The accused was wearing...

[Slartibartfast]

Why do reporters always mention what the defendant is wearing when he/she is attending court?

 

[nyssa7]

Because photography isn’t allowed so they are being descriptive

more to the point, why do tabloids also include the age of anyone named whether it is relevant or not?
i.e. 14 year old girl has has 50 lovers - age is revelant
Amber Jones, 47, was hit by a car while crossing the road - not relevant?

 

[W1ghty]

If it’s a grey tracksuit or something with a high nylon content then they are obviously guilty

 

[Gazwould]

I wasn't complaining about Dua Lipa's nylons the other day...

 

[W1ghty]

I wasn't complaining about Dua Lipa's nylons the other day...

I was referring to “geezers” buddy

 

[Gazwould]

My neighbour wouldn't care .

 

[Teego]

Answer to all points above. Because the editor wants 500 words.

 

[poormansporsche]

Many years ago when I used to work in a Criminal Defence Barristers we once had a very serious case that was all down to identification. The main prosecution witness basically stated the defendant was a Ali G lookalike. So what does the defendant (our client) turn up wearing on the first day of the trial, yep a Ali G tracksuit. Doh !



Yep he got 10 years

 

[Dippo]

If the reporters work for the Daily Fail, they usually tell you the value of their house as well.

 

[Petrol Pete]

House price .

'The parents, after being told that the naked body showing signs of rape and torture found in a burnt out crack den was that of their only daughter (15) agreed to speak to us outside their £450.000 home yesterday'

WTF !? It happens all of the time in the UK media . As if the value of someone's house (or the one they grew up in) somehow has any reverence to the fact that he or she was a corpse/murderer/carpenter/fascist/F1 driver/insert anything here. Nut's

 

[PhantomF4]

Several years ago a big trial was underway in Glasgow’s main court. Partway through the proceedings a guy wearing a brown warehouse coat came in carrying a ladder.

A bit bemused, the judge looked at him sternly whereupon the man pointed up at the clock above the doorway. Without speaking, the judge nodded and the man quietly climbed his ladder, took down the clock and left, bowing to the bench on his way out and the court case continued uninterrupted.

Several days later the judge asked the court staff when the clock would be fixed and rehung as he used it to time adjournments. The court staff knew nothing about it and it soon became clear that the antique timepiece had been stolen in broad daylight, from a packed courtroom.

The main point of this story being that even though a senior police officer giving evidence at the time of the theft, court bailiffs who opened the doors for the thief, the judge and several other people both inside the courtroom and around the main building all saw him yet nobody could give a clear description apart from what he was wearing.....

 

[Petrol Pete]

The Thomas Crown affair briefcase scene come to mind.

Sinner man.

 

[Darrell]

Sinner man.

Isn’t he the bloke off The Chase?

 

[Petrol Pete]

Les Baxter. But Nina Simone in the Thomas Crown affair.

We are going waaaay off topic here

 

[Petrol Pete]

If it’s a grey tracksuit or something with a high nylon content then they are obviously guilty

Or W1ghty...A smarmy looking Git wearing a Gieves & Hawkes suit , shirt from Joseph of London a Shaun Gordon tie finished nicely with a pair of handmade wingtip shoes by Cole Haan Williams. The person in the dock will answer to 'The right honourable gentleman'......and is Defiantly guilty as charged your honour !!

 

[Meldrew2]

Several years ago a big trial was underway in Glasgow’s main court. Partway through the proceedings a guy wearing a brown warehouse coat came in carrying a ladder.

These days, a hi-vis jacket has a similar effect.