In Today's Papers

By Amy Taylor, Clare Jerrom and Alex Dobson

Immigration controls system failing

For every illegal immigrant who is stopped trying to enter Britain five illegal immigrants enter secretly it was revealed last night.

Immigration officers made the claims after a home office official said that immigration could be six times higher than official figures. Robert Owen was speaking in a people-smuggling trial at Swansea Crown Court.

Source: Daily Mail, Friday, 11 June, page 21

Doctor defends accusing father of child killings

A leading paediatrician who accused a father of killing his babies after watching a television programme has defended his remark.

David Southall, 55, told the General Medical Council, that what he saw in the documentary combined with his experience make him sure that Stephen Clarke had killed his two babies.

Source: The Guardian, Friday, 11 June, page 9

Police launch hunt for serial sex attacker

A police investigation is under way trying to locate a sex attacker who has indecently assaulted seven girls and five women in five days.

The victims include two 11-year-old girls and one 12-year-old. All of the attacks were within two miles of Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Source: The Guardian, Friday, 11 June, page 11

Sham marriages soar as illegal immigrants try to beat curbs

Up to one in five marriages in London might be carried out in order to get people a passport, according to new research.

Mark Rimmer, a senior registrar, who has been doing research on bogus marriages, also found that gangs were organising fake marriages for a fee of up to £5,000.

Source: The Daily Telegraph, Friday, 11 June, page 15

Scottish newspapers

Teachers warn pupil policy is a “time-bomb”

The Scottish executive’s plan to include more children with behavioural problems into mainstream schools is a “time-bomb waiting to explode”, according to a senior union official yesterday.

Dougie Mackie, the president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, said teachers’ health was being put at risk because of the stress they were working under.

Mackie told delegates at the EIS annual conference in Dundee that the scheme must be adequately funded if it is to work properly.
“The strain imposed by social inclusion in some of our schools is in danger of becoming a time-bomb waiting to explode unless properly resourced,” he said.

Source: The Scotsman,  Friday 11 June

Councillor sex abuser jailed

A councillor, who sexually abused a girl for a decade and had sex with her before she was 16-years-old, was jailed for seven years yesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Faramarz Kazemi, who also molested the girl’s sister, quit Clackmannanshire Council last week.

Source: The Scotsman, Friday 11 June

Dungavel extension denied

The Home Office denied last night that secret plans had been drawn up to double the size of Dungavel detention centre in Lanarkshire.

A source at the centre, which houses asylum seekers, claimed yesterday that informal talks to extend the current site had been going on for about a year and Whitehall officials wanted to build a £20 million extension to the centre.

The insider also claimed that as the centre was situated on Crown land there would be no need for planning permission or consultation to extend the site and work was due to start within weeks.

But a Home Office spokesperson said that no extension to the site had been planned.

Source: The Scotsman,  Friday 11 June

Tsar threatens pubs serving drunk punters

Pubs and clubs who break the law by serving drunk customers were slammed by the capital’s new antisocial behaviour tsar.

Donald Urquhart, a former police superintendent, called for a crackdown on licensed premises which fail to comply with strict rules aimed at curbing binge drinking.

He claimed some publicans and club owners, driven more by profit than by their social responsibilities, had to accept their share of blame for late night violence fuelled by alcohol.

Source: Evening News, Thursday 10 June

Call to fine parents of class yobs

Parents should be fined for their children’s bad behaviour in class, according to one of Scotland’s leading teachers union.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers said urgent action was needed to stop disruptive behaviour in classrooms affecting other pupils’ education.

The union is calling on the Scottish executive to change the law so parents are forced to sign good behaviour contracts covering their child’s actions in schools.

Source: Evening News, Thursday 10 June

Welsh newspapers

Child rapist got bail to live near school

Shocked parents have expressed outrage that a paedophile police surgeon was released on bail to live just a short distance from a Cwmbran school, while he awaited trial for sexual attacks on children.

Dr Robert Wells who has been described as a ‘premeditated and calculated’ paedophile was jailed earlier this week for 15 years for drugging, raping and assaulting girls aged between 5 and 11

Source: South Wales Argus Thursday 10 June page 1

Abusive woman put on notice

A Flintshire woman has had an anti-social behaviour order imposed on her, after accusations that she swore at her children and hurled abuse at her neighbours.

Flint magistrates ordered that Lynn Mills, 45, must not use abusive, threatening or intimidating behaviour within Flintshire.

Source: Western Mail, Friday 11 June page 2

Ex-matron held over death

The ex-matron of a Welsh care home at the centre of an abuse investigation has been arrested over the death of one of its former residents.

North Wales police say the 60-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the death of 95-year-old William Pettener who was a resident at the Bodawen Nursing Home, Porthmadog and who died there on April 12 this year.

Source: Western Mail Friday 11 June page 6

Tackling drugs gets Smart

A rapid response scheme to help tackle drug and alcohol abuse has been launched in Neath Port Talbot.

The Substance Misuse Assessment and Referral Team (Smart) is funded by the Welsh Assembly Health Inequalities Fund and has been welcomed as providing a prompt response to those who need support to tackle drug and alcohol abuse.

Source: Western Mail, Friday 11 June page 8