Broady loses out in boys' final

By Chris Bevan
BBC Sport at Wimbledon Venue: All England Club, LondonDate: 20 June - 3 JulyCoverage: Live on BBC One, Two, 3D, HD, Red Button, online (UK only), Radio 5 live, 5 live sports extra; live text commentary from 0900 BST on BBC Sport website (#bbctennis); iPlayer Luke Saville seals victory in the Boys' Singles final after amazing point against Liam Broady

Liam Broady failed in his bid to become Britain's first winner of the Wimbledon boys' title since 1962 as he lost to Australia's Luke Saville in the final.

On a packed Court One, the 17-year-old left-hander from Stockport was beaten 2-6 6-4 6-2 in one hour and 42 minutes.

A rash of errors from Saville helped Broady take the first set before his big-hitting opponent fought back.

Broady lost 11 points in a row as the second set slipped away and he could not turn the tide in the decider.

Beaten Broady aims for more glory

"During the whole match I didn't serve my best," a disappointed Broady said afterwards.

"He managed to break me at the start of the second set and started to serve better himself, and the match just slipped away. He upped his game and I played a few slack points."

His defeat means Stanley Matthews Jr, son of the England footballer, remains the last home boys' winner in 1962.

Broady had plenty of support from a noisy crowd, who were hoping to enjoy some British success following the disappointment of Andy Murray's defeat by Rafael Nadal in the semi-final of the men's singles on Friday.

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"The crowd were probably one of the best things today, my tennis wasn't," he added.

"It was a fantastic experience. They got behind me and helped me and made me fight."

Initially he outmanoeuvred Saville, who paid the price for some wild shots in a one-sided first set.

Broady, playing some punchy forehands, also went a break up at the start of a topsy-turvy second set but Saville's improving groundstrokes saw him reply instantly as he began to put pressure on the Briton's serve.

From 4-3 up, Broady collapsed, and he was broken to love with a double-fault before quickly finding himself at 0-40 in his next service game.

He saved two of those set-points with big serves but netted a forehand on the third.

Broady looked rattled when Saville broke again to go 3-1 up in the decider, although he did force two break-back points at 2-4.

Both of those escaped him, the latter when Saville recovered to win a thrilling rally, and the Australian went on to dismantle his serve again, sealing his victory with a smash.

Broady suffered another defeat later on Saturday, when he and his Slovakian partner Filip Horansky were beaten 6-3 7-6 (7-2) in the semi-finals of the boys' doubles by Britain's George Morgan and his Croatian partner Mate Pavic.

Morgan and Pavic will face another Briton, Oliver Golding, and Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic in the final after the top seeds beat Spanish duo Andre Artunedo Martinavarr and Roberto Carballes Baena 7-5 7-6 (7-5).

Luke Saville's row of points snatches set from Liam Broady

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Nail bomber loses sentence appeal

28 June 2011 Last updated at 12:56 GMT Copeland admitted killing three and injuring 139 people in 1999 Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.

Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.

Copeland, 35, from Hampshire, admitted killing three and injuring 139 people.

Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday.

The original recommendation in his case was that he should serve a minimum of 30 years before he can be considered for parole.

Multiple murder

But High Court judge Mr Justice Burton later described it as a "really exceptional case of deliberate, multiple murder".

During 13 days in April 1999 Copeland caused explosions in Brixton, south London Brick Lane in east London and Soho, central London.

The final blast at the gay pub the Admiral Duncan killed Andrea Dykes, 27, who was pregnant, and friends John Light, 32, and Nik Moore, 31, from Essex.

Copeland intended his bombing campaign to ignite a race war across Britain, his trial heard.

He was tried at the Old Bailey in 2000 for murder after the prosecution refused to accept his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he was suffering a mental illness - paranoid schizophrenia.

A Broadmoor Hospital consultant had described him as psychotic and diagnosed schizophrenia.

The original trial judge, Michael Hyam, concluded that Copeland's crimes were motivated by his hatred of black and Asian people and homosexuals.

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Teenagers' murderer loses appeal

24 May 2011 Last updated at 11:13 GMT David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb were murdered in County Armagh The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of a man convicted of the murder of two teenagers in County Armagh.

Stephen Leslie Brown, 30, was found guilty in 2009 of the murders of David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb.

The victims' mutilated bodies were found on an isolated country road near Tandragee, in February 2000.

Brown's appeal was based on the reliance of the evidence of Mark Burcombe, who admitted a lesser charge over the murders.

Counsel for Brown contended that the trial judge erred by not rejecting Burcombe's evidence in light of a number of alleged inconsistencies and falsehoods.

However, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan said: "The meticulous and careful manner in which the learned trial judge reviewed the detail of Burcombe's evidence and assessed him as a witness demonstrated the rigorous scrutiny which was required.

"We conclude, therefore, that we do not consider that the reliance by the trial judge on the evidence of Burcombe was unsafe, nor did it engender any unease in respect of the conclusions reached."

Burcombe claimed in evidence that he saw Brown repeatedly knife David McIlwaine as he lay on the ground.

In his appeal, Brown also submitted that even if Burcombe's evidence was accepted it did not follow that he should have been convicted of the murder of Andrew Robb.

'Abundant material'

Brown claimed there was no eyewitness evidence of that murder and that there was no direct evidence that he had a knife at the time of the attack.

The Court of Appeal rejected this submission.

The Lord Chief Justice said this was a case where there was abundant material to support the conclusion that Brown was voluntarily present at the scene of the murder.

Burcombe's evidence identified another man - Noel Dillon, who has since killed himself - as being involved with Brown in the murders.

The Lord Chief Justice said: "Brown had driven the car in which the deceased were taken to a remote and isolated spot. Robb was then taken off by Brown and Dillon to a quiet part of the country road where he was the subject of a vicious and savage attack.

"The injuries sustained by Robb reveal the ferocity of the attack. The direct attack was carried out by one or both of Brown and Dillon.

"Both came swaggering back towards the car after the attack at which point Brown launched a vicious attack upon McIlwaine.

"He then encouraged Dillon to cut his throat. Brown then himself further attacked McIlwaine with the knife as he lay on the road and thereafter disposed of the knife."

He added that that Brown and Dillon knew or believed that they were encouraging each other.

While it was not possible to attribute specific actions to either of them, their subsequent behaviour was a clear indicator of their approval of the method of attack on Robb and their intention to kill.

Mr McIlwaine, 18, and Mr Robb, 19, - who had no paramilitary connections - were murdered after Mr Robb allegedly made derogatory remarks about UVF commander Richard Jameson who had been shot dead two weeks previously.

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