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Trial hears from gem expert's son

A SCOTTISH gems expert was not the aggressor in a dispute that led to his death, his son told a trial.

Bruce Bridges told a court in Mombasa, Kenya, that the eight men on trial for the murder of his father, Campbell, were to blame for the dispute which started after Mr Bridges went to where the villagers were protesting after closing the road to their mining camp.

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