VIDEOS featuring the abduction and torture of youths for sexual pleasure were found by police during a search of the home of a man accused of murdering Celtic youth star Lawrence Haggart, a court heard yesterday.
Detective Constable Forrest Sloan, 39, told the High Court in Edinburgh the pornographic material was in a chest of drawers at the home of Brian Beattie, 33, in Ewing Drive, Falkirk.
Mr Sloan said he was part of a team investigating the death of Lawrence, 15, who was found dying in his home in Larbert on March 15-16, 1996.
Mr Sloan said the search of Mr Beattie's home was carried out on August 23, 1997, when two pornographic videos were found in a front bedroom. He told the court the videos appeared to have been recorded from a satellite German channel.
He said the videos were titled Redemption - The Abduction Series Part 3.
He explained that the whole theme of the videos was about the abduction of handsome young men for sexual pleasure.
Mr Sloan said some of the video scenes showed young men taking part in homosexual acts.
He told the court: ''There were other scenes of young boys being whipped and tortured and tied together with cloth.''
Mr Beattie denies murdering Lawrence Haggart at his home at Glenbervie Drive, Larbert, by striking him on the head and body with an unknown weapon and setting fire to him so that he died at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on March 17, 1996.
Mr Duncan Menzies, QC, prosecuting, said he did not intend to call any more witnesses because the Crown case had been completed. The trial continues.
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