Coverage will be restricted to the judge handing down a sentence and explaining the reasons for it, with a time delay to avoid broadcasting any violent or abusive reaction
The first televised sentencing, which will make history, will take place at the Old Bailey on Thursday, featuring the case of 25-year-old Ben Oliver, who admitted manslaughter after stabbing his elderly grandfather to death.
"It has always seemed to me that this is a part of the criminal process that can be recorded and broadcast in many cases, but not all, without compromising the administration of justice or the interests of justice." He said:"I certainly felt very bad indeed when I was being sentenced and I guess I would have felt even worse had I known it was being televised. But on the other hand, why shouldn't it make it feel worse?
Courts have always been open to the public, but most have only a few seats available, meaning people largely have to rely on the eye-witness accounts of court reporters.
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