The two witnesses gave evidence to the appeal that they saw no sign of physical or sexual

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The two witnesses gave evidence to the appeal that they saw no sign of physical or sexual abuse.Lord Justice Kennedy said the court was of the opinion that the fresh evidence before the court was capable of belief. If accepted, it directly undermined the evidence of two of the complainants.The question the court had to decide, he said, was whether the conviction was safe and not whether the accused was guilty. "In a difficult case it is often wise for this court to test its provisional view by asking whether the fresh evidence, if given at trial, might reasonably have affected the decision of the trial jury to convict We are satisfied that it might," he said.. A supermarket security guard could be charged with causing the death of an armed robber who was shot in the head with his own gun during a struggle. The security guard and other staff intervened, and during a scuffle a 45-year-old robber was shot in the back of the head.

Witnesses said five or six shots were fired.The robber, who wore a boiler suit and balaclava, died in hospital five hours later.One witness said the security guard was lying wounded on the ground shouting, "Call an ambulance", while two passers-by tried to revive the robber.The other two robbers made off in a getaway car with thousands of pounds from the security van The car was later found abandoned. It is believed the two robbers escaped in a second vehicle.Detectives questioned the guard, who is not thought to be seriously injured, in hospital yesterday. Neither the guard nor the robber has been identified.A spokeswoman for Tesco said: "A Tesco security guard is helping the police with their inquiries and we will continue to co-operate fully with the police investigation."A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said a file would be sent to the Crown Prosecution Service after all the evidence had been gathered.It will be for the CPS to decide whether the guard acted unlawfully and if it is in the public interest to prosecute. A spokeswoman said all the circumstances of the shooting would be considered before a decision was made The process could take some weeks.. the French rock star Johnny Hallyday is being accused of sexually assaulting a young woman who worked on his yacht.The 59-year-old singer's lawyer, Daniel Vaconsin, called the claim "blackmail" and said his client had faced similar baseless accusations for years.

Hallyday, whose real name is Jean-Philippe Smet, is also facing possible charges of threatening behaviour and inspiring malicious phone calls to a woman named only as Marie-Christine, 34, a stewardess on the luxury yacht Irina in 2001.She says M. Hallyday came to her cabin, asked her to get him a drink, then sexually assaulted her. Two other members of the crew and a photographer friend of hers aboard are not thought to have heard anything.Four days later the yacht arrived at Saint-Tropez and Ms Marie-Christine's employment contract was terminated. She was medically examined and had bruises and scratches on her body.The chief prosecutor in Nice has opened an inquiry M.