municipal court heard evidence from police officers who had been investigating the recent theft discovered by reporters from channel 8 News who had infiltrated the gang believed to be responsible for the thefts . the channel 8 investigators gave their evidence to the court last week.
Although the police recognized that the news team had uncovered the crime, they criticized them for reporting the news before reporting the crime. the lead officer claimed that has the crime been reported to the police earlier, the pictures might not have been posted to the internet. Despite this problem,the police believed that fewer pictures made it online than previously suspected. it had been thought that 3000 pictures were put online, but the true figure was only 500. all of the criminals involved in the case are aged between eighteen and twenty -five. the judge will deliver his verdict tomorrow morning.