08/07/2014 South East Today

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The lives of a Sussex doctor and her family were put at risk

because the Home Office failed to listen to their warnings about a

A damning report by a parli`mentary watchdog found mistakes meant

Alison Hewitt suffered a living nightmare at the h`nds

The family will receive ?130,000 compensation.

He disguised himself as a doctor to go after his ex`girlfriend,

After Alison finished with him and he bought weapons and adapted

this van, which the police feared he would use to kidnap Alison.

and possibly harm her mother and stepfather.

He had already turned to arson in his campaign of hate.

A report has found all of this would not have happdned

without serious failings by the Home Office.

He should not have been in the country, not have had a visa.

But when I notified them thdy had every opportunity to remove him

I am absolutely convinced none of this would have happened had

Several months before he went on the rampage,

Alison's family discovered he had a violent past in his native Canada.

He had lied about his criminal record to get ` visa.

The family warned the Home Office repeatedly about this

but it did not listen to thdir concerns

and missed vital opportunithes to keep the family safe.

During which time he conducted an escalating campaign of

He even tried to burn down the family home

but luckily Pam and David were on holid`y.

that they helicoptered the couple to safety under armed guard.

The parliamentary report fotnd that his campaign of terror

For the family, those mistakes made it harder to protect themselves

and concludes that it must have had a lasting negative effect.

They expected UK immigration laws and the Home Office to protdct them

Instead, mistakes that were made

and a failure to listen to the family

He is now in prison after bding convicted of a range of offdnces,

The family he terrorised is to receive ?130,000

from the Home Office becausd of its failings.

A mother has described her `nger and disgust,

daughter was run over by a hit`and`run cyclist. Aaliyah Raj is

recovering at home after thd collision on Eastbourne seafront,

which left her with a tyre lark on her face. The cyclist rode off.

Three men have been given life sentences for murdering

a young Italian man, who'd been in the UK for less than a wdek.

The killers, all from Lithu`nia were all jailed for a minimtm of

They attacked 20`year`old Joele Leotta last October

in Maidstone, leaving him with more than 100 injuries.

The Kent property magnate Fergus Wilson, who rents out

around 1,000 properties across Maidstone, Ashford and Hawkhnge

The landlord has been at thd centre of a number of controversies.

Last year he evicted 200 tenants who depended on welfare

66`year`old Mr Wilson says he's selling up

Campaigners opposed to plans to build a massive new airport off the

North Kent coast say they bdlieve it's dead in the water tonight,

after the Government`appointed Airports Commission publishdd a

report identifying serious environmental

It says building a Thames Estuary airport would lead to a loss

of around a quarter of wildlife habitats in the area.

And that a new habitat the size of nearly 3,000 football pitches

would have to be created in compensation, at a cost potdntially

But despite these concerns, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,

is still backing the idea, as our Political Editor Louhse

The idea would be to create one of the world's biggest airports on the

the unprecedented scale of the project.

It says building an airport would radically `nd

It says an area of compensation habitat would need

to be built, on a scale unprecedented for any development

in Europe and raises doubts that while it is technically possible

there is a high level of uncertainty in achieving it.

The Mayor of London's officd, who support the scheme,

If you do large infrastructtre projects these days

money will have to be spent on compensating for damage to habitats

What we do disagree with about actually is the total cost.

We estimate the cost of compensation to be at

Those opposed to the building of an airport

in the Thames estuary, which is a specially protected area,

This new report confirms evdrything that we have been saying,

that the idea of having an airport in the estuary

would have huge implications, environmental implications,

for the Southeast and also for the area locally.

This may not be the final n`il in the coffin for an airport here.

It is just one of four feasibility reports.

The other three will be published on Thursday.

But it does look less likelx that the Airports Commission

will recommend including an estuary island airport

when it publishes its findings in the autumn.

That's it from me, the national weather forecast follows,

but first let's get the picture in the South East with Rachel Lackley.

You can go to. `` you. Some showers and with some hail mixed. They have

been throughout this evening and increasingly it will be dry all

others. AQ midfielder things. `` it will be dry for all of us. @ she

midfielder things. Local fedd and from the East but mostly we will

stay dry. Temperatures of 20 degrees. North`westerly bredze is

picking up as you heard through the afternoon. That is ahead of summer

rain that we will see tomorrow night. Temperatures dropping to 16

degrees, uncomfortable sleeping That humid feel stays that has ended

Thursday. Here is the outlook for us, with a look at the national

weather. through the next few days into the

weekend. Hot on Saturday with thundery showers.

Good evening, the rain in Rio is matching the mood, I suspect, this

evening. Here, we will take a day off from the rain tomorrow, at least

most of us. There will be sunshine around. The showers will be back for

the end of the week. Dry over night virtually everywhere. Winds easing

down in many places except towards the North Sea coasts. The south west

will keep a breeze going. Not a cold night, temperatures holding 12- 4

degrees typically. A dry day virtually everywhere tomorrow. Cloud

breaking up to allow good spells of sunshine coming through,

particularly to Scotland, northern England, Wales and the south of had

west. Rain will edge in from the North Sea with brisk winds. Rain

getting towards the Lincolnshire coast before the afternoon is done.

That is the sunshine, northern England into Scotland. Pleasant

through the central belt, temperatures up into the low 20 s.

Plenty of sunshine across the highlands and West Coast