Why did [moderated] Sandra Lean choose to label Andrina Bryson as a ‘star witness’ and not someone like Carol Heatlie?
“Scottish Executive employee Carol Heatlie tells the court a youth caught her eye as she drove down Newbattle Road.
She says she saw a male standing at a driveway entrance 'looking up and down the road I was travelling on'.
And she explains that once the witness spotted him, the youth stepped away from the road.
She says: 'The fact he had stepped back out of view made me wonder what he was doing. I slowed right down at the entrance to the driveway and looked into the driveway. I am sure he saw me looking at him and kind of put his head down to the side.'
She describes the young man as between 15 and 17, with dirty-blond, fairly long hair and wearing dark, baggy clothes in a 'grungy' style. Asked whether she recognises the young man in court, Mrs Heatlie looks at Mitchell and says he was 'similar'.