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A violent attack on a group of gay women by up to 30 men. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
They claim police didn't do enough to help. | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
Have you anything to say to the staff and patients? | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
You should feel ashamed - the judge's verdict | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
after a hospice manager steals money from the most vulnerable. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
And an Arctic blast gives us a cool feel for the next couple of days. I | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
will have the weather later. Punched in the face so hard one | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
of them lost seven teeth. Bruised internal organs, | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
dislocated knees and shoulders. Injuries sustained by a group | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
of young gay women on a night out in Portsmouth in what's believed | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
to have been a violent Today, there was concern | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
and bitterness among some of the victims that the police | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
were not doing enough Bruises, black eyes, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
teeth knocked out. In total, five women were hurt | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
as they made their way home along They were repeatedly punched | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and kicked by a group The woman whose teeth were knocked | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
out is amongst the victims Before I even got to turn round, | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
I was hit and in that hit, I remember I could feel something | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
had moved in my mouth, but at that point, I didn't | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
know it was my teeth. I was just crying and | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
screaming frantically. The victims think the men | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
who attacked them were Polish and believe they were targeted | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
because they are lesbians. They say they are upset | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
with the way Hampshire Police I don't think they | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
handled it well at all. We were telling the police | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
who assaulted people and they were letting | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
them go in taxis. Neither witnesses got | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
called to give statements. There was 20 to 30 men involved, | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
I don't understand how only They didn't even come over | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
and check if I was OK. We had no photos taken | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
of the injuries. I've been groped and grabbed | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
as well as the other girls. We should have had | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
a female officer there. Hampshire Police say an ambulance | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
was requested by officers as soon as they arrived at the scene | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
in Kingston Road. The police have also | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
revealed that four men - one from Portsmouth and three | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
from London - were arrested They have been released but remain | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
under investigation. Hampshire Police declined an | :02:40. | :02:55. | |
invitation to be interviewed and said they could not comment on the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
details as it would prejudice a future court case. They have said... | :03:00. | :03:15. | |
Recent Government figures show that the number of recorded | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
There were just over 7,000 such crimes in the past year | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
At the same time, research by one gay charity showed that half | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
of those who reported hate crime said they did not feel | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Earlier, I spoke to Benjamin Butterwortth who is a reporter | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
for the gay newspaper, Pink News. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
He's also been a victim of hate crime and reported it to the police. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
He told me incidents like the one in Portsmouth are not uncommon. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
Four in five LGBT people say they have experienced a hate crime at | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
some point in their lives. That could be anything from someone | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
shouting an insult at them in the street, right through to the tragic | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
aggressive insult we have seen in this incident. What is more | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
concerning is how many of those people don't report it. It is | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
thought the majority of LGBT people who experienced hate crime don't | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
follow it up and tell the police. We have seen with these ladies in | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
particular they were upset with how they were treated by the police. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Other issues with police training? One of the key things we find is | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
that about 40% of cases, the LGBT people feel the police and the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
authorities who they dealt with were not properly trained in LGBT issues. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
That can be anything from asking people to prove they are LGBT in an | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
unreasonable way, making assumptions about people that make them feel | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
uncomfortable, and that is one of the biggest issues. A whole number, | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
about a quarter of people who have reported a hate crime before said | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
they wouldn't feel comfortable doing it again. I do think police forces | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
have to do -- look at carefully how they provide training for this | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
issue. You deserve to feel shameful | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
for what you have done - the words of a crown court judge | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
today as he sentenced a hospice finance manager | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
for stealing thousands of pounds Simon Plummer was given an 18-month | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
suspended sentence and ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work for taking | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
the money from Oakhaven He used it to fund building work | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
on his own house in Sway. He was trusted to take care | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
of the money at a place What do you say to the staff | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
and patients at the hospice? But Simon Plummer abused his | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
position to steal more than ?13,000. Southampton Crown Court heard that | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
between November 2015 and August 2016, Mr Plummer had diverted cash | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
and cheque donations from being paid Instead, he used the money to cover | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
the cost of building materials The fraud was uncovered | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
when the building company Travis Perkins began sending | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
invoices to the hospice. After an internal inquiry, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Mr Plummer was dismissed from Oakhaven and the police | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
were informed. In court, he pleaded guilty to fraud | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
by abuse of position. Taking that into account, | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Judge Francis Burrell gave Mr Plummer an 18-month suspended | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
sentence and told him... No-one from Oakhaven | :06:27. | :06:41. | |
wanted to appear on camera "This has been a very sad | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
and difficult period for us "We have in place a strong set | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
of financial procedures "so the public and all our | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
supporters can be assured that "fundraised income and donations | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
are safe and secure." And maintaining that goodwill | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
from the public is crucial. Mr Plummer has written | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
to staff at the hospice expressing his remorse, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
but declined to comment It's been described as a ticking | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
time bomb inside our care system. A new report published | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
by Healthwatch in West Berkshire reveals the failure of many councils | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
to put adequate plans in place to look after vulnerable people | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
with learning difficulties when their carers can no | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
longer look after them. As Nikki Mitchell reports, | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
many parents are terrified about what will happen | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
to their children, Severe autism means Nathanial | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
is more like a two-year-old He's a big baby and he's lovely, | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
but we've had a toddler for 18 years But what about the next 18 years | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
and the 18 years after that? Our social care system has neither | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
the time or the money to plan for what should happen when parents | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
and carers can care no longer. If I suddenly had to go | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
into hospital long-term or God We need an action committee | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
formed of key professionals, the voluntary sector, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
the parents and carers, to actually look at potential | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
solutions, and who knows, perhaps This is a national problem, | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
it's not just West Berkshire. The plain fact is that there | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
is less accommodation than the number of people | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
we would like to provide for it. And, therefore, perhaps we do | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
step in rather later than some The distress, for me, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
would be acute, not knowing where he was, was he | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
safe, was he happy? Finally from me, in football, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Brighton must wait to see if their promotion to | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
the Premier League They needed Newcastle | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
to lose to Preston tonight, Nevertheless, Brighton can still win | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the title this weekend. That's all from the South Today | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
news team this evening. The weather for the week ahead, we | :08:59. | :09:15. | |
have some Arctic air coming our way for the next couple of days and then | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
we see a bit of a turn, back to the milder conditions. In the meantime, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
one or two wintry showers. Tonight, clear skies overhead and with the | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
cool air mass, temperatures will tumble down to freezing in most | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
spots, a touch below in rural areas. Widespread frost tomorrow morning | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
but had brightness, sunny skies through the cause in the morning, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the cloud bubbling up and one or two showers as well. The temperatures | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
could nudge up to 11 or 12 degrees. Through the latter part of tomorrow | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
afternoon, the Shah was built in intensity and in number. Winter | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
greens -- through the evening and overnight period, they tend to ease | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
away and once again clearing skies and temperatures around freezing. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
Into Wednesday, a frosty start, again some brightness to get the day | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
going but the showers start to shop earlier in the day. Once more, the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
risk of sleet and hail and thunder in the mix and where we see the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
showers, the winds pick up as well. Feeling cool as the showers pass | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
through. Thursday, we will see a bit of a change, milder conditions on | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
the way, the fund is sinking southwards, that will bring more | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
cloud and outbreaks of rain. A cloudy pig show on Friday. One odd | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
to showers. Looking ahead to next weekend we stick with a cloudy | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
theme. We could still see one or two spells of rain. | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
course, there'll be the threat of some rain. More with the national | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
forecast now. Good evening. It's been turning | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
colder from the north so far today. It's been cold enough for | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
significant snow in northern Scotland. This was mid afternoon. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
More recently it's been blowing around over the tops of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
mountains. Snow in April not necessarily unusual but it's usually | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
unwelcome. The colder air coming in behind the front which clears | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
towards the near continent, opening the floodgates to this Coldstream of | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
air all the way from the | :11:35. | :11:35. |