:00:06. > :00:19.The headlines: Detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The man
:00:19. > :00:25.who killed schoolgirl Christina Edkins in a random attack pleads
:00:25. > :00:31.guilty. It is important to know he is being put any place where he
:00:31. > :00:36.repeat this. As one mother calls for more action against knife crime, we
:00:36. > :00:40.will have a special report. Inside the Hillsborough inquiry, a
:00:40. > :00:45.sister's fight for justice for her dead brother. We will get the truth
:00:45. > :00:52.and Justice and I really believe that from what I have seen.
:00:52. > :00:56.An allotment for students at Staffordshire University is given a
:00:56. > :00:59.top award. Celebrating 25 years of dance
:00:59. > :01:03.production with a world premiere in Warwickshire.
:01:03. > :01:07.And the weather. There is still more heavy rain to
:01:07. > :01:23.come with possible travel disruption.
:01:23. > :01:26.Detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The man who
:01:26. > :01:30.killed school girl Christina Edkins in a random attack on a bus during
:01:30. > :01:33.rush hour. Phillip Simelane pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Birmingham
:01:33. > :01:35.Crown Court today. It was 7:30am on Thursday seventh March when
:01:35. > :01:41.16—year—old Christina got on the number nine bus at Broad Street in
:01:41. > :01:46.Birmingham. A few minutes later, Phillip Simelane stabbed Christina
:01:46. > :01:50.in the chest. She died before 8am. He left the bus as it stopped on the
:01:50. > :01:55.Hagley Road, but was found hiding nearby, nearly four hours later.
:01:55. > :01:58.Today it's been revealed that he was released from prison in December,
:01:58. > :02:02.where he was receiving treatment for mental health problems. Our reporter
:02:02. > :02:13.is on the Hagley Road this evening, so what's been the reaction from
:02:13. > :02:17.Christina's family? Family and friends arrived in court this
:02:17. > :02:22.morning wearing purple ribbons, purple was the favourite colour of
:02:22. > :02:26.Christina Edkins. Her parents said that the best outcome for them would
:02:26. > :02:31.be a Phillip Simelane was locked up forever and then he would not be
:02:31. > :02:35.able to do what they had done —— what he had done to their daughter
:02:35. > :02:39.to anyone else. 5am on a grey wet March morning in
:02:39. > :02:42.Birmingham. The man who would kill Christina Edkins gets on the number
:02:42. > :02:44.nine bus. Nearly three hours later, Phillip Simelane, who had paranoid
:02:44. > :02:52.schizophrenia, stabbed the schoolgirl and calmly got off. It is
:02:53. > :02:56.fair to say that it could have happened any time, any place, any
:02:56. > :02:59.person. Today, Christina's parents were in court to hear Phillip
:02:59. > :03:08.Simelane admit her manslaughter. A family member spoke on their behalf.
:03:08. > :03:16.All sorts of old instances can cause massive grief and upset. Visible
:03:16. > :03:19.upset at any time. I do not think they will ever get over this. The
:03:19. > :03:22.court heard Phillip Simelane had been mentally ill for years,
:03:22. > :03:25.spending weeks in his bedroom, claiming people were out to get him.
:03:26. > :03:29.Police were called to his home 21 times. Last year, he served two
:03:29. > :03:33.prison sentences, one for threatening his mother with a knife.
:03:33. > :03:42.In December he was released and became homeless. The High Court
:03:42. > :03:45.judge told him it was hard to believe that someone with his level
:03:45. > :03:55.of illness into beast whipping wroth with no one to help him —— came to
:03:55. > :03:57.be sweeping the wroth. The Birmingham and Solihull Mental
:03:57. > :04:11.Health Trust has announced a review into his treatment.
:04:11. > :04:15.This expert in psychology says alarm bells should have been ringing,
:04:15. > :04:23.given the symptoms Phillip Simelane had already been showing. With
:04:23. > :04:26.someone who has had schizophrenia and is in their early 20s, they
:04:26. > :04:32.should have been picked up earlier by the mental health services. It is
:04:32. > :04:36.not very easy for services to keep those difficult patients on—board
:04:36. > :04:41.because of the chaotic lifestyles they have, they come and go, they
:04:41. > :04:44.drop out, they become transient. Whatever lessons are learned, family
:04:44. > :04:47.and friends will never get Christina back. But she will be fondly
:04:47. > :04:51.remembered. At her school, memorial awards will be presented to pupils
:04:51. > :05:00.in her name for at least the next 16 years. You would want every school
:05:00. > :05:04.in the country to be full of girls like her. She was hard—working,
:05:04. > :05:09.really driven. Clearly Christina was a girl with so much promise she will
:05:09. > :05:12.never be able to fulfil. The judge said it seems unusual
:05:12. > :05:19.Phillip Simelane would be released from prison without support. Do we
:05:19. > :05:23.have any idea why that happened? That is one of the things that the
:05:23. > :05:29.review, which will report back in December, will investigate. One of
:05:29. > :05:33.the psychiatrist said that one of the various experts were only
:05:33. > :05:38.getting a snapshot of what his life was like and were not able to pick
:05:38. > :05:43.up a full picture. That is something the review will be looking at. I
:05:43. > :05:51.have spoken to one charity which deals with people with schizophrenia
:05:51. > :05:55.and it says that only about 10% of schizophrenia patients get the best
:05:55. > :05:58.treatment that is available today. They are calling for the government
:05:58. > :06:02.to put more money into treating people like Phillip Simelane.
:06:02. > :06:05.Meanwhile, a mother whose 16—year—old son and his best friend
:06:05. > :06:09.were killed in separate stabbings is calling for more action to tackle
:06:09. > :06:13.knife crime. Kyle Sheehan and Joshua Ribera from Birmingham were killed a
:06:13. > :06:21.year apart. Joshua died last month as he was leaving a fundraising
:06:21. > :06:25.event in Kyle's memory. Two friends, young men wanting to
:06:25. > :06:29.make a life for themselves in music. But 16—year—old Kyle Sheehan was
:06:29. > :06:32.stabbed in a park as he walked home last year, and then on the
:06:32. > :06:42.anniversary of his death his friend Joshua Ribera became the latest
:06:42. > :06:48.victim of Birmingham's knife crime. My son is gone. His friend is gone.
:06:48. > :06:53.All the other kids that have been killed are gone. There are mothers
:06:53. > :06:56.have to go through the same I am going through, no mother should have
:06:57. > :06:59.to bury their child. Hayley Sheehan's home is usually shuttered.
:06:59. > :07:04.Curtains closed, blinds drawn, she's lost her only child. Kyle and
:07:04. > :07:07.Joshua, she says, were not part of any gang, just the victims of a
:07:07. > :07:16.culture that accepts carrying knives. We cannot lose teenagers
:07:16. > :07:20.like this. Something has to be done about knife crime. We have to do
:07:20. > :07:23.something to stop these children killing each other. Joshua Ribera,
:07:23. > :07:28.also known as Depz, was a talented grime rapper. This was his recent
:07:28. > :07:32.video, a tribute to his friend Kyle. Ten days ago he was at a nightclub.
:07:32. > :07:42.Later, he was attacked and fatally stabbed. The irony was that Joshua
:07:42. > :07:47.Ribena was that this nightclub at the music events to raise money for
:07:47. > :07:54.a headstone for his best friend's grave. What are the facts? Since
:07:54. > :08:01.April this year, eat people have died because of stabbings. West
:08:01. > :08:06.Midlands Police say that since 2006 knife crime has fallen by more than
:08:06. > :08:10.60% so we should not panic, yet still young men are dying because of
:08:10. > :08:13.knives. At a youth club in Lozells, I meet 17—year—old Tamjir. He's
:08:13. > :08:22.lucky to be alive. He was stabbed last month by a group of boys
:08:22. > :08:29.attempting to rob him. They have said what they have to say. They
:08:29. > :08:33.wanted money. One of the attackers pulled out what seemed like a
:08:33. > :08:38.pocketknife and got me in my left thigh. I was panicked, confused, I
:08:38. > :08:41.pulled down my tracksuit bottoms and there was lots of blood. What's the
:08:41. > :08:49.answer? Another knife amnesty? Tougher sentences? More education?
:08:49. > :08:52.Perhaps it's stories like Kyle and Joshua's. The senseless loss that
:08:52. > :08:57.knives bring to families and friends.
:08:57. > :09:01.Peter's in the studio now. You used the word panic in your report there.
:09:01. > :09:09.Is that what we're in danger of doing, panicking about knife crime?
:09:09. > :09:15.We have seen the devastation that violent crime brings to families and
:09:15. > :09:19.you cannot underestimate that. With a cold detached eye of the
:09:19. > :09:24.statistician, looking at the police figures, we are not seeing knife
:09:24. > :09:30.crime going up, it is going the other way, it is falling. I was
:09:30. > :09:34.talking to a mother who has four sons, they go to college and school,
:09:34. > :09:40.but she was talking about an epidemic. When you get these
:09:40. > :09:43.clusters of cases you get the fear of crime and you get that sense of
:09:43. > :09:50.panic. You've also been talking to young people and teachers, what have
:09:50. > :09:54.they been saying? Young people are talking about, they never see
:09:54. > :09:58.themselves, but they talk about other teenagers carrying knives
:09:58. > :10:03.almost as they do mobile phones. One thing the teacher said was that
:10:03. > :10:06.schools have introduced a great deal of discipline and containment so
:10:06. > :10:10.that when kids are in school they know what is expected of them. It is
:10:10. > :10:15.when they wrote on the streets they do not seem to these boundaries and
:10:15. > :10:19.one person was saying that teenagers are more likely to reach for a knife
:10:19. > :10:22.than actually use it. And tomorrow morning BBC WM 95.6FM
:10:22. > :10:40.will be hosting a special debate about knife—crime.
:10:40. > :10:44.Swapping Birmingham for Boston, Andris Nelsons, the music director
:10:44. > :10:54.of the city's Symphony Orchestra announces he's leaving for America.
:10:54. > :10:57.A Worcestershire woman whose brother died at Hillsborough has been
:10:57. > :11:00.meeting the team investigating the tragedy today. 96 football fans died
:11:00. > :11:12.at the stadium in 1989, including Louise Brooke's brother Andrew.
:11:12. > :11:15.Louise Brooke's search for the truth about her brother's death at
:11:15. > :11:23.Hillsborough has brought her from her home in Bromsgrove to
:11:23. > :11:27.Warrington. I have brought Andrew's bawdy file. I have a few concerns.
:11:27. > :11:30.Such is the scale of this Independent Police Complaints
:11:30. > :11:33.Commission inquiry, it's housed in a large building with 112 staff. She's
:11:33. > :11:42.given a tour from the person who heads the investigation. It is
:11:42. > :11:48.important that the during the visit she can see the work that my staff
:11:48. > :11:51.are doing to getting those unanswered questions answered.
:11:51. > :11:53.Andrew Brookes was one of 96 football fans who died at
:11:53. > :11:56.Hillsborough. Last year an independent panel revealed a
:11:56. > :11:59.cover—up. 24 years on and West Midlands Police are also under
:11:59. > :12:06.investigation as part of the inquiry into alleged wrongdoing. New
:12:06. > :12:12.evidence is coming to light all the time. We have nine boxes full of
:12:12. > :12:16.documents relating to Hillsborough that were found in the West Midlands
:12:16. > :12:22.Police archive. Can you tell us what you have discovered? There are
:12:22. > :12:25.indications from witnesses, witnesses feel they were not treated
:12:25. > :12:32.as well as they should have been. Morag has helped to archive almost
:12:32. > :12:35.1,000 boxes of documents. They contain records mostly from West
:12:35. > :12:40.Yorkshire Police, but also from West Midlands Police. I monitor the
:12:40. > :12:48.temperature to make sure that the paper does not degrade. From what I
:12:48. > :12:51.have seen, the IPCC are as determined as families to get the
:12:51. > :12:54.truth and justice. Louise will be back in Warrington next spring for
:12:54. > :12:58.the fresh inquests into those who died, including her brother.
:12:58. > :13:02.Worcestershire County Council has confirmed it needs to make an extra
:13:02. > :13:05.£20 million of savings over the next four years. The Conservative—led
:13:05. > :13:12.authority says it's had to revise its budgets until at least 2016—17.
:13:12. > :13:16.No more jobs will be shed, other than the 1,500 which have already
:13:16. > :13:20.been announced. But the council may have to consider outsourcing more
:13:20. > :13:23.services. The MP for Stoke—on—Trent South, Rob
:13:23. > :13:28.Flello, has resigned from his front bench position as Labour's Shadow
:13:28. > :13:32.Justice Minister. In a statement he said he'd decided to return to the
:13:32. > :13:35.backbenches so he could focus on his other parliamentary interests,
:13:35. > :13:38.including his role as the Chair of the All—Party Freight Transport
:13:38. > :13:40.Group. A masterpiece by French
:13:40. > :13:46.Impressionist painter Monet has been loaned to a school in Shropshire.
:13:46. > :13:49.It's part of a scheme backed by the BBC where famous pieces of art are
:13:49. > :13:53.given to schools for a day to inspire pupils. Many of the works
:13:53. > :13:56.are worth more than a million pounds. The pupils of Lydbury and
:13:56. > :14:03.Onny Primary school in Craven Arms in Shropshire have enjoyed being
:14:03. > :14:12.able to see the painting up close. It is amazing to have it. One of his
:14:12. > :14:19.real paintings. In front of us. It is hard to believe. It is amazing it
:14:19. > :14:26.is here. It is a nice opportunity. I can tell my friends that when I was
:14:26. > :14:29.young I actually saw his picture. Within the last hour it's been
:14:29. > :14:32.announced that Andris Nelsons, the city of Birmingham Symphony
:14:32. > :14:35.Orchestra's music director, is leaving. Since he joined in 2008,
:14:35. > :14:38.Andris has become one of the hottest properties in the classical music
:14:38. > :14:44.world, regularly playing to sell out crowds.
:14:44. > :14:47.It's been a partnership that's worked from the very start.
:14:47. > :15:00.Receiving rave reviews wherever they've performed. When he arrived,
:15:00. > :15:05.he was virtually unknown. Now he is one of the busiest conductors in the
:15:05. > :15:09.world. While his departure is undoubtedly a massive blow to the
:15:10. > :15:13.orchestra, there is excitement as the search for the next big star
:15:13. > :15:17.begins. His success in Birmingham has led to Andris being offered the
:15:17. > :15:20.role of music director at one of the world's greatest orchestras, the
:15:20. > :15:23.Boston Symphony, and with a young family as well he's decided it's
:15:23. > :15:32.just not possible to continue at the CBSO. He has had to realise that he
:15:32. > :15:36.is only human and there is a limit to the number of concerts you can do
:15:36. > :15:39.in a year. It has been a difficult decision for him to make because he
:15:39. > :15:46.lost the orchestra and the city and we have had so many good experiences
:15:46. > :15:50.together. Things were very different just over a year ago when I spoke to
:15:50. > :15:53.Andris at the Symphony Hall, the orchestra's home. He'd just signed a
:15:53. > :16:07.new contract and was looking far into the future. I am really looking
:16:07. > :16:14.forward to many years here. The orchestra have been so nice to me.
:16:14. > :16:17.Nobody can say no to such a great relationship. Along the corridors of
:16:17. > :16:19.the CBSO Centre, the faces of the orchestra's previous music
:16:19. > :16:28.directors. Andris is just one of three during the past 35 years. This
:16:29. > :16:33.is an amazingly attractive job to any conductor and we have the most
:16:33. > :16:37.wonderful artist and city, one of the best holes in the world. Lots of
:16:37. > :16:41.people will be beating the path to our door. Andris will remain with
:16:41. > :16:52.the CBSO until the summer of 2015. The hunt for his successor has
:16:52. > :16:58.already begun. Our top story: Detained
:16:58. > :17:01.indefinitely, the man who killed Christina Edkins in a random attack
:17:01. > :17:06.pleads guilty to manslaughter. He will be held under the Mental Health
:17:06. > :17:11.Act. Your detailed weather forecast to
:17:11. > :17:15.come. The cordial graphed the Paralympic
:17:15. > :17:20.opening ceremony, now this company celebrates 25 years of dance. We
:17:20. > :17:24.would not be the type of company and we would not have grown as we have
:17:24. > :17:28.if we were in London or anywhere else. If you have a story you think
:17:28. > :17:47.we should be covering, let us know. Staffordshire University is
:17:47. > :17:56.celebrating doing something that no other university has accomplished,
:17:57. > :18:00.it's a lot and has been rated outstanding by the Royal
:18:00. > :18:07.horticultural Society. This report was not just about the projects you
:18:07. > :18:12.have in front of you, was it? No, it was not just about that. It is more
:18:12. > :18:16.the sense of community here full up they are quite excited about it. The
:18:16. > :18:22.judges said this was a haven for students and staff and someone told
:18:22. > :18:25.me earlier that she might have abandoned her course altogether if
:18:25. > :18:31.it was not forthcoming to this allotment. Thanks to her allotment,
:18:31. > :18:35.and have hardly spent a penny on food all summer.
:18:35. > :18:42.The allotment has also fed her salt, going there has stopped dropping out
:18:42. > :18:47.of university. I was extremely depressed. I was in a horrible
:18:47. > :18:53.relationship and that strike me down. It was somewhere I could go
:18:53. > :18:58.when I was not feeling up to doing my course and I took a bit of time
:18:58. > :19:07.out and I was able to get back on track. This is the man who set it up
:19:07. > :19:10.six years ago. He is also the Staffordshire University student
:19:10. > :19:14.welfare officer. He oversaw the building of the tunnels and raised
:19:14. > :19:18.beds. He nurtured the fruit and vegetables and the young people who
:19:18. > :19:23.call themselves the extreme gardeners. Last winter was an awful
:19:23. > :19:29.winter and we were here every Sunday, whatever the weather, doing
:19:29. > :19:34.something, generally working in here wear it is a bit warmer, but I think
:19:34. > :19:49.we were down there in minus 18 at one point. But we had fun. He is
:19:49. > :19:53.liked by guard dad. The allotments' sustainability also won praise. The
:19:53. > :19:57.judge concluded it was an organic gem and buy rating it outstanding it
:19:57. > :20:03.has raised the bar for student allotments throughout the country.
:20:03. > :20:10.When they designed the tunnels and the raised beds, they also thought
:20:10. > :20:14.about disabled students. You are visually impaired. You had not done
:20:14. > :20:19.any gardening. How has it been for you here? It is a little bit scary
:20:19. > :20:24.when you first to do it. The finer details can be a bit difficult day
:20:24. > :20:33.today. People are cool and you get the hang of it. They are pretty
:20:33. > :20:40.helpful. It is a great award to win. We are thrilled, I am not just build
:20:40. > :20:44.for myself but for all of the 600 people who have been down here over
:20:44. > :20:49.the past six years. It is the first time you have been nominated and the
:20:49. > :20:57.first time any university has one. Brilliant. It is not just about the
:20:57. > :21:05.students. There is an awful lot that goes on here. You are an
:21:05. > :21:13.administrator. We like to have plenty of cups of tea and coffee in
:21:13. > :21:17.the shade and share the food. Sometimes people bring in food that
:21:17. > :21:29.they have made from home. Do you ever squabble? It is all done very
:21:29. > :21:39.amicably. Looking at the weather, we shall go back to the studio.
:21:39. > :21:45.Birmingham City's fine home when continued last night, although their
:21:45. > :21:51.win against Millwall was watched by their lowest league attendance in 20
:21:52. > :21:59.years. One player who returned from injury scored twice. The Blues have
:21:59. > :22:03.scored in their last few matches at St Andrews.
:22:03. > :22:08.The couple behind the motion has dance company are celebrating with
:22:08. > :22:15.the world premiere in the Midlands. The cordial graphed the opening
:22:15. > :22:23.ceremony of the Paralympic Games. Athletic dancers. Digital imagery
:22:23. > :22:27.and the power of dance. This is a story of our relationship with the
:22:27. > :22:33.world. It has taken over 8000 hours to put it together and this is a
:22:33. > :22:43.birthday present for audiences from Leamington spa —based Motion House.
:22:44. > :22:53.The artistic director setup with his wife 25 years ago. My wife and I
:22:53. > :22:58.made sure and stuck it in the back of a Volvo with two musicians and
:22:58. > :23:02.worked it so that when one was on stage one could change the lights.
:23:02. > :23:08.It was a very small endeavour, but very thrilling. The thrills have
:23:08. > :23:12.continued. Last year it was a highlight of the cultural
:23:12. > :23:19.celebrations for the Olympics. They also made up the opening ceremony
:23:20. > :23:24.for the Paralympic Games. To get one of the opening ceremonies is
:23:24. > :23:28.unbelievable. This is a momentous year for the company. Not only are
:23:28. > :23:33.they celebrating 25 years, Kevin was awarded an MBE in the Queen's
:23:33. > :23:36.birthday honours. They have chosen to premiere at this latest
:23:36. > :23:42.performance just up the road from where the dancing dream began.
:23:42. > :23:46.Warwickshire is our home and being here has allowed us access to
:23:46. > :23:50.materials and resources that we could never have hoped to have got
:23:50. > :23:53.if we were in the city. As a thanks to the region, it premiers tonight
:23:53. > :24:09.in Warwick. Enough rain to warrant a warning and
:24:09. > :24:15.create further travel disruption through this evening and tonight.
:24:15. > :24:19.The warning applies mainly to northern, western and central parts
:24:19. > :24:23.of the region. It will lead to torrential downpours and some flash
:24:23. > :24:31.flooding. There has been plenty going on today and plenty to come.
:24:31. > :24:36.We have this obligate front. Once it got going, it moved quite quickly.
:24:36. > :24:40.Behind it, we have showers which are banding together to give a potential
:24:40. > :24:45.downpours in the south—west. Also tomorrow, we have another area of
:24:45. > :24:50.rain from the West and the south and this is subject to warnings as well.
:24:50. > :24:59.It is going to be wait for the next 24 hours. We have showers for the
:24:59. > :25:03.south—west. It could lead to around 15 millimetres of rain or more. You
:25:03. > :25:08.will find that after midnight things start to come down and it looks a
:25:08. > :25:19.lot drier across many parts of the region. A lot of load. Temperatures
:25:19. > :25:25.dropping down to 15. —— cloud. A very quick turnover from one lot of
:25:25. > :25:29.rain clearing to the next lot. We are looking at midday for that to
:25:29. > :25:33.arrive in the south—west and moving northwards through the course of the
:25:33. > :25:37.day and tomorrow evening. You can see some of those very bright
:25:37. > :25:42.colours, looking at high quantities, a lot of rain. The south—west is
:25:42. > :25:46.beating the brunt of the rain. It is quite warm as well. We have heavier
:25:46. > :25:55.burst to come through the north of the region —— bursts. Temperatures
:25:55. > :26:01.down to 16, but improving by the weekend.
:26:01. > :26:05.The headlines: The Prime Minister'smessage to the under 25 is
:26:05. > :26:11.that the days of going straight to benefits are over —— could be over.
:26:11. > :26:15.The man who killed Christina Edkins in a random attack pleads guilty to
:26:15. > :26:18.manslaughter and will be held under the Mental Health Act.
:26:18. > :26:26.I will be back at 10pm.