WelshBluebird
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The CCTV image is incredibly clear cut here. Unless the image you request is of your self you are quite simply not entitled by law to view it.
Of course this is assuming CCTV images still exist, but surely if the ToC don't think an image is of the OP then how on earth can they prosecute the OP for being that person? And if they it does exist and they do think it is the OP (hence the prosecution) then by law the OP can view it.
Surely the situation is:
1 - The image is of the OP, in which case the OP is entitled to see it. The OP has lied to us and the ToC is right to prosecute.
2 - The image is not of the OP, in which case the OP is not entitled to see it. But the ToC are wrong to prosecute as they have the wrong person.
Obviously there is the potential situation of CCTV not existing, in which case I am not sure what point the OP providing a description to them would be? Unless it is to compare with a statement from staff, but in that case I would be wary as the OP is because staff can lie / statements can become fuzzy (certainly the only time I had to give a statement to the police my description of the person ended up being pretty wrong!!).
The easiest way to sort this out IMO would be a way of proving you were elsewhere. Receipts, bank / credit card statements showing purchases etc. Failing that I think you would have to cooperate really (and I guess not cooperate could be seen as suspicious anyway).
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