In Wormwood Scrubs he met Timothy Morss, 33, of Leyton, east London, who admits murdering, buggering and falsely imprisoning Daniel.Tyler said that after his release from jail he went on the first of many trips to the Philippines, where he had sex withboys. A team of detectives is continuing inquiries into Helen’s murder.. A paedophile accused of murdering nine-year-old Daniel Handley told a jury yesterday he was sexually abused at the age of four while living in a Barnado’s home. Brett Tyler, 30, also told the Old Bailey he had sex with a male friend at the age of 12 and had a criminal record for indecency with young boys. Tyler, who denies murdering Daniel but admits buggering and falsely imprisoning him on 2 October 1994, said he was put in the home when he was six months old and remained until he was eight years old; five or six times he had gone off with a man known as John and had sexual intercourse.
After a succession of odd jobs Tyler was arrested for indecency with young boys and sentenced to four years in prison. Helen’s battered body was found four days later 60 miles way at Symonds Yat, Herefordshire. Willoway told police he gave her a lift and dropped her off safely near her home.
Yesterday he was remanded in custody until May 21 by Bridgend magistrates, accused of firearms offences.

People were running up and down the road.”
Parts of Charing Cross station and the junction of the Strand and Villiers Street were cordoned off. An accountant who works nearby said: “It was like an earthquake.”. The ITN news reporter Joan Thirkettle has died of cancer. Ms Thirkettle, 48, covered more than 1,500 stories for ITN after joining in 1974. The newsreader Trevor McDonald said: “She was never taken in, but was always scrupulously fair – the highest tribute that one can pay to a journalist.”

Obituary: Page 12. A murder inquiry witness appeared in court yesterday accused of threatening police with a shotgun. David Willoway, 31, of Bettws, near Bridgend, was seen on security video leaving a Maesteg pub with Helen Martin, 18, and is the last known person to have seen her alive.

A workman said: “There was a flame which went about 20 feet in the air and then a couple of explosions People in the garden were agitated. A series of explosions which renewed fears of an IRA campaign in central London yesterday turned out to be gas cylinders ignited by a fire in a tar boiler. The blasts rocked the Strand near Trafalgar Square sending a sheet of flame 20ft into the air above a building under renovation. Office workers lunching in Victoria Embankment gardens ran from the scene in terror.

There is also a 10- 15 per cent chance of the virus being passed to the child.A spokesman for the Terence Higgins Trust said that the couple would have gone through a long procedure before the treatment was approved.But Dr Fleur Fisher, head of ethics, science and information for the British Medical Association, said the unborn child should be put first. “The issue is whether assisted reproductive technique should be used to help someone with a life threatening disease Children need parents for a long time.”. He was initially reluctant to give her treatment because there was a chance she could develop full-blown Aids and die within a year of the birth. Professor Robert Winston, head of the IVF unit at Hammersmith hospital, in west London, agreed to treat the woman, who is paying, after she was rejected by another hospital.
The patient, a former heroin addict in her 30s, is thought to have caught the virus from a boyfriend 10 years ago.Professor Winston said the woman had been off drugs for eight years and had been in a “supportive” relationship for five years.

A row broke out yesterday over the decision of an infertility expert to treat a woman with HIV despite strong opposition from his medical team. He described as “significant” comments by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, that the British and Irish governments wanted genuine all-party talks on an open agenda.Last night John Major and the Irish leader, John Bruton, discussed issues relating to the forthcoming all-party talks in a “constructive” 20-minute telephone conversation.Whither ceasefire, page 15. Security sources were mystified by reports that a ceasefire was on the way, saying their assessments pointed instead towards more IRA attacks in England. The IRA came under significant public pressure from Washington and Dublin to call a ceasefire in order to allow a republican presence at the all- party talks which are due to start in Belfast on 10 June But there is as yet no sign that such a move is in the air. Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, issued a statement saying there was little basis for the ceasefire speculation.
But a more upbeat tone came in later statement by Mitchel McLaughlin of Sinn Finn. Sinn Fein yesterday emitted conflicting signals about the possibility of a renewed IRA ceasefire, though both republican and security sources pour cold water on ideas that another cessation may be imminent. Several doubted whether Britain would achieve the majority it needs in tomorrow’s vote.Herve de Charette, the French Foreign Minister, refused to give any commitment of support for Britain, saying France’s decision must await the view of scientific experts.