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"With the advance of technology it’s overdue — it should have been available for TV"

The first televised Crown Court sentencing hearing in history is set to take place on Thursday as cameras are allowed back into the criminal courts for the first time in almost a century.

When I was a schoolboy, there was nothing I enjoyed more than exaggerating a mild sniffle, sloping off school and settling down to another riveting episode of the fictional daytime Granada TV trial, Crown Court. It taught me the thrill and jeopardy of a courtroom drama early. Let’s call it…

Eamon Goodfellow, who ran comedy nights in Cheshire, sourced children under 13 in Romania and the Philippines for abuse

Increasing the capacity of the courts needs to be a government priority over the next decade. Earlier this week the BBC rightly drew attention to delays in the Crown Court and their devasting impact on those waiting for justice.

MPs have demanded a plan from government to tackle a £1 billion court maintenance backlog and a lack of judges which are hampering the criminal justice recovery.

The Ministry of Justice has called on on barristers to abandon planned protest action

Couzens appeared in court and will return to the Old Bailey in May

Sarah Everard’s killer appeared via videolink from HMP Frankland.