:00:00. > :00:13.Good evening. BBC Two. That's Newsnight with
:00:14. > :00:16.A man from Somerset man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
:00:17. > :00:19.after being convicted of sexually abusing children since
:00:20. > :00:24.In what was described in court as a shocking case,
:00:25. > :00:28.the prosecution said Andrew Margetts was abusing victims from the age
:00:29. > :00:31.of eight, but he couldn't be prosecuted for that
:00:32. > :00:35.because he was below the age of criminal responsibility.
:00:36. > :00:39.Our Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers reports.
:00:40. > :00:41.The prosecutioner called him a disturbed child who had
:00:42. > :00:45.an obsessive interest in sex from the age of eight.
:00:46. > :00:49.And today, Andrew Margetts, now 31, was convicted on 23 charges,
:00:50. > :00:54.including rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment.
:00:55. > :00:59.His victims, two girls and a boy, were aged between six and 11
:01:00. > :01:02.when the abuse took place in the '90s.
:01:03. > :01:05.Throughout this week-long trial, the court has heard that
:01:06. > :01:08.Margetts subjected his victims to sustained abuse
:01:09. > :01:13.Sometimes he would tie up his victims or gag them.
:01:14. > :01:15.He threatened one of them with a knife, saying,
:01:16. > :01:19."If you tell anyone, I will kill you."
:01:20. > :01:22.At Taunton Crown Court, the prosecutor said
:01:23. > :01:29.The jury told they were entering a twilight world they might
:01:30. > :01:35.The NSPCC told the BBC, in fact, a third of sexual abuse crimes
:01:36. > :01:39.against children are committed by people under the age of 18,
:01:40. > :01:47.But not unheard of and at the NSPCC we have similarly had experience
:01:48. > :01:50.in rare cases of seven and eight-year-olds also
:01:51. > :01:55.perpetrating very serious sexual offences, but it is pretty rare.
:01:56. > :02:00.The judge said that the lives of the young victims in this
:02:01. > :02:05.He told Andrew Margetts, "You knew what you were doing was wrong,
:02:06. > :02:10.seriously wrong," and sentencing him to 25 years in prison, he told him,
:02:11. > :02:22.The family of a man who died tombstoning on Plymouth Hoe,
:02:23. > :02:26.today watched footage of him falling to his death on film
:02:27. > :02:31.The inquest into the death of Vincent Wagstaff heard
:02:32. > :02:34.the father-of-three had drunk a substantial amount of alcohol
:02:35. > :02:37.before jumping off a ten-metre wall in October last year.
:02:38. > :02:42.John Danks was at Plymouth Coroner's Court.
:02:43. > :02:44.A major rescue operation was launched when Vincent Wagstaff
:02:45. > :02:47.jumped into the sea on October 13th last year.
:02:48. > :02:50.What started as an attempt at Tombstoning ended
:02:51. > :02:56.Vincent had been on Plymouth Hoe with two other men and they'd
:02:57. > :03:03.But Vincent had changed his mind, saying he wanted to do
:03:04. > :03:05.the really high jump, this was the ledge
:03:06. > :03:12.He asked his cousin to film the jump on a mobile phone.
:03:13. > :03:15.He said he shouted to Vincent to stop, but he went
:03:16. > :03:18.to leap off the ledge, but it wasn't a leap,
:03:19. > :03:24.Today, some of his family were shown the footage in court.
:03:25. > :03:28.It was a mistake, I could see it was an accident, I could see
:03:29. > :03:35.in the way that he tried to run and jump that it was
:03:36. > :03:40.The court heard that Mr Wagstaff had drunk
:03:41. > :03:44.a substantial amount of alcohol, five times the legal driving limit.
:03:45. > :03:49.He leaves behind three devastated children, a partner,
:03:50. > :03:58.We are left with a huge gap in our lives.
:03:59. > :04:03.He will always be loved and I will always miss him.
:04:04. > :04:07.The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death
:04:08. > :04:17.On to other news around the South West tonight.
:04:18. > :04:20.A 46-year-old man has been arrested after a stabbing in Exeter.
:04:21. > :04:24.The police helicopter was used to trace the suspect in woods off
:04:25. > :04:30.Officers say it was an isolated incident and the victim suffered
:04:31. > :04:36.Commuters using one of Cornwall's busiest roads have been warned that
:04:37. > :04:39.multi-million pound roadworks will create disruption
:04:40. > :04:45.Overnight closures of the A38 in the Glynn Valley are already
:04:46. > :04:48.in operation, but most of the work will be carried out during the day
:04:49. > :04:55.Ten libraries in Plymouth could be closed over the next few years.
:04:56. > :04:59.The city council says the seven which would remain open are the most
:05:00. > :05:03.popular and account for 80% of all library visits.
:05:04. > :05:11.The authority says it wants to make better use of its resources.
:05:12. > :05:13.A hospital in the south west is bucking a national trend
:05:14. > :05:16.for the amount of time that elderly people have to wait
:05:17. > :05:22.BBC research shows in England, 56,000 people over the age
:05:23. > :05:27.of 80 had waits of more than 12 hours in A last year.
:05:28. > :05:30.But hospitals here haven't seen such big increases.
:05:31. > :05:32.Jemma Woodman went to the Royal Devon and Exeter
:05:33. > :05:38.Hospital to see how they're coping this winter.
:05:39. > :05:42.It's early evening at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
:05:43. > :05:46.92-year-old Joyce Taylor has been brought into the emergency
:05:47. > :05:55.Coming downstairs and when I came right down to the bottom,
:05:56. > :05:58.I didn't realise that I had hurt myself.
:05:59. > :06:01.Joyce is among an increasing number of elderly patients coming
:06:02. > :06:09.We regularly have patients, over 90 and almost daily over 100
:06:10. > :06:12.in our department and the majority are made up of patients
:06:13. > :06:17.The paramedics are going to give us a hand and as they do,
:06:18. > :06:21.I'm just going to pop a monitor on you, so we can check your blood
:06:22. > :06:24.To stop patients waiting for too long here in Exeter,
:06:25. > :06:28.most are seen by senior consultants within minutes of arriving.
:06:29. > :06:31.A lot of services are now put into predicting discharge dates
:06:32. > :06:35.of patients and aiming to get towards that, so if we can get them
:06:36. > :06:37.up to the medical unit before nine o'clock,
:06:38. > :06:39.they will be seen by a consultant tonight rather than tomorrow
:06:40. > :06:42.morning, so you save yourself 12 hours of hospital stay.
:06:43. > :06:45.Joyce was close to being admitted but it is decided she would be
:06:46. > :06:51.I don't think we are going to be of any benefit bringing her in.
:06:52. > :06:54.It's what Mum wants and it's better for anybody, I think,
:06:55. > :06:59.It's better to be in your own surroundings.
:07:00. > :07:04.Judy is a retired doctor who used to work at the hospital.
:07:05. > :07:07.My heart, from time to time, goes into a wrong rhythm.
:07:08. > :07:10.What they are going to do is put two electrodes onto my chest,
:07:11. > :07:14.pass a current through my heart and hopefully that will shock my
:07:15. > :07:20.It is the sort of procedure which used to need a short stay
:07:21. > :07:23.in hospital, but it is now being done within the
:07:24. > :07:28.By getting things done here, we are saving her a hospital
:07:29. > :07:30.admission, so it's good for the patient, it's also good
:07:31. > :07:33.for the trust as a whole, because that's one bed
:07:34. > :07:36.that is available for somebody else to move into.
:07:37. > :07:39.253 patients came through the emergency department on the day
:07:40. > :07:42.we were filming in Exeter, but only 46 were admitted
:07:43. > :07:52.A small Devon charity, which helps cats and dogs in Afghanistan,
:07:53. > :07:55.has been handed a massive financial and publicity boost thanks
:07:56. > :07:59.to the comedian Ricky Gervais. He's donating half the profits
:08:00. > :08:02.from a forthcoming gig to the charity Nowzad,
:08:03. > :08:06.It's providing a support for hundreds of street dogs and cats
:08:07. > :08:11.Ricky Gervais has taken to social media to explain why.
:08:12. > :08:14.They're the people that are actually doing stuff,
:08:15. > :08:18.I'm just tweeting about it and giving some cash.
:08:19. > :08:21.They're the people that do it and they're amazing.
:08:22. > :08:25.The donation itself will just be incredible.
:08:26. > :08:28.We've got lots going on in Afghanistan at the moment.
:08:29. > :08:32.We've got over 150 dogs that we are currently caring for,
:08:33. > :08:34.over 40 cats and six donkeys, so that keeps us busy
:08:35. > :08:38.and that is where the donation will go and it will come
:08:39. > :08:55.Now the weather. We have a new week and a new week of weather but what
:08:56. > :09:01.does it hold? A fairly mild couple of days after a cold snap, but this
:09:02. > :09:05.week will be mainly dry. Brighter towards the tail end but where we
:09:06. > :09:09.get those brighter skies, the risk of some frost. We have this
:09:10. > :09:15.high-pressure anchored across eastern parts of the UK and the near
:09:16. > :09:20.continent and that has fairly cold air underneath it. That will push
:09:21. > :09:25.towards us and break the cloud up with the increasing risk of frost.
:09:26. > :09:31.Western parts will be cloudy underneath this weather front.
:09:32. > :09:36.Light, Apache and gristly. They bit of brightness towards eastern parts.
:09:37. > :09:42.For most it will not be until Wednesday that we see decent spells
:09:43. > :09:46.of sunshine. Light winds and there is the risk of a frost through
:09:47. > :09:52.Wednesday night into Thursday. Thursday we have this week weather
:09:53. > :09:57.front across the top of us. It will introduce more cloud, so not as
:09:58. > :10:03.bright but not the risk for all of us of seeing a frost. Friday,
:10:04. > :10:08.another drive, settled day with light winds and Friday will be a
:10:09. > :10:15.brighter day compared with Thursday. A lot of cloud tonight. A bit of
:10:16. > :10:21.light rain and drizzle. A lot of mist and low hill fog. That will
:10:22. > :10:27.persist towards dawn. Not a cold night, should be frost free, those
:10:28. > :10:30.of around four or 5 degrees. A great start tomorrow, very little change
:10:31. > :10:37.through the morning, outbreaks of light rain. We will start to see
:10:38. > :10:44.this drier air pushing into eastern parts. Further west we keep the
:10:45. > :10:48.cloudy skies but staying mild. More sunshine after a cold start on
:10:49. > :10:54.Wednesday but it will start to feel that little bit colder. We are back
:10:55. > :10:58.with our breakfast News from 6:25am tomorrow morning but from the late
:10:59. > :11:04.team, have a peaceful night. Goodbye.
:11:05. > :11:09.perhaps a little milder. If you like the mild weather, you'll have to
:11:10. > :11:13.head elsewhere in the country. Find out more in the national weather
:11:14. > :11:16.forecast. Our weather is going against normal expectations this
:11:17. > :11:20.week. In Highland Scotland some snow to be seen on the hills.
:11:21. > :11:25.Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius today. Over the next few days the
:11:26. > :11:30.coldest air is in the far south-east of England where there is sunshine
:11:31. > :11:35.to be had. Four or five Celsius in Kent. Differences remain over the
:11:36. > :11:40.next few days and here is why. I pressure in control of the weather.
:11:41. > :11:46.Some clear a continental air, but coming into Scotland from the
:11:47. > :11:50.Atlantic plenty of clouds around. Outbreaks of rain through Scotland
:11:51. > :11:51.and Northern Ireland overnight, patchy drizzle into parts of England