16/03/2017 South Today - Oxford

Coming up, the killing of a five-year-old boy in Faringdon.

Police have revealed he was stabbed in the chest.

Also, robbed at gunpoint on a bus in Brazil -

the woman from Swindon who'd gone there seeking treatment for MS.

And, rescued from death and now helping to save lives.

The dog due to be sold for meat in Asia being trained to sniff out

A postmortem into the death of a five-year-old boy in Faringdon

has revealed he was stabbed in the chest.

Tyler Warmington's body was found on Tuesday.

A woman arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.

This death has shocked people in Faringdon.

As word spread about what happened to the young boy on Tuesday,

more and more flowers, cards and toys arrived outside

We now know the boy was stabbed to death.

A postmortem shows he was stabbed more than once in the chest.

Today police said they're continuing to investigate the circumstances

It's being treated as a murder investigation.

Thames Valley Police said the victim has not yet been formally identified

Officers have contacted local residents asking to speak

A 40-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday

has been released on bail until 12th April.

A woman from Swindon has been robbed at gunpoint during a night-time

Sofia Janictskaw said the attackers put a gun to her head

and threatened to shoot passengers and leave their bodies in a field.

Sofia Yaneetska, a 27-year-old yoga teacher from Wiltshire who travelled

to Brazil a month ago exploring medical treatments to alleviate

the symptoms of her multiple sclerosis but in the early hours

of Wednesday morning on a night bus outside Sao Paulo she and her fellow

passengers were the victims of a hijacking with the entire bus

The bus was swaying left to right and I woke up and seen a car coming

among the left side of the bus. They started shooting into the air. They

came on to the bus and they were saying in Portuguese that they were

going to kill us and leave us naked in the field if we didn't cooperate

with them. The UK government describes crime

in Brazil as highAnd warns against wearing expensive

jewellery and clothes. There have been incidents

of hijacking and robbery of tour It seemed to be phones and money.

Some jewellery, some watches. I don't know... There was some

confusion, and that's when he brought the gun to my head at the

top of my head. I just had my head down.

Sofia says she was glad she had cash on her to give to the attackers

and believes it stopped the situation from escalating.

She says she's determined to carry on with her trip and her treatment

too but will be taking internal flights rather than buses in future.

A custody officer has been left with serious head injuries

after being attacked at Oakhill secure training centre for children

in Milton Keynes.Five boys, aged between 14 and 16 have been

The officer, who's 21, was airlifted to hospital in Oxford

A dog rescued from death in Asia is now being trained to help

Called Faith, she was caged and waiting to be be sold

She was saved by the Humane Society International who offered her

to Medical Detection Dogs where she's learning how

Training in the Buckinghamshire countryside, a far cry from where

Faith the collie cross dog lived for most of her life. A dog meat farm in

South Korea. Animal charities say around two

million dogs are slaughtered for food in their country each year.

When one farm closed recently, some dogs were rescued and brought back

to the UK. Saved herself, Faith is now training

at medical detection dogs to save others. She was incredibly

disruptive to start with. She had no idea what a home was, what a table

was, she thought work tops were for walking on, so frenetic about

wanting food and water, these dogs were deprived of water. To start

with, she was a complete whirlwind, but with time, careful training and

teaching her the boundaries, she's become a beautiful dog. They can

identify cancers by smell. The charity has just begun trials to

detect bowel cancer. They also look for potentially life-threatening

changes in blood sugar levels that could save diabetics. After what

she's been through, she still has the most amazing faith in humans, so

Faith seemed like the obvious name for her and I think it suits her.

The charity hope to take on another dog from South Korea in the coming

months. A man who calls himself a butterfly

conservationist has been found guilty of capturing and killing some

of Europe's rarest Phillip Cullen was seen with a net

at sites known to be habitats He told the court he was

searching for wasps. Everyone here at Magistrates Court

thinks it's been an extraordinary day, that's because it's usually

petty criminals or speeding fines taking place here. This is an

unusual case revolved around this dangerous iconic breed of butterfly

extinct in the 1970s but re-introduced to Gloucestershire in

the 80s. Phillip Cullen is accused of six offences related to the

globally protected butterflies. The prosecution told the court the

57-year-old captured and killed one large blue near Cirencester on June

28th, 2015 and another from Somerset that same week. Witnesses told the

court they had seen Phillip Cullen chasing after the rare large blue

butterfly with a net taking swipes at it. He says he was chasing wasps

but the court found differently and Phillip Cullen ended up getting

stung. As a conservationist, how does it feel to have been found

guilty of this? Very embarrassing to be accused of these things and not

be believed, found guilty. It's a stitch-up. The Magistrates Court

found Philip Cullen guilty of six charges. He'll be sentenced in

April. Children across our region have been

making their own news today as part We've spent the day with pupils

at Oxford Spires Academy who've been learning about a new healthcare plan

for people with asthma. It affects nearly 5.5 million people

in the UK every year. It causes people to have a shortness of breath

and normally they'll use inhalers to prevent asthma attacks. This leaflet

is available to help people understand the risks. I haven't

spent much time in central Oxford but when I came here, I found that

many of the people that I were looking after didn't have English as

their first language and I knew that these personalised asthma action

plans save lives and can make better better. They've been translated into

ten different languages. Latest figures show on average three

children in every classroom have asthma. So, do they think an action

plan like this will work? I think it will help other people around the

world because before they could have gotten the leaflet, they wouldn't

have been able to read it in their own language. I was really

interested in having leaflets for people in their own language. Expect

to see more of these leaflets in a doctor's surgery near you in

Oxfordshire. Great work from the news team there at Oxford Spires.

Coming up is Alexis with the weather forecast.

A good deal of cloud today. Overnight, the cloud will start to

thin and break in places to allow for some clear spells. Under the

clearing skies, temperatures could in the countryside fall to three

Celsius. Blue skies to start the day tomorrow but through the course of

the morning, the cloud will increase further from the west with the

increasing westerly breeze. The breeze will be very strong during

the course of the day. Gusty conditions but mainly dry during

daylight hours. Temperatures will reach a high of nine to ten. Through

the course of tomorrow evening and overnight tomorrow, a band of rain

will move in, that will slowly clear through Saturday morning so Saturday

should be mainly dry. There is a chance we could have some rain from

this weather front which will affect the south-west and also Wales but it

could drift further eastwards during the course of the day. On Saturday,

a good deal of cloud. One or two brighter spells here and there and a

brisk westerly breeze. You can see a real squeeze on the isobars. The

rest of the week and into the weekend is fairly cloudy. There'll

be limited brightness. The chance of rain tomorrow evening after a lovely

sunny start. A lot of cloud over the weekend. It will be changeable with

a chance of rain at there will be rain around, most

occurring overnight. Good evening, quite a range of

whether an offer earlier today in the north and north-west of the UK

quite a lot