The burning of a cardboard Grenfell Tower model was a joke about a group of friends and not victims of the tragedy, the man who filmed the footage claims
She added that she could not be sure the figures on the tower were not the defendant and his friends burning on the bonfire"in colossal bad taste".The judge also branded handling of evidence in the case as"appalling".Bussetti and his friend Clifford Smith, who hosted the party, rejected this suggestion.
Prosecutor Philip Stott told the trial that a comment in the footage referring to a"ninja" was believed to have been about a figure in the tower which was all in black and wearing what looked like a niqab. Bussetti said he shared the footage with two WhatsApp groups totalling around 20 people because one featured many of those at the party and the other had people who knew his friends.
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