At last, he reached forward and touched her shoulder.

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But defence lawyer Anya Lewis suggested in court that he had not seen Lady McCartney "being touched in any way", because his testimony about her right shoulder being grabbed differed from a police statement following the incident when he said it was her left shoulder.

BBC: Lady McCartney has previously given evidence at the trial

When they were silent in the pause at a traffic light, her father touched the open shield of his palm to the back of her head, the unobtrusive caress he had offered when driving her to boarding school.

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