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:00:08. > :00:18.Tonight there are new lines of enquiry about what could

:00:19. > :00:29.I want whoever did this to be accounted for.

:00:30. > :00:32.The Bristol student who went to Syria to join a brutal fight

:00:33. > :00:47.He now faces charges back home. Today was the first day of spring

:00:48. > :00:48.but the weather has other ideas, and more wintry feel tomorrow. Details

:00:49. > :00:53.at the end of the programme. New evidence has just been released

:00:54. > :00:55.on the BBC's Crimewatch programme, about a young woman who went missing

:00:56. > :00:58.more than 20 years ago. Sally Ann John vanished

:00:59. > :01:00.while she was working Here's our Wiltshire

:01:01. > :01:03.reporter Will Glennon. Sally Ann John was just 23 years

:01:04. > :01:05.old when she disappeared. Born and brought up in Swindon,

:01:06. > :01:09.she lived in the Nythe area. She'd been working as a prostitute

:01:10. > :01:13.near the town centre. But on the 8th of September

:01:14. > :01:17.1995, she vanished. For almost 20 years she was treated

:01:18. > :01:23.as a missing person. Then in November 2014

:01:24. > :01:28.police declared it was now Specialist dogs trained to detect

:01:29. > :01:39.blood or body parts were deployed. Three men were arrested

:01:40. > :01:43.but released without charge. Sally Ann's disappearance has been

:01:44. > :01:46.featured on tonight's BBC They came to tell me

:01:47. > :01:54.on the Sunday she'd gone missing. It's a horrible feeling,

:01:55. > :02:01.that your daughter may have Because you can't do anything

:02:02. > :02:09.about it, you can't do anything. I just want her found,

:02:10. > :02:12.I really do want her found. Tonight, police presented

:02:13. > :02:16.new evidence in the case, a postcard allegedly sent

:02:17. > :02:19.by Sally Ann shortly Detectives don't believe

:02:20. > :02:25.it was written by her. They're hoping to jog someone's

:02:26. > :02:29.memory, it just might A big reward, ?25,000,

:02:30. > :02:35.has been offered for information that leads to a body

:02:36. > :02:41.or a conviction, as Wiltshire Police try again to solve the mystery

:02:42. > :02:44.and bring the Sally Ann Will has just been watching that

:02:45. > :02:49.Crimewatch programme and is in the area where

:02:50. > :03:04.Sally Ann was last seen. I am on the corner of Alexander

:03:05. > :03:08.Road, which is a Jameson to Aylesbury Street near Swindon

:03:09. > :03:12.station. It is here that Sally Ann John disappeared in September 19 95.

:03:13. > :03:17.Please have never found her body, but the night on the Crimewatch

:03:18. > :03:22.programme they did reveal some new evidence. The Coast Guard supposedly

:03:23. > :03:27.sent by her three weeks after she had disappeared. -- postcard.

:03:28. > :03:30.Detectives believe that wasn't written by Sally Ann John and they

:03:31. > :03:37.have had handwriting experts examining that postcard. Within the

:03:38. > :03:47.postcard we have a capital B which is written like an L, where as

:03:48. > :03:51.amongst all of Sally Ann's reference writing, I didn't find any example

:03:52. > :03:57.of that. The person who wrote the card may be responsible for the

:03:58. > :04:01.murder, or they may hold the key to solving it. They may have been

:04:02. > :04:05.forced to ride the card or misled. The police want to hear from anyone

:04:06. > :04:11.who knows anything about it all about Sally Ann John.

:04:12. > :04:15.Rail passengers are being warned to expect long delays

:04:16. > :04:18.between the West Country and London after a derailment tonight.

:04:19. > :04:19.It happened just before 6.00pm tonight between

:04:20. > :04:24.No-one was injured but Network Rail say there was significant damage

:04:25. > :04:27.to the track and there could be delays for two days.

:04:28. > :04:30.A lorry driver who killed a young woman from Swindon when he crashed

:04:31. > :04:33.into her broken-down car has been jailed for four and a half years.

:04:34. > :04:35.21-year-old Jodie Moss from Swindon was on the A34 in Berkshire.

:04:36. > :04:39.This footage was taken from the lorry being driven

:04:40. > :04:42.by Dariusz Tokarczyk shortly before the crash.

:04:43. > :04:44.A court heard he probably failed to see her hazard lights

:04:45. > :04:48.A student from Bristol has spoken for the first time

:04:49. > :04:51.about his decision to go to Syria and fight against

:04:52. > :04:54.Josh Walker spent six months with Kurdish militia forces.

:04:55. > :04:57.He was arrested on his return under the Terrorism Act.

:04:58. > :05:02.He told me his experiences have left him terrified.

:05:03. > :05:04.This is the YPG or People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia

:05:05. > :05:09.fighting the so-called Islamic State.

:05:10. > :05:12.Last summer Josh Walker joined them to work as a translator,

:05:13. > :05:26.but found himself being handed a gun and joining the action.

:05:27. > :05:28.One of our snipers saw an Isis member sneaking

:05:29. > :05:37.We'd had mortars fired at us a few times, and a little bit of

:05:38. > :05:40.But this was the first like full on attack.

:05:41. > :05:42.So for the first 30 seconds I was just absolutely terrified.

:05:43. > :05:45.I mean, I didn't know what exactly to do.

:05:46. > :05:48.Serving alongside Josh was British volunteer Ryan Lock.

:05:49. > :05:51.He was killed when reportedly turning a gun on himself to avoid

:05:52. > :06:01.He was a good laugh, he was, you know

:06:02. > :06:06.He was pretty brave and he was popular

:06:07. > :06:13.Like Ryan, many other foreign volunteers with the YPG carried

:06:14. > :06:16.either a spare bullet or a grenade to use in the event

:06:17. > :06:34.Luckily I never had to use one, but you know...

:06:35. > :06:38.Like I said, there's no way I'm letting my mum see images of

:06:39. > :06:46.me being decapitated broadcast around the world.

:06:47. > :06:49.You mention drawing a line in the sand and you want to do

:06:50. > :06:54.something about it, why not join the army?

:06:55. > :06:58.First I wouldn't be able to go and help the people in Rojava.

:06:59. > :07:01.I wouldn't be able to choose where I went at all.

:07:02. > :07:03.I'd have to fight based on the whims of the

:07:04. > :07:08.politicians of the day and it's a very big,

:07:09. > :07:15.The YPG are not on the British Government's list

:07:16. > :07:21.But, at the end of his long journey back to the UK, Josh was arrested

:07:22. > :07:23.at Gatwick Airport under the Terrorism Act and is

:07:24. > :07:31.Well Joel Bennathan is a lawyer who works in this area of the law.

:07:32. > :07:35.I asked him what the legal situation would be with someone who decided

:07:36. > :07:42.Anyone who goes to a war zone with the view to joining in one way

:07:43. > :07:44.or another is at real risk of being prosecuted.

:07:45. > :07:50.The second is, will they be prosecuted?

:07:51. > :07:53.The answer to can they be prosecuted is almost always yes because English

:07:54. > :07:55.law has an incredibly wide definition of what

:07:56. > :08:04.Anyone who picks up a firearm or trained to pick up a firearm

:08:05. > :08:07.Anyone who picks up a firearm or trains to pick up a firearm

:08:08. > :08:09.to use or threaten unlawful violence, is engaging

:08:10. > :08:12.There is no freedom fighter's defence, there is no morality

:08:13. > :08:15.defence, so it's entirely possible to have a group of armed men

:08:16. > :08:18.and women in conflict who endure wide support in the West

:08:19. > :08:20.and in England, yet they will be committing offences under

:08:21. > :08:25.The second question is, will they be prosecuted is probably

:08:26. > :08:27.far more interesting with groups like the Free Syrian Army

:08:28. > :08:32.Because people doing these things abroad can only be prosecuted

:08:33. > :08:35.with the consent of the Attorney General.

:08:36. > :08:37.And it would be very surprising, for example, in the case

:08:38. > :08:41.of the Free Syrian Army, there's a unit trained and armed

:08:42. > :08:44.by the Americans and it would be very surprising indeed

:08:45. > :08:47.if our Attorney General agreed that people should be prosecuted

:08:48. > :08:50.who were fighting under air cover having been trained

:08:51. > :08:55.So in the future, are there likely to be more cases like this?

:08:56. > :08:58.There's lots of cases already come through the system of people

:08:59. > :09:00.going to fight for groups such as Isis and allied

:09:01. > :09:06.There have been very few cases in the system at all of people

:09:07. > :09:09.fighting for what we might call the other side.

:09:10. > :09:11.People fighting for Kurdish groups or people fighting for example

:09:12. > :09:17.There have been one or two cases about people going off

:09:18. > :09:19.for different Kurdish groups, engaged in different parts

:09:20. > :09:22.of that part of the world, but so far I'm fairly confident

:09:23. > :09:24.there will be no prosecutions of people fighting against Isis

:09:25. > :09:30.with the Iraqis, with the Kurds with the Free Syrian Army.

:09:31. > :09:41.Despite the gloomy start there were signs of good weather to come.

:09:42. > :09:54.I'll leave you now with Ian, who has the forecast.

:09:55. > :10:01.It has cheered up during the course of the afternoon. It didn't earlier

:10:02. > :10:06.on as these pictures attest. Tomorrow is a bit of a mixture of

:10:07. > :10:12.the two. Sunny spells for some of you, but equally some showers as

:10:13. > :10:16.well. Underpinning all of that it will be noticeably chilly. It is

:10:17. > :10:20.turning chilly through the course of the night. Temperatures will get

:10:21. > :10:24.down to about three Celsius. At the moment a few showers around. They

:10:25. > :10:33.are moving eastwards and there could be more the book -- before the night

:10:34. > :10:36.is through. Quite quickly showers will start to pack into western

:10:37. > :10:42.areas. Few of those getting across to the East but particularly in the

:10:43. > :10:46.afternoon. Some of those showers could have a wintry flavour

:10:47. > :10:52.particularly over Exmoor. At lower levels, some hail could be possible.

:10:53. > :10:56.To the west, and more coherent area of rain forming and that will get

:10:57. > :10:58.its act together overnight and into Wednesday. Temperatures seven to

:10:59. > :11:04.eight Celsius for most. outlook for Saturday and Sunday is

:11:05. > :11:12.for something dry and settled, sunny spells but a bit on the cool side.

:11:13. > :11:20.This week we are starting off with a taste of winter. This is Paul and

:11:21. > :11:25.maritime air, it has come from a long way north and will push in lots

:11:26. > :11:28.of showers. The last of any mild air gets swept away with the cloud.

:11:29. > :11:36.Tonight we have showers mostly across the northern half of the UK,

:11:37. > :11:40.which will turn wintry and that means more snow, particularly across

:11:41. > :11:48.Scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps northern England. With those

:11:49. > :11:49.temperatures it is not just snow that is a concern, it is icy