GRIFF GETS EXTRA TIME
Judge adjourns trial so Celt can make kick-off
CELTIC star Leigh Griffiths’s speeding trial was adjourned early yesterday so he could make the kick-off for the Europa League qualifying match.
The 27-year-old appeared in the dock at Dundee’s Justice of the Peace Court.
The session ended early so Griffiths could get back to Celtic Park in plenty of time for the 8pm kick-off against Lithuanian side Suduva.
As the player left court, Justice Derek Cochrane, who was officiating in the case, told him: “I hope tonight goes the way you want it.”
It was the second time the case has been adjourned.
In May, a hearing was cut short after the court heard Griffiths had “childcare issues”.
The player, who has five children with three different mums, had to leave early to collect his daughter from school.
The Hoops striker denies speeding in his powerful Mercedes-AMG C63 in Dundee in June last year.
Yesterday, speed
camera operator Scott Aitken completed a seven-hour session in the witness box.
Griffiths’s lawyer Robert Sheridan claimed Scott’s mobile phone may have affected readings.
He also said there weren’t enough speed signs on the stretch of dual carriageway where the player was filmed.
Sheridan suggested the laser device had not been calibrated properly and it had been pointed at the wrong part of Griffiths’s car.
The lawyer said that rather than aiming at the registration plate, a video showed Scott had pointed it at the car’s grill.
Sheridan also accused police of setting up speed cameras “not as a deterrent but to catch people out” – a claim that Scott strongly denied.
The charge against Griffiths alleges that on June 3, 2017 at Kingsway West, Dundee, near the Myrekirk roundabout, the player drove at 62mph in a 50mph zone.
The trial was adjourned until a later date.