Police in Bristol have confirmed they did suggest a school install secret wildlife cameras to catch a man vandalising a controversial fence around their playing fields - but only if the school already had clear signs telling people there were cameras in use.
Avon and Somerset police have finally spoken out about the row over the hidden cameras between residents living around the Stoke Lodge playing fields in Stoke Bishop, and Cotham School - and said they only suggested using hidden cameras 'on the basis there was already overt CCTV in operation and signs to make the public aware'.
There were no signs warning the public that hidden cameras were in use at that part of the playing fields, but the cameras did their job, and recorded one man, who has not been named, repeatedly damaging the school playing field fence. He then received a caution for criminal damage after the school took the video evidence to the police. He wasn't technically arrested, just interviewed and cautioned by police.
