Crown Court - We are the Champions (1977) - video Dailymotion

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Crown Court: the gripping courtroom drama from the 1970s and 1980s.  In "We are the Champions", John McTeegue and Daniel Morrison are charged with the murder of a police officer. John Barron stars as the exemplary Judge Michenor. Watch out for Kenny Ireland (credited here as Ian Ireland) known for his appearances in Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques.

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00:00:00On the 2nd of October 1976, a friendly soccer match was arranged between Fulchester United

00:00:29and Strathclyde Rovers, one of Scotland's most prominent teams.

00:00:3310 minutes into the 2nd half, rioting broke out on the terraces and the match was abandoned.

00:00:38By the time the disturbance was under control, 83 fans had been arrested, 31 policemen had been seriously injured,

00:00:44and Sergeant Patrick Doyle, 29 years old, married with four small children, was dead.

00:00:51John McTeague and Daniel Morrison, both from Scotland, are charged with his murder.

00:00:56The defence is being conducted by Mr Douglas McGilley, QC, and appearing for the prosecution is Mr Richard Kelly, QC.

00:01:03Dr Dixon, a Home Office pathologist, has just been called to give formal medical evidence.

00:01:08Was the body clothed when you began the examination?

00:01:11Yes. It is normal in a case like this where forensic and medical evidence are closely related.

00:01:17And on closer examination, what did you discover?

00:01:20The outer garment, a wind cheetah, had been punctured in several places by a sharp blade, probably a knife,

00:01:29and there was a section of broken bottle protruding from the abdomen just below the sternum.

00:01:34What action did you take?

00:01:36Fibres were removed from the gashes of the wind cheetah, labelled and sent to forensic for comparative analysis,

00:01:45as was the broken bottle. The body was then stripped in order that a complete medical examination might be carried out.

00:01:53And as a result of that complete medical examination, what did you find?

00:01:57A total of seven stab wounds in the chest and abdomen.

00:02:02The liver and spleen were severely ruptured as a result of blows received, probably from kicking.

00:02:10There was an eight-inch gash in the scalp, in which I found slivers of glass.

00:02:15And there was a deep wound in the solar plexus, deep enough to reach the heart,

00:02:20where I also found a sliver of glass embedded in the right ventricle.

00:02:24Would you look at exhibit one, please?

00:02:26Now, Doctor, what can you tell us about it?

00:02:33That is the weapon that caused the injury to the heart.

00:02:36Now, how can you be so sure?

00:02:38Well, quite apart from the shape of the injury and the depth,

00:02:42the sliver of glass that I took from the heart

00:02:44fitted exactly onto the broken surface of the tip of the weapon.

00:02:49We have also this sliver, my lord, if my learned friend wishes to see it.

00:02:52We do not contest this evidence, my lord.

00:02:54Thank you. Now, Doctor Dixon,

00:02:56what, in your opinion, was the actual cause of death?

00:03:00In medical terms, massive haemorrhage due to injuries received.

00:03:05But I think a truer statement would be that this man was savaged to death.

00:03:12In 11 years, as a home office pathologist,

00:03:16I have carried out many examinations on victims of assault.

00:03:19But this was, without doubt, the most appalling,

00:03:23indeed the most sickening example of man's violence to man

00:03:27that I have ever come across.

00:03:2911 years as a home office pathologist, Doctor Dixon?

00:03:41Yes.

00:03:41Don't you think that was rather an emotional outburst for a man of science?

00:03:46I have feelings. I'm also a human being.

00:03:48You're not here in your capacity of human being,

00:03:50but as a scientist, Doctor Dixon.

00:03:53And I would be grateful if you would answer my questions accordingly.

00:03:57Of course.

00:03:58Thank you, Doctor Dixon.

00:04:00Now, cause of death in medical terms, if you please.

00:04:04As I have already stated, massive haemorrhage due to injuries received.

00:04:07Could you be more specific?

00:04:09I'm not sure what you mean.

00:04:11Oh, come now, Doctor Dixon.

00:04:12I'm sure we're not going to run into language difficulties.

00:04:16The question is simple.

00:04:18Which of the injuries was responsible for the death of Sergeant Doyle?

00:04:21Oh, take your pick.

00:04:23Three of the knife wounds had severed vital organs.

00:04:26The liver was virtually kicked in two.

00:04:28The heart had been penetrated by a shard of glass.

00:04:31Any one of these injuries could have been responsible.

00:04:33I didn't ask you what could. I asked you what war.

00:04:37Well, that's impossible to say.

00:04:38For a home office pathologist of 11 years' experience,

00:04:42perhaps if you'd given the body a more thorough examination.

00:04:45I've sent the implication.

00:04:47I examined every relevant factor in the minutest detail.

00:04:50And yet you cannot tell us which of the wounds was the actual cause of death?

00:04:54No.

00:04:55You see, in a case like this,

00:04:57where so many potentially fatal wounds have been inflicted in a short time,

00:05:01it is difficult to...

00:05:03Ah, we're making progress, aren't we?

00:05:04I beg your pardon.

00:05:05Well, a few short moments ago you told us it was impossible.

00:05:08Now it is only difficult at this rate.

00:05:11It won't be very long before it becomes simple.

00:05:13Malad, if I might point out, the cause of death, as already stated,

00:05:15was quite sufficient to satisfy the coroner.

00:05:17It may not satisfy this jury, Malad.

00:05:20Would you explain why not, Mr McGilley?

00:05:22Well, in my opinion, the cause of death, as stated, is far too general.

00:05:27In the interest of my clients,

00:05:28I should like to see if we cannot be more precise.

00:05:31Yes, the witness has already made it clear.

00:05:33He's unwilling to commit himself further in medical terms.

00:05:36Then, with your lordship's permission,

00:05:38I should like to approach the matter as an exercise in logic.

00:05:41Oh.

00:05:41Well, take as much time as you like.

00:05:44Thank you, my lord.

00:05:46Now, Dr Dixon, I want you to consider the three stab wounds which severed vital organs.

00:05:53Could any one of those wounds have caused death instantaneously?

00:05:57Well, no, not of themselves.

00:06:00Indeed.

00:06:01Had these been the only wounds,

00:06:03and had medical help been more immediately available,

00:06:07would these wounds have proved fatal?

00:06:10Well, one kidney was punctured, the trachea was...

00:06:13But would they have proved fatal?

00:06:15Perhaps not of themselves.

00:06:17And the damage to the liver and spleen, instantly fatal?

00:06:21I doubt if they could have been repaired,

00:06:22even with immediate medical attention.

00:06:24I would say definitely fatal.

00:06:25The question was instantly fatal.

00:06:28Not instantly, but it would only have been a matter of time.

00:06:30Where there's life, there's hope, Dr Dixon.

00:06:34And the heart wound, could that have been instantly fatal?

00:06:37Oh, definitely.

00:06:38The wall of the heart was completely penetrated.

00:06:39So, we have three categories of wound,

00:06:43two of which were not instantly fatal,

00:06:45and a third one which was.

00:06:46Now, Dr Dixon,

00:06:47can you be more precise as to the actual cause of death?

00:06:52Well, well, Dr Dixon,

00:06:54would it now not be more accurate to say that

00:06:57Sergeant Doyle died

00:06:59when the wall of his heart was penetrated by Exhibit 1?

00:07:04It might seem...

00:07:05My lord, I fail to see the relevance of this line of questioning.

00:07:07What difference does it make

00:07:08which of these wounds killed Sergeant Doyle?

00:07:10It makes the difference between murder and manslaughter, my lord.

00:07:14Would you explain that, Mr Mingilly?

00:07:15My lord, my clients do not deny being

00:07:17in a fight with Sergeant Doyle.

00:07:19A fight which involved a knife,

00:07:21and how that knife was involved,

00:07:23we shall explain at the appropriate time.

00:07:26Yes.

00:07:27A fight in which a violent beating was meted out

00:07:29to my clients as well as to Sergeant Doyle.

00:07:32And we shall explain the events leading up to that fight

00:07:35again at the appropriate time.

00:07:38But what my clients do deny, and that most emphatically,

00:07:41is that they at any time

00:07:44attacked Sergeant Doyle with a broken bottle.

00:07:48They will state that Sergeant Doyle

00:07:50fell upon the broken bottle during the struggle.

00:07:53The bottle was lying on the ground.

00:07:56Thus, he sustained the fatal wound.

00:07:58That is the difference it makes, my lord.

00:08:03Thank you, Dr Dix.

00:08:06You wish to re-examine, Mr Killick?

00:08:09No, thank you, my lord.

00:08:10Oh, are you sure?

00:08:11I thought there were one or two points raised

00:08:15by Mr McGilley, which you might like to clarify.

00:08:19My lord, the evidence will show

00:08:20that it will make no difference at all

00:08:21to the ultimate outcome of this trial.

00:08:23Oh, well, thank you, doctor.

00:08:25Oh, yes, yes, you may be released,

00:08:27unless counsel have any objection.

00:08:28No, no, no, you may go.

00:08:32I call Police Constable Bridges.

00:08:34Police Constable Bridges.

00:08:36I swear, almighty God, the evidence I shall give

00:09:03should be the truth, the old truth,

00:09:04and nothing but the truth.

00:09:05117 Police Constable Bridges,

00:09:07Fulchester Central, my lord.

00:09:09Constable Bridges.

00:09:10On the 2nd of October, last,

00:09:12were you on crowd control duty

00:09:13at the Fulchester United football ground?

00:09:15Yes, sir.

00:09:16And what did your part in that duty consist of?

00:09:18We were trying out a new technique.

00:09:21Apart from the 400 uniformed policemen on view

00:09:23and 200 in reserve,

00:09:25there was also a special force operating

00:09:27under the code name of Filingdale.

00:09:29Filingdale?

00:09:30Well, that's the name of the early warning radar station

00:09:33in Yorkshire.

00:09:33Ah, yes, my lord, that's what we were,

00:09:35an early warning system.

00:09:36Oh, yeah.

00:09:3780 men in plain clothes operating in pairs

00:09:39around the ground.

00:09:41We were to suss out the hot spots

00:09:43and try and cool them down

00:09:44before they got out of hand.

00:09:46I was working with Paddy,

00:09:47Sergeant Doyle.

00:09:49We were one of the teams assigned to the jungle.

00:09:51Jungle?

00:09:52The East Terracing

00:09:53at the Fulchester United ground, my lord,

00:09:55where the visiting supporters tend to congregate.

00:09:57I understand it is known colloquially

00:09:58as the jungle.

00:10:00Constable Bridges...

00:10:01Oh, really?

00:10:02And is there a name for the West Terracing,

00:10:05which presumably houses the home fans?

00:10:07Yes, my lord.

00:10:08I believe it is known as Paradise.

00:10:10Let's get on.

00:10:12My lord.

00:10:13So, you and Sergeant Doyle

00:10:14were patrolling the East Terracing,

00:10:16the jungle.

00:10:17What procedure did you follow?

00:10:19We were patrolling Section E

00:10:22in constant radio contact with each other

00:10:24and with a control van.

00:10:26The drill was to move unobtrusively

00:10:27among the crowds

00:10:28and look out for potential troublemakers.

00:10:31Unobtrusively,

00:10:31with walkie-talkies in operation the whole time?

00:10:33We had specially designed sets

00:10:35with a throat mic

00:10:36that could be concealed by a collar or a scarf

00:10:39and an earpiece that fitted inside the ear.

00:10:41It had the added advantage

00:10:43of leaving both hands free for emergencies.

00:10:46Quite.

00:10:46And did any such emergencies arise?

00:10:50Yes.

00:10:50We made two arrests before half-time

00:10:52and stopped to maybe half a dozen fights

00:10:55before they could really get going.

00:10:58So, in your opinion,

00:10:59up to that point at least,

00:11:00Operation Filingdale had been a complete success.

00:11:02Definitely, sir.

00:11:03Any one of those fights

00:11:04could have escalated into a major disturbance

00:11:06if we hadn't been on the spot.

00:11:07Indeed.

00:11:08Which brings us to the one which did escalate.

00:11:12Could you describe for us, Constable,

00:11:13the events leading up to this incident?

00:11:15It was about eight minutes into the second half.

00:11:19Sergeant Doyle and I were working our way across Section E,

00:11:22about 20 yards apart.

00:11:23He was lower down the terrace.

00:11:25Could you see him?

00:11:26No, but we were in constant radio touch.

00:11:29And then?

00:11:29I got a yellow from Sergeant Doyle.

00:11:32A yellow?

00:11:34A yellow alert.

00:11:35He'd spotted something dodgy.

00:11:37And what was your response?

00:11:39Well, I was rather busy myself at the time.

00:11:42I had a 15-year-old Strathclyde supporter

00:11:44drunk out of his mind,

00:11:45being sick all over my shoes.

00:11:46I acknowledged Sergeant Doyle's yellow

00:11:48and said I'd join him as soon as possible.

00:11:51Did Sergeant Doyle comment on the delay?

00:11:53He didn't sound too worried.

00:11:55He said,

00:11:56Don't be too long.

00:11:57I've got a right pair here.

00:11:59A gorilla and a ferret.

00:12:00They're spoiling for it.

00:12:01I see.

00:12:02My lord, really, surely this is hearsay evidence?

00:12:05Oh, I don't think I follow you, Mr McGilley.

00:12:07Sergeant Doyle,

00:12:08in the course of his duty,

00:12:10was merely reporting the situation as he saw it.

00:12:13Exactly, my lord, as he saw it.

00:12:14And now Constable Bridges

00:12:16is reporting that report as he heard it.

00:12:18Constable Bridges' report

00:12:19on the text of his conversation with Sergeant Doyle

00:12:21may be corroborated from a completely impartial source.

00:12:24And in any event, my lord,

00:12:26is part of res geste.

00:12:27Oh, res geste.

00:12:29Oh, dear.

00:12:29Well, now, members of the jury.

00:12:32Res geste is

00:12:33evidence of incidents

00:12:35which in themselves

00:12:37form part and parcel

00:12:39of the whole incident

00:12:40from which these charges arise.

00:12:43It's therefore admissible in evidence.

00:12:45Yes?

00:12:46I'm obliged to your lordship.

00:12:47As Constable Bridges stated earlier,

00:12:49he was linked by radio

00:12:50not only to Sergeant Doyle

00:12:52but also to Control Centre.

00:12:53The entire conversation was in fact recorded.

00:12:56I see.

00:12:56Mellon.

00:12:57As this was a major exercise in crowd control,

00:12:59it was only natural that the authorities

00:13:01would want a complete record

00:13:02for later study and analysis.

00:13:04We do have the tape here, my lord,

00:13:05if my learned friend would prefer it

00:13:07to the spoken word of the witness.

00:13:09I object most strongly, my lord.

00:13:10Whatever the presentation of this evidence,

00:13:13it will still only tell us

00:13:14what the sergeant thought he saw.

00:13:17And to paraphrase

00:13:18a long-standing legal axiom, my lord,

00:13:21what the sergeant thought he saw

00:13:22is not evidence.

00:13:25That's not an axiom, Mr McGilley.

00:13:26That's an aphorism.

00:13:28Well, thank you, my lord.

00:13:28Your objection is overruled.

00:13:31However,

00:13:32I will give you the choice

00:13:33of hearing the verbal evidence

00:13:35of the witness

00:13:36or the recording.

00:13:38Under protest,

00:13:39I accept the witness.

00:13:40Now, can we get on?

00:13:41Mellon.

00:13:41On the condition

00:13:42that I am provided

00:13:43with a transcript

00:13:44of the relevant recording

00:13:45as a reference.

00:13:46Yes, well,

00:13:46that doesn't seem

00:13:47to be an unreasonable request,

00:13:48Mr Kelly.

00:13:49No doubt you have

00:13:49a transcript ready

00:13:50for the defence.

00:13:51Well, I presume, my lord,

00:13:52one had been supplied to them.

00:13:54However, one might easily be...

00:13:55Oh, dear, oh, dear.

00:13:56Then I suppose

00:13:57we'd better adjourn.

00:13:58Until, what, 2.15?

00:14:00Make sure that solicitors

00:14:01have a copy

00:14:02of the transcript

00:14:03for the defence.

00:14:04Very good, my lord.

00:14:05All stand.

00:14:05Now, Constable Bridges,

00:14:24you had got word

00:14:25from Sergeant Doyle

00:14:26that he had a couple

00:14:27of troublemakers in sight.

00:14:29Objection in his opinion.

00:14:30Right, in his considered

00:14:32professional opinion

00:14:33as an experienced

00:14:34upholder of the law.

00:14:35The trouble was imminent.

00:14:37Please proceed, Constable.

00:14:39The youth beside me

00:14:40had passed out.

00:14:41I got him out of the section

00:14:41where he might have been

00:14:42trampled on

00:14:43and took him up

00:14:43to the top of the terracing.

00:14:45There I handed him over

00:14:46to a uniformed policeman

00:14:47and as I was doing so,

00:14:49Sergeant Doyle

00:14:49came through again.

00:14:50Had the situation

00:14:51deteriorated?

00:14:52It sounded like it.

00:14:54He said,

00:14:54Come on, Dave,

00:14:55this is it.

00:14:56So I started down the passageway

00:14:57to go to his assistance.

00:14:58Did you hear anything else

00:14:59from Sergeant Doyle?

00:15:01Yes.

00:15:01He said,

00:15:03Watch it, you,

00:15:05and then,

00:15:05I'm not telling you again

00:15:07and just after that,

00:15:09right, come here, you.

00:15:11And then his mic went dead.

00:15:12How far were you from him then?

00:15:14Only about five yards.

00:15:15I could see his head

00:15:15over the top of the crowds.

00:15:16And could you see anything else?

00:15:18Yes,

00:15:19I saw him,

00:15:21Morrison.

00:15:22He was holding Sergeant Doyle

00:15:23by the throat

00:15:24and butting him in the face

00:15:25with his head.

00:15:26I then saw a whiskey bottle

00:15:27smashed down the back

00:15:28of the sergeant's head.

00:15:29And did you see

00:15:30who wielded that bottle?

00:15:31No, whoever it was

00:15:32was too small

00:15:33to be seen

00:15:33over the heads of the crowd.

00:15:35I did see a blue

00:15:36and yellow sleeve

00:15:37which corresponded

00:15:37to the windsheet

00:15:38of the other accused

00:15:39McTeague was wearing

00:15:40when we arrested him

00:15:41a few minutes later.

00:15:42And what did you do then?

00:15:43I called the double red,

00:15:45the code for immediate action requested.

00:15:48I gave our position

00:15:49and then tried to get through

00:15:50to Sergeant Doyle.

00:15:52But United had just scored

00:15:53the second goal

00:15:54and the jungle

00:15:54had gone up like Vesuvius.

00:15:56When I did manage

00:15:57to get through,

00:15:58Sergeant Doyle

00:15:59was lying on the ground

00:16:00and those two

00:16:02were standing above him

00:16:02putting the boot in.

00:16:04Morrison

00:16:04and McTeague.

00:16:06Yes, my lord.

00:16:08McTeague

00:16:09was holding a knife.

00:16:10Exhibit two, please.

00:16:15Constable,

00:16:15is that the knife?

00:16:19Yes, sir.

00:16:20That's it.

00:16:21Please go on.

00:16:22I drew my truncheon

00:16:24and hit McTeague

00:16:25on the wrist

00:16:25to make him drop the knife.

00:16:27I then concentrated

00:16:28on Morrison

00:16:29who was laughing like crazy

00:16:30and still kicking

00:16:31at the body on the ground.

00:16:33I tried to haul him off

00:16:34but he wouldn't stop.

00:16:35I did finally manage

00:16:37to subdue him.

00:16:38By knocking him unconscious

00:16:39with your truncheon?

00:16:40There was no other way.

00:16:41Shortly after that

00:16:42reinforcements arrived

00:16:43and they were taken

00:16:44into custody.

00:16:46And then?

00:16:48I went to see

00:16:49if there was anything

00:16:49I could do

00:16:50for Sergeant Doyle.

00:16:51He was lying

00:16:52in a pool of blood.

00:16:54I turned him over

00:16:55but he was dead.

00:16:59Thank you,

00:17:00Count the Wilbridges.

00:17:04680.

00:17:06Didn't that seem

00:17:06a bit excessive to you?

00:17:08I beg your pardon?

00:17:09400 uniformed men

00:17:10on the ground,

00:17:11200 in reserve,

00:17:1380 plain-clothes men

00:17:14patrolling the terraces.

00:17:16How many men

00:17:16are usually on duty

00:17:17for a Fultures

00:17:18or United home game?

00:17:20I'm sorry, sir.

00:17:20I don't know.

00:17:21I'll tell you.

00:17:22120.

00:17:24So I ask you again,

00:17:25didn't 680

00:17:27seem a bit excessive?

00:17:28Not the way

00:17:29things turned out, no.

00:17:30But before the match,

00:17:31at your muster,

00:17:33680 men?

00:17:36What were you expecting?

00:17:37World War III?

00:17:38And we almost got it,

00:17:39didn't we?

00:17:40120 men would have been

00:17:42worse than useless

00:17:42against that mob.

00:17:43You were expecting trouble.

00:17:45Well, with these people,

00:17:46they're famous for it.

00:17:48Ask the ordinary,

00:17:49decent citizens

00:17:49of Newcastle

00:17:50or Barcelona.

00:17:51Or Fultures, sir.

00:17:52Right.

00:17:53Right.

00:17:54So with this

00:17:55tartar horde

00:17:56about to descend

00:17:57upon your fair city,

00:17:58were you given

00:17:59any special instructions

00:18:00at your briefing?

00:18:01There were no

00:18:01special instructions.

00:18:03None.

00:18:03In a major

00:18:05crowd control exercise

00:18:07involving new techniques,

00:18:09not even for

00:18:09Operation Filing,

00:18:11Dale,

00:18:12the plainclothes

00:18:13early warning system.

00:18:14We were to keep

00:18:14a low profile,

00:18:16try and spot

00:18:17potential troublemakers

00:18:18and get them out of the way

00:18:19before anything could develop.

00:18:20Using the minimum

00:18:20force necessary?

00:18:21Yes, of course.

00:18:22Of course.

00:18:25Now, how did you

00:18:25and Sergeant Doyle

00:18:27get paired up

00:18:28for this duty?

00:18:29Was it by roster,

00:18:30by luck,

00:18:31by lot?

00:18:32It was a natural pairing.

00:18:33We'd worked together

00:18:34often before.

00:18:34Oh, yes.

00:18:35You had a lot in common,

00:18:36hadn't you?

00:18:37You were both members

00:18:38of the Catholic Police Association?

00:18:40Yes, sir.

00:18:40You were best man

00:18:41at his wedding?

00:18:42Yes, sir.

00:18:43And you both had

00:18:43a loathing

00:18:44for the kind of

00:18:45mindless violence

00:18:47that you believed

00:18:48these kind of people

00:18:49were capable of?

00:18:50Oh, we knew

00:18:50what they were capable of.

00:18:51We'd read the reports

00:18:52from Newcastle.

00:18:53And it didn't take them

00:18:54long to prove it.

00:18:55Well, now,

00:18:55let's see how long

00:18:56it took them to prove it.

00:18:59Do you know

00:19:00how many arrests

00:19:02were made

00:19:02inside the ground

00:19:03during the first half

00:19:04of the game?

00:19:05I don't have

00:19:05the exact figures.

00:19:07I have.

00:19:08Three.

00:19:09And two of those arrests

00:19:10were made by you

00:19:11and Sergeant Doyle.

00:19:12I don't see what

00:19:13you're getting at.

00:19:13Oh, don't you?

00:19:14How then do you explain

00:19:16that you and Sergeant Doyle

00:19:18arrested twice as many

00:19:19wrongdoers as the rest

00:19:21of the police force

00:19:21put together?

00:19:22We carried out our duty

00:19:23conscientiously.

00:19:24And they didn't?

00:19:25No.

00:19:26I mean, we were in the

00:19:27roughest part of the ground.

00:19:28The roughest part of the ground.

00:19:29Two arrests before

00:19:30half-time?

00:19:32You could have

00:19:32not stopped that many

00:19:34in a reserve game

00:19:35before the kick-off.

00:19:36We were also there

00:19:37to maintain order.

00:19:38Doesn't seem to have been

00:19:39too difficult, does it?

00:19:40At least not in the first half.

00:19:43Not at all what you

00:19:44had been led to expect

00:19:45by the experience

00:19:46of Newcastle and Barcelona.

00:19:49Perhaps that puzzled you,

00:19:50even frustrated you, eh?

00:19:52No, it suited us perfectly.

00:19:54If we could have got

00:19:54through the whole game

00:19:55without a single

00:19:56major disturbance,

00:19:57it would have been a victory

00:19:57for the Fulchester police.

00:19:58And a victory

00:19:59for the Strathclyde Rover

00:20:00supporters.

00:20:02It would have gone

00:20:02some way towards proving

00:20:04that they are not animals

00:20:05and not the wild beasts

00:20:07that they are made out

00:20:08to be by the media.

00:20:10But it didn't, did it?

00:20:11And perhaps by the end

00:20:12of these proceedings

00:20:12we shall have a clearer idea

00:20:13of why it didn't.

00:20:14I know why.

00:20:16Oh, I know you do.

00:20:17Constable Bridges,

00:20:18I know you do.

00:20:21Now let's come

00:20:21to the second half.

00:20:23You and the sergeant

00:20:23are conscientiously

00:20:25patrolling Section E,

00:20:27ready to quash

00:20:28any potential disturbance

00:20:29with the minimum

00:20:30of force necessary.

00:20:31Yes.

00:20:32Doyle calls a standby,

00:20:33but you are busy.

00:20:34Yes, like I told you,

00:20:36a 15-year-old kid

00:20:37drunk out of his mind.

00:20:38I had to take him

00:20:39out of the area

00:20:40where he might have

00:20:40been trampled on.

00:20:41Yes, according to

00:20:42the incident log,

00:20:43that was Andrew Carnock,

00:20:45aged 15, as you say,

00:20:48taken to

00:20:49Folchester General Hospital

00:20:51where he had

00:20:52seven stitches

00:20:53inserted in a face wound.

00:20:55Yes, he fell against

00:20:55a stanchion

00:20:56as I was carrying him clear.

00:20:57It just wasn't his day,

00:20:58was it?

00:21:00And then you hurry

00:21:01towards your colleague

00:21:02with his gorilla

00:21:03and ferret.

00:21:05Tell me,

00:21:05did Sergeant Doyle

00:21:06usually refer to members

00:21:07of the public

00:21:08of these disparaging terms?

00:21:09No, of course not.

00:21:11So he had already

00:21:12categorised in his own mind

00:21:13that these men

00:21:15were animals.

00:21:16No, Pat wasn't like that.

00:21:18It was merely a remark.

00:21:19An unfortunate remark.

00:21:22Then come the phrases,

00:21:23watch at you,

00:21:24I'm not telling you again,

00:21:25and right,

00:21:26come hear you,

00:21:27then the mic went dead.

00:21:30Now, do you,

00:21:30do you really think

00:21:32that these sound

00:21:34like soothing words

00:21:36calculated to placate

00:21:37a potential troublemaker?

00:21:39They weren't meant

00:21:40to placate,

00:21:40they were a simple warning.

00:21:41Or a threat.

00:21:43However,

00:21:44you hurried towards him,

00:21:45the riot broke out,

00:21:46and finally you got there.

00:21:48Sergeant Doyle

00:21:49was lying on the ground

00:21:50and the accused

00:21:51was standing over it.

00:21:52They weren't just standing,

00:21:53they were kicking him.

00:21:54How was Sergeant Doyle lying?

00:21:58On his back?

00:21:59No, he was face down,

00:22:02curled up into a ball

00:22:03trying to protect himself.

00:22:04Ah, and the accused

00:22:05were milling around

00:22:06trying to put the boot in?

00:22:07No, they weren't milling.

00:22:08One of McTeague's feet

00:22:10was trapped

00:22:10between Sergeant Doyle's thighs

00:22:12and Morrison's leg

00:22:13was wedged under his arm.

00:22:15Oh, so they couldn't get away?

00:22:17No.

00:22:18Even in the condition he was in,

00:22:19Pat had got them to rights.

00:22:21And he held on,

00:22:22despite the kicking.

00:22:23Now, this alleged kicking...

00:22:25Forget the alleged,

00:22:26read the medical report.

00:22:27We do not deny the bruising.

00:22:29But remember,

00:22:30these two were each

00:22:31trapped by one leg

00:22:33and all they were trying

00:22:33to do when you came

00:22:34was to get clear.

00:22:36Couldn't that be

00:22:36an explanation

00:22:37of what you saw?

00:22:39No, not with these two.

00:22:40They were enjoying it.

00:22:41They're most blind

00:22:42who will not see.

00:22:44All right,

00:22:45tell us what you did next.

00:22:47I went to try

00:22:47and haul them off.

00:22:48Mm-hmm.

00:22:49With the minimum force necessary.

00:22:50With the minimum force necessary.

00:22:54With one blow

00:22:55of your truncheon,

00:22:56you shattered McTeague's wrist.

00:22:57He was holding a knife.

00:22:58He will never have

00:22:59the full use

00:23:00of that hand again.

00:23:01And Morrison

00:23:02had three fractures

00:23:04in his skull.

00:23:05And Sergeant Doyle

00:23:06is dead.

00:23:07My Lord,

00:23:09it's clear

00:23:09that the animosity

00:23:10and prejudice

00:23:10that this officer

00:23:12showed

00:23:13on October 2nd

00:23:14has been carried

00:23:15into this courtroom.

00:23:16I have no further use

00:23:18for this witness.

00:23:21Mr Kelly,

00:23:22thank you.

00:23:24My Lord,

00:23:24may I say something?

00:23:27Well,

00:23:28is it relevant

00:23:29to the case?

00:23:29I think so,

00:23:30my Lord.

00:23:31All right,

00:23:31go ahead.

00:23:32There have been

00:23:33several allegations

00:23:34of police brutality

00:23:35on the incident

00:23:36of October 2nd.

00:23:39I think the true story

00:23:40lies in the casualty figures.

00:23:42There were 47

00:23:43civilians injured

00:23:44and 124 policemen.

00:23:48Or judge for yourselves

00:23:49the source of the brutality.

00:23:51Thank you,

00:23:51my Lord.

00:23:52Thank you,

00:23:52ma'am.

00:24:14The cases in Forchester

00:24:15are fictitious.

00:24:16You can join us again tomorrow

00:24:17when the Queen

00:24:18against McTeague

00:24:19and Morrison

00:24:19will be resumed

00:24:20in the Crown Court.

00:24:22It's not going to do your

00:24:25anymore.

00:24:26It does.

00:24:27It does.

00:24:27The play

00:24:28is it

00:24:32in the past.

00:24:46Thank you,

00:24:46my king.

00:24:48Inspector...

00:24:49Inspector's hearing...

00:24:51John McTeague and Daniel Morrison are charged with the murder of Sergeant Patrick Doyle at the

00:24:59Fulchester United football ground. Evidence has already been given of the savagery of the attack

00:25:04and the dead man's colleague, Constable Bridgest, has described how when he reached his partner,

00:25:09the two accused were standing over the body, one holding a knife, both still attacking the fallen

00:25:15policeman. The case continues with prosecuting counsel calling the officer who made the actual

00:25:20arrest. I was the officer in charge of backup one. Backup one. The reserve force, my lord, was

00:25:27divided into four backup groups, one stationed at each of the access passages to the running track

00:25:34which surrounds the playing surface. Milad, I have here a plan of the ground which might make this

00:25:38easier to follow. Oh, yeah. Right. Wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, face the jury,

00:25:46that's it. Now, Inspector Fielder, you come out of the witness box, come over here, try to put us in the picture.

00:25:54Here are the four access passages, my lord, reaching the running track opposite each corner flag. Now, the four backup groups were stationed here, here, here, and here. Out of sight, at the back of the two stands. I was here with backup one.

00:26:19I see. Here? I'm obliged to your lordship. And what were your orders, Inspector? Well, to remain out of sight until or unless required. In fact, we could only move on a double red issued from control centre.

00:26:31And what was the procedure, should a double red be issued? If I might just describe the general tactics, my lord, it'll give you a better idea how we fitted in.

00:26:39Yes, yes, go ahead.

00:26:40Well, the main force of 400 was split in two. 150 men stationed along the back of the terraces, and 250 patrolling the running track at two yard intervals.

00:26:55Now, on an ordinary red alert, the men on the running track would halt, turn, and face the terracing, ready to deal with any overspill.

00:27:04Did you, in fact, receive a double red alert?

00:27:06Yes. Shortly after halftime, a double red E section, east terracing.

00:27:13And what did you do?

00:27:14Well, I led backup one, out onto the track, and took up the prescribed positions.

00:27:19Which one?

00:27:21The bulk of the men moved to fill in the spaces between the men already facing the terracing, and I stationed myself here with the V squad.

00:27:29The V squad?

00:27:31A squad of 15 picked men in V formation, my lord. We found it a highly effective method of clearing a path through crowds.

00:27:38Please go on, inspector.

00:27:40I saw immediately where the center of the disturbance was, and I led my men towards it.

00:27:46Thank you, usher.

00:27:48Now, inspector, you, in fact, were at the head of this formation, were you not?

00:27:54Yes, sir.

00:27:55So, in fact, you were the first of your group to reach the spot where the trouble seems to have originated.

00:27:58Objection, my lord. If by trouble we're referring to the riot as a whole, we've heard nothing to prove that it started within the vicinity of my clients.

00:28:07Or is the charge of causing an affray about to be added to the indictment?

00:28:10Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm sure you can rephrase the questions.

00:28:14Very easily, my lord. Inspector, were you the first of your group to reach Constable Bridges?

00:28:17Yes, sir.

00:28:18And what did you see?

00:28:20Constable Bridges was kneeling on the ground, holding Sergeant Doyle. There was blood everywhere.

00:28:25Did you see the two accused?

00:28:27Yes. McTeague was squatting on the ground, hunched over, nursing his arm.

00:28:33There was a knife on the ground in front of him with a blood-stained blade.

00:28:36Exhibit two, please.

00:28:37That is the knife. I picked it up myself and marked it.

00:28:45And the other accused, Morrison?

00:28:48Well, Morrison was sprawled out face down across Sergeant Doyle's legs, apparently unconscious.

00:28:53Apparently unconscious?

00:28:55Yes. When I went to move him, he got to his feet and attacked me.

00:28:59It took three of my men to subdue him.

00:29:01It took three of your picked men to subdue him?

00:29:04Yes, sir.

00:29:04With the minimum force necessary.

00:29:08In his case, the minimum force necessary was very considerable indeed.

00:29:12Bloody English pansies. Couldn't he find a way out of paper bag?

00:29:16Morrison!

00:29:19If this were not a very serious charge, I should have you removed from the dock.

00:29:25Now sit down and behave yourself, or I shall have no alternative. Yes?

00:29:29Well done.

00:29:30And what, Inspector?

00:29:31Okay.

00:29:32Oh, don't forget it.

00:29:33Okay.

00:29:34Inspector, what was the subsequent course of events?

00:29:40Well, the two accused were taken to Fulchester General Hospital for treatment, where they were kept under police guard.

00:29:46Sergeant Doyle's body was removed to the mortuary, and I gathered together certain items and passed them on to the scene of crimes, officer, for forensic examination.

00:29:55What were those items?

00:29:56The knife, the piece of broken bottle, and later the footwear the two accused were wearing at the time of the incident.

00:30:02My landed friend agrees the forensic evidence, my lad, and to save time, my landed friend also agrees that I might lead the inspector onto the salient points without having the report read out in full.

00:30:11Mr. McGillie?

00:30:12That is so, my lord.

00:30:14Now, Inspector, would you read the forensic report under summary?

00:30:17Thank you, sir.

00:30:47Now, Inspector, can you tell us what is different about them?

00:30:53The toe caps are reinforced with steel.

00:31:00I see.

00:31:02Now, after reading the forensic report and reading the post-mortem report, what action did you take?

00:31:07On the morning of Wednesday, the 6th of October, the two accused were discharged from hospital.

00:31:13I took them to the Fulchester Central Police Station, where they were cautioned and charged with the murder of Sergeant Doyle.

00:31:19Were they asked if they wished to make statements?

00:31:21Yes.

00:31:22They both made it clear they did not wish to do so.

00:31:24And how did they make this clear?

00:31:26They started shouting obscenities, and then they both became violent.

00:31:30Thank you, Inspector.

00:31:31Thank you, Inspector.

00:31:33Inspector Fielding, have you had a lot of experience in crowd control?

00:31:40It's part of my training as a police officer.

00:31:42That is not what I asked.

00:31:44House conveyancing is part of my reading for the bar exams, but I haven't handled a title deed in 20 years.

00:31:52Have you had a lot of experience in crowd control?

00:31:55Not a lot, but I know the drill.

00:31:57Do you indeed?

00:31:58Let's see your, what do you call it, your V squad.

00:32:03You led this V squad to the centre of the disturbance.

00:32:07You at the head of it.

00:32:08Yes, sir.

00:32:10Well, now, according to the police handbook, in wedge formation,

00:32:18the officer in charge of the wedge shall take up his position within the arms of the V

00:32:25in order to direct its action with the greatest efficiency.

00:32:29Aren't you aware of that?

00:32:30Well, yes, but there was no time.

00:32:33I knew there was an officer down in E section.

00:32:35Oh, you knew a police officer was in trouble?

00:32:37Yes.

00:32:38Control passed on the message from Constable Bridges.

00:32:40So, casting a normal procedure aside, in you went?

00:32:43Yes.

00:32:44Presumably, you would have waited and got it right if it had only been a civilian who was in trouble.

00:32:48Mr McGilley, that insinuation is quite unjustified.

00:32:52If you say so, my lord.

00:32:54But as I see it, it is only one more example of overreaction on the part of the police

00:32:59that pervades the whole of this unfortunate incident.

00:33:03And since overreaction tends to beget overreaction,

00:33:06I think it is important that we establish the pattern.

00:33:09Yes, well, overreaction is a relative term, Mr McGilley.

00:33:12I would prefer it if you stick to the facts.

00:33:14As your lordship pleases.

00:33:16Fact.

00:33:17On the Saturday, when my clients were taken into custody,

00:33:21they both required extensive hospital treatment.

00:33:24The reasons for that have already been made clear.

00:33:26Fact.

00:33:27On the Wednesday, four hours after my clients had been discharged from Folchester General Hospital,

00:33:33they were back in there again for further treatment, mainly to facial injuries.

00:33:37Along with two of my men, one with a broken nose, from being butted in the face by that animal.

00:33:43Animals, yes, that's what these men are to you, isn't it?

00:33:47You've treated them like animals from the very beginning,

00:33:49and then you wonder that eventually you succeed in making them behave like animals.

00:33:53That is simply not true.

00:33:54I did everything I could to protect their rights.

00:33:56Ah, so you admit they needed protection.

00:33:58They had all the protection that is available to the normal citizen.

00:34:01Why?

00:34:02According to you, these are animals.

00:34:05There's not the slightest doubt in my mind that my men behaved with commendable restraint.

00:34:08Oh, really?

00:34:09In certain instances.

00:34:12Wednesday.

00:34:136th of October, Folchester General Hospital.

00:34:16Casual to report.

00:34:17McTeague.

00:34:18Four broken teeth.

00:34:20Jaw dislocated.

00:34:22Stitches in right eyebrow.

00:34:24Morrison.

00:34:25Four stitches in cheek wound.

00:34:27Three stitches in torn ear.

00:34:28If your men had not shown such commendable restraint,

00:34:34there might not have been much of my clients left to try.

00:34:38Now, there is just one more fact that I would like to bring to the court's attention.

00:34:45You've told us that the fingerprints of Morrison and McTeague were found on that knife.

00:34:50Yes, sir.

00:34:51Were there any other fingerprints found on the knife?

00:34:54Yes.

00:34:55Sergeant Doyles.

00:34:56Thank you, Inspector Fielding.

00:34:58That'll be all.

00:34:59Sergeant Doyle could easily have got hold of that knife during the struggle.

00:35:02Were you there, Inspector?

00:35:04Did you see it?

00:35:05No, but Sergeant Doyle...

00:35:06Thank you, Inspector Fielding.

00:35:07That'll be all.

00:35:19I call the defendant, John McTeague.

00:35:21I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give should be the truth, the whole truth,

00:35:45and nothing but the truth.

00:35:46You are John McTeague, and you live at 134A Plantation Street, governed in the city of Glasgow.

00:35:56When I'm home, aye.

00:35:57How old are you?

00:35:5824.

00:35:59What is your present occupation?

00:36:01A suspected murderer.

00:36:03That's enough of that.

00:36:04Well, it's the longest that I've been in one position.

00:36:07What was your occupation on October 2nd?

00:36:09I didn't have one.

00:36:10I was on the brew.

00:36:12Brew?

00:36:13It's a Glasgow expression, my lord.

00:36:15It means the labour exchange.

00:36:17It's the word, corruption rather, of the word bureau, as in bureau of employment.

00:36:22I see.

00:36:24How long have you been unemployed?

00:36:26I've never been employed.

00:36:27You mean you've never had a job?

00:36:29Oh, I've had jobs.

00:36:31Like a packer in a warehouse, sweeping up a bakery, breaking bottles in a glass factory.

00:36:36But that's not employment.

00:36:38Any monkey can do that.

00:36:39And you think you're entitled to something better, eh?

00:36:41I know it.

00:36:42Indeed?

00:36:44How old were you when you left school?

00:36:4617.

00:36:48But you could have left at 16, so why did you stay on for the extra year?

00:36:52I was conned, wasn't I?

00:36:54By whom?

00:36:55Oh, by everybody.

00:36:57Qualifications.

00:36:58You know, get your qualifications or you'll end up nowhere.

00:37:01Huh.

00:37:01That's a laugh, isn't it?

00:37:02And did you get any of these qualifications?

00:37:05Aye, sure.

00:37:05What were these qualifications?

00:37:09Two hires, art and technical drawing.

00:37:11Hires?

00:37:11What are they?

00:37:12Rather like A-levels, my lord.

00:37:15You passed in two of these?

00:37:17Yeah.

00:37:18What grades?

00:37:19An A in art, B in technical drawing.

00:37:23Oh.

00:37:25Good.

00:37:25And in addition, you had seven O-levels?

00:37:28Yeah.

00:37:29Well, these seem like very reasonable qualifications to me.

00:37:32Didn't they help in getting you a job?

00:37:35Oh, I was taken on as a trainee draftsman at the Coffield shipyards.

00:37:38Four months later, the yard was shut down.

00:37:40And there was no prospect of you finding a similar position elsewhere?

00:37:44No.

00:37:44Nothing but monkey work.

00:37:46So for the last six years, what have you been doing for a living?

00:37:49Yeah.

00:37:49Who's living?

00:37:50I'm not living.

00:37:51I'm just taking up space.

00:37:53Are there no interests in your life?

00:37:55Oh, aye.

00:37:56Drawing my brew money gives me the greatest of pleasure.

00:37:58What about the Struthclyde Rovers?

00:38:01That's an interest, isn't it?

00:38:03No, that's not an interest.

00:38:04That's a habit.

00:38:06No, it's more than that.

00:38:07It's a disease.

00:38:08See, where I come from, if you don't pick up from your father,

00:38:11you pick up for your mates soon enough.

00:38:13Surely the cure is simple.

00:38:14All you have to do is stop going to their matches.

00:38:17I wish it was that easy.

00:38:19But, I mean, it all feels different when you're on the way to your game.

00:38:21I mean, there you all are on the coach.

00:38:24Singing the songs, wearing the colours.

00:38:27You know who you are.

00:38:28You know who you're with.

00:38:29You know you're going somewhere.

00:38:30The rest of the week is nothing.

00:38:32You say you enjoy these outings?

00:38:35There's something to do.

00:38:37What about the outing to Fulchester?

00:38:39Aye, what about it?

00:38:41Well, were you made welcome in the town?

00:38:44Oh, aye, like a black death.

00:38:45Oh, but that's normal, isn't it?

00:38:46When Struthclyde Rovers supporters travel to away matches, isn't it?

00:38:50No, no, no.

00:38:50This wasn't normal.

00:38:52We were hounded.

00:38:53You couldn't even look in a shop window without being surrounded by coppers.

00:38:57Danny and me were searched three times on the way to the ground.

00:39:00Did they find and confiscate anything in these searches?

00:39:02My knife.

00:39:03You were carrying a knife?

00:39:05Yes, an ordinary pen knife.

00:39:07I still draw things.

00:39:08I like to keep my pencils sharp.

00:39:10Anything else?

00:39:11Aye, outside the ground, do you know?

00:39:13Let's take a beer in.

00:39:14They confiscated your beer.

00:39:16Are you kidding?

00:39:17No, we stood there and drank it.

00:39:19We couldn't take the cans in, but we did take the beer in.

00:39:22Were you at all worried about having to stand all through the rest of the game without further refreshment?

00:39:26No, they were too busy watching us drinking this beer.

00:39:28They'd only twigged any of the bottle of whiskey than his trousers.

00:39:31Right.

00:39:31Now, let us get straight to the incident that has brought us all here this afternoon.

00:39:37Tell us, please, in your own words, what happened.

00:39:42Aye, well, Danny and me were up on the terrace behind the Rovers goal.

00:39:47Just watching the game, cheering on the boys, you know.

00:39:51I was here and Danny was by my left.

00:39:54And this bloke came in behind us.

00:39:56Can you describe it?

00:39:57Aye, he's a big fella, near as big as Danny.

00:40:01Bit of a snide with it.

00:40:03What was he wearing?

00:40:05A kind of dark winch-ed-er.

00:40:06I didn't take much notice.

00:40:08Anyway, he started shoving in, so I don't shove off.

00:40:12And did he shove off?

00:40:14No, he just stood there mumbling something.

00:40:16What do you mean, mumbling something?

00:40:19Well, as if he was talking to himself.

00:40:22I thought he was drunk, so I just turned back to the game.

00:40:25And I feel as if I'm shoving in again, so, you know, when I looks round,

00:40:28I sees I'm trying to put this knife in Danny's pocket.

00:40:30Is that the knife?

00:40:32Yeah, that's it.

00:40:34I thought maybe he'd done something, he was trying to ditch the evidence, no?

00:40:36And what did you do?

00:40:38Oh, I shoved his hand away.

00:40:39I told him he'd find some other mug.

00:40:41What did he do?

00:40:43He just grinned.

00:40:44And he stamped on my toes.

00:40:46That must have been very painful.

00:40:49No, no, I had two toes crushed a couple of years ago.

00:40:52I've had to wear steel toe-caps shoes ever since.

00:40:56And what was Danny doing all this time?

00:40:59Well, he hadn't noticed.

00:41:01I mean, he was just, you know, shouting the team on, you know,

00:41:04waving his arms about,

00:41:05and his elbow kind of brushed against the guy's shoulder.

00:41:08Against Sergeant Doyle's shoulder?

00:41:10Yeah.

00:41:11Ah, well, I mean, I didn't even know he was a cop at length, did I?

00:41:13As far as I know, it's just some bum trying it on.

00:41:16How did he react to Danny's elbow?

00:41:18Well, he thumped Danny in the ribs, told him to watch it.

00:41:22Danny turned round, it was the first time he'd seen the bloke.

00:41:24So he pushed him away.

00:41:27Then he turned back again, and that was when the guy jumped him.

00:41:30Now, are you sure of that?

00:41:32Sergeant Doyle jumped on Danny from behind?

00:41:35Yeah.

00:41:35He nosed him.

00:41:37Nosed him?

00:41:38It's a particularly vicious form of assault, my lord.

00:41:42Perhaps my client could demonstrate it on the usher.

00:41:45Why, sure.

00:41:45Well, er, yes, well, now, er, McTeague,

00:41:53you will simply explain to us, using the usher as a model,

00:41:57you will not touch him.

00:42:00Right, er.

00:42:03Er, well, what you do is you jump on a man's back,

00:42:05and you've got one arm round there,

00:42:08put your own arm over the top,

00:42:09and you hook your fingers up the nose,

00:42:11and then you pull.

00:42:13Quite appalling.

00:42:14Oh, well, if it's done right, the other guy's got no chance.

00:42:17Thank you, usher.

00:42:20And did Sergeant Doyle do it right?

00:42:22No, er, Danny was a bit too big for him to get on the grip.

00:42:26We knew he soon found he'd backed a loser.

00:42:28Danny was round him like a flash.

00:42:30And at the same time, United scored, and that's when the Ramy started.

00:42:33Ramy?

00:42:33Ramy's a riot, a disturbance.

00:42:36I wish your client would speak English.

00:42:38Why should he, my lord?

00:42:40He's a Scot.

00:42:41Er, well, I'm not going to get dragged into a debate on devolution here.

00:42:45Just get on with your case, Mr. McGillie.

00:42:47Thank you, my lord.

00:42:49Now, Mr. McTeague, what did you do when the fight started?

00:42:51That's why I went with him with a bottle.

00:42:53You hit him with a bottle?

00:42:55Yeah.

00:42:56He was getting into my mate.

00:42:57There's a bottle there.

00:42:57I hit him with it.

00:42:58Did you do this deliberately or not?

00:43:01No, no, that's not the way it works.

00:43:03You don't think about it.

00:43:03You just do it.

00:43:05I mean, it's the first rule in Ramy's.

00:43:06You do unto others before they do unto you.

00:43:08I see.

00:43:10And what happened to the sergeant?

00:43:12Oh, well, he'd like a brick.

00:43:13Started swinging at me with this knife.

00:43:15So I grabbed his hand and wrestled for it.

00:43:17You got the knife away from me?

00:43:19Yeah.

00:43:20And then he grabbed me and we all fell down in a heap.

00:43:24I mean, the crowd, they were just going bananas, you know.

00:43:26They were trampling all over us like I heard the buffalo.

00:43:29And when eventually a space did clear, me and Danny managed to get to your feet.

00:43:33The sergeant stayed on the deck.

00:43:36I could see we were in a kind of bad spot, so I said to Danny to run for it.

00:43:40But the sergeant was curled around her legs.

00:43:41We couldn't even move.

00:43:43Then the archangel Gabriel over there descended with his flaming truncheon.

00:43:48Broke my bloody wrist and he battered Danny senseless.

00:43:51Shortly after that, Inspector Fielding arrived with his men and you were taken into custody.

00:43:55Yeah.

00:43:55And if you want to talk about animals, let's talk about these guys.

00:44:00I mean, they could see the state my wrist was in.

00:44:02But they slapped a pair of handcuffs on me all the same.

00:44:05I mean, it wasn't until I got into the ambulance that the doctor made them take him off.

00:44:08I mean, they just kicked Danny a bit like a rugby ball.

00:44:13And they call us animals.

00:44:15On the Wednesday, you were taken to Fulchester Central and charged with the murder of Sergeant Doyle.

00:44:19Yeah, but that was the first time anyone had told us it was a copper that had been done.

00:44:27Why did you refuse to make a statement?

00:44:30They didn't want a statement.

00:44:32I mean, they wanted a confession.

00:44:34I mean, we didn't give them it.

00:44:35What they'd done is over again.

00:44:36Which resulted in you returning to hospital for more medical treatment.

00:44:40Yeah, and a good thing it was too.

00:44:43I mean, I reckon if we'd spent the night in those cells, it would have been our last.

00:44:47Now, John, one last question.

00:44:49And a crucial one.

00:44:52Did you drive that bottle into Sergeant Doyle's body?

00:44:55No, of course not.

00:44:57I dropped the bottle as soon as I went for the knife.

00:45:00See, that's the big mistake these people make.

00:45:02You don't know anything about bottle fighting.

00:45:04I mean, you don't use a bottle to kill.

00:45:06You use it to mark.

00:45:08You don't use it on the body.

00:45:09You use it on the face to scar.

00:45:15Do you consider yourself to be an intelligent man?

00:45:18I'm no mug.

00:45:19No, of course you aren't, no.

00:45:20In fact, you're a man of some education.

00:45:22The Scottish equivalent of an A-level in art, I believe.

00:45:25So what?

00:45:25Well, perhaps that might account of the highly imaginative and colourful picture you've painted of these events leading up to the death of Sergeant Doyle.

00:45:32That's the way it was.

00:45:34Hmm.

00:45:35Do you seriously expect the jury to believe your version?

00:45:39No.

00:45:40I don't expect this court to believe anything they doesn't want to believe.

00:45:43The way I see it is you're down one copper.

00:45:46Me and Danny, we're just here to balance up the books.

00:45:48It's as easy as that.

00:45:49You don't seem to have much faith in British justice.

00:45:52Oh, it's British justice, is it?

00:45:54You know, it's funny.

00:45:55You people only seem to use that word for two reasons.

00:45:58You either want to share in our credit or you want to spread blame.

00:46:01Well, perhaps you feel that you two shouldn't even be in the dock.

00:46:03Oh, look, well, maybe we should, but there's a few more that ought to be up here along with us.

00:46:06Oh, I see.

00:46:07We're back on the allegations of police brutality, are we?

00:46:09So what is this?

00:46:10Scotch mist?

00:46:11A police constable finds you with a knife in your hand, standing over an injured colleague, kicking him viciously.

00:46:17What do you think you ought to do?

00:46:19Tap you on the shoulder and say, excuse me, should we sit down and discuss this like gentlemen?

00:46:24Hey, look, we weren't kicking him.

00:46:26He had us held that we were trying to get away.

00:46:28Oh, yes, trying to free yourself.

00:46:29Would you describe that, please?

00:46:31What do you mean?

00:46:32Well, describe the actions you were taking, what your feet were doing, that kind of thing.

00:46:36Well, like he had me trapped.

00:46:39My left leg was cutting between his knees.

00:46:42I was trying to prise apart his legs and my other foot.

00:46:44Hmm.

00:46:45Using, if I might use a phrase of which my learned friend seems very fond, the minimum force necessary.

00:46:51Come again?

00:46:52Did it take a lot of strength to prise his legs apart?

00:46:56Well, he had me held like a vice.

00:46:58So you had to use considerable force?

00:47:01Yeah, well, I mean, a fair amount, yeah.

00:47:03Yes, with steel toe caps.

00:47:04That to me sounds like a description of a very vicious kicking.

00:47:07Wouldn't you say so?

00:47:07Oh, look, I've told you, but the toe caps are for protection.

00:47:10Yes, nevertheless, they made a very nasty weapon, didn't they?

00:47:13Now, let's pass on to the next item in your armoury, this knife.

00:47:17Look, it's not my knife.

00:47:19That is the one that the copper was trying to plant on Danny.

00:47:21But you were in the habit of carrying a knife, weren't you?

00:47:24Yes, an ordinary penknife for shipping and pencils.

00:47:26Oh, yes, this knife that, according to you, was confiscated by the police on the way to the ground?

00:47:30Yeah, right.

00:47:31Yes, and yet, despite the most meticulous of searches by the police,

00:47:35of all the items confiscated that day from the Strathclyde Rover supporters,

00:47:40this small ordinary penknife of yours has failed to turn up.

00:47:43Indeed, not one single policeman remembers, has any recollection at all, of searching you or your friend.

00:47:50Well, it doesn't suit them, does it?

00:47:52I mean, if they've already picked my knife up outside the ground,

00:47:55then they've got a hard job explaining where that one came from, haven't they?

00:47:58Yes, but the opposite is also true, isn't it?

00:48:00I mean, you don't wish to be associated with that knife,

00:48:02so you invent this confiscation story in an attempt to refute the evidence.

00:48:08Oh, well, he wasn't very clever, was he?

00:48:11Look, I described my knife down to the maker's name and a mark out with a large blade.

00:48:16Easy enough for them to find it, and then lose it.

00:48:18Yes, perhaps in this instance you were too clever.

00:48:21Oh, aye, see me, I'm a bloody genius.

00:48:24Oh, I'm in complete agreement with your choice of adjective.

00:48:26I have no further questions, my lord.

00:48:29The cases in Fulchester are fictitious.

00:48:50You can join us again tomorrow when the Queen against McTeague and Morrison

00:48:54will be concluded in the Crown Court.

00:48:56The trial of John McTeague and Daniel Morrison

00:49:22for the murder of Sergeant Doyle on the terracing at Fulchester United's football ground

00:49:26enters its final day.

00:49:28In examination by his counsel, Douglas McGillig, you see,

00:49:32McTeague has claimed that the deceased man had deliberately provoked the fight

00:49:35and that from the moment of their arrest,

00:49:38both he and Morrison had suffered considerable brutality at the hands of the police.

00:49:43The jury in this trial has been selected from members of the public

00:49:46whose names appeared on the electoral register

00:49:48and who are eligible for jury service.

00:49:50What is a religion?

00:49:52I'm a Protestant.

00:49:53I beg your pardon?

00:49:54I'm a Protestant.

00:49:56You know, opposite a Catholic.

00:49:58My client is a Protestant, my lord.

00:50:00Yes, thank you.

00:50:00Administer the oath.

00:50:02Take the book in the right hand and read aloud the words on this card.

00:50:07Something wrong?

00:50:09I'm no very good at the reading.

00:50:12Administer the oath verbally, please.

00:50:14Repeat after me.

00:50:15I swear by almighty God.

00:50:16I swear by almighty God.

00:50:18That the evidence I shall give.

00:50:20That the evidence I shall give.

00:50:21Shall be the truth.

00:50:22Shall be the truth.

00:50:23The whole truth.

00:50:23The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

00:50:25I remembered that for the others.

00:50:28Mr McGillig.

00:50:30Thank you, my lord.

00:50:31You are Daniel Haldane Morrison and you live at 48 Rockingford Drive, East Kilbride, Renforshire, Scotland.

00:50:40Oh, that's right.

00:50:42And what is your occupation?

00:50:44You mean a furor of this?

00:50:45Yes.

00:50:46I was a labourer on the roads, digging ditches and that.

00:50:50How long had you been a labourer?

00:50:52You mean officially?

00:50:53Officially or unofficially?

00:50:55Well, I'd been with the same firm since I left school.

00:50:58Before that, I could always get two or three days casual-like, you know.

00:51:01You were digging ditches when you were supposed to be in school?

00:51:04Oh, I couldn't be doing with a school.

00:51:06Bit of a waste of time, you know.

00:51:08And I liked the digging and I needed the money for the follow-on.

00:51:11Follow-on?

00:51:12What is the follow-on?

00:51:13Oh, come on.

00:51:14The follow-on.

00:51:15You know, look into a song.

00:51:17Follow, follow.

00:51:18We will follow robots everywhere.

00:51:22Quite.

00:51:22Anywhere.

00:51:22Quite.

00:51:23We will follow on.

00:51:25So you needed the money to follow your football team to away matches?

00:51:30God, aye.

00:51:31Cost a bomb, eh?

00:51:32See, if this was a real welfare state, you'd be able to follow your team in the National

00:51:36Health.

00:51:37A splendid thought, I'm sure.

00:51:39But let's talk about the match on October 2nd.

00:51:43It was arranged at short notice, I understand.

00:51:46Aye, we were doing to play the Albion in the Premier League, but that game was called off

00:51:50because the national squad called up Higgins, McGloan and Suntors.

00:51:54Just a minute.

00:51:58Higgins, McGloan and Suntors.

00:52:00Aye, three of the Rovers.

00:52:01The world's greatest.

00:52:03You should see Higgins, our goalie.

00:52:05We call him the Octopus, you know, because he's got arms everywhere.

00:52:09And McGloan and Suntors.

00:52:10Yes, well, I think we get the picture.

00:52:12So with the Albion game called off, you heard that our friendly had been arranged with Fulchester.

00:52:19Aye, it was a bonus.

00:52:20How do you mean a bonus?

00:52:21Well, the game with the Albion's always a deep loss.

00:52:24No opposition on the field or after.

00:52:26And you thought Fulchester United would give your team a closer run, eh?

00:52:29Ah, well, let's just say they're a better class of rubbish than the Albion.

00:52:34Couldn't you live with us, though?

00:52:35We are the champions.

00:52:36Isn't that claim a little extravagant?

00:52:38After all, I mean, you were 2-0 down when the match was abandoned.

00:52:41Our first goal was a mile offside.

00:52:43Everyone who were into the park saw it.

00:52:45Were you outraged at the referee's decision?

00:52:48Oh, sure.

00:52:48And was there any demonstration of violent outrage around you at that time?

00:52:54No, no, a bit of swearing and shouting.

00:52:57Couldn't expect anything else with an English referee.

00:53:00And we knew that the Rovers would soon be getting into these people.

00:53:03Getting into these people?

00:53:05What does that mean?

00:53:07It's a cry.

00:53:08You know, like a battle cry.

00:53:11Come on, the Rovers, get into these people.

00:53:13And the second United goal, was it also offside?

00:53:16Oh, probably. I didn't see it.

00:53:18Why didn't you see it?

00:53:20Oh, this fellow hanging round my neck trying to kill me, didn't I?

00:53:23Now, tell us in your own words of the events leading up to that moment.

00:53:29I don't know much about it. I was watching the game.

00:53:32Well, tell us what you do know.

00:53:34Oh, this fellow was trying to shove in between me and John.

00:53:38I wasn't paying much attention.

00:53:40You see, Pendle had just got possession in midfield

00:53:42and was trying to get Walters away on the left.

00:53:44Yes, but were you at all aware of what was happening behind you?

00:53:47Oh, well, I could hear John telling somebody to go away.

00:53:53But I couldn't see who it was.

00:53:55And did this person go away?

00:53:58I don't know. I don't think so.

00:54:00Next thing I felt, this big dent in my ribs.

00:54:02What?

00:54:03A dent is a severe blow, my lord.

00:54:05What did you do next?

00:54:08Well, I turned round and there was this joker glaring at me, breathing heavy like.

00:54:14I just gave him a wee bit of a shove, tell him to behave himself,

00:54:17turned back to the game and he jumped at me.

00:54:19Were you surprised?

00:54:20No.

00:54:21No, I was half expecting it.

00:54:22You see, I'd marked his card.

00:54:23I knew where he was.

00:54:25You knew he was a policeman?

00:54:26No.

00:54:27Oh, no, I didn't even know he was a poet.

00:54:29I knew he was a nutter.

00:54:30A nutter?

00:54:31Ah.

00:54:31You mean a crazy man?

00:54:34I had to be.

00:54:35You else but a crazy man would walk into the middle of Strathclyde Rovers

00:54:38wearing a green and gold scarf.

00:54:40Oh, is there some significance in those colours?

00:54:42Ah, they're the enemy.

00:54:43The scum, fiending traitors.

00:54:45Green and gold are the colours of a rival football team in the Strathclyde area, my lord.

00:54:50There's a long history of friction between them.

00:54:52Oh, really, Mr McGill?

00:54:53Green and gold is to a rover supporter what a red rag is to a bull.

00:54:58Well, there you are, you see, members of the jury.

00:55:01I was not aware of that.

00:55:03I'm sure you weren't, my lord.

00:55:05But can we be sure that Sergeant Doyle was also unaware of it?

00:55:23Now, then, you were quite looking forward to this trip to Forchester, weren't you?

00:55:29Aye.

00:55:31I look forward to our Rovers away matches.

00:55:33Oh, and why the away matches particularly?

00:55:36Huh?

00:55:37Well, don't you look forward to the Rovers home matches as well?

00:55:39Oh, sure I do.

00:55:42I mean, well, they're the doddle, aren't they?

00:55:45A doddle?

00:55:46Aye, a doddle.

00:55:47Dead easy.

00:55:48On our home ground, we're invincible.

00:55:50No opposition?

00:55:51None.

00:55:51On the field or off it?

00:55:53Correct.

00:55:54Except when they Fenians come along.

00:55:56Now, they're the ones that cause all the trouble with their paper songs and their Fenian flags.

00:56:00Yes, but the other Scottish teams and their supporters don't give you any trouble on your home ground.

00:56:04Huh?

00:56:04None of your nelly.

00:56:05They wouldn't dare.

00:56:06We've got them surrounded.

00:56:07One toot and a root.

00:56:09Well, it's different at away matches.

00:56:12What do you mean?

00:56:13Well, at away matches, it's you that's surrounded and outnumbered, isn't it?

00:56:16If I might be, er, permitted an attempt at your vernacular, one toot and it's you that's oot.

00:56:22What?

00:56:23You're joking, mister.

00:56:24Listen, we can look after ourselves.

00:56:26We are the people.

00:56:28Must take a lot of courage, though.

00:56:29Marching into a strange territory, waving your colours.

00:56:32Well, it's them that needs the courage.

00:56:34When they see us coming, they'd better step aside.

00:56:37A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died.

00:56:40Huh?

00:56:41That's the other half of that quotation, isn't it?

00:56:44Oh, well.

00:56:45If you stand in front of a steamroller, you're going to get flattened, aren't you?

00:56:48I mean, that's asking for it.

00:56:49Do you find people tend to do that at these away matches, to stand in front of the steamroller?

00:56:53Oh, they do.

00:56:54Well, it's their territory.

00:56:55They think they're king of the midden till we come along.

00:56:58But you soon show them.

00:56:59Aye.

00:56:59Indeed, that's part of the fun and the excitement of these away matches, wouldn't you say?

00:57:02Oh, well, listen.

00:57:05No, wait a minute.

00:57:06We don't come looking for trouble.

00:57:08You don't?

00:57:08No.

00:57:09You come marching into a strange town, waving your colours, hurling abuse and insults and

00:57:14obscenities at the local people, and you say you're not looking for trouble?

00:57:17Oh, but they're waving their colours and cursing and swearing at us.

00:57:21I mean, you can't just let them get away with it, can you?

00:57:22Why not?

00:57:23Why no?

00:57:24Why no?

00:57:24What do you mean, why no?

00:57:25Well, is it worth starting a rammy just because somebody calls you a few names?

00:57:31Me?

00:57:32Oh, I don't care what they call me.

00:57:35They can call me anything they like.

00:57:36It's when they start on the rovers.

00:57:38Oh, no, I can't even do with that.

00:57:40And at this particular away match on October 2nd, did the supporters start on the rovers?

00:57:45Oh, they did.

00:57:46Well, in the first half, they didn't have much to shout about, but in the second half,

00:57:50they really went for us.

00:57:52It was fantastic.

00:57:54Three times in about a minute, our winger, Jockey Wallace, lost the ball to their left

00:57:59back.

00:57:59He was fouled every time, blatant it was.

00:58:02And they started shouting, easy, easy.

00:58:06Well, I mean, that's one of our cries.

00:58:07What are they shouting it for?

00:58:09And then their striker trips over Pendle, and they started shouting, half, half, send

00:58:13him, half.

00:58:14And then Pendle went to clear the ball, and they went in the stand, and they started shouting,

00:58:17rubbish, rubbish, what a load of rubbish.

00:58:20I mean, it's that bloody pitch of theirs.

00:58:21It's a right slag heap.

00:58:23Who wouldn't have played pitch and tossing it in Scotland, far less football?

00:58:26You must have been pretty angry by this time.

00:58:28Of course I was.

00:58:29Wasn't he right?

00:58:30You must have felt pretty helpless and frustrated, too, all those people shouting those dreadful

00:58:35things about your team, and you couldn't get at them.

00:58:37Sure, if I could have got near them.

00:58:39Yes.

00:58:41I was boiling.

00:58:42Boiling.

00:58:45So it was only natural that you lashed out without thinking when you became aware of

00:58:49Sergeant Doyle behind you.

00:58:52Who?

00:58:55Sergeant Doyle, the man you killed on the terracing.

00:58:59Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

00:59:01You know better than that, Mr. Kelly.

00:59:04Rephrase it.

00:59:05I apologise, my lord.

00:59:05Sergeant Doyle, the man who died at your feet on the terracing that day.

00:59:10My lord, the implication is still there.

00:59:12My lord, there is no implication.

00:59:13That is a clear and accurate statement of the facts.

00:59:17According to the testimony not only of Constable Bridges, but also of the two accused.

00:59:21That is precisely what happened.

00:59:22Sergeant Doyle died on the ground with the two accused standing over him.

00:59:27He died at their feet.

00:59:28Why don't you just say he died at their hands and be done with it?

00:59:31Well, that surely is still a matter for the jury to decide.

00:59:34As I was saying, it was only natural that you lashed out without thinking when Sergeant

00:59:40Doyle accidentally bumped into you.

00:59:42Oh, he thumped me in the ribs.

00:59:43Yeah.

00:59:44I just shoved him away.

00:59:46Shoved him away?

00:59:46But if, as you say, he thumped you in the ribs, I suggest that was a very good reason

00:59:51for you to lash out, to hit him back.

00:59:52No, no.

00:59:53I was watching the game.

00:59:54It's when he jumped on me.

00:59:55That's when I got tore into the Fenian bastard.

00:59:58How did you identify him as a Fenian?

01:00:01His scarf.

01:00:02His green and gold scarf.

01:00:04Yes, but he jumped under your back.

01:00:06I mean, you couldn't have seen the scarf at that moment.

01:00:09Well, I must have seen it when I turned around to shove him away.

01:00:11You turned around?

01:00:12You mean you turned your back on a Fenian scarf?

01:00:15Doesn't sound very likely, does it?

01:00:17No.

01:00:18No, wait a minute.

01:00:20It was during the fight.

01:00:21It was during the fight?

01:00:22Ah, that's it.

01:00:22His jacket came open.

01:00:23That's when I saw it.

01:00:24That's when I knew he was a Fenian.

01:00:26Oh, you realised it then?

01:00:27I say, and that, I've no doubt, it'd inspired you to greater efforts.

01:00:30Well, he'd no right been there.

01:00:32There's no place for his kind in among us.

01:00:34Just because he wore the hated colours?

01:00:36He'd no right.

01:00:43Can you tell us what that is?

01:00:46Aye.

01:00:47It's one of them.

01:00:49One of their scarves.

01:00:50The curse of the Strathclyde Rovers.

01:00:52Take it away, I'm going to be sick.

01:00:54Can we have Exhibit 5, please?

01:00:56Usher, will you hold them both up, side by side?

01:01:02Malad, the scarf on the jury's left is the one Sergeant Doyle was wearing when he died.

01:01:07It has nothing whatsoever to do with any football team.

01:01:10It is the scarf of the Old Ignatians, a form of pupils' association to which Sergeant Doyle belonged for many years.

01:01:18Still a bloody Fenian scarf.

01:01:24Members of the jury, despite all the muddying of the waters by the defence,

01:01:29defines this as a simple, straightforward case.

01:01:31One man, a brilliant and dedicated young police officer,

01:01:35is viciously assaulted by two men.

01:01:38The two men in the dock.

01:01:41The young police officer is dead.

01:01:42Now, it has become standard practice in crimes of this nature for the accused to bring counter-charges of violence and brutality against the police.

01:01:52Now, why do they do this?

01:01:54When a crime has been committed, whatever happens after it can have no effect on the actual commission of the crime.

01:02:01It cannot make that crime any less vicious or erase it from history.

01:02:06So, why do they do it?

01:02:08The answer is to try and gain sympathy.

01:02:12To try and make you people, ordinary, honest, decent citizens,

01:02:16so appalled at the alleged tortures and beatings that they've been through,

01:02:22that you will begin to believe they've already paid for their crime.

01:02:25Or, indeed, if the police can overreact in this way

01:02:30and behave with such total disregard for a person's rights,

01:02:34they might even prefabricate some of the evidence.

01:02:38Consider the allegation that Sergeant Doyle attempted to plant the knife on the accused Morrison

01:02:43and was, in fact, in possession of that knife for the major part of the fight,

01:02:47while McTeague attempted to wrest it from him.

01:02:50Dr. Dixon, the pathologist, has told us

01:02:54there were no fewer than seven stab wounds on the body of Sergeant Doyle.

01:03:02Not one single such wound was received by either of his two assailants.

01:03:09McTeague claims that any such knife would have been discovered

01:03:12during the three body searches, he tells us, took place,

01:03:16and that, in fact, a small, ordinary pen knife was discovered

01:03:19and confiscated

01:03:21while a bottle of whiskey was missed.

01:03:26You may not believe our police can be that inefficient.

01:03:30The defence has attempted to establish doubt

01:03:32on whether any of the multiple injuries received by Sergeant Doyle

01:03:36actually resulted in his death,

01:03:39that his death was the result of an accident.

01:03:41We've heard in evidence that several of those wounds were certainly fatal.

01:03:51And I believe that even if, as the defence maintains,

01:03:54that stab to the heart with a broken bottle

01:03:56was not inflicted by either of the two accused,

01:03:58or even if it had not occurred at all,

01:04:01those two men in the dock would still stand accused of murder.

01:04:06You've heard the accused Morrison describe how frustrated and angry he was

01:04:14when Sergeant Doyle appeared beside him.

01:04:18How much provocation would a man in that state need to set him off?

01:04:22A so-called Fenian scarf.

01:04:29A red rag to a bull, to quote my learned friend.

01:04:32You'd heard from Morrison's own lips the effect it had on him.

01:04:37And you may believe, as I do,

01:04:39that that scarf provoked an attack so vicious

01:04:43that it resulted in murder.

01:04:46Members of the jury,

01:04:53whatever my learned friend says,

01:04:55this is not a simple, straightforward case.

01:04:58The waters are very muddy indeed.

01:05:01And it is not the fault of the defence.

01:05:04Indeed, I would go further and say

01:05:06that the waters are polluted

01:05:08because that term implies interference by man.

01:05:12And you cannot issue that water to the public as palatable

01:05:16simply by saying it is so.

01:05:20Take the matter of police overreaction.

01:05:23680 men on the ground when 120 is the norm.

01:05:27That is overreaction in my book.

01:05:31Body searchers?

01:05:33There's no doubt they took place.

01:05:35I myself was shown the hall.

01:05:38Oh, there were knives, certainly.

01:05:40Mostly pen knives of the ordinary kind

01:05:43that anyone might carry without my loose intent.

01:05:46There were wrist watches.

01:05:49Oh, yes, wrist watch is a very dangerous weapon,

01:05:52according to one police officer.

01:05:55Do you, uh, take it off and slip it over your fingers?

01:05:59Hey, presto.

01:06:01Instant knuckle dust, sir.

01:06:04There was a pair of braces in that collection.

01:06:06Apparently, the metal adjusting clips

01:06:09make it into some kind of South American bolus weapon.

01:06:14It's a wonder they didn't take the trousers, too.

01:06:16After all, I suppose it could be argued

01:06:18that the trousers could be used to strangle someone.

01:06:21Or would that have been construed as overreaction?

01:06:24From the moment the first Strathclyde rover

01:06:27supporter bus entered the city,

01:06:29the police overreacted.

01:06:30They were made to park two miles away

01:06:33and they were herded in bunches like cattle

01:06:36through the back streets to the ground.

01:06:39It was not the rover supporters

01:06:41who were looking for trouble.

01:06:42It was the police.

01:06:44And lo and behold,

01:06:46half-time comes round

01:06:47and there hasn't been any trouble.

01:06:50Now, do you find it impossible

01:06:53to believe that amongst the 680 men

01:06:56on duty that day,

01:06:57there were not some, a few,

01:07:01maybe even only one,

01:07:03who felt frustrated and on edge

01:07:05at having given up a free day for nothing

01:07:08and that a quick nudge

01:07:11might get things going

01:07:12and then everybody would know

01:07:13where they were at?

01:07:15After all, these were animals.

01:07:18Everybody said so.

01:07:20It was only the kind of thing

01:07:21you could expect from.

01:07:24So, my clients were involved in a fight.

01:07:27A fight that was not of their own choosing.

01:07:29But once they were in,

01:07:31there was no turning back.

01:07:33They fought their way,

01:07:35the only way they know.

01:07:37It was not the Marquess of Queensbury,

01:07:39but then the Marquess of Queensbury

01:07:41wasn't brought up jobless and hopeless

01:07:44in a poverty-stricken Scotland.

01:07:46My clients fought and a man died.

01:07:50But remember the medical evidence.

01:07:52The fatal wound was the one caused by the broken bottle.

01:07:56And my clients have sworn on oath

01:07:59that they did not inflict that wound.

01:08:01that the sergeant fell on the bottle

01:08:04during the struggle.

01:08:07There's no way that they can prove it.

01:08:10But then,

01:08:11the prosecution

01:08:12has not proven

01:08:14that one of the two men in the dock

01:08:16stuck that bottle

01:08:18into Sergeant Doyle's heart.

01:08:21Until that has been proved,

01:08:23there is no way

01:08:25that you can convict

01:08:27my clients

01:08:28of murder.

01:08:33Thank you,

01:08:34Mr McGilley.

01:08:36Members of the jury,

01:08:38it is my duty to instruct you

01:08:39as to the law,

01:08:41but you are the sole judges

01:08:42of the facts.

01:08:44Now,

01:08:45it is a fact

01:08:45that Sergeant Doyle

01:08:47died of injuries

01:08:48he received

01:08:48whilst on duty

01:08:49at a football match

01:08:50on the 2nd of October last.

01:08:53You must put from your minds

01:08:55any views

01:08:55you may hold

01:08:56about football crowds.

01:08:59Watching football

01:08:59is a lawful pastime

01:09:01practised by hundreds

01:09:02of thousands

01:09:02of law-abiding citizens.

01:09:05You must also put from your minds

01:09:07the alleged conduct

01:09:09of police officers

01:09:10after the accused

01:09:12were charged.

01:09:12That is not a matter

01:09:13for you today.

01:09:16What you have to decide

01:09:18is whether or not

01:09:19the prosecution

01:09:19have shown

01:09:20to your entire satisfaction

01:09:22that the accused

01:09:24are guilty

01:09:24of the grave offence

01:09:27with which

01:09:28they are charged.

01:09:30Now,

01:09:31you have heard

01:09:31the evidence

01:09:32of Dr Dixon

01:09:33in the witness box

01:09:34describing the injuries

01:09:36received

01:09:37by the dead man.

01:09:39And you have heard

01:09:40learned counsel

01:09:41for the defence

01:09:42very properly

01:09:42cross-examine him

01:09:43as to which

01:09:45was the fatal wound.

01:09:47Now,

01:09:47you may think

01:09:48that it was

01:09:49the broken,

01:09:50jagged glass bottle

01:09:51that caused

01:09:53the death

01:09:53of Sergeant Doyle.

01:09:57That the officer

01:09:58fell upon the broken bottle

01:10:00which was already

01:10:01on the ground.

01:10:02You must decide.

01:10:04Now,

01:10:05the prosecution say

01:10:06that the accused

01:10:06acting together

01:10:07caused these injuries

01:10:09with boot,

01:10:10knife,

01:10:11and bottle.

01:10:12but it is for you

01:10:13to decide

01:10:14if they were

01:10:14acting together

01:10:15or if it was

01:10:16the act of one man,

01:10:18which one?

01:10:19Consider their cases

01:10:20separately.

01:10:22And here,

01:10:22remember

01:10:23that the defence

01:10:25do not suggest

01:10:26that they were not

01:10:27acting together.

01:10:31Now,

01:10:32the defence says

01:10:33that Sergeant Doyle

01:10:35so provoked

01:10:36the accused men

01:10:37as to reduce

01:10:40the charge

01:10:40to manslaughter.

01:10:43And here,

01:10:44you must remember

01:10:44that murder

01:10:45is the killing

01:10:47of a person

01:10:48with intent

01:10:49to kill him

01:10:50or

01:10:51with intent

01:10:53to do him

01:10:54grievous bodily harm.

01:10:59Will you now

01:10:59please retire?

01:11:00We left a foreman

01:11:01to speak for you

01:11:02on your return

01:11:02and consider your verdict.

01:11:07all stand.

01:11:32Members of the jury,

01:11:33will your foreman

01:11:34please stand?

01:11:35Just answer this question,

01:11:36yes or no.

01:11:38Have you reached

01:11:38verdicts upon which

01:11:39you are all agreed?

01:11:40Yes.

01:11:41Do you find the defendant,

01:11:42John McTeague,

01:11:43guilty or not guilty

01:11:44to the charge of murder?

01:11:46Not guilty of murder,

01:11:48guilty of manslaughter.

01:11:49Is that the verdict

01:11:49of you all?

01:11:50It is.

01:11:51Do you find the defendant,

01:11:52Daniel Haldane Morrison,

01:11:54guilty or not guilty

01:11:55to the charge of murder?

01:11:56Not guilty of murder,

01:11:58guilty of manslaughter.

01:11:59Is that the verdict

01:11:59of you all?

01:12:00It is.

01:12:01Sit.

01:12:04John McTeague,

01:12:05Daniel Morrison.

01:12:09You have been

01:12:10extremely fortunate

01:12:11to have been acquitted

01:12:13of the charge of murder.

01:12:16However,

01:12:17you have been found

01:12:17guilty of the manslaughter

01:12:18of this police officer

01:12:19and we must ensure

01:12:21that you do not

01:12:22enjoy yourself again

01:12:23at a football match

01:12:24for some time.

01:12:25Each of you

01:12:25will go to prison

01:12:26for ten years.

01:12:27Take them down.

01:12:28Court will rise.

01:12:29Next week,

01:12:45you can join another jury

01:12:46and assess the facts

01:12:47when our cameras return

01:12:48to watch a leading case

01:12:50in the Crown Court.

Crown Court - We are the Champions (1977)

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