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Originally Posted by AnnieK

Do you not think though (and I don't know enough about this case to say it with conviction) that some of the reason behind the news black out during the trial, is to protect the victims and him doing this could breach their right to anonymity? The courts will deal with the perpetrators, the victims have to live with it forever which is hard enough without the world knowing it was them.

Had I thought the messenger was doing this for the "right" reasons I would have sympathy but as it is, he is desperate for fame and inciting racial conflict and couldn't give a toss about the victims in this case

That's my position on this too. The courts are accountable, judges are accountable, the police are accountable. If something sinister were going on, surely there wouldn't even have been a trial at all, it would have been stopped before it even got to that point. If a judge imposes a news blackout, it is done having provided justification and for a specific reason.

Honestly, I don't know if the judge was correct or not in imposing the blackout, but neither do any of the other contributors to this thread either, unless I'm mistaken? So, given that a trial WAS being held, who honestly thinks Robinsons rights top either the defendants or the victims in this case, because that whats actually being put forward here and I personally think that is a disgrace.