Where he said people convicted of terrorism offences shouldnt be released from prison early. The practice of automatic Early Release, where you cut a sentence half and let really serious violent offenders early, simply isnt working, and i think youve had some very good evidence of how that isnt working, im afraid, with this case. In other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 percent more for rail tickets in the new year. One of the two People Killed in the London Bridge attack has been named as Cambridge University graduate jack merritt. The 25 year old is believed to have been a course co ordinator for learning together, an organisation specialising in prison based education. It held the rehabilitation conference at fishmongers hall in london, yesterday, attended by the attacker usman khan. Jack merritts father described his son as a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. in the last half an hour, assistant commissioner neil basu of the m
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Breaking news out of manchester, england tonight. A deadly blast outside of an Ariana Grande concert, killing at least 22, injuring at least 59. Police treating this as a terrorist incident. The leading theory . A suicide bomber. We turn now to abcs chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran in london. Terry . Reporter byron, it was right at the end of the Ariana Grande concert tonight in a stadium filled with her fans including so many teens and young girls and their moms. Thats her fan base. When this huge explosion rocked not just the arena but the whole surrounding neighborhood. Felt blocks away. Arena officials saying that the explosion happened just outside the venue as people were coming and going. Eyewitnesses saw many dead and injured on the ground. Inside the lights went up, panic set in. People headed for the exits. They helped the wounded. They helped each other get out as Law Enforcement swarmed the scene and set up a perimeter. Anguish
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Breaking news out of manchester, england tonight. A deadly blast outside of an Ariana Grande concert, killing at least 19, injuring at least 50. Police treating this as a terrorist incident. The leading theory . A suicide bomber. We turn now to abcs chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran in london. Terry . Reporter byron, it was right at the end of the Ariana Grande concert tonight in a stadium filled with her fans including so many teens and young girls and their moms. Thats her fan base. When this huge explosion rocked not just the arena but the whole surrounding neighborhood. Felt blocks away. Arena officials saying that the explosion happened just outside the venue as people were coming and going. Eyewitnesses saw many dead and injured on the ground. Inside the lights went up, panic set in. People headed for the exits. They helped the wounded. They helped each other get out as Law Enforcement swarmed the scene and set up a perimeter. Anguish
Literally turned back around and there were these three men standing there, one of which with a machete. Terror in london tonight. Three terrorists kill at least six people and injury dozens more as police there urge people to run and hide. Move out of this year get away good evening. Im eric thomas. Its now 7 00 a. M. In london. Nine hours after britains third terror attack since march. The map shows you how close saturday nights attacks were. Police say three people in a van ran down pedestrians on London Bridge. They then drove to nearby Borough Market and stabbed a number of people. The van you see here with the back doors open is the one police say was used in the attacks. Six people died at the scene. The three attackers were also killed. At least 48 people were taken to hospital, including a British Transport Police officer. Abc News Reporter ecreshef has more. Reporter a white van rung down pedestrians out for a saturday night. Those people lying on the ground. Reporter one per
In our special programme this morning well hear from those affected and as Election Campaigning resumes well examine their proposals to protect the public. Also ahead. Joy shines through the pain at the Ariana Grande Benefit Concerts are the victims of the Manchester Bombing. She thanked the crowd for their spirit. Manchester bombing. She thanked the crowd for their spiritli Manchester Bombing. She thanked the crowd for their spirit. I love you all so much and i thank you for coming out. We needed that here. Loveis coming out. We needed that here. Love is the medicine the world needs right now. We live in gateshead discussing exit ahead of the election. In sport, andy murray plays in the fourth round of the french open later. Hell hope to join defending champion Novak Djokovic, who is in the last eight after victory yesterday. And carol has the weather. At the morning we have rained Clearing Scotland and then for Scotla Nd Clearing Scotland and then for scotland and Northern Ireland ar