately, other than the

acting ability that resulted in the portrayal of Fred West, it achieved

nothing at all. The writer of Appropriate Adult defended his

position, saying it made a better story. We are compressing years of

drama into two hours, so you must simplified the story, but we

absolutely stand by the essence of the story. The drama does not

criticise Gloucester police, John Bennett, others have. What of the

women at the centre of this? Janet Leach neck -- nearly brought the

trial to a halt when it was revealed she had done a deal with

the Daily Mirror for her story. She worked with ITV on the drama but

did not want to be interviewed. What should we expect from the

dramatisation of a story? It was a pretty grim watch. The you believe

these should be the same, the deal for detail? The job of the script

writer is to stick to the basics. Cover the fundamentals of the plot,

not necessarily pay lip service to every detail, which would have

weakened at the force of the drama, and it was an excellent drama. It

was told from the perspective of Janet Leach, the social worker. We

did not see the rape, incest, murders, we did not see bodies

exhumed, it concentrated on the relationship, and it was a morally

ambiguous relationship. I think in this situation the detective's

criticisms are not legitimate, because he was not privy to aspects

of that relationship. Can you understand people were actually

they're being frustrated beyond belief that were furious when the

see something that never happen? can understand, that everybody

takes liberties. Every artist, scriptwriter, take liberties with

the fact. Otherwise we would be seeing documentaries, and this was

not a documentary, it was a powerful drama, in the sense that

it engage the audience. Everybody who watches those shows will be

totally engrossed. It is a compelling drama, but what about

the victims? Was it unfair to the victims? A lot at the time in this

particular case, it was 17 years ago. We have to keep her mind on

the fact that time has and an aesthetic quality. It desensitise

his cars. -- desensitises us. We sold it horrific case of Gemma

Hayter. There is no doubt that in a decade or two, someone will have

the idea of dramatising this and it will offend people. It will not

make the facts of the crime Galway, but it will make a compelling drama.

-- the crime Galway. A former councillor has won more than

�100,000 compensation from the Labour Party in a race

discrimination action. In a long- running case, he claimed he was

dropped as a candidate because he is Asian. It has been some battle.

For 13 years this former Labour councillor has pursued the party

from courtroom to tribunal. I am really pleased that this battle has

more or less come to an end. At the end of the day, I have been

vindicated. This was 10 years ago, at one of the first tribunal

hearings. Labour deselected him following claims he gave his Asian

families preference for housing repair grant in exchange for votes,

claims he has always denied. In the end, the tribunal ruled that Labour

had deselected him because they feared Borders would associate at

candidate from the Pakistani community with a housing grant

community -- scandal, and this amounted to discrimination. He was

awarded compensation of nearly �123,000, legal fees being paid by

the public. If the money has been given -- taken from the taxpayer,

it should be charged to the Labour Party. Labour told us they were

clear that unfairly discriminating against someone because of their

race is totally unacceptable. He is now qualify as a solicitor and is

no longer involved in party politics. Parents of deaf pupils

said today that the council decision to halt specialist

treatment programmes Cup's are welcome, but the damage has already

Getting ready for school. This five-year-old Carl and her sister

are both deaf. This family believes plans to halve the number of

specialist teachers over two years would have had a big effect. Even

though they have given us that extra staff back and they have

stopped cutting staff, the damaged that the council have caused is a

much more greater than what they have given us back. As the girls

said off, they are believed the council has decided to reverse its

plans for cuts. We help by signing and by talking slowly. I feel happy

because my sisters can have support teachers. Now they can hear

properly and when the teacher is speaking fast, they can understand.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has refused our request for an

interview. In the past to the council has said it has been forced

to face an unprecedented level of savings. But the charity which

Launce the action, says the council ignored the concerns of parents.

is a shame that parents and ourselves have to take this step.

They realised that they were not following proper legal processes.

It was evident they were not consulting parents. There will be

more consultation with families over the next few months, after

their legal victory, these campaigners are determined to avoid

further cuts. The UK's first ever facility for

recycling nappies has opened in the Black Country. The plant aims to

process 36,000 tonnes of waste a year. Although just opened, the

plug is working flat out and there are plans to build others in the UK.

David, how much nappy waste to reproduce? A lot. Look at these

facts. By the time you potty train your child, they could use up to

6,000 nappies before it becomes potty trained. News 8 million

nappies in the UK every day and these can hang in the landfill for

500 years but not if they come here. Here they are recycled. They are

put under pressure, heat-treated and separated into two different

strains. The plastic can be used in things like roof tile and the pulp

canned make things like this, cardboard tubes. Martin, how much

is the demand for this? Over a million tons of hygiene products in

the UK. This plant will handle about 36,000 tonnes but the board

out that we would like to have would be another 45 plants as

minimum. That is amazing. This is commercial nappy waste from

hospitals. What about domestic nappies? This is the absorbent

hygiene products recover. We hope that the local authorities will

expand to allow us to have the collection methodology for bringing

in the household waste, but at the moment the plan -- plant is for

commercial sources. There might be more plants opening soon? We are

looking for roll-out of four or five plants in the next five years

and that will be covered by all of the absorbent products, commercial

or domestic sources. I know what everyone has been asking me, how

does it smell? I have smelt much worse! But it does linger!

Still to come: the rare Land Rover cars saved from the scrap heap in

Norway that could be yours at auction.

Danny is here with the sport. Coventry City's first win of the

season was marred by crowd trouble. It started after fans tried to

protest against the club's owners. Nine arrests were made during the

home win over Derby. Birmingham City's win over Millwall also saw a

rest. It was the moment that tension

spilled out. Fans frustrated with how Coventry City is one, chose the

home game to demonstrate against the owners. But when banners are

confiscated, the frustration turned to anger and all while the match

was going on. The club said the scenes sad and staff and they have

launched an investigation. The Sky Blues won their first game of the

season. Richard Keogh and a penalty which Lukas Jutkewicz converted and

Carl Baker's that -- body led to victory. It is time for us to move

on and we have set our standards. We played some of the big boys and

we want to kick on. There will also 12 arrests after Birmingham City's

win over Millwall. Her hat-trick from Chris Wood gave them a 3-0 win.

His second was a volley and his third in the dying minutes was also

a goal. The win lifted the Blues 10 places up the table to 12. West

Bromwich Albion also won yesterday. The victory at Norwich was the

first Premier League points. Peter Odemwingie scored the only goal

Odemwingie scored the only goal after three minutes. The big

talking point was this collision between Albin's Gabriel Tamas and

Norwich striker James Vaughan. Tamas has been charged by the

Football Association with violent conduct and could face a three-

match ban. That is not how everyone saw it. Norwich were unhappy.

was an accident. And Stoke City where the other winners. A Jon

where the other winners. A Jon Walters penalty was enough to beat

Liverpool 1-0. Shrewsbury Town have also started

the season well. They are in the League Two promotion places. They

beat Midland rivals Hereford United. Have the's defeat leaves them in

the bottom two. You can see the highlights from all the matches on

the BBC sport website. Warwickshire are wrong course to

win the County Championship after a great day's batting. If they win

they should take the title and they had to centurions. Varun Chopra was

the first to that mark. He was out for 109. And Shivnarine Chanderpaul

also made 100. He closed the day 107 not out. The bears ended Day

one 296 for three. Worcestershire at dismissed Durham at the

Riverside as they strive to stay in Division One. They were 24 for one.

Four commentary on both of those matches you can log on to the BBC

sport website. It has been a wild weekend in

Aberdeen but Andy Sullivan will never forget it. The golfer played

a key role in helping Great Britain and Ireland win the Walker Cup. The

perfect way to end his amateur career before turning professional.

We met Andy Sullivan last week and he was living the dream of every

amateur golfer. He was heading to Scotland to first the cream of the

USA and he was confident that Great Britain and Ireland could topple

the holders and when the Walker Cup. By Sunday, G B I needed three

points to win the silver well. This birdie putt left him two down with

eight to play and as the north wind blew, so did Andy. He won the 11th

hole to trail by just one and when he levelled his match, his American

opponent must have feared the worst. Earlier, Andy had won both his

foursomes to win points for the team but although he lost his

singles, nothing could stop Great Britain and Ireland from securing a

victory. Fantastic. The loudest cheers. You could hear it all over

the course. Nuneaten had arrived. What a high note to go on.

Fantastic. His family were so proud. Andy Sullivan will take the plunge

and turn professional but winning the Walker Cup will be the

highlight of his amateur golf career.

Congratulations, Andy. His trip back was delayed because of the

high winds. Thank you. Would for once believed

to be the largest collection of rare Land Rovers in the world has

been rescued from a scrap heap and brought back to the Midlands.

Models were about to be seized and destroyed by the Norwegian

government but they will now be auctioned off at the weekend.

63 year since the first Land Rover came off the production line in

Solihull, this most iconic of British bands has come in many

guises. Take this, the Cuthbertson, one of only 13 built in 1958 to

track through boggy terrain. This fire engine converted by a

Worcester firm backing 1964. have ex-British Army, designed to

float on water. These rare models have been rescued by one man, John

Craddock from Cannock. He bought them after they were seized by

government officials in the wake and now plans to auction them off

on Sunday. We will have more foreign visitors than UK visitors.

The response has been overwhelming from around the world. We know that

our people coming from China, Japan and America. Not all the exhibits

are in perfect condition. This is a 1954 series one model. It is one of

the most sought-after vehicles by Land Rover enthusiasts. And

deserveds like Stephen Peters from Florida. He has already arrived in

anticipation of securing a piece of Midlands and motoring heritage.

This is a piece of history that will never happen again. This

collection is massive. It is great to be here and have the take a

vehicle ham. So passionate art collectors, they will pay tens of

thousands of pounds for a rarity. You buy a car, keeping it three

years, it has had it. By a Land Rover, you keep it for ever. And to

think all these could have ended up on the scrap heap.

Some weird-looking ones! There will be more in our late bulletin. We

will be reporting live from the Frankfurt Motor Show.

As we have heard, it has been a windy day right across the region.

Has Hurricane Katia finally blown Has Hurricane Katia finally blown

itself out? How is it looking? It is looking a little bit better.

The effects of the winds have stretched far and wide. Shops yeah

probably got the worst of the gusts. -- Shropshire. From the rest of the

figures, it is the north and west that bore the brunt of the

battering. Now that the remains of Cyclone Katia or are drifting off

to the North Sea, the was see that they raise some slack developing in

the isobars the further south we go. Still quite a blurry out there.

That will last through the evening and through the first part of

tonight with gusts within the region of 50 miles per hour. The

possibility of some transport, damage to trees and structures.

Towards the tail end of tonight, the wind speeds easing.

Temperatures are down to 11 or 12 Celsius and that is because of the

winds. It is also a dry night with clear spells. That yields some

sunshine tomorrow morning. A nice start to the day. But quickly the

cloud thickens from the West and that will introduce a rash of

showers. Some could be heavy. They become more sparse through the

afternoon. Temperatures riding to 16 or 17 Celsius. Slightly cooler

but not quite as windy. Gusts of but not quite as windy. Gusts of

around 30 miles per hour. Wednesday December.

A look at tonight's main headlines: the government has promised to push

through the biggest overhaul of Britain's banks in a generation.