CCTV played a vital role in helping the police form a solid case against the murderer of Kinnon Ragni, the Western Telegraph can reveal.

Marc Campbell was sentenced to life at Swansea Crown Court on Monday after pleading guilty to the murder of Lance Corporal Ragni, on November 23rd.

Edward George Davies was also sentenced to 15 months after pleading guilty to assisting an offender.

CCTV proved to be invaluable, even recording the murder of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Ragni in Friars Lane, Haverfordwest.

Video footage also provided police with enough evidence to piece together the exact movements of Campbell and Davies that night.

Detective inspector for south Pembrokeshire, Jim Morris, oversaw the murder investigation.

He said: "Every area of evidence is important to an inquiry, but what this inquiry showed was the value of CCTV."

A team of police officers spent days trawling through CCTV footage from around Haverfordwest and gradually put together the movements of the defendants.

"Business premises were very co-operative in providing this footage for us to examine," DI Morris added. "We had particular assistance by the proprietors of Minnies and other establishments in that area, which gave us CCTV imaging and helped piece together what happened before the murder, providing crucial evidence for the murder inquiry."

Police were left with hundreds of images that could be used to prosecute Campbell and Davies, and estimate the footage saved 1,500 hours of officers' time in investigating the case.

"The importance of CCTV cannot be over emphasised" DI Morris added.