Teenager Shot Dead In North London Named

A 19-year-old man who died after he was shot in the chest in north London has been named.

Mohammed Hussein was found collapsed in Bounces Road, Edmonton at around 9.45pm on Monday.

Paramedics battled for half an hour to save him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jordan Simbananiye, 18, said: "At first I thought it was a firework, but then, when I looked out of the window and saw all the police and paramedics, I realised someone had been shot.

"They spent about 20 or 30 minutes trying to resuscitate him but then after about half an hour they put a blanket over him. Blood was just pouring out of him - it was shocking."

A police tent at the scene

Another witness Alexandra Koohi, 21, said she heard shouting and then shots an hour later.

She said: "I heard lots of shouting outside the kebab shop, then an hour later I was in my bedroom and I heard two shots.

"I looked out of my window and the guy was lying on the floor and there was blood everywhere."

She ran with a neighbour to help and said she saw three men running away after the shooting.

A third resident, who did not want to be named, said: "Earlier in the night a group of guys chased after the victim, who was in a car with a mate, and smashed a window.

"He then came back later and that's when the shooting happened. He was with three of his friends and I think they ran off when he was shot."

Detective Chief Inspector John Sandlin said: "I am appealing for anyone who was in the vicinity of Bounces Road or Walbrook House at 9.45pm to help us with our investigation."

Scotland Yard said a post-mortem will take place later today.

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Cashpoint Explosion: Man Arrested Over Raid

A 26-year-old man has been arrested after thieves used explosives to blow up a petrol station cashpoint.

Police were called to the Texaco garage in Weyhill, Hampshire at 4am on Sunday where they found the stand-alone cash machine had been blown open and the money from inside stolen.

Officers were called to the scene after a neighbour had reported hearing a loud bang.

The man from Bristol, who is in police custody, has been arrested on suspicion of theft and causing an explosion likely to endanger life or property.

CCTV footage of the explosion was released by Hampshire Police.

Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Murray said: "Although this was a relatively contained explosion and fortunately no one was injured, the unpredictable nature of this type of offence means we could easily have been dealing with serious injury or death.

"Our priority is to keep the public safe and by showing this CCTV footage, we hope it highlights how potentially dangerous an explosion of this type can be.

"We are aware of crimes of this nature occurring in mainland Europe which have had serious consequences and our advice to anyone using a cashpoint is to be extremely vigilant of any suspicious activity nearby.

"If you notice anything unusual, or see any wires or cables running from the machine, do not attempt to touch it and call the police immediately."

He said detectives were following up a number of enquiries and appealed for anyone with information that may assist the investigation to contact police.

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Iain Duncan Smith: Petition Piles On Pressure

Pressure is mounting on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to uphold a claim he made that he could live on just £53 a week in benefits.

In an interview about changes to the welfare system, Mr Duncan Smith suggested he could get by on £53 a week, as one benefit recipient argued they were having to.

"If I had to I would," Mr Duncan Smith told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The MP is the architect behind controversial reforms that started coming into force this week. He currently has an after-tax income of £1,600 a week.

In the wake of the comment, more than 240,000 people have so far signed a petition on the change.org website, calling for the minister to live up to his claim for a year.

That is more signatures than any other petition that is currently open on the Government's e-petition website.

Dom Aversano, who set up the petition, told Sky News that people felt there was "a gigantic gulf" between the lifestyle and wealth of Mr Duncan Smith and other Cabinet members and most of the electorate.

He called on Mr Duncan Smith "to follow his party's mantra of 'we're all in this together'".

The musician and part-time shop worker from London said: "Look at where he is living, the conditions under which he is living.

"He did a brilliant PR exercise before to depict himself as a compassionate Conservative. He's nothing of the sort, he's viciously attacking the most vulnerable and poorest members of society."

Mr Aversano added that the Work and Pensions Secretary had "put himself in this position". "He made the claim and set himself up for this. It's for him to respond," he said.

Amid the mounting number of signatures, Mr Duncan Smith told his local newspaper: "I have been unemployed twice in my life so I have already done this. I know what it is like to live on the bread-line."

He called the petition "a complete stunt which distracts attention from the welfare reforms which are much more important and which I have been working hard to get done".

Financial Secretary to the Treasury Greg Clarke defended his Tory colleague. He told Sky News: "All of Iain's reforms and all of the work he does as a constituency MP is to help people, to help people get back on the ladder and to improve their prospects."

According to the petition, reducing Mr Duncan Smith's income to £53 a week would be a 97% drop in his current budget. The Cabinet minister, who lives in a £2m mansion that he inherited from his father-in-law, would need to get by on just £7.57 a day.

Angry comments have been left by some of those who signed the petition. One woman wrote: "Multimillionaires telling the very poor how easy it is to survive on such a limited income need to put their oodles of money where their mouth is."

The Government insists its benefits shake-up, which includes a so called "bedroom tax" on social housing tenants with spare rooms, cuts to council tax benefit funding and a weekly cap on household benefits, is all about "fairness".

It says the current system is "broken", with people who work hard being penalised, and that Britain could no longer afford to reward people who "do the wrong thing".

If Mr Duncan Smith went ahead with the challenge, he would not be the first Conservative MP to attempt to live off benefits.

Former Tory politician turned journalist Matthew Parris took part in a documentary in the 1980s requiring him to survive on social security payments of £26.80 a week. He repeated the experiment 20 years later in a TV programme called For the Benefit of Mr Parris Revisited.

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Graham Ovenden: Artist Guilty Of Sex Offences

An internationally famous artist has been convicted of sex offences against young children who modelled for him in the 1970s and 1980s.

Graham Ovenden, 70, was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one of indecent assault, by a jury at Truro Crown Court in Cornwall.

He was acquitted of five other charges of indecent assault.

Ovenden, who was not in court for the verdicts due to illness, denied all the charges relating to four children between 1972 and 1985.

Christopher Quinlan QC, defending, told Judge Graham Cottle that Ovenden was resting at home having received treatment at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

The incidents are said to have taken place at Ovenden's former and current addresses, in London and Cornwall, respectively.

Ovenden had been described in court by prosecutor Ramsay Quaife as "a paedophile", who abused children while they modelled for him.

The four victims contacted police long after the abuse is alleged to have taken place, and only when they realised exactly what had happened to them as girls, the court heard.

But Ovenden denied the abuse ever happened. He told the court he had taken pictures of children - including those in various states of undress - but said they were not indecent.

He described himself in court as a modest man, but told police he had a "major reputation" for creating "some of the best portraits of children in the last 200 years".

He also described the "witch-hunt" against those who produce work involving naked children, accusing police of "falsifying" images recovered from his home computer.

Ovenden, of Barley Splatt, near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, denied having a sexual interest in children.

The judge adjourned sentence on a date to be fixed but told counsel the hearing would take place at Plymouth Crown Court.

Ovenden was released on bail.

A former pupil of pop artist Sir Peter Blake, Ovenden graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968.

He has had exhibitions at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In 1975 he founded the artistic movement the Brotherhood of Ruralists - artists who had left the city to live in the countryside.

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Derby Fire Parents 'Did Nothing To Save Children'

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent

Brothers who tried to save the Philpotts' children from the fire have told Sky News their parents did nothing to help, describing them as "a couple of statues".

Jamie and Darren Butler, who live on Victory Road, the same road as the Philpotts, rushed to the scene after they were woken by screams.

The front door, which was PVC, had already melted away. Jamie, 37, scrambled over a caravan to get in through the back.

"You couldn't really see nothing, there was confusion.

"I didn't know the fire service was there.

"Police officers were saying 'come out, come out'. I said 'no there's six kids in here', I could hear my brother saying 'please be careful, please be careful', you could hear the worry in his voice ... it was like a tornado in a fire."

"I'm going to be honest with you, I expected more flames", said Darren, 35. "But it was more smoke than flames, but the heat was hot, it was hot.

"Once my brother knew the emergency services were there, he stopped his efforts, but his hope was still there, like mine was, until we saw the children come out then all hope was gone. It was gone."

Afterwards, Jamie saw Mick Philpott at the front of the house and apologised to him for not saving his kids.

A short time later, he realised that neither Mick nor Mairead had done anything to help.

"They weren't in the back garden, clung onto me saying 'help me, my kids are dying', they weren't there ... I'm a dad, you would have seen me come out burning. He didn't, he was over the street in someone else's house."

"They just stood there like a couple of statues in the garden when really they should have been in the house", said Darren. "When I first saw Mairead at the back gate crying her eyes out I said 'how many kids are in the house?' Six. 'Where?' Back bedroom. 'How come you ain't there then?'

"You watch Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale all the time, and you can see people are acting, because they get paid to act. That's exactly what he was doing, he wasn't being paid for it, but he was acting. There was no emotion, he was motionless, there was nothing," said Jamie.

"Acting is the word," said Darren. "He was coughing, I thought 'why you coughing? you've not done anything'."

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Windermere Boat Deaths: Engine Investigated

A faulty boat generator may have been responsible for the deaths of a mother and her daughter from suspected gas poisoning.

Kelly Webster, 36, and her daughter Lauren Thornton, 10,  from Leyland in Lancashire, died after eating lunch on the 25ft cruiser during an Easter holiday trip.

Cumbria Police said that "all signs" indicated that carbon monoxide poisoning was responsible for the deaths and said they were looking at a potential fault with a generator fitted to the boat's engine.

The boat was moored at Bowness when the family suffered breathing problems

Mrs Webster and her daughter were regular visitors to the area along with her partner, Matthew Eteson, who owned the boat, and had arrived at the lake on Easter Sunday.

On Monday, the three took the boat out and moored at Bowness before going to get some lunch then returning to eat it and falling asleep.

Emergency services were called at 4pm and paramedics tried to save the mother and daughter, who were air lifted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary, but they died in the hospital.

Emergency services at the scene (Pic: Josh Kynaston)

Mr Eteson, 39, who is the director of Preston Energi, a heating and plumbing company, was also taken to hospital for treatment and has since been released.

Detective Inspector Mike Brown, of Cumbria Police, said they were investigating whether the generator, which was added to the boat after manufacture, was the cause of the tragedy.

He said: "We cannot fully establish with any degree of certainty that that is the cause of any gas leak but that certainly looks to be a possibility.

"So we are looking at that and how that has been fitted and looking at it with experts that know how these things work and what could potentially go wrong."

The family were airlifted to hospital (Pic: Josh Kynaston)

A number of floral tributes have been left outside Mrs Webster's Leyland home and messages have been posted on Facebook.

David Hampson posted: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Matt, Kelly and Lauren, what a tragedy, they had such happy plans for their future together.

"To think a £20.00 CO monitor would have saved their lives. I will buy one today."

The scene of the tragedy

Ross Bullough wrote: "God bless Kelly and Lauren, rest in peace such a shame. And Matt we are all hoping you get better soon."

Josh Kynaston, who witnessed the emergency response, said crews had spent some time trying to locate the boat on the jetty.

He said: "They were trying to find the problem boat. Once they had found it, all the medics were out, all the fire brigade, all the police and they were trying to get to them as soon as possible because they knew straight away what what up, that they knew there was a problem with some gas leakage."

Boat Safety Scheme, a public safety organisation, said: "Each year boaters die or are made seriously ill from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Boats are built to keep water out, but this also makes them good containers for gases and fumes."

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Benefits: Osborne Defends Welfare Shake-Up

George Osborne has robustly defended the Government's controversial benefits shake-up - insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the "wrong thing".

Speaking at a supermarket distribution centre in Kent, the Chancellor condemned the old system as "fundamentally broken" and warned Labour that they were out of step with public opinion on the issue.

Mr Osborne insisted that nine out of 10 working households will be better off as a result of the welfare and tax changes.

He said people in Britain understood that the welfare system needed to change.

"In 2010 alone, payments to working age families cost £90bn," he said.

"That means about one in every £6 of tax that working people like you pay was going on working age benefits. To put that into perspective - that's more than we spend on our schools."

He pledged to make sure people were better off in work than out, thereby making the system much "fairer". Changes, such as cutting housing benefit for social housing tenants deemed to have a spare bedroom, were simply asking people on welfare to take the same choices as working families, he said.

Mr Osborne: People will no longer be better off on the dole than in work

The Chancellor told the Morrisons workers: "For too long, we've had a system where people who did the right thing - who get up in the morning and work hard - felt penalised for it, while people who did the wrong thing got rewarded for it.

"That's wrong ... This month we will make work pay.

"What this Government is trying to do is to put things right. We're trying to make the system fair on people like you, who get up, go to work, and expect your taxes to be spent wisely.

"And we're trying to restore hope in those communities who have been let down by generations of politicians, by getting them back into work."

Wider welfare and tax changes coming into force this month will also see council tax benefit funding cut, and working-age benefits and tax credit rises pegged at 1% - well below inflation - for three years.

Disability Living Allowance is being replaced by the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), while trials are due to begin in four London boroughs of a £500-a-week cap on household benefits, and of the new universal credit system.

Critics of the Government's housing benefit reforms call it a 'bedroom tax'

Mr Osborne dismissed "depressingly predictable outrage" about the reforms, claiming they would help the most vulnerable and "give people a ladder out of poverty".

He said: "Because defending every line item of welfare spending isn't credible in the current economic environment.

"Because defending benefits that trap people in poverty and penalise work is defending the indefensible.

"The benefit system is broken. It penalises those who try to do the right thing and the British people badly want it fixed.

"We agree - and those who don't are on the wrong side of the British public."

But Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls told Sky News that "the truth" was that households were losing out because of the reforms.

Citing an independent study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies showing the average family would be £891 worse off this year as a result of all the coalition's changes since 2010, he added: "Working families are worse off and now the Government is cutting the top rate of income tax only for the richest people.

"A millionaires' tax cut paid for by millions of working people. That's not fair, that's not right."

Mr Duncan Smith has been urged to prove a claim he could live on £53 a week

Changes that mean the rate for top-rate taxpayers has been reduced from 50% to 45% also come into effect this month.

Sky News Deputy Political Editor Joey Jones said Mr Osborne's speech was "combative" and "aggressive".

"He has not apologised for the stance he is taking," he said.

It came a day after Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, the architect of the reforms, was facing a a growing backlash after suggesting that he could get by on £53 a week, rather than his current after-tax income of £1,600 a week.

In the wake of the comment in a radio interview, tens of thousands of people have signed a petition on the change.org website, calling for the minister to try surviving on that money for a year.

During his speech on Tuesday Mr Osborne refused to be drawn on whether he could manage on £53 a week. In response to a question, he said: "I don't think it's sensible to reduce this debate to one individual's state of circumstances.

"We have a welfare system where there are lots of benefits available to people on very low incomes. 

"This debate is not about any individual, it's about creating a welfare system that rewards work."

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Philpott Under Suspicion After 'Sham' Photo

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent

A senior police officer has told Sky News he suspected that Mick Philpott had started the fire which killed six of his children as he watched his reactions during a news conference.

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cotterill, from Derbyshire Police, said officers were surprised when Philpott, 56, wanted to speak to the media five days after fire, but they went along with it.

Mr Cotterill said his misgivings were betrayed in a single photograph, taken as he sat alongside Mick, and his wife Mairead.

He said: "In one particular photograph, what I saw there was a guy who was sat there pretending to cry and I've described it as a bit of a sham of a performance and I didn't believe that he was genuinely overcome by grief.

"I thought he was playing to the cameras."

Mr Cotterill said prior to the press conference Philpott seemed "overly excited by the prospect of going to face the media given what had taken place and given that he had lost six of his children in that fire".

Floral tributes left outside the family home

During the conference Philpott thanked neighbours in Derby for trying to rescue the youngsters who were asleep upstairs.

But a short time afterwards Mr Cotterill witnessed Philpott ask a family liaison officer to marry him.

He said: "That was just an inappropriate comment in my view which I dealt with and took him to task over."

He also saw Philpott fake a faint, describing how he "found him lying on the floor being attended to by other officers".

He added: "Now, having seen people overcome by grief and unable to stand, what I was presented with was nothing like that.

"It was more or less childlike if I'm being honest with you, playing around on the floor, and I think that was borne out by the fact that 10 or 20 seconds later he was back up on his feet and, dare I say it, back to his normal self."

Mr Cotterill, who led the investigation into the deaths, said he has "very little sympathy" for the Philpotts.

He said: "The duty of parents is to look after their children, protect them from harm, not to put them in harm's way purposely for whatever half-baked idea this was and to set a fire in that manner, use petrol to do so, and then run outside screaming for help and for people to try and rescue them and make some half-cocked attempt to try and rescue them yourself.

"I don't believe he did anything whatsoever to save those children. Otherwise why was he able to walk away from that fire in one piece?

"I would have thought as the father of those children he would have paid the ultimate sacrifice."

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Goal-Line Technology: Fifa Picks German Firm

Fifa will use the GoalControl goal-line technology system for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil - after it has been trialled at the Confederations Cup in June.

The German company's camera-based, ball-tracking system GoalControl-4D uses 14 high-speed cameras which are located around the pitch and directed at both goals.

If successful at the 16-match Confederations Cup this summer, it will be installed at the stadia hosting World Cup matches next year.

Football's rule-making panel approved goal-line technology last July.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter pushed for it to be used in Brazil after England midfielder Frank Lampard's disallowed against Germany at the 2010 World Cup.

GoalControl was selected ahead of three other companies: GoalRef and Cairos, which both use magnetic fields, and British-based Hawk-Eye, another camera system considered the favourite.

Hawk-Eye is already used in tennis and cricket and its English parent company was bought by World Cup sponsor Sony Corp before it began Fifa-endorsed testing in 2011.

All four systems met Fifa's demand that a signal is transmitted to the referee's watch within one second if a goal should be awarded.

Fifa said: "While all four companies had previously met the stringent technical requirements of the Fifa quality programme, the final decision was based on criteria relating more specifically to the tournaments in Brazil.

"(This included) the company's ability to adapt to local conditions and the compatibility of each GLT (goal-line technology) system in relation to Fifa match operations.

"The respective bids were also judged on cost and project management factors such as staffing and time schedules for installation.

"The use of GoalControl-4D in Brazil is subject to a final installation test at each stadium where the system will be installed."

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Derby Fire: Philpotts Found Guilty Over Deaths

By David Crabtree, Midlands Correspondent

Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead have been found guilty of the manslaughter of six children in a fire at their house in Derby.

Their friend Paul Mosley was also convicted of manslaughter over the petrol-fuelled blaze that engulfed the semi-detached house at Allenton, Derby in May last year.

Mick Philpott stared straight ahead as the guilty verdict was read out, but when his wife was convicted he shook his head as she looked down at the floor clasping a tissue in her hands.

Mosley showed no emotion as he heard the guilty verdicts.

Shortly after the verdicts, the court was cleared because a spectator, believed to be one of Mairead Philpott's sisters, shouted: "You murdering b******".

And as he was led from the dock, Mick Philpott shouted: "Not over yet, mate!"

The 56-year-old was attempting to frame his ex-mistress and win custody of his other offspring when he set the fire, the court heard. Lisa Willis, 28, had left the house with her five children and the Philpotts wanted them back.

But as a jury at Nottingham Crown Court was told "the plan went horribly wrong".

The names of the children are seen on Mairead's arm in a police van

Five of the children, who died of smoke inhalation as they slept, were Mick and Mairead Philpott's; Jade, 10; John, nine; Jack, eight; Jesse, six; and Jayden, who was five.

Duwayne, 13, who was Mairead Philpott's child from a former partner, died in hospital three days later.

Paul Mosley told friends that they had "actually rehearsed" the fire six weeks earlier and the plan was for him to rescue the children. He would break in the back door while the Philpotts were out front.

The jury heard a disturbing and chaotic 999 call made by the Philpotts. In it Mick Philpott was heard to say: "I can't get in." He had tried to punch and smash his way through an upstairs window, but had been beaten back by the smoke.

While it was being played, he said: "I can't listen to it." He tried to leave the dock but he was stopped by prison guards and sat sobbing with his head in his hands.

Paul Mosley showed no emotion as the verdicts were read

As the bodies were being carried from the house, Mick Philpott immediately began to blame Ms Willis, who he had earlier reported to police for allegedly threatening him and his family.

Samantha Shallow, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Today's verdict shows that the children died as a result of the actions of Michael and Mairead Philpott and Paul Mosley when they set the fire.

"It was started as a result of a plan between the three of them to turn family court proceedings in Mr Philpott's favour. It was a plan that went disastrously and tragically wrong.

"Amid all the details of the defendants' personal lives that have come out in court, it should not be forgotten that at the heart of this case were the deaths of six innocent children."

In a statement read by police on the steps of Nottingham Crown Court, Mick Philpott's sister Dawn Bestwick, said: "My family and I have attended court each and every day and listened objectively to all the evidence in this trial to understand what happened to our six beautiful children on May 11 2012.

"Following today's verdict, we the family of Michael Philpott, believe justice has been served."

Anthony Latham QC prosecuting said that people at the hospital noted that Mick Philpott was "spotlessly clean" for someone who had been caught up in a house fire.

Six-year-old Jesse's coffin is carried at the funeral

He told the court that afterwards he had sex and smoked cannabis to try to blot out the horror of what had happened.

"I was finding it hard to cope," said Mick Philpott. "Having sex and smoking cannabis was one way of blocking it out. It was my idea, not my wife's."

After the blaze police bugged their hotel room and a police vehicle.

Mick Philpott was heard to say to Mairead: "Don't worry, we will walk through it. I promise you that, unless you want me to blab about it ... don't say nothing now, don't say nothing."

In another part of the recording he is alleged to have said: "I didn't mean to do it, on my life."

Mick Philpott said tried to get back in through an upstairs window

The court was told of the unconventional lifestyle at the house in Victory Road, Allenton.

Mairead Philpott and Ms Willis took it in turns to sleep with Mick Philpott in his caravan on the drive. He said he preferred Ms Willis, but believed that at one time they had been one "big happy family".

The wages or benefits of both women were paid into Mr Philpott's account. He was said to have had complete control over both of them.

A glove and an empty plastic bottle found near the scene

At times Mairead Philpott had sex with her husband and co-defendant Paul Moseley. The Philpott's went dogging together. Mairead said dogging was the only time her husband gave her proper attention.

He had mentioned divorcing his wife to marry his mistress but Lisa Willis lost her patience with the arrangement in Victory Road and left the home with her five children three months before the fire.

On the day of the fire, Ms Willis and Mick Philpott were due in court to discuss custody of the children.

Sentencing is due to take place for all three on Wednesday at 10.30am.

More follows...

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