Summary of complaint
We have received complaints that CCTV footage was deliberately edited to misrepresent the distance at which a South Wales Police van had been following two teenage boys shortly before the boys were involved in a fatal traffic accident on 22 May.
Our response
The full unedited CCTV clip showing the 15 second gap ran on bulletins, online and across the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. It’s standard practice to edit longer clips for shorter news packages. In this instance, the time code was visible throughout and while the usual editing techniques were used on screen to make audiences aware an edit had occurred, we acknowledge that this could have been clearer.