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The Royal Military Police apologises to the family of a soldier | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
who took her own life over ht's handling of her rape allegations. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
What you need is to have independence and I don't believe | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
that they can have independdnce if you have the Army | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
A charity offers a solution to so-called bed blocking btt why | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
The Royal Military Police h`s apologised to the family | :00:32. | :00:46. | |
of a soldier from Dorset who took her own life, | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
after claiming she'd been raped by colleagues. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
The RMP admitted it made mistakes in its investigation into | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
In a moment we'll hear from her family, and the solicitor who helped | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
But first, Steve Humphrey reports on the events that | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement from Bournemouth first reported | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
that she had been raped by two colleagues whilst serving | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
with the Royal Military Polhce in Germany in 2009. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Even though everyone involvdd was in the Military Police, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
they investigated the case themselves. | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
An Army prosecutor decided no charges would be brought, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
a decision that devastated Anne-Marie. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
In October 2011, she took her own life. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Her family campaigned for jtstice and the human rights group | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
It threatened legal action tnder the European Human Rights Act | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
and the Ministry of Defence then agreed to refer the case for a fresh | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Two soldiers were eventually charged. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Both were acquitted of rape in April this year after a court martial | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
but the judge described their conduct towards | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
Today, in its statement, the Royal Military Police s`ys. . | :01:55. | :02:20. | |
Anne-Marie's family have accepted the apology, | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
But they still question whether the RMP should investigate | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
serious allegations made by serving soldiers. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
She would be pleased that there was an apology | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
There is an acknowledgement finally that they got this so badly wrong. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Can the Royal Military Police investigate serious crimes? | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
Because in Anne-Marie's original investigation it was quite clear | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
that they could not and we have also had criticisms from two judges now, | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
criticising the conduct of the Royal Military Policd. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
The organisation Liberty represented the family as they fought | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Their solicitor says without the Human Rights Act | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
they wouldn't have got that and is concerned about | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
implications for future casds if the Government ever repe`ls it. | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
The Human Rights Act, in thhs case, helped in two very important ways. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
First of all, it meant that we could get a full, | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
wide-ranging inquest into Anne-Marie's death | :03:24. | :03:24. | |
and that exposed bullying, including rape-related bullxing | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
and all of the other terrible failures that led up to her death. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
The family had to fight for that, they had to go to court for that. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
The second was to secure a fresh police investigation | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
into Anne-Marie's very serious report that she had been | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
The Ministry of Defence and the Royal Military Police | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
would not do that voluntarily, even after we asked them to do | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
They would not do it until we again threatened to take them to the | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
And the only bit of law that we were relying | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Would you like to see civilhan police investigate serious | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
There must be civilian police input into these types of investigations. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
The Military Police, sadly, in this case, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
have shown themselves to be not capable of investigating serious | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
crime and, in particular, serious sexual crime. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
That requires expertise and police officers who really know | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
what they are doing and we're really sorry to say that Anne-Marid's | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
experience indicates that they are just not | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
So-called bed blocking costs the NHS ?820 million a year, | :04:26. | :04:39. | |
but a charity that's offering rooms to allow hospitals to disch`rge | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
patients who are medically fit, but unable to go home or into care, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
says its had no NHS patients since it opened three months ago. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The Enham Trust's rooms in @ndover would cost around ?60 | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
a night, compared to ?400 a night in hospital. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Our health correspondent David Fenton reports. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Ten rooms, all ready for patients, all empty. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
And they've been like this for weeks and weeks and weeks. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
These apartments have their own sink and kitchen area. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Of course, there is a bed and over here, there is a bathroom, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
In fact, it is better than lost hotels I've stayed in! | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
But in three months, only three people have used | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
these apartments and none of them were from the NHS. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
This complex looks after many people and there are physios | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
and occupational therapists available for 24-hour care. | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
To come into somewhere like an apartment here and be able | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
to live and practice the independent occupation they need to do, | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
like making a cup of tea or having a bath with the help of a therapy | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
team, makes a big differencd to how quickly they progress. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
So, why are these facilities not being used by the NHS? | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Is it bureaucracy or becausd this complex is run by a charity? | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
We are a small charity, but we are a very buoyant charity | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
and I think the NHS can bendfit and I know that they recognhse that | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
- from working with different charities to assist them | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
in the complexity that they deal with, with a range of peopld | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
The hospitals in Basingstokd and Winchester have been talking | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
In fact, I saw a couple of people from Winchester Hospital | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Southampton General and the Royal Berkshire | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Is it the hospitals, is it the councils, is it | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
It seems like a simple saving but the issues are very complicated. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
There have been two key votds tonight on proposals for three | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
of the biggest councils along the Solent to join forces. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight are considering forming | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
a combined authority which would have its | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Portsmouth has already backdd the move - the other two | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
councils voted tonight, with mixed results. | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
Roger Finn's been following the debates and joins me | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Well, as expected, tonight Southampton has voted | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
to approve the creation of , I'm afraid it's quite a mouthful - | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
the Solent Mayoral Combined Authority. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
It's part of the Government's drive to bring devoloution to England | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
The three councils would relain but there would also be | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
a directly-elected mayor - that's a Government | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
The new authority would get an extra ?900 | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
million over 30 years and get to keep all | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
over housing targets, local transport and joining up | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Portsmouth Council agreed the idea last week. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
And now Southampton has gond for it too. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
We have, for many years, been under invested in this area | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
and we don't have good transport links and we need an improvdd link. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
We need facilities to drive the economy and this | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take control of our desthny | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
What level of support is there for the proposals? | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
All the councils had an eight week consultation on the idea. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Over 70% supported the idea of devolution but there was a fair | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
degree of opposition to an elected mayor. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
And some have called for anx final deal to be put to a referendum. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
It is something that could put people's council tax up, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
and business rates up, and people need to have thehr say. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
It is such a big change and it's been too rushed, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
it is undemocratic and it is dodgy and has been done | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Tom, all three councils must agree for the plan to move forward | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
But in tonight's discussions, on the Isle of Wight, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Now a final decision there will be made by the Cabinet on Mond`y. | :08:48. | :08:57. | |
Roger, thank you. We shall follow that closely. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
It is every metal detectorist's dream, unearthing Roman tre`sure. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Two years ago, a hoard of ancient coins was found | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
The find of 1,600 coins bear the heads of 12 Roman | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
emperors and some date back to the third century. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Significant finds like this often end up in national museums | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
but a campaign's underway to keep them close to home. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
I want the coins to stay here, not going off to London | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
They have too much stuff up there already, they can stax down | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Somebody in our area, one of our ancestors, | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
hid these coins, maybe he was under attack, | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
That is the latest. Time for the weather. | :09:39. | :09:57. | |
Good evening. We have had some showers today. There could be more | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
tonight. But there will be puite a lot of dry weather and more cloud | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
arriving in the early hours. Where we have the clearing skies down | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
towards Dorset, temperatures could fall low as three degrees or 4 | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
degrees. These are the tempdratures in urban areas. Through tomorrow | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
morning we will have a lot of cloud. That bought them and break to allow | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
for some sunny spells. Any sunshine, temperatures could reach a high of | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
14 Celsius, but there will be varying amounts of cloud and the odd | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
shower. Not everyone will h`ve the showers and Bobby dry weathdr with a | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
high of 13 degrees or 14 degrees. During the course of Thursd`y into | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Friday, High pressure domin`tes and the ones will fall light on Friday. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
We are expecting a misty and murky start, particularly for Dorset and | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Wiltshire. The cloud will btild in the afternoon and there will be | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
sunshine. High pressure domhnating over whether through tomorrow and | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
also Friday. And up to the weekend. The winds will fall light tomorrow | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
and Thursday as well. Temperatures will reach a high of 14 Celsius | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
That is that cool breeze to factor in. Here | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
is Matt with the national outlook. Good evening. Just as the weather | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
starts to quieten down across many parts of the country it notched up a | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
gear across the east coast today. Near gale force winds whipping up | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
rough seas for our weather watchers in north Yorkshire and in Norfolk. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Low pressure across the North Sea, still in place tonight bringing | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
gusty winds down the east coast and showers as well. Away from that most | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
will be dry. An isolated shower down to west Cornwall and the Isles of | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Scilly but it's high pressure in charge in the west. Lighter winds | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
and clearer skies and coldest of the conditions. A night to snuggle down | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
under the duvet. Frost-free to the east of England. The breeze will | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
still be there in the morning. One or two showers on the coast. Most | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
will get away with a dry morning commute. Sunniest weather to the | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
west. Again a touch of frost here. One or two mist and fog patches | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Greater chance of frost to start the day in Scotland and Northern Ireland | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
where some of the mist and fog patches will last to mid-morning. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
But winds are lighter here and with sunshine overhead | :12:09. | :12:10. |