Police have issued another statement claiming that officers were not chasing two teenage boys on an electric bike shortly before they were both killed in a crash.
Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, both died after they were involved in a smash in Ely, Cardiff shortly after 6pm yesterday.
CCTV footage appearing to show a police van following two people on a bike minutes before the fatal collision emerged after the incident, which sparked riots in the city centre.
BBC confirmed it has analysed and verified the footage taken in Frank Road, just over half a mile away from the site of the crash on Snowden Road.
South Wales Police chief superintendent Martyn Stone has now moved to deny that police vehicles were on Snowden Road when the incident happened.
It comes just hours after crime commissioner Alun Michael also denied that a police chase took place.
Ch Supt Stone said the force received CCTV footage that showed a police vehicle following a bike ahead of the serious collision but there were no police vehicles on the road at the time of the crash.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said: ‘We have received footage that shows a police vehicle following a bike at just prior to 6pm.
‘This footage is being recovered as part of the investigation and will assist us in piecing together the circumstances leading up to the collision. The families are being kept up to date.
‘We can confirm the following investigations have been carried out so far and when the collision occurred there were no police vehicles on Snowden Road.
‘A police vehicle on Grand Avenue responded to the collision, attended the area and officers performed CPR.’
PCC Michael told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme earlier today that police had not chased the pair.
He said: ‘It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase, which wasn’t the case.’
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