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A soldier from Wiltshire's trapped by an amateur detective posing | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
How these students managed to dupe the world's press. | :00:18. | :00:34. | |
And in stark contrast to today, many districts will stay to ride | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
tomorrow. Details at the end of the programme. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
A soldier from Wiltshire has admitted attempting to meet | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
a child after being trapped by a vigilante detective. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Samuel Dallow thought he had been chatting | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
to a 14-year-old girl online, but it was all a set up. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
It's the latest case to use evidence gathered by groups calling | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
But as Lee Madan reports, their work has been heavily | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Private Sam Dallow says he was waiting for a friend, | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
but really he was waiting for what he thought | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
was a 14-year-old girl he'd been chatting to online. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
That girl was actually Shane Brannigan, a vigilante | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
He poses as underage girls on the internet then tricks | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
paedophiles into meeting him before handing them over to the police. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
This meeting at a train station was all streamed live on Facebook | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
and uploaded elsewhere on the internet. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
It was from inside his room here at Tidworth Barracks that | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Samuel Dallow sent the explicit messages online to Shane Brannigan, | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
As part of his work as a vigilante detective, Shane Brannigan printed | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
those messages off and handed them over to police alongside the video | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
It's that evidence that's today led Dallow to admit the offence | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Dallow will be back in court on June 8th for sentencing. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
The judge told him that maximum credit will be shown | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
for admitting the offence, but to expect a custodial sentence. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
This is the latest case to use evidence gathered | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
There's now at least 15 of these groups in Britain. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
The vigilantes say they're helping out police forces, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
whose budgets they say are at breaking point, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
by doing the detective work detectives are unable | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
They've got no money, resources, no funding. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
There isn't enough people in the teams to do this sort of stuff. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Leave it to people like me who care about the investigation. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
But the police are critical of these amateur detectives. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
They say they can jeopardise ongoing investigations, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
giving paedophiles a chance to destroy evidence. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
And their actions can have other consequences. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
This sting by paedophile hunters in Essex caused this mass brawl | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
outside a shopping centre on Easter Sunday, when | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
I believe they are vigilantes, they are taking the law | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
into their own hands and they are taking, in my view, | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
risks that are simply not acceptable and the risks that they are posing | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
to children are simply inappropriate. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
As tonight Samuel Dallow contemplates his future, | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
the debate about paedophile hunters and their work continues. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
Earlier, I asked the legal expert Joshua Rozenberg if this case | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
encouraged other people to take the law into their own hands. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
I don't think we want to encourage people to take the law | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
into their own hands, but obviously people will look | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
at this and see this was evidence gathered by a private individual, | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
doing what he thought was in the public interest, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
but nevertheless not a police officer, a detective or anybody | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
else, not even a public body, but an individual. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
And if this has led to a conviction, well I suppose it will encourage | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Whether we think that's a good thing or not, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
given the difficulties that the police have with resources | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
But obviously, it does have consequences, particularly | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
As I say, it might well be that Private Dalow could have challenged | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
the evidence at chosen to do so. When does this become entrapment? | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
If the crime would have been committed anyway, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
the courts generally say that's fine. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
If they're actually trying to entrap somebody into committing an offence | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
that they wouldn't have committed in the first place, then | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
the courts say it's not fair. From a legal point of | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
I think it is worrying because we rely on the police. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
The police are subject to all sorts of restrictions. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
There are limits to what they can do. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
If they arrest somebody, they have to read them their rights and so on. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
If you have a member of the public simply acting as a policeman | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
and trying to capture people who this individual thinks have | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
committed criminal offences, there are no protections, | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
and we don't know where it's going to end. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been criticised for discussing | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
alcohol during a visit to a Sikh temple in Bristol. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
He mentioned the whisky trade in India during a visit | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
One member of the congregation said it was outrageous. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Mr Johnson said he was making an important point about | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
A new housing development in Bristol has been pulled | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
from the market because it hasn't got planning permission. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Four-bedroom homes have been built on the site in Bridgwater Road. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
The developer, Highridge Homes, only had permission | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Some local residents have now asked for action to be taken. | :05:42. | :05:54. | |
I got in touch with enforcement, and we were told it would be action | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
within ten days. It transpired that no action was taken. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Bristol City Council says the development is unauthorised. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
A bid for retrospective planning permission has been submitted | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
and will be considered in the summer. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
It's a video of a Gloucestershire student getting a first | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
after finishing his assignment in a nightclub. | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
The footage made news around the world. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
But it turns out the film and the story were entirely fake. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
University students created it as part of a project. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
It started as a project to create a comedy video to see how far it | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
could spread online, and it soon went viral. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Not long after, the Press Association, a well-respected, | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
trusted source, contacted the students, who decided to then | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
PA then published a story, which was picked up by several news | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
organisations online, including the BBC local | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
A university student filmed working on an essay in a nightclub has | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
revealed he got a first for the assignment. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
It shows a lack of diligence in regards of the press, | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
and just kind of makes you question what is real and fake | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
I think people should be a bit wiser when they open the newspapers. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
I'm a little bit shocked in terms of, they haven't | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Like, they've literally taken everything on face value. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
They were just a group of students going to make a video viral. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
We never thought how easy it would be to do it. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
I call the fake news the enemy of the people. | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Of course, fake news isn't new, as we know, and this | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
But the Press Association said they spoke to the students | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
and acted in good faith, saying "We are confident | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
that our hecking procedure is as rigorous as any in the media | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
business, but if two people separately maintain at length that | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
something is correct when it isn't, it highlights what a | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Were the students right to mislead the press in that way? | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
We don't condone any student or any members of staff, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
or anybody at this university, deliberately misleading the press. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
What the Press Association didn't do was to contact our press office | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
at the University of Gloucestershire and talk to us about the story. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Had they done that, we very clearly would have explained the situation. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
This is a second time the film production course | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
has fooled the press, and in this era of the internet, | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
it seems that not believing everything you read or see may | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
I'm telling you the truth, it is all staged. | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
The heavy rain didn't stop people turning out to watch Antiques road | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
It's been 20 years since the programme was last | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
This time around 3000 people came out to show | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
One man had been to see the show 200 times. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Another had even come from New Zealand to get his vase valued. | :08:50. | :09:01. | |
We watch the programme quite a lot. We enjoy it. I thought, I'd like to | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
come. This morning we've had a deactivated by from 19 30. It is now | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
used as a doorstop. It will not go bang, I can promise you that. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
If you missed today's filming, the programme will be | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
There's more news from around the region on the BBC News website, | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
and of course on your local BBC Radio Stations where you are. | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.30am. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
But for now I'll say goodnight and leave with Ian, | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
To date we have made some further inroads into the deficit of rain | :09:36. | :09:48. | |
fell but has been building up over many weeks. The forecast for | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
tomorrow is that tomorrow we will struggle to see much rain at all in | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
a good number of districts. The Bobby shallows around, particularly | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
in the afternoon. One of two of those will be moderate, but many | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
heirs will stay completely dry, and a good deal brighter as well. It one | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
day compared to the one we have just had. For the course of tonight, the | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
skies will continue to generally clear. It will be a killer night | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
compared to the last two, perhaps as low as about five Celsius in the | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
countryside. Tomorrow, the legacy of those clear skies will be a good | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
deal of sunshine. It is looking like dry conditions well prevail. And to | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the afternoon, we will see jabber is building up. Preferentially perhaps | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
a crosspatch of Somerset and some of those stretching out across the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
north-east and in to watch. There might be one to elsewhere, but I | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
think between those are good number of people remaining drives through | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
the day. With light winds, edible feel pleasantly warm, temperatures | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
getting up to 16 showers. But it will be a bit | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
warmer. Before today, many gardeners were | :11:04. | :11:17. | |
crying out for rain. Some of the those garden may now be water | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
logged. And Lincolnshire was one of wettest places with 40 millimetres. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
That is nearly a month's worth of rain in 24 hours. Some difficult | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
travelling conditions. Some parts of north-west England stayed dry. This | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
was the main rain-maker. It is pulling away. Tomorrow a day | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
sunshine and showers and that freshing feeling air will filter | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
into those parts that were muggy today. It | :11:49. | :11:49. |