he gave evidence to the australian royal commission, which has been going on for a few years.e ended up reading some documents that gave him, if you like, a flashback to some of the abuse he had suffered. he ended up having something of a meltdown. the memory of this caused me... caused me to have several days of sobbing in my apartment. and the apartment walls are not very thick. i used to drive down to a riverside reserve, which is nearby, and just sob for... several hours in the night. and on the 30th of august i was in one of these sobbing and i was so overcome that i crashed my car into a lamp post. oliver cosgrove, giving his evidence. the enquiry is hearing these stories, to give the flavour of the widespread sexual abuse in these days is trying to understand how institutions have responded, both in australia and the uk. that will start to emerge as this enquiry continues. drivers caught using hand—held phones will face tougher penalties from today. the fine has doubled to £200 and the number of penalty points has doubled to six and that means new drivers could lose the

he gave evidence to the australian royal commission.caused me to have several days of sobbing in my apartment. and the apartment walls are not very thick. i used to drive down to a riverside reserve, which is nearby, and just sob for... several hours in the night. and on the 30th of august i was in one of these sobbing and i was so overcome that i crashed my car into a lamp post. the enquiry is even these stories to give it a flavour of the kind of widespread sexual abuse that there was in those days. what it is trying to do is understand how institutions responded to the sexual abuse, in australia and the uk. that will emerge as the enquiry continues. thank you very much. this is bbc news at 5:00m — the headlines: two british medics, part of a large group of students who joined so—called islamic state, have been killed in iraq. the government faces its first defeat over the brexit bill in the house of lords as peers demand guarantees over the rights of eu nationals living here — the vote is due to happen shortly. sex education is to be