Three men have denied abducting and murdering Kriss

Pc Craig Collier told the trial of three men accused of Kriss' murder how friend Jamie Wallace had referred to suspect Imran Shahid as "Baldy".

Pc Collier said he had forgotten to mention the fact to a CID colleague.

Defence QC David Burns said police were first to name Mr Shahid as a suspect. He is one of three men who deny murder.

Mr Burns asked the officer: "You just missed out that small detail?"

Pc Collier said: "I am afraid so, yes."

When you write down a witness statement sometimes you tend to miss a bit and I am afraid that was a point I missed Pc Craig Collier

He was also asked why the name Baldy did not appear in his own notebook.

"I do apologise," said Pc Collier. "But when you write down a witness statement sometimes you tend to miss a bit and I am afraid that was a point I missed."

The court heard how Pc Collier, 25, had only been on the beat a few weeks when he was called to the incident in Pollokshields, Glasgow.

He also said that his CID colleague did not ask him a lot of detail about what happened in the car when he was talking to Mr Wallace.

Mr Wallace, 22, earlier described how he and Kriss were attacked by Asian men in a Glasgow street in March 2004.

The witness identified Imran Shahid, 29, who was sitting in the dock, as being the first to throw a punch.

Burned body

However, Mr Burns claimed he had only started to blame Mr Shahid after police suggested the name to him.

Mr Wallace denied this and said: "It was me that said 'Baldy'."

Mr Burns claimed that as Mr Wallace was on medication at the time of the attack he was in "no fit state" to make an identification.

The court also heard from cyclist Gary Neil, 37, who found Kriss' body while on his way to work.

The court heard how a cyclist found Kriss' body

He said the boy's body was in a foetal position and appeared to have suffered stab wounds. All that remained of Kriss' clothing were a shoe and sock and the remains of track suit bottoms.

The car salesman also said the body looked burned and there were tyre tracks nearby.

Mr Neil said that when he first saw the body he did not know whether the person was alive or dead.

"I shouted at him a couple of times but got no response," he said.

He said that after cycling to a nearby house in London Road he was refused permission to use the telephone. He eventually found a phone box and alerted the emergency services.

Telecoms engineer William Goudie, 46, told the court that he had seen a car parked on the Clyde Walkway between 1800 BST and 1830 BST earlier in the week on 15 March.

Special defence

Imran Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, have denied the alleged racially-motivated murder.

They have been accused of abducting Kriss, 15, repeatedly slashing him with knives or similar instruments and then setting him on fire after a drive to Dundee and back.

The charge against them alleges that they were acting with two other men, Daanish Zahid, who is serving life for the murder and Zahid Mohammed, 22, who served half of a five-year sentence for assaulting Kriss and lying to police.

Imran Shahid has lodged a special defence blaming Daanish Zahid and Zahid Mohammed "and others" for the murder.

The trial continues.