Latest updates: East Midlands Livepublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2019
The latest news, sport, travel and weather for the East Midlands.
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Rapist jailed for minimum 18 years of 'savage' park attack
Man circumcised 'by mistake' in Leicester hospital
Elderly woman dies in Derby house fire
Patient, 94, was moved 13 times during last 10 weeks of his life
Notts team to help Africa cyclone victims
Derbyshire headteachers resist shorter summer holidays
Lorry fire caused lengthy motorway delays
Updates for Monday 25 March
Latest updates: East Midlands Livepublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March 2019
Terror accused 'had Nazi women's badge'published at 18:19 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
An expert witness tells a court the words of Alice Cutter have echoes "of Nazi Germany".
Read MoreRapist jailed for 'savage' park attackpublished at 18:05 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Zakarya Etarghi's victim describes the attack as "like something out of a horror film".
Read MoreOur live coverage across the daypublished at 18:01 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Sandish Shoker
BBC NewsToday's live updates have now finished. We'll be back with more news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Tuesday.
Weather: Staying clear and drypublished at 18:00 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Tonight will be clear, dry and cold with light winds.
A few shallow mist or fog patches may develop, but where it remains clear, a frost is possible.
Paralysed woman skis down mountainpublished at 17:32 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsCheck out Claire Lomas - the woman from Melton Mowbray who was left paralysed from the chest down in 2007, hitting the slopes on a monoski.
Men sentenced for taxi driver attackpublished at 17:21 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Sandish Shoker
BBC NewsTwo men have been sentenced after they robbed and attacked a Leicester taxi driver leaving him unconscious in the street.
Leicester Crown Court heard Nathan Connolly, 22, and Kaamil Alli, 18, had tried to sell a mobile phone to the man in Hinckley Road, Leicester, on 18 August last year.
However, when he refused, they dragged him out the car and kicked and stamped on him before driving off in his taxi.
The victim was left with serious injuries, including a bleed to the brain.
Image source, Leicestershire PoliceLeicestershire Police said the phone the pair were selling had been stolen from a man they had attacked moments earlier.
Connolly, of Bland Road, Leicester was found guilty after trial and jailed for 10 years for two counts of robbery and one of theft.
Alli, who pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery, was handed six years detention.
Rape attack 'like something out of a horror film'published at 17:19 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
The woman who was raped in a brutal attack in a Leicester park said what happened to her was "like something out of a horror film".
Zakarya Etarghi, pictured, has been jailed for at least 18 years for rape and attempted murder after shattering his victim's skull and "leaving her for dead".
Image source, Leicestershire PoliceIn a statement read on her behalf by prosecutor William Harbage QC, the victim said: "What happened was like something out of a horror film.
"I think he's a horrible and disgusting human being because what he did goes beyond anything that I can speak of.
"I feel like I constantly need help and cannot live my life as independently as I once did. Sometimes I just sob to myself because it is so hard."
Drink and drugs used by 'brutal' rapistpublished at 16:56 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsThe judge sentencing Zakarya Etarghi said his victim was "lucky to be alive".
She was found in a children's park in Leicester, naked from the waist down and with a deep head wound, in the early hours of 3 August last year.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC said: "She was attacked in a most brutal way by you and she was left for dead by you in the small Cedar Road Park where the attack took place.
"Quite apart from your previous offending, your lifestyle in July and August last year was reprehensible. You were drinking and combining drink with the regular use of cocaine."
Rapist jailed for life for 'horrific' park rapepublished at 16:45 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
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Sonia Kataria
BBC NewsA rapist who shattered a woman's skull and "left her for dead" near a children's play park has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years.
The 50-year-old woman was found in a pool of blood off Cedar Road in the Evington area of Leicester last August.
Zakarya Etarghi, 24, of no fixed address, was given a life sentence for rape and attempted murder at Leicester Crown Court.
Pedestrian hit by buspublished at 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsA person has been taken to hospital in Leicester after they were hit by a bus.
Image source, GoogleEast Midlands Ambulance Service has said it was called to the Haymarket Shopping Centre just after 14:45.
Two paramedic cars and a crewed ambulance were sent to the scene and one patient was taken to the Royal Infirmary.
Charles Street has since reopened to traffic. It is not thought the pedestrian suffered serious injuries, police said.
Britons went to Syria for 'research'published at 16:21 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Two men from Leicester and Birmingham wanted to to see the "reality" of what was happening in Syria.
Read MoreTravel: Roads re-open after accidentpublished at 15:55 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
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End of twitter postChild abuse victim becomes 'paedophile hunter'published at 15:35 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsA woman who set up a "paedophile hunting group" in the East Midlands has told the BBC she is protecting everybody's children.
Maria Clarke is part of a group that confronts suspected child abusers. She talks to them over the internet then live streams the moment she meets up with them before reporting it to the police.
Image source, Maria ClarkeMaria said being abused as a child gave her the "passion and drive" to establish Children's Innocence Matters. The man she claims was responsible was found not-guilty following a trial.
She said: "We're not vigilantes - we don't go there causing a fight. It's very rare I'll get aggressive unless there's a real child involved and unless the predator is aggressive to me.
"If we're aggressive to them or abusing to them - they've won."
Leicestershire Police has said protecting children is a priority and it investigates every allegation.
But added that officers have concerns about the way "paedophile hunters" operate because of the standards of evidence, risk assessment and support for victims.
Retiring GP has message for patients about healthcare futurepublished at 15:28 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Rob Sissons
East Midlands Today ReporterA retiring GP in Derbyshire is warning that patients will need to alter their expectations as to who they see in surgery if the NHS is to cope with the shortage of doctors.
Dr Elizabeth Barrett's warning comes as a leading health think tank predicts greater use of community pharmacists, physiotherapists and nurses will be needed to reduce the strain on doctors.
She said: "People have to realise a lot of problems can be dealt with by people who aren't fully paid up GPs."
Boy, 3, waits almost a year for vital operationpublished at 15:25 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Victoria Hicks
Reporter, East Midlands TodayThe mum of a three-year-old boy with cerebral palsy says she feels totally let down by the Leicester Royal Infirmary because it has cancelled a much-needed operation more than 10 times.
Last April, Bleu Greenwood from Thorpe Astley had to be resuscitated twice due to severe tonsillitis and has been waiting since then for his tonsils to be removed.
Mum, Rielle Chapple says the delays are holding back a further operation to help her son walk unaided.
"Bleu has a lot of appointments - five to seven weekly - and we have to completely adjust all of those, and my partner has to take time off work, each time we get scheduled for an operation," said Ms Chapple.
"It's just unacceptable for them to treat him in this way."
The hospital trust said it only cancels operations as a last resort but admitted its contact with Bleu's parents "could have been better".
He is now booked to have an operation next Monday which the family is hoping will go ahead.
City road blocked following crashpublished at 15:24 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsThere are significant delays near Haymarket Bus Station in Leicester following a crash.
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End of twitter postPedestrian hit by buspublished at 15:14 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Amy Woodfield
BBC NewsPolice have confirmed a person has been hit by a bus in Leicester.
The ambulance service is also in attendance in the Haymarket area of the city.
Image source, GoogleIt's causing some travel disruption along Charles Street.
More on this as we get it.
Syria trip for research - terrorism accusedpublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Mike O'Sullivan
Reporter, East Midlands TodayA man who denies trying to join so-called Islamic State has told a jury he and a friend only wanted to go to Syria to carry out research.
Image source, PASafwaan Mansur, 22, of Hampton Road in Birmingham and Hanzalah Patel, 22, of Frederick Road, Leicester, deny preparing to commit acts of terrorism between May 31 and June 24, 2017.
Mr Mansur told Birmingham Crown Court today they were researching “the general reality of what was happening there" as "the news is quite biased".
He denied ever wanting to join Islamic State.
The trial continues.
Missing girl found safepublished at 15:05 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2019
Gavin Bevis
BBC NewsPolice say 15-year-old Grace Gallagher, who was reported missing from the Stenson Fields area of Derby last week, has been found safe and well.
