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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Roger Johnson. Our top story: Rania Alayed's husband admits causing the | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
missing mum's death. He says he was possessed by a spirit. We're live | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
outside the court. Also tonight: This man was convicted | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
of terrorist offences three years ago. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Now his family could have their home siezed by the courts. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
After more than ten years of house, have Everton finally found a home | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
away from Goodison Park? The training which leaves them in | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
tears ` a new programme lifts the lid on what it takes to be a Special | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Constable in Cheshire. A court's heard that a mother of | :00:42. | :00:55. | |
three from Manchester was murdered after attempting to leave her | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
violent and abusive husband. Rania Alayed's body has never been found. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Today, a jury at Manchester Crown Court was told that her husband, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Ahmed Al`Khatibi from Gorton, has admitted causing her death but says | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
he was "possessed by a spirit". He denies murder. Naomi Cornwell has | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
been following the case. She joins us live from Manchester | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Crown Court. It is a murder case, even though the victim has never | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
been found. What have the jury been told today about how she died? The | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
prosecution have been opening their case today and they told the jury | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
that Rania Alayed was the victim of years of domestic violence. She was | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
born in Syria and came here with her husband, Ahmed Al`Khatibi. He was | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
violent and abusive. She was becoming too westernised, he | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
thought, and was trying to establish an independent life. She had | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
attempted to contact police and a solicitor and had left her husband. | :01:58. | :02:12. | |
He did kill her in June last year. They tried to conceal her murder by | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
hiding her body many miles away in Yorkshire. The two brothers deny | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
murder and the third denies perverting the course of justice. He | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
denies murder but admits causing her death, how has that been explained? | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Much of the case centres on what happened inside that flat, inside | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
Millward last year. Inside that flat, he pushed his wife, causing | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
her to stumble and an her head, from which she died. He denies he | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
intended to kill her. He says he was possessed of a spirit that caused | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
him to do it. The court `` the jury he was shown CCTV of Ahmed | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Al`Khatibi wearing his wife's clothes just minutes after she | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
died, attending to create the impression that she was still alive. | :03:17. | :03:31. | |
Thank you. The family of a convicted terrorist | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
will find out next month whether they'll be kicked out of their home. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
His family say they have done nothing wrong and should not be made | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
to suffer. Their supporters are holding a public meeting in the city | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
tonight. Here's our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest. | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
This is Munir Farooqi. He's currently serving four life | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
sentences for attempting to recruit and radicalise young men to fight | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
against British forces in Afghanistan. He used this market | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
stall to draw in his recruits. This room at his home in long`sight, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Manchester, was stuffed full of terrorist literature. Prosecutors | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
now want the house seized together with two other properties he had | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
connections to. They say the properties were used by Farooqi in | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
his preparations for acts of terrorism. But his family who still | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
live in this one say that's not their fault. If you have not | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
committed a crime, you should not be punished or stop the family members | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
who live here had never been charged with any crime. I was acquitted in | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
the same trial, so it is difficult to understand why we are going | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
through this. Rachel Adamson is a solicitor who specialises in | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
proceeds of crime cases but she says this one is unprecedented. As far as | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
I know, this is a first. It will be a tough job to get it through the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
courts. On what grounds Gamay challenge this? Certainly, financial | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
loss is important and if the financial loss to the family is | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
going to be so heavy, that will come into it. As far as the prosecution | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
are concerned, they want to put forward the argument that a family | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
home has been used in the commission of a serious offence. Both sides | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
will argue their case in court next month. In the meantime, the family | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
will maintain their campaign against what they see as a grossness | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
justice. `` a gross injustice. They are holding a public meeting | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
tonight. A Merseyside man has pleaded guilty | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
to the murder of his partner and disabled daughter. William Owen beat | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Sharon Hayter and daughter Stephanie Owen to death at their home in | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Knowsley Village last year. He'd previously denied the killings. He | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
will be sentenced later this week. The Manchester based Co`operative | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Group has pledged to improve its own governance in response to a report | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
into management failings at the Co`op Bank. A major review by the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
former Treasury civil servant, Sir Christopher Kelly, said the bank's | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
merger with the Britannia building society in 2009 should never have | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
happened. Greater Manchester Police are to be | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
investigated following the death of a 68`year`old man who was killed | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
after walking on the M61 motorway near Bolton. Stephen Hayes from | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Blackpool was found by officers an hour earlier, near to a damaged, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
"undriveable" car. They dropped him off at a nearby service station. The | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaint | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Commission. Plans for a state`of`the`art breast | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
clinic have been unveiled at Noble's Hospital on the Isle of Man. The | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
?1.5 million extension includes an ultrasound room and dedicated | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
consultancy spaces for breast cancer patients. The charity Manx Breast | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Cancer Support Group raised funds for the clinic last year. | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
Currently, it is all over the place. Different clinics at different | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
times, there is nowhere private for anyone to go after a diagnosis. I am | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
a cancer patient, there is nowhere for you to go. You go through a busy | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
clinic of people. It is terrible, really. | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
After more than ten years, have Everton finally found a site for a | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
new stadium? The club and Liverpool city council are in discussions | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
about a new 50,000`seat ground in the city. Neither party would | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
confirm the preferred site but it is understood to be less than a mile | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
from Goodison Park. Stuart Pollitt is outside Goodison for us this | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
evening. They have waited a long time for | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
this, haven't they? That is right. They have been house`hunting for | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
more than a decade. In that time, they have checked out sites on the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
waterfront, they have checked out a site in Kirby. Both of those fell | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
through. Goody answered lie just up the road from Goodison Park? `` | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
could be answer lie just up the road? | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
This is Walton Hall Park, less than a mile from Goodison Park, reported | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
to be the main site under consideration for a new stadium. You | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
not worried about extra traffic? No, we should still get it, even if it's | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
still there. There are all sorts of disruptions. I don't want to wish it | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
on anyone else. We are already in the area. It does cause a problem. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Everton have been playing at Goodison Park since the 1892. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Although it still holds an emotional pull, its facilities are holding the | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
club back. That is why they had been trying to move for more than a | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
decade, first to Liverpool's waterfront and then outside the | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
city, to Kirby. There is cautious optimism that the latest scheme | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
deliver. A lot of work has gone into potential designs. We need to | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
crystallise that, we need to spend more time working on that as a club | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
and the Board of Directors before we go public. That is because we want | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
to get it right. Everton cannot afford to build a ground on their | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
own, they need funding and they need Liverpool City Council to help. They | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
said they would offer assistance but were not in a position to funding | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the stadium. Any investment would be part of a wider regeneration scheme. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
I would personally like to see Goodison Park we develop. That is | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
possibly not feasible so the next best thing is rebuilding Goodison | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Park in Walton Hall Park. I am asking, as an ever Tony and, ease up | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
on the red tape. `` as an Everton supporter. What are the obstacles | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
here for Everton? Are there any precedents for councils helping | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
clubs out? The obstacle is cost. To build this place in 1892 costs | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
?3000. These days, it costs hundreds of millions of pounds. A range of | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
options are being considered, one of which is a so`called Manchester City | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
model, where the club pays the council a rent. It will be difficult | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
to justify investing public money into a club like this. No decisions | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
have yet been made but Everton will find that finding a site is one | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
thing, funding the site is quite another. Thank you. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
I am sure people have a view on that story, whether Everton fans or not. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
A court in Sri Lanka has been hearing the horrific details of the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
murder of an aid worker from Rochdale and the rape of his Russian | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
girlfriend. Khuram Shaikh was killed at a beach resort in 2011. Today, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
the prosecution continued its case. Charles Haviland sent us this report | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
from Colombo. Prasanna Samarasinghe said he was | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
awoken by shouting and from his room he saw one of the six accused men | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
beating a white woman, the Russian fiancee of Khuram Shaikh, he said he | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
had noticed them earlier in the day, and remarked how nice they | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
were. They were beating up the Russian woman. She tried to escape | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
into the summing pool. They followed her and carried on beating her as | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
she shouted for help. They all wandered off and Prasanna | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Samarasinghe wandered towards the restaurant area, where he saw Khuram | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Shaikh lying in a pool of blood. She ran towards him, crying and | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
screaming. The first accused came back and started beating her again. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
The witness could not bear to watch it any longer and he went back to | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
his room. The gang raised a riot in the restaurant, overturning tables, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
breaking lights and smashing plates. The witness, a 42`year`old tourist, | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
Prasanna Samarasinghe, identified the three main assailants as being | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
among the six accused standing in the dock today. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
Still to come on North West Tonight: The Barrow pensioner asked to pay | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
back a 20`year debt ` for 93p. Wasting that kind of money, for | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
peanuts, just doesn't add up, does it? | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
And bouncing back ` five years ago, a terrible accident threatened to | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
ruin his career, but Luke's a European star. | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
Oliver King was just 12 years old when he died of sudden arrhythmic | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
death syndrome. It is also known as SADS. His father has spent the years | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
since campaigning for defibrillators to be in every school in the | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
country. Today, the Government announced that it wants to help all | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
schools to help the life`saving kit. Mark is to receive a special | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
award from the Prime Minister as well. I am delighted to say he is | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
with us. I am sure the award especially but bittersweet | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
nonetheless. You must be pleased that the Government is getting | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
behind you and getting these deliberate late as into schools, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
hopefully. It is a massive U`turn from last year, when they didn't | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
want to speed to us and we won't recognise. We were campaigning as | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
hard as we could. They told us to get 100,000 signatures and they | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
would have a debate in Parliament. We ended with 160,000 signatures and | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
they moved the goalposts and put us into Westminster Hall. Tell us about | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Oliver. He was a fit boy, using a swimming lesson. He was a keen and | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
talented sportsman with an uncle icing zest for life. This macro and | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
un`compromise in zest. He was swimming when he suffered a cardiac | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
arrest and there was not a defibrillator. You believe that if | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
that had been on site, that could have saved his life. He set up the | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Oliver King Foundation and you have done tremendous work so far. Tell us | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
what you have achieved so far. It was established in February 2012. We | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
have saved three young lives since then without defibrillators. A | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
four`year rod, a seven`year`old and a 14`year`old. You want these in | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
every school, just as fire X10 wishes are in every school. We want | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
the legislation. This announcement today is fantastic, it is a move in | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
the right direction. When the herd it would be announced, the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
foundation itself, everyone, from the trustees to the trainers were | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
excited. It is busy struck a chord with the Prime Minister. He gets | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
what you are trying to do. It is the devastation that this brings. We | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
lose up to 19 young people a week from this. He has given new a Point | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
Of Light Award `` he has given you a Point Of Light Award. It should not | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
be for me, it should be for the team for the work that has been done. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
Thank you. Now we all know that local councils are facing tough | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
economic times and have to be very careful with their finances. But one | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
pensioner in Barrow believes his local council has gone a step too | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
far. Mike Gardiner has been ordered to return a benefit over`payment | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
from 21 years ago. The total he was overpaid ` 93 pence. Peter Marshall | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
takes up the story. Mike Gardiner, a retired welder, has worked hard all | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
his life. He was briefly unemployed in 1993 and received council tax | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
benefit. 21 years on ` a surprise in the post. The first we knew, ten | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
sheets of paper arrived. I went to the end of it and it said I owed | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
93p. This was going back to 1993. This is crazy. It was sent out by | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
the company Liberata ` which works with Barrow Borough Council to | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
manage the authorities' benefits service. I could | :17:20. | :17:32. | |
that. It appears that Mr Gardiner is not the | :17:33. | :17:32. | |
for peanuts. It just does not add up does it? Nationally, Liberata | :17:33. | :18:04. | |
collects ?2.2 billion pounds a year in council tax and rates helping | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
local authorities increase tax collections. But in this case it | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
says "An issue has caused a number of erroneous council tax invoices | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
and University International Tennis | :18:14. | :19:28. | |
Tournament. On the final day, Northants resumed their second | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
innings but they were restricted to 179 all out. A trampoline gymnast | :19:34. | :19:52. | |
from Liverpool who nearly lost a leg after a terrible accident says | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
winning a European bronze medal has made it all worthwhile. Luke | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Strong's medal was the first at that level won by a British man in 32 | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
years. The 20`year`old badly broke his leg during a training exercise | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
when he was 15. I went along to meet him earlier today at the gym where | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
he trains in the city. Gymnastics of whatever discipline is a school of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
hard knocks. Getting back up after a fall is what they do. But few have | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
had a tougher route to the top than Luke Strong. He was just 15 when he | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
broke his leg in a training accident.It was a high energy | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
fracture. Doctors said they had seen kids run over by cars at 40 miles | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
per hour and still not had as bad injuries. But not only did Luke go | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
on to compete ` this is him in the British Championships ` he went on | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
to make history. Complete joy. And happy that all of the hard work paid | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
off. Just take me back to what happened with your leg. You were | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
told the injury was so bad that not only might you lose your career, but | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
you might lose your leg as well. How did you find the strength to return | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
from that? The doctor told me I was 12 minutes away from losing my leg. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
As close as that? Yes. I was heartbroken at first that I might | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
never be able to do trampolining again. Is that what you were worried | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
most about? At the time, definitely. His British team mates describe him | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
as an inspiration. Amazing. It is outstanding. Especially coming away | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
from the injury he had a few years ago. What's next then? We have a few | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
world Championships, world cups and Europeans coming up. But I would | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
love to make it to the Olympics at Rio in 2016. Do you think you will? | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
I don't know. I'm taking that as a yes! Good luck. You would expect | :21:39. | :22:11. | |
police training to be tough ` but the Cheshire force has come up with | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
a regime which leaves rookie special constables in tears. They'll be | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
asked to try out on themselves the pepper spray which they'll use | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
against suspects on the beat. A new BBC documentary series shows the | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Cheshire specials being put through their paces, along with trainee fire | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
fighters and paramedics. Andrew Fletcher's been to meet one of them. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Preparing for a shift on the front line ` full`time mum and special | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
constable Sarah Johnson. When she signed up to train as a volunteer | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
with Cheshire police, she did not realise it would land her a starring | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
role on daytime TV. We were told at the tactical training centre when we | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
were actually doing the baton and cuffs training that the BBC were | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
going to come and film us. So that was OK, a bit scary initially. But | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
they were great, they were fine. First on the Front Line follows the | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
next generation of emergency service recruits through their training. For | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Sarah, ten weeks in a classroom taught her the basics of the law, | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
before some painful practical exercises. Sarah has joined almost | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
400 special constables in Cheshire, working unpaid for at least 17 hours | :23:21. | :23:41. | |
a month, often many more. The day was going very well. There was loads | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
of singing and dancing and bands. People are having a very nice time. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
But all of a sudden, the atmosphere changed. I hope it will prove to be | :23:50. | :24:02. | |
inspirational to people. I bet you're looking forward to watching | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
the programme now? I don't have a television! Everything changes after | :24:07. | :24:33. | |
today. The start of the week very settled, very mild. Tomorrow, what a | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
mess of weather fronts we have. They are falling apart before they get to | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
us, some of them will make their presence very much felt. But on | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Friday, they get pushed out of the way as an area of high pressure | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
tries test and wish itself. The high keeps of the weather fronts at bay, | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
so the date should be dry and bright, but the nights will be | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
fairly chilly. This is been an picture throughout the day, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
temperatures 17 and 18, but over last two hours, showers have really | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
started to get their act together. They have been heavy from time to | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
time. They could continue to be heavy as we go to the evening. The | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
picture for tomorrow is entirely different, it is cloudy it is | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
showery and some of the showers will be heavy. So from the onward, this | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
is what the forecast computer wants to do. The showers will die away, | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
the first band at least, but then the next band comes in as we head | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
towards the early hours of the morning. You may not notice the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
join. Make the most of the last mild night, we are talking about nines | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
and tens for towns and cities. We will not see that again for some | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
time. Tomorrow is all about the showers. They will be around first | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
thing in the morning, cloud base is low and there will be mist. But the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
showers are never that is for a way, even if you get an hour of dry | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
weather, you risk more coming through. The breeze is stronger than | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
it has been, it is not going in the most favourable direction. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Temperatures falling from 17 and 18 to 13 and 14. So it is changing. We | :26:11. | :26:29. | |
would be back at 10:30pm. | :26:30. | :26:34. |