Court Diary
« May 2012 » M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - Trial of Matthew Quesada for the murder of Alan SmithStarts: 12:00 amEnds: May 28, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Alan Smith, 63, was stabbed to death at a cafe in Leyton in March 2011
11 12 13 14 - Trial of three teenagers for the murder of Mahad MohammedStarts: 12:00 amEnds: June 11, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Mahad Mohammed, 20, was stabbed to death near a block of flats in Battersea, south London, on June 22, 2011. Jermaine Sawyers, Omar Harrison and Cori Lindsey are accused of murder.
15 16 17 18 - Hearing of Dwayne Roberts for murder of Akilakumar KanthasamyStarts: 12:00 amEnds: May 19, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Akilakumar Kanthasamy was stabbed to death outside a community centre in Mitcham, south London, on October 22, 2011.
- Sentence of Anthony Small for the murder of Anthony DicksonStarts: 12:00 amEnds: May 19, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Anthony Dickson was shot dead in Hayes, west London, on Christmas Eve, 2010.
19 20 21 - Trial of William Regan and Lee Davies for murder of Stephen OjerinolaStarts: 12:00 amEnds: May 22, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Stephen Ojerinola, 18, was found buried under a shed in Eltham, southeast London, in November 2011.
- Trial of Craig Smith and others for the murder of Ferell BenjaminStarts: 12:00 amEnds: June 16, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Ferell Benjamin, 38, was kidnapped and beaten to death in Kilburn, northwest London, in November 2011.
- Case management hearing of Ako Amin for the murder of Cheryl TariahStarts: 12:00 amEnds: May 22, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Cheryl Tariah, 17, was strangled in Barkingside in February 2012.
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 - Trial of three men for the murder of Daniel Omari SmithStarts: 12:00 amEnds: July 7, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Daniel Smith, 22, was shot dead as he left KFC in Harrow Road, Maida Vale, west London, on May 22, 2010.
- Trial of issue of Hamza Boutouil for murder of Sheikh Marmoun ZarzourStarts: 12:00 amEnds: June 2, 2012 - 12:00 amLocation: Old BaileyDescription: Sheikh Marmoun Zarzour was found dead in his office in Finsbury Park in September 2011
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A Brief History of Cameras in Court
Blog Category: Current Affairs, Film, Photography, The Justice SystemEarlier this month Sky, ITN and the BBC lobbied the government to allow cameras in court. The hope is that criminal trials could be televised as early as early as 2015. The ban on taking photographs goes back to 1925 … Continue reading
A Victorian Murderer in London
Blog Category: BooksThink of the Victorian Era and you’ll no doubt find your brain assailed by Dickensian images of steam trains, top hats and small children with a glint in their eye and your watch in their pocket. It was also the … Continue reading
The Jury: Perverting the Course of Justice
Blog Category: Film, The Justice SystemForget the legal inaccuracies, the irrelevant sub-plots and the intrusive commercial breaks. What really killed off ITV’s The Jury was a lack of confidence in courtroom drama. It looked promising enough. Written by the Oscar-nominated author of Frost/Nixon and The … Continue reading
At the Scene of a Murder
Blog Category: Current Affairs, Media, PhotographyThe murder scene is now a stock image of TV and film. A dishevelled detective arrives, crouches down over a dead body, spots something everybody else missed and then makes a smart comment to amuse the audience. With the viewer … Continue reading
UK Crime Map
Blog Category: Internet / New Media, The Justice SystemThe new police crime map (police.uk) is the third version to hit the internet since January 2009. Earlier attempts didn’t particularly excite the interest of the public. This time the site buckled under the pressure of 18 million hits an … Continue reading
World of Murder Maps
Blog Category: Internet / New MediaWho created the first ‘murder map’? What did it show, and where? Theoretically it could have been a scrap of paper featuring a rough pencil diagram and a cross to mark the spot. It could even have been drawn by … Continue reading
How to Name a Serial Killer
Blog Category: Current Affairs, MediaEvery report of the case of serial killer Stephen Griffiths referred to him as the ‘Crossbow Cannibal’. But where did this name come from? Griffiths gave this name when making his first court appearance before Magistrates in May 2010. He didn’t come … Continue reading
A Literary Graph of Murder
Blog Category: Books, MediaWhat does this graph tell us? It’s meant to show the frequency of the terms murder and homicide in English books from the time of ‘Jack the Ripper’ to the present day. The answer is probably ‘not much’ – apart … Continue reading
21st Century Court Reporting
Blog Category: Media, The Justice SystemReports that legal history had been made by a judge allowing the use of Twitter in open court for an extradition hearing in London sparked a few earth-shattering predictions. Was this the end of court reporting as we know it? Could … Continue reading
Violence in Films and Computer Games: Guest Blog
Blog Category: Film, MediaDoes the portrayal of violence in the media affect human behaviour? Should we be concerned about violence in computer games, books and film? These questions are being asked more often as games in particular grow ever more realistic. The US … Continue reading
