麻豆社 News, CCTV footage, Ely fatal traffic accident, 26/27 May 2023

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 麻豆社. It鈥檚 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.