It's one of the most shocking tapes ever broadcast on television, when four members of the police department were caught on a security camera shamelessly shaking down a Chinese grocer. Well, the appalling images captured so elegantly by Dennis Chow's hidden camera may make history again. After bringing the four officers to court yesterday to face stiffer charges, DPP Kirk Anderson today told us that he hopes to bolster his case by introducing the tape as evidence, which would make it the first time that videotaped evidence would be used in a criminal or civil prosecution. While it's generally thought that taped evidence would be inadmissible in court, Anderson says his office is allowed to include all relevant evidence and the tape is eminently relevant. He adds, however, that the tape is not essential to produce a guilty verdict on the offences of robbery and aggravated assault - he says that it will make his case "immeasurably stronger". Anderson also intends to prosecute the sensational case himself.

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