Wednesday 21 March 2012

Why The Charade?

In what is believed to be the first time such arrangements have been made, Sergei Zolotovsky was brought to court in an ambulance and wheeled into the room on a trolley before being lifted into the hospital bed, which was put in place on Friday.

The bed was positioned in front of the dock, facing the judge and barristers and only feet away from the jury box. The court was cleared as Zolotovsky was moved from the trolley to the bed.
Why not just vidlink it? Is this the defence bid for the sympathy vote?
Preparations for the historic case began when cleaners were brought in last week to make the 50-year-old courtroom as hygienic as possible.
Probably a lot cleaner than many a NHS hospital…

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's the betting that as soon as he is released (this is the British 'Justice' system after all) he'll suddenly and miraculously be fit as a fiddle again (well after he's made his claim for compensation for these supposed other injuries of course).

Just wondering what these mysterious injuries are. he 'attempts to cut his own throat' and is now supposedly bed-ridden - I think 'swinging the lead' and 'corrupt, lying, scheming, perjuring lawyers' sums up my humble opinion. YMMV

Macheath said...

Scratch this one and I'm sure the words 'Human Rights' will appear.

Able is right - the actual cause of his incapacity is treated somewhat obliquely in the article.

Tattyfalarr said...

Since these theatrics worked to effect a sentence of just 5 years to a nazi war criminal for their part in the deaths of thousands of death camp prisoners they could just possibly get this fella a complete discharge and an apology for wasting his precious time.

Anything and everything is worth a try in the courts these days.

Anonymous said...

Completely off topic but you may like this one:

John Sheridan, 34, said he had an ''aversion to bricks and mortar accommodation'' and a psychiatrist concluded that forcing him to live in a one-bedroom flat in Basildon, Essex, ''could amount to a death sentence''.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9158213/Judge-rules-bricks-and-mortar-not-death-sentence-for-traveller.html

The trick-cyclist really ought to be struck off.

Apologies for interrupting the thread

Captain Haddock said...

"and a psychiatrist concluded that forcing him to live in a one-bedroom flat in Basildon, Essex, 'could amount to a death sentence' " ...

As, presumably would taxing & insuring his open-backed Transit van ? .. ;)

Captain Haddock said...

Whatever the ins and outs of this somewhat bizarre trial, or indeed its eventual outcome ..

How refreshing to read a report which refers to his mode of conveyance as being a "trolley", as opposed to a "gurney" ..

And the fact that it was positioned in front of the "dock" and not the "witness stand" ..

Might one hope that this is a faint spark of indication that the Queen's English may just escape going the same way as Babylonic cuneiform ? .. ;)

JuliaM said...

"... he'll suddenly and miraculously be fit as a fiddle again.."

Ooooh, you never know!

"Scratch this one and I'm sure the words 'Human Rights' will appear."

It's not like it's really needed either, since sympathy in the courts seems to always be with the defence.

".. a psychiatrist concluded that forcing him to live in a one-bedroom flat in Basildon, Essex, ''could amount to a death sentence''."

Well, it probably would for me too. I'm just not sure whose.. ;)

JuliaM said...

"Might one hope that this is a faint spark of indication that the Queen's English may just escape going the same way as Babylonic cuneiform ? .. ;)"

Not if the BBC has anything to do with it - last night's 'Eastenders' death was investigated by the 'Homicide Assessment Team'!