Reporter calls his blindness an asset for key Trump shooting interview: ‘Vision could get in the way’

BBC's Gary O'Donoghue hopes his reporting shows barriers put in the way of disabled people do not need to be there'

As Gary O'Donoghue interviewed the Donald Trump supporter who watched a man calmly climb onto the roof of a nearby building and fire a rifle at the former US president, the BBC television reporter could not see his subject.

O'Donoghue, who is blind, could only hear him. And he came to regard that as an advantage upon later being informed that witness Greg Smith cut a bizarre figure to some - clutching a can of beer in his right hand while wearing a red, pro-Trump visor with wild fake hair styled to resemble the Republican presidential nominee's signature coiffure.