A SHERIFF yesterday allowed police to seize a Scottish Television news
video needed in a trial.
Sheriff James Spy was told that the company had failed to hand over
the video to Paisley's procurator-fiscal.
The Crown wants to show the video at the trial of Mr Terry Cameron,
21, of Alice Street, Paisley, who denies possessing an offensive weapon,
a knife, last year.
In an unusual legal move, depute fiscal Miss Morag McLaughlin asked
for a warrant to be granted at Paisley Sheriff Court to allow the video
to be seized from Scottish Television's offices in Glasgow.
Sheriff Spy granted the warrant after Mr Cameron's lawyer, Mr David
Tod, said that the legal wrangle was between the fiscal and the company.
Last month, Scottish Television reporter Mr Bernard Ponsonby told Mr
Cameron's trial that he had been interviewing people outside a Paisley
night club last year following a weekend of violence in which a man was
murdered.
The trial was adjourned until April 13 after the defence objected to
an edited version of the news programme being shown. It said that the
un-edited version should be shown at the trial.
Scottish Television rushed an un-edited video tape to the court but it
could not be shown on the equipment available and was taken back to the
television offices.
A Scottish Television spokesman said yesterday: ''The police arrived
after the court hearing and we handed over the video tape.''
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