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CHAINSAW CUT MAN LIED TO COPS FOR PAL; Court clears fight accused.


Byline: MAGGIE BARRY Barry, Welsh Barri, town (1991 pop. 45,053) and port, Vale of Glamorgan, S Wales, on the Bristol Channel. Once a major coal-exporting port, its more diversified export products include cement, flour, and steel products.  

A MAN has been cleared of attacking a neighbour with a chainsaw after the victim confessed it was an accident.

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 Weir, 42, sliced open ex-postman Alan A`lan´   

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 Flockhart's arm. But, to protect Weir, Flockhart, 37, told police three men had attacked him at his front door. He even told them: "Honest, I'm not making it up." But police found no blood at the door, only inside his flat.

They then charged Weir with assault and Flockhart with wasting police time.

But the assault charges were dropped as a trial opened yesterday.

The court heard a tape of a police interview in which Weir's defence agent Paul Dunn Paul Dunn may refer to the following:
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 suggested that Flockhart cut himself for compensation. But Flockhart told Edinburgh sheriff court the pair drank "a whole bottle of Sambuca sam·bu·ca 1  
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An ancient triangular stringed instrument.



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 each" before going back to his flat in the city in August, 2008.

He said: "We were very drunk. I was leaning on a cupboard in the kitchen when the chainsaw started up and he came towards me."

Flockhart added: "I told a pack of lies. Mr Weir was my friend and I didn't want anybody to get into trouble."

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DISMISSED Weir and Flockhart
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 10, 2009
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