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Originally Posted by Shasown

Yeah funny old thing living in Scotland I have used Scotrail. I am aware that most trains do in fact have some CCTV coverage.

I think the point I was making has gone right over your head.

How does the Mail know whats on any CCTV footage of the incident? Who gave them details? Given the Transport police would have immediately secured any footage from the train as soon as a complaint was made. BT Police are governed by the same rules about discussing evidence being reviewed in ongoing enquiries as noraml police forces. Normally the Mail is quite keen to quote sources for their stories.

There is one other point to consider, there have been numerous cases in the past since the introduction of CCTV in both buses and trains in Scotland where the actual footage taken from security CCTV was next to useless, either because of the positioning of the equipment meant the area of the incident was covered or the standard of the recording was such that no worthwhile information could be garnered from the film.

Pretty patronising comment there and pretty unnecessary tbh. There is every chance that the media have been tipped off.