'I feel really bad about it. I would like to apologise to them. It was never my intention to kill anyone.'
He accepted he had a knife in his rucksack for"protection" having allegedly been attacked the day before.They were said to have shouted towards Haig and his friend.Haig claimed he was concerned they had followed him and his friend there.He claimed he planned to"chase" the group away, but he dropped the knife, which fell onto the tracks.After the rammy broke up, CCTV played earlier in the trial showed Haig jumping onto the tracks to retrieve his knife.
Mr Scullion asked:"How do you feel that you killed Justin McLaughlin? His family are in the courtroom." Haig said:"I feel really bad about it. I would like to apologise to them. It was never my intention to kill anyone." Prosecutor Steven Borthwick KC later put to Haig that after the fight stopped on the platform, he was under"no threat".The advocate depute asked:"You were intending on doing serious damage to one of them."Mr Borthwick said:"You have seen the video - it looks very much exactly what you were intending to do."The trial, before judge Lord Clark, continues.
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