Corroboration is important in the Scottish legal system, but it doesn't reverse the basic principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty.
No corroboration, no conviction. Simple as. Mr White is under no obligation to corroborate his story. As the one against whom insinuations have been made he is under no obligation to say anything. Those that suggested he may have done wrong are the ones that need to either put up or shut up.
I have no doubt that a different version of events is doing the rounds on the police grapevine, but let's face it, if the pair of officers attending have got their fingers burnt by bad publicity because they jumped in with their size 10s rather than simply declining to get involved in a pointless fracas between a shopper and a moronic security guard, they have probable cause for telling the story in a way that paints them as the model of restraint.
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STV news interview
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-cen...-his-daughter/