Ghulam Ahmed was seriously injured by a gang in an apparently racist attack. The attackers have never been caught but the attack was witnessed by police officer Robert Bowles. The Prosecution argue that Bowles chose not to intervene until the attack was over and criminally failed in his duty, perhaps motivated by racist ideas. However Bowles insists his delay was in order to call for help in a dangerous situation and witnesses are conspiring against him.

A Woman is accused of shoplifting when she is followed around the store by a store detective.

Pensioner Avril Stone was followed by Kevin Owen, a teenager carrying a lead pipe, who caught up with her took her handbag. The Prosecution say this is a case of Owen seeking money so he could get away from home. However the Defence paint a different story of Kevin being a lonely youngster deprived of life outside the home by his over-protective mother and obsessed with TV crime programmes. In their view he panicked when he encountered Mrs Stone and took her handbag without thinking.