I’m listening to LBC callers say that forcing the convict to attend their sentencing hearing ‘smacks of medievalism’. All kinds of hell-fire would be unleashed if this law was overturned.
Yet in the US and other countries, convicts are forced to attend their sentencing hearings and the sky didn’t fall. What is so fucking special about the UK?
It seems like it would be difficult to stop a defendant, having been physically forced into the dock, from disrupting proceedings.
Indeed. What do you do when the person in the dock just yells ‘Nah nah nsh nah nah nah’? Gag them?