Identity Of Man Found Dead In Well Revealed

A man whose bound body was found in a well in Surrey has been identified by police as Damian Chlywka, a 30-year-old Polish national.

Workmen discovered Mr Chlywka's body in the well outside an address in Audley Drive in Warlingham on November 15.

A team of specialist officers, including Metropolitan Police divers, found Mr Chlywka's body showed injuries "consistent with an assault".

He had been tied up and it is thought he had been there for around two years.

Further tests are being carried out as a post-mortem held on November 17 did not provide a cause of death.

A 41-year-old man and a 33-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder.

They are being held in custody at south London police stations.

Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons, the officer leading the investigation, said: "Damian had lived at various addresses across London including two known to be in the Croydon area. At one point he had lived at 11A Audley Road.

"Our focus now is to build up a fuller picture of Damian's life in the UK.

"We have given the difficult and heartbreaking news to his family who are distraught that this has happened to their loved one.

"I am appealing to anyone who knew or previously worked with him to contact the police and help us to piece together a picture of Damian's life and how it came to end in these distressing circumstances."

Police initially arrested seven men, aged between 21 and 27, on suspicion of murder.

They were subsequently released on bail until a date in late December.

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Three Charged Over FA Computer Hacking

Three men have been charged over allegations of computer hacking at the Football Association, Greater Manchester Police have said.

Referee Dean Mohareb, 30, from Woodley, Stockport, has been charged with perverting the course of justice and unauthorised access to computer data.

Liam Cliff, 18, from Manchester, and Vincent Rossi, 46, from Wilmslow, have been charged with perverting the course of justice.

The trio will appear before Stockport Magistrates Court on Thursday, December 5.

Mohareb is a senior member of the FA's Referees Department in his role as national referee development manager.

He was first arrested over allegations that he hacked into a colleague's email account in October last year. Police seized a number of electrical items from his home on that occasion.

Greater Manchester Police have been investigating allegations of computer hacking and the dissemination of private information at the FA.

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BoE Boss Warns Homeowners Over Rate Rise

Homeowners must find a way to pay their mortgages if interest rates rise because they will not be guaranteed a helping hand, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.

Mark Carney's message came after BoE figures showed mortgage approvals hit their highest level since February 2008, while total household debt reached a new record last month.

The recently-appointed Canadian governor urged would-be buyers to think of the debts they were taking on and whether they would be able to repay a 25-year or 30-year mortgage rather than relying on rising property values.

He told The Guardian: "Are you going to be able to service that mortgage five years from now, 10 years from now, if interest rates are higher?

"Or are you counting, even subconsciously, on the price of your house keeping going up and if something happens an ability to sell it quickly and not facing the consequences of not being able to pay?"

Against the market background where there is strong demand among would-be buyers to get on the property ladder, Mr Carney noted his concern about the lack of new homes being built.

It is hoped that strategic decisions made now to try to control mortgage lending will avoid the need for severe and drastic policy actions to be taken if there is a bubble in the property market.

Mr Carney says people with mortgages must think of the consequences

Mortgage approvals are running at levels not seen since Northern Rock was nationalised in February 2008.

Mr Carney said: "The right way to do policy - to protect against the boom and bust cycles - is to act early in a graduated, proportionate way - and that reduces the probability of having to act in a bigger way later."

Earlier this week the BoE confirmed its Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) would no longer support mortgage borrowing from January to help prevent the market overheating and future debt risks.

The project, which was introduced in August 2012, offers lenders cheap money in return for loans to customers. It is to be limited to business lending from 2014.

Mr Carney said to try to use interest rates as a way of cooling down the housing market would be a "very blunt tool" as it could hurt recession-hit sectors of the economy which are starting to make a comeback.

He also called for "prudence" from lenders.

The BoE could also keep a watchful eye on the situation, he suggested, and try to head off a housing bubble by calling on regulators and lenders to cap the size of a mortgage compared to the value of the house - the so-called loan-to-value (LTV) ratio.

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Fears UK Is Paying Taliban Compensation Claims

MPs are investigating whether the Taliban could be claiming compensation from UK taxpayers under human rights legislation, Sky News has learned.

A Ministry of Defence claims report for 2012-13 observes: "There is recent anecdotal evidence that a number of claimants are inflating or inventing claims.

"Claims are also being made a number of years after the supposed event when effective investigations are all but impossible."

Figures obtained by Sky News show the MoD paid out almost £24m in compensation to civilians in the UK and abroad last year compared with £9m in 2012 and £4.4m in 2011.

Many of last year's claims were made by Iraqi nationals, the data shows.

Conservative MP Julian Brazier, a member of the defence select committee which is investigating the claims, told Sky News: "The Taliban themselves who as the enemy will obviously look at any crack they can find in the system to have a go at our guys.

Julian Brazier says the claims will be investigated

"There are these claims out there, some of them pretty spurious but deeply worrying to our military commanders and indeed to the soldiers concerned on some occasions."

The concern within the MoD is that a perceived readiness to pay out quickly in order to calm a situation has encouraged Afghans to try their hand at making fraudulent or inflated claims.

Tom Tugendhat, a former adviser to chief of defence staff General Sir David Richards and ex-governor of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, has experience of having dealt with compensation claims.

He told Sky News it can be difficult to establish the truth, saying: "The problem is that when you get into urban areas it becomes more complicated.

"If, for example, there has been an accident and a vehicle has run over a sheep, clearly the compensation that the British Government will offer is real and the competition for who will get it in some areas can be quite severe.

"Now at times like that, could it have gone to people who weren't entitled? Yes, it certainly could."

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Romanian PM Warns UK: We're Not Second-Rate

Romania's Prime Minister has called on Britain not to treat Romanians as "second-rate citizens" when work restrictions for Romanian and Bulgarian workers are lifted in January.

It follows Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to toughen welfare rules for migrants from the European Union, amid concern in the UK that people from Romania and Bulgaria will exploit the British welfare system.

Mr Cameron has said one million people from Central and Eastern Europe are living in Britain, with migration at a level not seen since wartime.

Some fear a rise of Romanian camps, like the 400 estimated sites in France

Romanian leader Victor Ponta said people should be punished for abusing Britain's welfare system, but restrictions should not be used to "generate or justify abuse or discrimination toward European citizens".

"We will not accept being treated as second-rate citizens," Mr Ponta said.

He added that research showed "there is no reason for concern regarding a migrant wave" from Romania to Britain.

Millions of Romanians had already chosen to work abroad in "southern Latin states", referring to Spain and Italy, which have a Latin-based language like Romanian.

Ford has closed facilities in the UK and moved some to Romania

He said he hoped Mr Cameron was not trying "to attack the fundamental principles of the EU, among which the freedom of movement is one of the most important values".

Mr Cameron's comments were criticised on Wednesday by European employment commissioner Laszlo Andor as an "unfortunate over-reaction".

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Tory MP Tim Yeo's Party Fails To Re-Adopt Him

The Conservative MP Tim Yeo is said to be "considering his position" after his local party voted not to re-adopt him for the next general election.

The long-serving South Suffolk MP was cleared of lobbying allegations by the parliamentary sleaze watchdog earlier in November and was reinstated as chairman of the influential Commons Energy Committee.

However, the local party issued a statement to the Ipswich Star saying: "The executive council of the South Suffolk Conservative Association met on the evening of Friday, November 29 and voted not to re-adopt Tim Yeo for the 2015 general election.

"Mr Yeo is now considering his position and will advise the executive council of his intended course of action."

Mr Yeo, 68, who served as environment minister in John Major's government, has represented the constituency for three decades, and won an 8,600 majority in 2010.

In June he was caught up in a newspaper sting and faced allegations that he offered to lobby ministers and "coached" a business associate who was due to give evidence to his committee.

The cross-party standards committee found he had done nothing wrong but parliamentary standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson urged the MP to "consider more carefully the impact of his comments".

Mr Yeo had told the commissioner that he saw the meeting with the developers as "an opportunity to learn about a technology" rather than "recruitment".

In a statement issued after he was cleared he welcomed the outcome.

He said: "This investigation included a thorough examination of the full video recording produced - after a six-week delay - to the Commissioner by The Sunday Times.

"Based on what I actually said, rather than what I was reported by the newspaper to have said, the Commissioner found and the Committee confirms that I have not acted in breach of the Code of Conduct."

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Professor Green Arrested After Robbery Probe

Chart star Professor Green has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The rapper, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, was first detained after a police investigation into a report of a robbery in southeast London in early November.

Professor Green and his wife, reality TV star Millie Mackintosh

Officers had responded to a report that a man had been robbed at Tyrwhitt Road in Lewisham at around 2.40am on Sunday, November 3.

But when police arrived at the scene they discovered a Mercedes had been in a crash with a van, and they arrested the rapper on suspicion of drink-driving.

There were no reports of any injuries.

Professor Green, who is married to Made In Chelsea's Millie Mackintosh, was taken into custody at a south London police station and released on bail.

He was arrested again on Monday on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice and granted bail.

Police are investigating the circumstances of the reported robbery and the Mercedes crash.

A spokesman from the Metropolitan Police said: "A 29-year-old man was arrested on Monday, November 25, on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice after reporting for bail at a southeast London police station.

"He has been bailed to a date in January pending further enquiries."

The rapper, who celebrated his 30th birthday on November 27, announced after the accident that concert dates scheduled for November would be postponed until May 2014 so he could complete his recording commitments.

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Ministers To Fund £300m Energy Bill Rebates

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor

Ministers are to fund a £300m plan for a £12 rebate on every domestic electricity bill in the country as part of a Government effort to combat a round of inflation-busting energy price hikes.

Sky News has learnt that the Government is finalising plans this weekend for a series of measures ahead of next week's autumn statement by the Chancellor, George Osborne.

The debate over energy costs has intensified in recent days as ministers have sought ways to regain the political initiative following the Labour leader Ed Miliband's pledge to impose an energy price freeze for 20 months if Labour wins the next general election.

Five of the 'Big Six' energy companies, including Centrica, the owner of British Gas, and Npower, have announced plans for substantial price increases in the last six weeks. The hikes have sparked a furious row in Westminster and the City about the industry's profitability.

Insiders said on Saturday that the Government package would include an agreement between the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and a group of companies known as distribution network operators, whose charges account for approximately 20% of consumers' energy bills.

The deal between ministers and these companies, which include National Grid, would involve restructuring their cost-profile over the 15-year period during which they have set out their investment plans.

This measure is expected to lead to an average of £5 off customers' bills, although the precise amount will vary by region, with some parts of the country not seeing any such saving, a source said.

Details of the package of measures could be announced as early as Sunday following intense Whitehall horse-trading over what has become one of the Government's most pressing domestic challenges.

The £300m rebate will be funded by altering the funding of the Warm Home Discount, which funds one-off electricity discounts for thousands of vulnerable customers. This is expected to be transferred to general taxation rather than being funded by the energy companies.

A Whitehall source said the £12-per-account rebate would require licence changes to be overseen by Ofgem, the energy regulator, but that this was unlikely to prove a significant obstacle.

DECC is understood to be keen for the £12 rebate to be clearly marked on consumers' bills and is extracting assurances from the big energy suppliers that they will agree to this.

The largest cut to energy bills is expected to be generated by a roughly £40-per-household saving on a green levy called the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO), which was introduced only this year.

The cost of the ECO, which costs the major suppliers about £1.3bn annually, is to be lowered by lengthening a programme of providing home insulation to 2017.

According to a letter from the Government to energy companies cited in reports this weekend, ministers want to introduce legislation to implement the changes.

"The government intends to make changes to the ECO order with a view to extending the period over which the obligation will run and reducing the expected cost of compliance. The government will consult on detailed proposals shortly and will subsequently look to introduce the necessary legislation as soon as possible," the letter said.

"The changes include extending ECO beyond its current March 2015 deadline. The government's specific proposal in this respect is that a new binding target should be set for March 2017."

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are understood to have been discussing the publication of a joint article in a Sunday newspaper to announce the moves, although it is unclear whether that plan will go ahead.

Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, has informed the energy industry of the full package of proposals in recent days although sources insisted that they were not yet finalised.

The Big Six are expected to announce price cuts or reductions to their planned price increases as soon as the Government's proposals are unveiled.

The overhaul of the ECO will represent something of a u-turn by the Government. The levy places legal obligations on the larger energy suppliers to deliver energy-efficiency measures to domestic energy customers.

It operates alongside the Green Deal and is designed to help people make energy efficiency improvements to buildings by allowing them to pay the costs through their energy bills rather than up-front.

On Friday, Downing Street denied a report that it was pressing the Big Six to agree to freeze prices until after the next election, underlining Mr Cameron's sensitivity about Labour's recent eye-catching policies.

In a statement, Jonathan Reynolds MP, the Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister, said:

"The Energy Company Obligation is David Cameron's scheme. He only introduced it this year and a few months ago he was even boasting that it was bigger than previous energy efficiency schemes.

"Labour has consistently said that ECO should be reformed to make it better value for money and targeted at those in fuel poverty. But what the public really needs is a Labour government implementing a price freeze until 2017 and resetting the energy market so that it works for the long term."

A Downing Street spokeswoman declined to comment while the Treasury could not be reached on Saturday.

A DECC spokeswoman said: "Government is looking closely at the impact of green levies on consumer bills and how the measures they support are paid for. Details of this review will be announced by the autumn statement."

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Glasgow Helicopter: Video Of Crash Aftermath

Video shows the moments after a police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub in Glasgow.

One onlooker filmed the scene as people stood outside The Clutha in Stockwell Street wondering what had caused a huge crash and filled the venue with choking dust.

Customers are seen wandering back into the pub, not realising that a helicopter had spun out of control and smashed into the roof.

Eyewitnesses were watching a live ska band when the ceiling started to cave in.

Emergency services at the scene

Grace MacLean told Sky News: "There was a band on, they were quite loud, and we just kinda heard a whoosh and some smoke.

"We looked around and no-one really knew what was going on. Everyone just carried on listening to the band. And then we kind of looked again and the roof was gradually coming down.

"Someone started shouting and the band cut the music ... and then all of a sudden this cloud of dust came.

"You couldn't breathe for inhaling a mouthful of dust. You couldn't see anything. You were clawing at the walls to see where the exit is. No-one had a clue what was going on. There was no loud noise.

"People were helping each other out. Everyone started helping people who were hurt. People had some head injuries. Lots of people were covered in dust. There were lots of people shocked. No-one knew it was a helicopter crash until people told you."

William Byrne, who was watching the band play with his brother, said: "I thought 'has the band blown something', something electrical like a speaker or something, you could never have foreseen that it was something remotely like a helicopter.

"I didn't know until about 15 minutes later that it was a helicopter. My thoughts were that something just blew and then the ceiling just collapsed. I had no concept of what it may have been that happened."

Firefighters on the roof of the pub where the helicopter crash-landed

Labour's international development spokesman Jim Murphy happened to be driving past the pub immediately after the crash.

"I jumped out and tried to help," he said. "There were people with injuries. Bad gashes to the head. Some were unconscious."

He described how a human chain formed to help pass unconscious casualties out of the pub so that "inch by inch, we could get the people out".

Scores of passers-by in the area ran to the venue after seeing or hearing the aircraft go down.

Connor Gillies, from Radio Clyde News, told Sky News of the "scenes of chaos" and "continuous stream of sirens" in the area on Friday evening.

Mr Gillies described seeing "blood on the shirt" of Mr Murphy, who he said was "clearly very shaken, very upset by the whole thing".

Wesley Shearer, who posted pictures on Twitter of the scene, said: "This is unbelievable. Just spent 20 minutes pulling people out of the bar."

MP Jim Murphy helped people out of the venue

Jan Hollands, who also tweeted pictures from the scene, said she heard the crash and described it as "scary".

:: Police have issued an emergency telephone number for concerned relatives - 0800 092 0410.

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Glasgow Helicopter Crash: Eight Killed

Eight people have been confirmed dead after a police helicopter crashed into a pub in Glasgow, police say.

The three occupants of the aircraft - two police officers and a civilian pilot - were among the dead, Police Scotland said.

Five other people lost their lives in the Clutha bar.

Police say it is still a rescue and recovery operation at the premises in the centre of the city.

Fourteen people remain seriously injured in hospitals in Glasgow.

A major investigation is underway by police along with the air accident investigation branch.

More follows...

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