Murder sentencing film first
David Gilroy was jailed for 18 years at the High Court in Edinburgh for the murder of missing bookkeeper Suzanne Pilley. His sentencing is the first court proceeding to be filmed in UK history.
David Gilroy was jailed for 18 years at the High Court in Edinburgh for the murder of missing bookkeeper Suzanne Pilley. His sentencing is the first court proceeding to be filmed in UK history.
ITN's media lawyer John Battle asks: "is filming of the judge alone doing justice, to justice being done?"
Our appetite for pictures of the guilty may not be satisfied by footage of a High Court judge speaking measured words.
From Amanda Knox to OJ Simpson we have become used to seeing foreign trials on TV - now the UK is beginning to allow cameras in courts
The sentencing of a man convicted of murdering a woman whose body has never been found has been recorded for television in a legal first.