:00:13. > :00:15.A life based on lies. for the news where you are.
:00:16. > :00:18.The executive who created a fantasy life based on false qualifications.
:00:19. > :00:22.Ukip's deputy chairman originally denied involvement
:00:23. > :00:33.Now he says that was a misunderstanding.
:00:34. > :00:39.A mixed bag of weather forecast this week but spring sunshine at times.
:00:40. > :00:40.Something a bit milder as well. All those details later in the
:00:41. > :00:44.programme. A former chief executive
:00:45. > :00:47.of a hospice in Somerset has been jailed for two years after lying
:00:48. > :00:50.about his qualifications to get A court heard his life was based
:00:51. > :00:58.on a "staggering series of lies". Our Somerset correspondent
:00:59. > :01:03.Clinton Rogers has the story. A pillar of local society -
:01:04. > :01:07.well respected, trusted. But today, head down,
:01:08. > :01:11.Jon Andrewes appeared at Exeter Crown Court exposed
:01:12. > :01:13.as a fraudster, or as the prosecution described him,
:01:14. > :01:18.a Walter Mitty character. For ten years from 2005,
:01:19. > :01:23.he was chief executive here During that time, he earned
:01:24. > :01:29.in excess of ?1 million. But he lied about his qualifications
:01:30. > :01:32.to get this job, and later two other senior positions
:01:33. > :01:34.within the NHS in Devon. He even invented a PhD so he could
:01:35. > :01:42.call himself Dr Andrewes. All untrue, and it amounted
:01:43. > :01:48.to criminal dishonesty. Yet, in court today,
:01:49. > :01:50.his defence team described his time at the hospice
:01:51. > :01:52.as an outstanding success. Did you have any
:01:53. > :01:54.reason to doubt him? The current management here say
:01:55. > :01:58.they checked his credentials Trustees at the time would have
:01:59. > :02:02.undertaken relevant checks, they would have looked
:02:03. > :02:06.at his references, they would have looked at his CV,
:02:07. > :02:09.and they would have looked at the qualifications
:02:10. > :02:11.that he presented with, and to all intents and purposes,
:02:12. > :02:15.they took that in good faith. Andrewes admitted two charges
:02:16. > :02:18.of fraud and one of obtaining As chief executive of the hospice,
:02:19. > :02:24.Andrewes shared photo opportunities with MPs
:02:25. > :02:27.and other local dignitaries. Tonight, though, he begins
:02:28. > :02:31.a two-year jail sentence, the judge telling him,
:02:32. > :02:32."Your outwardly prestigious life was based on a lie,
:02:33. > :02:37.a staggering series of lies." Luke Menzies is an employment law
:02:38. > :02:47.specialist based in Bristol. I asked him how unusual this
:02:48. > :02:53.scale of deception was. I am aware that there is a survey
:02:54. > :02:57.that came out a couple of years ago that said that 40% of people
:02:58. > :02:59.embellished their degree, possibly And 11% of people actually make up
:03:00. > :03:04.a degree, which is quite shocking. That might be what happened
:03:05. > :03:06.in this circumstance. That is when you cross
:03:07. > :03:08.the line from embellishing Yes.
:03:09. > :03:17.And I think there are... Employers, mostly, are going to be
:03:18. > :03:19.wise to the fact that there It is a question of, can you pick
:03:20. > :03:24.them up in the interview? But a small embellishment
:03:25. > :03:27.I think is very different So, it is really down
:03:28. > :03:31.to the employer themselves to actually check this
:03:32. > :03:33.out, isn't it? It would be super if there was some
:03:34. > :03:37.independent fact checking service that would seamlessly do it
:03:38. > :03:39.all for them. But the Government does
:03:40. > :03:41.have a degree checker service, and there is another prevention
:03:42. > :03:44.service you can use if you want But that involves a lot
:03:45. > :03:47.of legwork on the part of the employer's HR team,
:03:48. > :03:49.but, frankly, that is I mean, you can also spot
:03:50. > :03:53.these things sometimes. A strange date or a sudden jump
:03:54. > :03:57.in responsibility from a minor role If you are a good recruiter
:03:58. > :04:01.or HR professional, Try and get in and find
:04:02. > :04:05.out more about it. In the case of Jon Andrewes,
:04:06. > :04:08.he did do a good job, I mean, should the employer then
:04:09. > :04:12.get the money back now? Well, that is the
:04:13. > :04:13.question, isn't it? Clearly, he's going to face a prison
:04:14. > :04:17.sentence and possibly there could be a fine for people who had done
:04:18. > :04:19.anything a little less bad. But employers have
:04:20. > :04:21.fairly few options. Obviously, the big penalty
:04:22. > :04:24.is dismissal, if you're caught But apart from that,
:04:25. > :04:27.there is no well-established ability Of course, if they sued him for it,
:04:28. > :04:34.you could obviously say, well, I earned that money
:04:35. > :04:36.because I did a good job. The fact that you paid money
:04:37. > :04:43.doesn't necessarily mean So, he earned a lot
:04:44. > :04:47.of money for chairing. If he says, I chaired
:04:48. > :04:49.really well and each year you said I had chaired well,
:04:50. > :04:52.then I deserve the money. So, it is not really clear
:04:53. > :04:54.what they could sue for. I think it is really useful to check
:04:55. > :04:59.the CV, spot anything. It is very easy for busy
:05:00. > :05:03.people not to do that. You can sometimes spot a gap
:05:04. > :05:05.or something strange. Probe.
:05:06. > :05:07.And ultimately, test. I mean, engineers, for example,
:05:08. > :05:10.are usually given a machine with Or you could put someone
:05:11. > :05:13.threw a competency Role plays, that sort of thing,
:05:14. > :05:17.to see whether they really have the skills and experience
:05:18. > :05:20.that they say they do. Those are the best things
:05:21. > :05:22.for employers to do. Police say four people were stabbed
:05:23. > :05:27.in a huge fight outside Emergency services were called
:05:28. > :05:30.to the Analog nightclub on Queen's Road early
:05:31. > :05:32.on Saturday morning. Several people sustained injuries,
:05:33. > :05:36.none of them were life-threatening. Ukip have refused to say what action
:05:37. > :05:41.they'll take after the party's deputy chairman was accused of lying
:05:42. > :05:43.about his part in South-west MEP William Dartmouth
:05:44. > :05:49.was personally involved in negotiating a deal,
:05:50. > :05:53.despite Ukip's long-standing The politician has said he felt
:05:54. > :06:03."ambushed" when he originally denied knowledge of the proposal and had
:06:04. > :06:05.been talking at cross purposes. Here's our political
:06:06. > :06:07.editor, Paul Barltrop. It's not a subject he
:06:08. > :06:17.likes talking about. This was May 2014, and I was trying
:06:18. > :06:22.to find out about a wind farm William Dartmouth was at
:06:23. > :06:26.the BBC for a recording of the Sunday Politics West,
:06:27. > :06:28.during which he was questioned. And did you know that that land
:06:29. > :06:31.might be used as a wind farm? His party is totally
:06:32. > :06:39.against onshore wind farms. Here's how Ukip's
:06:40. > :06:40.former leader put it. It's very, very good
:06:41. > :06:42.for rich people. If you're a landowner and you get
:06:43. > :06:46.?1,000 a day for putting wind turbines on your land,
:06:47. > :06:49.isn't that great?! To get to the truth, I went
:06:50. > :06:53.to Slaithwaite Moor in Yorkshire. The deal to put up wind
:06:54. > :06:55.turbines on this site was agreed in May 2011,
:06:56. > :06:58.just three months after William Dartmouth had given
:06:59. > :07:01.ownership of the site to a relative. Yet it turns out negotiations
:07:02. > :07:04.over the wind farm had I met the chairman of
:07:05. > :07:11.the wind farm co-operative. He had face-to-face meetings
:07:12. > :07:15.with William Dartmouth. We talked to Lord Dartmouth,
:07:16. > :07:23.I went down on behalf of the wind co-op and spoke to him,
:07:24. > :07:25.and he was very co-operative, A substantial rent
:07:26. > :07:32.would have been paid. For this kind of area, you know,
:07:33. > :07:35.I can't give specific details for this one still,
:07:36. > :07:39.but you might expect ?50-100,000 per year for the sort
:07:40. > :07:45.of development you're looking at. The revelations have been seized
:07:46. > :07:47.upon by political rivals. It seems that there's clear
:07:48. > :07:50.evidence that Dartmouth has behaved dishonestly,
:07:51. > :07:53.and obviously we expect higher standards from our elected
:07:54. > :07:56.politicians, but it also does smacks of hypocrisy because he had these
:07:57. > :08:01.conversations about potentially benefiting from a wind farm
:08:02. > :08:04.development in spite of the fact that that is clearly
:08:05. > :08:06.contrary to Ukip's policy. In a statement, William Dartmouth
:08:07. > :08:08.admits his involvement. He says his views about wind farms
:08:09. > :08:13.changed to opposing them, but it would not have been right
:08:14. > :08:17.to let down a local co-operative. His party leader has been
:08:18. > :08:19.told - it's not known It's just been confirmed
:08:20. > :08:31.Gloucester Rugby's head coach, It follows Saturday's 30-27 defeat
:08:32. > :08:34.by Harlequins at Kingsholm. Fisher later tweeted
:08:35. > :08:38.that it was "time to make The club has said tonight
:08:39. > :08:41.that he would leave Allotment holders near Bristol
:08:42. > :08:46.are planning to remove two deer who have become trapped
:08:47. > :08:48.on their land. They got stuck when a new fence
:08:49. > :08:52.was put up as part Experts say the animals
:08:53. > :08:57.are becoming distressed, but so far efforts to move them
:08:58. > :09:01.on have failed. So, what I've done is I've bought
:09:02. > :09:04.a lot of sweetcorn and created a trail all the way out to the road,
:09:05. > :09:08.and what the deer have done is they have come out
:09:09. > :09:11.in the night, ate the sweetcorn. There are now plans to tempt
:09:12. > :09:17.the deer into a horsebox, although animal welfare
:09:18. > :09:25.organisations have advised against As part of our Points West 60
:09:26. > :09:28.anniversary, we've been working with Britain's last Dambuster,
:09:29. > :09:29.George "Johnny" Johnson, looking into the role he played
:09:30. > :09:33.in the most famous bombing raid And on tomorrow's Points West,
:09:34. > :09:36.we have a special report from the broadcaster Michael Buerk
:09:37. > :09:49.on the man behind the headlines. That is it from us tonight. We're
:09:50. > :09:51.back with you in Breakfast tomorrow. For now, we will say good night and
:09:52. > :09:53.leave you with the late forecast. Our weather this week,
:09:54. > :09:57.something of a mixed bag, We will have some spring sunshine
:09:58. > :10:01.at times, like one of our That is most likely tomorrow,
:10:02. > :10:05.after something of a chilly start. But we have got some
:10:06. > :10:07.sunshine at first. Milder from Wednesday,
:10:08. > :10:09.but with that, some rain and often fairly cloudy for the end
:10:10. > :10:13.of the week from Wednesday onwards. But it's tonight when we have
:10:14. > :10:17.the clearest of the skies, That combined with light
:10:18. > :10:21.winds is going to allow They are falling nicely now,
:10:22. > :10:28.down close to freezing in many spots You might be doing a bit of scraping
:10:29. > :10:33.on the cars first thing. But there will be a lot of bright
:10:34. > :10:36.in dry weather around for a good deal of tomorrow,
:10:37. > :10:39.until the end of the day, when this next frontal system slips
:10:40. > :10:42.in from the south and west. You can see it is a warm front.
:10:43. > :10:47.Behind it, the air is milder. So, that chilly start,
:10:48. > :10:49.sunshine at first, should be Keeping the bright weather
:10:50. > :10:53.for a good deal of the day. Cloud and rain in by
:10:54. > :10:55.the end of the afternoon. Sweeping to all parts
:10:56. > :10:57.by the evening. Before that, temperatures
:10:58. > :11:04.at eight or nine Celsius. well and still rather unsettled with
:11:05. > :11:05.some blustery showers around. That's the London forecast