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