Why was I the only reporter?

At the sentencing of a gang of Rotherham serial rapists and sex abusers …

Charlie Peters

I GO TO A LOT OF SENTENCINGS IN MY JOB AS national reporter at GB News. In decaying court buildings across the country, lawyers make mitigating pleas to “Your Honour” before the judge retires to prepare their final remarks. In a few of the serious cases I’ve attended, their Lord or Ladyship will prepare to dispense the Crown’s justice after the press pack has huddled in the purgatory-like corridors that lead to the many courts, the building’s cafe invariably closed due to (yet another) leak. Courts are not glamorous places but I snap up any opportunity to be assigned to a trial. Media bosses tend to see them as news deserts — prone to delays or suffocating press restrictions — but short of being in the middle of a major protest…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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