mills was bribing scourfield, so scourfield would enforce his customers to take on the services of theseo take on the services of these so—called turnaround consultants, you actually had no such intention and simply wa nted had no such intention and simply wanted to pillage these businesses. the way thejudge wanted to pillage these businesses. the way the judge put it was that the relationship between scourfield and mills, he said to mr scourfield, i don't know how or when mr mills got his hold on you. he is the devil to whom you sold your soul. michael bancroft, another of the brilliance, thejudge said to him, mr bancroft, you are thejudge said to him, mr bancroft, you a re clearly thejudge said to him, mr bancroft, you are clearly a thoroughly dishonest man. you are a bully when it suits you to be and with mr mills, you plundered the companies involved for any assets you can get your hands on. there were similar strong words for the other criminals in the case, but the judge made strong words for the other criminals in the case, but thejudge made it clear. this was notjust about lockin

scourfield was convicted after pleading guilty at a trial last year.h 2007 when we we re what happened? march 2007 when we were told the bank manager was on sick leave and his replacement was abrupt, to say the least. so then what happened ? abrupt, to say the least. so then what happened? from thereon in... we we nt what happened? from thereon in... we went to see lynden scourfield. we knew there was something we'd going on. we had a can top —— consultancy firm in ourcompany. on. we had a can top —— consultancy firm in our company. we were beginning to take off and doing well and then in march 2007, lynden scourfield was gone and then this strange man had said we was dealing with the rank's money and not one more pound. they shut us down. they shut down lots of businesses after lynden scourfield left. we had to work out what went on. three years of investigation. we found out through finding other victims and documents. what we discovered in the six weeks was a pretty mind blowing, to be honest. we reported it to the board of the bank and in the begin

consultant david mills, bribed hbos manager lynden scourfield, with designer watches, sex parties and to profit from high consultancy fees. hundreds of thousands of romanians have taken to the streets to demonstrate against government plans to downgrade some corruption offences. the proposals means that public officials will be spared a jail sentence if they were involved in crimes amounting to less than forty thousand pounds. they're the biggest demonstrations in the country since the fall of communism. a four—month public consultation period on a third runway at heathrow started today. the government has been setting out the planning regulations with which the airport must comply. the transport secretary, chris grayling, said the expansion would benefit british business, and new aircraft technology would lessen the impact of noise and air pollution. starting primary school is a big moment for children — and their and parents. but for a group of mums in cornwall what's made it more of a challenge is that their children have down's syndrome. so they've written a book about how familie

a court heard that one of the bankers, lynden scourfield, accepted bribes — including sex parties — to by the bank or the police, but by two customers, paul and nikki turner. they told the bbc the investigation took them three years. we reported it to the board of the bank in the beginning of september 2007 and ostensibly their response was to try and evict us from here. we have been betweenjanuary 2007 and august 2010, we have been 222 eviction hearings and in the end we consented to not being evicted. when everyone got arrested, the defendants or suspects were arrested, the bank us to agree to an indefinite suspension and we said, yes. of course, you can stop evicting us. a hard decision to make. it was the ha rd a hard decision to make. it was the hard thing— we are trying to uncover what is going on and unravelling a huge fraud. the bank's reaction was if they evicted us we wouldn't be able to continue the investigation. tomorrow helen 's tomorrow helen '5 law is being considered in parliament. the proposal is to deny killers parole if they don't reveal the remains of their victims