Filed a 1500 page brief with exhibits asking for a new trial based on what it claims is evidence withheld from petersons defense team. The defense was entitled to those at the time of trial. Mr. Peterson has been waiting 20 years to find some of these Police Reports and audio recordings and video recordings that should have been provided, Court Records show. The la Innocence Project is focusing on this van, found torched a mile away from the peterson home the day after laci disappeared, with a mattress that tested positive for blood. That sample appears not to have been compared to laceys blood. Several witnesses who claim to have spotted laci talking to the occupants of that van, seen near a burglary across the street from her home, and the other witnesses who claimed to have seen laci alive in the hours after scott left for a fishing trip the morning of christmas eve, 2002, the original prosecuting attorneys from the peterson trial are back to handle this appeal, asking for more time
Prue leith apologises after revealing the winner of tonights Great British bake off on twitter. Good evening. Theyre called the crack cocaine of gambling fixed odds betting terminals on which you can currently gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds. They made nearly £2 billion last year for the betting industry and hundreds of millions for the treasury. But now the government is considering limiting the amount that can be gambled at any one time to as little as £2, in an attempt to deal with problem gambling. Jim connolly reports. A few months ago, nathan would have struggled to walk past a bookmakers. His gambling problem started with fixed odds machines. He has stopped betting with help from gamblers anonymous. I found myself suddenly with debts that i could not cover at all. I lost about £5,000 in 48 hours. You lose all sense of time around you. The moneyjust. The money becomes a number on a screen. Youre de sensitised to everything that is going on. Gamblers anonymous was my last r
Sportsday, damaging allegations in paralympic sport. Athletes are being threatened with not being selected if they cheat the classification system. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The government is looking at tightening the rules around the most addictive types of gambling in betting shops and online. Its launching a 12 week consultation which will look at whether the maximum stakes for fixed odds betting terminals should be reduced. Currently you can bet up to £100 every 20 seconds. Ministers are looking at whether that should be reduced to £2. The review is also looking at how to protect players against the explosive growth of Online Gambling fuelled by smartphones. Its now believed almost a quarter of gamblers online are at risk of addiction. And new guidelines on gambling advertising will be drawn up, over concerns children are often being targeted. 0ur media editor amol rajan has this report. Its an industry that is centuries old and attracts millions every year
Rebuilt after fire seven years ago, wins this years stirling prize for architecture. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. At least six people have been reportedly killed after a vehicle drove into pedestrians and cyclists in manhatten in new york. A suspect has been arrested. The incident happened in the area of chambers and west streets in the upmarket tribeca neighborhood. Its being treated as a terror attack. Lets speak to our correspondent jane obrien. What more can you tell us . We are getting e reports that six people are confirmed dead. At least six people and there are reports of multiple injuries. This is being treated as an intentional attack, though the police say that clearly at this early stage in the investigation, there is no known motive. But certainly the fbi is treating it as a terrorist attack. We do now know that home depot, a very large diy store here in the us has confirmed that the truck involved in this was a rental truck and one of their rental trucks. Thats a
On the rise in england and wales, though the number of people being charged is falling. There were four men on bikes, they went onto the pavement, we saw them come here, and within seconds theyve taken this mans bike. My bike and my phone. And from a burnt out wreck seven years ago, to the winner of the stirling prize for architecture, tonight the new hastings pier. Later in the hour, we will have sportsday on the bbc news channel with all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from the bbc news sportscenter. Good evening. Eight people have been killed and a dozen injured in new york in what police there are describing as a terror attack. It took place in lower manhattan, when a truck drove at speed down a pedestrian and bike path near a school. The truck hit cyclists and people on foot, before crashing into a school bus injuring children inside. The driver then got out carrying two handguns and was shot by the police. Hes been taken into custody, and is described by auth