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What are you doing? Get out!

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Ain't you pleased to see
us, boy? We got you a pizza.

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I ain't got nothing
for you! Get out!

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- Ventilate him, man. Come on.
- You've been warned, boy.

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Plenty. Pop him! Deal with him!

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You never said
nothing about this.

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You think I'm scared of you?

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Gimme that!

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That's on us, dog.

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Move!

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The Lord Chancellor
wanted to take your mind

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on the abolition of jury trials.

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Did he, indeed?

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I was under the impression the
royal assent had already been received

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for that vile piece
of legislation,

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the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

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Where have you been? On holiday?

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The government intends to
revisit it either this year or next year.

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With an incredible 339 sections

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and 38 schedules,

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it's already more complicated
than most people can fathom.

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Does he want my mind
on how to simplify it

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or to cut it out entirely?

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They want to give it more teeth.

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They're determined to extend
the section on trials without juries.

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You'll not find a single
judge signing up for that.

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Precious few were consulted.

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Juries are not only becoming
less and less reliable,

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they're also getting harder
and harder to empanel.

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They're no longer economically
viable. I'm not sure they ever were.

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What have economics
to do with justice?

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The government removes the
right to trial by jury at its peril.

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It's merely proposing
to reintroduce a section

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that would allow defendants to
elect to be before a judge alone.

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To further reduce
the remit of juries

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is to run the risk of putting too
much power in the hands of the state.

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Many cases could be dealt with
more efficiently by magistrates.

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Their sentencing powers could be
further increased to, say, two years.

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The judges wouldn't
stand for it. They'd strike.

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That would be the day, Joe.

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Try us.

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They're ready for you, Judge.

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I think you're gonna have
trouble with these defendants.

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- They're boys, aren't they?
- They were sent here from the Bailey

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supposedly because of the threat of
intimidation from family and friends.

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It hasn't deterred family
and friends, Judge.

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You might have to
bar them from court.

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Well, I'd be reluctant to
do so. It is a public trial.

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It has to be seen
to be fair and open.

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Well, I'll make sure there are
plenty of dock officers around then.

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Hey! You in the uniform! You leave
my boy alone or you answer to me!

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- Don't you threaten me.
- What?

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Talk to her like that
again, Popeye, go on.

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Just let the judge deal with it!

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All rise.

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As I read your name, would each
defendant step forward to be identified.

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Jesus Balfe.

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It's Jez, blood.

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Just answer your name, Mr Balfe.

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You are charged on an indictment
containing one count of murder

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and the particulars are that, on the
night of the 19th of September last

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you went with David Nicolaides

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and Sky Rudkin

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and shot and killed
one Simon Jackson.

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Simon Jackson? Did
you say Simon Jackson?

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Yes, Simon Jackson.

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Never heard of him.

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Yes, I'm sure you find Mr
Balfe highly entertaining socially,

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but this is not a
social gathering.

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If he's found guilty, he could
go to prison for a very long time.

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So I suggest you let everyone
concentrate on the matter in hand.

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Mr Harrison.

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Do you plead
guilty or not guilty?

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Are you a joker? We
didn't kill that chief.

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Is that not guilty, Mr Balfe?

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That's what it sounded like.

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Are you deaf, or
what? Can't hear him?

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Can't hear, man. Can't hear.

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Yes, all right.

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Now, as reluctant as I am to
conduct this or any other trial

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in the absence of
the general public,

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if there are inappropriate
disturbances, I will clear the court.

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- Now, you make no mistake about that.
- It's justice we want, man.

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And perhaps you would
like to be the first to go?

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Answer the charge correctly or
risk the wrong plea being entered.

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Are you pleading guilty?

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No. Not guilty.

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Thank you.

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David Nicolaides.
How do you plead?

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Not guilty.

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Sky Rudkin.

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Mr Rudkin, take your
hands out of your pockets.

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Do you plead
guilty or not guilty?

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Not guilty, sir.

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You can all sit down.

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Mr Mason Allen, are we
going to hear from you?

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My lord, my client, Mr Balfe,
feels he won't get a fair trial

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because he's a black man.

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That's not an unfamiliar argument.
Would he like a black judge?

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He'd prefer a jury made up
of a representative racial mix.

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The jury has yet to be sworn,
how does he know it won't be?

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He felt it would have been had the
trial remained at the Old Bailey, not here.

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Exactly.

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Well, we are here.

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The jury system isn't perfect,

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especially since the
peremptory challenge has gone,

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but it's the best we've got.

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- It ain't fair, dread.
- I will try to ensure that it is,

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that an intelligent, alert and,
above all, fair jury is empanelled.

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Come off of it.

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Justice isn't about the way you
look or the colour of your skin.

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Justice is blind.

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Jurors are not there for
the benefit of the defendants.

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Juries are there
for the greater good

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because they are concerned
members of society.

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Now, are there any
further challenges?

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Yes, my lord. There is a small
matter that's troubling the defence.

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The prosecution is seeking to hide
the identity of its principal witness

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by asking that she give
evidence via a video link.

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Now, this is a denial
of a fundamental right

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of my client and his
co-defendants to a fair trial.

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Live link-up is not
unfamiliar, Mr Michaels.

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Under Section 51 of the
Criminal Justice Act 2003,

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a witness may so appear
provided the court is satisfied

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that it's in the interest of the
effective administration of justice.

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I'll hear your argument.

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Thank you, my lord. Well, we would
argue that such a disembodied device

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totally prejudices a jury,

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making them believe that the
defendants are so menacing

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that the witness needs
special protection.

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I'm given to understand

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that this witness is
not only not a minor,

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she is in fact a call girl.

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She's a whore!

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Mr Michaels, does your
client, in his wildest dreams,

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imagine that this can
possibly help his case?

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I apologise, my
lord, on his behalf.

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Thank you, Mr Michaels.

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Mrs Mills, is there a good reason
why she should be shielded in this way?

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Is she of a particularly
nervous disposition?

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She is very nervous, my lord,
having already been threatened.

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Not by us.

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It was by someone,

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and that caused the police to offer
her a place in witness protection.

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As she is under
police protection,

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I am reluctant to allow her to be
examined or cross-examined via CCTV.

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I do think the defendants have
a right to face their accuser.

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Damn straight, they do.

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However, that privilege will
be denied you, Mr Nicolaides,

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unless you remain silent, and if
you don't I will have you removed

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and put into cells below this
court for the duration of the trial.

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Hey, look. I haven't
done nothing.

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That is what we're
here to find out.

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My lord, this is a witness
who agreed to give evidence

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if her anonymity was protected.

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That is not acceptable
in this court, Mrs Mills.

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If she is not protected,
she is likely to take flight.

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Well, you said she was
in witness protection.

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If she flees, she'll
be held in contempt.

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That will only
compound the problem.

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Mrs Mills, I have ruled.

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No. No, I'm not gonna do it.

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I'm not gonna give evidence
against them. Why should I?

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Because you saw
them kill that young man.

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He wasn't a man.
He was a drug dealer.

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They'll kill me! Why
should I die for him?

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If you give evidence against them,
the chances are they'll go to prison.

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Then their friends will kill me.

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- Do you think anyone cares about me?
- Reb, I care. The court cares.

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They'll still kill me.

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George!

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- Neil! Have you been drinking?
- I'm intoxicated with power.

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I've just come from a meeting
with the Prime Minister.

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It can't be that he's
found you out at last.

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He asked me to
become Home Secretary.

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I accepted. He thinks
I'll be tough on offenders.

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Do you think that's wise? It
might be a poisoned chalice.

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George, will you marry me?

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Is that a condition of the job?

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It wouldn't do me any
harm to have a wife.

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- Any wife?
- No, George. You. What do you say?

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Congratulations.

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Hello?

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Is that a good mood
or a bad mood?

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<i>Um, good, I think.</i>

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<i>Depends what you
want. Where are you?</i>

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I'm by my car waiting for a
wheel clamp to be removed.

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I don't remove wheel
clamps, George.

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Can't you ask your
boyfriend to use his influence?

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I expect he could. He's just
been made Home Secretary.

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You can't be serious.

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<i>I'm in need of some
urgent advice about him.</i>

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<i>I don't know who else to ask.</i>

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I'm about 15 minutes from your
flat once this clamp gets removed.

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Um...

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I'll be there before you, then.

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Come on.

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Mrs Cooper, is it
possible to see the judge?

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I can ask him, Mrs Mills.

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- Is defence counsel with her?
- I don't think so, Judge.

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Then I can't see her.

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In a case like this,
it could spell trouble.

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I have this awful feeling Neil
has been behaving corruptly.

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So he did get your clamp off?

206
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No. Nothing so useful.

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George, he's an MP.

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Worse yet, now he's Home
Secretary. And he's very rich.

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So he must have exploited
or robbed somebody.

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That's just your prejudice.

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Well, he didn't win
the lottery, did he?

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At least not the one
most of us play each week.

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He made another fortune

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trading shares in the
One-Way Phone Company.

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- He had inside information.
- Oooh.

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If he did and he gets found
out, he could go to prison.

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Now, there's a thought.

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The Home Secretary in jail.

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I don't want to be married to an
ex-prisoner or an ex-Home Secretary.

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Oh, I'm sure Neil can
take care of himself.

221
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It's Daddy I'm worried about.

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Neil put him onto the shares,
he made a whole chunk of mon.

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I thought One-Way's shares
collapsed during the trial.

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Neil advised the government
not to support them.

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He sold a huge forward position, and
subsequently picked them up for a song

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as did Daddy.

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Are you saying that Joe knew that
lover boy had inside information?

228
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I don't know, John.

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It's not the sort of question
one asks one's father.

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- "Are you behaving corruptly?"
- I'd ask mine.

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- John, you keep looking at my legs.
- Do I? Sorry.

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- They're still great legs.
- What are we going to do about Daddy?

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Well, unless Joe knew in advance

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that Haughton was going to persuade
the government not to support One-Way,

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he hasn't broken
the law, has he?

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Daddy wouldn't have
sold the shares if he did.

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Neil, on the other hand...

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All right, why did he
give Joe the information?

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My guess is that he was
looking for some insurance

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in case things
went wrong for him.

241
00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:36,498
No. He wouldn't be so devious.

242
00:15:37,270 --> 00:15:39,398
George. He's a politician.

243
00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:46,602
What are you thinking?

244
00:15:53,519 --> 00:15:56,079
I understand the
problem, Mrs Mills.

245
00:15:56,189 --> 00:15:59,159
Most prospective parents get nervous
about going before the adoption panel.

246
00:15:59,225 --> 00:16:01,387
No, it's nothing
to do with that.

247
00:16:01,461 --> 00:16:04,056
It would help me if I could
put it off until I'm out of court.

248
00:16:04,163 --> 00:16:06,189
It's a tricky prosecution.

249
00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:08,601
We've heard that before.

250
00:16:08,668 --> 00:16:11,001
You said your previous
case would be your last.

251
00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:14,268
I had to do this one. The
CPS briefed me ages ago.

252
00:16:16,108 --> 00:16:19,010
Well, first and foremost,
the panel will want to know

253
00:16:19,078 --> 00:16:21,274
how you'll cope with Michael.

254
00:16:21,347 --> 00:16:24,511
And I have to say in all fairness,
Mrs Mills, I don't think you will.

255
00:16:24,584 --> 00:16:27,179
I think you're too
committed to your career.

256
00:16:27,286 --> 00:16:30,916
And for that reason, I've
recommended you're not suitable.

257
00:16:31,691 --> 00:16:32,886
What?

258
00:16:35,328 --> 00:16:38,264
But I thought you were crying out
for people to adopt older children.

259
00:16:38,364 --> 00:16:40,799
People with more stable
lives than yours seems to be.

260
00:16:40,867 --> 00:16:43,029
I work! Parents do work!

261
00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:45,799
Of course. But there has
to be some consistency.

262
00:16:45,872 --> 00:16:48,842
Now, twice last month you
cancelled seeing Michael.

263
00:16:48,908 --> 00:16:50,433
He was very upset.

264
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:53,810
I did explain to
him. I felt terrible.

265
00:16:55,047 --> 00:16:58,506
How do you think Michael
will feel if I give up on him?

266
00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:13,865
- Hello?
<i>- John, it's Jo.</i>

267
00:17:14,634 --> 00:17:16,466
Well, this is surprise.

268
00:17:16,569 --> 00:17:18,037
<i>Can I come up?</i>

269
00:17:19,171 --> 00:17:20,901
Yeah, push the door.

270
00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:38,617
Well, here's a situation.

271
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:41,125
Well, if you'd have spared
me a few minutes in chambers

272
00:17:41,193 --> 00:17:42,422
to discuss this witness, John,

273
00:17:42,528 --> 00:17:44,039
I would have spared
you this embarrassment.

274
00:17:44,063 --> 00:17:47,625
Jo, you're before me. I can't
see you. Especially not here.

275
00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:49,793
Why? Is there someone here?

276
00:17:52,104 --> 00:17:53,163
Oh.

277
00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,036
Jo, I came to get
John's advice on...

278
00:17:58,110 --> 00:18:00,807
Yeah, I'm sure that's
not all you got, George.

279
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,246
What's that supposed to mean?

280
00:18:23,269 --> 00:18:26,239
- Oh, aren't I before you?
- Can I come in?

281
00:18:26,305 --> 00:18:28,968
- Should you be here, my lord?
- No, certainly should not.

282
00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:31,481
Well, how nice that you have
such sensibilities for the judge,

283
00:18:31,510 --> 00:18:33,001
and none for the main witness.

284
00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:34,723
Could that be because
she's a mere prostitute,

285
00:18:34,747 --> 00:18:36,147
and as such has
got to be punished?

286
00:18:36,248 --> 00:18:38,093
Don't be childish, Jo, I've
never behaved like that.

287
00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:41,554
You saw what the defendants were
like, they were even trying it on with you.

288
00:18:41,654 --> 00:18:43,885
- I beg you to think again.
- No.

289
00:18:46,926 --> 00:18:49,293
Perhaps you'd like
to go a step further?

290
00:18:49,362 --> 00:18:51,797
Let's have a trial without a
jury and without witnesses.

291
00:18:51,864 --> 00:18:54,231
- That is ridiculous.
- It could happen.

292
00:18:54,333 --> 00:18:57,701
If we persistently chip away at the
safeguards to a public legal system,

293
00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,396
it could happen.

294
00:18:59,472 --> 00:19:03,466
This trial has to be open,
and fair, and seen as such.

295
00:19:05,044 --> 00:19:06,137
Fine.

296
00:19:18,924 --> 00:19:19,948
Jo...

297
00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:22,791
Social Services are giving me a
hard time over adopting Michael

298
00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:24,625
because I'm working.

299
00:19:25,464 --> 00:19:27,933
Then you are between
a rock and a hard place.

300
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,266
I've been giving you a hard time
because you're thinking of stopping work.

301
00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:33,615
They're recommending the
adoption committee turns me down.

302
00:19:33,639 --> 00:19:36,700
Jo, that's outrageous. You'd
make a wonderful mother.

303
00:19:36,809 --> 00:19:39,608
Precisely because you
work and have a life.

304
00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,117
I do so hate you sometimes.

305
00:19:46,585 --> 00:19:47,917
Do you?

306
00:19:49,455 --> 00:19:50,923
Do you really?

307
00:20:04,070 --> 00:20:05,868
Oh, excuse me, Judge.

308
00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,903
The jury usher informs me we haven't
got enough candidates to empanel a jury.

309
00:20:10,009 --> 00:20:11,009
Why is that?

310
00:20:11,077 --> 00:20:13,478
Too many middle-class people
managed to get out of jury duty.

311
00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:15,546
Without a jury system,
their middle-class existence

312
00:20:15,681 --> 00:20:17,650
- would be threatened, wouldn't it?
- Absolutely.

313
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:20,653
Somebody better hop down to the
Job Centre and round up some bodies.

314
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,848
- Can we do that, my lord?
- Certainly can.

315
00:20:22,922 --> 00:20:26,324
Under the 1974 Juries Act, we
can require any person to be a juror.

316
00:20:26,392 --> 00:20:29,692
It's called, for your
information, praying a tales.

317
00:20:30,629 --> 00:20:31,961
All right.

318
00:20:33,833 --> 00:20:39,397
The Lord Chief Justice is absolutely
furious about the whole jury issue.

319
00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:42,442
We should have fought a little
harder when those idiots in government

320
00:20:42,508 --> 00:20:45,307
were depriving us
of our civil liberties.

321
00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:48,514
A bit like bolting the
stable door now, isn't it?

322
00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:52,551
I think the thin end of the wedge
is a more appropriate metaphor.

323
00:20:52,651 --> 00:20:55,120
Are there any further
changes in the pipeline?

324
00:20:55,187 --> 00:20:58,783
Yes. The new Home
Secretary wants to test the water

325
00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:01,189
with a few non-jury trials.

326
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,964
Bad enough when you were my son-in-law.
This one is a complete disaster.

327
00:21:07,466 --> 00:21:11,267
Is that something you are about
to eat or have already eaten?

328
00:21:11,437 --> 00:21:13,565
It's tofu stir-fry, my lord.

329
00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:17,371
- Tofu? What is it, Japanese?
- Chinese, I believe, my lord.

330
00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,435
It's made from bean curd.

331
00:21:21,847 --> 00:21:24,282
The jury issue might be out
of my hands by now anyway,

332
00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:26,114
I can't get enough
bodies to empanel them.

333
00:21:26,185 --> 00:21:29,678
Well, under Section 16 you
can sit with as few as nine jurors.

334
00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:32,691
I'm surprised by
your resistance, Joe.

335
00:21:32,758 --> 00:21:36,160
I'd have thought that your
experience on the Appellate Bench

336
00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:40,461
would have shown you just how very
short of useful juries sometimes are.

337
00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:46,768
In my present mood I'm not prepared
to accommodate the Lord Chancellor,

338
00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:50,071
or whatever he may call
himself in his new department.

339
00:21:51,610 --> 00:21:54,239
I'm certainly not going to
accommodate Neil Haughton.

340
00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:58,307
Well, actually,
this is rather good.

341
00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:01,647
Is it?

342
00:22:03,455 --> 00:22:07,017
I do apologise for the way
that you've been press-ganged,

343
00:22:07,126 --> 00:22:08,822
but it is a matter
of grave urgency.

344
00:22:08,928 --> 00:22:11,420
The liberty of the three
men in the dock is at stake.

345
00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:14,261
- I wanna object to some of the jurors.
- Why is that, Mr Balfe?

346
00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:17,564
Check them, man. They're
all white bitches, innit?

347
00:22:19,572 --> 00:22:24,237
Mr Balfe, I will not
tolerate racism in any form.

348
00:22:24,777 --> 00:22:26,643
How am I gonna get no
fair trial from Babylon?

349
00:22:26,712 --> 00:22:27,823
I can see where
you're going with this.

350
00:22:27,847 --> 00:22:29,873
You will not force me
to abandon this trial.

351
00:22:29,949 --> 00:22:32,646
Mr Harrison, swear
the entire jury panel.

352
00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:36,355
What, all 15 of them, my lord?

353
00:22:36,455 --> 00:22:39,254
It would be sensible, wouldn't
it, to adopt the American system

354
00:22:39,325 --> 00:22:41,351
and have three in reserve?

355
00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:45,794
Though, I dare say Mr Mason Allen
would give me an argument about that.

356
00:22:47,132 --> 00:22:52,469
My lord, I'd hesitate to argue
with Your Lordship on any numbers,

357
00:22:52,571 --> 00:22:57,566
but I believe the
Juries Act of 1825

358
00:22:57,643 --> 00:23:00,579
requires only 12
jurors to be sworn.

359
00:23:00,646 --> 00:23:03,946
Yes, Mr Mason Allen,
Section 25 of the Act did,

360
00:23:04,049 --> 00:23:08,077
but it was repealed in 1972
by the Criminal Justice Act,

361
00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:12,488
which neglected to state how
many jurors should be sworn.

362
00:23:12,558 --> 00:23:14,356
It only assumed 12.

363
00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:21,357
- Swear 12, Mr Harrison.
- Yes, my lord.

364
00:23:21,433 --> 00:23:23,527
May I have you in, please?

365
00:23:29,775 --> 00:23:32,973
Take the Bible in your hand,
either hand, and read from the card.

366
00:23:33,045 --> 00:23:36,675
"I swear by Almighty God that I
will faithfully try the defendants

367
00:23:36,749 --> 00:23:40,083
"and give a true verdict
according to the evidence."

368
00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:56,066
Jo, our main witness
hasn't shown up.

369
00:23:56,168 --> 00:23:59,263
- Didn't the police bring her?
- She won't come out of the house.

370
00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:00,891
Didn't they tell her
that the only way

371
00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:03,842
that she'll get free is
to put that lot in prison?

372
00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:06,606
It's their family and
friends she's afraid of.

373
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,453
- How do you propose to get her to court?
- By appealing to her common sense.

374
00:24:17,523 --> 00:24:19,334
In the meantime, I'll change
the order of the witnesses

375
00:24:19,358 --> 00:24:21,725
and call the police first.

376
00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:23,285
All right. Let's get on.

377
00:24:23,362 --> 00:24:24,955
Inspector Wyman,

378
00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:27,995
when you were called
to the Sunset Hotel,

379
00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:29,159
what did you find?

380
00:24:29,234 --> 00:24:33,228
I found a young oriental man
dead on the floor of one of the rooms.

381
00:24:33,339 --> 00:24:36,104
He had two small
bullet holes in his chest.

382
00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:38,507
A pizza had been
squashed on his face.

383
00:24:38,610 --> 00:24:42,012
- Had he been eating the pizza?
- The pizza was more or less intact.

384
00:24:42,081 --> 00:24:43,792
There was none in the
contents of his stomach.

385
00:24:43,816 --> 00:24:45,910
Were you able to
identify this man?

386
00:24:46,018 --> 00:24:48,954
From the hotel register, we
identified him as Simon Jackson.

387
00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:51,285
This was later confirmed
by his fingerprints.

388
00:24:51,357 --> 00:24:53,758
He was known to the
police as a drugs dealer.

389
00:24:53,859 --> 00:24:55,919
His turf was in Harlesden.

390
00:24:55,995 --> 00:24:57,896
He was part of a gang
called No Problem,

391
00:24:57,963 --> 00:25:01,559
which was at the time at war with
another outfit called The Trigger.

392
00:25:01,633 --> 00:25:06,196
Do you know or are you able to identify
any of the rival gang, The Trigger?

393
00:25:06,472 --> 00:25:07,565
Oh, yes.

394
00:25:07,639 --> 00:25:11,201
Each of the three defendants
are members of The Trigger.

395
00:25:11,276 --> 00:25:14,804
And there are at least another two
on the public seating in court today.

396
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,907
Well, as long as they're not
doing anything to disrupt this trial,

397
00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:20,213
they have a right to be here.

398
00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:24,088
Did you find anything
else at the hotel, Inspector?

399
00:25:24,156 --> 00:25:27,126
A lady's handbag was propped
on a shelf behind the toilet.

400
00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:30,356
We identified it as belonging
to one Rebecca Spark.

401
00:25:30,429 --> 00:25:32,227
At first she claimed
she'd had it stolen.

402
00:25:32,331 --> 00:25:33,492
Did she report it stolen?

403
00:25:33,565 --> 00:25:36,144
No. And when we told her we found
her fingerprints in the hotel room,

404
00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:39,332
she broke down, said
she'd seen the shooting.

405
00:25:39,438 --> 00:25:41,600
Was she able to
identify the killers?

406
00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:42,800
She gave us a description

407
00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:45,845
and later picked each of the three
defendants out from photographs,

408
00:25:45,911 --> 00:25:48,779
then from a videoed
police identity parade.

409
00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:51,146
Was there any doubt about that?

410
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:54,845
At first she was reluctant to
identify them even on video,

411
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,719
the girl was terrified
that she'd be next.

412
00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:00,086
She took a lot of reassuring.

413
00:26:01,727 --> 00:26:05,186
Can you tell us again how
you identified Rebecca Spark?

414
00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:07,629
From her fingerprints
found in the hotel.

415
00:26:07,733 --> 00:26:12,194
So, when you went to interview her
and she said her bag had been stolen,

416
00:26:12,604 --> 00:26:14,869
you took her fingerprints,

417
00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:18,000
as you presumably do
with all victims of crime.

418
00:26:18,277 --> 00:26:20,803
No. Her fingerprints
were on record.

419
00:26:21,046 --> 00:26:24,949
Ah, she has a criminal record.

420
00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:26,541
For selling it!

421
00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:28,548
Mr Balfe.

422
00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:30,919
She has a police record.

423
00:26:31,056 --> 00:26:33,252
She has criminal convictions?

424
00:26:33,392 --> 00:26:34,485
Yes.

425
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,188
Well, Inspector,

426
00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:41,296
do we have to drag this
out like drawing teeth?

427
00:26:41,366 --> 00:26:42,629
She has five convictions,

428
00:26:42,734 --> 00:26:46,671
two for shoplifting, one for
selling drugs, two for prostitution.

429
00:26:46,772 --> 00:26:49,469
And how old is Miss Spark?

430
00:26:50,242 --> 00:26:54,202
- 19, sir.
- Oh, quite a career for a 19-year-old.

431
00:26:57,049 --> 00:27:01,043
Did you establish whether she
was known either to the dead man

432
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,885
or the defendants
prior to the murder?

433
00:27:04,690 --> 00:27:06,454
She was known
to the victim, sir.

434
00:27:06,525 --> 00:27:11,429
Did she sell drugs for him
and work for him as a prostitute?

435
00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:13,396
That is what her
record reflects.

436
00:27:13,499 --> 00:27:15,491
Hmm. I see.

437
00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:19,562
Mr Mason Allen, just a moment,
please. Rudkin, stand up.

438
00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:24,209
Get your hands
out of your pockets.

439
00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:26,211
Do you know that juror?

440
00:27:27,613 --> 00:27:28,842
No, sir.

441
00:27:30,182 --> 00:27:32,276
You seemed to be
gesturing to him. Were you?

442
00:27:32,351 --> 00:27:35,253
- No.
- Sky, you behave yourself.

443
00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:39,687
If you signal or make
threatening gestures to this jury,

444
00:27:39,758 --> 00:27:43,320
I will bounce you down to the
cells, make no mistake about that.

445
00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:44,693
Sit down.

446
00:27:46,798 --> 00:27:48,096
Mr Mason.

447
00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:56,931
Inspector. During
this investigation,

448
00:27:57,476 --> 00:28:01,607
were there ever any other suspects
apart from the three defendants?

449
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,704
No, sir.

450
00:28:02,814 --> 00:28:07,115
So, once they were identified,
you went all out to nail them.

451
00:28:07,219 --> 00:28:09,848
No, we proceeded to
corroborate the evidence.

452
00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:13,324
Did you never once consider
it might be someone else?

453
00:28:13,458 --> 00:28:15,120
The evidence suggested not.

454
00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:18,096
Did you not consider
the sex worker herself?

455
00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:22,528
Simon Jackson had led her into a
life of crime and prostitution, after all.

456
00:28:22,601 --> 00:28:23,899
No, sir. We didn't.

457
00:28:23,969 --> 00:28:27,030
So, as soon as Miss
Spark said they were black,

458
00:28:27,139 --> 00:28:29,870
you decided it was Mr
Balfe and his friends.

459
00:28:29,975 --> 00:28:31,671
Mr Nicolaides isn't black, sir.

460
00:28:31,777 --> 00:28:35,236
You have run across Mr Balfe a
number of times and failed to convict him.

461
00:28:35,314 --> 00:28:36,475
Miss Spark picked him out.

462
00:28:36,582 --> 00:28:40,485
If this prostitute hadn't identified
each of these three young men,

463
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:42,544
is it possible you
would have considered

464
00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:46,716
the girl, or her lover, or her
brother, or father as suspect?

465
00:28:48,994 --> 00:28:50,724
It's possible, sir.

466
00:28:57,769 --> 00:29:00,466
What's up with you, bruv? This
court's already found us guilty.

467
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:02,564
It's not doing us any
favours acting up.

468
00:29:02,641 --> 00:29:04,269
That's your old
man's dog-collar talk.

469
00:29:04,376 --> 00:29:07,869
The only way we're gonna
walk is if that jury goes down.

470
00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,508
You're either with us
or against us. What is it?

471
00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:13,442
You know, Jez.

472
00:29:15,654 --> 00:29:16,917
You know.

473
00:29:25,297 --> 00:29:28,028
Judge, I've just
had the jury bailiff in.

474
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,163
The jury are feeling menaced by
the defendants and their families.

475
00:29:31,236 --> 00:29:33,535
Some don't want
to go back into court.

476
00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:36,451
All right, I'll talk to defence counsel
about giving the jury protection.

477
00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:38,068
Tell counsel I'll see
them in chambers.

478
00:29:38,176 --> 00:29:39,200
Okay.

479
00:29:40,479 --> 00:29:42,880
I can't reasonably
object to protection

480
00:29:42,981 --> 00:29:45,974
if the jury really are
feeling pressured.

481
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:49,944
These defendants do seem
to think they're above the law.

482
00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:54,153
They aren't doing
their cause any good.

483
00:29:54,259 --> 00:29:56,387
I'll point that out to them.

484
00:29:57,929 --> 00:30:02,230
A public trial is an important plank
of a free and democratic society.

485
00:30:02,901 --> 00:30:05,803
To have a trial without either the
public or the defendants present

486
00:30:05,904 --> 00:30:08,135
would reflect badly on us all.

487
00:30:09,074 --> 00:30:11,373
But if there is any more
pressure put on this jury,

488
00:30:11,443 --> 00:30:15,380
either by look or gesture, I
will clear the court and the dock.

489
00:30:17,082 --> 00:30:19,517
Unless you are quite
without intelligence,

490
00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:23,077
you must know that you can't
be doing your cause any good.

491
00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:27,115
The jurors are only human, and
you are likely to prejudice them.

492
00:30:27,192 --> 00:30:29,593
Now, if you think this is
going to get you a retrial

493
00:30:29,695 --> 00:30:32,688
or aid any appeal in the
event of a guilty verdict,

494
00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:34,562
then I must tell you
that the appeal court

495
00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:36,693
will read the
transcript of this trial,

496
00:30:36,768 --> 00:30:39,636
and they will see that
you have been warned.

497
00:30:41,006 --> 00:30:43,339
In any event, I will inquire
of the jury at the end

498
00:30:43,408 --> 00:30:47,470
to see if they've been influenced
by events in the public gallery.

499
00:30:53,051 --> 00:30:55,043
Okay, let's have the jury back.

500
00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:56,515
Judge,

501
00:30:56,822 --> 00:31:00,122
Sussex police are refusing to
provide protection for the jury

502
00:31:00,225 --> 00:31:02,353
because the defendants
are London overspill.

503
00:31:02,461 --> 00:31:04,123
They want the
DCA to agree to pay.

504
00:31:04,196 --> 00:31:06,290
- And the DCA's refusing?
- Yeah.

505
00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:17,037
It isn't that the department refuses
to pay for police protection, Sir John.

506
00:31:17,142 --> 00:31:20,579
It's a cost that must be borne
by Sussex or the Home Office.

507
00:31:20,645 --> 00:31:24,446
What about using some of the extra
money the CPS has for witness protection?

508
00:31:24,516 --> 00:31:26,781
That's for witness protection.

509
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:29,548
Anyway, the Home
Office say it's all spent.

510
00:31:29,654 --> 00:31:33,489
Is this a means of bringing pressure
in the quest to abandon jury trials?

511
00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:35,686
Would you sooner
criminals went free?

512
00:31:35,761 --> 00:31:38,890
Rather than embrace the
idea of a single judge trial, yes.

513
00:31:38,964 --> 00:31:40,592
The prospect is repugnant.

514
00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:42,691
It's an economic reality.

515
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:46,235
One the new Home Secretary
is keen to drive through.

516
00:31:46,938 --> 00:31:49,339
The criminal justice budget
can't go on expanding,

517
00:31:49,408 --> 00:31:52,207
as much as we might
argue for it to do so.

518
00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:54,405
Well, the solution
is simple, Ian.

519
00:31:54,479 --> 00:31:57,381
The government must legislate
for us all to be good and honest.

520
00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:00,661
Oh, I think there's a
Criminal Justice bill on its way

521
00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:02,677
that will do just that.

522
00:32:03,121 --> 00:32:05,750
Meanwhile, you have a
predominantly white jury

523
00:32:05,857 --> 00:32:08,520
trying predominantly
black defendants.

524
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,726
Hardly their peers.

525
00:32:14,266 --> 00:32:16,826
Two of the jurors
have reported sick.

526
00:32:18,703 --> 00:32:21,002
- Is it a bug of some sort?
- Yeah.

527
00:32:26,978 --> 00:32:30,176
Two jurors falling ill
is very inconvenient.

528
00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:35,618
I could stop the trial and start again,
but then the same problem might arise.

529
00:32:35,687 --> 00:32:37,485
Then abandon it!

530
00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,855
Who said that? Come
on, who called out?

531
00:32:45,197 --> 00:32:47,496
- What's your name?
- Bea Waxman.

532
00:32:47,566 --> 00:32:50,434
Well, Bea Waxman, are you
related to any of the defendants?

533
00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:52,629
Yes, sir. I'm Dave's sister.

534
00:32:52,737 --> 00:32:54,296
Oh, Dave's sister,
you can either

535
00:32:54,372 --> 00:32:56,568
apologise to the court
for your interruption,

536
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:58,371
or go down to a
cell for contempt.

537
00:32:58,443 --> 00:33:00,810
- He didn't do nothing.
- It seems you've chosen the cell.

538
00:33:00,879 --> 00:33:02,519
Would a police officer
remove her, please?

539
00:33:08,620 --> 00:33:10,452
She didn't do nothing!

540
00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:13,353
Seems to be a trait in
your family, Mr Nicolaides.

541
00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:15,427
Now shut it or join her.

542
00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,460
Sit down.

543
00:33:21,199 --> 00:33:23,930
We will continue the
trial with 10 jurors.

544
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,836
- You can't do that.
- I can't, Mr Balfe?

545
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,031
You'll see what I can do.

546
00:33:30,208 --> 00:33:33,440
See how it is? My man's
already got his mind made up.

547
00:33:33,545 --> 00:33:37,380
Again, I hesitate in arguing
this point with you, my lord,

548
00:33:38,450 --> 00:33:42,285
but isn't there a danger of
going forward with only 10 jurors?

549
00:33:43,822 --> 00:33:45,950
I don't think so. Mrs Mills.

550
00:33:48,293 --> 00:33:49,659
I'd like to call Reb Spark.

551
00:33:51,062 --> 00:33:54,555
Miss Spark, would you tell the
court what happened in the hotel room

552
00:33:54,666 --> 00:33:56,897
on the 19th of September last?

553
00:33:56,968 --> 00:33:59,597
What, you mean after
Sime had sex or before?

554
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:01,036
No, during it!

555
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,574
- Dock officer, take him down.
- Don't touch me, man.

556
00:34:05,744 --> 00:34:07,235
Don't touch me.

557
00:34:12,984 --> 00:34:16,250
- Mrs Mills.
- Miss Spark, after will be fine.

558
00:34:18,857 --> 00:34:22,055
I was in the bathroom
getting ready to go to work.

559
00:34:22,527 --> 00:34:25,292
And, uh... There was
a knock at the door.

560
00:34:25,664 --> 00:34:27,929
Three men came in when
Sime went and opened it.

561
00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:29,695
Are they in court?

562
00:34:33,138 --> 00:34:34,834
Two of them are.

563
00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:36,702
This might be painful for you,

564
00:34:36,775 --> 00:34:40,212
but I'm not sure that anyone
but me heard your answer.

565
00:34:44,149 --> 00:34:46,709
Two of them are.
The two in the dock.

566
00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:49,516
Stand up.

567
00:34:50,722 --> 00:34:52,122
Both of you.

568
00:34:55,126 --> 00:34:57,095
Do you know their names?

569
00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:00,057
Yeah.

570
00:35:01,733 --> 00:35:04,567
He's Jesus Balfe.
And he's Sky Rudkin.

571
00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:09,439
The third one was the one what
was taken out. Dave Nicolaides.

572
00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:11,837
They shot Sime and
squashed a pizza on his face.

573
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:13,275
Maybe he was hungry!

574
00:35:15,213 --> 00:35:17,375
Dock officer, take him down.

575
00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:22,785
Hands off me, man. Yeah. Yeah.

576
00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:30,494
Miss Spark, how did
the shooting come about?

577
00:35:32,564 --> 00:35:34,123
They were arguing.

578
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:38,068
Saying that Sime was nicking
their turf and he was a dead man.

579
00:35:38,269 --> 00:35:41,603
Jesus Balfe pulled a gun
out and give it to him, Sky.

580
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:46,033
Dave told him to ventilate
him, but he didn't move.

581
00:35:47,178 --> 00:35:48,407
He was shaking.

582
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,473
He didn't want to do it
and Sime was shouting.

583
00:35:52,417 --> 00:35:55,819
Then Jez grabbed the
gun back and shot him.

584
00:35:55,887 --> 00:35:58,516
What happened after
Mr Balfe shot him?

585
00:35:59,758 --> 00:36:02,557
The white one smacked
a pizza in his face.

586
00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:08,333
He said, "That's on us,
dog." Then they ran out.

587
00:36:12,437 --> 00:36:14,030
I waited a while

588
00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:16,436
and then I ran, too.

589
00:36:20,779 --> 00:36:24,875
You killed Sime Jackson, that well-known
pimp and drugs dealer, didn't you?

590
00:36:24,983 --> 00:36:26,042
No!

591
00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:29,451
He asked me there to have
sex with him to celebrate.

592
00:36:30,088 --> 00:36:31,920
You charge men for having sex.

593
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:34,618
So what if I do? It's my body.

594
00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:37,220
Most of the money you earned

595
00:36:37,295 --> 00:36:39,662
you gave to Sime
Jackson. Your pimp.

596
00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:43,735
He was your pimp, wasn't he?

597
00:36:43,802 --> 00:36:47,330
I gave him money for drugs
and protection, that's all.

598
00:36:47,405 --> 00:36:49,374
Isn't it true, Miss Spark,

599
00:36:49,441 --> 00:36:53,435
that you were a sex slave to a
pimp who got you hooked on drugs?

600
00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:56,845
You went to the hotel room and killed
him as the only means of getting free.

601
00:36:56,948 --> 00:36:59,281
No! I didn't! I saw them do it!

602
00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:04,322
Did you not say to Bel Robinson,
another of Jackson's sex slaves,

603
00:37:04,422 --> 00:37:08,951
that the only way to get free
of that man was to shoot him?

604
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:11,620
What? I didn't
mean it! I didn't!

605
00:37:11,696 --> 00:37:14,723
But Mr Jackson ended
up shot dead just the same.

606
00:37:14,799 --> 00:37:16,131
Is that coincidence?

607
00:37:16,201 --> 00:37:17,760
You can't say that I did it!

608
00:37:17,869 --> 00:37:20,600
I didn't! I don't
have to listen to this!

609
00:37:27,812 --> 00:37:29,371
Reb! Reb, wait!

610
00:37:30,849 --> 00:37:32,960
If you run like that, the judge
could get seriously annoyed.

611
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:36,443
- Yeah? What's he gonna do?
- He could stick you in jail.

612
00:37:36,688 --> 00:37:38,316
You're all against me in there.

613
00:37:38,423 --> 00:37:40,483
No one believes me. I
might as well be dead.

614
00:37:40,558 --> 00:37:42,083
We believe you.

615
00:37:43,061 --> 00:37:44,222
We do.

616
00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:47,259
Come on.

617
00:38:09,254 --> 00:38:11,432
It's doing my nut in being
cooped up in here the whole time.

618
00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:12,480
You'll be fine.

619
00:38:12,590 --> 00:38:14,401
When you're done they'll
get a whacking sentence.

620
00:38:14,425 --> 00:38:16,257
I can't stand it here
with nothing to do.

621
00:38:16,327 --> 00:38:18,489
I just wanna go and
have a good time.

622
00:38:18,563 --> 00:38:19,724
Look,

623
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:23,067
I'll go and get you
some new DVDs.

624
00:39:04,742 --> 00:39:08,440
I can't take you with me
because I've got a hot date.

625
00:39:10,815 --> 00:39:14,616
Don't look like that. Two girls
just don't work for me, Mimi.

626
00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:16,048
Come on.

627
00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:18,788
It's okay. Come
on. Night, night.

628
00:39:24,429 --> 00:39:26,295
- Jo?
- Porter let me up.

629
00:39:26,831 --> 00:39:28,094
You obviously haven't heard.

630
00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:31,933
Reb Spark was killed this
afternoon by a hit-and-run driver.

631
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:39,207
How? She had police protection.

632
00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:41,040
It seems she gave them the slip.

633
00:39:41,145 --> 00:39:43,385
If you would have let her
give evidence via a video link,

634
00:39:43,414 --> 00:39:44,814
she would still be alive.

635
00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:46,681
Yes, yes. Yes, I'm...

636
00:39:51,322 --> 00:39:53,416
Are the police
treating it as murder?

637
00:39:53,491 --> 00:39:57,258
The driver didn't just knock
her down. He reversed over her.

638
00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:59,459
You judged her for
being a prostitute.

639
00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:03,763
You decided that she wasn't worth
as much as your precious principle.

640
00:40:06,271 --> 00:40:07,603
Well, um...

641
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,785
Obviously I can't go on hearing
the case under the circumstances...

642
00:40:11,809 --> 00:40:13,778
John, another principle!

643
00:40:14,112 --> 00:40:17,446
If you stop the trial now, her
evidence will be gone forever.

644
00:40:17,548 --> 00:40:20,279
That young woman
will have died in vain!

645
00:40:37,969 --> 00:40:39,146
<i>This is John Deed.</i>

646
00:40:39,170 --> 00:40:41,332
<i>I can't come to the phone.
Please leave me a message.</i>

647
00:40:43,308 --> 00:40:45,334
<i>John, it's George.</i>

648
00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:48,608
<i>I assume you're on your
way. I'll try your mobile.</i>

649
00:40:56,721 --> 00:41:01,091
Because of the death of the
prosecution's main witness,

650
00:41:01,926 --> 00:41:03,451
I'm going to adjourn for the day

651
00:41:03,528 --> 00:41:06,896
to allow the prosecution
to reorganise its witnesses.

652
00:41:07,065 --> 00:41:09,830
- We all get a holiday.
- What did you say?

653
00:41:11,803 --> 00:41:13,101
Stand up.

654
00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:19,733
Apologise now.

655
00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:23,311
What? I didn't do nothing.

656
00:41:25,183 --> 00:41:26,947
You won't apologise?

657
00:41:27,385 --> 00:41:29,616
You can remain in the cell
below the court until you do.

658
00:41:29,687 --> 00:41:31,178
Take him down.

659
00:41:56,314 --> 00:41:57,873
Are you unhappy?

660
00:42:00,952 --> 00:42:04,719
- I'm going to give up the law.
- But being a barrister's good.

661
00:42:05,123 --> 00:42:06,455
Sometimes.

662
00:42:07,225 --> 00:42:10,889
Sometimes you have to deal
with such horrid things and such

663
00:42:11,129 --> 00:42:12,722
wretched people.

664
00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:16,130
You begin to feel contaminated.

665
00:42:17,101 --> 00:42:19,366
It would be much
nicer looking after you.

666
00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:21,268
Will you come to my
house for the weekend?

667
00:42:21,339 --> 00:42:23,808
- Will you come and get me?
- Mmm-hmm.

668
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:35,384
What do you want done
with Mr Balfe, Judge?

669
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:37,916
Is he still in the cell?

670
00:42:38,022 --> 00:42:41,925
The van's waiting to take the
others back to the remand centre.

671
00:42:42,927 --> 00:42:44,623
Leave Balfe where he is.

672
00:42:44,695 --> 00:42:47,563
Good. He deserves
solitary confinement for life.

673
00:42:47,665 --> 00:42:50,328
I hope that's what
you give him, Judge.

674
00:42:50,701 --> 00:42:53,102
Coop, would you ask the Chief
Constable to come and see me?

675
00:42:53,171 --> 00:42:57,404
No, order the Chief Constable to
come and see me in the digs, please?

676
00:43:06,551 --> 00:43:10,181
- What about Jez?
- Don't worry about him.

677
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,025
What is this?

678
00:43:16,094 --> 00:43:17,323
Come on!

679
00:43:39,183 --> 00:43:41,243
Are you close to finding
Miss Spark's killer?

680
00:43:41,352 --> 00:43:45,016
We found the stolen security
van. It was dumped and burned.

681
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:48,721
Any clues to the driver?

682
00:43:48,826 --> 00:43:52,160
The van was caught twice on
CCTV cameras near the court.

683
00:43:52,263 --> 00:43:54,061
The driver is a blur.

684
00:43:54,332 --> 00:43:56,858
We are trying to
enhance the images.

685
00:43:59,770 --> 00:44:02,069
We are checking
every camera in town.

686
00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:03,870
I want round-the-clock
protection

687
00:44:03,941 --> 00:44:05,552
on each of the other main
witnesses and the jury.

688
00:44:05,576 --> 00:44:08,341
I don't care who
pays for it, just do it.

689
00:44:32,537 --> 00:44:33,732
Jo.

690
00:44:35,273 --> 00:44:37,742
- Now Terry Post has gone missing.
- What?

691
00:44:54,926 --> 00:44:56,827
What's happened to your
next witness, Mrs Mills?

692
00:44:56,894 --> 00:44:59,125
It seems he's scared, my lord.

693
00:44:59,630 --> 00:45:02,691
He doesn't want what happened
to Miss Spark to happen to him.

694
00:45:02,767 --> 00:45:04,861
I thought he had
round-the-clock protection.

695
00:45:04,936 --> 00:45:06,700
Supposedly, my lord.

696
00:45:07,305 --> 00:45:09,206
Mr Post disappeared
through the toilet window

697
00:45:09,307 --> 00:45:11,538
at the back of his pizza shop.

698
00:45:12,977 --> 00:45:14,570
Mr Harrison?

699
00:45:14,645 --> 00:45:15,806
Contact the Chief Constable.

700
00:45:15,913 --> 00:45:17,791
Tell him I want Mr Post
found and brought to court.

701
00:45:17,815 --> 00:45:19,455
- Yes, sir.
- Can you proceed without him?

702
00:45:19,550 --> 00:45:22,179
- My next witness is here.
- Good, let's have the jury in.

703
00:45:22,253 --> 00:45:26,384
My lord, it seems two more
jury members have reported sick.

704
00:45:26,691 --> 00:45:28,887
- Doctors' notes?
- Yes, my lord.

705
00:45:31,495 --> 00:45:34,465
- They're from the same doctor!
- Yes, my lord.

706
00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:37,364
I want the doctor brought
to court to explain himself.

707
00:45:37,468 --> 00:45:39,061
All rise.

708
00:45:44,342 --> 00:45:46,777
Sir Ian Rochester, my
lord. And lunch is ready.

709
00:45:46,844 --> 00:45:48,813
- Thank you, Mrs Johnson. Ian.
- Sir John.

710
00:45:48,913 --> 00:45:51,610
- Do you want some lunch?
- No, thank you.

711
00:45:53,084 --> 00:45:55,644
I heard your
trial's falling apart.

712
00:45:56,187 --> 00:46:00,682
Mightn't this be an appropriate case for
you to continue hearing without a jury?

713
00:46:00,791 --> 00:46:02,919
That means the
terrorists win, Ian.

714
00:46:03,027 --> 00:46:07,260
I understood from Laurence James
that this was a drugs-related murder trial.

715
00:46:07,331 --> 00:46:10,768
Someone is terrorising both
the jury and the witnesses.

716
00:46:10,868 --> 00:46:14,669
If it takes the intervention of
the trial judge to shore up the jury,

717
00:46:14,739 --> 00:46:17,903
and half the Sussex
police force to protect them,

718
00:46:17,975 --> 00:46:20,706
is the convention
worth fighting for?

719
00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:23,043
A judge without a jury
worked in Northern Ireland.

720
00:46:23,147 --> 00:46:25,548
Nobody ever
believed it was just.

721
00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:29,280
It would solve our
increasing economic dilemma.

722
00:46:29,754 --> 00:46:32,349
So too would extending the
powers of summary justice

723
00:46:32,423 --> 00:46:36,087
to policemen and traffic wardens.
We could go beyond on-the-spot fines.

724
00:46:36,193 --> 00:46:39,493
The hands of thieves and the fingers
of pickpockets could be lopped off.

725
00:46:39,563 --> 00:46:42,294
We could do away with
the rule of law altogether.

726
00:46:42,366 --> 00:46:45,131
I wouldn't suggest that
to this Home Secretary.

727
00:46:45,236 --> 00:46:47,364
He might find it attractive.

728
00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:51,469
Dr Woods, did you actually
examine these jurors?

729
00:46:51,542 --> 00:46:54,944
I don't issue sick notes
without examining the patient.

730
00:46:55,012 --> 00:46:56,390
They're suffering from
the same complaint?

731
00:46:56,414 --> 00:46:58,246
Yes, from stress.

732
00:46:58,349 --> 00:47:00,614
Everybody finds
jury service stressful.

733
00:47:00,685 --> 00:47:04,452
One has a number of abrasions.
He wouldn't say how he got them.

734
00:47:04,555 --> 00:47:06,854
He appeared to have been beaten.

735
00:47:10,027 --> 00:47:11,222
I see.

736
00:47:11,929 --> 00:47:14,763
Yeah, thank you, Doctor,
you can step down.

737
00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:20,494
I'm going to adjourn again

738
00:47:20,571 --> 00:47:23,473
so I can visit these jurors
in their homes myself.

739
00:47:23,541 --> 00:47:26,136
- My lord...
- Yes, I know. Highly irregular.

740
00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:28,202
I would invite counsel
to accompany me,

741
00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:30,524
but in this case I think it
would prove counter-productive.

742
00:47:30,548 --> 00:47:34,383
In any case, a transcript will
be made available to the court.

743
00:47:35,052 --> 00:47:36,281
All rise.

744
00:47:37,788 --> 00:47:39,984
Were you beaten up, Mr Arrow?

745
00:47:40,725 --> 00:47:42,694
I tripped over, sir.

746
00:47:44,995 --> 00:47:48,159
Now, how did that happen,
with the police protecting you?

747
00:47:48,265 --> 00:47:49,733
I don't know.

748
00:47:50,434 --> 00:47:51,732
Thank you.

749
00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:56,964
Could you identify whoever
it was who caused you to trip?

750
00:48:02,313 --> 00:48:06,444
Sometimes we have to be very
courageous to do what we know is right.

751
00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:10,586
If we give in to the threats
of the bully, the strong man,

752
00:48:10,654 --> 00:48:13,123
or the terrorist,
everybody loses.

753
00:48:13,791 --> 00:48:17,489
Countless people through the
centuries have suffered torture,

754
00:48:17,595 --> 00:48:21,760
deprivation, loss of
life, saying no to him.

755
00:48:21,866 --> 00:48:25,928
That young witness gave her life
doing what she thought was right.

756
00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:30,134
Now, I'm not saying
that she did it willingly.

757
00:48:30,207 --> 00:48:33,371
In fact, I'm quite certain that she
would rather have done anything

758
00:48:33,444 --> 00:48:35,606
than come into court
and do what she did.

759
00:48:35,713 --> 00:48:38,080
But having done it, we
have to ask ourselves,

760
00:48:38,182 --> 00:48:41,243
"Are we going to let
her sacrifice be in vain?"

761
00:48:46,190 --> 00:48:50,423
I can't force you to go back into
court. Your doctor says you're ill.

762
00:48:51,495 --> 00:48:54,522
But I can't continue
with only eight jurors.

763
00:49:01,172 --> 00:49:03,607
So, thanks for the tea.

764
00:49:13,350 --> 00:49:15,819
The jury bailiff said they
didn't show up, Judge.

765
00:49:15,886 --> 00:49:18,287
He's still got
only eight jurors.

766
00:49:19,590 --> 00:49:21,525
Ask counsel to come to
chambers please, Coop.

767
00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:25,687
In spite of my best endeavours,
I still haven't got enough jurors.

768
00:49:26,764 --> 00:49:30,064
Now, the options are to adjourn
until the jurors are well enough...

769
00:49:30,134 --> 00:49:33,127
- And, if they're not, Judge?
- Abandon the trial.

770
00:49:34,104 --> 00:49:35,299
No.

771
00:49:36,574 --> 00:49:39,544
Now, if I was to do that,
Jo, can the CPS remount it?

772
00:49:39,610 --> 00:49:42,512
- Unlikely, with our main witness dead.
- Hmm.

773
00:49:43,347 --> 00:49:45,407
The Secretary of State
for Constitutional Affairs,

774
00:49:45,483 --> 00:49:47,027
driven, of course, by
the Home Secretary,

775
00:49:47,051 --> 00:49:49,577
would like me to
hear it without a jury.

776
00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:54,485
My client would never agree.
Even if the law were in place.

777
00:49:55,092 --> 00:49:57,084
- Nor mine.
- You can't do that, John.

778
00:49:57,194 --> 00:49:59,095
They seem to think that I can.

779
00:49:59,263 --> 00:50:02,131
Under Section 44 of the
2003 Criminal Justice Act.

780
00:50:02,233 --> 00:50:04,862
And even if I can't,
they're sure to amend it.

781
00:50:04,935 --> 00:50:06,403
It flies in the face of justice.

782
00:50:06,504 --> 00:50:10,100
I agree. But somehow, these
three have got to face trial.

783
00:50:14,612 --> 00:50:17,810
One option would be to
continue with eight jurors.

784
00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:20,549
My lord, that would be unsafe.

785
00:50:20,618 --> 00:50:22,610
Convictions have
been upheld with nine.

786
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:25,315
With respect, John,
eight is not nine.

787
00:50:25,422 --> 00:50:29,086
Yes, I agree, but it's preferable
to abandoning the trial.

788
00:50:29,326 --> 00:50:31,227
Or hearing it with
a judge alone.

789
00:50:39,603 --> 00:50:41,333
Oh, I don't know.

790
00:50:44,575 --> 00:50:47,511
I'm going to adjourn
and seek wiser counsel.

791
00:50:47,845 --> 00:50:50,747
My clerk will let you
know when we next sit.

792
00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:57,411
Come on, then.

793
00:50:58,455 --> 00:51:01,323
I won't let these three young
men escape without a trial, Joe.

794
00:51:01,425 --> 00:51:03,656
Is this because you feel
somehow responsible

795
00:51:03,727 --> 00:51:06,162
for the death of
this young woman?

796
00:51:09,033 --> 00:51:11,764
No, I'm afraid you
must abandon this trial.

797
00:51:11,869 --> 00:51:15,067
If they were to be convicted
with only eight jurors,

798
00:51:15,139 --> 00:51:16,732
you would certainly
be overturned.

799
00:51:16,807 --> 00:51:20,335
Why are nine jurors less
fallible than eight? Hmm?

800
00:51:20,411 --> 00:51:22,903
Well, they're not, in theory.

801
00:51:22,980 --> 00:51:25,882
But what if murder were
still a capital offence?

802
00:51:25,983 --> 00:51:27,474
Putting young men
away for 30 years

803
00:51:27,585 --> 00:51:29,305
is not something that
I'd undertake lightly,

804
00:51:29,353 --> 00:51:31,379
however many
jurors convicted them.

805
00:51:31,455 --> 00:51:33,253
If you want these
bods to stand trial,

806
00:51:33,324 --> 00:51:36,192
you must be prepared
to go ahead without a jury.

807
00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:38,729
Even though it's an
affront to civil liberties.

808
00:51:38,829 --> 00:51:39,956
Joe...

809
00:51:42,433 --> 00:51:44,732
I have to ask you
something personal.

810
00:51:47,071 --> 00:51:51,304
You sold a lot of shares in a forward
position in the One-Way Phone Company?

811
00:51:51,375 --> 00:51:54,311
Yes, I did, yes.
Made a lot of money.

812
00:51:55,412 --> 00:51:57,677
Why did you trade those shares?

813
00:51:57,781 --> 00:52:00,080
Neil Haughton put me on to them.

814
00:52:01,685 --> 00:52:03,916
Why, is there something wrong?

815
00:52:04,622 --> 00:52:07,456
There might be. What
did Haughton tell you?

816
00:52:07,524 --> 00:52:12,087
He told me that One-Way
were under pressure,

817
00:52:12,162 --> 00:52:16,327
and that selling a forward
position could be advantageous.

818
00:52:17,067 --> 00:52:19,332
When he was at the
Department of Trade,

819
00:52:19,403 --> 00:52:23,170
Haughton advised the
government not to support One-Way.

820
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:25,971
He knew the share
price was going down.

821
00:52:26,644 --> 00:52:29,546
- Yes, but that could look bad for me.
- Yes, it could.

822
00:52:30,381 --> 00:52:33,818
If somebody decided to go
after our new Home Secretary,

823
00:52:33,884 --> 00:52:36,649
and then he reached
out to you for help.

824
00:52:37,221 --> 00:52:39,713
Is somebody likely
to go after him?

825
00:52:43,460 --> 00:52:45,759
Ah. Uh-huh.

826
00:52:51,969 --> 00:52:54,063
I suppose you'd be very
pleased if I am forced

827
00:52:54,138 --> 00:52:57,006
into conducting a
trial without a jury.

828
00:52:57,107 --> 00:52:58,973
That would suit the
Home Office very well.

829
00:52:59,043 --> 00:53:02,377
We have to find some way to get
on top of the legions of offenders.

830
00:53:02,446 --> 00:53:04,642
I have no intention of
setting that precedent.

831
00:53:04,748 --> 00:53:07,217
John, we live in a society where
90% of crimes go unpunished.

832
00:53:07,284 --> 00:53:11,221
Better that 99% go unpunished
than one person is convicted wrongly.

833
00:53:11,789 --> 00:53:14,987
You wouldn't take that view if
you had to answer to the electorate.

834
00:53:15,059 --> 00:53:17,085
I answer to my conscience.

835
00:53:17,161 --> 00:53:20,461
The voters of this country
are fed up to their back teeth

836
00:53:20,531 --> 00:53:22,329
of criminals playing the system.

837
00:53:22,399 --> 00:53:26,461
Winning because juries
are afraid to convict.

838
00:53:26,537 --> 00:53:28,733
You won't make them
unafraid by abandoning them.

839
00:53:28,806 --> 00:53:32,106
You might not have any regard
for the voters, I can't ignore them.

840
00:53:32,176 --> 00:53:33,920
It's the voters who will
lose out in the long run

841
00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:35,435
if you unpick their safeguards.

842
00:53:35,546 --> 00:53:38,744
John, you must want to see
wrongdoers convicted, surely.

843
00:53:40,250 --> 00:53:43,015
Yes, but justly, fairly.

844
00:53:43,620 --> 00:53:45,782
Then we're on the same side.

845
00:53:45,856 --> 00:53:48,826
Necessity sometimes
makes strange bedfellows.

846
00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:52,428
As does conspiracy to
defraud shareholders.

847
00:53:53,464 --> 00:53:54,932
- What?
- John!

848
00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:57,277
- I've conspired with no one.
- Haven't you?

849
00:53:57,301 --> 00:53:59,497
Let me get you another drink.

850
00:54:03,807 --> 00:54:06,174
I will not run a juryless trial.

851
00:54:08,045 --> 00:54:10,037
If you're not prepared to
abandon your principles,

852
00:54:10,147 --> 00:54:13,276
then you'll have to abandon
the trial, let these boys go.

853
00:54:13,383 --> 00:54:15,045
George. Must dash.

854
00:54:58,562 --> 00:55:00,463
- Hello.
<i>- Jo, it's John.</i>

855
00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:30,317
I can't find an echo of a
precedent for a jury of eight.

856
00:55:33,864 --> 00:55:38,131
Did you mean it when you said I
was responsible for that girl's death?

857
00:55:39,403 --> 00:55:41,770
We say things in the
heat of the moment.

858
00:55:41,839 --> 00:55:43,569
Yeah, tell me about it.

859
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,303
I came that close to hitting
Neil Haughton this evening.

860
00:55:46,376 --> 00:55:48,470
Won't bring her back, John.

861
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:51,978
I will not sanction
a juryless trial.

862
00:55:52,049 --> 00:55:56,180
Fine, then the defendants get to
walk. That's for your conscience.

863
00:55:56,253 --> 00:55:58,654
I have a meeting to prepare for.

864
00:56:02,726 --> 00:56:05,890
How would you describe
your lifestyle, Mrs Mills?

865
00:56:05,963 --> 00:56:08,125
Busy, but getting less busy.

866
00:56:08,532 --> 00:56:12,492
Isn't the life of a leading
criminal QC permanently busy?

867
00:56:12,569 --> 00:56:14,401
I plan to take a sabbatical.

868
00:56:14,504 --> 00:56:16,996
Does that mean you'd become
busy again in a year or so?

869
00:56:17,107 --> 00:56:20,942
No, I'd give up work to find a
workable routine for Michael.

870
00:56:21,011 --> 00:56:24,004
Yes, but that does sound like
you intend to get busy again, Jo.

871
00:56:24,081 --> 00:56:27,483
It's not my plan to give
up working forever, Simon.

872
00:56:28,652 --> 00:56:32,646
After all, you manage to sit on this
committee as well as being a busy QC.

873
00:56:32,723 --> 00:56:35,420
- Adoption is a big commitment.
- Yes.

874
00:56:35,492 --> 00:56:37,927
Children are for life,
not just a sabbatical.

875
00:56:38,028 --> 00:56:40,520
Yes, do you think
I don't know that?

876
00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:47,363
I did bring up two children on my
own after their father got ill and died.

877
00:56:49,940 --> 00:56:52,375
Yes, of course,
Mrs Mills. I'm sorry.

878
00:56:54,478 --> 00:56:58,347
Are you sure you're not looking
to adopt in order to fill the gap

879
00:56:58,415 --> 00:57:00,145
left by your children
going to college?

880
00:57:00,217 --> 00:57:02,846
Michael's mother asked me to
take him when she was dying.

881
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:07,119
You didn't pursue this request
immediately after Miss Hulsey's death.

882
00:57:07,291 --> 00:57:10,227
No. I'm sorry I didn't.

883
00:57:11,161 --> 00:57:13,995
I didn't think I could cope.

884
00:57:14,097 --> 00:57:16,931
It took a lot of
soul-searching on my part.

885
00:57:17,801 --> 00:57:19,946
But it's precisely because I
put myself through this process

886
00:57:19,970 --> 00:57:21,939
that I feel so sure now.

887
00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:24,840
Mightn't it be better if you
simply befriended Michael

888
00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:27,002
in some other
situation altogether?

889
00:57:27,077 --> 00:57:29,342
Well, what's going
to happen to him?

890
00:57:29,413 --> 00:57:32,144
We'd look for another
foster placement.

891
00:57:32,783 --> 00:57:34,274
Are you completely stupid?

892
00:57:34,384 --> 00:57:37,183
How on earth will
that be better for him?

893
00:57:37,254 --> 00:57:40,156
Here you have someone who
wants him, and who loves him,

894
00:57:40,257 --> 00:57:44,126
even if she can't spend
24 hours a day with him!

895
00:57:44,261 --> 00:57:47,254
I'm sorry. We're turning
down your application.

896
00:57:56,106 --> 00:57:57,165
Jo!

897
00:58:17,461 --> 00:58:19,487
<i>Hello? Jo?</i>

898
00:58:41,051 --> 00:58:42,883
It's a tough call, Jo.

899
00:58:53,764 --> 00:58:55,733
Maybe it's for the best.

900
00:58:58,001 --> 00:59:01,028
I'm still not convinced
that you're convinced.

901
00:59:02,773 --> 00:59:06,869
I promised Michael he could
come home with me. I promised him!

902
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:11,276
Have they got a better
alternative for him?

903
00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:15,614
Help me, John. I want to smash
this panel with its arbitrary powers.

904
00:59:17,621 --> 00:59:19,351
Are they arbitrary?

905
00:59:20,924 --> 00:59:24,224
You could go for judicial
review on their decision.

906
00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:29,662
But that will take weeks. Months!
Michael will think I've abandoned him!

907
00:59:37,140 --> 00:59:39,041
Are you ready to give up law?

908
00:59:42,379 --> 00:59:45,372
Is it worth going on with?
You're no longer sure.

909
00:59:49,619 --> 00:59:53,351
- Have you solved your problem?
- No. I'm running out of time.

910
00:59:54,224 --> 00:59:57,683
But I'm not going to give
up, Jo. Nor should you.

911
01:00:00,564 --> 01:00:02,795
You can be a
mother and a lawyer.

912
01:00:02,899 --> 01:00:04,800
Panel doesn't think so.

913
01:00:05,168 --> 01:00:09,799
They want a perfect world for children
to be adopted into. It isn't possible!

914
01:00:09,906 --> 01:00:12,933
Yes, well, you could
argue that before a judge.

915
01:00:14,244 --> 01:00:15,610
You can't wait
for a perfect world

916
01:00:15,679 --> 01:00:18,877
according to the diktats
of some petty bureaucrat!

917
01:00:18,982 --> 01:00:22,180
Nor should you be expected
to create a perfect world.

918
01:00:22,252 --> 01:00:25,711
You'll do the best you can.
That's all any parent can do.

919
01:00:29,693 --> 01:00:33,755
You've been a
wonderful single mother.

920
01:00:35,799 --> 01:00:37,290
And you can do it again.

921
01:00:41,238 --> 01:00:42,501
I can?

922
01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:44,866
Yes.

923
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:53,078
I don't want you to lose
your place on the ladder.

924
01:00:55,018 --> 01:00:58,079
But that doesn't mean that you can't
have what you've set your heart on.

925
01:01:02,025 --> 01:01:03,755
Oh, bless you, John!

926
01:01:13,970 --> 01:01:16,735
Oh, Mimi! John.

927
01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:21,278
Have you found the means
to repulse the barbarians?

928
01:01:21,378 --> 01:01:23,176
Still looking, Monty.

929
01:01:26,082 --> 01:01:29,917
Oh, have you got time to fit in an
urgent judicial review application?

930
01:01:30,020 --> 01:01:33,718
I could, if the Administrative Court
agrees, and it's not too complicated.

931
01:01:33,823 --> 01:01:36,452
No, not much law,
just common sense.

932
01:01:37,093 --> 01:01:39,562
We've got plenty of that.
Who's making the application?

933
01:01:39,663 --> 01:01:41,655
- Jo Mills.
- Ah.

934
01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:46,730
Well, I'm not sure that I should
hear her, considering our history.

935
01:01:46,803 --> 01:01:49,705
You're probably the best
person because of it, Monty.

936
01:01:49,773 --> 01:01:51,139
- Do you think so?
- Mmm-hmm.

937
01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:55,407
Well, I'll ask my clerk to
look after the application.

938
01:01:55,478 --> 01:01:58,243
Oh, and John. If there's

939
01:01:59,115 --> 01:02:01,914
any way that I can support
you over the jury issue,

940
01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:04,745
- I will.
- Thanks.

941
01:02:10,493 --> 01:02:13,327
Ah, Jo. I'm glad I caught you.

942
01:02:14,898 --> 01:02:17,959
John suggested, in the
spirit of reconciliation,

943
01:02:18,034 --> 01:02:20,936
that I represent you
at this judicial review.

944
01:02:21,004 --> 01:02:25,874
- What? You can't be serious, George.
- He said you'd react like that.

945
01:02:27,143 --> 01:02:29,612
Well, that was
my initial response.

946
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,449
It's why I didn't phone.

947
01:02:33,383 --> 01:02:37,343
You'd be far better off with
me. I won't get over-emotional.

948
01:02:37,454 --> 01:02:39,946
- You think I will?
- You want the boy.

949
01:02:41,057 --> 01:02:42,821
His name is Michael.

950
01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:46,589
Yes, I know his name.

951
01:02:49,332 --> 01:02:51,563
Shall we go through the facts?

952
01:02:55,171 --> 01:02:58,972
Section 13 of the Child
Adoption Act 1990,

953
01:02:59,042 --> 01:03:01,443
clearly states, and I quote,

954
01:03:01,878 --> 01:03:05,371
"A child of suitable age for
adoption should be placed

955
01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:09,112
"wherever possible with an adult
or adults of compatible ethnicity,

956
01:03:09,219 --> 01:03:12,917
"or any suitable adult, provided
they meet the minimum requirements

957
01:03:13,023 --> 01:03:14,651
"set out in Section 18."

958
01:03:16,059 --> 01:03:18,551
That, my lord, states that,

959
01:03:18,662 --> 01:03:23,066
"To be a responsible adult,
you must be over 18 years of age,

960
01:03:23,133 --> 01:03:26,228
"be of reasonable
intelligence and mental stability,

961
01:03:26,336 --> 01:03:28,328
"not have a criminal record,

962
01:03:28,405 --> 01:03:31,432
"and have some
compatibility with the adoptee."

963
01:03:43,286 --> 01:03:47,621
Mrs Mills meets the requirement
of the Act in every degree.

964
01:03:48,258 --> 01:03:52,195
More than that, she desires
to give Michael Hulsey

965
01:03:52,295 --> 01:03:53,888
a stable and loving home.

966
01:03:53,963 --> 01:03:58,128
Indeed, she promised his
dying mother that she would.

967
01:04:00,370 --> 01:04:02,771
The decision by the adoption
committee is not only arbitrary,

968
01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:06,742
it's contrary to both the
spirit and the letter of the Act.

969
01:04:09,779 --> 01:04:11,714
Thank you, Mrs Channing.

970
01:04:13,383 --> 01:04:14,715
Mr Norwalk.

971
01:04:15,685 --> 01:04:19,452
Collectively, the committee
that rejected Mrs Mills' application

972
01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:23,289
has been responsible
for over 600 adoptions.

973
01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:26,261
With their considerable
experience,

974
01:04:26,296 --> 01:04:30,131
they judged her unsuitable
to adopt Michael Hulsey.

975
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:31,532
Not least of all
because they saw

976
01:04:31,601 --> 01:04:34,901
that she was a single
mother of adult teenagers,

977
01:04:34,971 --> 01:04:38,840
and a career lawyer who was not
about to step off the career ladder.

978
01:04:39,642 --> 01:04:43,636
Indeed, by her own admission, Mrs
Mills hopes one day to become a judge.

979
01:04:43,713 --> 01:04:47,377
Judges also can make
reasonable parents, Mr Norwalk.

980
01:04:47,450 --> 01:04:48,474
Indeed.

981
01:04:48,585 --> 01:04:50,918
Though it's a matter
of interest, Mr Norwalk,

982
01:04:51,020 --> 01:04:54,218
how many lesbians
and homosexual males

983
01:04:54,657 --> 01:04:58,560
has this committee allowed
to adopt young children?

984
01:05:00,096 --> 01:05:04,124
With respect, my lord, I
cannot see that has any bearing.

985
01:05:04,768 --> 01:05:06,134
You can't?

986
01:05:06,703 --> 01:05:10,265
And yet, the same committee
that approved those adoptions

987
01:05:10,607 --> 01:05:14,135
deems someone unsuitable
if he or she works at a career.

988
01:05:15,278 --> 01:05:16,871
You astound me.

989
01:05:17,881 --> 01:05:20,407
I'll hear each of
your arguments.

990
01:05:23,353 --> 01:05:27,017
You have to consider,
while there's life, there's hope.

991
01:05:27,290 --> 01:05:28,690
Mrs Mills.

992
01:05:30,093 --> 01:05:32,255
Even if the committee
does review its decision,

993
01:05:32,328 --> 01:05:36,390
like the judge said it should, it
may come to the same conclusion.

994
01:05:36,566 --> 01:05:38,277
There's nothing the High
Court can do about that.

995
01:05:38,301 --> 01:05:42,534
No. But I would find a way to
overturn the committee. Somehow.

996
01:05:43,206 --> 01:05:45,175
You really are
earnest, Mrs Mills.

997
01:05:45,241 --> 01:05:47,608
I won't give up. I can't.

998
01:05:48,778 --> 01:05:52,874
Well, perhaps you ought to have
a trial period with Michael at home.

999
01:05:54,517 --> 01:05:56,884
Does that mean you're
not going to oppose me?

1000
01:05:56,953 --> 01:06:00,287
We're doing as the judge
suggested. Thinking again.

1001
01:06:01,758 --> 01:06:03,090
A result!

1002
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:12,826
So, this can be your room.

1003
01:06:14,370 --> 01:06:16,771
You might want to put
up some different posters.

1004
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,139
- Who's Meatloaf?
- They're a '70s pop group.

1005
01:06:19,209 --> 01:06:21,678
Mark has all sorts
of tastes in music.

1006
01:06:21,778 --> 01:06:24,646
- Is that his cello?
- Mmm-hmm. He gave it up.

1007
01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:31,015
Would you like to learn? It can
be great fun learning an instrument.

1008
01:06:31,087 --> 01:06:33,079
Mum used to play the recorder.

1009
01:06:33,156 --> 01:06:35,648
Well, would you
like to learn that?

1010
01:06:40,930 --> 01:06:43,422
There's so much I've got
to learn about you, Michael.

1011
01:06:43,533 --> 01:06:47,527
- Like what time you go to bed.
- Mum said... She said...

1012
01:06:54,010 --> 01:06:56,878
We'll find our
way, little by little.

1013
01:06:58,615 --> 01:07:00,709
Come on, let's make some supper.

1014
01:07:18,368 --> 01:07:21,600
Michael, what's the matter,
darling? Can't you sleep?

1015
01:07:22,805 --> 01:07:24,774
It's because it's a
strange room, I expect.

1016
01:07:24,841 --> 01:07:28,403
I keep thinking about Mum.
Why did she have to die?

1017
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:31,680
I don't know.

1018
01:07:33,082 --> 01:07:34,516
No one does.

1019
01:07:36,452 --> 01:07:39,047
It's one of life's
enduring mysteries.

1020
01:07:39,289 --> 01:07:42,748
Why someone as nice as
your mum has to die so young,

1021
01:07:43,359 --> 01:07:46,352
and someone who
isn't very nice doesn't.

1022
01:07:46,462 --> 01:07:48,192
It was their fault.

1023
01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:50,996
They gave her the brain tumour.

1024
01:07:54,237 --> 01:07:56,672
Oh, Michael, come
on. Come on, come on.

1025
01:07:56,773 --> 01:07:59,937
It's all right. It's all
right. It's all right.

1026
01:08:00,009 --> 01:08:02,478
I won't let anyone hurt
you. I'm here for you.

1027
01:08:03,713 --> 01:08:05,875
Have a good cry if you want.

1028
01:08:11,421 --> 01:08:13,083
There, it's all right.

1029
01:08:14,490 --> 01:08:17,858
<i>Hello, this is Jo Mills. Please leave
a message and I'll call you back.</i>

1030
01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:21,291
Jo...

1031
01:08:32,976 --> 01:08:35,002
What could you do anyway?

1032
01:08:48,257 --> 01:08:51,091
Mr Balfe has finally apologised.

1033
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:52,355
Ah.

1034
01:08:52,462 --> 01:08:56,832
Judge, you can't let these three
murderers walk away, Judge. You can't.

1035
01:08:56,933 --> 01:09:00,199
Coop, I can't allow civil
liberties to be eroded.

1036
01:09:00,269 --> 01:09:05,606
The right to a trial by a jury,
even for the most odious of killers,

1037
01:09:05,675 --> 01:09:07,234
is at the heart of
our legal system.

1038
01:09:07,310 --> 01:09:11,008
- No, Judge...
- It's what makes us civilised.

1039
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,879
People don't care about
that, Judge. They don't!

1040
01:09:13,950 --> 01:09:16,351
Not when their lives
are blighted by crime!

1041
01:09:16,452 --> 01:09:20,321
What they do care about is
killers getting to walk away free!

1042
01:09:47,850 --> 01:09:52,515
After a lot of deliberation over
whether to abandon this trial,

1043
01:09:57,060 --> 01:09:59,188
I have decided to
continue without a jury.

1044
01:10:00,930 --> 01:10:02,796
No, my lord! I mean...

1045
01:10:03,032 --> 01:10:07,026
I would like to register my
protest on behalf of my client.

1046
01:10:07,470 --> 01:10:09,166
And I on behalf of mine.

1047
01:10:09,272 --> 01:10:12,174
- You said this would be stopped!
- Sit down.

1048
01:10:12,809 --> 01:10:17,577
The idea of this trial continuing
without a jury is offensive, my lord.

1049
01:10:18,381 --> 01:10:20,077
As it is to me.

1050
01:10:20,950 --> 01:10:24,546
A greater injustice might be done to
these defendants, I hope you'll agree,

1051
01:10:24,654 --> 01:10:27,146
if we were to abandon it without
giving them the opportunity

1052
01:10:27,256 --> 01:10:29,725
to clear their
names in open court.

1053
01:10:30,293 --> 01:10:32,694
Frankly, my lord, I don't
think any of us would agree.

1054
01:10:32,762 --> 01:10:35,231
My lord, two of our
jurors have recovered.

1055
01:10:35,331 --> 01:10:36,526
Are they here now?

1056
01:10:36,599 --> 01:10:39,535
In the jurors' assembly
room, with the others.

1057
01:10:41,804 --> 01:10:46,572
Ah, it appears that two of
our jurors have recovered.

1058
01:10:47,710 --> 01:10:49,042
So, let's have the jury back,

1059
01:10:49,112 --> 01:10:52,276
and continue with this
trial in a proper fashion.

1060
01:10:58,554 --> 01:11:00,523
In the absence of the
pizza-parlour owner,

1061
01:11:00,590 --> 01:11:02,889
I'd like to call Julia
Peters, a fingerprint expert.

1062
01:11:02,959 --> 01:11:06,418
- I thought the jury had fallen apart!
- We understood it had, completely.

1063
01:11:06,529 --> 01:11:07,889
It doesn't look
like it, Mr James!

1064
01:11:07,930 --> 01:11:10,832
- There will be other opportunities.
- Not without further legislation.

1065
01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:14,165
Deed's resistance will
encourage the other judges!

1066
01:11:15,471 --> 01:11:19,203
There was a clear thumbprint
made up of all 18 ridges,

1067
01:11:19,275 --> 01:11:22,404
on the right-hand flap
of the pizza box lid.

1068
01:11:22,678 --> 01:11:24,647
Were you able to ascertain
whose print this was?

1069
01:11:24,714 --> 01:11:27,650
Oh, yes. It belonged
to one Jesus Balfe.

1070
01:11:27,717 --> 01:11:29,083
It's Jez!

1071
01:11:29,152 --> 01:11:32,247
Mr Balfe, if you don't shut
up, you'll be back in a cell.

1072
01:11:33,923 --> 01:11:38,122
Mrs Peters, is there any
doubt about whose print it was?

1073
01:11:38,961 --> 01:11:41,226
No, it was Mr Balfe's.

1074
01:11:41,330 --> 01:11:43,094
There is doubt,
however, is there not,

1075
01:11:43,166 --> 01:11:46,364
that Mr Balfe put the
pizza box in the hotel room?

1076
01:11:46,769 --> 01:11:49,136
That's not my area of expertise.

1077
01:11:49,205 --> 01:11:52,505
Ah, so someone else could have
taken the box to the hotel room

1078
01:11:52,608 --> 01:11:56,272
after Mr Balfe had
somehow touched it,

1079
01:11:56,379 --> 01:11:58,871
possibly in the pizza parlour.

1080
01:12:00,750 --> 01:12:01,945
I suppose.

1081
01:12:02,051 --> 01:12:04,020
Would you further agree

1082
01:12:04,353 --> 01:12:08,051
that Mr Balfe's thumbprint
on the box, at the hotel,

1083
01:12:08,925 --> 01:12:13,226
is not evidence that
he did the shooting?

1084
01:12:16,098 --> 01:12:19,557
My lord, my learned friend is
trying to get from this witness

1085
01:12:19,635 --> 01:12:21,467
what she is not
qualified to answer.

1086
01:12:21,571 --> 01:12:23,062
I don't think he is, Mr Sorrell.

1087
01:12:23,172 --> 01:12:26,301
He's getting her to confirm
that she is not such an expert.

1088
01:12:26,409 --> 01:12:28,708
No, no. Mr Mason Allen.

1089
01:12:33,216 --> 01:12:34,616
Mrs Peters?

1090
01:12:35,318 --> 01:12:39,050
The thumbprint on the box is
not proof he did the shooting.

1091
01:12:39,121 --> 01:12:42,853
Then, by that token, not finding
Mr Nicolaides' prints on the box,

1092
01:12:42,925 --> 01:12:45,019
would indicate that he
didn't do the shooting.

1093
01:12:45,127 --> 01:12:48,962
Mr Michaels, aren't we straying
into <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> here?

1094
01:12:49,398 --> 01:12:51,958
I believe it is a favourite book
of most barristers, my lord.

1095
01:13:02,511 --> 01:13:04,751
My lord, the police have
located the pizza-parlour owner,

1096
01:13:04,814 --> 01:13:07,750
but Mr Post is not
being very cooperative.

1097
01:13:07,850 --> 01:13:09,819
I'd like to treat
him as hostile.

1098
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:11,445
Any objections?

1099
01:13:13,656 --> 01:13:14,988
Go on.

1100
01:13:15,958 --> 01:13:19,759
I don't recognise any of them. I
don't think they're my customers.

1101
01:13:19,829 --> 01:13:22,389
Then would you turn to
the witness bundle, Mr Post?

1102
01:13:22,498 --> 01:13:24,797
Item 19. Your statement.

1103
01:13:28,471 --> 01:13:30,804
Is that your name and signature?

1104
01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:36,178
Are you being threatened
by anyone, Mr Post?

1105
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,077
Mrs Mills, be careful.

1106
01:13:41,150 --> 01:13:43,949
Mr Post, did you or did
you not tell the police

1107
01:13:44,053 --> 01:13:46,545
that the three defendants
were in your pizza parlour

1108
01:13:46,656 --> 01:13:49,319
prior to the shooting
of Simon Jackson?

1109
01:13:51,294 --> 01:13:54,731
They can kill me if they want to!
If they do, my family will get them!

1110
01:13:54,797 --> 01:13:56,322
Mr Post, just
answer the question.

1111
01:13:56,399 --> 01:13:58,959
Yes, they was there. And
they didn't pay for their pizzas.

1112
01:13:59,035 --> 01:14:01,004
How many pizzas did they have?

1113
01:14:01,070 --> 01:14:04,700
Nicolaides, yeah, he had two in the
shop. The other two had one each.

1114
01:14:04,807 --> 01:14:08,471
Balfe tossed his box in my face
when I asked him for the money.

1115
01:14:09,245 --> 01:14:11,908
I remember he was
wearing, like, black gloves.

1116
01:14:12,014 --> 01:14:13,846
No thumbs. All The
Trigger wear 'em.

1117
01:14:13,916 --> 01:14:15,646
You're a liar! You liar!

1118
01:14:15,718 --> 01:14:18,916
Dock officer! Take Balfe to
a cell and leave him there.

1119
01:14:18,988 --> 01:14:20,650
You as well, dog!

1120
01:14:26,362 --> 01:14:29,764
Is your pizza
parlour profitable?

1121
01:14:29,832 --> 01:14:33,360
Some weeks are good, some
not. You don't do it to lose money.

1122
01:14:33,436 --> 01:14:36,065
To that end, you
save what you can.

1123
01:14:36,672 --> 01:14:40,768
You sometimes recycle the boxes
customers leave behind, don't you?

1124
01:14:43,446 --> 01:14:46,143
You do recycle
some of the boxes?

1125
01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:49,914
That's good! It helps
reduce the litter mountain.

1126
01:14:50,019 --> 01:14:52,147
Only if the box is clean.

1127
01:14:52,588 --> 01:14:56,787
Well, did the defendants finish
their pizzas in your takeaway?

1128
01:14:57,493 --> 01:15:00,793
- I don't remember.
- Oh, I think you do, Mr Post.

1129
01:15:00,896 --> 01:15:03,024
And you reused their boxes.

1130
01:15:03,165 --> 01:15:06,397
That was how Mr Balfe's
print was on the box,

1131
01:15:06,469 --> 01:15:08,802
that was subsequently
taken by someone

1132
01:15:08,871 --> 01:15:11,204
to the hotel room. Wasn't it?

1133
01:15:11,273 --> 01:15:14,869
My lord, this witness could not
possibly know the answer to this.

1134
01:15:14,977 --> 01:15:16,809
Yes, I tend to agree.

1135
01:15:17,346 --> 01:15:21,010
Unless Mr Mason Allen is
suggesting Mr Post took it there.

1136
01:15:24,854 --> 01:15:28,188
My lord, that was our last witness
and concludes the case for the Crown.

1137
01:15:28,290 --> 01:15:32,523
Thank you, Mr Sorrell. Am I going
to hear from anyone on the defence?

1138
01:15:40,036 --> 01:15:43,564
No, my lord. I'd like
to call Jesus Balfe.

1139
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,442
I assume you will allow
him back to give evidence.

1140
01:15:47,510 --> 01:15:50,412
He's had enough to say
from the dock, Mr Mason Allen.

1141
01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:54,416
I'm fascinated to hear what he's
going to say from the witness box.

1142
01:15:54,683 --> 01:15:56,777
It weren't me that shot him.

1143
01:15:56,886 --> 01:15:59,549
I wasn't at the hotel
like that slam said.

1144
01:15:59,655 --> 01:16:01,715
I didn't even know Jackson.

1145
01:16:02,158 --> 01:16:05,959
And where were you at the
approximate time of the shooting?

1146
01:16:09,365 --> 01:16:13,632
We was at that dog's pizza
takeaway. We didn't take nothing away.

1147
01:16:13,736 --> 01:16:15,364
We ate our pizzas there.

1148
01:16:15,438 --> 01:16:18,465
I tossed my box back when
he said we shouldn't eat there.

1149
01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:20,634
We was there all that time.

1150
01:16:20,910 --> 01:16:23,607
Then we was at Dave's
house, playing some tunes.

1151
01:16:23,679 --> 01:16:25,807
Ask his gran. Go on, ask her!

1152
01:16:28,084 --> 01:16:32,146
Mr Balfe, you say you didn't
know the dead man, Mr Jackson.

1153
01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:35,080
Yeah, never heard of him.

1154
01:16:35,157 --> 01:16:37,217
Well, yet, like you,
he dealt in drugs,

1155
01:16:37,326 --> 01:16:40,125
and was trying to move on to
ground controlled by The Trigger.

1156
01:16:40,196 --> 01:16:41,824
We don't deal with drugs.

1157
01:16:41,931 --> 01:16:44,662
I never heard of that man
till the police come for me.

1158
01:16:44,767 --> 01:16:48,363
Are you quite sure you didn't know
Mr Jackson before he was shot dead?

1159
01:16:48,437 --> 01:16:50,702
I told you, I never
heard of him.

1160
01:16:50,806 --> 01:16:53,207
Yet, three days
before he was shot,

1161
01:16:53,275 --> 01:16:57,542
you were caught on a CCTV camera
in Harlesden Parade arguing with him.

1162
01:16:58,080 --> 01:16:59,960
Perhaps if we take a
look at that footage again,

1163
01:17:00,049 --> 01:17:02,678
you might tell us if
it's you. Mr Usher.

1164
01:17:03,586 --> 01:17:05,350
Exhibit 12, my lord.

1165
01:17:28,978 --> 01:17:30,446
Is that you, Mr Balfe?

1166
01:17:30,513 --> 01:17:34,143
Sure. Any fool can see that.
The other dude, I don't know.

1167
01:17:34,350 --> 01:17:36,251
He was just some
bitch who dissed me,

1168
01:17:36,318 --> 01:17:39,686
so I set him straight, like
I do when people diss me.

1169
01:17:40,289 --> 01:17:42,554
I didn't see him
before, or after.

1170
01:17:43,125 --> 01:17:46,789
- And what were you arguing about?
- I don't know. How should I know?

1171
01:17:46,896 --> 01:17:49,627
A man you argued with is
shot dead three days later,

1172
01:17:49,732 --> 01:17:51,428
and you expect
the jury to believe

1173
01:17:51,534 --> 01:17:54,003
that you don't remember
what you argued about?

1174
01:17:54,069 --> 01:17:56,971
I said I don't. He was just
some punk who dissed me!

1175
01:17:57,039 --> 01:17:58,667
So you shot him?

1176
01:18:02,478 --> 01:18:04,413
I remember what he did.

1177
01:18:05,748 --> 01:18:09,116
He looked at me in a way I
didn't like coming out of the shop.

1178
01:18:09,185 --> 01:18:10,915
So I had a word with him.

1179
01:18:12,254 --> 01:18:15,691
- He had a lot of mouth and no respect.
- So you killed him?

1180
01:18:16,692 --> 01:18:18,217
I've already told you. You deaf?

1181
01:18:18,327 --> 01:18:20,626
I'm sure the jury
heard, Mr Balfe.

1182
01:18:41,650 --> 01:18:44,176
My apologies for
being late, my lord.

1183
01:18:44,954 --> 01:18:49,517
I was just about to invite Mr Sorrell to
give your closing argument, Mr Mills.

1184
01:18:49,592 --> 01:18:52,221
- Are you ready with it?
- I am, my lord.

1185
01:18:56,465 --> 01:18:58,934
Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury,

1186
01:18:59,001 --> 01:19:01,061
a man was shot
dead in a hotel room

1187
01:19:01,170 --> 01:19:04,072
following an earlier
dispute over drug turf.

1188
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,001
Not the everyday occurrence

1189
01:19:06,075 --> 01:19:10,513
that affects the lives of ordinary,
decent people, you might think.

1190
01:19:10,613 --> 01:19:13,276
Not a death that we should
have much concern about,

1191
01:19:13,349 --> 01:19:15,580
any more than we should
be concerned about the life

1192
01:19:15,684 --> 01:19:20,145
of someone who deals in drugs,
save for all the misery they cause.

1193
01:19:22,124 --> 01:19:24,593
But if we think like that,

1194
01:19:24,693 --> 01:19:28,221
then as a society, we
start to become lost.

1195
01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:32,924
It means we think that these
people who deal in drugs

1196
01:19:33,002 --> 01:19:36,598
and settle their differences
with guns are above the law.

1197
01:19:38,307 --> 01:19:39,775
No one is above the law.

1198
01:19:40,075 --> 01:19:43,307
Not if we are to have
a flourishing, cohesive,

1199
01:19:43,412 --> 01:19:46,314
and most of all, a fair society.

1200
01:19:48,350 --> 01:19:51,946
Reasonable doubt,
ladies and gentlemen.

1201
01:19:53,055 --> 01:19:54,546
That's all you need to have

1202
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:58,754
in order to acquit Jez Balfe and
his co-defendants of this murder.

1203
01:19:59,094 --> 01:20:01,325
Reasonable doubt.

1204
01:20:02,564 --> 01:20:04,123
And there is much,

1205
01:20:04,199 --> 01:20:06,532
both in the evidence that
was presented here in court,

1206
01:20:06,602 --> 01:20:09,436
and in the absence of evidence,

1207
01:20:09,505 --> 01:20:13,272
to cause you to doubt
that these three young men

1208
01:20:13,375 --> 01:20:15,708
killed Simon Jackson.

1209
01:20:18,647 --> 01:20:20,775
No indisputable motive,

1210
01:20:22,051 --> 01:20:25,283
no clear, undeniable
opportunity,

1211
01:20:26,522 --> 01:20:29,082
no presence of the
defendant's fingerprints

1212
01:20:29,158 --> 01:20:32,219
clinging to a murder
weapon to condemn them.

1213
01:20:35,431 --> 01:20:37,229
Reasonable doubt?

1214
01:20:38,334 --> 01:20:39,859
Indeed.

1215
01:20:58,787 --> 01:21:00,483
Which way you gonna vote, Paul?

1216
01:21:00,556 --> 01:21:03,617
What? I can't talk about that.

1217
01:21:04,326 --> 01:21:06,352
The judge said we mustn't.

1218
01:21:10,666 --> 01:21:15,104
But you know as well as we do that
Jez and his mates didn't pop that guy.

1219
01:21:17,473 --> 01:21:20,068
We know where you live, blood.

1220
01:21:23,278 --> 01:21:25,304
And where your mum lives.

1221
01:21:27,716 --> 01:21:29,241
You all right?

1222
01:21:51,173 --> 01:21:53,472
The jury's coming back! Come!

1223
01:21:57,312 --> 01:21:59,508
Will the foreman please rise?

1224
01:22:01,984 --> 01:22:05,785
Have you reached a verdict in
relation to the three defendants?

1225
01:22:05,888 --> 01:22:06,912
We have.

1226
01:22:06,989 --> 01:22:09,720
- Is that a unanimous verdict?
- Yes, it is.

1227
01:22:10,392 --> 01:22:13,760
In relation to Jesus Balfe,

1228
01:22:13,829 --> 01:22:17,061
on the charge of murder,
how do you find him?

1229
01:22:17,166 --> 01:22:18,634
Guilty or not guilty?

1230
01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:28,042
Guilty.

1231
01:22:34,550 --> 01:22:36,781
- Clear the court.
- You're dead!

1232
01:22:40,222 --> 01:22:41,815
You're dead!

1233
01:22:46,862 --> 01:22:48,353
You're dead!

1234
01:22:57,773 --> 01:23:00,470
- Order has been restored, Judge.
- Hmm.

1235
01:23:01,710 --> 01:23:03,406
They're ready with
the other two verdicts.

1236
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,209
Oh, good.

1237
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:09,183
Judge, the jury
foreman told the bailiff

1238
01:23:09,284 --> 01:23:11,879
he was threatened by one
of the defendants' friends.

1239
01:23:11,954 --> 01:23:15,686
- How did he get to him?
- Dressed as a security guard.

1240
01:23:15,757 --> 01:23:19,421
The police think he's the
one that drove the security van

1241
01:23:19,528 --> 01:23:21,360
that killed Reb Spark.

1242
01:23:24,199 --> 01:23:26,828
He's locked in
court with the others.

1243
01:23:28,904 --> 01:23:30,202
Good.

1244
01:23:31,974 --> 01:23:33,943
I'll deal with
the verdicts first.

1245
01:23:34,042 --> 01:23:36,034
On the charge of murder

1246
01:23:36,144 --> 01:23:40,275
in relation to David Nicolaides,

1247
01:23:40,349 --> 01:23:43,376
how do you find him?
Guilty or not guilty?

1248
01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:45,984
Guilty.

1249
01:23:46,088 --> 01:23:50,526
On the charge of murder
in relation to Sky Rudkin,

1250
01:23:50,592 --> 01:23:53,528
how do you find him?
Guilty or not guilty?

1251
01:23:54,162 --> 01:23:55,562
Not guilty.

1252
01:23:56,832 --> 01:24:01,702
In the alternative to murder,
in respect of Sky Rudkin,

1253
01:24:01,803 --> 01:24:06,104
do you find him guilty or
not guilty of manslaughter?

1254
01:24:06,842 --> 01:24:08,140
Guilty.

1255
01:24:11,213 --> 01:24:13,648
Thank you, you can sit down.

1256
01:24:15,450 --> 01:24:20,388
Members of the jury, I offer
you the court's sincere thanks

1257
01:24:20,489 --> 01:24:22,185
for your courage
and determination

1258
01:24:22,291 --> 01:24:25,193
to see this trial through
to its conclusion.

1259
01:24:25,527 --> 01:24:29,658
I further discharge you from ever
having to do jury service again.

1260
01:24:30,632 --> 01:24:34,364
Perhaps you would remain
seated while I deal with sentencing.

1261
01:24:34,436 --> 01:24:36,064
Thank you.

1262
01:24:38,807 --> 01:24:42,073
Would those of you on the public
seats over there please stand?

1263
01:24:42,678 --> 01:24:44,010
Come on.

1264
01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:47,777
And state your name and
relationship with the prisoners.

1265
01:24:49,685 --> 01:24:51,881
Doreen Balfe. I'm Jez's mum.

1266
01:24:51,954 --> 01:24:53,684
James Hay, friend.

1267
01:24:53,755 --> 01:24:55,690
Mono Simons, cousin to Jez.

1268
01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:57,953
- Bea Waxman.
- Natalie Wallis.

1269
01:24:58,026 --> 01:24:59,995
Andy Thompson, friend.

1270
01:25:01,330 --> 01:25:03,799
Del Peabody, friend.

1271
01:25:04,032 --> 01:25:05,625
He's the one.

1272
01:25:05,968 --> 01:25:07,300
Thank you.

1273
01:25:07,603 --> 01:25:12,098
Would a police officer take Mr Peabody
to a cell, please, pending charges?

1274
01:25:12,207 --> 01:25:14,267
- For what?
- You'll find out.

1275
01:25:14,343 --> 01:25:18,246
What's wrong with you,
man? For what? What now?

1276
01:25:19,047 --> 01:25:20,140
Get off me!

1277
01:25:26,088 --> 01:25:29,183
I have been watching those on
the public seats very carefully.

1278
01:25:29,291 --> 01:25:31,760
Some of you, I've
allowed to leave.

1279
01:25:31,994 --> 01:25:33,656
Those that remain,

1280
01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:36,530
your behaviour
has been shameful.

1281
01:25:38,033 --> 01:25:41,162
As a result, I'm charging
you all with contempt.

1282
01:25:41,637 --> 01:25:44,106
You will remain in custody
until you've purged that contempt.

1283
01:25:44,206 --> 01:25:48,143
That means that you will make a
humble and sincere apology to this court,

1284
01:25:48,243 --> 01:25:50,542
and especially to this jury,

1285
01:25:50,946 --> 01:25:54,781
whom you have assaulted with your
spitting and threatening behaviour.

1286
01:25:56,184 --> 01:25:58,915
Now, you will make that apology
right now from where you are,

1287
01:25:58,987 --> 01:26:02,355
and make it you will, or
find yourselves locked up.

1288
01:26:03,325 --> 01:26:04,418
Yeah.

1289
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,859
I apologise, sir.

1290
01:26:08,363 --> 01:26:10,730
I'm very sorry for my behaviour.

1291
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,866
Good. You may sit.

1292
01:26:17,739 --> 01:26:20,470
Is no one else
going to apologise?

1293
01:26:24,312 --> 01:26:25,837
No one.

1294
01:26:25,914 --> 01:26:29,146
All right, you'll be held for contempt
until dealt with by another judge

1295
01:26:29,251 --> 01:26:31,516
in due course. Will the
police officers take them out?

1296
01:26:31,586 --> 01:26:34,351
You can't do that, they've
got families to look after!

1297
01:26:34,423 --> 01:26:37,188
- What's your name, madam?
- Mrs Coffee, Dave's grandmother.

1298
01:26:37,292 --> 01:26:39,193
Well, Mrs Coffee, unless
you want to join them,

1299
01:26:39,261 --> 01:26:41,230
you will apologise
to the court as well.

1300
01:26:41,329 --> 01:26:44,299
Like hell I will. You'll rot in
hell for what you've just done.

1301
01:26:44,399 --> 01:26:47,301
I may well do that, but in the
meanwhile, you will go to prison.

1302
01:26:47,402 --> 01:26:50,099
- Take her out.
- Get off me. I hope you get cancer!

1303
01:26:51,273 --> 01:26:52,639
Get off me!

1304
01:26:55,077 --> 01:26:58,241
I can't be here. I've
got to go to the hospital.

1305
01:26:58,346 --> 01:27:02,249
Look what he done. Put him in
jail! He assaulted me, you saw that!

1306
01:27:02,317 --> 01:27:04,183
I saw now such thing, Mr Balfe.

1307
01:27:04,286 --> 01:27:08,348
All I saw was you attacking a juror
who righteously defended himself.

1308
01:27:08,423 --> 01:27:11,723
I'm sure the prison medical
authorities can easily deal with that,

1309
01:27:11,793 --> 01:27:13,104
because that's
where you're going.

1310
01:27:13,128 --> 01:27:16,724
First of all, I would like an apology
from each of you for your contempt.

1311
01:27:16,798 --> 01:27:20,064
- What's that, a joke?
- He's a joker, man.

1312
01:27:20,869 --> 01:27:22,895
I'm very sorry, sir. I am.

1313
01:27:23,638 --> 01:27:25,004
Thank you, Mr Rudkin.

1314
01:27:25,073 --> 01:27:27,633
I'm going to want
further reports on Rudkin.

1315
01:27:27,709 --> 01:27:29,487
Can we have him back for
sentencing in three weeks?

1316
01:27:29,511 --> 01:27:33,073
- Yes, my lord. The 29th?
- 29th, yeah.

1317
01:27:45,961 --> 01:27:50,558
It gives me no pleasure in
giving you each a life sentence,

1318
01:27:50,632 --> 01:27:52,828
as I am bound to, for murder.

1319
01:27:53,401 --> 01:27:56,997
That means that you will
each serve 30 years in prison.

1320
01:27:58,306 --> 01:27:59,831
Take them down.

1321
01:28:14,122 --> 01:28:15,215
Jo.

1322
01:28:16,625 --> 01:28:20,153
- You collecting Michael?
- Yeah, I don't want to be late.

1323
01:28:21,129 --> 01:28:24,463
- Can I give you a lift? I'd like to.
- Are you sure, John?

1324
01:28:24,566 --> 01:28:27,900
He badly needs people
in his life who are constant.

1324
01:28:28,305 --> 01:29:28,383
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