Photographs helped prove that a Daily Record reporter and a photographer did not harass two people outside a court as claimed in a complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

IPSO ruled the journalists’ brief interaction with Jill Sharp and her friend Craig Hale outside Livingston Sheriff Court near Edinburgh on 1 April could not be considered a “persistent pursuit”.

Sharp and Hale complained to IPSO that they were followed as they ran some 75 yards from the court to their car and that the reporter shouted questions while the photographer tried to take a photo of Sharp’s face.