‘Gavin Plumb’s trial was not a typical court case’published at 11:50 BST
Lewis Adams
Reporting from the Court of Appeal
Gavin Plumb’s trial at Chelmsford Crown Court quickly became
a huge spectacle.
Camera crews lined the street outside the court and correspondents
delivered live inserts into national news programmes.
There are about 40 seats inside court two at Chelmsford;
typically you would expect up to 10 of those to be taken up. But this was not a
typical trial.
The high-profile identity of the victim, who bravely waived
her right to anonymity, meant there was a significant interest in the goings-on
inside court two for this eight-day trial.
Nearly every seat was taken up by journalists and some members
of the public even turned up on occasion, hoping to catch a glimpse of Ms
Willoughby.
It was a scale of interest I have rarely seen during the
many court cases I have covered.
This Tuesday at the Court of Appeal there are about five other journalists here alongside me on the media benches.
