POLICE 'TAILED MURDER ACCUSED BEFORE 2nd GUN ATTACK

Suspect 'drove for miles with officers behind ahead of further bloodshed'.

A POLICE officer told a murder trial he was ordered not to stop a suspect accused of going on to carry out another gun attack.

Sergeant Christopher Tait, 36, said he followed the car of a man accused of murdering his brother-in-law as he drove off the isle of Skye.

He told a court he believed he and his colleagues were on the tail of the suspect for seven to eight miles to the village of Dornie, in Wester Ross, on the mainland.

The officer had received an instruction from their control room not to intercept the car because firearms officers were en route.

Sergeant Tait, 36, was giving evidence at the trial of Finlay MacDonald who has denied murdering brother-in-law John Mackinnon, 47, at his home on Skye in August 2022.

MacDonald, 41, is also accused of attempting to murder his wife Rowena, 34, by stabbing her at the family home and attempting to murder John and Fay MacKenzie in a shooting at their home in Dornie on the same day.