She was under the 60mph speed limit, Mr Fraser said.Mrs Jipson, from Lawford, near Colchester, who has four other children, admitted drink-driving and having no car insurance. Magistrates adjourned the case until September for reports and warned her prison would be an option. On Wednesday, an inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death on Julia.. A robber posing as a guard escaped on foot with tens of thousands of pounds in cash from a security van at Gatwick Airport yesterday.
One of the guards had gone inside the terminal building when the robber, who was wearing a helmet, punched the 41-year-old driver in the face. He was later taken to hospital to be treated for a suspected broken nose.The public road where the robbery took place is in a tunnel under the airport and is usually used by service vehicles.Police were studying film from surveillance cameras in the tunnel and questioning the crew of the van. The robber was described as white, in his 30s with a goatee beard. He was wearing a light blue shirt, dark blue trousers and had a helmet over his head.Detective Chief Inspector Mike Alderson, of Sussex police, confirmed that officers were investigating the possibility that the robber had posed as a security guard in order to steal the cash. He said the incident happened at a busy time of day at the airport, which has about 140 shops and 28,000 staff.In February this year, two men hijacked a British Airways security van in the airside area at Heathrow’s terminal 4 and fled with £4.6m in foreign currency.A month later, two men posing as security staff held up a security company van that had just unloaded containers from a South African Airways flight in the airside area of terminal 1. They stole two cash boxes containing $3.2m (£2.1m).Det Ch Insp Alderson said the robberies showed no similarities with yesterday’s raid..
One in three sex offenders released from prison may have had unsupervised contact with children, a trial for the Probation Service involving lie- detector tests has indicated. They were asked questions about their past offending, current behaviour and fantasies, including whether they had been in contact with children or looking for contact.Professor Don Grubin, of the sexual behaviour unit at Newcastle University, who supervised the trial, said: “Everyone disclosed information relevant to their rehabilitation. About a third revealed unsupervised contact with children, and with three of them, we believe, if intervention had not been taken, they would have reoffended. The men themselves said as much afterwards, in retrospect, if action had not been taken.”Of the three cases, one man was returned to a hostel, child protection proceedings were started in another and the third had his supervision increased.Professor Grubin said he was in talks with the Home Office over a possible larger trial involving up to 200 offenders.Lie-detector tests are widely used in the United States for monitoring sex offenders and in criminal inquiries, custody evaluations and professional sexual misconduct cases. In Britain their use is at an early stage and doubts over their accuracy mean they cannot be used by police or accepted as evidence in court.The Probation Service is considering using the tests to help monitor paedophiles if they can be shown to be reliable.Sandy Gray, a polygraph examiner from Arizona, said: “Paedophiles are very deviant and usually very skilled at being manipulative. The polygraph examination is, by far, better than simply accepting their word for what they are doing.”Roger Stoodley, who led the police inquiry into a paedophile network that included the child killer Sidney Cooke, said sex offenders were practised liars and could fool the most sophisticated equipment.. He has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act at Rampton secure hospital, charged with murdering the two girls.
Police stressed that the search was routine.Yesterday officers were still standing guard outside the home of Mr Huntley’s father in nearby Littleport, though a three-day search of the pale brick bungalow has now been completed with 50 items sent off for further examination.But yesterday Operation Fincham search teams were continuing to comb through the house Mr Huntley shared with his fianc?Maxine Carr, 25, now on remand at Holloway Prison accused of perverting the course of justice, as well as the surrounding Soham Village College, where he worked as a caretaker. Last night Cambridgeshire County Council said it was “far too early” to decide the fate of the buildings after reports that the caretaker’s house might have to be demolished.This morning the South and West Cambridgeshire coroner David Morris will open inquests into the deaths of the 10-year-olds. The hearings will be adjourned pending the outcome of any criminal proceedings.Police said yesterday that it would be some time before officers completed their investigations around the spot near Lakenheath air base, where the girls were found by a gamekeeper over the weekend. On Wednesday, the girls’ parents – Kevin and Nicola Wells and Sharon and Leslie Chapman – made private visits to the spot, where hundreds of bouquets of flowers have been left along with the thousands now outside the parish church in Soham.There appeared to be little sign yesterday that the national, and even international, outpouring of sympathy and grief was slowing down. By mid-afternoon almost 160,000 people had left messages of condolence on two websites set up by Cambridgeshire Police and the county council.In another show of the strength of feeling the case has generated, the Football Association announced that a minute’s silence would be held at every League game this weekend. Manchester United and Chelsea will be the first to observe the silence before their Premier League game tonight.”The whole of the nation has been shocked by the deaths of Holly and Jessica,” the FA director Paul Barber said.
