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Jose mourninho doesnt rule out Manchester United captain wayne rooney leaving the club, after hes linked with a move to china. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The fiance of the childrens author, helen bailey, has been found guilty of murdering her and dumping her body in a cesspit under their home in hertfordshire. Ian stewart, whos 56, drugged ms bailey over several months, before smothering her in april last year in the hope of claiming a multi Million Pound inheritance. Detectives are now re examining the death of stewarts previous partner, his wife, diane, who died suddenly in 2010. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly reports. Well, jane, helen baileys nickname for ian stewart was the Gorgeous Grey Haired widower. He was described as a devious killer in court and a full blown liar. Within hours of killing helen bailey, he was siphoning thousands from her bank account. A couple of months later he went on holiday to spain, and it was a few weeks later that he got back from holiday that he got a knock on his door from the police. Police recorded ian stewarts arrest at his home. Were arresting you on suspicion of the murder of helen bailey. You arejoking he was stunned hed finally been caught out. For three months, hed been living with the body of his wealthy partner buried under his garage. Why, i dont understand . My name is helen bailey and id like to introduce you to my new book, which is called when bad things happen in good bikinis. Helen bailey was a successful author. As well as murdering her, stewart also killed her dachshund boris, whom she doted on. Oh, that wasnt supposed to happen after her husbands death, helen began blogging about her sense of loss and it was through facebook Bereavement Group that she met ian stewart whose wife had died. She thought shed found a new soul mate. But while she was planning their wedding, he was planning her murder. Last spring, she suddenly vanished from their Million Pound home in royston, in hertfordshire. It took ian stewart five days to report her missing. my partner has been missing since monday, and not contacting anyone. despite appeals from family and friends, there was no sign of helen. Three months after she disappeared, police came back here and began searching places they had not looked at before. Including a spot in the garage. The garage was at a distance from the house. This Laser Imaging illustrates how under a hatch door there was a well with a cesspit. The police began probing, and it was here, below of sewage, that they saw an arm. They had found helen baileys body. And buried with her was her dog, boris. There was even a possibility that she may still have been alive when stewart put her in the cesspit. This cctv shows how, within hours, ian stewart drove to a rubbish tip to destroy evidence. He dumped a duvet. Was that duvet taken to the tip because it had helens blood on it . In police interviews, stewart said nothing. He probably smothered helen bailey after drugging her over a long period with his sleeping pills. His motive was money. He was set to benefit massively from her £4 million fortune. If helen had written a book of this story, you wouldnt believe it. He probably planned it all from the day he met her. In hindsight, i do think he loved her at all. But helen definitely loved him. This is ian stewarts late wife. With his criminal trial over, we can now report that the police are re examining her sudden death, said to have been caused by an epileptic fit. At this stage, theres no indication of anything suspicious. I think its only right that i consider what might have happened in ian stewarts past, to see whether theres anything i need to get involved in, whether theres any fresh evidence that might have come out from this trial. After his wife died, ian stewart was seen with other women before he began his predatory pursuit of helen bailey. As a writer, she was used to studying human behaviour. But she never learned the true character of the man who was closest to her and who she thought she knew best. Well, in ten two was found guilty of six charges, including fraud and as the guilty verdicts were brought in, he shook his head. He is now facing a fresh and best a geisha over the death of his wife, diane. Helen bailey has elderly parents and her mother testified by video link in the trial and her brother has been in the court throughout. He said his thoughts were with the family of ian stewart. What stewart had done had left them all devastated, he said. The Supreme Court has ruled that the government has the right to set a minimum wage that british citizens must earn before bringing a foreign husband or wife into the country. People affected by the rules had argued that the minimum income level, currently £18,600 a year, was unreasonably high, but the court ruled that the measures dont breach human rights legislation. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. They look like any other family but caroline coombs, her husband carlos, from ecuador, and their is month old son thomas live in a permanent state of uncertainty, not knowing whether they will be able to Stay Together in britain because caroline, a former television producer, is earning less than £18,000 a year, which, under new immigration rules, is not enough to bring a foreign husband or wife to the uk. We are two very capable human beings, who happened to fall in love. And we were being told we were going to be split up. And we had a young baby. And we werent being given the right to be a family. In my own country. The Supreme Court ruling today said the new rules were defective, particularly when it came to children, but it found the controversial mir, the Minimum Income Requirement, did not didnt break human rights laws. It holds that the mir is acceptable in principle, but the rules and instructions fail to take proper account of the section 55 duty, in respect of children. Although the government has technically lost this case in the Supreme Court on the way it implements its new rule, it is, nonetheless, a victory for ministers, on the principle that people on low incomes cannotjust assume that their foreign husband or wife can automaticallyjoin them in britain. It is considered reasonable to expect you to leave the uk. But caroline and carlos do now have a chance, because the home office agreed today to carefully consider what the Supreme Court had said about how the rules are unlawful because they do not pay enough attention to the best interests of children. The system is wrong. Something needs to be changed. Not only for me. For all the other kids that are out there, for all the other mums who are suffering every day. Can i sleep thinking that i dont have to leave the country . Many thousands of couples were affected by the new laws which were designed to reduce the cost of immigrants claiming benefits. Families with children now have a second chance, as do couples with other sources of income. But, for many, the Minimum Income Requirement will still stop them being reunited in britain. A former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, lord carlile, has said a british Islamic State fighter who carried out a Suicide Bombing in iraq was an Enemy Of The State who should never have been paid compensation by the government. The former Prime Minister tony blair has hit out at Press Reports Criticising his role in the matter, saying the compensation for muslim converts time in pontal obey was agreed on by a conservative led government. We will have more later but first lets talk to our security correspondent, frank gardner. This individual himself, is it embarrassing how big an Intelligence Failure it is that he was able to do what he did in a rock . It isnt as big as it might seem because when he came out of Band Have Obey in 2004, he was assessed whether or not he was going to be a threat to british security, to the safety of british citizens. And is he involved in violent extremism. The answer was no at the time. He may have basically beenin at the time. He may have basically been in waiting, a terrorist in waiting, as it were but the ten yea rs waiting, as it were but the ten years in between before hejoined Islamic State, he didnt show his hand, so he would have been under some kind of surveillance, not particularly heavy one, and it may be he had no connections and sympathies with extremism at that time butjust sympathies with extremism at that time but just before sympathies with extremism at that time butjust before he went off to syria, he then started to get involved and went off and joined is. What all of this throws into question is whether they are getting the right assessment today for the hundreds of returns who have either come back from the arena of syria and iraq or still out there. Theyre not going to get it right every time. So i think there is a tacit admission in whitehall that this guy slipped through the net, they got it wrong, but they will try, i suppose, that much harder to not make the same mistakes with others. Thank you. Lets talk to our assistant political editor, norman smith. It isa political editor, norman smith. It is a very strongly worded statement from tony blair about this. You sense there is a hunt on for a political scalp, for someone to be blamed for the government campaigning for the release of this man then him being paid £1 million, then escaping to syria. The daily mail in its coverage apportions much of the blame on tony blair, suggesting in one headline, still think he wasnt a danger, mr blair . It isa think he wasnt a danger, mr blair . It is a taut which has prompted a furious response. Mr blair says he only argued for the release of these men after pressure from lawyers, mps, the media and the daily mail, whom he says noted after their release they are not bad guys, they are entirely innocent. Mr blair also says it wasnt him who sanctioned the payment of £1 million in compensation, that was the cameron government. And tory mps wanted them released quickly. What is going on . In part, it is simply tony blair trying to set the record straight as he sees it, but in part, too, it is personal, it is payback for years of goading of tony blair and iraq. It is also breaks it. Newspapers like the daily mail have been at the ce ntre the daily mail have been at the centre of the pro Brexit Campaign and mr blairjust the other day called for the remainder is to stand theirground, to make called for the remainder is to stand their ground, to make their case against the referendum and you sense he is trying to give a lead. The former deputy Prime Ministers said many remainders were frightened of papers like the daily mail which is why they were silent. Tony blair is trying to put a bit of backbone into them. A new bbc tv channel for scotland has been announced by the corporations director general tony hall. The channel will begin broadcasting in the autumn of 2018 and will have a budget of £30 million, equivalent to the amount spent on bbc four. The plans for the channel include a Scottish News hour at 9pm with stories from scotland, the uk and the world. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. Inform, educate and entertain. The bbcs commission. Increased devolution has provided challengers for the national broadcaster. Now a new channel and a new News Programme for scotland. I think scotland deserves its own channel. It will reflect itself, its creativity, its culture as well as its politics. I Wa Nted Culture As well as its politics. I wanted to move the game on. In the end, my aim has been to think about the viewers in scotland and what is best for them, and i think they want quality. The new channel will broadcast shows like this one, currently shown on bbc two in scotla nd currently shown on bbc two in scotland but with a budget of £30 million a year, much of the five hours on programmes on offer every night will be new. There will also be an integrated newshour at 9pm with national and international news. It is a huge opportunity for Scotla Nd News. It is a huge opportunity for scotland to its to assert itself to itself and across the uk, and for it to reflect on some of the other things beyond politics. Scotland has a very vibrant arts and creative community. Theres a real opportunity for those communities to be better reflected. Most high profile, though, has been the debate around news. The bbc said the 6pm news had performed strongly in Scotla Nd News had performed strongly in scotland in recent years but some have long argued for a scottish version. They say to better reflect devolved areas like health, education and criminaljustice. welcome new Jobs Education and criminaljustice. welcome newjobs and new investment in bbc scotland but i am disappointed the bbc has decided not to go ahead with the separate scottish six on bbc one because i think this is exactly the time for the launch of that programme with all the political developments. This change to the Broadcasting Landscape is being described as the biggest single investment of Broadcast Content single investment of broadcast co nte nt for single investment of Broadcast Content for more than 20 years. Challenging, yes. But bold and ambitious, too. And on air in 1. 5 yea rs. A convicted murderer is on the run, after armed men helped him escape during a Hospital Visit. Shaun walmsley is one of four men serving a Life Sentence for a fatal stabbing in liverpool in 2014. Walmsley fled as he was getting into a car with Prison Officers outside Aintree University hospital. 0ur Correspondent Fiona Trott is at the hospital now. Sean walmsley was here for an appointment and when he was coming out the Prison Officers who accompanied him were threatened by masked men. 0ne put a gun to his head and another had a knife at his neck. They only had a bat on to defend themselves and that is raising questions this afternoon. Was there enough security for the Hospital Visit and how did people on the outside know exactly where this prayer was. This prisoner. Wanted by police, Shaun Walmsley is described as highly dangerous, a murderer, who should not be approached. The police hunt has brought officers here, the walton area of liverpool. A house and a car were searched late last night, less than two miles from where he escaped. It happened at the Aintree University hospital yesterday afternoon. Walmsley had an appointment. As he left, masked men threatened the prison staff with what is believed to have been a gun and a knife. Today Merseyside Police are appealing for the publics help to find the prisoner. There will be lots of people who will have been in the vicinity at the time. I am really appealing to them to come forward. I need the publics help to get walmsley back into prison. He deserves to be behind bars. He is a highly dangerous, vicious individual. He has to be behind bars. We will not rest until he is. This is why Shaun Walmsley is well known on merseyside. Back in 2014 he murdered a local man, anthony duffy, what police described as a frenzied attack. He was jailed for life and is serving a minimum term of 30 years in prison. So was there enough security surrounding this man at hospital . And how did people on the outside know exactly where he was . These questions will form part of the police and Ministry Of Justice investigation. Police said that the Big Old Volvo they believe was used as the getaway car has now been found. Forensics teams are examining that at the moment. But is also looking at Cctv Pictures From The Hospital Grounds to see if that could help them find this escaped prisoner. Our top story this lunchtime. The fiancee of the childrens author helen bailey is found guilty of her murder. And still to come. Fit for a princess some of dianas most famous dresses go on public display. Coming up in sport at half past. Former england cricketer Ryan Sidebottom says hell retire at the end of the county season after a 20 year career in first class cricket. Nearly a quarter of high street shops dont have wheelchair access, and only one in ten offer equipment for people who use a hearing aid thats according to a new survey by the not for profit organisation, disabledgo. As part of the bbcs disability works week, our correspondent nikki fox has been looking at how the Fashion Industry targets disabled customers who have a collective spending power of £249 billion, which is known as the purple pound. The changing face of the british high street has for many disabled people not changed fast enough. And this lack of visible disability has spurred on one woman to try and do something about it. This shop in london is swapping its regular mannequin for the mannequal. Sophie morgan designed this wheelchair for a sitting mannequin, a business she started back in 2010. And here it is. During the 2012 london paralympics, sophie got her product into a big high street store. But as soon as the games finished, her mannequal was taken out and was never used again. I havent seen it in a shop window in about five years. Now she feels is the right time to give it another go. Young Men And Women going out shopping dont feel welcome and do not feel like they are part of the conversation when it comes to style and fashion. I wanted this chair to be a symbol of inclusion from the shops so that i could come past this shop and i know that this shop will have thought about how to style somebody in a wheelchair but furthermore, that their shop is accessible and they have Changing Rooms that are accessible. Can you see in that shop front window there, did you notice it was a wheelchair . I didnt notice, no. What do you make of it . Absolutely great. Why not . Yeah. Fashion is for everybody. People are becoming more socially aware now, so i think it will be absolutely fine. It is not just about seeing disability on the high street, it is about accessibility as well. Making sure disabled people can actually get into shops so that they can spend their hard earned cash. Exclusive figures reveal of the nearly 1300 Fashion Retailers the Organisation Disabledgo visited, 23 had no step free access. 90 were unable to offer hearing loops, a type of sound system for hearing aid users. And 62 didnt give their Staff Training on how best to support disabled customers. So from the high street to high end fashion. Designers teatum jones used two disabled models to launch their newest collection which opened London Fashion week on friday. We havent adapted anything in this collection, we approach the styling and the casting of this collection as we would any other collection. The minister for disabled people, penny mordaunt, wants businesses to be open to everyone. But the British Retail Consortium point out shop owners can be restricted on Making Adjustments due to the age or design of the building. The purple pound exists, we are there, we want to spend money, and its time to bring us in. Nikki fox, bbc news. Malaysian police say they want to question a north korean diplomat about the killing, at kuala lumpur airport, of kim jong nam the estranged half brother of the countrys leader. Two other suspects have been identified, including a man employed by the norths state airline. Malaysias police chief also revealed that thered been an attempted break in at the mortuary where king jong nams body is being held. There is Flash Photography in this report from our correspondent paul adams. The mystery surrounding the death of kim jong nam deepens by the day. Around him, a whole constellation of suspects. And a growing conviction this was the work of north korea. The Malaysian Police have added two new north koreans to the wanted list. An employee of the state airline, and a Senior Embassy official. And, they say, they now know exactly how the attack was carried out. You know, what actually happened was these two ladies were trained to swab the deceaseds face. Before that the four suspects gave them the liquid. Put the liquid on their hands. They were supposed to wipe it over the deceaseds face. What was the substance smeared on mr kims face . The police still do not know. But they say Surveillance Footage shows the women keeping their hands away from their bodies and heading straight for the washrooms. A further twist, Malaysian Special forces guarding the mortuary where mr kims body is being kept. Police say there have been attempts to break in. North korea has denied any involvement. On monday the ambassador In Kuala Lumpur said the investigation could not be trusted. That drew a measured but distinct rebuke from malaysias Prime Minister. We have good relations with north korea all this while. The statement by the ambassador was totally uncalled for. It is considered diplomatically rude on his part. The death of Kim Jong Nam Is Testing Relations between two normally friendly countries. The malaysian authorities have asked to interview the new suspects, and have warned the north Korean Embassy that they expect co operation. Paul adams, bbc news. Footage has been released of the near miss involving the plane being flown by Harrison Ford in california. It emerged last week that the actor landed his single engine plane on a taxiway instead of the runway atjohn wayne airport. He narrowly missed an airliner with 110 people on board. Its predicted that south korean women will be the first in the world to have an average Life Expectancy above 90. And here in the uk Men And Women are expected to live well into their 80s, for the first time. Research carried out by Imperial College london in collaboration with the World Health Organisation shows that in many countries people are living longer while the gap between the sexes is closing. Aisling mcveigh reports. We all know were living longer, but byjust how much . Apart from a blip in 2011 and 2012, Life Expectancy in the uk has gradually been rising. From birth, the average Life Expectancy for a woman is currently just over 83 years. Fora man, its 79. But according to experts, the gender gap could be closing. By 2030 it has been predicted womens Life Expectancy will be over 85, with mens rising to 82. 5. Compare that to south korea though, where the average lifespan could break the 90 year barrier. Countries that have done better are countries that have actually. That have managed to deal with things from childhood to adulthood to old age really well. So south korea is doing remarkably well. They have some of the lowest levels of hypertension and obesity in the world. They have had some of the best investment in childhood nutrition. I do most of the things i did as a young woman. I still do the accounts for the firm i used to work for. And i think its all in your head. Youve got to stop thinking you are so old. Ijust bought myself a bike. In my youth i cycled all over the country, you know. But ive got my l plates on again and im getting fitter. Scientists once thought an average Life Expectancy of over 90 was impossible, but, with research now suggesting there may be no upper limit, theres more pressure for investment in health and social care to cope with our ageing population. Aisling mcveigh, bbc news. Princess diana was arguably a style icon and now many of her dresses are about to go on display to the public. Some of her most recognisable and exquisite outfits have been brought together for a new exhibition diana, Her Fashion Story in this, the 20th anniversary year of her death. 0ur royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell has been to Kensington Palace for a preview. Her public image was in so many ways defined by the clothes that she wore. She was one of the worlds most photographed women and many of the worlds top designers clamoured to dress her. The results were frequently eye catching. Dresses that have lingered in the memory. And now, 20 years after dianas death, 25 of those dresses have been brought together for an exhibition at her former home, Kensington Palace. They chart the evolution of an initially quite demure teenager, through to her emergence on the national and international stages. With, outwardly at least, much greater confidence in her choices of costu me. So here are some of the famous dresses. The one that she wore to dance withjohn travolta. And others that were part of her wardrobe in the 1990s. By the time she is wearing this dress, she is very confident in her own sense of style. We are seeing a diana who has risen above the seasonal changes fashion and she has a timeless elegance. She knows what suits her and she wears it well. Few would disagree with that. And the Exhibition Organisers can be confident that the crowds will come from around the world, to experience something of dianas glamour. Interest in diana remains considerable. Despite the passage of years. But one imagines that her family would hope that she will be remembered for much more than just the dresses that she wore. So do the organisers feel comfortable about perpetuating the Focus On Diana and her clothes . I think that is a very good question because diana herself did not like to be known as a clothes horse. However, she did understand the language of fashion very well and she used clothes to help her do the job at hand. She was a very proud ambassador for British Fashion as princess of wales, but she also used clothes to help her do herjob as a humanitarian and as a patron of the arts. And to focus the press attention on her charity work. They were the essential props which helped the sometimes insecure young woman to face the world and win its admiration for her image of glamour and style. Nicholas witchell, bbc news at Kensington Palace. Time for a look at the weather. Heres john hammond. Wild and winter wheat for all of us, destructive for some and damaging for a few. Doris will never be the storm of the century but it will pack a punch as it develops over the next few hours and arrives on our doorstep by tomorrow morning. It is not pleasant at the moment across parts of Western England and