during disorder on Monday and Tuesday.

"He's never been in the Indian restaurant. Ever."In a separate twist, Mr Spence told police he had not mentioned the missing box of bullets as PC Ross had visited him three times and asked him not to.

Asked if he had told his friend to lie about the bullets, Ross said: "No. We had conversations on the street and has he mistaken what I said?"I had no reason to ask him that."Officers obtained a search warrant for the family home and discovered a notebook in Michael's room with swastikas scribbled on it.

On 6 December 1994 the 16-year-old was taken from school and interviewed under caution without a lawyer.Ms Ross, who was at work at the time, said: "We were just in shock, I suppose, because I was sure he would never do anything like that."

Mr Chisholm said the teenager was unfazed by the gravity of the allegations.

He added: "He was cool, calm and collected."After Lungu's defeat in the 2021 election, he stepped back from politics but later returned to the fray.

He remained the biggest political drawcard of the PF, and he had ambitions to vie for the presidency again.However, at the end of last year the Constitutional Court barred him from running, ruling that he had already served the maximum two terms allowed by law.

Five councillors have pleaded guilty to health and safety charges after a disabled swimmer almost drowned in a leisure centre pool in East Ayrshire.Ryan Deans, 25, had to be resuscitated after being submerged for almost two minutes before the alarm was raised at the Galleon Centre in Kilmarnock in 2023.