Second Prisoner Goes On Run From Same Jail

A prisoner has gone on the run from a Suffolk jail - less than 48 hours since another man absconded from the same facility.

Police issued an appeal after they were contacted by officials at Hollesley Bay prison, who informed them Lewis Powter was no longer at the premises.

The 30-year-old - who has a Dennis the Menace tattoo on his right arm -  was last seen at 6.50pm on Sunday and was not present for the 8pm roll check.

Paul Oddysses absconded from Hollesley Bay prison on Saturday

He was serving an indeterminate sentence for grievous bodily harm with intent, and is described as white, around 5ft 10ins, of medium build, clean-shaven with brown hair and blue eyes.

The last time Powter was seen he was wearing a blue jumper with a white T-shirt underneath, blue jeans and white Ralph Lauren trainers.

Police say he has connections in the Cambridgeshire area.

It comes after Hollesley Bay contacted Suffolk Police just after 1pm on Saturday reporting that 49-year-old Paul Oddysses had left the premises.

Oddysses, who was serving a life sentence for attempted robbery and robbery with a firearm, is described as white, around 5ft 6ins, of thin build, with brown hair, brown eyes and clean-shaven.

After Oddysses' disappearance, a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "The Justice Secretary has been clear that keeping the public safe is our priority and has ordered immediate and major changes to tighten up temporary release processes and open prison eligibility.

"Absconds have reached record lows under this Government - down 80% over the last 10 years - but each and every incident is taken seriously, with the police contacted as a matter of urgency.

"Open prisons and temporary licence are an important tool in rehabilitating long term offenders but not at the expense of public safety."

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European Elections: The Winner And Losers

By Michael Thrasher, Sky's Election Analyst

UKIP stormed to first place in the European elections, becoming the party of choice for nearly a third of voters.

This is the first time since 1906 that a party other than the big two - Conservative and Labour - has topped the poll in a nationwide vote.

The first result, once again delivered by the North East region, gave a taste of things to come. 

Last time the region's three Euro seats were spread among the three established parties.

This time both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost their seats leaving Labour leading with two MEPs but UKIP picking its first seat of the night.

Across the region UKIP even finished ahead of Labour in four local authorities that are used to tally the European votes.

As more regions declared their results it became clear that UKIP was on course to finish on top in the popular vote.

It out-polled the Conservatives in the South East and South West, in the Eastern region where it has gained a real foothold at local council elections and also the East Midlands. 

In the West Midlands, in parliamentary terms a real battleground between the Conservatives and Labour it was UKIP that once again eclipsed the traditional parties.

Further evidence that UKIP has been instrumental in stalling Labour's progress came in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Here, UKIP finished first with 31% of the vote, a two-point lead over Labour in what is generally regarded as one of the party's strongest areas.

Compared with the last time voters selected MEPs in 2009 UKIP registered double-digit increases in vote share across every region to declare overnight. 

The pressure on Nick Clegg may grow further

The biggest losers were the Liberal Democrats who endured an appalling time, following so closely upon extremely disappointing local election results.

The pro-European party lost all but one of its MEPs from the first nine of Great Britain's 11 regional constituencies to declare and were relegated to fifth place behind the Greens.

The pressure that had grown on Nick Clegg as the party watched its councillors defeated may grow yet further as his critics point to his decision to debate with Nigel Farage as a catalyst for the party's collapse.  

Although Labour gained seats it will again be subjected to the accusation that it is punching below its weight. Opinion polling suggested that it was vying with UKIP for first place but the results show a clear gap between the two parties.

Indeed, while Labour is likely to overtake the Conservatives in the national vote once the counting is completed in Scotland the gap between the two main parties will not be great.

The national projection of the local election voting placed Labour just one percentage point ahead of the Conservatives and the closeness of the Euro voting will add to the pressure on the Labour leadership.

Of course, the pattern of voting will be different at next year's general election. Many voters that backed UKIP this time will return to one or other of the major parties.

But Mr Farage has undoubtedly produced chaos and confusion among the established parties and no one can be sure at this point about the impact his party will have in less than a year's time.

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Emma Watson Graduates From Brown University

Emma Watson has graduated from the prestigious Brown University in Rhode Island.

Watson tweeted this pic on her graduation day

The British actress, best known as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, was among 2,000 graduates receiving degrees on Sunday.

She tweeted a photograph of herself in cap and gown, along with a single exclamation mark.

Watson graduated with a bachelor's degree in English literature from the Ivy League university.

Despite finding fame as a youngster in the Potter films, Watson was a model student at school in the UK - she scored a clean sweep of As in her GCSE and A-level exams.

The 24-year-old started at Brown in 2009, the same year she was named the highest-grossing actress of the decade by the Guinness Book of World Records.

She revealed earlier this year that there were moments when her fellow Brown students were star-struck.

"On the first day, I walked into the canteen and everyone went completely silent and turned around to look at me," she told The Sunday Times.

Watson with her Harry Potter co-stars in 2000

"I had to say to myself 'It's OK, you can do this. You just have to take a deep breath and gather your courage'."

In March 2011 she announced she was taking a break from student life to focus on her film career.

But later that year she went to Oxford University as a visiting student to read English at Worcester College.

Watson still managed to rack up film credits while hitting the books - she released both parts of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and This Is The End.

She has also starred in the recently released biblical epic Noah by Darren Aronofsky.

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Pressure Grows On Clegg After Polls Disaster

Pressure is growing on Nick Clegg after his party was all but wiped out in the European elections.

The Liberal Democrats were left with just one of its 11 MEPs, two days after damaging local elections which saw them lose 296 councillors.

By lunchtime on Monday, Mr Clegg was the only leader not to appear after a weekend in which hundreds of party members signed a petition calling for him to go. It prompted widespread use of the Twitter hashtag #wheresclegg.

Senior Liberal Democrats insisted Mr Clegg was going nowhere.

Former leader Sir Menzies Campbell said: "There's no doubt in my mind that Nick Clegg is the person with the courage and the resilience to take the party through to and during, and indeed after, the next general election."

David Cameron said Mr Clegg's leadership was a matter for the Liberal Democrats, but said there was a "strong coalition Government".

Mr Clegg insisted on Saturday he would 'absolutely not' resign

A petition calling for Nick Clegg's resignation as the leader of the Liberal Democrats has gathered steam, with hundreds of party members calling for him to step down.

After the disastrous local election results on Friday, the Deputy Prime Minister insisted he would not quit.

On Monday former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik said: "Nick took quite a simplistic view on the European Union. He told the country that Europe was good for us. It just didn't really work - 7% is a terrible result.

"Is it a risk? It's a bigger risk to continue with a leader who called two debates with Nigel Farage and lost both of them and I imagine that Nigel Farage is going to be in the televised debates next year, well is Nick going to lose again and what will that do to our parliamentary base?"

On Sunday Lib Dem Party President Tim Farron told Sky's Dermot Murnaghan: "Nick Clegg should undoubtedly stay and the Liberal Democrats should stay the course in government.

"It's important we stand together as a party, behind Nick Clegg's leadership, and go forward for 2015."

The former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown also spoke out in support of Mr Clegg, labelling calls for him to step down "silly".

While Mr Clegg is licking his wounds, Nigel Farage is celebrating

MP John Pugh, who described the local election defeats as "abysmal", said the party's "high command" was in danger of seeming like "Generals at the Somme".

Jackie Porter, who is set to fight the Tory-held target seat of Winchester in next May's general election, said the party was "not going forward with a clear strategy".

More than 200 grassroots members have signed up to the online LibDems4Change campaign which has published an open letter to Mr Clegg.

Under existing rules, if Mr Clegg refuses to quit, a leadership contest would be triggered if 75 local party associations formally demand one or a majority of the parliamentary party approves a no confidence motion.

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European Elections: UKIP Tops British Polls

European Elections: The Winner And Losers

Updated: 4:01am UK, Monday 26 May 2014

By Michael Thrasher, Sky's Election Analyst

UKIP stormed to first place in the European elections, becoming the party of choice for nearly a third of voters.

This is the first time since 1906 that a party other than the big two - Conservative and Labour - has topped the poll in a nationwide vote.

The first result, once again delivered by the North East region, gave a taste of things to come. 

Last time the region's three Euro seats were spread among the three established parties.

This time both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost their seats leaving Labour leading with two MEPs but UKIP picking its first seat of the night.

Across the region UKIP even finished ahead of Labour in four local authorities that are used to tally the European votes.

As more regions declared their results it became clear that UKIP was on course to finish on top in the popular vote.

It out-polled the Conservatives in the South East and South West, in the Eastern region where it has gained a real foothold at local council elections and also the East Midlands. 

In the West Midlands, in parliamentary terms a real battleground between the Conservatives and Labour it was UKIP that once again eclipsed the traditional parties.

Further evidence that UKIP has been instrumental in stalling Labour's progress came in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Here, UKIP finished first with 31% of the vote, a two-point lead over Labour in what is generally regarded as one of the party's strongest areas.

Compared with the last time voters selected MEPs in 2009 UKIP registered double-digit increases in vote share across every region to declare overnight. 

The biggest losers were the Liberal Democrats who endured an appalling time, following so closely upon extremely disappointing local election results.

The pro-European party lost all but one of its MEPs from the first nine of Great Britain's 11 regional constituencies to declare and were relegated to fifth place behind the Greens.

The pressure that had grown on Nick Clegg as the party watched its councillors defeated may grow yet further as his critics point to his decision to debate with Nigel Farage as a catalyst for the party's collapse.  

Although Labour gained seats it will again be subjected to the accusation that it is punching below its weight. Opinion polling suggested that it was vying with UKIP for first place but the results show a clear gap between the two parties.

Indeed, while Labour is likely to overtake the Conservatives in the national vote once the counting is completed in Scotland the gap between the two main parties will not be great.

The national projection of the local election voting placed Labour just one percentage point ahead of the Conservatives and the closeness of the Euro voting will add to the pressure on the Labour leadership.

Of course, the pattern of voting will be different at next year's general election. Many voters that backed UKIP this time will return to one or other of the major parties.

But Mr Farage has undoubtedly produced chaos and confusion among the established parties and no one can be sure at this point about the impact his party will have in less than a year's time.

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Sex Offenders Face Lie Detector Tests

By Afua Hirsch, Social Affairs and Education Editor

A thousand of the UK's most high-risk sex offenders are to undergo mandatory lie detector tests, under new measures announced by the ministry for justice today.

Probation officers are being trained in how to use polygraph examiners as part of new measures to toughen up the monitoring of convicted paedophiles and reduce the danger they pose to the public.

Don Grubin, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Newcastle University, whose company Behavioural Measures is leading the training, said: "The aim of the testing is to assist offender managers in supervising the offenders.

Dr Grubin says the tests will help the monitoring of offenders

"There is not a specific crime you are investigating, not a specific security breach, it's much more of a general tool to look at how they are behaving under supervision and to see whether there is a need to intervene."

"It's important to emphasise that nobody will be recalled because they failed a test ... polygraph testing both facilitates the disclosure of information and alerts offender managers to possible deception, allowing them to work with offenders in a more focused way."

A group of seven officers will administer the tests to sex offenders deemed at high risk of reoffending or convicted of the most serious offences, in a 12-week training programme administered by polygraph experts from the US, where use of the devices is much more common.

As well as undergoing lie detector tests every six months, the Government has also announced plans to use satellite tags and controversial libido suppressant drugs, also known as "chemical castration".

Sex offenders already have to abide by licence conditions, including signing onto the sex offenders register, adhering to exclusion zones, curfews, internet restrictions and non-contact orders.

Polygraph tests will be used regularly on high-risk sex offenders

But there are hopes that the addition of lie detector tests will help probation services better monitor the risk of reoffending.

Justice minister Jeremy Wright said: "We are determined that Britain has one of hte toughest regimes in the world for managing sex offenders, to stop reoffending and to protect victims."

According to the most recent figures there are 43,664 registered sex offenders in the UK. Reoffending rates have been a persistent cause for concern, with 13% of adults convicted of a sex offence committing further offences.

This is the first time that mandatory lie detector testing will be used by probation services across the UK, but the Government says that a pilot conducted between 2009 and 2011 in the East and West Midlands found that those who took the tests were twice as likely to admit having breached the terms of their licence or having thoughts that suggested they continued to pose a risk.

Two police forces are already are also using lie detectors for people arrested on suspicion of indecent images of children.  

But the use of polygraphs remains controversial, with some concerned about the reliability of the devices.

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Bali Murder: Arrest After Briton Found Dead

Police have arrested a construction worker suspected of murdering a British teacher in her rented villa on the holiday island of Bali, an official has said.

The 32-year-old man was arrested in Jakarta after he allegedly robbed and killed 49-year-old Anne Marie Drozdz.

Ms Drozdz was found dead in her villa in the cultural tourism district of Ubud on Thursday afternoon, police said.

She had travelled around the world teaching at international schools and, according to her LinkedIn profile, last worked in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The villa where Ms Drozdz's body was discovered

Her brother Gregory Drozdz said the family was suffering "overwhelming grief" after Ms Drozdz's death.

"We were contacted by the Foreign Office on Friday. They told us it appeared my sister had gone back to her villa in Bali and that there had been some kind of scuffle involving a burglary," he said.

"My brother had only spoken to her by email a few weeks ago and she seemed very happy.

A murder investigation has been launched

"I had sent her birthday greetings for her 49th birthday on April 29.

"It's gut-wrenching. You never expect it's going to happen to you and your family. It has left us raw, bewildered and confused."

Bali police commissioner Refi Pribadi said the suspect had allegedly stolen a mobile phone, a motorcycle and 20 million rupiah (£1,500) from Ms Drozdz.

Ms Drozdz had been renting the villa since May 17, reports say

"We arrested him on charges of robbery and murder," he said.

Ms Drozdz was found by the owner of the villa lying dead on the floor with a black cloth over her face, police said earlier.

Forensics experts said that the woman's body showed bruises on the neck and around the mouth.

A British embassy spokesman in Jakarta confirmed the death, adding that embassy officials were "ready to provide assistance to the family" and that they were cooperating with local authorities.

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'Clegg Must Go Now' Say Senior Lib Dems

A petition calling for Nick Clegg's resignation as the leader of the Liberal Democrats has gathered steam, with hundreds of party members calling for him to step down.

The Deputy Prime Minister has insisted he will not quit despite more than 250 of the party's councillors losing their seats in local elections in England.

The Liberal Democrats are at risk of losing every one of their 11 MEPs when European election results are declared on Monday.

Former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik told Sky News that based on this week's local election drubbing, Mr Clegg had to quit.

"We lost roughly 40% of the councillors who were defending their seats ... Nick Clegg, whatever he thinks of himself, in the collective interests he has to go," he said.

But despite the poor local election results, Lib Dem Party President Tim Farron has backed his embattled leader.

Asked by Sky's Dermot Murnaghan whether Mr Clegg was the right person to lead the Liberal Democrats into the 2015 General Election, Mr Farron replied: "Yes, of course."

"Nick Clegg should undoubtedly stay and the Liberal Democrats should stay the course in government," he said.

"It's important we stand together as a party, behind Nick Clegg's leadership, and go forward for 2015."

The former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown also spoke out in support of Mr Clegg, labelling calls for him to step down "silly".

"It's frankly one of the silliest ideas I've ever heard that we should waste summer in an unnecessary and divisive leadership campaign," he told Sky News.

"We should get out on the streets with the message Nick has given us and campaign for the general election."

MP John Pugh, who described the local election defeats as "abysmal", said the party's "high command" was in danger of seeming like "Generals at the Somme".

Jackie Porter, who is set to fight the Tory-held target seat of Winchester in next May's general election, said the party was "not going forward with a clear strategy".

The county councillor said the party's achievements were overshadowed because Mr Clegg "allowed himself to be portrayed as just another pea out of the same pod" as David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

In order to win back support, the party needed to demonstrate it was different, she suggested.

But Mr Clegg has insisted he will 'absolutely not' resign

More than 200 grassroots members have signed up to the online LibDems4Change campaign which has published an open letter to Mr Clegg.

It says: "We consider it vital that at the 2015 General Election the Party should be led by someone who will receive a fair hearing about our achievements and ambitions for the future.

"It is clear to us that this person is not you, as the loss of so many of our hard-working councillors highlights.

"You have fulfilled a range of objectives in Government, but we now believe that progress will be best achieved under a new leader.

"We therefore ask that you stand down, allowing the membership to select your successor this summer."

Under existing rules, if Mr Clegg refuses to quit, a leadership contest would be triggered if 75 local party associations formally demand one or a majority of the parliamentary party approves a no confidence motion.

Mr Clegg said on Saturday he would "absolutely not" resign, and insisted the Lib Dems were still succeeding where they focused on their achievements in coalition.

He blamed a wider "anti-politics mood" but his party has seen its opinion poll ratings at consistently low levels since joining the Conservative-led coalition.

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Big Tweet For Missing Children Gets Under Way

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent

Campaigners are hoping to reunite missing children with their families by recruiting social media users to join a day of action today.

It is estimated that 140,000 children and young people go missing in the UK every year according to the charity Missing People.

The Big Tweet for Missing Children will see a different child's appeal and photograph posted on Twitter every 30 minutes today under the hashtag #bigtweet.

With the help of TV personalities including Stephen Fry, organisers hope to improve on the 58,000 retweets they achieved last year which are believed to have resulted in at least two missing children being found.

An extension to the Child Rescue Alert system has also become operational, using text and email to send messages about missing children whose lives are believed to be at immediate risk.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) which issues six to eight alerts each year, hopes a million people will sign up though its website to receive them.

Coral Jones with her daughter April who was abducted in 2012

The new service has been welcomed by Coral Jones, the mother of April Jones whose abduction from her home town of Machynlleth, Powys, in October 2012 triggered one of the alerts.

"You don't know what's around the corner, it could be your child next," she said.

"I think everyone should sign up because you never know what will happen where you are."

Only a small fraction of missing children are known to have been taken by someone, with police statistics from 2011/12 showing 675 children and young people were the victim of an abduction or attempted abduction.

In most cases the perpetrator was a parent (17%) or someone the youngster knew but was not related to (35%), but 42% of incidents involved strangers.

Kevin Gosden, from Doncaster, whose son Andrew went missing in 2007 aged 14 and has never been seen since, is encouraging people to support both campaigns, even if it does not result in him finding Andrew.

"If it does something to raise awareness of this issue, and it gets families to think about that and talk with their kids to be sure that they know the number for Missing People - 116 000 - then I think that also is a good thing," he said.

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Lost Yachtsman Was Fulfilling Lifelong Dream

The family of lost Cheeki Rafiki sailor Paul Goslin have paid tribute to a "wonderful husband, son, father and grandfather".

Mr Goslin, 56, from West Camel, Somerset, was on the yacht with Andrew Bridge, 22, James Male, 23, and Steve Warren, 52, when it went missing enroute from Antigua to the UK on May 15.

The upturned 40ft yacht was found by the US Navy on Friday 1,000 miles from the Massachusetts coast, with no signs of life and its life raft still stored on board.

The overturned hull of Cheeki Rafiki. Pic: US Coast Guard District 1

In a statement issued through the Foreign Office, the Goslin family said: "As you can imagine we were deeply saddened by the news on Friday night and are struggling to come to terms with the fact that Paul, our wonderful husband, son, father, grandfather, won't be found alive and returned home to us. 

"Paul was deeply loving and exceptionally intelligent and we know will be missed by everyone that knew him.

"Paul had been a passionate sailor for many years and loved everything to do with the water.  He'd been talking about sailing across the Atlantic for many years. 

"We are therefore, trying to take some comfort in the knowledge that he was fulfilling one of his lifelong dreams."

The families pleaded with the US authorities not to stop searching

The family thanked all those who had supported them during a difficult week, adding: "We have also drawn strength from the other families and our hearts go out to them. 

"Paul would have been humbled by the immense support shown to us all by the public, which has made this difficult week slightly easier to bear. 

"On behalf of Paul, we'd like to thank everyone that showed their support in different ways in the past week."

They also thanked those involed in the search "especially the US and Canadian Coast Guards, the US Navy, the RAF, the merchant vessels and smaller yachts sailing through the area". 

The lost sailors: Andrew Bridge, Paul Goslin, Steve Warren and James Male

"We would also like to thank the UK Government, with particular thanks to everyone involved at the Foreign Office for their endless support and professionalism over the past week."

Thanking the media as well, they asked for the "space and time we need to be with our own family, to comfort each other and to spend time remembering Paul."

The family of the yacht skipper, Mr Bridge, from Farnham, Surrey, also thanked the search teams and paid tribute to the experienced sailor.

In a statement yesterday they said: "Andrew will be dearly missed by everyone who knew him. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families of the rest of the crew on the Cheeki Rafiki.

The yacht Cheeki Rafiki

The family of Mr Warren, from Bridgwater, Somerset, said yesterday: "From the beginning we, together with the other families involved, have continued to hold out hope that he would be found alive. The US Coast Guard have led an exceptional search.

"This is now an incredibly difficult time for all the family."

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