Dear Editor,

According to your Thursday news article, captioned ‘First witness cross-examined in Hinckson terrorist act PI,’ one Trevor Reid of the CID’s Serious Crimes Investigation Unit was the first witness to be cross-examined, but as per your lead and second paragraphs, there was nothing reported on what he revealed. Was this aspect of the entire proceedings a closed-door hearing?

Yours faithfully,
Emile Mervin

Editor’s note
The media are not allowed to report on anything said under oath in a preliminary inquiry. A PI is not a trial; it is a pre-trial hearing to establish whether a prima facie case has been made out against the accused which warrants sending them to trial.