in 2007,17—month—old peter connelly — known as baby p — is found dead with catastrophic injuries.month—old star hobson is murdered by her mother's partner. at multiple points, the pair managed to deflect attention from social services. star's great—grandfather david fawcett told newsnight how today's news brought back very sad memories. it brings it back home. what's just happened today, the trial, it's more or less three years ago today since the trial of star was, you know, was going on. so it brings it all back, really. it's just so upsetting. does it make you want to to think about star and maybe sort of make a gesture or do something? oh, yes. yes. because i mean, this time of year anyway we stay, you know, it's like christmas. it was one of those occasions where we just wish she were here with us. so yeah, it brings it all back home. and it must be the same for sara's family. you know, what they've had to go through. well, yeah. because sara's mum put out a statement calling her her angel and saying how much this, this means to her. that must be sort of similar sort of feeli

peter, we thought his name was at the bottom of that list. the names that would have been on that list would have been john connelly, the former republican governorrom texas -- democratic governor from texas who switched to the republican party, nelson rockefeller, the former liberal republican governor from new york, people like that, not jerry ford, and the interesting story about dad becoming vice president before the whole presidency was nixon called in carl albert, who was the democratic speaker of the house, and mike mansfield, who was a democrat in charge of the senate, and nixon asked him, says i need a new vice president. agnew is going. and ask for a recommendation from the two democratic leaders of congress and they both came up with the name of dad, jerry ford. nixon really wanted connelly, but the democrats told him, listen, they were so mad at switching parties that they told nixon he would never get him passed through congress and nixon asked them who can i get through congress and they both said we have worked with jerry ford for years. he's honorable and reaches across the aisle and tries to get things done. we trust jerry ford a