:00:07. > :00:09.Tonight, questions are being asked about how a convicted murderer
:00:10. > :00:12.was allowed into the UK, where he carried out a horrific
:00:13. > :00:15.hammer attack on Sussex police officers in Crawley,
:00:16. > :00:21.Jamshid Piruz from Afghanistan was sentenced at Hove Crown Court
:00:22. > :00:26.He had previously served seven years in jail in the Netherlands
:00:27. > :00:29.after slitting the throat of his lodger.
:00:30. > :00:39.Piers Hopkirk's report contains some shocking images.
:00:40. > :00:41.Bodycam footage shows officers responding to reports
:00:42. > :00:44.of a burglary in Crawley, searching outbuildings
:00:45. > :00:51.What happens next, though, is truly terrifying.
:00:52. > :00:56.Wielding a claw hammer and brushing off the wires of the Taser
:00:57. > :01:00.which had been fired at him, convicted murderer Jamshid Piruz
:01:01. > :01:06.PC Jess Chick is trapped behind a pillar, hammer blows aimed
:01:07. > :01:15.Finally subdued, Piruz is arrested
:01:16. > :01:18.and today, sentenced to life in prison,
:01:19. > :01:20.the officers involved telling the court how
:01:21. > :01:26.Both genuinely believed that their time was up
:01:27. > :01:30.and that they were not going to be able to go home to their families
:01:31. > :01:36.For anyone to suffer an unprovoked attack under such circumstances,
:01:37. > :01:39.just because they are at work and doing their job,
:01:40. > :01:45.An attack on police officers is an attack on society.
:01:46. > :01:47.Piruz was already a convicted murderer, cutting the throat
:01:48. > :01:52.of his lodger at his home near Amsterdam in 2007.
:01:53. > :01:55.Today, anger that a man so dangerous should have been
:01:56. > :02:03.I just think it is very lax at best, and deeply disturbing at worst,
:02:04. > :02:08.for one jurisdiction not to inform another when somebody clearly
:02:09. > :02:13.with that kind of serious record is seeking to travel.
:02:14. > :02:15.Piruz had come to the UK to visit family.
:02:16. > :02:19.His criminal record, though, was not flagged.
:02:20. > :02:21.There is a watch list, but it relies on information
:02:22. > :02:25.from different sources, including other countries,
:02:26. > :02:28.and if that is not provided to the Border Force,
:02:29. > :02:31.either by the EU or by the member state concerned,
:02:32. > :02:34.of course there would be no indicator to the officer
:02:35. > :02:38.at Gatwick that this person was a convicted murderer.
:02:39. > :02:41.Jamshid Piruz is tonight beginning a life sentence.
:02:42. > :02:44.Questions remain, though, about the border system
:02:45. > :02:48.which allowed him into the UK in the first place.
:02:49. > :02:56.Piers Hopkirk, BBC South East Today, Hove Crown Court.
:02:57. > :02:59.Snow and ice brought chaos to the roads and railways
:03:00. > :03:01.across Kent, Surrey and Sussex today, leaving cars stuck
:03:02. > :03:03.in snowdrifts or stranded by black ice,
:03:04. > :03:06.while jackknifed lorries blocked roads.
:03:07. > :03:10.Several houses in Kent were damaged by a tree falling during the storm,
:03:11. > :03:13.and a Southeastern train full of passengers was left
:03:14. > :03:19.Our environment correspondent Yvette Austin has more.
:03:20. > :03:22.A morning of misery for these commuters.
:03:23. > :03:24.The 5.45 from Gillingham to Cannon Street
:03:25. > :03:30.After nearly four hours stranded on the train,
:03:31. > :03:34.with no heat or working toilets, the 80 passengers were eventually
:03:35. > :03:40.and walked to the nearest station, Chislehurst.
:03:41. > :03:47.I feel absolutely shattered, very cold, fed up.
:03:48. > :03:51.I cannot but help feel like we were simply abandoned there.
:03:52. > :03:56.It was compacted ice on the live rail which led to the train failing.
:03:57. > :04:01.Icy roads this morning caused this car transporter
:04:02. > :04:08.The road will remain closed this evening.
:04:09. > :04:11.And all the result of last night's snow.
:04:12. > :04:14.Up to ten centimetres in places, arriving during the rush hour
:04:15. > :04:22.People have complained the roads were not gritted, so what happened?
:04:23. > :04:25.It was a difficult forecast because we knew we would have
:04:26. > :04:30.That is exactly what happened last night.
:04:31. > :04:33.We cannot send the gritters out to put salt down when we have got
:04:34. > :04:37.rain because all that will happen is that it will wash the salt away.
:04:38. > :04:41.So we made sure got the gritters out as soon as the rain stopped,
:04:42. > :04:44.but of course, as soon as the rain stopped, the snow started.
:04:45. > :04:46.In short, there was nothing you could have done
:04:47. > :04:49.I think the timing did not help us yesterday,
:04:50. > :04:51.and the way the weather turned suddenly did not help.
:04:52. > :04:54.Elsewhere, it was the wind last night that brought this
:04:55. > :04:59.Fire crews had to remove branches so that residents in the three homes
:05:00. > :05:03.affected could get out and spend the night in safety.
:05:04. > :05:10.The front of my house is damaged, the tiles are off.
:05:11. > :05:13.I do not know structurally whether there is damage to that,
:05:14. > :05:19.I will have to get a structural engineer out to reassess my house.
:05:20. > :05:22.Tonight, the gritters will be out on the roads again -
:05:23. > :05:27.Yvette Austin, BBC South East Today, Aylesford.
:05:28. > :05:30.A doctor involved in the care of a mother who died
:05:31. > :05:33.after an emergency caesarean section had been part of another
:05:34. > :05:36.serious medical incident seven months previously,
:05:37. > :05:42.Frances Cappuccini died in 2012 at Tunbridge Wells Hospital
:05:43. > :05:47.after losing more than two litres of blood, following surgical errors.
:05:48. > :05:50.Today it was revealed that the anaesthetist, Dr Nadeem Azeez,
:05:51. > :05:53.had been investigated for mismanaging the resuscitation
:05:54. > :05:58.of another woman in "startlingly similar circumstances".
:05:59. > :06:02.The actor who played a young Damien in the 1976 horror film The Omen has
:06:03. > :06:08.received a suspended prison sentence after a road rage attack in Kent.
:06:09. > :06:11.Maidstone Crown Court heard that Harvey Spencer Stephens,
:06:12. > :06:14.who left acting after his infamous role punched two cyclists,
:06:15. > :06:20.after a dispute on Toys Hill near Westerham.
:06:21. > :06:23.He pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage and two counts
:06:24. > :06:30.In a moment, we'll have the national weather forecast, but first,
:06:31. > :06:32.let's get the picture in the South East
:06:33. > :06:45.Of course, lots of snow in the last 24 hours, we saw four to five
:06:46. > :06:49.centimetres last night. Further snow flurries early today. We ended the
:06:50. > :06:54.day with clearer skies and we will hold onto those tonight. Another
:06:55. > :07:01.bitterly cold night, temperatures in rural spots potentially dropping as
:07:02. > :07:06.low as -3 or minus four. With some lying snow, potentially problems
:07:07. > :07:10.with ice first thing tomorrow. Saturday, a dry, bright, bitterly
:07:11. > :07:16.cold and blustery day. The wind is coming from the North West, so lots
:07:17. > :07:19.of brightness, but by the afternoon temperatures doing well to get much
:07:20. > :07:25.above three or four Celsius. With the wind chill, it is feeling a good
:07:26. > :07:27.deal cooler. Saturday into Sunday, a shift, eventually we will see rain,
:07:28. > :07:32.it feels less cold, 5-6 is the best we will have. It
:07:33. > :07:38.stays cold into the beginning of next week as well
:07:39. > :07:45.stop Good evening, a cold, icy night, but some others have other
:07:46. > :07:50.concerns. This was the scene earlier today, huge waves crashing on to the
:07:51. > :07:54.shoreline at Whitley Bay. We still have the peak of the high tide to
:07:55. > :08:00.come in other parts. This is the flood line number. It's if you have
:08:01. > :08:07.any concerns. The worst of the wind slowly comes -- subsiding. Wintry
:08:08. > :08:10.showers across the North of Scotland and some filtering well inland
:08:11. > :08:14.across the Midlands, giving a light dusting in some places. An icy
:08:15. > :08:18.night, temperatures widely close to or below freezing, particularly
:08:19. > :08:20.where you have snow cover. Tomorrow starts