What is it like inside the courtroom?published at 12:07 GMT
12:07 GMT
Phil Mackie
At Gloucester Crown Court
Gloucester Crown Court is more than 200 years old and for that reason the way proceedings take place are unusual by modern standards.
In most newer courts, defendants appear in the dock behind a screen, and there’s a degree of separation from lawyers, police, court staff and the press.
Court One here is a grand, wood‑panelled, semi‑circular room, rather like a small amphitheatre. It looks much more like a television drama than the vast majority of cases because many TV shows use older courtrooms, no longer in use, in which to film.
Here, the defendant is brought upstairs by security guards from cells below, into the well of the court, rather than escorted in via a side door.
That means that police officers who gathered evidence against her, are sitting directly to Wixon’s right, and we are sitting on her left, barely a metre away.