At Monday's Hrant Dink murder trial in Istanbul, Emsale Cakmakci, who was shopping at a nearby store at the time of the killing, confirmed the previous statement of a secret witness saying that triggerman suspect Ogun Samast was accompanied by two individuals right after shots were fired.

Cakmakci had previously only made a detailed statement at the Istanbul Police headquarters.

Cakmakci stated that she saw a person with a white cap accompanied by two other individuals right after the murder at around 3.00 pm on January 19, 2007. The witness described the clothes, height and hair of these three people but she apparently was not able to see their faces.

The most crucial development at the trial was the finding by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey that footage from a video camera in a nearby bank on the murder day had gone missing.

Dink family lawyer Fethiye Cetin noted that, "The part of the Akbank video records of the morning and the afternoon on the day of the incident is missing. The incident happened during the term of office of Selim Kutkan at the Anti-Terror Branch. The footage was lost. We will file a criminal complaint about Kutkan".