An employee at an oilfield services firm yesterday denied there was a plan to play a prank on a work experience schoolboy who died on his last day.
Lewis Massie, 20, was giving evidence at the trial of Dean Reynolds, who is accused of killing Michael “Mikey” McLean, 17, at, Aberdeenshire .
Lewis had been working with Mikey and Reynolds, 23, in the paint tent on August 14, 2015, but left before the incident.
He told the High Court in Aberdeen Mikey had gone inside a giant spooler drum they were refurbishing to start painting it.
Reynolds was responsible for the controls which rotated the spooler.
Richard Goddard, prosecuting, asked Lewis, of Keith, Banffshire, if there were any plans to “carry out pranks for Mikey on his last day”.
Lewis said he wasn’t aware of any, adding: “Dean isn’t really a practical joker.”
Reynolds, also of Keith, denies culpable homicide and an alternative charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
The trial continues.
