A tourist bus crashes in germany and bursts into flames. 18 people are missing, feared dead. Warming up for his opening match at wimbledon andy murray begins the defence of his title after brushing off injury fears. Also coming up in sport later in the hour on bbc news. From the blues to the claret and blue of Aston Villa John terrys career will continue in the championship. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A 16 Year Old Girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of seven year old katie rough. The little girl died injanuary, after being found seriously injured on a Playing Field in york. Our correspondent danny savage is at Leeds Crown Court. The killing of katie rough is something many people will recall from earlier this year. It horrified people in new york and way beyond. It left those people who tried to treat her at the scene very traumatised. Today the teenager who killed her appeared via video link at Leeds Crown Court where she formally denied a charge of mu
marilyn mosby came out on that friday and announced criminal charges, many people were surprised bit speed of that investigation. but on the other side we hear from so many people these investigations are taking months years in some cases. explain why are they taking so long? these are very difficult cases, the standard is so difficult. when you look at the district attorney s case manslaughter something not available at the federal level. they have to show an intent on the behalf of the officer. that takes time. you have in many cases, witnesses who offer differenting accounts you have forensics evidence. you have ballistic evidence there s a lot to go through, a lot to sort through. and it just takes time to get to these answers. what we saw in ferguson oftentimes when you look at the outcome of the investigation, this he bear very difficult results than what people expect and it s difficult and complex and the government has to wade through all of that. matt miller thank you for
this and seeing what they want to see, quite frankly. if you came into this predisposed to thinking that trayvon martin was a thug who fli initiated the violence here, then you saw evidence in this case that supported it, and visa versa for people who think george zimmerman is the aggressor here and committed second degree murder. i think the key here is that the state actually overcharged. this is a strategy that prosecutions use often. they overcharge knowing that if they fail to prove that burden, often the jury will give db be given instructions to consider the lesser charges, in this case manslaughter. now that creates a problem for the state. state has lost some credibility here and now they have to come back and tell the jury, hey, look, even though we did not prove the crime we were supposed to prove, george zimmerman is guilty of something. that can be a problem for this jury. jonathan, i ll give you the last word because then we have to go. i interviewed sybrina fulton, t
mr. zimmerman, just for appearing for your first appearances, our first appearance at this time for a charge of murder in the second degree and you are represented by mr. o mara, is that true. yes, sir. remember your right to remain silent and all the other rights he told you about, you have to say nothing, and we ll go forward here on some procedural matters only at this time. after reviewing the short affidavit for probable cause i find that probable cause for the charge as put in the information. the special prosecutor in this case charged zimmerman with second degree murder. that came down yesterday. no plea was entered during this particular court appearance, first appearance, and as the lawyer decided not to ask for bail at this time. le stay in custody, protective custody, awaiting a formal arraignment next month, may 29th. zimmerman came out of hiding yesterday, turned himself into police in sanford, and his attorney mark o mara says that zimmerman is afraid b